skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same sort of development one would do anywhere from my experience. I'm not sure what you imagine when you think of the Midwest, but I live in a city with over a million people (not Chicago). I have friends that work for companies on the East and West Coast and we trade stories that seem fairly similar about our work life. Startups and large companies exist here too and aren't much different. Startups may not be as numerous, but I've worked for some and moved on past that phase to want more stability.

I'm the tech lead for my team at a medium sized company that builds high demand, critical backend services. Customers include small businesses, some well known Silicon Valley companies and some established Fortune 500s. I like what I do and get to see just how well software I work on scales with customers that push it to the limit. I mostly use C# with a bit of C++ right now, but previous jobs I used Python, Java, JavaScript and PHP. VCSs have ranged from SVN, TFS to Git. The one used mostly depends on when the company was founded. Early 00s probably means SVN while the last 5 to 10 years probably means Git or TFS.

Does company culture differ here? I don't think so really. Like anywhere, it depends on where and whom you work for. I work 40 hours a week on average, have a workstation that rivals my own gaming PC at home (we also had the choice of a high end laptop, but I prefer a desktop) and wear jeans/shorts/t-shirts to work (assuming I'm not working at home that day). My brother works for a company with a similar culture to mine and they have their own personal chef that serves them lunch every day. My employer and his are only about 10 to 15 years old, so that probably contributes somewhat to the cultural similarities.
Your comment only serves to distract from the point - No woman is going to post a blog post talking about "wanted advances", even though we know they exist, from friends we know who met in workplaces.
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Interesting, but study of human consciousness suggests that the basic model used for human cognition is sequences of framed and situated actions. If this is true then a different model might be better for planning and evaluating progress regardless of goals or context.
They've started making PU238 again, they've actually almost ran out of it and getting it from the Russians is becoming harder and harder due to tensions between the countries...

http://spacenews.com/russia-withholding-plutonium-nasa-needs...

So after pretty much running out of PU238 after spending most of it on New Horizons and Curiosity NASA has finally managed to get funding for the DOE to start making it again...
Live stream on Vulkan at Siggraph 2015
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I wonder if the different types of glass we use today would reduce that number.

My new word for the day is "enucleation". For the love dogs do not look that one up on youtube.
That's a good alternative, in places where buses exist. In New England, at least, outside the very core of the urban areas, public transit of any kind is uncertain at best, and mostly completely unavailable.
Building housing doesn't displace poor people.
I played with Ingress for a couple of days, using GPS spoofing - but they quickly somehow found a way to catch people doing that (multiple location sources, I'm guessing).
Thanks a lot. I wonder why this is not mentioned in the changelog :)

Regarding the `docker-compose` issue, it's described here https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1723 . Aanand Prasad has a better PR in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1754 (merged).
Indeed it was on the other hand if you ask anyone if given the choice would they live within the meltdown blast radius from a nuclear reactor you'll pretty much hear a resounding no.
> she strung him along for what she could get out of him.

If by "stringing him along" you mean declined every single advance made by him.

"No thanks" should be more than enough.
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[Argentinean here.]

I guess it will not be very popular, but you can try, especially if it's a project that has no equivalent in English.

Add a warning [Croatian] in the title and an autotranslation link as a comment. I guess in spite of the language someone can give general advice like "remove half of the text from the front page", "make the buttons bigger and oranger", "I really don't understand what you are trying to sell", ...

I remember and interesting project in Japanesse: "What's Perky? My Handmade Keyboard" http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/index.htm HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510800 (33 points, 290 days ago, 13 comments) I'd really would have preferred an English translation, but it's interesting enough to get an upvote.

[On the other hand, I think that all the comments here must be in English.]
No, violence in Russian Army is institutionalized, it is called "dedovshina".
Yow, I am really getting the downvotes on this one, I guess 'interacting charitably and in good humor' is not as popular an opinion as I would have hoped.
Especially controversial topics... I think there may be a factor based on points to comments ratio...
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Rent to revenue is a nonsense ratio for a VC-funded startup. For the first few months, it is likely infinity. Too high? No. Meaningless. What about the first month they make money? 400% sounds pretty high, too. Comparing it to other expenses or headcount could make sense, but comparing it to revenue just doesn't.
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Look into the kochen-specker theorem. It is much easier to grasp the non-classicalness of it than Bell's IMO.
It sounds like their heart was in the right place, an effort driven by passion, but they just ran into too many obstacles. If I had invested, I probably wouldn't feel so bad. It sounds like they tried - like they give it their best, sincere effort. That's all you can do, really.
I'm fascinated by this idea of "free markets". Please, can you provide a real world example?
Perhaps I am in the minority here, but in the 15 years I've owned cars I don't remember a time when I planned changing the battery. It was happens in the worst time, most frequently when I'm trying to get to work or home. So getting a new battery is always an emergency to get my car rolling so I don't get it towed or start accumulating parking tickets. Getting an eco-friendly battery is the last of my worries. I wonder how many folks out there feel the same and how this could impact a novel product like this going forward.
1. Nick wrote this in 1999 and he's been proven wrong. For example when Apple proposed selling music tracks for 99¢ and he probably would have used this very argument and pooh-poohed them along with everyone else.

