skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool.

You can also use the "quantize" module on npm to get prominent colours. Example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-rgba-palette
Have a look at CentOS 7, the no-cost binary equivalentish(1) version of RHEL 7. Has long term support. Has familiar package management and administration. I don't follow this aspect closely but there was talk of 'software collections' allowing more recent versions of programming languages &c

(1)CentOS is compiled from the RHEL source code distributed by RedHat but the checksums for each binary will be different as branding/images are changed to remove copyright material.
you bought more cable than you needed for your internet connection.

> What?

Cable Internet in the US requires some sort of service to be bought alongside internet. That's usually Basic Cable. My comment was saying that if you bought more than basic cable, you bought more cable than you needed.

Second problem: you tried to use DRM.

> I didn't. The cable company did. And plenty of the TV I am able to record is not available to stream on the same day, if at all.

You can easily get your new via other avenues online. The only exception would be local.
> These cultural dependencies result in a demand distribution for travel that roughly fits a power law profile. The demand for near travel (x > 0) is exponentially greater than further travel (y > x).

But don't you think you're failing to account for cultural dependencies that arise as a result of travel possibilities? Of different types of travel altogether?

For example, a 45 min subway commute is average in NYC [1]; as a result, going 30 min on the subway to meet someone who lives an hour away is not a big deal whatsoever. Since Metrocard costs don't vary by distance or time, and you have 8 million people used to lengthly amounts of subway travel, inter-city friends and relationships are more varied and spread out over space. [2]

If we assume that the Hyperloop is _not_ a railroad, or an airplane, and will have different types of time/distance payoffs, then we would have to assume a different form of demand curve altogether. For example: Japan's high speed trains -- and most importantly, their extreme reliability (like, to-the-minute) -- make long-distance commute a completely viable mode of transit. When high-speed trains are so reliable, you can have 9 minute transfer overlaps between two different trains going hundreds of kilometers, expanding range due to the UX, so to speak, of travel. It's qualitatively different than just a faster Amtrak or a slower plane.

[1] http://www.capitalnewyork.com/sites/default/files/Embargoed%...
[2] http://observer.com/2015/05/the-social-commute-how-the-big-s...
Writing a web application with Flask and HyperDex
I've tried various dating apps and websites throughout the years. Result: I haven't even made a friend from any of them. Every experience with one of these apps I had was kind of depressing and humiliating. (I also have a very small potential dating pool anyway, so that certainly doesn't help.)

Here's an idea for a dating app: Successfully identify what people want in a relationship, match based on that. Alice might be looking for a monogamous relationship, Bob might be looking for a one-night stand. The system should not match the two together unless one of them changes their minds.
"You can tell if a teacher is teaching or a builder building, but with us office workers, the dreams, the ambition, the lust and the extreme boredom is all hidden."

So true.
That's already an issue though. With just a sales tax then you cut individual tax evasion out of the mix and allow the tax authorities to focus on tax evasion at the business level. Ignoring any arguments about the tax revenue difference between income + sales vs. sales only, I would think you could ensure much higher compliance if you only had to enforce at the business level with the added benefit of less bureaucracy.
I've worked for multiple companies that intentionally burn out their workers. I even posted negative reviews on glassdoor with my real name. The companies just had glassdoor remove the reviews to appear positive. There is nothing you can really do about bad employers except try to avoid them or escape from them if you end up in one.
> they have a mortgage and kids and don't want to eat ramen like they did when they were 22.

Not only that, it's very tiring being an old fart and being told that you don't "get it" by a 27 year old VC who does want to fund an app. Maybe even a dating app. OR being told you don't "get it" by a young Stanford grad that really thinks it would be cool to rebuild an entire 3M patient record data set in MongoDB and access it with something written in Javascript on NodeJS. Fun times.
Isn't considering churning in dating bad kind of like saying that a supermarket or restaurant shouldn't give much food to their customers otherwise they'll be sated and won't eat anymore?

It seems to me that it's the opposite, mating for humans is such a basic instinct that there will never be a shortage in the market, considering also that new humans that want to date pop up at a pretty much constant rate.
OP here. You're right, I'll update for math.
Telling Fairy Tales to Spare Our Feelings
Thank you for the additional info. I am skeptical merely because they were quite hand-wavy about temperature accommodations, and it certainly is/was simplistic to think that ALL thermal movements can be accommodated for only at stations. (Especially if it's a direct and exclusive SF-LA route) Yes, the cross-sectional properties of the tube are going to be phenomenal, but I've always operated under the assumption that you don't try to resist thermal movements, regardless of the strength of the cross-section. You let them dissipate and design for the deflection (e.g., at the bearings and abutments), rather than the stress (buckling/tensile) in the beam. If we start allowing stress to develop in the superstructure tube, I can't imagine what the cyclic fatigue impacts of that temperature stress will be. (Maybe it's not significant...)

