jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Both were in Seattle

One builds and designs Scanning Electron Microscopes

The other provides tools for supporting/maintaining self organizing networks over cellular communication towers.

I don't plan on naming them directly, but, neither had me sign an NDA for the interview process.
FIRE is also an acronym for "Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate"[0] which are business sectors famous for paying loads of money. So working in FIRE makes it easier to achieve FIRE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy
Is there any guide on how to integrate this in a deployment workflow? I would be very much interested in reading up on how to do this the best way.
The person speaking in the video identifies himself as an employee of the Cato Institute, it's not hard to imagine why I made the mistake. Not to mention the fact that half of the board of directors (and some of the listed experts) of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity work for or have worked for the Cato Institute.

In any case, you are correct, the video was created by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, and I apologize for the error.
I completely agree, I think Twitter should focus on monetizing and improving the web experience (because it kinda sucks right now and if more people use it -> easier to monetize).
I thought one of the many paradoxes of relativity is that while the moving bodies would appear changed, their "self-world" view is invariant. They see the relativistic effects applied to the atationary frames. It's been a long time, so I might be misremembering...
> spend hours writing code just so their site/product can handle all the traffic. How it that fun?

It's a personal offense to have something that could work at, for instance, 20MB/s, only performing at half the speed. Sometimes management has to step in and and put a stop to that if it's not worth the effort.

Could be worse - seems athletes put many hours in shaving down a couple hundredths of second in races, etc. Or designers in getting that last pixel perfect ...
In my experience, the cover letter is still quite important. Last time I looked for jobs (a year ago) I cold-contacted some "hot" startups and included a cover letter and resume. The cover letter was very specific to each position, and detailed my fit for the position and my enthusiasm for the company. It was incredibly time-consuming to write those, but it paid off: I got a phone interview at nearly every place I applied.
The Font Squirrel @font-face generator (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator) which was mentioned in the article is very very handy if you want to do @font-face replacement. It just works in every browser I've tried it in (including IE6-8). How many other "new" CSS features can you say that about?

Just make sure you're using it responsibly and understand how to use the fonts you're using. Some of the better and more popular @font-face embeddable fonts like League Gothic and Chunk need to be kept large to be readable and really shouldn't be used in large blocks of text.

If you're looking for @font-face embeddable fonts, Font Squirrel is again a good resource (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface), and The League of Movable Type has some more (http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/). The League's fonts are all categorized by use type too, which is helpful if you're not sure what's a good display (headline) face and what's a good text face.
The CDN has to load them from somewhere.
> In a world of plenty inequality would not mean suffering.

This has a nice feel to it mathematically, but I suspect the reality is somewhat different. Access to non-scalable resources like land will remain problematic. In a world where money translates to power, if inequality is high, the power imbalance stays high.
It is amazing to get on Product Hunt.
The argument is that customers of the power company are funding payments to owners of solar panels.

If there are less/no customers of the power company, there aren't as much/any funds for those payments.
The ability to draw and connect straight lines is much more fluid than any system design or general drawing tool I've used, very smooth. It would be great to have a free drawing tool on top of this.

The drag function is quite janky insofar as you need to drag then release on an object, then click again to place. It should probably be either click once or hold down lmb.

Being able to import your own images if probably the most essential feature you could add.
> ability to use C libraries directly - and thus original C API docs. I've got battlescars from NPMs deep dependency trees, and cargo is a similar story.

This is something Rust is relatively good at, you just may need some unsafe blocks, but assuming you can compile using clang for the C code everything tends to work well. I am saying this as a Rust skeptic.
You'd have to go a little further back. The first real price for BTC was in 2010, when someone paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, worth about 40 bucks. From that to the current price of $40K per BTC is a gain of ten million times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin#2010

Of course, you had to be a serious deep-in-the-weeds enthusiast to get in that early. Maybe that's the sort of people who tend to make money on collectibles, too.
Maybe people whose brain is getting worse so they can't think straight?
No point negotiating until later in your career. Get other offers, the experience you get interviewing for other companies is worth in dollar value more than anything else you’ll learn in the next 2 years.
It's slightly funny that all the people complaining about the Wikipedia here, what they are really showing is that Wikipedia still works, and it is doing it as intended.
Well, I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_B._Shubb&... is the issue? It shouldn't be surprising that accusing someone of being a homophobe would require a reference.
Infinitely large virtual monitors will be useful, since programming usually requires a large amount of context. But that'll probably work better with AR goggles so that you can actually have some real world context for your input devices. Because you'll still be using a keyboard, and probably a mouse, because waving your hands around in the air and talking to the computer are always going to be slower and less precise.

And, no, I don't want to throw my functions in a pile on the ground and sort through them.
Have you ran the OS and seen this actual issue you're describing? If not, then what's your problem? If you're going to armchair quarterback, you should at least have thrown a football a few times first.

