skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well there's actually some competitors coming up that's offering lower transaction fees. Forte.net is offering 2.15% + 25c per transaction. Mastercard has a competitor as well 2.85% + 30c
Whoa, I had no idea you could do async circuits on an FPGA (although I can't get to [2] right now, the site is under maintenance). Right now, I only support IO constraints. The IceStorm project hasn't documented the timing model yet but it is in pipeline. Is it possible to do what you want with vendor tools? Anyways, email me and we can chat about what you'd need.
Technical: Build your own AngularJS http://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular

Non-technical: Traction http://tractionbook.com/
Powershell will need some kind of text editor though, even if it's just something as simple as nano.
My previous company migrated from Sendgrid and Mailgun to Mandrill exclusively. Great service, good pricing, great customer support, good reporting, pretty strong all around.
A VC nut job from the environment that brought the world Yo! and that $40 "take your trash out for you" service says Australia is doing it "wrong".

There are plenty of things Australia could improve. Adopting the US' approach to VC funding is not one of them.
Microsoft's Smartphone Strategy – Rules of Engagement, Business Unusual
I will keep using it as long as it is there.

I hate using Windows and I have never been one to follow MS "recomendations". Are you kidding? I do not work in an IT department.

I used MSYS and Cygwin for many years. Now I use SUA.

The less I have to use Windows the better. It dulls the mind.
I misspoke in that I broadly meant not just broadband, but the software and hardware industry in general lags Korea as well as most western economies, of which Japan, despite being in the east, is a "western" economy.

So yes broadband is well adopted, but the national industry didn't adopt computer science as well as other economies. That's my feeling anyway, please correct if this take is incorrect.
Most interview questions can be summarized as:

1. Have you heard this question before?

or

2. What number am I thinking of?

You'd be surprised how often (2) comes up. The interviewer is looking for a specific answer, and any other answer is wrong.
Grammarly Review 2015 – Put Full Stop to Silly Grammar Errors
Tell HN: $ echo 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
Also:

127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com

Unlike many I don't object to advertising. What I object to is analytics.

I'm completely cool with webmasters who analyze the log files of their own servers, but I regard it as morally reprehensible that analytics services correlate visits between multiple websites. Consider the problem faced by closeted homosexual evangelical Christians, for example.

There are lots of ways to ferret out the hostnames of web bug servers, however the "user-friendliest" way is to use a really, really old version of Safari.

Open the "Activity" window then visit a few of the more-popular websites. The kind of websites that your Mom likes to hang out on.

The activity window lists the URLs and file size of each resource that goes into a web page. The web bugs will commonly have huge, long URLs full of query parameters, with images being either 43 or 60 bytes. Javascript "source code" will typically be one single byte of whitespace.

"Don't Be Evil" indeed.
I took it as they hit a sandbar really hard. That's why they had to bail. Am I wrong?
Seems perfectly reasonable to me, since streaming implies that there is not necessarily a notion of a beginning nor an end. Reducing has stronger requirements of its operations.

I will admit that the multiple arities is a bit awkward when an interface (or two) could have done the trick. I'm not 100% sure I understand why Rich choose to do it the way he did. I suspect it was so that `comp` would work.

I probably would have just defined ITransducer or something and supplied a custom composition function, but then again, the Haskell lens package takes the same approach, preferring composition via `.` on functions instead of extending a hypothetical "Composable" or "Pipelinable" type-class upon which `comp`/`.` could be built.
It's the story offered to children in modern grade school history classes.
Its legal compliance software, there has to be some protection for that, do the feds really make it illegal to help people comply with the law?
How is this different from Covester (http://covestor.com/), which has been around (and seemingly struggling) for awhile?
> OpenGL on Windows desktop continues to suffer greatly from Microsoft's lack of support

In what way? I write graphics code for a living and from what I've seen opengl is basically fine on windows. They could do more, sure, but I never felt like they were getting in the way.

I have mixed feelings on the directx thing. In principle I'm not a fan of directx, but in terms of API quality it's vastly better than opengl. Admittedly that's not saying much: opengl's design kind of sucks. State management when almost every state you set is global is a nightmare.
I am thinking this may be the reason vaccines appeared to cause autism. Of course, this is not a reason not to vaccinate, but the point of vaccines is to invoke the immune system.
Ann Winblad: http://www.hwvp.com/

David Rose: http://www.rose.vc/

Heidi Roizen: http://www.heidiroizen.com/

But also have a read of "The Valley is a Harsh Mistress": http://www.warplife.com/tips/business/stock/venture/capital/...

