skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue not being discussed is the revolving cost of having products out in the market and the cost of the next production run.

if your orders double from 20K units to 40K, your costs will roughly double, usually meaning that any profit made on the 20K is re-invested to make the 40K - usually plus additional capital.

So long as your production quantities double, you will not actually "have" any money (unless your FOB cost is north of four times sell price). Many companies cannot "realise" profit until orders stabilise.
thats way too snarky.
My cocktail: 100mg Pristiq, 70mg Vyvanse, 80mg Propranolol.

I don't think I need the Pristiq anymore. It was more for anxiety when I was younger (16-20) and it's balanced itself out very well. The Propranolol, however, is probably helping quite a bit as it slows things down.

Yes, you can argue that Vyvanse will speed things up, but it levels me out a great degree — though, not along anxiety lines.
Incidentally, Chebyshev is pronounced "cheh-bee-shoff", not (as is commonly heard) "cheh-bee-shev".
If you go on antidepressants, make sure you're open to trying different types. They're not one size fits all and people can have horrible side effects from one while another makes their life much better. Make sure you have a follow-up scheduled with your doctor about a month into a new prescription. Good luck!

(Anecdotally, my experience was that SSRIs had bad side effects and a general dulling of life, but Wellbutrin did much better. I've heard others report the exact opposite though.)
I came here to say the same thing, kept pressing the wrong button when I did it fast. Yes please swap them so the next button is to the right.

Consider adding a little arrow icon or '>' on the next button just to help remind us.
The music button could also have a little music note icon.
With $100M in Funding, Carbon3D Aiming to Make 3D Manufacturing a Reality
Appeal to hn@ycombinator.com.
I would have liked to see "source" link to more information rather than a link to the photo. And the snapping-back amorphous blob is pretty annoying, I keep wanting to make the whole thing flat with no crossed lines :)
Fix it then! Contribute. This is a 2 day program. Help him out!
Waiting. Just in general. Waiting tends to piss me off

...Waiting for tests to run

...Waiting for code to compile

...Waiting for someone to return an email / message / text / whatever

...etc

I probably don't actually spend that much time waiting everyday. But when I do have to sit and wait for something, I go nuts.
Could you tell me what's modern about it?

If I click "Learn More," instead of showing me a feature list, it shows me a static image with bad formatting and a hard-to-read font.

If the basis of "modern design" for documents is no indentation and a sans-serif font, I'm not too sure I'm interested in it -- I was hoping for something that used layers for versioning or something similarly useful.
To be fair, as I remember from a documentary I watched, the number of people, when asked, who believe that democracy in America means "majority rule", outnumbers those who do not.

That we aren't a democracy, but are instead a federal republic, is a distinction lost on many, especially as they clamor to remove the constitutionally protected rights of others.
The native GitHub IPython Notebook viewer also doesn't support within-notebook linking, which can be fairly annoying when you spend an hour putting together a nice table of contents system.
Yes. Also a US resident but living outside of the US. Took a 20% pay cut to be able to work fully remotely but still over 100k. I found it on Angellist and interviewed in person.
perl:

sub do_stuff {
my $thing = Thing->new; # no need to manually destroy thing. Its DESTROY method will be called at the closing brace.
}
I've been listening to the Stanford NLP deep learning lectures, and while I know hardly anything about it compared to most, "deep learning" is screaming at me. If you could generate a "corpus" of musical progressions based off of real music, you could very easily sample from a model to generate progressions that are likely to "co-occur."

This was posted three months ago on HN, but one person used it to generate music. http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

The folk music generation is located at https://soundcloud.com/seaandsailor/sets/char-rnn-composes-i.... I could imagine you could do something similar.
>For the second year in a row, the FTC traveled to DEF CON

Bloody hell, for some reason this sentence just fills me with glee. I'm not even American, but it's so good to see government agencies get involved like this.
He probably went to Stanford and took it in person.
Hey Randy, just wanted to say thanks for doing so much to help others extend their knowledge of data science. I don't know where you get your energy but it's been fun watching your rising profile in the data scientist community.
ARMv7?
Yeah, maybe an airline can say to the airport/CBP "we'll pay to rent a lounge/corridor/gates at this airport in this terminal for a sterile transit option between our flights or our partners' flights because some passengers want that" and maybe the airport/CBP can approve the proposal. (Maybe non-U.S. passport holders will still require an ESTA, but not a CBP examination?)

I think the specific option at LAX was post-2001, but you had to be on a specific pair of flights to take advantage of it. (I didn't do it, I just read about it on FlyerTalk and forgot the details.)
More gentrification, displacement in Bay Area forecast
How to achieve big goals
That's mostly front-end stuff for using the machines; the actual code running on the custom hardware is generally a lot lower level.
Did anyone actually read why these magazines were "highly ranked"?