2. His arguments are one of an anal accountant. Do you know what fraction of the population even reviews their monthly credit card statement, their long distance phone charges, whether or not their mobile data plan minutes are being counted accurately, or whether their iTunes charges matches the number of songs they download exactly? A very small fraction. Do we need to? No, not all of us. We can trust that if a vendor violates trust and commits fraud, someone will catch it and they will suffer a class-action lawsuit, as does actually happen.

3. "Paying into a kitty and apportioning based on general consumption patterns" can work great if the amount I pay per month is fixed, and that fixed payment is apportioned among the things I consumed in a way that rewards quality. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008960. This is just a simple idea by me, an amateur.

Back to "impossibles":

- If before Wikipedia existed, someone proposed to create an online encyclopedia that anyone in the world could anonymously edit, that it be funded by donations and that it become the encyclopedia that most people refer to, nearly 100% of us would have rolled on the floor and laughed out loud.

- If before it existed someone described a magical currency with the properties of what we now call Bitcoin, most would have said, "yeah right".

- If before asymmetric public-private key encryption was invented, someone said we needed a way to communicate where one side could decrypt something sent by the other but not be able to do the reverse and thereby pose as the other, most would have said, "good luck."

Please, please stop speaking in absolutes. It comes off as rather arrogant and foolish rhetoric.
The ACM page for this SIGGRAPH 2015 paper is here:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2766894&CFID=702491298&CFT...
What I take from Dunning-Kruger is that unskilled people have misconceptions about themselves, not being aware of what they don't know. Likewise, skilled people have misconceptions about others, assuming they know as much as they do.

Its very easy to forget all the efforts invested in learning a skill when you've been using that skill for many years. When it becomes second nature, you assume its also that way for others.
and if we wanted to have some fun, we could lower that number by quite a bit still

The most "immediately" (pun intended) obvious size optimisation would be to do this:

push 1
pop eax
mov edi, eax
...
push .msglen
pop edx
...
push 60
pop eax

...which should save 9 bytes. Note that 174 bytes is still a far ways off from the equivalent under DOS, which would be...

95 BA 07 01 CD 21 C3 47 72 65 65 74 69 6E 67 73
2C 20 48 61 63 6B 65 72 4E 65 77 73 21 0D 0A 24

...these 32 bytes, 25 of which is the message itself.
I don't recall reading that caveat on the box my teflon pans arrived in.
That's the most recent? Just in July there were supposedly part of a giant plan with the MPAA to slander Google to manipulate stock prices. It's amazing anyone takes NewsCorp seriously.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/72607/20150731/mpaa-secret...
I don't know why I'm responding, but I can't help myself. I guess it's the good old XKCD "Someone is wrong on the Internet" effect and I should know better. But.

They are paying people who would otherwise work on Git in their spare time to work on it full time. That is a net win for everyone who uses git.

I'm going to give up at this point and just accept the fact that you're going to spin it such that any commercial entity that uses open source and doesn't open source their core product is a parasite. I think you're wrong, but you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

You're not entitled to your own facts, though.
Many drones are flown by using the first person point of view. I wonder if you could hire a person to fly the drone and then stream to you the first person view?

Of course I'd want to have the glasses on to get the real effect, but with the VR goggles coming out that may work.
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I prefer the IDE to an editor because I don't have to type as much boilerplate. For example, to create a class I just fill out a class template and accept, and to add a method I just type code in the method pane and accept. The IDE is built just for Smalltalk and is extremely productive as a result.

With Emacs + SLIME, I still find myself typing a lot of "(defun...", "(defmacro...", and "(defclass...") boilerplate.
> Celebrate! This is the last time you'll have to wait for Apple review.

This is the great idea! And it works for many. It's easy, though, to get an inconsistent state of the app, where JS bundle would be newer than ObjC part. You should be super careful while npm-installing libs, including react-native itself since most of them consist source code that should be compiled. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem when react-native and most major third-party libraries will be stable
Someone could probably make an entertaining book telling how companies got their names. I always enjoyed how an early employer of mine, Callan Data Systems, got theirs.

As you might guess, Callan was the name of a founder (Dave Callan). However, he was just one of three equal co-founders. Another will Bill Pohlman (probably best known as the leader of the team at Intel that developed the 8086). I don't remember who the third was.