I personally would not touch Venture Capital with a ten-foot pole.
While it's neat to see more companies jumping on board, what they're looking at isn't really revolutionary, despite the polished PR on the website. There are lots of companies, research organisations etc working on molten salt reactors. Lots of them, including Oak Ridge National Lab (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/01/07/nuclear-po...).

On the surface, this seems kind of like launching an IaaS cloud service and claiming you're introducing something new and innovative.
> every time we did autopsies or dissections

It follows that we also rip them out when we open the skull to perform surgeries! Quite possibly, they don't grow back.

I hypothesize that some brain injuries due to impact could tear them too.
I think it's coming. There was a HN post about MS working on bringing Obj-C to MS without any kind of emulation layer simply by leveraging llvm and the existing MS C++ compiler. It's called Project Islandwood (https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges/project-islandwood) and in a video presentation about it there was also mention of work on Swift (although Swift support wasn't official). MS is really moving in some interesting directions these days and I'm all for it.
There have been studies on whether being happy makes you healthier, and yes there is a correlation between it:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/happiness-stress-h...

Whether that's due to this, or just the fact that the brain controls the release of stress hormones into the bloodstream is a different question.
> The weight of old, bad ideas might be harder to shake off.

This sort of thinking seems to me a consequence of assuming that brains are somehow separate from the rest of the body, almost bordering on dualism.

They might be easier to shake off, and I suspect this to be the case, if all human brains are rejuvenated brains with 25 year-old physiology. It is not clear that "old people set in their ways" is a result of minds that have simply been around a long time, regardless of their physical condition (i.e. immortal or not), as opposed to a consequence of a physically aging, deteriorating human brain.

So we might find ourselves with the equivalent of a population composed entirely of twenty or thirty-somethings, except some of them happen to have many decades (eventually centuries and millenniums) of experience. We may well be much better off than now.
> The amount of times where defining a partially applied higher-order function is the best way to solve a problem is nonzero, but still really really low.

Not sure about Scala, but I find partially applied higher order functions to frequently be the best choice in Haskell code.
The versailles treaty was claimed to be predicated on "national self-determination". Had that really been the case, vietnam would have got its independence.

What really happened was that national self-determination resulted in the puzzling fact that Baron Von Trapp was a veteran of the austrian navy.
'It's not the default' is a terrible argument in a thread specifically about customising vi to the Nth degree ;)
Why is it that I can't see any details about the investors without logging in? The only thing I can see are the returns of 6 select investors, which is less than helpful. And I can't just create a fake account either - all accounts need an initial transfer. From a site that gets paid based on the number signups, this leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
In Vagina: An Autobiography, Naomi Wolf explains how the clitoris wasn't fully mapped out until (IIRC) the 70's. There is a lot of internal structure that was missed for a long time... I find it amazing that this could have happened, and it doesn't surprise me that there are still important features of human anatomy to be discovered.

BTW, I don't think I agree with everything she writes, but It's a really interesting book.
I personally never had the motivation to work hard in college. I always assumed this was a personal flaw. Years later, after I'd completed a large number of Coursera courses, I realized it was because college was boring.

(edited to add) I should also note that the Coursera lectures themselves were pretty boring -- the innovation is that they provided slides and lecture notes so that I didn't have to sit through the lectures.
When I got my first job after college I somehow stumbled upon Bogleheads.org after receiving an indecipherable 401k information packet and trying to figure out what to do. An invaluable resource, their wiki led me to the church of low-cost index funds.

And that's the story of how I realized my roommate had screwed me over when he convinced me to open a Roth IRA with him at Primerica with the money from my junior-year internship. >1.5% ER, 12b1 fee, front-load sales, the works.

He ended our friendship when I transferred the account to Vanguard.
It was always possible to hide or leave town. Plus people forget.
Just got back to this. But almost exactly. I'd deposit the biggest checks I've ever seen. But they'd be gone almost immediately if we zeroed the AP. It completely changed the phrase of "letting the bills pile up" for me.

For what it's worth, I never once payed a late fee. I'd pay the original amount no matter how late and never heard a word from the receiving end's AR department.
I assure you that at any large company, especially one the size of Lenovo, the marketing department does not single handedly make any technical decisions.
Stripe has never competed on price, they compete on product.

The interchange rate, basically what Visa/MC charge to processors, is as low as 0.05% for debit cards and less than half what Stripe charges on many credit cards. There are hundreds of merchant account providers a business can go with that charge less than 2.9%, or charge a fixed markup over interchange. Heck, PayPal goes to 2.2% if you process just $10K/month, and 1.9% or less for bigger accounts -- that's been the case for over a decade.

Most people aren't choosing Stripe to get the best fees, they're choosing Stripe because you can get started immediately, their UX is awesome, and their reputation among the developers who have to implement the payment processing integration is stellar.
What about Spallators? Are they being worked on seriously by anybody nowadays? I liked the idea of subcriticality and the low radioactive lifespans in the waste. But how efficient could the be?