> the CIA actually thought that Levitas’s anti-Communism was too ferocious, unrelenting, and “conservative.” ... the CIA wanted a more moderate and “sophisticated” voice ... The New Leader remained progressive in the context of U.S. domestic politics; it was one of the first publications to publish Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

> Like other magazines affiliated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Mundo Nuevo published essays critical of U.S. policy in Latin America and Vietnam. Its usefulness, from the U.S. government’s point of view, consisted in its defense of the responsibility of the artist as an independent critic of power ...

I'm probably the only one in this thread, but I actually think some of these cases fall short of crimes against humanity.

I mean, of all the dirty secret squirrel things governments do, if I had to pick, then (1) funding the early publication of 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' and (2) encouraging artists to challenge entrenched power (to include US policy) would be pretty high on my list.
Yeah, the copyright and trademark issues here make this seem pretty risky.
Funny, it gets Siri, which has to be katakana-ized specially, but it misses both ketu and ketsu. What kind of database are you using?
This is a great idea, by the way.
I like to ask a lot of questions about their expectations. This can be done before or after they've used the product. Simple stuff like:

"What do you expect to be able to accomplish with this product?"

"What do you expect it to look like?"

"How long do you expect it will take you to learn how to use it?"

"What devices do you expect it to be useable on?"

Stuff like that. I've found that when I veer far from their expectations, bad things happen. So I try to really understand what they expect, and align to those expectations unless I have a really good reason not to.
The Summer's Greatest Hits – Of the Solar System
Sony’s First Aerosense Drone
Yeah. I've been waiting well over a year for Crypto 2. Never heard of it ever being run.
Off-topic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes there is a principal in on of the "interpretations" (we really need a better word for it) of QM that the information carrier by a wave function cannot be destroyed, this present a problem in certain cases such as black holes.

There's allot of weird stuff going on on the extreme edges of theoretical physics, to the point in which also a though that some areas of theoretical physics have moved into the "Metaphysics" and Philosophy domains and are distancing them selves from certain scientific principals.

That said I like to treat black holes in the GR/SR manner they are simple massive objects not super dense hot balls of entropy, they don't have some universal cosmic powers, they are "black" simply because they red-shift all radiation to the point of invisibility, they can form, grow and break apart, and we never can see anything actually entering a black hole due to time dilation and anything that comes close to it will be red-shifted to a point in which we won't be able to see what or where it is either.

Since nothing from out POV ever enters the black hole and everything is stuck on the event horizon nothing is lost, and since black holes can evaporate (Doesn't require hawking radiation altough it's the most common explanation since Yakov Zeldovich (which Stephen hawking based his work on) and others have proposed similar mechanisms which are more compatible with physics as it is measured and perceived by hmmm reality...), no firewalls or weird mechanism are needed to protect or explain other weirdness that happens around singularities.

Singularities are well covered by GR and SR prevents naked singularities so we are good there too.

But that's just me :)
Gamedev? Do you mean the Graphics section?
I don't pay anything extra to tether my iPhone to my Mac (on Verizon). And I regularly get 10 Mbps in downtown Baltimore.
The average Indian cannot afford to take a 1USD per tablet drug once a day. So if that's how all the new drugs are going to be priced - significantly higher than generics, then I say India should go ahead and make generic versions of those drugs, even if it will in future break international law. Who are you to say they should sacrifice their lives so you can have access to better drugs 10 years later that they can't afford anyway?
Horisontal works for me on my nexus 6 phone
When writing things like this you have to tread a line between "I am somehow an expert on Everything, trust me" and "here's 200 different libraries, and sixty pages of reviews and benchmarks, it's your choice in the end".

The latter is basically in the situation when you go to a Cliki page[0], or when someone on freenode/#lisp asks what library they can use for X, and was what I mainly wanted to avoid.

[0] See http://www.cliki.net/xml for an illustration of choice paralysis
Not at all, but neither would two regular mice :)
When I was on Windows I ran AVG (Free version), with no complaints. I don't run anything on OSX. This might be naive of me, but I've never had a virus problem on a Mac (knock on wood).
The fact that it’s built on Emacs is a problem, as telling a new user they
have to learn Emacs before using SLIME (which is not strictly true) is a
significant artificial barrier to entry.

