skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You haven't defined it at all, and I think if you try, you'll find it hard to differentiate between the use of capital to start a business and the use of capital for one of the other activities I listed above which bring in income with no effort. All are using existing capital to earn more.

Forever, if they don't keep putting something into it? I don't know about that.

If you accept that banks should pay interest on deposits (forever), or shares should pay dividends (forever), then you accept that owners should receive money forever for an initial investment, just as other holders of capital do for other investments. There's nothing nefarious or unjust about it.
How is Gigster different from the zillions of outsourcing companies?
Alpha Micro, while perhaps not exactly a consumer PC company, is a microcomputer company from those days that's still alive.
Biological health is now a status symbol among successful citizens of developed nations! Getting your basal metabolic calories and potable water? Sleeping the neurochemically-mandated amount? You must be the king of the world.
I hardly see how Scala is more painful on the eyes than good old Java.
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The critiques you raise against Wikipedia, both here and in the linked post -- skeuomorphism, functional fixation, aversion to rich/embedded content, etc -- I think are very apt.

I'll echo eponeponepon's comment: very sincerely, it's an elegant approach, but what happens with more than 2 links? In particular, (and this is already a concern with only the two links), do you have any UI cues that those links are separate? Because I'd be concerned (I'm paranoid about this on reddit) that, without additional UI cues, it seems like they're the same link. Amusingly I had this exact problem on your blog post, even though I'd already read the explanation: in the final "Barack Obama signs Minimum Wage executive order" I was expecting the orange link highlight on "Barack Obama signs" to be one link, and the black "Minimum Wage executive order" to be another, despite having just read subject vs verb linking.

Might I suggest two link classes with slightly different CSS colors? If you're already using automatic page formatting and link generation, you could just alternate between the two classes, thereby providing an immediate visual cue that they're different links.
$20k/month is $240k/year, which is some serious money. Forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of these numbers.
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VirtualBox has snapshots. Here's a page with an image: http://ehikioya.com/moving-virtualbox-vm-snapshots/ The page is talking about cloning, but you can save/restore snapshots within the same VM too.
This kind of reason seems to exclude selling a business too, though. But small businesses do get sold to people who don't know anything and often succeed.
Well, if they get the processes right, this could be a good place to work.

I mean, the biggest problem in consulting isn't the coding, it is to work out what the customer wants.

If they give you a spec and you're just bound to that spec, it could be a good thing.

Code the stuff, get your money, don't care about the rest.

They have to meddle with the customers, if some misunderstandings happened.
This page is totally broken after you apply - nothing shows up under the Dashboard
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Joe Namath believes he's found the cure for brain damage caused by football
> one of the commonest patterns of regexp use

Is it really? Even fairly early in the Ruby 1.8.x era, most recommendations I saw were that the magic regexp globals (and many other magic globals) were a perlism that should generally be avoided.
If you are against copyright, support copyleft, which gives even big companies an incentive to dislike copyright!
It was definitely not coincidental! It is part of a conspiracy to... god, i don't even know.

Of course it was coincidental you dolt.
haha combine that voice with some Markov chains, and you have the perfect friend replacement app!
If a VC balks at this maybe a blessing for you?
Option 3 is that the linked page was published in 2003 or so.
Well, it's fair to say "it works in MRI"; $1 being frame-local and thread-local is an exception to the rule, but it is How It Works. JRuby should behave similarly, full stop.
"Phone it in" so you don't feel bad about spending time with family/hobbies?
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic... It is pretty absurd to think you are going to get your head around the requirements for a project and come up with a good estimate in 10 minutes. It suggests naivety or dishonesty. You choose.
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One similar project was _why's mousehole: https://github.com/evaryont/mousehole and hoodwink.d https://github.com/robbyrussell/hoodwinkd
For what you're describing it doesn't sound like stored procs are worth it. Avoid introducing them unless you find that they are necessary or beneficial, but don't avoid them entirely on principle.

Preserving data integrity tends to be a much more worthy use case for database logic than retrieval display.
You can use some form of leverage to allow the possibility of 1000x jackpots by using leverage - options, leveraged ETFs etc.
I think it's technically seven now, though I know of no one with a paper copy. My not-quite-current PDF copy of the SDM splits its 3289 pages into three volumes, with volumes 2 and 3 being split into A, B and C subvolumes.

