skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my teams unsuccessful application, though we did get an interview:

http://synaptitude.me/blog/our-ycombinator-s15-application/

And we are applying again! Truly, we were encouraged by our rejection email.

We wanted to post our unsuccessful application (and hopefully eventual successful application) to show that it's okay to try, fail.

I recommend reading: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
The application to optical encoders is one of the most beautiful intersections between discrete math and the physical world ever imo.
CLOUDATLAS 32 minutes ago [dead] [-]

great

@dang Are you able to shed light on why this account is hell-banned? I don't see anything that looks that bad in the public activity.
<strike>You mention Stripe twice now.</strike> (Sorry, the first mention was by someone else in a comment above). If their offices were located in my city, I'd jump at a chance to work there. It has nothing to do with belief. It's an interesting and unique product. Really wanting to work on a product doesn't require drinking the kool-aid of PR hype. Companies who try to force the kool-aid down their employees' throats are not to my taste. If Stripe is like that, the bad kool-aid would win out over my severe interest and I would leave.
My side project TubeSock (http://stinkbot.com/index.html) can do this for you. Just open the preferences and set it to download as MP3 or AAC.
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You're right. This isn't recursion by any definition I know. Cute, though.
I'm commuting by bike and on my route in Mountain View I see quite many Google cars. They are very conservative and so far I haven't seen one that acted based on my arm turn signals. Either they don't recognize them, or they don't trust me ;) Overall I feel much more secure biking around autonomous Google cars than human drivers. Just the number of people doing red light violations is incredible here in the SV.
The "calling itself inline" pattern is well known in the demoscene/sizecoding community as a way to repeat something a small fixed number of times with neither an explicit loop nor duplicating code, and probably was independently discovered by quite a few individuals.

Here is one of the more interesting applications, a function that converts a 16-bit word in a register to a string of 4 hex digits in only 24 bytes of code, and can also be called to convert bytes and nybbles (x86):

; output value of AX as four hex digits to ES:DI
write_hex_word:
xchg al, ah
call write_hex_byte
xchg al, ah
; output value of AL as two hex digits to ES:DI
write_hex_byte:
push ax
shr al, 4
call write_hex_nybble
pop ax
; output lower nybble of AL as hex digit to ES:DI
write_hex_nybble:
and al, 15
cmp al, 10
sbb al, 69h
das
stosb
ret
Yeah, I take my criticism back.

I didn't go through the whole thing initially. Excellent examples.

Thanks for your hard work. It is indeed an amazing series.
The people who monetize content and the viewing of content. Generally for places where impressions and traffic sourcing/funneling to a site is a higher stream of revenue than selling or marketing to customers. Think of Gawker, not Uber.
Along with a red LED glow along the door handle!
The film is OK. I watched it after my girlfriend told me about it. Most of the interesting parts are mentioned in the article. The article doesn't mention that Tressa's emergency room trip was almost certainly a consequence of all the sex. Also, while the article mentions Belle Knox, the way she comes up in the film is that Riley (the recuiter) and several of the girls are sitting around a table watching her interview and commenting. It's one of the more memorable scenes.

The film doesn't go into any greater detail about where all the money she earned went. They allude to lingerie and birth control but there's never an explicit breakdown of expenses. The film doesn't mention illicit drugs, alcohol, or any other potential money sinks.

Certainly, comparisons to Uber are ridiculous. Yes, there are similarities-- the same similarities you can draw between virtually any company using new business models enabled by new technology. I agree that the piece is terrible.
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> Brilliant! Let's make sure to include this in the standard tech interview questions set. We only hire the top 1% of the top 1%.

First of all, that's the top 0.01%. Second of all, with that strategy, no you don't because the top 0.01% are going to walk out of interviews that ask dumb brain teasers. The best programmers are ones who can solve problems in the context of a team and codebase, with the help of the internet and iteration, not solve obscure but not-really-that-hard problems in 15 minutes.
The long, slow death of the rule of law in America
1. Look at jobs online, find a city with lots of programming jobs and move within commuting distance of it.

2. Constantly apply for jobs requiring 0-2 years experience. Don't be too fussy at the application stage (you can only judge them when you get to interview stage). Not just Python (you can use your Python portfolio to land a Java or Ruby job for example)

3. Going to interviews will give you experience of what questions are asked and how to best ask them. And also what you should have in your portfolio.

4. If jobs are dry you may have to take a job in another language you desire less. But after 2 years maybe you can jump across to Python.

5. The exact advice will depend on how much in demand you are. If you are beating offers with a stick then you can be fussy about language, location pay etc. If the market is dry then you may have to take anything just to get some coding experience you can leverage later.