You may as well be complaining that the Windows 1.0 press release from 1985 has trouble with multitasking. Duh, this is pre-alpha software we're looking at.
Is it your critical thinking that equates having a novel about a bomb in your carry-on with handing a stack of Arabic flash cards with "bomb", "to kidnap", and "kill" directly to a security agent? Because I'm not sure how you could possibly think those two are equivalent. Your actions do not happen in a vacuum, and it should be obvious why his actions would raise a red flag for TSA officers. The illegal arrest by the Philadelphia officers certainly wasn't justified, but the TSA officers' actions most definitely were.
How this piece would sound if you replace "The Russian" by "The Jew", "The Black", or "The Lady"
Foursquare (http://foursquare.com/).

Foursquare's ascension into the mainstream has been incredibly fast & impressive, especially given that on the surface there was little differentiation among all the competing LBS check-in services a year ago.

I think 4SQ is a good case study in the importance of the execution over the idea (a commonly harped on subject in these parts).

4SQ's success also helps to validate NYC as having some distinct advantages for certain types of social media plays.
I answered this over on the blog, but I'll repeat it here.

The key factor is ranking items against one another, not simply having a numerical scale. Therefore the control should have multiple list items -- a slider list -- and not simply a slider. I also mentioned a slider grid. The control itself should contain the sliders, since they are all related to the same concept, just like a select has many options.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I am aware of the input range spec.

You know, usually if you think somebody is stupid, there are only 3 possiblities: 1) they really are stupid, 2) you are the one that's stupid, or 3) you two are not communicating very well.

I've found it's best to begin with "Help me to understand" because many times the answer is #2 or #3 and not #1.
Typo? s/now/not/

"(BTW, Apple is lame for now allowing a native Gmail app on the iPhone -- email is the one place where Android really outshines the iPhone for me)"
They did...but the one or two conferences you attend a year as a student isn't even close to what I'd call "networking". And frankly, that kind of interaction doesn't get you closer to a job, and it doesn't matter even a little bit for getting a professorship, unless you're giving a major talk (which, in all likelihood, you aren't).

The best networking I did in grad school was attending startup-related events. That got me my first paid gig, which led to greater street cred as a developer. Attending events held by the career center was a close second, because those led to interviews. Everything else was fluff.
I agree with everything you say - except for the part where you cite the Economist for having a stupid list of hot jobs : That's not their style at all. You're thinking Business Week or Forbes, etc.

The Economist is (despite having offended lots of people here with its overview of the current start-up scene last week) much more about utility maximization than about money... Actually, why not pick up the winter special issue? - I'm guessing you'll find it much more thought-provoking than you currently imagine.

[ Trust me - I did a PhD for love, not money. But it's working out pretty well, AFAICT ]
And yes, it's still available to download http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
It's funny you mention that.. but actually hiring a part-time PostgreSQL DBA is all but impossible, I reached out to most of the support companies listed on the north american website... mainly I wanted for someone to setup a small (3-node) replica set of the most recent version of postgres with plv8 some sane backup scripts and pretty much nobody replied... EnterpriseDB won't talk to you without laying out at least $10k to start, and I would rather pay a person (or small company) I can call that to get things running... more if it kept running well.

I didn't have the time to delve through all the options out there for this purpose, and evaluate each of them, when there are out of the box solutions that were closer to my needs, though not strictly SQL based (Mongo, Rethink, ElasticSearch, Cassandra all come to mind). There is ~6k/month allocated to hosting costs, and ~$40k/month to the handful of people in the IT team... there isn't much wiggle room there for a small company, and everyone wears a couple of hats. The current application is using MS-SQL (hosted in Azure without redundancy) and MongoDB mirrored data for searching against... licensing to get a replicated MS-SQL setup for better availability would be more than our entire next generation hosting budget... If we could have actually talked to someone who wasn't a sales person at EnterpriseDB that could do more than send you a PDF sheet targetted at managers that might have swayed me.

Sorry, will end my mini rant.. in the end, what support I do have from MongoDB (using their backup service), and my experience with actually just using ElasticSearch and Cassandra has been far better for setting up for something resembling high availability/distributed configuration has been easier than even getting a proof of concept PostgreSQL setup working.

I really hope that PostgreSQL gets it together within the next year or so, it would have been my first choice had I been able to actually get some support within a reasonable budget for my needs, or if I actually had the equivalent of a DBAs salary or more to throw at the problem, which I didn't/don't.
Ha. After years of Access, never realized VBA was popular with it.
Internally to google, gwt_application, gwt_module, gwt_test is a built-in rule. GWT itself is built with blaze internally (not ant) as well.
After correction:

100 iterations give best_x = -1.76, best_y = 2.91, best_out = -5.15

10,000,000 iterations (less than 1 sec CPU) give best_x = 16,657, best_y = 16,662, best_out = 277,541,583

https://jsfiddle.net/fe068f0L/
take their money and buy a ferrari
Clickable:

Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBL59w7fXw4

Summary article (original is now gone): http://news.jchk.net/article/6cf235a6629ad4bd4e2c68e5a1dd2a1...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7472841
I really love it when an open source alternative born.