And yes, virtually everything remains compatible. So if you want to write a 32 bit code generator and don't need access to newer features (synchronization primitives are the most important bits that were added later, also stuff like vector instructions, etc...) that 30-year-old document is all you need.
Hello HN,

oruapp acts as a twitter for your local area. any message you send will be delivered to everyone within 0.5km radius. its an ideal solution for socializing in conferences, universaties/colleges, events (sports, tech, academic etc).

no one near you? we got you covered, we will increase the radius till we find a recipient for your message.

send one-to-one message even if the recipient is not near you by @mentioning the recipient's handle in the message.

no registraton, no password, its just that simple.
If you have the best developers, they will likely want to go get a better job at Google or Facebook than work in IT services.
I and others have had success with MRI on dev and JVM in prod to get around this.

Maybe not for everyone but as long as you know what you are doing it is viable I think.
Maybe the inverted statement is more appropriate?

... companies that aren't able to raise further rounds will fail...
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$~ and friends are not global:

def f
p $~ # => nil
"123" =~ /\w+/
p $~ # => #<MatchData "123">
end

p $~ # => nil
"abc" =~ /\w+/
p $~ # => #<MatchData "abc">

f

p $~ # => #<MatchData "abc">
I learned about 20 years ago how to rip and compress music files from audio CDs.

Back then, it took longer to compress a .WAV to an .MP3 than it took to listen to the song, and Lame was distributed as a patch to a reference implementation. Before MP3 players were cheap enough, I would create a playlist on the PC, hook up the output from my sound card to the input of my boom box, and record to an audio cassette tape, to play it in my car.

For a long time, my biggest problem with digital audio was a chronic lack of disk space. Then I acquired a family, and some of them chose to buy iOS devices. My prior experience with uploading music to a mobile device was to plug it in via USB, or insert the SD card, and just copy to the mount point. It worked for Sansa Clip. It worked for modded Nintendo DS.

Then along comes the iPod and the iPad and the iPhone. Obstacle one is the proprietary 20-pin sync cable which has a habit of breaking every 3rd time you use it. Obstacle two is a lack of lightweight USB drivers to access the device's internal filesystem. You have to download and install a full-fledged iTunes program to your computer to put even one song on your iOS device. Obstacle three is iTunes user management. I, having no iOS devices, want to upload a file from my hard drive to devices belonging to other people, without syncing the entire contents of their device to my hard drive.

It didn't take long for me to issue a proclamation that I would no longer be offering free technical support for any Apple devices. When the spouse has a problem with the iPhone, I suggest a trip to the Apple store or a call to the cellular network provider. I'd rather be put in the doghouse for a day than be stuck in Apple's walled garden forever.

I have never trusted anyone with my data. That's why my music collection is in deep storage on the original pressed CDs, in cold storage on DVD-Rs, in warm storage as FLAC files on an external hard drive, and live copies are transcoded MP3 files, usually on hard disks and microSD cards. Now, my biggest problem is deciding which songs from my kids' CDs are good enough for me to add to my playlists. And I really like that I don't need Apple's permission to listen to them.
Sorry, was looking at last summers amount http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-portfolio-stats

A run rate of $2-300m if its a $1bn fund (suppose you'll let everyone know soon!) would make sense
You can do partial scans. If you create a list of files and only feed it the ones you care about it can scan those. It will complain about missing classes, but you can ignore those with phan -i

Usually a middle ground works best. Run it once on just your files and look at the undeclared classes then add the files from the framework that define those so you get at least one level of checks of your calls into the framework. Or just feed it everything, but it can take some time to scan thousands of files and if you aren't using most of that code it gets annoying.
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Unless you can help here, I see alot of pre coded models and older samplers, but nothing with a flexible JIT for user extensible variab;es and autodiff for newer HMC and NUTS type samplers. Exception being STAN, but that is its own C++ modeling language, can't talk to R functions , is more verbose than PYMC 3 and doesn't do discrete variables (unlike pymc3).
How can employees trust your recommendation? i.e. why should they believe that you are steering them towards high quality low cost providers instead of low quality low cost providers? Why should they believe in the quality of your recommendations?
True in the 1.8 1.9 era. Against 2.2 it is not an automatic "Is faster"
Not the OP but I found it interesting, and a significant piece of information when considering possible environments of the future.

I have doubt that they are going to get close to actually predicting the future environment with most of their models, since like with the temperature models they are trying to find and extrapolate seemingly-linear relationships in a very complex non-linear system, and that doesn't usually work as well as you'd like it to.

