skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an American crazy about food (and dining, alone or with others), and I found this one out the hard way.

Back in March I was growing crazy from New Hampshire's winter so I bought a ticket to Portugal. I learned the words for "thank you" and "sorry" and some menu-critical vocab and hopped on a plane to find a bit of sun, do some street photography, and try the food.

It was a big unintended consequence of having no one to go with. Dining alone at night simply isn't done there. At all. Only one restaurant I found had a bar counter, and it was a lunch place. There was no "eating at the bar" like I'd do anywhere in the US.

Every night I was the only person in each restaurant dining alone (for a week, no exceptions). In a city I found this really surprising. This makes it harder to meet people (no bar counter where you can talk to a bartender and other diners), which I think is too bad for solo travelers. It was a little alienating, I definitely felt like the oddball each night.

At Terra (fantastic veg-only place in Lisbon) one couple near me did say Bon Appetit, seemingly out of pity that I had nobody else with me, which seemed nice of them.

The solo-dining culture must be a plus of traveling within the US, I'd think for some. At least I've met/talked to interesting people at a bar counter before in different places, even in my hometown.
Whoops, just realized this is all a joke. Thank God.
How Diamond Formation Depends on the Ocean
It's not a disorder, like something that someone "has". It's a logical fallacy that affects most (all?) human brains to varying degrees.
Even in the rare cases the law applies, the maximum penalty is two month's pay minus whatever severance/notice was given. It's not much of a restriction.
> a system has about 48 million digital neurons, which is roughly as many as found in the brain of a rodent.

The count of neurons alone does not make a (rat) brain. The degree to which they are connected, the higher-level layouts, the fidelity of the neurons and many other things are also necessary.

It's like having the world's smallest bowl filled with soup of short DNA strands worth 3 billion base pairs and saying your bowl is similar to the human genome.
It wasn't meant to be complacently terse, it was meant to represent the basic tautology. Mathematics is a language as well as a way of thinking and one needs both since things are truly complicated under the hood. The language is actually our friend here, it allows people to speak clearly and have near universal understanding of what is meant. With this in mind, the correct answer to 'how do we communicate maths to non-mathematicians'(as opposed merely to teaching its importance which is advocacy) is to teach them the maths. That's how I see it anyway.
The funds these researchers are likely to have found will tend to be the big ones. Incentives when you have a few billion dollars under management are not what you think.

Your main issue once you reach that size is not losing the institutional investors. These tend to be pension fund type folks who have stringent due diligence requirements: lots of boxes that need to be ticked. This ends up meaning they actually don't have that many funds they can invest in, because inevitably all the filters will reduce the field. So what does that mean? It means generally they aren't going to change managers. The only thing that will really make them change is a blowup. The kind of thing where they have egg on their faces because they found this guy Madoff, did their homework, and it turned out to be a fraud. Or a big explosion that isn't a fraud, but wasn't what it said on the tin. That's the only time they'll ever change once they've gone through the pile of docs. (Oh, there's also when there's a new guy in the seat and he needs to do something. But that nets out.)

So what do you do as a manager? Just make sure you don't blow up. (I presume if you're running a fraud you have some strategy, too. But I'm not experienced with that!) How do you not blow up? Well, there's blowing up and there's blowing up with everyone else. Because as I mentioned, there's a limited portfolio of managers available. So just don't veer to far away from the pack, and you'll be mostly fine.

I would think by far most managers do not have systematic alpha. Either they aren't systematic, ie they trade discretionary and their pitch is to be good forecasters, or their system isn't doing anything other than well known tradeoffs (buy lower P/Es, higher cash flows, sector rotation, etc). Or they have a different risk taking mentality that makes them look better when times are good (skew trades).

