skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, that does not compute the cost of having to drive over with a shoveling machine, let alone the cost of building and maintaining a shoveling machine, or the cost of calling workers at 4pm to show up to drive the shoveling machine....

Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't snow that often in the Netherlands, so our dearly bought shoveling machine is now idling 359 days of the year - it will still be deprecated and replaced after 10 years though.

Environmental science lives in the real world ;-)
Hitler's Drugged Soldiers
They might not be staring death in the face, but you'd call it a dud if you'd bought it at the "unicorn" valuation of $11.5Bn. Given Zynga is losing money not trying to grow so much as reinvent themselves to keep up with their users' short attention spans, I'd be much happier being short on them than long too.

Though FWIW, I think Zynga's performance is probably better than Snapchat will do long term, since they at least nailed the art of generating revenue.
I agree with you emphatically, except for one point:

> what could be dangerous about removing an enzyme?

Tons of things - you don't necessarily know that there's not some other cell process that depends on it.
Oops, heard that story last week so I assumed that was more recent. I'll reconsider my concern about any imminent risks.

Overbred fruit are still crap though.
The same way you would get better at programming: do the thing you want to improve more than you do now. Be willing to suck and be uncomfortable, and know that you'll get better through experience. Whatever activity you decide to practice, it's just a vehicle and a detail.

Also recognize that there's nothing wrong with being an introvert, and nothing wrong with having a smaller circle than some others. We're biased toward extroverts because we're always aware of them, they're self advertising.

Certainly if you want more social connection, make that happen, but do it in a way that you're comfortable with and that actually does you good. There's never any need for you to be the life of the party, but it's great to enjoy the party.
> we solved that monopolization with the Open Sourced movement

There is an Open Source Seed Initiative[1][2]

[1] http://osseeds.org/

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/seed-monopol...
No technical paper preview trailer this year?
Hi. I updated the article to include a bit more information on registers/branches, and an example on the github with a loop. I wanted to leave the registers (or well the instructions for moving/setting registers) as an exercise for the reader to see if they could implement it themselves :)
I don't think this piece does that...?

The problem is there are two separate issues related to GMOs.

One is that the companies who are behind them are mostly evil from a business practice/IP sense (yes, I am talking primarily of Monsanto). The other is that there are a lot of people who think GMOs are inherently "toxins" that are going to give us all cancer or whatever.

It tends to be difficult to have a rational conversation with people on GMOs when you take the (IMO rational) views that yes, Monsanto is kinda evil, but no, GMO foods are not inherently evil or bad for you and are, in fact, the best way forward in feeding all these people we have.

This NY Times piece is rightfully on the side of GMOs as a safe food source. All the terrible patent-related stuff is a wholly different issue.
This _is_ a toy system, but "No looping or branching" does not imply "toy system". Counterexample: http://dtrace.org/guide/chapter.html#chp-intro-6
Part of the lag was due to updating the DOM constantly to add to the "Launch Log." I made a minor performance optimization and that part of it is working a lot faster now.
Plenty of once-highflying companies from the 2004-2007 vintage exited in down-rounds. Loopt. Xobni. Slide. Digg. Valuations were, in general, less than they are today, and the term "unicorn" hadn't been coined, but these were still companies that were valued at several hundred million at their peak and then sold for 10-50 cents on the dollar.

It's easy for valuations to keep rising in a bull market - that's sort of the definition of a bull market. The big question is how many of those companies stick around when the tide goes out. Historically, bear markets result in a consolidation around a few winners that have managed their cash well and stayed ultra-focused on growth, but they also result in the death of everyone who hasn't been capital-efficient. Their places are taken by "sleeper" hits (remember, AirBnB was started in 2006, but they didn't close their A-round until 2009) that raise at a much lower valuation but have done the work to get true product/market fit.
"The US was never threatened by Hitler"

Up to the moment of their demise. V2 could reach the UK, guess what the next step was? (it is what the German scientists did after going to the US and Russia)
Its main purpose is deleting a property from an object, which is a pretty slow operation on modern JS engines.
Unless some code tests for the existence of a property, setting it to null is a better idea.
The paradox is easily resolved if you consider everything to be part of the same object (i.e., the universe).
Porn and video game addiction are leading to 'masculinity crisis'
Are There Deep Reasons Underlying the Pathologies of Deep Learning Algorithms? [pdf]
My father was in the RAF in WW2 - any time any film or TV program talked about the US and the US winning the war he would snort and remind us all of how much of the actual fighting was done by the Soviets.

Their leaders may have been monsters, but that doesn't mean we can't be a bit more generous towards the vast numbers of Soviet citizens who fought and died to defeat the Nazis.
I suspect the core OS won't. There are always lots of reasons to run a machine that isn't online all the time.