Also the subtext in the press release seems to indicate that this research will immediately be used as a political bludgeon, which I'm never a fan of. It's a shame and it reminds me of this classic cartoon: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
In the time you wrote this comment, Facebook added another 1900 lines of php. There's nothing funny about that.
This is absurd, where did you learn this?
My point is that we're used to thinking of computer security as being an absolute necessity because, for example, it is of value to a bad guy to simply take control of a network-connected computer to become part of a botnet. Or to use it to obtain valuable personal data which passes through the computer. But I think that leads us to overestimate the risk created by the possibility that hacker activity could extend to the physical realm, because if a hacker crosses that line, it has consequences.

My car's infotainment system doesn't know my credit card number. It probably makes a pretty poor botnet member (but even if someone does hack it and turn it to churning out spam they're not going to be trying to get to the CAN bus). And there's little value to a badguy in just breaking my car for no reason. If someone just wants to break cars and hurt people, they can go throw rocks off an overpass. People do do that, admittedly, but they're not revealing an engineering flaw in cars by doing so.

If you can use this hack to pop the door locks and override the ignition, then maybe we should be talking.
Yeah, its why I said "some".

Buffer, Canonical, and probably about half pay competitive rates for most of the US/Europe. The other half want to pay below $50k USD for engineers and that just isn't worth doing for anyone with 5+ years of experience and/or college degree.
ah, my mistake, I read it in the NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/europe/quran-fragmen...

"Saud al-Sarhan, the director of research at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said he doubted that the manuscript found in Birmingham was as old as the researchers claimed, noting that its Arabic script included dots and separated chapters — features that were introduced later.

He also said that dating the skin on which the text was written did not prove when it was written. Manuscript skins were sometimes washed clean and reused later for new writings, he said."
Some scientists speculate that humans are currently constitute a new mass extinction event for the planet. [0]
Animals that people like, charismatic megafauna like pandas, tigers, and elephants are increasingly endangered, largely because humans keep using more of their habitat for other purposes. See the famous comic "The fence" [1].
We cut down rainforests and build farms not because we hate the animals there but because we need lumber and we need food.

That's the fear. Not that a superintelligence would care about us in any way --- instead, precisely the opposite. A superior intelligence that did not care about us would out compete us. It would drive us to extinction by simply making use of all the available resources.

[0]: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253
[1]: http://25.media.tumblr.com/1a7ca7a2142d95ecc558fef70a6dd2b0/...
The amount of evidence supporting exercise as a benefit for treating depression symptoms is enormous. The article the author put up on this blog post is straight out of Harvard Medical Publications and it is simply a summation of some of the available research. http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/exercising-to-...
Get rid of callbacks without the overhead of promises and generators
If a VC is in a position to dictate the deal structure, then all the old terms are subject to renegotiation, anyway. Founders whose best option is to raise money with accept-a-bad-cap-table-or-go-under terms probably aren't going to be hosed because of YC blind exercising their option.

I may not be fully understanding the situation, but it seems to me that the only time YC exercising their option would create a lot of friction is when the round leader has a problem with YC's participation. While not a red flag, that would certainly be the subject of an important conversation.

In the end, raising money is a founders' bet that the funders are trustworthy.
Meh reads more like marketing fluff than anything. Its just an incoherent mess of academic articles and industry white papers(some more than a year old) and a sprinkle of survey monkey. TL;DR Devops! yeah make tommorow's profits more Devopsy today with puppet. Continuous Diversity, lead time synergies, and SUCH!
You're using the standard jvm, why would they care?
Wow. That article doesn't try to be objective and man do I not blame them. That is appalling. This is why I am so apathetic about politics, how can anyone even stand up to this. He was appointed to his position from a firm that defends wall st as an occupation, puts kids gloves on during the biggest defrauding of America in recent memory and then goes back to his old firm for pro bono work. The non-elected officials have no accountability.
Just a bad guideline worded badly. I'd say this is far from the core value of what the service provides. I'd rather just hear:

"Quality products are guaranteed because of our extensive experience and knowledge of making these projects work with many dynamic circumstances." Ambiguous, sure, but that should be a good thing. Let's hear that they're constantly evolving and working around new challenges, and applying experience and learning from all the data points they have to tackle existing / mundane issues. The core should be just that.
Babel.js is a transpiler from ES6/7 to earlier versions. https://babeljs.io/

I mention it because this is currently the only implementation that I know of with tail-call optimization (using a trampolining method, I believe), as well as all the other new functional tools in ES6.

This here is a book on ES6, which you'll want Babel for: https://leanpub.com/exploring-es6/read
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You would have to be your own broker and/or build your own HFT system.