There are a number of strategies out there that are real alpha though. Tough to find them, but let me give you an example. A friend explained he'd found a systematic way in which traded funds are mispriced. So, due to the intricacies of a little corner of the market, there was some predictability in how certain baskets are mispriced against their contents. He set up an infrastructure to exploit this (not HFT, paperwork), and makes a good living just doing that arb. There's load of similar little pockets to make money in.
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Testimonial:

I've been a Shutdownify client as a CEO of many companies, and I must say it was a joy to shut down my companies using Shutdownify!
Timeline of web browsers
But how do you ensure that it is unique?
Are you posting this from a wooden computer in a tree fort?
Simple economics: they get some value from having their content on Pinterest. There is no value (that they could see) from having their content scraped by other bots.
Truth is, this service never quite delivered on their promise. When my last two startups closed shop, it took shutdownify over 3 days to process the first one, and the second was still a full two days to get up and running. At that point I could have just put together a page myself.

It didn't help that they rewrote their tech stack from Ruby to Node even as they were trying to find customers. In the end, the user doesn't care what it's built with.
They really should have tried to find a way to keep going (longer than a day, at least!). There's going to be a lot of demand for this service in the coming year. Someone should buy their assets and wait for the coming bust^Wboom.
In addition, if fraction of life were the cause, wouldn't we expect to see people with retrograde amnesia exhibit childlike impatience?
Everyone said they were the next unicorn. What happened?
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Legacy code remains accessible to cheaper contractors, expense of overhauling build/deploy in sunsetting legacy app not justifiable. Gives us the ability to direct most of our effort toward the (Hoplon) all-Clojure/Script replacement.
I never had the urge to nod off with small doses of ketamine where I already felt some effects - it'd be a pretty bad anesthetic anyway if you could resist it by willpower alone.
We depend on bees, how do you feel about that?
If everyone moved to the top 10 in demand degrees then there would be a glut of job candidates

Exactly. Remember when being a lawyer was prestigious and high paying?
The problem with this business model is clearly that if a company is shutting down it has severe cashflow problems and would not be willing to pay for a SaaS service for such a thing as trivial as a shutdown notice. It really is a badly formed business model and is rampant in this 'oh lets get a good team and we can always pivot if we fuck up' world.

This kind of start up irks mes as a sign that we have really reached the top of the bubble. Really sell your SF real estate now. Its is going to crash. It is such a waste of developer talent to put effort into hapless startups like this. I would like to know which fools invested in this so I can avoid taking their investment too.

</ Look someone has to take it seriously ;-D >

Edit: Damn this backfired. The downvoterz haz spoken!
well, it's a case by case basis, but my desktop has this processor:
http://ark.intel.com/products/77780/Intel-Core-i7-4930K

which does not have it

but my laptops both have it.. :\

http://ark.intel.com/products/43559/Intel-Core-i7-620LM

http://ark.intel.com/products/53464/Intel-Core-i7-2640M
Very meta ...
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The thing is ... at companies that I was the bane of because of my lack of technological ability past lithic ... every one made fum of me working 10 hours at work and two or three at home at night and the weekends.

So now ... Amazon has created a culture where everyone feels like the guy that no one wants to work with ... they have found a way to make that exploitable among some pretty smart people.

And everyone looks around and lifts their shoulders and shows their palms because the US work experience sucks.

Amazon reads like the zenith of the suck.
- Ionic Framework (http://ionicframework.com): FOSS for building mobile hybrid apps on top of cordova & angular... Quite popular on Github with ~19k stars: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic

- Ionic Platform (http://ionic.io): Commercial platform from the ionic devs for providing mBaaS, PUSH, Dev Tools, etc for the Ionic community/users
Use RoR, it's not going anywhere.
I think there needs to be a classification system for the "rigor" of studies. A low rigor rating doesn't mean bad science; it just means that the topic is very complex and difficult to study.

For instance, studies that compute the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron (to 10 decimal places no less) and then compare that against the experimentally obtained value would be classified as "high rigor". Studies that assess whether watermelon is linked to heart disease would be "low rigor".

