skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Been there, done that, found much better ideas, tested them out, and much more.

This is what is broken in technology in corporate environment. People across board are doing things which somebody has done even better. Sometimes decades ago.

Sir, your company should have open sourced it (or shared the details) to let the next generation stand on your shoulders for building even better things.
Slavery is also a great example of partnership (a stable relationship backed by shackles and violence), division of labor (I sit around; you work!) and increasing returns to expertise (I can do more due to having better living conditions and more friends and connections than you, slave). I don't get your point here.
Because its fun. If its not fun then they've failed.
>This isn't a competitor to react; its a competitor to ES6/typescript/coffeescript.

Perhaps you haven't looked at the examples.

>React is a template library, not a language.

Irrelevant -- and it's not such a clear cut distinction as you make it anyway.

A new language can have built in first class support for react like templating -- and this does.

>People aren't using react and angular because they have a nice syntax, that's just nice, they use them because you can build applications with them.

Yeah, so the idea behind imba is that if you could do the same things WITH a nice syntax and first class support it would be better.

Seriously do people read TFA?
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I'd divide it as essentially "User of Packages" vs. "Writer of Packages", and of course, the dichotomy is not actually a clear one. But the choice was to suggest that there are some people for whom the programming language and its libraries are not an end of itself, and "Just crack it open and write your own thing for X..." is essentially a non-starter.

I think it's useful to distinguish between the two groups, because not only do they have different skill sets, but they have different motivations. For example I will never directly be evaluated on the performance or style of my code in the way a programmer might be - only the paper that code helped me write.
They won't survive this.
It's a recruiting firm. Their business plan is to help companies with hiring (for a price) by matching the people who demonstrate skills in the game and opted in with their partner companies that want to hire people with those skills. The thesis is that successful starfigher candidates are all-star people that companies want on their team, but for whatever reason don't make it through the traditional hiring processes.

I suspect the right answer is to do both.
2006? Come ON!

How about the whole WSDL/SOAP services that appeared way before that? You're telling me that Rails was the one who came out with the modern REST ideas?

That's total tech illiteracy right there. Damn, you even had the nerve to defend that feeble argument.
Matlab is number 10? That is a surprise. That may include Octave?
Under the right circumstances, self checkout lanes are very efficient. Just keep your items to a minimum and no fussy items that you have to look up (like produce, or one off items). A lot of times I'll go to a store with only one or two lanes open, and those are packed, while I can just zip through a self checkout lane with only a few items.

Other thoughts:

I think its an incredibly stupid law in CA to limit alcohol in self checkout lanes

I was a grocery store cashier for 4 years. IME slow customers are going to be slow at any lane.

Customers who dig out change and count it for exact cash are fucking slow, self checkout or not.
Wow, I listened to this several months ago and I am still primed on the first sentence.
Please RTFA.
Because it'll be fun. Fun. That's a thing we, as humans, do. Some other animals too.
I like the example of the MI and stroke reducing polypill. However, if the only reason why this pill's not sold is because it delivers a low return on investment due to the high cost of the clinical trials, why aren't countries where medical research is less privatized stepping in?

Surely, this miracle pill would be tested and ultimately sold in Cuba and some European countries with excellent medical facilities where the public sector shares a larger part in healthcare costs.

What's preventing this?
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yes and no. If as a game you were given eight years to read and learn (but not take with you) whatever documentation you wanted about technical knowledge (only), and then sent back to New York in 1860 with $1,000,000 in 1860 bills and the goal of the game is to make as large a fortune as you can in 20 years... then it should be obvious to anyone that the ideas you would have are incredibly valuable...literally priceless. They represent without exaggeration trillions of dollars of research over 155 years.

You can patent entire industries and fundamental advances. The hard part is just choosing what to focus on, that you can actually do in 1860 starting with $1,000,000 and maybe the patent system (though it's probably unfair that you're using a time machine - this is likely quite immoral as you're not the true inventor of anything.)