Yes, it is true. It's ridiculous to expect a person new to a language to also learn Emacs. It is absolutely a significant barrier to entry.
I'd argue that Bernays and the modern assembly line directly enabled WW2
Sorry, I am not sure if there is an "always on" knob on the client. I don't know the details, but some versions of iOS have a feature called per-App VPN, that might get you close to what you want. Look for the text "OnDemandMatchAppEnabled" on this page https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/iPh... .
More on the Drone : http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/24/watch-sonys-first-aerosense...
'Results for “nova”: Spanish: did you know that the popular anecdote about the Chevrolet Nova is an urban legend? Google for "snopes nova".'

I liked that.
Automated table of contents really should be built into Jupyter, given how often it is used in practice. Although there is an nbextension [1].

[1] https://github.com/minrk/ipython_extensions
It seems like the government's willingness to spend money or create inconveniences in order to learn more about overstays has been pretty limited, and also that they care a lot more about overstays from poor countries than from rich countries. (I think some people in Congress are really upset about it, but it just doesn't look like the immigration authorities cares that much compared to the controls at the borders and ports of entry.)

Also, some incidents of investigating and attempting to deport overstays who were deeply integrated into communities and clearly doing super-productive things have led to bad PR for immigration authorities, which could be another reason those authorities are incentivized not to get too good at it (though influenced by factors like what part of the country, where the people have migrated from, what their socioeconomic status is, and others).
That's "Boneh", not "Boney." (It means "builder" in Hebrew.)
I understand a great deal about those particular countries. I understand that in Switzerland, the People have decided that it's reasonable to hand out $1 million speeding tickets. [1]

Pornography was illegal in Norway until 2006 [2], while the US (not a direct democracy or even close to one) has had its First Amendment since 1791.

In Iceland, you must pay a "congregation tax" to the church of your choice[3]. Those who do not belong to a church pay the same amount to the state, according to Wikipedia, but the Church of Iceland receives funding beyond the congregation taxes paid by its members.

Also in Switzerland, professional fisherman must attend classes in compassion, and special chemicals are issued for putting goldfish to death. [4]

A government that can do these things to you can also do much worse, and history suggests that it eventually will. Democracy is no guarantee of liberty and rationality, and neither is a secular population.

But yes, you're probably right, I'll pipe down now and move to Somalia (which I'm sure will be your next suggestion.)

[1] http://jalopnik.com/the-eight-biggest-speeding-tickets-ever-...

[2] http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax

[4] http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2008/04/28/swiss-governme...
It takes 15 minutes to learn Emacs at a basic level.
Spacemacs: Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil
I should have expanded on the 'not strictly true' bit: for a while I wrote code on Sublime Text and used the REPL from SLIME, with the windows side by side, as SublimeREPL was pretty terrible. And I was fairly productive, too.

Eventually I just caved and learned Emacs.
Great! This is exactly what I needed as someone who is learning piano but wanted to expand my musical skills beyond just playing.

Does anyone have any recommendation on how I should practice these? Like is there a certain order I should do them in or anything like that?

Thanks!
Snowden of the Sea: Researchers Name New Crayfish After NSA Leaker
By popular demand, I've just updated it to regular unleaded scrolling. Might change back if I find some kind of jQuery library for portable parallax scrolling.
Political dialer is legal, but not legitimate.
Yes, really. That the government is hacking private webcams en masse is a flagrant criminal act. The collusion of purported democratic governments to do this kind of thing is a threat to the rule of law itself.

It's a very serious problem, and absurd, over-the-top exaggeration doesn't help.

Like when people say, "Working at McDonald's is slavery!" No, it isn't. Actual slavery is a whole different level of badness. Obviously.

And along those same lines, odious though it is, government spies hacking your webcam to see your dick pics is not as bad as the government installing mandatory government cameras inside the homes of all citizens. Obviously.

So I don't think Cannataci is helping with this kind of hyperbolic statement. It could reasonably be argued that government surveillance in the UK and the US today is worse than it was in East Germany and the USSR -- and that's very alarming. The notion it's as bad as the fictional dystopia of 1984 is absurd and unhelpful.
A disturbing trend is that more malware over time attempts to hide its presence in order to facilitate surveillance, extortion, or attacks against others (leapfrogging, spearphishing, spam, botnets). Malware used to like to draw attention to itself because it was a prank or showing off or because it was adware that profited by showing pop-up ads. But today a lot of malware victims don't know it, and again I think there's a trend that more and more malware tries to hide its presence from the infected computer's owner, permanently or for some period of time.
I don't think you're saying anything different, you're just missing how it proves the point.

The key is that the number of people in the higher tiers increased, while the membership of the lower tiers went down. That's exactly what you said. But what it shows is people were shifting into those higher tiers.

You're right that in all groups below $75K, the percentage of people in the group went down. While from $75K and up, the membership of each group increased (you've read that part of the data wrong, as the $75l-$99K group also increased.). That's precisely what my linked article says, and exactly what we'd like to see: people are shifting from lower groups into higher groups, across the board.

