skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think this is a bad step, i would prefer to just buy my licenses outright. My employer compensates me for such purposes, having to invoice them once a month would be annoying. i have never really liked the idea that they upgrade about once a year and want more of my money, so i skip every other version... in my case, this monthly billing will cost me more money. ;(
The reason we cast our memories into narratives is that narratives are easier to remember. Our brains are hardwired for them. In fact, a lot of memory techniques practiced by people who compete in memory contests involve making a bizarre narrative to encode things like the order of card decks.
Oh for sure (on the nuclear bomb) -- it's really impossible to compare these things meaningfully. Nuclear bomb? Modern agriculture? Penicillin? Vaccines? It's really impossible to judge.
Not really. Did you see Dan Luu's original post at http://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/ ? Even though the iPhone was released in 2007, smartphone adoption didn't really start exploding until 2009.
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Depends on the opportunity - prefer to stay in SF.

Technologies: JavaScript/ES6, HTML, CSS, React, D3.js, Node/Express, MongoDB, Webpack/Gulp/Grunt, etc.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtv7m9fc7ekcv8y/Collin%20Wu%20-%20...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collinwu

Github: https://github.com/collinwu

Email: collinwu [at] gmail [dot] com

Summary: Front-end engineer first and a JavaScript engineer second. I enjoy and am best at developing a good UI/UX. I've become a fan of React w/ ES6/Babel & Webpack recently. Also comfortable with Node/Express on the back-end. I am also experienced with data visualization leveraging d3.js.
Is Microsoft Edge Really the Big Contender Among Browsers
i dont even consider recommending people to adobe anymore, i tell them to get acorn.
> experts predicted that computers would gain human-level ability around the year 2050, and superhuman ability less than 30 years after

That is such a weird estimate. Once AI reaches human ability, it will take a few hours-days at most to improve itself to become superhuman. And then it will rapidly approach singularity in a few hours more. Only a severe limitation of resources or a nuke will stop it at that point. It can probably figure out a way around these issues.
Not religion, ideology: secular humanism too seems to operate on a narrative that technological and cultural progress will continue without interruption from chaotic cosmological catastrophe, that those things contribute to human happiness while ignoring that humanity has higher rates of mental illness and slavery today than any other time in a global world culture defined for the last 200 years by technological progress. Scientific altruism is just as much a faith and just as exploitable as religious dogma by powerful people and organizations.
Quick Dive into Elixir, Phoenix and Erlang Ecosystem
I'm a UIUC alum. The author is doing what UIUC typically does, which is try to take credit for the successes of their alumni when those alumni did it without the UIUC ecosystem. I like to call it the Andreessen Complex:

https://hack.vc/tech-companies-started-by-university-of-illi...

UIUC has historically done little to negative work in making their graduates successful beyond the diploma. I don't see much changing here except a lot of handwaving, throwing cash around, and grand announcements like UILabs which will make a lot of noise and smoke but eventually do very little toward the dream of being more like Stanford or MIT or Fraunhofer.

"The list is still a work in progress but shows just how many great entrepreneurs were at one point roaming around in central Illinois"

Sums it up right there. They roamed until they roamed all the way to the west coast. And that's the eternal agony of the University of Illinois.
Download+itools+iOS+8.4.1+iOS+procedure.iOS+Jailbreak+Tools+and+Jailbreak+Guide
And this is in direct contrast to how much hype there was for programmers to use multi-threaded programming due to leveling off of single-core performance and the prevalence of multi-core systems.
A huge moneymaking opportunity in making 10x on investment in employees suggests that new employers will emerge to exploit it. Investment flows to where the money to be made is.