And then doing it.

In other words: the outcome of the game is about execution. But what you're executing is idea. The two go hand in hand. You have a real chance to become worth 2015$ 1 trillion within the 20 years - or generate a one-million fold return on the million. You can be worth as much as entire continents. But you have to do it right.

For starters, you have to be someone whose brain can ship those technical ideas back to 1860 in one piece. This is quite similar to someone with an idea today. Not everyone qualifies.
Wow still no generics even after so many people asking for them
TFA however, which has examples of that stuff, was posted before shadowmint's.

If he was unsure about what he saw in those examples, then he could always refrain from pissing on the project until he had more information.
User for Great Neural Network Library?
I have invented a really powerful neural network training algorithm. The network can be trained in real time, requiring only about one millisecond per observation. Using the resulting neural network for prediction is extremely fast. This is with stock server hardware. The results are robust even if the data is noisy or it experiences concept drift. There is only one tunable parameter and its exact value is not critical. Even relatively non-technical users can get good results with the algorithm.
The original version of the code is in Haskell. I have been working on JavaScript and C++ versions. I believe it is patentable technology, though that is not a personal goal of mine. It should go without saying that it is the result of many years of experience with neural networks.
I do not have the financial means to launch a company to take advantage of this algorithm. I would love to see it put to good use. Even better, I would love to get paid to work on it. As a last resort, I plan on releasing the code as open source projects (GNU Affero GPL license). But I also need to put food on the table. I would love for somebody to step forward and help me turn it into a commercial product or to turn it into a new feature on an existing software product.
Any takers? Any ideas? I can be reached via creyes123 at yahoo dot com.
Even this toy example would still require a 3% rise in taxes on all workers, decreasing the incentive to work. Also, in this case you literally wouldn't help any poor wage earners at all, since a minimum wage job in the UK is already making more than £10k. (and maybe hurting them, if you increase taxes across the board — if not, then high earners will be seeing a rate increase of closer to 4% -- so top rate will go from 45% to 49%).

If you start getting to more life-changing money, like £6k a year, you're starting to talk about >10% increase in taxes on the whole working age population. The top rate will go from 45% to over 55%. And again, it won't add a penny to anyone who's earning more £10k.

On top of that, some people would presumably drop out of the work force, and the higher tax rates would reduce the incentive to work, so your tax base will be even smaller. That'll push up the tax rates a few more percentage points at least.

My math:
Going along with the example, around 65% of the UK is working-age, and about 62% of working age people work. So 15 million people in the UK don't work at all, let's assume they don't earn anything. Assuming you restrict the BI benefit to just to working age population (no pensioners or children), there are suddenly 15 million people who didn't get anything before who now get BI, costing £30 billion pounds. The UK collects/spends about a £1 trillion, so that would be a 3% rise in spending.
Behind the App: The Story of FileZilla
Answer to clickbait title found 20 minutes in:

Opensourcing a project that becomes popular induces guilt, because it needs your time and attention to thrive, but you can't afford to give it, especially if you're interested in creating other things.
Curious, how do you perform load tests in production for an e-commerce site?
Well, in that case, the only appropriate response is to open up a pop-up spray-paint shop whenever/wherever a Banksy work appears.
It isn't.

I used at least one PHP to JavaScript code-gen in the past and it was rather bad.

I also dislike this Rails/Ember-CLI scaffolding stuff. It simply feels like too much magic for me.
Restricting Access to Content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkyV7d5t8o

I don't remember much about the plot, but can't ever forget that VR. <curmudgeon>The trends in "expressive" animated interface design make me think that dystopian future is still an aspiration for some designers. Just as soon as we all get headsets...</curmudgeon>
Heap (YC W13) is hiring engineers to build the future of analytics
He's previously been writing RPG for the AS/400. That's pretty much exactly like living in a cave since 1975.
Good riddance. I've never liked shopping, and these days, if I can't find something in 10 minutes, I'll go home and buy it online in 5. Note that I'm more than willing to try buying local first, support local businesses, etc, but malls have always been a blight.
You Can’t Do Squat About Spotify’s Eerie New Privacy Policy
With BI, You will never be in a situation where you will be poorer for earning a dollar you just won't be an entire dollar richer.
Inside NYC’s impossibly small 100-square-foot apartment
Many professional email marketers strongly disagree with writing long emails.