What I do expect is features and applications linked to be dependent and associated with a subscription.

Couple that with improved security to discourage and outright prevent applications from being loaded outside of approved channels, similar to what Apple is doing* with it's security settings now, and it may become easier to just pay monthly than do your own thing.

*Preferences, security, "allow apps downloaded from..."
Gopkg – go environment manager
But it would allow confusion, describing CPUs as qualitatively different because of quantitative variations (register count, size, bus width) even though they're essentially the same (integrate, differentiate).
If anyone on this forum made that kind of sweeping generalization regarding matters of CS, he would be laughed out of court. Please leave this kind of broad statement to actual historians.
Because that singleton will serve multiple requests on the server, requests from different users. Singletons are more okay on the client because you know you'll only serve one user, so the singleton can make that assumption as well. But that doesn't work on the server, since the singleton is serving more than one user.

You can still use singletons on the server, but you have to pass the current user id to every method/event on that singleton. And that ends up being quite annoying.
Short term, sure. A Europe unified under the Third Reich could eventually have been problematic. If nothing else, we could have a new two-superpowers-vying-for-dominance situation, only with western Europe fighting for the other side side this time around.
The Soviets also got nuclear weapons, and they were never a threat to the US.
> Overbred fruit are still crap though.

"The wild banana is filled with seeds and cannot be eaten."

http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/bananas-are-clones-from-the-st...
Dollars are fungible and management fees aren't just for expenses, they are compensation for running the fund.
In fairness, the newish VC needing an apparent success to help raise their next fund back back-story sounds like a worryingly plausible reason for them to be able to overlook the fact that Hoopli should never have been allowed liquidation preferences in addition to a contract guaranteeing they got their funds back through platform spend.

I'd love to know how often this kind of 'instead of giving you free inventory, how about we "invest" conditional on you "buying" from us' shell game actually happens in the Valley though.
The $200M investment was at a $1B valuation, thus it was an origami unicorn. However, one could argue that until someone actually forks over $1B, all valuations (even those of publicly listed companies) are on paper only.
> The single issue is whether it is safe or not

If that's all you're concerned with and think articles/opinions discussing other aspects are "cloaking the point" you should know the scientific consensus on GMOs is that they're safe.

There was a Forbes article[1] last year that linked to quite a number of studies. If you're looking for a less journalistic take and want to poke around with the data/studies yourself check out GENERA[2] (a database of peer reviewed GMO studies). FiveThirtyEight did a piece on the gap between "what the public thinks and what scientists know" and saw the widest margin in the subject of GMO safety[3].

"Politicians in the EU are generally not friendly to GMOs" and spent over 200 million Euros on a decade of research[4] and the "main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than e.g. conventional plant breeding technologies."[5]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/09/17/the-debate-...

[2] http://genera.biofortified.org/

[3] http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/theres-a-gap-between-what...

[4] http://www.biofortified.org/2014/02/industry-funded-gmo-stud...

[5] http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-f... (pdf)
Show HN: rust-rss – library for serializing the RSS web content format
Shadow wifi
> Why punish workers and take their job due to strategic reasons beyond their control?

This is blaming the victim (namely Tesla). The only blameworthy party is the Michigan government and Michigan voters as a whole.

> The mobility we have as white-collar tech employees is rare. A blue-collar Michigander is not going to follow Tesla out of state.

That's false. White collar and blue collar workers are equally free to move around.
Yes, Redash sends the query as is to the database. It currently supports PostgreSQL (& Redshift), MySQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, Graphite and Python scripts. Also someone currently working on ElasticSearch support.

The MonogDB & Graphite support is crude, but exists.

I'm the project maintainer, feel free to ask if you have any questions.
The pros are moving from Mac to Z
I disagree with your conclusion. These "meat shops" are not the place for creative talent. They are that, meat shops. We have them in Mexico as well. You can't expect a person to use its creativity in a project where you are not expected to contribute in a creative way. These companies are hired to do manual work, not creative work.

It is a problem with motivation in outsourcing companies. I have met a ton of Indian IT workers who are amazingly creative and bright, and with strong convictions. But when they started out in an outsourcing companies, nobody really cared about their ideas or what they thought. So motivation goes to the ground. They'll do their job.

This problem is greatly attributed to people from India, because they have the biggest outsourcing industry. But it happens in the U.S. as well.

This is the main reason why so many reports discourage outsourcing. It is not that the work force is not good enough, it is just that they are not encouraged and motivated to be creative, they are encouraged to finish the work fast and with little salary.
Account numbers are usually hidden when logging in but are almost always available by downloading a statement or looking for any recently posted check images.

Same with routing numbers, though finding the routing number of a Bank of America account opened in CA, for instance, is just one google search away.

