skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do teams have to pay taxes on the grant money? I'm asking because I know prize money from things like hackathons are taxed.

$12k can last 2 months full-time for a team of 2 ($3k/mo/founder). But if there are taxes, taking home only 65% of $12k ($8k, or $2k/mo/founder) would probably not be enough, at least not in or around major cities.
The manual for the game says:

If SENSE SWITCH 32 is depressed, there is a better than normal chance
of an ace being dealt as the player's first card.

Presumably the story didn't get that quite right. Sadly the code hasn't turned up.
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> In 2015, there is no excuse to do UA sniffing

Unfortunately, there are cases where it is still necessary. For example, IE 10 reports that it supports the CSS pointer-events property, but it only works on SVG elements, not HTML elements.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer-events
I definitely agree that how much this makes sense depends on the city where you are located. As you said, Manhattan is probably one of the only cities where it does.

Otherwise in most cities: Hotels are more conveniently located, better serviced, much better priced, much easier to deal with, etc. etc.
Thanks. I have a young relative that uses Scratch.

My kid has played a few different iOS games that are made to teach programming basics to kids (Hopscotch, Light Bot, etc).

I've also created some simple CSS animation stuff on CodePen for them to mess with colors, speed, etc.

I haven't heard of Gamesalad, I'll check that out.
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Agreed... if you have 5 software developers, and other overhead, you'll hit that while barely at a break even point. That said, the relative costs if you have that many employees is pretty small.

I don't think the break point is particularly unfair... there are lots of students, and small/indie developers that can use the Community Edition, where before you had to cobble along with the Express versions. I now use Community at home, which is just easier to deal with.
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Iliad is a €10B telco started about 20 years ago by a twenty-something. There was Business Objects which sold for some billions circa 2000. Criteo started in the 2000s and is worth billions. In tech, there are also DailyMotion, Deezer, BlaBlaCar, Withings and Sigfox in the €100M+ range.

YC certainly fares better in a decade than France in 30 years. But you shouldn't be self-deprecating, or you may start to believe it's impossible to start a startup in France. When there's a will, there's a way.

Anyhow, we're getting off-topic.
The guy quoted as saying "massive datasets ... has not yet become part of mainstream statistical science" has been teaching a statistical computing class[1] for PhD's for about 10 years now.

It's worth reading the president of the American Statistical Association's take[2] on the stats - data science divide as well.

[1]: http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/STAT-541/
[2]: http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/07/01/datascience/
it's in the faq, you have to pay taxes if your team is not incorporated.
Yeah that's true but as you will find later, it really wasn't anywhere near easy to develop an exploit that results in code execution despite of that simple bug. This one just results in BugCheck - attempted X of NX memory.
no, I can't. they said I have to work full-time during that 8 weeks.
What an odd thing! What's the purpose of that? This looks one case where a comment explaining the intention would add value.

Update: It seems that what it does is to only log 10% of errors... on average. Of course that also seems to make logs non-deterministic.
I use miles to get flights a couple of times a year. A 'free' long-haul flight economy class costs me $700-800 in taxes, which can not be paid in points. How can these out-of-pocket charges be avoided?
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I think yours is a very selfish attitude. The people and the atmosphere in San Francisco and Silicon Valley are some of the biggest assets and they cannot be found in the same way in any other cities.
I'm married with two kids and a mortgage and I am applying. I am in an industry that has tons of room for innovation but the established firms (banks) really struggle with it as I have seen throughout my career. Too much riding on the status quo.

I read this a week or so ago and I think it is applicable to my (and many other) industries.

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/technology-small-fish-a...

I've been thinking about this startup for a few years and now is the time to make the jump. I'm not getting any younger. :)
There's no question that having a low personal burn rate is an advantage when it comes to starting a startup.

That said, there are a lot of alternatives. There are more seed funds now than ever before. One of the reasons we did this program is that we believe there is hole in this part of the market--it feels like there are more people willing to write a $100k check than a $12k check.

Practically speaking, we also felt this was where we could make the most impact with dollars we're giving away. $12MM is the price of a small series B, or 1000 YC Fellowships.
They could try this with a second experiment called "sabbatical."
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Yep. ISO 8601 exists for a reason. :)
Maybe that sweet spot is joining a funded startup, possibly at a very early stage? It seems like equity for early employees is on the rise, so that could become a pretty good version of the sweet spot (less equity, more cash).

Also - don't discount the part about participating from anywhere. There could be a handful of families whose accrued savings might increase significantly if coupled with a cost saving location change (i.e. moving away from NYC/SF/bay-area).
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Does Criteo count? Yahoo finance says its market cap is 3.3B[1].