I might venture an opinion that this is likely because they don't write as well or as interestingly as you do. By a long shot.
Or, three or four or eight different dark matters (one of which is our stuff), that all only weakly interact with each other through gravity. Or, even more strangely, one of those dark matter's interacts with stuff that doesn't even interact with the gravitational field.

A graph of weakly-connected physics.
I think they did - the first Reddit post on it [1] is dated 4 days ago, and the torrent [2] was datestamped for just after midnight on Sunday morning.

My guess is that the timing didn't go according to plan - they picked an obscure subreddit to post on, and the first press coverage didn't happen until Tuesday night (having apparently heard about it on Tuesday morning). And then it's generally a good idea to let at least 2 days pass between press releases, otherwise the public doesn't have a chance to absorb the first media cycle. They probably hoped it would be noticed on Sunday night, hit the press first thing Monday morning, and then they could follow up with the CEO dump on Wednesday.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/3h71ar/we...

[2] https://thepiratebay.vg/torrent/12237184
Developer Infrastructure with Airbnb and Bundler
How Israel came to be at the forefront of FinTech Innovation
Are there really any court sentences in the US, in, let's say, the last 20 years, for "helping somebody committing adultery?" How much a "helper" can get?
> Did you ask them how do they search for patterns? Entries in log files, function definitions or usage in code, matching files in a shell?

You know, I have. In some ways it is like communicating across cultures in that the question does not seem to make all that much sense to them. That I can tell, they don't ever search for patterns. The would look for that feature in their GUI log reading program, I suppose.

Failing that, they would write code, 100% in Java I think, and I suppose that if they had to do what I would reach for a regex to do, they would write code to do it. (Is this what jwz means by "Now they have two problems," that they should do the job in code?)

But, again, I don't think there is a real communication there. I'm not too sure what they mean and they look like they do not recognize the situations I ask about.
The CTO actually spoke? He wasn't hiding under the table or calling from a remote cave ? :-)

Bravery! (probably ;-))
Interesting to hear about Pyramid. I'd always gotten the feeling that Flask was a bit lighter-weight.

I think I'm going to steer clear of Pyramid because 1) I worked with it before, and want to try something new-ish and 2) I ended up fighting with a bunch of the defaults in Pylons / Pyramid. I think they got more sane over time, but I get the feeling that Pyramid devs and I would get along, but do things like finish each others sentences with the wrong thing. "Do you know what would go perfectly with this dinner?" "Yes, beer!" "... er, I was thinking coke. But, yeah, beer would work, too, I guess."

If nothing else, I'm glad to hear those two are the top of your list. I'm feel like I "get" what both of them want you to do, which helps me (personally) a ton.
Same with a 1 year old LG home cinema system.

Sending you amazon / kindle tv promos does not help to cover up such obviously bad business approach, reliability & ethics as a supplier.

We will cancel all our Amazon subscriptions including their cloud services as a result of this "marketing stunt".

We need businesses to partner with that we can trust and build long-term relationships with - otherwise if they act like amzn here they should be treated like commodity suppliers - replaceable and not worth a penny premium or branding.
Everything You Think You Know About the History and Future of Jobs Is Likely Wrong
Bicycle Desks: Better Than the Gym
Yeah, I don't think I can go Django. The ORM works well enough, but SQLAlchemy is my jam.
Either individuals own themselves or they don't. And if we don't, who does? Where do they get that authority?
Hey, gleb - Kipp from FullContact here. Sorry if our support team wasn't able to address your needs - that's something we never want to hear. Mind dropping me a line at kipp@fullcontact.com and letting me know what the issue is? I'd like to look into it and see what we can do to make things right.