It's been a while since I used it, but API trading for laymen was somewhere between $1-2/trade at the bulk packaging.
But regardless, I think Apple could have easily ended up just the same as the others without it.
There are some topics, and types of humour, which really don't go down all that well. In particular they have a strong tendency to send intelligent conversation on some topics off the rails.

Distinguishing these from appropriate humour, or getting your tone just right, is a key sign of maturity.
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The short answer is, ideally yes, but not completely. The animal models of cancer are poor at predicting how the drug will work in a human, but where they have value is in evaluation of drug safety. So, we envision that the toxicity studies would still be done in animals, but near-human, organ-specific models would ultimately replace animal studies of drug efficacy.
My interest was piqued so I googled the oldest complete copy of the koran and found this[1].

[1] http://www.commdiginews.com/world-news/middle-east/worlds-ol...
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They don't get the job offer if their answers to questions lack depth and personality. In other words, optimizing for not being disqualified is not the same for optimizing for first choice for a position.
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If this era interests you, be sure to catch A&E's 'Halt and Catch Fire', although in my opinion the second season is heading downhill.
Is is, and Google even gives you a link at the bottom of search results when some results have been censored by the DCMA.
Copyleft depends on copyright.

Additionally, my goal is to make my software as widely usable as possible. Using the GPL runs contrary to this goal.
>As a player, your goal is to win the game, period. //

When I take part in sports or play games my object is to enjoy the game and if it's competitive to make a good account of myself. I used to play football (we were runners up in our University cup competition, so not terribly shoddy) and later played competitive volleyball - one can do well and not win, one can win and play poorly.

Just as not all companies are solely built on a motive of profit above all else so too not all competitive players play solely to beat their competition, some wish to enjoy the game and better themselves more than they care to be labelled "winner".
Leaving a smallish company where the original owner is sitting on their ass is behaving rationally. Once key players start slacking it's time to start looking for a new job before competition puts you out of yours. At a small company, the owner is usually a key player.

And I don't mean slacking as in "not working 7 days a week". I mean not working, roughly, a normal work week.
Well, most first generation immigrants are really hard working since they have to settle and prove themselves.

Hopefully the next generation will be part of the established middle class so that they can reach higher than agriculture and construction work.
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Just because you hide a software consulting shop behind an app doesn't mean you can change the fundamental difficulties with software consulting. I wish Gigster luck, but ultimately this approach isn't much different from what many offshore dev shops do today. I can get a quote in under an hour from a half dozen places today; but it doesn't mean it will be accurate or what I want.
5 minutes per comment, 12 comments per hour, 8 hours per day = 96 comments per day, call it 100. 100 * 1900 = 190000, call it 200K. You really think Facebook is adding 200K lines of php per day?
Is that the only reason? Or will there still be some sort of veto power by YC partner(s) to opt out of the future round in extraordinary cases?
The first of those is actually a very important feature. In an age where many organizations outsource their DNS hosting, it's more important than ever to sign your resource records offline.

It's pretty useless to invent a new scheme that gives Amazon and Cloudflare access to your cryptographic keys, so your favorite three letter agency could just go via them instead.

Only you can sign your data, and no one else. That is a feature we cannot compromise on if we face the sort of adversaries mentioned here.

The rapidly expiring signatures is actually a feature too. It serves to avoid the trainwreck that is TLS certificate revocation. But that is a technical problem that may have other solutions. Feel free to suggest one.
Hence Scala...
> It seems that you try to use selenium 2, or webdriver, in order to run your unit tests.

Nope. Integration tests. But integration tests that start a Firefox instance from scratch and have to be rerun multiple times to pass due to non-determinism are slow.
Having been in the same situation, I picked staying at UW, and I graduated this past June.

You can always come back and do another coop at the same employer. As someone in 3A or 3B, you are really close to the end of your studies (and the courses in 4th year, along with FYDP, are the best parts of the program). Others have addressed some of the financial points. Obviously talking to a lawyer is a good idea.

Send me an email (in my profile), if you want to talk more about this.
We're a 6 person team in B2B SaaS with multiple hundreds of customers, growing in double digit percentages per month.

I've worked 80-100 hour weeks for the past 18 months. It's not unheard of, and isn't necessarily due to staffing issues (maybe quantity of staff).

I count driving, showering and cooking as work. Even though I'm physically doing something else, I am primarily thinking about work at those times.

Doing things without big time VC money is a daunting task and can easily consume your entire life.
Misunderstandings always happen. Meddling with the customers is the entire problem with this type of work. If you don't meddle with them then they are unhappy and refuse to pay their bills and you end up in litigation up to your eyeballs. But meddling with them is expensive and time-consuming. Pick your poison.
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