Will check this out!
Project page says (or at least the translation to English does) "target mode only".
Surprise, most sites don't use SSL.

Surprise, the DISQUS login/registration to post a comment on TechCrunch's article about this "gaping security hole" also sends your password in plaintext.
Frank Stella said (during a 1964 radio interview): "I knew a wise-guy who used to make fun of my painting, but he didn't like the Abstract Expressionists either. He said they would be good painters if they could only keep the paint as good as it is in the can. And that's what I tried to do. I tried to keep the paint as good as it was in the can."
Common courtesy. If they don't follow up, you should. If they don't respond to your follow up, that is just discourteous.
"The doctors at UCSF are just scaremongering, regardless of their credentials."

Thats a very blithe statement to make about a group of professionals.

Here's the thing -- I know several people who have been treated for cancer at UCSF, and my understanding is that you couldn't ask for a better group of doctors/scientists. Their expertise is very well-regarded. So if taking the advice of a doctor who has made this his/her life's work is appealing to authority, then guilty as charged. If I'm going to try and make the best decision I can without understanding the topic as well as you seem to, I'm certainly not going to chose the people who generally work in the field over the the people with real medical experience. My plumber is a very smart guy who knows a lot about electrical, but I'm not going to hire him to re-wire my house. The devils is in the details, and I'm going with the guy who has a very good grip on the details.
This is ridiculous. They also shouldn't teach history because you know someone might be offended the same way.
Not only that, but Feinstein is ostensibly the Senator of Silicon Valley, and should know better.
Fair enough. However, you don't know what's going on internally. Let me share my own experience as a hiring manager.

I interview a bunch of people for an open position. Everyone is told they'll hear soon, within a week or two. Then an emergency happens (we are a startup), we freeze the decision for a month or so. Then I'm sent to travel the globe for two weeks. Sorry I didn't get back to you to update you. I know it's rude.
- "Get a Mac!"

- "Yeah I know."

At least he has a sense of humor :D
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors are one of those things that pop up in a million places because they're so useful, but to recognize where they may be useful you need intuition as to what they're doing.

One of my biggest hurdles learning linear algebra was getting that intuition. This "standard way of explaining scientific things" never built that intuition for me, only forced the mechanics of the computation into pencilized muscle memory.

Don't get me wrong, you need that muscle memory in practice. But without the intuition, your muscle memory is always going to be inferior to a couple commands in matlab. Stuff like this visualization builds the intuitive knowledge -- you see, you explore, you wiggle a few things and see what happens when you go in and out of the sweet spot.

Play (and simulation) is an extremely effective way to build intuition, and one I'd love to see more. These guys are doing an awesome job at these kinds of simulations -- their markov chain one was fantastic too http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/
What I find remarkable is that Stuhlinger worked for the Nazis at Peenemünde, where he undoubtedly was part of the machine that rained rockets and death on the Britain and the rest of Europe.

Imagine being at the spear tip of something so evil as being part of the Nazi killing machine - and then, fast forward a few decades, transform into a sage statesman, arguing so passionately for the oneness of humanity and for the peaceful uses of space.

I wonder if he ever chose to explain that dichotomy to his children before he died. It blows my mind.
I retract my previous statement. Musk is not a luddite. He's a clever businessman.
My gut feeling is that personalities are not fixed, and there are feedback cycles in action here. For example, I find it believable that the more successful a person becomes, the less likely they are to feel a bunch of emotions that might cause them to behave unkindly (e.g. desperation, jealousy, and so on).
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Remote : Yes

Java/Python Backend Engineer

See following link for more details: http://bsb.theresumator.com/apply/Uesnxd/Server-Side-Enginee...
FreeBSD's binary packages aren't .pkg, but rather .txz (.tar + .xz).

http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/2bsd-dif...:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 626 Dec 31 1969 +COMPACT_MANIFEST
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 921 Dec 31 1969 +MANIFEST
tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30616 Oct 3 10:49 usr/local/bin/2diff
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11256 Oct 3 10:49 usr/local/libexec/2diffh
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2823 Oct 3 10:49 usr/local/man/man1/2diff.1.gz

This is similar to other BSD binary package formats.
It was probably upgraded from ~30A at some point in the past as a requirement of a lender. Presumably it has circuit breakers? Those weren't even a choice in a 100 year old house when it was built AFAIK. I've been curious how well these jobs are generally done, when I was a kid it was a big selling point to have circuit breakers instead of fuses. I've always been curious how through some of those upgrades were, did they replace all the wiring too, does everything have grounds, etc. Or did they just pull a few 240 lines for AC/range/etc?

https://www.thespruce.com/service-panels-changed-in-the-1900...