(And agreed, Zapier support is awesome. Wade and the rest of the team do great work.)
Cool, thanks for the recommendation. Been a fan of his work as long as I can remember.
Hello IBM, welcome to Python!
Google Ordered to Remove Links to Stories About Google Removing Links to Stories
This is emblematic of many cynically dismissive comments in this thread.

The article is about the difference between real work (that moves a startup forward) and fake work (that does not). People often work very hard at the wrong things, so Sam's advice has nothing to do with "work harder". "Work smarter" might have been closer, if we're going to pick a half of that cliché. To take a post that is clearly trying to help save founders from a lot of unnecessary work, and twist it into something sick, is pretty uncharitable.

I keep thinking about adding the Principle of Charity to the HN guidelines. What good comments would be ruled out if we did this? It would certainly rule out many bad ones.

http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html
The depths of stupidity of the European "right to be forgotten" likely still hasn't been reached yet.
I completely agree that support matters. What I like about both Stripe and Braintree is that both have great documentation that make integration super-simple. (I liked their docs so much that I blogged about them: http://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2015/07/24/good-documentatio...)

I have integrated with CyberSource and PayPal. CyberSource took a week. PayPal took a couple days. Braintree and Stripe? A few hours!

Besides this, their reporting (via API) is simple to use and integrate with our analytics pipeline. By contrast my analytics team spent days on the phone with both CyberSource and PayPal.

Finally, the rates aren't that bad. If you have significant transaction volume, you can negotiate a rate comparable to the "legacy" payment processors. Both the sales and support teams have been quite helpful.
Which morphological analyzer are you using to do the deconjugation?
I'm surprised, not that they do something to avoid airplanes, but that it makes the situation better. Maybe birds are better at this than animals on roads, who often make the situation worse with their actions?
Either you need to make a massive, basically unaffordable tax hike on middle-class and upper-middle class people, or make a decent size tax hike on everybody.

Pensioners/disabled/people receiving unemployment benefits would be worse off.

The big winners would be people who are not working and not receiving benefits today, and presumably the people who live in the same household as them.
Not to my knowledge but anyway. Somebody resubmitted the news with proper URLage so all is well.
“Yelping” Does Not Entitle You to Minimum Wage
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Retail stores just physically cannot compete on choice. There's only so much stock that you can hold at a walk-in store and they all seem to become necessarily limited to the 'popular and generic items'. The smaller niche stores meanwhile get squeezed out by rising costs.

There have been times I've gone into the city with the intention of buying something from a retail store, because I want it that day. I spend hours walking around trying to find the particular thing that I know I want, but to no avail. Everyone seems to carry the same stuff and more often than not it isn't the stuff that's generally recommended as excellent.

One example that comes to mind - I went out once looking for an iPhone/Android compatible game controller (specifically it was the MOGA Power Pro but I would have taken anything similar at the time). Went to the only big game store chain we have (EB Games), couldn't find it. Went to the two big electronics store chains we have; couldn't find it. Went to two different big-box department store chains we have; couldn't find it. I think I even went to the Apple store and they didn't have the one I was looking for. Ended up just ordering it online.

Another example - one day I felt like getting some physical books. Went out to the local mall and to the physical bookstore they have there. Worse situation. Out of the whole store, I think only two shelves were computer/IT books. Nearly all of which were "Teach yourself X in Y hours" or "Microsoft Office something or other". Figured this was a lost cause; I could take the nearly hour commute into the CBD and go to one of the big shops but at that point I thought, why bother? Ordered from Amazon, just waited for the international shipping. At least I got what I was looking for without feeling like I wasted my time.