When they were just starting the company they could not agree on a name, and this was holding up filing corporate paperwork. During this time Pohlman and the third founder went on a camping trip together without Callan.

When they got back Callan told them he'd gone ahead and filed the paperwork with a temporary name so they could move on with the important stuff, and they could change the name later when they finally agreed on a name they all liked. The temporary name was Callan Data Systems.

They never agreed on a new name.
So the fix for regulatory capture is to abolish regulations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Debunking a minor mathematical myth
If anyone is interested in graph processing at scale, the largest Web Data Commons Hyperlink Graph[1] (created from Common Crawl[2] data) is 3.5 billion web pages and 128 billion hyperlinks. To my knowledge, it's the largest freely available real world based graph dataset.

Numerous graph systems have been made that can scale to this data, frequently on just a single powerful node, including FlashGraph[3] (using SSDs for high), Frank McSherry's single laptop Rust implementation[4], and Dato's GraphLab Create[5].

As Frank McSherry points out at [6], there's a lot of room to improve state of the art in graph computation systems, especially as the current academic evaluations are broken.

(where "broken" means that a single threaded graph system written in Rust on a laptop can beat the benchmarks created by a cluster of high performance machines)

[1]: http://webdatacommons.org/hyperlinkgraph/

[2]: http://commoncrawl.org/

[3]: https://github.com/icoming/FlashGraph

[4]: http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/02/...

[5]: https://twitter.com/CommonCrawl/status/623615774909857792

[6]: http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2015/04/evaluating-graph-computa...
Falling in Love with Web Development Again
Trigger is a great news aggregator for iOS
Interesting hearsay on Reddit (via Twitter) https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/631630506300448769, claiming it was spun off because it wasn't considered valuable.
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I tried to use Clojure exclusively at work for couple of years. The problem was I couldn't figure out what my code when I try to go back and read it. I was able to write really succinct code by building up abstractions, but it was much harder to figure out what those abstractions meant few months down the line. I realized that inorder to figure out what the code does, I had to re-run the computations in my memory. Went back to python and I am loving it.
Now this is interesting. The really good power sources really cant be achieved unless you already have a bunch of power. Nuclear, for example, absolutely requires purification industry, which both directly requires energy and indirectly requires a large industrial base. About the simplest you can get is concentrating solar, and getting useful quantities of power out of those still requires industrial-scale fabrication.

Fossil fuels, in contrast, need almost literally nothing. You can build a decent coal-fired steam engine on an anvil and evolutions of that same coal-fired steam engine stay relevant well into the information age. Fossil fuels are a spectacular boostrap technology.

But! Fossil fuels are only good at bootstrapping. We're on a forum for startups and venture capitalists - we know better than anybody about the prototype-MVP-refactor cycle. Once you've launched your MVP, you need to turn around and deal with all the technical debt you've built up before it overwhelms you. There are a ton of products out there that share zero common code with their MVP. Bootstrapping technologies tend to be awful options for long-term use and you want to get away from them as soon as you've finished bootstrapping.

So here's what I say: build a prototype. Fossil fuels. MVP: build fast, lean on the cheap easy fossil fuels. And, finally, stabilize on your Once you've got enough basic infrastructure, use it to figure out a better long-term option and switch as fast as you can. Even if it's not as good immediately, it'll improve with time, and in the worst case (alien invasion?) you can bring the coal plants out of mothballs for a few years while you industrialize again. I won't say that it's easy, but I can easily imagine a less-intellectually-crippled species pulling it off.
Could be a bunch of things, but there's one that almost everyone deprives themselves of, to one degree or another: sleep.

Poor sleep is a major offender when it comes to spotty cognition, whether it's learning, planning, or working memory. Caffeine after 3pm, alcohol after 6-7pm, getting to bed too late, waking too early, inconsistent bed/wake times, exposure to bright, blue- and white-light led screens after the sun sets; all these will ruin your sleep quality in isolation and can really mess things up in aggregate over extended periods of time.

Being extremely disciplined about your sleep is the best way to crush low energy/motivation, mental fog, and even some mood trouble. It's tough to do in this 24 hour era, especially as a young adult in the tech industry, but it's well worth the effort. Don't mind if the first week or so don't feel very different; it takes a month of good sleep to "make up" one hour of lost sleep.

Getting serious about sleep isn't a fast payoff, but the eventual mental sharpness and emotional fortitude is unparalleled.
I'd say I'm probably in a similar boat. Though not specifically with maths, but sometimes I look at the code I am writing and think "that variable will work half the time, but it isn't the right one to use there", or "of course that user input needs to be lowercased, why didn't I think of that when I wrote it".

I think much of it (for me) has to do with being completely present and engaged in the action, not half thinking of something else.

Anybody else feel the same way? If so, how have you improved?