That said, I'm stoked about checking out Plaid sometime soon especially after reading the Yodlee docs (yikes!)
>Higher density residential and industrial and it starts to get difficult.

Rooftop solar may not be profitable for individual building owners, but is still likely to be a good thing across the community. A more "socialized" model where the costs are borne and the generated power reaped across the grid, rather than per-building, makes more sense. Particularly since we're talking about this as an alternative to solar panels in roads.
Alternate week-to-week. One week, you can go for your hike. The next, you spend the day at home and let your do what it is she wants. Maybe even plan out every third week for you to hire a babysitter and explore the world together.
> (Careful, it will not compile with rust 1.0 beta (use of unstable library feature 'libc'))

FYI, `libc` is on crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/libc

Just add `libc` as a dependency in your `Cargo.toml` and you should be good to go on beta (assuming that was the only thing holding you back).
If right to recall would have passed then people could have threatened their MPs to support a bill or face recall.
Don't forget how the talibans saved Afghanistan from the soviet union...
The erosion of organic standards under political pressure from agribusiness is a very valid area of concern. But that's another conversation.

And anyway I'm not sure rotenone is an example of that. Yes, it's quite toxic, but it degrades pretty rapidly [0]. And it's a carbohydrate, with none of the chlorine-carbon bonds that tend to be biochemically problematic in many synthetic pesticides (though glyphosate is an exception here).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotenone#Toxicity
Ok, I see the difference.

You suggest that the continuation token, is basically an encoding of the query parameters, to fetch results from the API. If you go with this approach, then you don't have to store any state on the server. This is a good approach, because it's simple, but it doesn't solve the issue, where the response from the API changes while you making the paging API calls. The example used in the article is where an order was deleted, while you were calling the API.

I was thinking of using a uuid to generate a continuation token, and storing a copy of the results from the API. Subsequent calls that use the continuation token, would take a subset of these results. This requires storing more state on the server, and managing that state. The benefit to this approach is that results you get back from paging are consistent. This solves the issue, where the results from the API change while you are calling the API multiple times. The downside to this approach is that you have to store more state in server. If you are storing the full results for all of these paging API calls, then this could be quite large.
> Why would anyone put money in such a fund?

For the same reason people play any lottery: they don't look at the expected value, they look at the outliers and think, "That could be me, but only if I buy a ticket."
I'd like to see such an article on a register based VM. Pawn and Lua are nice examples. Most VMs are stack based but this is mainly because they are conceptually easier to understand. Register based machines have some real advantages, like requiring far fewer instructions inside tight loops.
I hate to admit this, but reading the book "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists"[0][1] helped me. At one point, I too was an introvert (right around your age as well) and reading the book gave me some tips to help talk to women, and people in general.

Now, before others start piling on, this book is misogynistic and juvenile. Most of the pick-up examples the author uses probably have a better success rate with college co-eds than late 20 early 30's female working professionals. But there are some good lessons you can extrapolate out of the swill of a story:

1. Outward appearance matters. Nobody wants to engage a slob.

2. Self-Confidence matters. Eye contact, a smile, a positive outlook, etc. You don't have to be a douche, but most people tend to gravitate to those with self-confidence (even if the self-confidence is misplaced).

3. The only way to get better at talking to people is by talking to people. Networking and personal social interaction only gets easier with practice. So the moral of this story is you will look like a fool in the beginning. Don't take yourself too seriously, and keep in mind the failed social interactions you have today will help you tomorrow.

And also, get the notion of finding your "soul mate" out of your head. Chances are, the person you fall in love with won't check off the "soul mate" boxes you've concocted. Date freely, give everyone a shot and keep an open mind.

Good luck.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game:_Penetrating_the_Secre...

[1] I haven't read the book in over a decade, so there is a good chance a lot of the material is dated. But I still stand by the lessons I learned from it.

Edit: General Clean Up
To put it politely, the above is shortsighted. The Third Reich was engaged in genocide carried out with conveyor belt efficiency. It murdered tens of millions of people in the name of racial purity. Enslavement was merely means of temporary cheap labor - make no mistake about it, the goal was extermination of those it deemed genetically imperfect. FDR, fortunately, understood exactly what was at stake - humanity as a whole was at stake.
"Feel free to pigeonhole yourself like that, but I've learned not to overlook large swaths of industry because it's not 'serious'."

He never said that web programming wasn't serious. He just said he doesn't do work in that area. I'm sure there are lots of areas of computing that the average web programmer "doesn't do" either, like kernel hacking or embedded systems or computer vision.

"Reading research papers? Both Google and Facebook have been writing research papers in many areas, including Computer Vision."