I am no rail expert (though I am a civil/structural guy), but even continuous welded rail isn't always continuous for hundreds of miles. [1] I think that there are two factors at play: continuity in the maglev/rail structures, and continuity in the superstructure/tube. I do not know what maglev devices look like, but if they do look like traditional rail, then agreed that a CWR solution seems to be the way to go. That being said, no matter how stiff the tube is, it too will have to accommodate thermal movement. My gut reaction is to call everything tube related simply supported, allow for (6.5x10^-6x100ft.x100deg = 0.065 feet) ~= 0.75" of expansion or contraction at each pier, and surround this expansion zone with a metal sleeve of 2"+ greater diameter than the main tube. Simply supported, multi-span structures are a well-studied problem. Adding in the continuity of the rail/maglev structures are what make it hairy, IMO, and the interplay between seismic considerations and thermal considerations becomes important. As far as I can see, it's very important for the maglev structures to be continuous to ensure for smoothness and speed of the ride.

For example, given that you make the superstructure spans simply supported, you have these nearly perfect "mass-on-a-stick" seismic models with well defined, and relatively short periods. Then, you have much longer continuous sections of rail/maglev equipment that contain releases on a far fewer number of span segments. These will have much longer periods of vibration. Maybe I'm stretching here, but the connections between the maglev/rail and superstructure seem like a place that is rife with potential for failure and stress during a seismic event. (I would not want a life-safety issue being my most prominent failure point.)

[1] http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=471152
Despite the echo-chamber of SV and tech media, most successful founders are older, with real world industry experience.[0]

This data probably doesn't reflect the insane number of 20 somethings chasing ideas in markets like the dating space right now. Most of them fail.

I work in the senior care market and I'm shocked there aren't more businesses being started around that market. It's absolutely huge with endless opportunity. But I guess that kind of proves your point...

[0]https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-foun...
Many previous submissions, including one with significant attention in the last year (the criterion for duplicates): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=how%20browsers%20work&sort=byP...
That depends on what you mean by "explain". The proof is simple calculus: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/noether.html
Imagine a theoretical highway where all of the cars except you are totally stopped, and they are all very widely spaced. You could easily weave in and out and make good time.

Clearly the ability to freely and easily change lanes is advantageous to a single driver.

The problem is, in gridlock, this ability is pretty unlikely.
Can someone summarize the plan that was revealed in this article? I'm far too impatient to read the entire article. Is it the "we'll serve branded ads" approach that we've heard about already? Not quite a reveal if that's the case, as I'm fairly certain I found the ads on my own in the app already.

Cool app, though. Lots of fun. Snapchat's basically replaced texting for the average-to-cooler kids at my high school. It used to be that the "cool kids" would have unlimited texting, but now they just use Snapchat. I wonder what they'll come up with next.
Ok, here's the UK market - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-L...
Mark Shuttleworth orders Kubuntu leader to step down
The IRS said the thieves accessed a system called “Get Transcript.” In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address.

Do we know if the system was compromised, or if the thieves just had access to the personal information of those taxpayers?
Prior to PowerPoint people would... write entire reports filled with all of the substantive details, in clear language explaining everything. That got replaced with pitch culture, which is brain dead in comparison.
You imply that because the people who did talk to you did not google you, that no one does. It is more likely that the people who do google you do not give you an interview.
That's a GIMP'd up version of the 1st gen Lenovo Thinkpad x1, or some knockoff build.

You can tell from some hints of red highlight on the trackpad where the buttons on the old X1 are.

Other indicators are the keycaps, webcam position, and screen rim being identical to the X1.

There's also the oddly clipped fingerprint reader off on the right side, and the fact that the X1 has a somewhat unique profile. Here's a comparison picture of one not shooped up: https://blog.hboeck.de/uploads/x1carbon.jpg
Noam Chomsky: Buzzfeed and Vice are distorting free media with native advertising
Um, the article explicitly tested that case. Does that count as a citation?
I've seen people for which it replaced Facebook. (Not Instagram, Facebook. Instagram is their non-volatile memory, in this case.) For these groups, having a Facebook is "uncool" and "for old people".

I don't know if it'll survive, but I love it to death. I'd be willing to pony up a buck to keep it around.
There's a big difference now in that a hardware-accelerated compositor is used. It's mostly accurate up to compositing.

There are other little things that have happened recently and are worth noting—for example, Blink and WebKit are moving in a more Firefox-like direction for display list construction.