The question now is how to come up with a rigorous classification system...
Or rather: https://youtu.be/46h7oP9eiBk?t=149
As Paul Graham pointed out in his essay on philosophy, it depends on your definitions. Here, it depends on your definition of "same". But that makes it a much less interesting discussion about different (mostly unstated) definitions of the word "same", rather than a profound philosophical discussion about something...
Mmodulecounts: growth of programming languages
What's REALLY new in Python 3
You just know there's a startup somewhere saying, "Dammit, that was our idea!".
Good read.

This is an important note. _Everyone_ has the Dunning Kruger effect. It is a glitch that occurs in virtually all human brains, including myself and yourself.

That's why its very important to keep coworkers in mind. You can be a lot more objective about other people than you can be about yourself.

Its like the eternal joke goes. If you ask a team "who is the best programmer", everyone will probably say "me" or "myself".

However, if you want to _really_ know the best programmer, ask the team who the 2nd best programmer is.
Come on guys, this ad isn't even disguised as a wired article.
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It does, but the signal-to-noise ratio is considerably higher on HN.

If there's a replacement with a higher S/N ratio than HN, I'd like to know what it is...
Have entered the stone age, 4000+ years ago.
while we are chatting trivialities, does somebody know where the constant "pinterest is shutting down" rumours http://replycam.com/i/Screen_Shot_2015-08-19_at_22_50_13_1B8... are coming from?
> If the threads and their scheduling are implemented wholly by the language

There's just one thread, one event loop, for all of JavaScript... so we're not talking about true thread-level race conditions.

> strongly implying that it takes unusual conditions for events to lag significantly

As far as expectations of software running inside of web pages, it is in fact quite exceptional for there to be significant delays between when you expect for something to happen and when it actually happens.

For example, if I set up a timer for 953ms from now, and it actually runs at 3953ms from now, that extra 3 seconds is extremely uncommon for the UX expected on the web.

I think the disconnect here is that you're really asserting things about what happens at the OS level, where multiple threads and real I/O are happening, etc.

I'm entirely talking about JavaScript, which is single-threaded, and where asynchrony is just simple event-loop concurrency (interleaving actions). It means that two timers should, in simplest terms, order themselves according to normal expectations. It'd be unusual for there to be significant deviations.
Navigating the Open Seas
(Full disclosure, ex-Firebase employee and I make my living building Firebase powered apps)

In response to your issues...

A) If you really wanted, you could make HTTP requests to the REST API (https://www.firebase.com/docs/rest/api/) and that would not force you to use any long standing connection or any more battery life than other options.

B) I think this is a matter of preference. Firebase chooses simplicity over power in this case. The vast majority of developers and applications don't call for custom conflict resolution strategies. Firebase lets you focus on your app, not on these fine-grained details.

C) The SaaS-only argument is valid if you have a huge ops team who you can dedicate to running a complicated, stateful, realtime system like Firebase. However, 99% of the time, we don't have this luxury, so we pay the Firebase team to do it. I look at the SaaS-only aspect as a big plus. I know they're running Firebase in an ideal situation on ideal machines and I don't have to think farther than that. Once again, it just lets me focus on my app, not the details.

I can't disagree, if you have very low-level / complex sync needs, Firebase probably isn't a good fit for that app, but in terms of upgrade path, it doesn't have one because it is unique and exceptional. It's a little crummy that there aren't competitors you could hop to if Firebase went away, but Firebase doesn't have many competitors because they do such a good job and blow others out of the water when they pop up.

Regardless, I don't know your app, so it could very well not be a great fit, but it definitely has legions of benefits over Pouchdb/etc/etc in a huge number of situations.
Well-done satire...having the blog run on Tumblr and using a barely modified Bootstrap template, with parallax scrolling over a background image of a Brooklyn coffee house would've made it perfect.
Not only that, but I was pretty sure I had heard of them.
What is it supposed to do above Google Forms+Sheets?
The Fraud of the New “Family-Friendly” Work
You are so 2013. Fail fast!
I don't think it's as hard as many people are making it out to be. Not every company is going through huge growth phases super early on, and that's where the need for huge piles of VC cash right now on any terms comes from. If you keep your costs low by growing carefully and maintaining at least some revenue while also being very selective and careful about the investments you take I think a lot of companies can do just fine even without being 100% purely bootstrapped.