G'luck!
I assume that anything I put on facebook is already known to various governments, and might well become known to anyone in the world. I mostly post funny comments and the occasional picture, but would never post anything I didn't want my employer, my children, etc. to see.
Counting on government to protect cars from hackers isn’t our best option
When I read posts like this, I used to think I needed to be more persuasive and crafty with how I presented what I was selling. I thought I lacked the skills of a good salesman, so to speak. Then I read somewhere that the greatness of a salesman begins at the products they choose to sell. They're great not because they can sell anything. They're great because they efficiently choose to sell the products that sell themselves.

As it turns out, great sellers aren't in the business of convincing people. Persuasion is the craft of a mediocre salesman.

Hence, I think this is more accurate:

"Your Job as a Founder is validated by the believers you create."

There is always something in between, such as a vision, a demo, a product, an experience, a great speech, revenue, and so on. But founders don't create believers per se. They generate them. I feel this distinction to be quite important.
go for it.

Also, there's nothing wrong with PHP.
Interesting in build the commercial mass spectrometry
Does anyone interest to build the novel ion trap mass spectrometry into commercial ?
I think "How recursion got into mainstream programming" would be better.
So what is it about recursion that eludes you? It is very strange to me that someone would find one of those concepts easy and the other not -- as you say, they are two forms of the same thing.
Uses BLAS but no mention of cuBLAS to speed things up? Does that mean the linear algebra wasn't big enough a component to merit optimizing on?
I do recall that it was said to be 50 years out and that was at an industry fair in the mid eighties; so we _are_ getting closer ;-}
Do you think of binary tree traversal? If so, you probably work in academia.
Unless there is some major advance in nonconvex optimization here, (sub)gradient descent on the function you describe in your post is almost certainly converging to a local minimum as well. I guess maybe the surprise is that local minima can perform well? But again, this does not seem like such a surprise when you consider the number of parameters being fitted. I do not have much experience with LSTMs per se, but modern i.e. conv-nets are basically O(10^8)-dimensional nonlinear maps. It just doesn't seem all that unexpected that you can embed a huge number of patterns into such an object.
I'd love to believe this quote, but light rail per mile is an order of magnitude more expensive than highway per mile. Do you have any citations I can look into?

Thanks.
The wave-particle duality is also often explained misleadingly. It’s not that particles sometimes behave as particles and sometimes as waves—it’s that they behave in the normal fashion, and sometimes our models for explaining their behaviours are wave-like and sometimes particle-like.

My intuition about the travel of photons is that, because of length contraction, there’s no distance to travel, so they don’t actually travel through a vacuum at all, and of course that’s why they don’t need a medium, and it takes no time at all—from the photon’s perspective, anyway.

The thing that blows my noggin is that this system we’re in is complex enough to express us, who may eventually have the ability to understand it from the inside. That’ll be the real trick. :)
> e.g. gold

http://i.imgur.com/YFlg1dH.png

Right.... you keep telling yourself that. Overall, yes, keep money in investments. But don't speculate on Gold, its one of the worst performers of all time.
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Khan Academy got me through calc III and diff Eq
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A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
Not that guy, but spent the last 6 months in my van.

Needed to leave my job, didn't have a new one lined up yet. Would have loved to keep renting my place, but bay area rents are absurd. Bought a van, will have lost about 1k after selling it, and so that was my 6mo of rent instead.

The amount of people living out of their vehicles is staggeringly high. Any attempt to count the homeless, even in LA (which I understand does the best job in the nation) will wildly undercount, as we're all doing our best to stay out of sight and not get the cops called on us.
This is how I evaluate studies, "are the data and code made available?" It's a simple request and this study is the first I've ever seen offer both. Bravo!
For me the harbinger of the death the rule of law was Bill Clinton getting away with lying under oath in court. The announcement that we now live under the rule of men and not laws was the US government's abrogation of asset-backed bond contracts for Chrysler, GM and Fiat during the mortgage bust. Unless things change this will mark the end of the great experiment in freedom and rule of law that was America.
I guess the job security is down to what my old pal told me. He was an embedded engineer partly because it was interesting and partly for job security. I asked what he meant about job security. He said his work needed people to physical be there, get the job done, and support it over time with quick, physical response if needed. Harder to offshore than code and only so many H1-B's they can do. So, he predicted we'd have a lot more to worry about.

He seems right so far. Most of the embedded industry overseas is production or low-level stuff easy to hand off. There's usually someone like him over here involved in one or more parts of the process. Maybe I should've picked that market.
- landless

- online

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> It's like when Go was the new-and-shiny; many jumped on the hype bandwagon because it was Google backing it and it was fast, then tried it out and realized it was a language for the <5% of teams that have projects that fit well.

I don't see that all with Go. Go is getting a good degree of traction, because it's a really useful language for a lot of people.