And related, is transmutation of waste being worked on?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_amplifier
I'm celebrating the only two Senators who voted against the "Freedom" Act [1] and supported net neutrality [2]. Both also voted against the "Patriot" Act in 2001, while they served in the House [3]:

Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) & Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

[1] http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...

[2] http://www.baldwin.senate.gov/press-releases/us-senator-tamm... & http://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/to-protect-...

[3] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml
As someone who is developing in the same space (AR) I am wondering if ML is going to be like the Segway in that there is something interesting there but the reveal is not going to be that much of a breakthrough.

It just has too much backing from people that don't get suckered for that to be the case though, so it is really interesting.
It will take more than that to get me down!
You'd also be harassed if you deviated from any social norms, had the wrong religion/skin/... We should not want to return to such times.
How much are you willing to push yourself? Will you try multiple ways of solving something till you really understand it? Motivation is key. Some find it years after college, some find it while in college. Some find it without any college!
The hearsay is that Power8 and GPUs seem like a convenient marriage as far as HPC in the data center goes, and GPUs are little endian. And although part of the problems are solvable at the driver level, no one wants to spend time making all of the existing userspace GPU stuff endian clean. But maybe that's just rumors.

From a personal perspective, I think no one will ever willingly bother investing into converting code to become endian safe. Especially so when dealing with complex (or systems) software. It's a real shame that in the 21st century we can't settle on something so basic as byte order.
http://www.blablameter.com/index.php

(Article has an index of 0.14 -- not BS)
iOS dev, 90k. saving 0% cause I'm an idiot.
Ask for donations. If the donations don't at least cover the cost of running the site, shut it down (unless you're happy paying out of pocket).
Have you considered selling the product?
There hasn't been any kind of surveillance reform since the Church Committee.

It's true. Congress is putting on a kabuki theater show for the benefit of those who don't understand that they're lying.

But the fact that they had to is a triumph, however small.

Snowden revealed an illegal program. And he forced the government to pretend that they fixed it. He should be pardoned and welcomed back.

At the very least, we should take steps to ensure whistleblowers are able to step forward in the future.
false http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-medical-pot-20141216-sto...
This just requires some NLP to identify obvious hyperbole. In fact, you could probably just watch HN for long enough, establish some training data and have this happen somewhat automatically for you in the browser.
In other words, Apple is incapable of competing at delivering valuable user experiences on the basis of machine learning, so they are trashing the concept.
Thanks! Most of it was meh, but some sounds really good. The homebrew version provides hdr gfx but not all of this.
Wow, neat! Looking forward to hearing back. Fortunately, with the exception of a single use of SIM_WRITE_CONSOLE_CODE (main.c:L356), no other callthru facilities are used.
Sharper cameras, higher flights...
Congratulations on executing, launching and getting customers.

I expect you have a list of emails of previous signups(in a backup of your db), send out a personal email to each one thanking them for giving you guys a try, what did you like/not like about the app. What feature could we add or change that would get you to sign up again. Get some feedback and see if there is a killer feature you're missing that would gain/keep customers.

Try sending emails to pet sitters inviting them to join.

Is there a feature you could add that would benefit the pet owner, maybe a live chat, photo uploads, live updates on a status page that the pet sitter could add to and the owner could check periodically. Maybe drop brochures at vet offices and try to get pet owners to require their sitter uses your app.

You're probably charging too little . . . although Petsitters might have a lower comfort zone that most b2b apps but your sister was paying $99 so maybe $49 is a better price point.

I would second going with digital ocean. $5 to $10/mo plan would probably work easily for 8 total users.

Definitely think about it as a learning experience. Learn more about marketing, A/B testing, user engagement.

Track how often users are logging in, track users that visit the cancellation page and don't cancel (follow up with users who aren't engaged or thinking about canceling send them a personal email and offer a tutorial/on-boarding session so they are getting value out of your app.

Email each user that cancels and try to get some feedback on why they left, ways you can improve.

Listen to Startupsfortherestofus, lots of good info there.

Patio11 also has lots of great gems in his articles, HN posts and podcasts.

Good luck.
If "nowadays" means "over the last fifty years" then I agree. Amazingly enough, this seems to correspond with the time period over which the military-industrial complex has held a monopoly over the civic and political discourse in USA. I wonder, could we be killing people primarily to support the armaments industry?
tbh i couldn't even tell the difference
I wouldn't say you can't learn about them but it makes it more difficult. Some people are really good at memorizing and when you ask them a common problem it's not useful -- they will just regurgitate the answer and reasoning without thinking about it. Some people are bad at memorizing and asking them the problem can be useful, since they have to work through it again, and fundamentally you want someone who can take a problem and work their way through it.