For an educated consumer, there is just no reason to go retail other than the social experience. I don't remember it always being like this, but maybe it's because I was young and without the ubiquitous Internet you actually went to a store to browse and discover new products.

It used to be different and exciting to go to a big electronics/music/book store and see all the new things that you didn't know about before walking in the store. That just isn't the world we live in anymore.
I'll always remember fondly coding in my 486 days with the Borland Turbo C++ IDE; we had no keystroke latency at all back then.
Cool, thanks for the thoughts. I'm going to go with Flask: my 24-hours-in opinion is that I can work with this, and it's got enough community support to make the easy things easy. I haven't done logins or much more with sqlalchemy-flask, but they seem good.

I'm a little worried the flask plugins are thin. As with anything where you have lots of flexibility, you can stub your toes if you don't know the "right" way to do it. For example, I tried to use flask-assets and pyscss to compile sass, but I found a bug in pyscss pretty quickly and had to back out and switch to the Ruby implementation of sass. Not ultimately a big deal, and the whole thing was up and running in about 3 hours.

EDIT: Ugh, more pain with Flask plugins. Flask-SQLAlchemy assumes you're going to declare models that won't be used outside of the web context ... so you can't separate your models from Flask. Annoying! Getting fixed here: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask-sqlalchemy/pull/250

So, anyway, that's what I'm going to do! Thanks for all your input!
John Resig used a Convnet to upscale japanese prints, waifu2x

http://ejohn.org/blog/using-waifu2x-to-upscale-japanese-prin...
I understand that, but if you want to sell any kind of screen you have to represent that the screen discriminates "better" candidates from "worse" ones. The people who are willing to pay for this screening want the top 1% or 10% or whatever (even if the way it goes down is that they request data dumps and then make up the scoring function themselves). That is how the whole industry works, it's not your fault and you almost certainly can't do anything about it.

Edit: even if you present yourself as a recruiter, it doesn't make any real difference. The value you are adding and charging for is that you are handling part of the recruitment process so that your clients don't have to. Nobody wants a recruiter who doesn't hand them the best candidates.
We could scale back benefits more gradually than we do today. That would be a lot cheaper than giving everyone a guaranteed pot of money.
Thermodynamics and Garbage Collection
Airframe is pretty good too, even if the plot is eerily similar to Disclosure.
In Hans Richter's Dada: Art and Anti-Art, he noted the unexpected commercial success of Dadaist art. The best that I can remember the quote, he said: They expected people to react with shock, and to open their minds. Instead, people reacted with amusement, and opened their wallets.
We're not selling a screen. We're not a job interview. We're just smarter recruiters.
What type of product manager are you?
Wonder if they realize the name was taken (and trademarked!): http://184.0.203.234/arrvin.nsf/LinksView/680F01F22637149286...
There's sort of a survivorship bias in play here, where you only noticed the brittle codegen being brittle.
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It is amazing to me that people writing reviews on Yelp actually thought they should have been paid to do so.
In the past I've used etcd-ca[0] to perform a similar function, though probably not it's original intention.

[0] https://github.com/coreos/etcd-ca
Calling Dropbox having an uphill battle to prove their valuation is quite an understatement.

Box is trading at about 6x their forward revenue in valuation, versus cloud industry's 10-12x average, and during the last Dropbox round it was rumored it was valued at 40X its forward revenue.

Meanwhile Box is winning major partnerships and customers left and right and the market still hates it, I really wonder how Dropbox is gonna tell their story considering their vast consumer user base is a liability instead of asset when it comes to profitability.
And now you're self aware!
It looks to me more like an accomplishment of git-bisect, which let the contributor isolate the bug to a few lines of code in a single commit.
Agreed, but data point two in my first statement is for prisoners as well, not incarcerations. Ignoring Federal prisoners entirely is disingenuous since the total percentage across all prisons for drug offenders is above 20%. That's a lot more than 17%, and it's rising.