[1]http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRTO
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Being knowledgeable about the typical behavior of polygamous primate species as compared to monogamous ones, I find polygamy questionable.
Node.js: You are managing your environment variables wrong
If the mag-stripe emulation is just a simple electromagnet, I'm curious how they detected the position of the read-head in order to modulate the magnet correctly to emulate the data that would otherwise be read at that point of a traditional mag-stripe. Or is it more sophisticated still?
Trolls do it intentionally. Not sure how self aware Trump is.
Good eye.

Also, https://github.com/wgreenberg/quine.zip/blob/gh-pages/test/i...
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Original source: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/20/rosetta-and-philae-s...
> I would have no problem with public speculation about the manner of or motives behind the death of any of my friends or family.

Perhaps not, but speculating on cause of death is nonetheless considered in extremely poor taste. Most people _would_ have a problem with it.
modded Minecraft might be a nice platform, people do all sort of things in it
Does the contract say anything regarding how the money would have to be paid back?
Nervana Systems releases Neon v0.9 today with multi-GPU support for Maxwells
I've used them before. I ran a Squid proxy and connected it to the NLANR cache hierarchy[1]; despite the name, it's more of a mesh with siblings. For the best speed, you can use bloom filters (or cache digests, in their terms[2]) to avoid the extra latency of a request of "hey, do you have this URL cached?" from someone who definitely doesn't.

[1] http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/CacheHierarchy

[2] http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/CacheDigests
Yes, both of those sites benefit from zoomability. The first one, I just tested (by visiting "water.com" in your tool). When I tested #5 (500 x 477), the viewport disappears off the end of the right edge of my screen. I can't see the whole thing at once, no matter what I do. I have to scroll, and that's confusing because my scroll swipe will move the content inside the viewport before moving the site itself, and thus the viewport itself. If I could pinch out on it, I'd see the whole thing at once.

As an aside, the Android I used to test this allowed me to turn on Force Zoom, and that allowed me to use the site better.

The second site (grid.html) can appear very small. I think you intended to say it should be zoomable, as I was able to zoom in and out on that one.

My point is, even when you yourself cannot conceive of a reason a user would like to zoom the site, trust me, there probably is one. In another reply, you mentioned the 300ms delay that turning on zoom control introduces. I hadn't thought of that before, and that is a good point for disabling zoom control. Maybe Apple can follow Google's lead, and give their users the option to override it. That would allow the majority of your users the faster touch-responsiveness that you're trying to give them, while still letting the rest of us have the control we'd like over our browsers.
I'm assuming "the people and the atmosphere" you're referring to are the people and the atmosphere that has completely displaced the social life of this part of the world that existed before it became a colony of billionaires playing monopoly. Many of us moved here seeking a different 'people and atmosphere' which, having been displaced, now only exists as a memory.
It's embarrassing because it usually/often indicates you have emptied your checking account or maxed out your line of credit. It's an indication for everyone in earshot that you don't have the means to buy what you're trying to buy. At least, that is where many people's minds go first.
VGG can now be trained with 8 s/macrobatch with 8 GPUs
Why didn't Windows Update notify me immediately of the vulnerability. I have automatic updates enabled, why do I have to manually check and install updates. It's dated July 16th, so I was left vulnerable to drive-bys for 4 days. I'm so fed up with Windows and their BS attitude towards security.
Definitely.

Keep an eye on the published roadmap on their wiki: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/wiki/Roadmap

Beta 7's focus on cross platform should be good!
It is what it is. We're all making decisions which are in our own best interest.

Tech people want to live close to work and can afford it. Is it wrong to make a high salary and spend your money at your own discretion?

Landlords can charge more because there's greater demand. Charging less leaves money on the table unless you refuse to rent to people in tech. Are landlords really being greedy in this situation?

Are we part of the problem? In a sense, yes. But is it wrong to act in our own best interest? I'd argue no - it's the government's job to ensure that society still functions despite people being inherently selfish.

That said, your girlfriend has completely legitimate frustrations and I'd definitely try to empathize with her a little instead of trying to be right or point blame at something.
One thing to note is that even the mundane can be enthralling in the hands of a good writer / storyteller.
I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon, would be happy to get some money back.

My concern is that if I take margin away from Amazon, and a take up a bunch of their CS time using Paribus, Amazon will classify me as a customer they would rather not have. And then, say, cancel my account if I end up returning bunch of stuff later, as they are rumored to do.

So for Amazon, are price drop claims Amazon's official policy, or something that their CS allowed to do to appease customers? What kind of Amazon price drops qualify for refund?