Servo, of course, has a radically different architecture.
I don't think one has to order people to break the law. I think it's easier to establish aggressive incentive systems that encourages employees to act very single mindedly. I also think it's easy to undermine internal controls by putting incompetent people in charge who are easily intimidated with bad performance reviews.
I think the 18 is counting 16 Epiphany cores plus 2 cores on the Zynq. The 64 is referring to a 64 core Epiphany chip that has only been made in prototype quantities, so far as I know.
> some baseline compatibility

ie. willing to and expecting to data
Please put "Will tell the truth in all situations regardless of the effects" on your resume. Let us know how that goes for you.
ARPU is "average revenue per user", but I can't for the life of me figure out IAC. Maybe someone else can help???
I'll gladly chat about that market over email. It's always interesting to learn about such things. Where should I email you?
Practical Cryptography in .net course at Pluralsight
You are not alone in your views

http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/

I used to tweak and customise, now I use defaults and transfer what I laughingly refer to my 'environment' over to a new install by copying some dotfiles a few scripts and my actual work files across (I'm not a programmer).

I use GNU\Linux because I can install it on recycled commodity hardware (currently Thinkpads with the older longer travel keyboards) without hackintoshing around, and the desktop software available supports my needs.

There are server-relevant changes in this new Fedora release.
Go Plugins Are as Easy as Pie
This is becoming less true over time. As enterprises start adopting Lean practices, it becomes obvious to everyone why building something now when you won't use it for months is waste.
You could accomplish all of that using PowerPoint. PowerPoint isn't the problem, bad presentations are the problem. It's the same problem Access has. It's not a bad program, but people use it to do bad things.
Tapatalk retires pro versions
> This data probably doesn't reflect the insane number of 20 somethings chasing ideas in markets like the dating space right now. Most of them fail.

Without being ageist, I think that you see a disproportionate number of younger founders simply because their current situation better allows for taking risks. When you have a family and are are responsible for at least 1/2 the household income, that choice becomes a lot harder.

My theory is that age is only a proxy for success, given that most businesses fail because they run out of money. Older founders may have access to larger war chests than younger founders.
I'd add JonesForth (mirrored at https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth ) to that list of literate programming examples.
If I'm not wrong unity3d uses this approach, right?
This is about the tenth time I've heard Powerpoint should be banned. It's prohibited at Amazon I've heard. It's almost as evil as WordArt apparently.

But they all fail to convey one point: what should I do instead?

Today I gave a powerpoint presentation. In fact almost every presentation I gave has been with Libreoffice Impress or Microsoft Office Powerpoint. Should I get rid of slides altogether and just talk (I usually hate talks that do that)? The main point of OP's article seems to be that bullet points are not a form of coherent thought, but who says all my Powerpoints are bullet points? I put much less text on slides than my average classmate or colleague. Am I doing it badly? Should I be using a different program? Please, I'm all ears.
This.

My startup is part of the ATDC Select program/incubator in Atlanta. There are roughly 30 companies around various verticals. I'm in my early 30's and I'm among the youngest of the founders. Many of these people are in their late 30's/40's/or more and been through multiple startups.

(funny enough maybe 20% of the companies are healthcare related, so maybe there are doing what they know)

Maybe in other places startups are a only-kids game, but not here.
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IAC is a company who owns a lot of dating sites. Source: the article.
> what you are: a troll

Please don't make threads worse by feeding comments you think are trolling. Instead, flag them and move on.

To flag a comment, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag'.
Thanks. I did totally botch the math, I typed this up in one go and mixed up the formula, thanks for pointing it out. Updated to be more accurate.
IAC is a company: http://iac.com/
JSX Looks Like an Abomination but It’s Good for You
IAC is the name of a company. ARPU = Average Revenue Per User
True up to a point after you crown your self emperor any pretence of republicanism is long gone one option would be

1 Napoleon wins in Europe does a deal with UK give me Europe and you can have the Americas oh and I want Lousiana back one of my cousins wants to be a king.

or

2 Napoleon stays true his ideals and backs slave rebellions in the south and caribbean
Well the team seems to be comprised of some former engineers from SpaceX and the board has some deep pockets. Its possible they have connections to Musk and some insight on how to launch grandiose projects.
It seems to be an engagement issue. Populations that don't message or participate or show interest should be encouraged to in some way - like "your profile will only be viewable for x number of days unless you start messaging other people"
I don't know if I would call it ahead of it's time today, but I definitely think it's on par with a lot of electronic music today. It's actually quite good!
How would you "reasonably argue" that we'd be better off if Germany and Japan had won World War II?
If anyone is looking for something a little more full-featured, BiwaScheme is a pretty decent R6RS Scheme interpreter in Javascript.

http://www.biwascheme.org/
We have one rule when planning product features: Everyone may shout YAGNI at every time. Saved us so much time and complexity, it's incredible.