Really you should just create simple, unique, problems and ask those problems to candidates. It's not as easy as just asking the question you were asked, that you know the answer to, but it will force people to actually show if they're capable of solving problems and explaining their thought process.

>I have most of the solutions to common problems memorized in a few languages and can complete them on a board or a txt doc. Does that make me less of a good candidate? Or more?

I would say this probably makes you good at interviewing but has no impact on whether I think you would be a good candidate.
Japanese MindHack of Sex
This is the greatest developer tool game/demo I've ever seen. Great work guys
I guess better late than never, eh?
I don't know... Science does not discard what cannot be explained. a lot of western medicine is also based on empirical knowledge that was understood only later.

I have read that some points of acupuncture have been shown to have the effect they claim, and how it works can be explained. Some other points have been shown to have no measurable effect. And some point have been shown to have effects, but cannot be explained.
MacRumors Discussion Forum After iPod Launch (2001)
Petition to Pres. Obama to Pardon Ross Ulbricht
Why?

I assume that "private VLAN" means it isn't exposed to potential external attack.
Nonsense.

The best knowledge that I have retained over my educational "career" has been self taught.

College partially helped dictate the direction but why should I be paying 100,000 grands for just directions ?

The best learning also happens when you are not stressed out due to "shame, external pressure". Or in my case financial and parental pressure.

I remember reading studies done recently that found out that students are more stressed out than people locked up in prison.

How is this fair ?

Khan Academy's lectures on cryptography, physics and chemistry helped me through high school and college more than any other source.

To the author of the blogpost : Stop whining about having to listen to young people's doubt about college when you have no clue what society is putting them through.
An evaluating tool for writing better CSS
It was delayed, as games often are. The latest progress report was on May 5, 2015.
Is this the same guy that does psycho-analysis on founders before giving them funding?
Fire your brother in law - your business has failed to grow and that failure rests with the person responsible for driving growth through marketing.

Also, consider marketing your product at > $10/month. If a previous (inferior?) product was $99/month, then match that price and market the features your product has, otherwise you marginalise what you've created.
Being cheaper is a play that works at scale, but shouldn't necessarily be the reason people choose you.

Does your sister think your offering is awesome, or could you do something to delight her and market this feature/capability as widely as possible?

I could have sworn that you posted a while back here on HN, talking about your start-up.. there can't be that many people who start pet-sitting CRMs... do let us know how you go :)
Well, it's not like there would only be room for one company on the market. The problem with nuclear power is fundamentally a marketing problem, and the winners in the market will be the companies that can successfully distance themselves from the disasters of the past. It's going to be less about fundamentally new technology and more about how well you can market yourself to people who associate nuclear power with Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi(which is anyone who hasn't studied the subject extensively). You're especially going to run into problems with the NIMBY crowd. Given their landing page I would have a modicum of faith that they understand this.
AMD Launches Carrizo
Oh, the whole internet is using 512-bit RSA keys, like some GitHub users were? (And I did say "some" before, not "all" or "whole internet".) My point is that the 512-bit users would not have been targetable if nobody knew their keys were 512 bits long. And with bandwidth constraints, their keys would probably not have been bruteforceable either. Due to GitHub publishing their keys, they were targetable, potentially for months, plenty of time to factor.

I guess the response to that will be something about how they don't "deserve" protection because they used weak keys, and while I would resent that sentiment, I can't really argue against the idea.

To sum up, GitHub is doing something cryptographically unnecessary for this use case, that potentially harms confidentiality and anonymity for some users, and the arguments in favor seem to be: 1) A few users find it marginally useful, 2) It doesn't break the actual crypto if the users do it right, 3) Obscurity is taboo, 4) The name is "public key". I'll grant my position is weak, but so are those arguments. Their primary strength is dogma. Which, I don't know, maybe drilling crypto basics does have a net benefit even if they're not applicable to every situation.
It's true, but you can log in multiple users, or log in users multiple times, and these run in distinct areas, kind of like virtual terminals. These are called "sessions." http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/07/24/sessio...
Interesting - but I'm more interested in tracking investors with a longer track record/AUM ala http://www.alphaclone.com
United States is only 25% of the market for electricity production. There are 185 other countries that use electricity. I don't think Transatomic will have trouble finding countries that are willing to move sooner.
That's a good point. I couldn't stand the lectures in the few edX courses I took, but the slides and notes could be more beneficial. Although, I tend to prefer the better continuity of books when reading, and there are tons of great books out there. Of course, getting through books takes a lot of intrinsic motivation while Coursera or edX courses may provide the extra motivation that will help more people get through the whole course.