Which says 100A didn't become common until the 1960's.
so alamo drafthouse
If Apple withdrew, there would simply be people buying their products abroad or via the black market. Hardware is pretty portable like that, unlike services. Even apps can be gotten if you just get gift cards for another country’s App Store.

The Great Firewall of China is a perfect example of what happens when Google and Facebook aren’t allowed into a country. Alternatives that the government can better control fill the gap.
Not mentioned in the article but critically important to humanity's future is phosphorous for fertilizer.

Unlike nitrogen, which is extracted from the atmosphere (presently using a carbon-intensive process, but feasibly using renewables), phosphorous is mined from rock. The only way to recover phosphorous is from human and animal waste. Animal waste is used (sometimes) either via pasturing animals or collecting manure, but human waste is mostly unexploited.
I love the warnings that they put on these things. (paraphrasing) "Under no circumstances should you follow these extremely specific steps listed below or else you might accidentally make an alcoholic beverage which would be illegal"
> and you can share your QR Code directly

That's a useful feature. Others (above) are telling me this is useless (I disagree). Are these identities separate?

The discovery service sounds useful
Vague memory, so take it with a grain of salt, but I think this might be a way of getting the break to show up in an editor that expects \n or one that expects \r. Maybe most editors that expect one simply ignore the other?
https://archive.is/kzgSt
Lots of things seem oddly priced from my point of view, this is one of them, but who are we to argue with the market, right?
PyDAL (DAL) seems good on an initial look. I've just started exploring it, but recently wrote a post about publishing database data to PDF using PyDAL and xtopdf, my Python PDF creation library, here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2015/01/publish-databases-to-pdf-w...

PyDAL is now a separate project and can be used without web2py.
As of now, the majority of dieting attempts (over 90%) fail in the long term. People loose weight and then slowly gain it back - changing their metabolism in the process.

People can loose weight, but pretty often do it in an unhealthy way that is not sustainable. Keeping that weight in sustainable way is what issue is. We dont have intervention that would actually worked long term for that.
Not my work by any means, this is all community-driven, and I think they do as awesome a job as is possible to do, considering the constraints Apple puts in their way. This guide has all the steps: https://egpu.io/setup-guide-external-graphics-card-mac/
A lot of what you say is true, but also applies to the likes of MSNBC and (even) CNN. Raving, frothing at the mouth, 'journalism'.

I grew up in a commumity much like the family life you described. Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, etc etc 24/7. There were some non-ideological types who - while staunchly conservative - actually thought through their beliefs. They were the exception.

I left and attended an elite school, where... almost the exact inverse of that existed. Sure, it was more 'educated' types in that in general they had attended better schools, had more degrees, etc. than the people from the rural area I grew up in. However, most of them were startingly dogmatic and could not reason through their beliefs to provide a proper justificatory ground. Just the same tired slogans and phrases recited by academics and students who all already agreed with one another.

To quote David Foster Wallace, "human beings are generally pathetic." You will find many people on either side of the divide who just go with the flow.

And sadly this honestly is just a given with human nature. We should encourage higher levels of critical reasoning and the like in politics, but at the end of the day people are going to choose their communities.
A couple of months ago. On podcasts I listen to, I've heard other people talk about it changing. Basically the deals all get 'locked' until you make a certain number of purchases to unlock them again.
If you map a binary variable into a, let's say, 128-bit number (non-linearly) where a mapping is unique for every encryption key used, there's nothing making it an anathema for encryption.

I am not sure whether this is achievable practically though.
Tell that to Uzi Nissan.

https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
I come from Eastern Canada (the island province of Newfoundland, to be exact), where we speak very quickly with a unique dialect that is highly abbreviated. (for example, "What are you doing?" becomes "whattayat?") I find it painfully slow to listen to non-Newfoundlanders speak. Happiest day of my professional life was finding out how to speed up YouTube videos. Default setting for any conference/instructional video is now 1.5-2x speed to just keep things moving.
I don't know where you get this, maybe start-up land. I have been a dev since the early '90's and all kinds of enterprises do drug testing. Most utilities, health-related organizations, defense contractors, transportation businesses and even many large manufacturers routinely drug test potential employees. Most only test for pre-employment screening, but random testing is still used in many places.

Most recently, three years ago, I was tested for a contracting gig at a Wisconsin power company for a web dev job.
There’s a very real risk of getting a knock at your door and going to prison. That’s more than enough to scare some people.