> But, I don't see it taking the place of C, C++, or Java anytime soon for writing high performance or portable apps.

Why not, specifically?
Just as a reminder, idea #1 is basically what Slashdot has done for ages -- seems to work for them.
Me either.

But I post photos of my children with the assumption that I have privacy from the masses, and I think Facebook offers that.

My ex girlfriend can't access those photos. Yes, I agree they're not private, I know someone can copy them and email them to her. The government has access. They're sitting in public CDNs, the URL to them has no security etc etc.

But those photos still have a level of privacy.

So yes, I think there are many people who put things on Facebook expecting they're private. Not private in the way you mean, but private in the way I mean.
Indeed. I can't do it -- well, I've never really tried -- but I saw a guy doing it this morning. His bike definitely had derailleurs. (Though hmm -- I suppose I don't know for an absolute fact that it had a freewheel. But I've never heard of a rear cluster without a freewheel.)
The blogger at Poemas del río Wang is a personal friend of mine. (Sometimes I also write for his blog.) By profession he is a translator and art historian, a Hungarian by birth living in Berlin. I have gone on many of his tours, and travelled with him personally as well. I can unreservedly recommend his tours, but they fill up quickly. Most of the participants are Hungarian speakers, but he can translate on the fly into English, and other languages, too.

A link to his upcoming Iran trip:
http://riowang.blogspot.cz/2015/08/come-with-us-to-iran.html

Incidentally, I wanted to go on this trip, but as a US passport holder, I would not be free to go wherever I want without an Iranian-appointed guide on a limited itinerary (at least as I understand the situation).
Even when you know the information they have it's (currently) impossible to predict what someone will do. It's impossible to know what information they will care about, what they think is in their best interests versus what actually is in their best interests by a more objective standard, etc.
While we can debate the effectiveness or 'legality' of drone strikes why is this case any special?
He's a member of a non-nation state militant organization, he's clearly (as much as this can be in such cases, but ISIS likes to take credit and not to hide it's footprint) responsible for multiple acts of violence which resulted in deaths.
What does it matter if it's an extremist cleric who recruits, incites violence and supports ISIS, AQ, or any other similar organizations through video tapes from a cave or a "hacker" which uses twitter to do the same?
If I had a dollar for every time a systemd supporter compared it to upstart without provocation, I'd have exactly zero dollars.

If I had a dollar for every time a systemd supporter reminded us that we need systemd because runsv was a terrible hack, on the other hand...
Lol. Implying that at any time in history human beings have abandoned power in the name of principles.

It's just not what we do as a species.
A related thing that disturbs me is that whenever the Republicans throw around the idea of impeachment (which they do with absurd regularity), the news analysis is always about what the poll numbers say and whether it will help or hurt the Republicans, rather than whether the charges are actually impeachable. The way the media covers legal issues related to politicians -- by analyzing how it affects the politician's favorability rating, rather than whether the charges are serious or absurd--contributes to what the author of this piece is talking about.
> The commuter dozing in his self-driving car is not aggressively driving, and with his car legally mandated to be in super-safe mode, it's going to take twice as long for it to make it through rush hour traffic.

That's a common idea based on not-very-careful observation and just isn't factual. There's plenty of data showing that aggressive driving has minimal effect on travel times. In fact, you actually get a bigger speed-up by strategically avoiding left turns: companies with delivery fleets plan their routes with this in mind.

[1] Not-super-technical explanation: http://lifehacker.com/does-speeding-really-get-you-there-any...
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How can it possibly make sense for us to be discussing a months-old political drama through the lens of the Orange County Register? Please join me in flagging this story.
I find it wrong that the author is using other successful companies as examples that they were built on "belief".

No, airbnb founders did not believe. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg did not believe either. Nor did Larry page.

They got there by learning from user, questioning their "belief" and iterating.

Nate: '... so I at this point decided to move to Boston. Had other priorities in my life. And pace suddenly slowed down .... Have you told Michael that I am working on other things?'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya0I6oz7q9U&fea...

Mark: '.. well, it does not have to be anything more than a college friend website. That is a great product.' https://youtu.be/aQ5otpv6kTw?t=252

Larry page: ... tried multiple times to license their technology and later sell the company for a few millions and later for a few billions. The gap in their asking price and market offer kept them going.
I don't know if this is really the best example.