On the other hand, I have a love/hate relationship with YAGNI, as it requires careful weighing - additional features that need to be reflected in architectural changes which would not only take refactoring code but API and data model changes as well, possibly with data migrations, coordinated across multiple teams are a completely different picture. The costs of building it now may be an order of magnitude cheaper than doing it later. Further down the road, startup mechanics and traction apply as well. If you have an order of magnitude more resources to fix YAGNI later, it might be worth the additional speed right now. I feel that putting all of these into context and doing something that makes sense is just freaking hard every single time.
Considering that the teaching method of a lot of faculty has become doing nothing more than reading the slides to the class, I can't say I find that surprising. Some of the best PowerPoint presentations I've ever seen have nothing more than a single word or compound word as a slide. Regardless of what anyone thinks of him, watching Steve Jobs deliver a keynote can give you a lot of good material to imitate. Your slide deck should be there to support your presentation, not be your presentation.
Baby make troll faces
Oh wow, they got rid of the Helvetica-style R entirely. Good riddance, that's my least favorite thing about Helvetica.
Kleinrock, a Father of the Internet, Ponders If It Will Balkanize
> It makes going over past presentations very easy

But that is not what the presentation is for. If you have a hundred words on each slide (and I've seen that), you might as well give everyone the written dialogue. A visual, in this case Powerpoint but it could be an image in a report as well, is to support your story. It is not the story itself.
The drivers dont have more than any average driver... in fact they usually are just average everyday drivers. The pickup and payment is done entirely through the mobile app and now includes pictures of both drivers and riders.

I really would say it's far safer than a taxi. Someone planning on robbing someone probably wouldn't use a GPS capable device to first have the potential crime scene come to them with continuous tracking the whole time, only to steal what they could get from basically anyone on the street.
This is not Musks project, this is a collective of unpaid academics backed by a kickstarter knockoff and a PR firm in El Segundo

"Now, the company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. (which is not affiliated with Musk or Tesla) "

Musk is building his own
"Separately, Musk has said he plans to build his own 5-mile test track, likely in Texas, for companies and students to test out potential Hyperloop designs."

They are going to do what they did to my friends project. Parade the techies around, get it funded, and then "lose" half the money
"he 5-mile test track is estimated to cost about $100 million, which Hyperloop Transportation Technologies hopes to pay for with its initial public offering (IPO) later this year, according to Navigant's blog. "

And what the heck is navigent?
That's why you should sleep at your desk if you are tired; it is much healthier than getting sick and fainting. Plus; you can wake up if anyone makes enough noise and quickly get back to pretending you are working.
the theory says that your mind is restricting blood flow to other parts of your body to deal with stress...Sounds a little hard to believe.

It is 100% fact that emotional states can impact blood flow. For example, your face getting red when you become embarrassed. Another example, having an upset stomach or even diarrhea or vomiting when you are nervous since your body is in a fight-or-flight mode and turns off blood flow to non-essentials such as your digestive system.

It isn't a big leap that it could be doing this as well in response to repressed rage and fear. I've seen it in my own personal life as well as the lives of many others... an ailment followed by extensive research and figuring out physical cures for the ailment followed by the symptom imperative causing the pain to move to another area, rinse, repeat.
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This is a slightly long read, but it will give you a feel for it:
https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

(disclosure: I am the author)
It strikes me that this is a good explanation for "imposter syndrome". Let's say you are a Dev Lead looking to understand your team relative to others and you mentally measure "solid new features". Each team that releases a solid new feature seems like a slip - and there will be a lot of those, but your release (skip) will barely pass notice in your mind
Company spamming me. Creative ideas to get them to stop?
I've unsubscribed about 10 times from emails from Web Summit and even got human responses several times assuring me I will get no further emails from Collision Conference, Web Summit or any other events this company runs.

However, they continue to bombard me with emails.

It seems to be coming from an automated address that's probably not checked by any people (p@news.websummit.net) so what can I do to get the message across that I don't want to hear/have anything to do with these guys anymore?
See for example http://academicvc.com/2013/07/05/startups-for-grownups/ regarding the idea that Atlanta startups aren't just for kids.
Check out the subreddit, which sometimes has useful discussion on this topic: http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk Also, I must concur with gwintrob, it's better to look for freelance gigs that will pay more than AMT. Just browse through Upwork and see if any categories make sense to you. Not all of it is very specialized
If the system were compromised I'd expect more than 100k attacked in this manner. Bet they were phishing victims or something.
IAC Interactive which is the parent company of most large online US dating sites (among other online properties).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_%28company%29
I think he will be in trouble if this gets tested. Just my thoughts. I don't see how he can defend that.
We always called them transparencies or "the overhead". I suppose the modern incarnation is the smartboard, which isn't too bad.
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that's one data point. Not saying it never happens, and in fact, Dating Ring raised $500k or so. But here's a lot more commentary on the topic: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/dating-startup-venture-capit...