Also, if setting up a separate account to forward receipts to, the email will be different than one Amazon has for me. Is this a problem for your automated emails going from that account?
Here's a thing I wrote when this was submitted to Lobste.rs: an implementation of the continuation monad which was elided.

https://lobste.rs/s/r5oeqr/monads_in_javascript/comments/sxt...
Thanks... I looked through bits of their FAQ, and a few other places. The wikipedia article referenced only dpkg, not apt/aptitude. Though, pragmatically I load some not entirely free software on my machines (chrome proper, flash, and a few other things namely).

I still think it's cool to have open options... I've tended towards buying routers/phones that I can replace the software, even if I don't start off that route because I like having supported, updateable options past the production date.

I've been less concerned on the desktop/laptop front, but am actually getting more so.. given the lock-down methods that have been in the pipeline, I don't want to be stuck with the MFG OS... I've been looking into getting a couple C2D macbooks, so I can load linux on them to play around with... I'm relatively happy with my current rMBP, but the changes apple has made to the OS irk me more with each release.
You're effectively just juggling the same argument. If I'm to hang up on salesmen, then I'm not open to arguments. Thus you claim I should not have a voice.
Signing bonus? What's that?

You have an actual contract?

Be glad you have this problem. Plenty of people would love to get a $35k check just for showing up on the first day, and have an actual employment contract, with terms and clauses and everything.

Just chalk it up to the price of your education, and spend the next 7 months finding a better job.

If worse comes to worst, it seems like you could roll your judgment-attachable assets onto the student loan and declare bankruptcy. But that might land you on some form of employment blacklist.
Is anybody else irritated with the incredibly tryhard tone in this article? "venison glazed in honey, served with a sweet potato hash"? Seriously??? It's an article about bloom filters for god's sake, not Leveraged Sell Out for the tech industry...
This isn't an overnight batch process on a paper tape: It's the 21st century not 1962. Return both sets of results and let The user choose. Search is better than query.
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You just have to declare which external module (3rd party dep) you are using so typescript knows how to apply typings.

Ie you can use ES6 imports, you just need to have a /// <reference path="../typings/all.d.ts" /> line or declare them in tsconfig.json now (I believe, haven't checked yet).

I agree the modules are tricky and my least favourite thing about TS though
Basically if you modify one of the configuration files and mess up the formatting it'll cause the infotainment software not to work.

If you don't disable watchdog then when it starts up and isn't working watchdog will have it automatically reboot. Since this isn't a transient issue, but a misconfigured file it'll just keep rebooting making it very difficult to ssh back in and fix the file.

If watchdog is disabled then while the infotainment system won't work it's easy to ssh back in and fix the file.
If I understand correctly, the UK and Australian implementations are much narrower, and much less problematic than the proposed US implementation. So presumably licenses will not be necessary in those other countries.
I'm amazed that this idea actually caught on in the first place. "Wait, you mean I can put every single source of (non-cash) money in a single card, for a single point of failure? And if it breaks, I'm effectively penniless? WHERE THE FUCK DO I SIGN UP?!"
And caveat emptor to anyone responding to this, "you have to embrace change!!!" is exactly equivalent to "I don't give a shit what happens to poor people."
It is not the fault of the landlords. Almost anyone would do the same given the same situation and ability to make a large amount of money. The problem is that the City of Seattle allows for the creation of new housing without the creation of enough affordable housing.

It would also be reasonable to index the level of income for new city-mandated apartments to the minimum wage. So if we have someone working for $15/hr (minimum wage) and 30k/yr who takes home $1939.26 monthly they should only be paying maximum 40% after-tax income into rent, which is 1939.26 * 0.4 = $775.70. Someone making $85k/yr will have a take home of $4997.46/mo, and can afford $1998.

So someone making minimum wage would not be able to afford their own apartment...

This is where the city government should take control, and mandate more low to medium income housing, and more micro apartments. South Seattle along the light rail would be a great area to build up, as it allows for easy access to downtown & Seatac jobs, and would finally stop some of the problems that we have seen here. The U-district/Ravenna could also be redeveloped more, although that is already happening.
In another reply in this subthread, I explain my ideas about compromise based upon what I learned in elementary school. It may make me slightly uncomfortable to share the land with flat-earthers, but as long as they don't try to teach astronomy to my children I'll leave them be. I might even have them over for dinner or mow their lawn when they're away since, aside from being morons who don't vote the same as me, they are mostly pleasant, generous, peaceful people.

>Let's also discuss how human behavioral biology predicts that if you are in favor of polygamy you are highly likely to be an arrogant, aggressive, sexist bully (like males of tournament species are) who makes society worse for everyone else.