I'm not sure what your point is. Reading research papers is how you learn what's the state of the art in any field of research (ask any PhD student). If computer vision is a new domain for him, he has to begin by reading, not writing. Even the people who write research papers read many more papers than they write.
Since I haven't set up any other domain to put it right now (should get to that), I put it here:

http://webclonk.flgr.me/index-search-modern-cpus.pdf
If intelligence is about seeing the invisible, Rorschach tests would fare better. I'd love to see 'pioneering quotient' tests, when someone envision something out of a blurry mess; just like a pioneer stumbling on a new idea.
They've also lost $225 million in the last year. They have a $2.6B market cap but what does that mean if they still aren't making money?
Tesla has already received an estimated $800M worth of battery orders
Нововведение – обзор фильмов
Airport Security Advances Clash with Privacy Issues
There are parties within parties already. Only when three-line whips are in place does the entire party toe the line.

Think 'Blue dog' democrats.
> how did they manage to attract a hedge fund?

By developing a language that's well suited for work the hedge fund wanted to do, I expect. Imagine you're a hedge fund; you have quants building models using maybe Python and MATLAB, and maybe production software in C++. A language that offers MATLAB-like conciseness for array operations, Python-like decent language design generally, and not-so-far-from-C++-like execution speed is going to be very interesting.

But it's still a newish language, not perfectly mature, and you're worried about running into bugs. You would prefer those bugs to get fixed, preferably quickly.

Bankrolling the Julia team seems like it could be a pretty good move.
* JULY 5, 1976

* BASIC FLOATING POINT ROUTINES

* FOR 6502 MICROPROCESSOR

* BY R. RANKIN AND S. WOZNIAK
Yes, the Soviet Union "saved" Eastern Europe from Hitler. Then the Soviet Union treated Eastern Europe even worse, if anything, than Hitler had. Not until after the Soviet Union fell did any countries in Eastern Europe actually start to recover.
Do you know StudyPool? You should check it out. https://www.studypool.com/
Interesting, but my perceptions of HP are still colored by the junk they were shipping during the Fiorina era. Also, MS-Windows isn't happening for me. I could see maybe going back to Linux.
JuJu: An Arch-based distro that runs on any Linux distros without root access
37signals valuation tops $100B after bold VC investment (2009)
Just sticking to chicken for every day meat is better for both you and the environment. Eat other meats when you get a craving. Suddenly the environment looks a lot better.
> Dollars are fungible

When there's no cost to moving them, yes, but that's not the case here: We're talking about the VCs personally, and the money that is in the hands of the firm is not worth the same to the VCs personally. Even if they could take the entire amount with impunity, they'd still be taxed on it as income, meaning that they'd lose as much as a third (depending on their marginal tax rate), so 15% is already incorrect from the start.

But on top of that, they're not able to pocket all of that money, because they have a fiscal responsibility to use it in the interest of the fund's shareholders. The same is not true about their personal bank accounts (which is where the 5% comes from).

Dollars are fungible, but that doesn't mean that $1 in a highly restricted fund is the same as $1 in an unrestricted fund. The former is worth some amount less (the discount determined by the premium associated with the restriction).

If that last paragraph weren't true, by the way, money laundering schemes wouldn't lose any money due to attrition, and corruption would be essentially "free". But thankfully, that's not the case - people who embezzle money have less than 100% yield. (Not always a lot less, but still less).

> management fees aren't just for expenses

If LPs can show that a VC is neglecting necessary expenses and instead pocketing the management fee - as 5%-20% = -15% would imply - then the VC had better figure out how he's going to pay his lawyers, because the LPs have got a great lawsuit on their hands.
Carl Sagan's solar-powered spacecraft is getting its first test flight
That's true, and I'm not saying we shouldn't still be careful and do some testing, but I certainly won't be surprised if it turns out there's no cause for concern with the non-browning apples.
> My process usually starts with an outliner now (fargo.io is quite good)

In case the Fargo people are reading - it'd be great if I could try the outliner before linking with DropBox. I don't want to trust you with that immediately.

Also, your "Learn more" link in the initial modal popup (Learn more / Dropbox) is broken...
Thank You.

It is more important to me that others read my essays on mental illness, than that I get a job.

Edit: But even so, being poor totally sucks.
I was wondering why the word "haskell" didn't appear anywhere on the site (just the logo). Cheers.
"[T]the Soviet Union did not save "the world."

The point is that every year on the anniversary of VE Day the Western allies congratulate themselves for saving Europe from the Nazis, conveniently downplaying the critical role the Soviet Union, or to be more precise, the Russian people, played in bringing the Third Reich to its knees. Politics aside...the people of Russia, civilians and soldiers alike, fought the Nazis with everything they had and paid a heavy price for it. Compared with the brutality and suffering on the Eastern Front (e.g. Leningrad, Stalingrad) the Western Front was a cakewalk.
Thank you! That's very generous of you.