That said, I am very frightened about the closed-source software that will be running in these cars.
Fog Creek/Trello/SO
I am in the interesting situation that I am currently exploring two different ideas with two different groups of people. Both ideas are in completely different spaces and I am not sure yet which one I think is more promising. Due to the very different nature of the ideas it's currently easy for me as the potential, technical co-founder to divide my attention between those. Would there be any issue if I applied independently with both separate teams? Obviously I wouldn't be able to follow through on both if they got both accepted, but that scenario seems extremely unlikely to me.
"You are never stuck in traffic"

Clearly you've never ridden the subway in NYC during rush hour. Most of the major lines will have some delays, you'll have to wait for multiple trains to pass before you can get on, or once you're on the train will stop because "we are waiting for train traffic ahead".
The issues are essentially based on (a) how many lanes your highway has, (b) how many complex interchanges you build (interchanges with many bridges tend to lead to a cost explosion), and (c) rail tracks are usually able to be used for decades without major maintenance, while highways usually need to get filled and fixed multiple times a year.

I only have a specific study for my city, where they were comparing the costs from fixing the streets in the cities from the busses running over them vs. building light rail instead, and in that study it turned out the light rail would be, if you also consider stuff like maintenance and accidents, cheaper.
The EMTs aren't going to sit around, they are going to be performing first aid and calling the fire station for additional assistance. Do we really need to incur such additional cost on the odd chance that first responders will need to carry someone the weight of a sumo wrestler down stairs and that whoever is calling 911 won't be able to give them a physical description of the victim.
Labor board will let more workers bargain with their employer’s employer
Jon Skeet answering my first SO question in a few minutes left me with a lasting impression that SO is awesome. That must have been 7 years ago or something.
>So I don't really understand what the 'Secret Weapon' the title of the post means

It was his "hacker" callsign.
I appreciate the work that must go into the pieces, but they're way too over the top and gaudy for my taste, also.
I can't find anything more formal with a quick search, but this is pretty plausible http://alankandel.scienceblog.com/2014/01/11/rails-vs-roads-...

$35million/mile for rail, $25million/mile for a single lane. Rail maintenance is cheaper, and ongoing costs are generally lower - you don't need police patrolling railroads.

Railroads are cool, and they have a lot of advantages, but we've got this huge investment in our existing system. And unfortunately, unlike self driving cars, there isn't a smooth transition. It's like switching from pc to mac, but all of your software is home made, and must be rewritten. You have a huge upfront investment to just get started, and you have to maintain the other system as well.
With no DEA in sight, Bolivia keeps reducing coca fields
This article doesn't really explain how fame happens.
How to set up cron job for Joomla obGrabber? What cron job setting shall I use?
But I think fame is having a base talent, then lucky and chance.
>As a marketer, I have long given up on psychology as a field.

This very much depends on what you're referring to as psychology. Bear in mind that when you throw that term around, you're including very rigorous research such as this: http://cavlab.net/?lang=en

This article concerns social psychology, not cognition (mostly).

The underlying problem is that social psych has become increasingly politicized.
A drone isn't the same thing as a car with a person in it.

Look at the problem tree for the drone, if it comes to a decision between crashing into the big expensive carrier or dumping it self in the sea, whats it going to choose? You can base this decision on dollars only and still make the right call.

The self driving car is going to face a genuine ethical dilemma at some point (or its coding will have to deal with one, as it isn't "self aware"). For the sake of simplicity lets make that "occupant or pedestrian". Are the lives of equal value? How does it choose? Am I allowed to influence that choice as the "passenger" in the car? By getting in the car do I have to agree to some TOS that says the car will sacrifice me to save someone else when it is unavoidable?
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Standing still on a bicycle with both feet on the pedals.

The term comes from track racing where jockeying for starting position by moving at a snails pace and/or frequently stopping signals the start of the race.
From the thesis the post linked to:

```
Although limbo lists are accessed using lock-free operations, and garbage collection does not interfere with other mutator processes, this reclamation scheme is not strictly lock-free. For example, a process which stalls for any reason during a shared-memory operation will not observe updates to the epoch count. In this situation the limbo lists will never be reclaimed and memory cannot be reused. Other processes can make progress only until the application reaches its memory limit. This drawback may also affect preemptively-scheduled systems, in which a process may be descheduled in the middle of a shared-memory operation with no guarantee when it will be rescheduled.
```
> I'm baffled as to how he received a Nobel prize. His opinion pieces in the NYTimes are TERRIBLE and seem to be written with one goal in mind: start as large of a flame war in the comments section as possible.

100% agree.

paul krUGHman
Some people might be subscribed to it, some people might be convinced by the synopsis to pay.

Many of the "science" threads on HN lead to paywalled sites where only an abstract or summary is available without login but that's sadly very common these days as it's hard to get access to published papers without having a university login.

That said as far as WSJ goes you can't publish the paywall bypass link, Google removed the "Google Sent Me" chrome extensions for a reason as it was a violation in their opinion.

The Google referral is selective choice by the site owner, it varies from country to country, site to site, and article to article.
Is that why Shenzhen seems to have so many hardware startups? Maybe there are just more investors there willing to do it, coupled with talent and being close to the factories?