Okay, can we talk about how to best implement a eugenics program to help us solve this problem too? Or perhaps compulsory psychiatric medication? Compulsory hormone therapy?

I think the majority of people agree that polygamy is verboten, not that I really care in principle, at least as far as the law goes. What poly-amorous folks do with each other is none of my business.
Hey, as a fellow Montréalais, I find it really cool that you know of a few different attempts to create a programming co-op. How do you find out about these places? Where do people interested in these things hang out?
It's not using v1 yet, but check out omnisharp https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn
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If I want to improve my (or my company's) ability to make decisions, I need to know how the decisions are made, including knowledge about what is valued.

Let's say I'm playing a game of poker. I know what my hand is, but nobody else's. You are telling me that I am advantaged simply by knowing the odds associated with my hand.

Great.

Except my opponent across the table can see everyone's hand. And they are telling me I should go all in.

That's why anonymous info isn't good enough: it's only anonymous to the losers.
I use it in my class with my project mates. You can only have one person working at a time otherwise it's a disaster, but as far as "over the shoulder" programming it works very very well.
I just submitted the "I'd like a coffee" thing on the EF site. Looks interesting.
It also helps to have a passport that lets you do that.
The concept is inherently flawed. Never mind changes in the payment infrastructure—the cool factor has apparently outweighed engineering challenges.

This is a (probably less severe) variation of the problem that iCache [1] had. The dynamic magnetic stripe tech was immature then, but mostly, it's just really difficult to put a computer in a thin (read: flexible) object that people are used to abusing. Then consider the need for near-perfect reliability next to the promoted benefit of not carrying other cards, and you're screwed.

1. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1404403369/geode-from-i...
I think this is as close as it gets in terms of syntax.

Only on HN would such a discovery be made of such a language.

The others that mention: Go, Nim, Crystal - all have valid bases to say it is "similar", but Python is Python and none of those 3 quite read like this one.

Interesting language though and it seems the author is active (with an edit in June 2015).
Public disclosure apparently won't require a license anyway:

> Third, export controls do not apply to any technology or software that is "published" or otherwise made publicly available.

http://bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/faqs#subcat200

(The FAQ also states that information about vulnerabilities, as opposed to how to exploit them, would not be controlled, but I believe Google if they say the legalese is insufficient to establish this.)

I agree that defining boundaries rigidly in terms of companies would be limiting in today's world and especially in infosec.

In general, though, I personally really despise the practice of selling vulnerabilities for the purpose of enabling people to attack others with them - which in practice means selling them to anyone but the vendor, or intermediary organizations like ZDI. True, there are so many ways for this to go wrong... but I cannot join with some of the infosec people who blast any regulations on the industry as inherently harmful, infringements of freedom of speech, useless against the real bad guys, etc. Even as I hesitate to even think in terms of things like 'increased threats' or 'acceptable infringement', or oppose 'absolutist thinking', considering how harmful such ideology has been in other, quite different but analogous realms (surveillance, airport security), and while I have little faith in the ability of a government so hyped up about "cyber" threats to avoid serious blunders, I simply cannot bring myself to find the current almost total lack of regulation in infosec, which you hint at in saying a license should never be required to share information, acceptable.
I don't think at the level of the article that it's inappropriate to assume that the reader is at least familiar with the term "hashing", and can wait on the technical details of the particular types of hashing functions needed for bloom filters until the second or third section.

I honestly just closed the article when he started in on hashing, because I want to know about bloom filters (which I don't know about), not the basics of hashing (which I learned as an undergrad, and need to know day-to-day as a working programmer).
The only thing other places lack is startup capital, which isn't available in other places because people with said capital will only invest in companies willing to relocate to the Bay Area. If those investors would stop forcibly concentrating their entire investment portfolio here, there might be a chance at other places developing vibrant technology ecosystems.
In the end it's all binary blobs that go to the CPU... in the case of closed software, it's that the source is unavailable, so you cannot confirm security, or patch bugs when you encounter them... tbh, I don't typically dig that deep into the bowels, but have had ever increasing concerns, that have manifested themselves more in the cell phone and home/small-office routers than anywhere so far, but with Windows RT came into the desktop world full front.

I want to be able to use my hardware beyond the manufacturer's expiration date. If I choose to replace functional hardware with new hardware, that's my choice.. but the ever encroaching state of planned obsolescence disgusts me. Which is why I really appreciate FOSS, and more open hardware options.
Interesting bit about the parachute recovery, that would have been pretty cool to watch.
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Chest X-ray << Chest CT scan (350x)

Which makes sense, since a CT scan is basically enough X-rays that you can make a 3D picture.