EDIT: here's the spreadsheet from the census bureau I was working from: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0696.x... (Excel spreadsheet)
If you work on or manage Windows machines, then waiting for Windows Updates can really suck. This may not seem directly related to programming, but it can be when you have sandbox virtual machines that are perpetually non-updated after being reverted to previous snapshots, or when you often break operating systems. Virtual machines make for an IT Groundhog Day.
5 minute pomodoros sound like a horrible idea. The pomodoro technique is supposed to employ half-hour blocks.
You should try the pomotodo iOS app. It takes care of a lot of the overhead and keeps track of all the data for you: https://pomotodo.com/
Then we agree.
Maxmind data is also often just wrong, updated or not. As a hosting provider with a number of IP ranges, we have to deal with submitting corrections to them, Google, ip2location, etc. all the time. Not sure why none of them seem to use very accurate methods to discern IP location.

Since you're doing a traceroute anyhow, you'd be better off analyzing the transit hops, and specifically the city codes used in the reverse DNS entries.
This is insanely far off base. When Flash was ascendant there was no open web, not on the horizon, not even as a glimmer in the milkman's eye. HTML/web development was a nasty brutish mess with each browser extending each "standard" however they wanted, while the w3c specified stuff none of the vendors were even considering implementing.

Then Flash came along with a single API, a single consistent model for interactivity, actual graceful degradation, video and audio that worked, etc. And content worked the same way across browsers and platforms. And it was much, much better than HTML/JS, so web development justifiably got its ass kicked for a few years. THEN, gradually, the standards committees and the browser started standardizing and implementing everything Flash had validated. That lead to the open web.
Right, because the effects of that will be felt immediately....
Whenever.js: A JavaScript reinterpretation of the Whenever esolang
Great! Quick thing – augmented/diminished chords don't have a position (root or otherwise).
Better article is the one quoted:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
I'd love to see this breakdown for more languages.
That is a really good writeup - thanks.

I started using Common Lisp in 1984 when Xerox rolled out CL as an update for my 1108 Lisp Machine. 31 years seems like a long time.

The Common Lisp community is great and with Zach's contribution of Quicklisp, most of the hassles of setting up a good CL dev environment are solved.

I especially liked seeing the two machine learning packages.
Billionaires Wanted to Fund Private Mars Colony
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
Stephen Hawking says there's a way out of a black hole
I think about three years went by between the first time I opened the Emacs tutorial and when I started using Emacs seriously.

So, sure, the barrier to entry doesn't look so high once you're past it, but insurmountable before. Specially when the official tutorial tells new users to move around the file using obscure key combinations and even the standard copy/paste/kill key combinations don't work.
Installing keyloggers is not legal in all the countries. If you look at the advanced economies, I'd dare to say in very few of them.
I agree that CBM laid off their workers in a nasty way, but that doesn't preclude WeWork from also being in the wrong.

The workers maintain that WeWork dumped CBM because CBM's employees joined a union. That might indicate that WeWork would rather not deal with employees who are in a position to collectively negotiate for better pay and benefits. Now that WeWork has hired replacement employees directly, we'll see whether these new employees try to unionize too.
The scrolling is better, but it still looks like this on my iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/NOrsV1M.jpg
These are not the only magazines CIA funded. They where very active in the (radical) feminist movement and funded among other "Ms." and Gloria Steinem, who also was sent to Moscow for Socialist meet-ups, payed by the same.

Also this movement is rooted in socialism (to primarily break down the family union, as we can see today). No one can say feminism is not influential in the world today.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem#CIA_ties ->

http://www.namebase.org/steinem.html
http://www.namebase.org/foia/festival.html

And in an interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRUEqyZ7p8

https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-fam...
The underlying layers of networking failing-

1. Too many requests for an NIC to handle,

2. Certificates expiring,

3. Firewall changes closing an active port down,

4. A router failing,

5. Congestion, interference in wireless networks resulting in excessive packet loss.

Hardware failing- HDDs, RAM, routers crashing, cables at datacenter being accidentally unplugged, racks being misconfigured during upgrades, maintenance etc.

See slide #4 here- http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Cool, I was afraid this was going to be a story about corruption and mismanagement, but it's not.
I have been getting some bullshit robocalls constantly recently, some recording about Google+ blah blah blah. I just hang up and block the number.

I swear 90% of my phone & snail mail spam comes from the fact that I used my real name & address (PO Box) for domain names I've registered (as required by ICANN). I mean I doubt ICANN can enforce that but it'd be a dumb way to lose my domains so I used real info.
Google Vision APIs for Android provide face detection and barcode scanning