There is an entire eco-system of startups outside the little typically SV/VC bubble where everyone is in it to disrupt everything and win big, there are tons of small companies growing at reasonable levels that will never be the next google or facebook. There's nothing wrong with a "mere" multi-million dollar company.
Polymath? Pshhhaw. And I thought referring to oneself as a "genius" was the pinnacle of self-aggrandizement. Sorry friend you are not a genius, you are not a polymath, and given amazon's volume a 6 or 7 figure savings is likely indistinguishable from a rounding error. And while we're on the subject. Why doesn't he share the nature of his advanced degree in a quantitative discipline that puts him on equal footing with the world's leading econometricians rather than pulling the old neo bullet dodge?
I think the same trends are playing out with game development. As development and distribution have gotten easier the winners are winning more. It reminds me a bit of Sam Altman's "Upside Risk":

> It’s common to make more money from your single best angel investment than all the rest put together.

Applies to games as well as start ups.
Also different from ionic.com :\
For this very reason many projects nowadays jump directly from 0.x to 2.x :) 2 is the new 1.
I have a Ruby on Rails project on Github. After I added Twitter Bootstrap and the Ace text editor to my project, Github started showing that my project is 85% JavaScript. I guess it is, but I didn't write all that JavaScript! So I'm a little skeptical about JavaScript being number 1 here.
Haha! I totally agree! It's just me stuck in the past. However, I think we've come long regarding integrated graphics. Running newer games like CS:GO on high graphics, even though it's not the greatest game regarding graphics, I think is pretty solid from an integrated GPU.

If just Intel can manage to match 1.5-2 year old Nvidia GPU's from the date of release, I think it's really good!
Saw on your Twitter that V5 will use PostCSS... Is this still planned? If so, any specific details on how it will be used?
I'm hammering it out by hand on a 1950's typewriter while wearing an alpaca hat with ear flaps, I hand the unbleached recycled parchment to a well dressed gent who rides like the wind stopping only to sup ale and change horses who crosses the channel then joins a train of merchants heading east, on successfully crossing these dangerous lands the parchment finally lands in India where it is transcribed by and posted on my behalf, because.
Doesn't this support what I said? They studied which ideas reached commercialization -- not how successful they were once commercialized.
ok so i misunderstood your previous comment, i took "should create working environment for them" as segregating employees based on things like social skills.

I definitely agree that HR should use other measures of accepting an applicant other than possible performance. But that doesn't mean that someone being an asshole is HR's fault. You're basically saying that there is consistent negative correlation between performance and social skills - which is not true.
If that's the only reason then I hope pinterest doesn't publish their IPs.
Well, the artist sees some of the original ticket sold. And places like StubHub may increase the total number of tickets sold (or may not, I have no actual data).

> The article points out that the revenue generated by ticket sales is greater than it once was, but it still hasn't eclipsed the amount once made from album sales.

That's revenue, though. How much did the artist see from album sales? In most cases, not much, given the way the game was rigged to favor the labels. The artists saw a much bigger slice of the ticket sales.
A new platform to search and discover videos
Thanks for the suggestion. I agree, I think I could improve how details are displayed more effectively anyways.
Do you have a proposed model which is sustainable for both parties? What seems both fair and reasonable to you?
They're probably using a preprocessor like Babel[1] or something like es6-shim[2]

1: https://babeljs.io/
2: https://github.com/paulmillr/es6-shim/
I have to say, I miss the age of native apps. I understand that it's awesome cakes for Spotify, GitHub, etc. engineers to share JavaScript bits between devices. But it sucks for me as the user! The Spotify app (on my Mac) has become a resource hog over the years.