Note, I'm not young, in my 40s.
The 'quality' of a vc comes through in a lot of ways. One way is a general stamp of approval (they typically pick winners) which helps your companies reputation. Another comes from a large portfolio or a large network from which you can draw talent for hiring or source deals if you're B2B. Another way is to help you syndicate a round (get other firms involved to meet your funding goal). The most important I find is if they're going to be around for future rounds; iffy firms that don't have a track record have a habit of folding once their initial fund is spent.
All three authors work for DuPont. What do you expect they will find?

"FRANKLIN D. GRIFFITHa, SUSAN S. STEPHENSa & FIGEN O. TAYFUNa"

"Author affiliations"
Footnote a: "a Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware 19898"
I think they should keep the 140 limit for the body message, but exclude URLs and have a separate limit for some additional hash tags.
Derivatives.
I suspect Niamtic have found all the low hanging fruit, thus no more Seer badges.

It is also possible that Google has refined a "find local points of interest" algorithm which is based on where people stop for longer than might be indicated by traffic lights, pedestrian crossings or other signifiers. Then there is metadata from images (crawl places like Flickr and SmugMug for example).

Add to that the cost of having people review portal submissions and you can invent reasons why Google would want to let Niantic go.
You could also approach the problem from the other end. Have the state offer a reduced business tax cut rate for open offices and employing people in underdeveloped cities. Similarly at the other end of scale increase business taxes for companies that insist on expanding in overdeveloped cities.

This is common in Europe where business parks are setup in underdeveloped areas to encourage investment from outside. Usually these are coupled with reduced tax deals as it's in the governments interest to have people in the area in work rather than claiming unemployment.
OpenCL neuralnet backend for the Torch framework. Supports all kinds of stuff.

https://github.com/hughperkins/clnn
They all have an ADC, it's part of the chip. It's just not broken out on all of them. It's also not that great, 10bit resolution is so-so and it only works for signals between 0 and 1V. This means you can't easily use for instance the awesome TMP36 temperature sensors with it. I mean you can, but you need something like a voltage divider (which adds error) and you need to recalculate the voltage to temperature conversion.
FC, but yeah I have a lot to do. I haven't done it yet because it's a 10AE and basically clean.

Still would want a lighter battery though.
From industry people I've talked to, browser/rendering engine teams have had success with and like ex game-engine developers, since the fields have a number of similar requirements.
Luxury condos unfortunately don't produce long term jobs, so I'm not too sure what the plan is with the SF/NYC/LA/Boston/London/etc luxury condo building boom that's going on right now..

If I am to believe the self fulfilling prophecy of "the market cycle", it's just a game of hot potato.
If you're interested in a NodeMCU board, I'd recommend this one: http://www.electrodragon.com/product/nodemcu-lua-amica-r2-es...
sent. enjoy.
It was like WoW or Eve, but in the real world.

Which is probably why I quit; I much preferred walking around on my own, rather than trying to coordinate with people.

Oh well. It wasn't for me, and in the month or two that I played it, I did see some pretty neat stuff around the city that I hadn't before.
Yep, so true! Our dashboard makes it super clear to deploy JS bundles that are versioned to specific App Store releases, and we provide an API for testing new JS bundles on old App Store releases.

I'd love to have you try it out - ping me at (matt at apphub.io).
Hi George, Dave here at Droners.io. I've seen a lot of pilots actually offer that as a service to their clients. Have you seen any of the FPV races from a pilots POV (i.e. on Youtube)? Its pretty insane, feels like your in the middle of a Star Wars movie. VR goggles would really push it to another level :)
> You can't make a AAA game on $72,000 and 6 to 10 people. That's nuts.

You've misunderstood what actually happened, the game had a different budget and timeframe.
I wish they would fix Netflix on (desktop) Linux. Most content is limited to ~2Mbps 720x480 resolution (approx DVD quality), for no apparent technical reason. A Roku streaming box gets the same content on the same internet connection at ~6Mbit 1080P. This is easily verified with the Netflix secret menus (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S and Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D) -- quality above 1750kbps 480P just generally isn't available to Linux web browsers, except on Netflix originals and a small handful of other stuff.

Sadly, another area where paranoid content owners have made legally available, paid for content inferior to illegal pirate copies.
"Coal kills 1 million, so what if nuclear only kills 100k every once and a while".

That sounds like a pretty compelling argument for nuclear to me.
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It's very odd to think about how software development in one place costs a different amount than another place, when it doesn't really concern the place at all. All supply and demand, I suppose, but it's just weird to think about how much different the wage is as a result.
It could but they would have to expand the public transport infrastructure. If you look at the "cheap" areas one of the many issues is that they have poor transportation links to the downtown area.

However expanding public transport in SF is almost a difficult an issue as building skyscrapers. See the central subway as an example of the other end of NIMBYism.