Same with Slack's Mac app. As beautiful as it is, there's just something that doesn't feel 100% responsive/right with a web-based app.

"With separate code bases for OS X & Windows
converging on a single design, we knew that
sharing code would be essential going forward.
Sophisticated as the graph is, implementing
it twice would have been a significant burden."

How is it ever reasonable to prioritize coding convenience over the end users' experience? This team set out to solve a cool engineering problem (code reuse) and forgot altogether that people are actually going to be using this stuff.
Public universities are super cheap - in my state (Massachusetts), UMass Amherst is less than 10k a year if you graduate with above a certain (easy to attain) GPA. I think one of the largest issues is with people deciding to forgo cheap, good public schools like UMass, UVM, etc and going instead for more expensive private schools that offer the same or worse quality education, such as Elon, Holy Cross etc.

On the other hand, schools like MIT, Harvard, Yale etc all offer generous scholarships - regardless of your income, you will be able to afford one of these schools. Not to mention that after college, higher paying jobs are easier to get if you go to one of these schools.

If you want to just go to a decent college for cheap, it's not too expensive if you work it out right - either you can get accepted to a top school, or you can go to your state's flagship program (UC Berkeley, UMass Amherst, UNC Chapel Hill, GATech, UT Austin, and others come to mind).
Those google results come from their app crashing and people seeking remedies
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regarding b) conflict resolution

Firebase presents a last write wins sync on an unsecured database, however, because the security language rules are dynamically evaluated every write (with strong consistency), you are able to add other types of synchronization. For example, firechat[1] implements operational transforms, and this post[2] adds 2 phase commits. You have to figure it out yourself though which can be a fair bit of work.

[1] https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-04-09-firepad-open-source...
[2] https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-02-04-firesafe-complex-se...

regarding a) different types of sync, we recently added offline persistence, and there is also the REST API, but yeah, GCM sync would be nice to have and something we have been thinking about.

(I am a Firebase dev)
Is there any scoping on what vendoring means for forking projects? i.e. if I pull something full of packages like domain.com/user/pkg, would I now be better served just dropping the whole subdirectory tree in a /vendor/ directory?
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I scrolled and scrolled, saw a presentation on the perception of time, then looked at the clock. Time did indeed fly!
The percentage bar is % energy content. Maybe there is a way to make that more clear. Displaying things in terms of weight percentages is misleading because the body burns a set amount of calories, not a set amount of food.
IBM seems to be leading in patent awards this year as well: http://qz.com/418068/ibm-has-been-awarded-an-average-of-21-p...

Also note that not all patents come from their Research division; anyone can file for one.
It really is a company that is destined to fail: only during a bubble would such an idea get VC funding, but it's only after the bubble bursts that they'd have a hockey stick growth. It's an enigma wrapped up in a paradox
I could be wrong but looks like this doesn't have responsive text alignment? Really miss that on a regular basis with bootstrap.
Business model failure: Bankrupt startups couldn't swing the monthly recurring payments after shutting down. Pity. Goodbye Shutdownify.
Science and modern capitalistic thinking do not work well together.

Most people in business view any sort of rigorous research as a "cost" center. And this thinking has diffused into government too.

On the other hand marketing and advertising produces the most value for dollar. Why ?

In a market those activities generate new demand - something that a capitastic system needs in order to survive.

Why spend 20 years doing research while we could spend 1 year aggressively expanding our market. Even a 1% growth would he worth it given a 0% growth if the money was spent doing research.

I like that rather than villify a single person Nate silver points the finger at the system. This type of thinking is where we should all be heading towards.
Thanks for chiming in! Will you please relay our wishes to the powers that be -- that the GPU driver stay blob-free?

And thanks for contributing the drivers to Mesa!
gdb is not a real option at the moment. Being unable to easily parse through maps wipes and slices wipes out most of the actual use cases.