Unless, of course, they manage to keep Bob's productivity a secret, which is possible in the small but highly unlikely over an entire economy.
I learned this dialect of C first (though I switched to ANSI C very shortly afterward) so none of this seems all that new or surprising. Things were different in those days. Man, I feel old.
In another reply he claims they did it to his post-arrest.
If the universe we find ourselves in is a result of post-selecting for mathematical models where life can exist (i.e. by the anthropic principle), why is the universe so large and so rich in neg-entropy? Shouldn't minimally-viable-habitat universes be vastly, vastly more numerous (and don't forget about Boltzmann brains!)? Shouldn't we expect to be in one of those, instead of here, and be forced to penalize the hypothesis by a corresponding amount? [1]

> So, as cosmologists, we have an issue to address — why was the entropy of our early universe so small? If high-entropy states are “natural,” why don’t we live in one? You might think to appeal to the dreaded anthropic principle, and argue that life couldn’t exist in a state with really high entropy. But that turns out not to be good enough; the entropy of our universe is much much lower than it needs to be to support the existence of life. So we are faced with the “arrow of time problem.”

1: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2004/10/27/the-arro...
This very exact argument was addressed by the paper. There are industries where productivity doesn't increase, but there are also many industries (within IT and without) where productivity has increased a lot, and a proportional increase in wages has not materialized. It may be that industries with stagnating productivity experience stagnating wages, but when even industries with rapidly growing productivity experience stagnating wages, another explanation is warranted.
I think he's saying his main point, though, is that storing objects in a RDBMS using OR-mapping is a pain in the ass and there will be better ways to do it. With the advent of NoSql DBs, and the number of DBs that store their data in JSON, I think this is largely correct. Back in 2004, XML was largely shorthand for "serialized object". He was wrong about the serialization format, but right about the overall idea.
IMHO you're at a disadvantage if you spend too much time on non-core elements of a product.

So, if the name/domain/brand is crucial to the success of the company (if it's a clothing line for example), then maybe it's worth spending a lot of time brainstorming until you find a .com that works.

But, if the core value-proposition of your product has little to do with the public-facing branding, then your time is probably best spent elsewhere, and you should just buy whatever domain is available ASAP and move on to other things.
My mistake, I was remembering it incorrectly. Edited my previous reply to include a link to this:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03733

Lee Smolin discusses a class of facts that are evoked:

"I would like to propose that there is a class of facts about the world, which concerns
structures and objects which come to exist at specific moments, which, nevertheless, have
rigid properties once they exist.
Let us call this possibility evoked."

====

He provides a table of how a fact and it's existence can be described:

Has rigid properties and existed prior? The fact was discovered

Has rigid properties and did not exist prior? The fact was evoked

Has no rigid properties but did exist prior? The fact was fantasized (Smolin does not elaborate on this in the paper)

Has no rigid properties and did not exist prior? The fact was invented

====

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Smolin hypothesize two principles to describe Smolin's view, temporal naturalism:

The singlular universe, all that exists is part of one singular universe

The reality of time, as in reality is not timeless

====

With all this in mind, yes circles always did have a ratio of circumference to radius of pi. This is a property of the singular universe, and is a fact that was thus discovered.

The universe of mathematical possibilities that does not describe the universe was not discovered, it was evoked.

P.S. Please forgive the formatting of this response!
Google actually built a RDBMS on top of Spanner: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html
EURUSD: Bearish Momentum Turns Risk to Key Support
Ask HN: I can't get a job and it is bringing me down, what is going on here?
I am a software developer who moved to the USA recently from Ireland. I have a job at the minute, so I am not desperate yet. However, I have interviewed for various companies all over the country recently. I have yet to be asked a single technical question, and have instead been asked to constantly jump through hoops regarding riddles - which are often philosophical in nature.

Also, I am in New York - I have had issues with over five potential employers just not turning up to the damn interviews.

I also had one company tell me that my greencard isn't enough, and that they only hire citizens.

Maybe I should just go back home at this stage, I am never going to pass an interview that is 100% riddles, and I am never going to pass an interview where the employer doesn't turn up.

Does anyone have any input?
As somebody who doesn't ever buy mayonnaise (not a fan), I'd actually find that confusing.

Until this article, I didn't know that real mayonnaise was supposed to contain eggs. Maybe all mayonaise is naturally vegan? So I'd probably buy this thinking it was pretty much the same as other mayonnaise products on the shelf (other than the fancy packaging).

Not that I'd really be buying mayo anytime soon. ;)
The Revision of Steve Jobs
Just to see Irix again.

For driving demand, they could always have tariffs, etc. If they applied to companies manufacturing computers in China, that'd have a massive impact globally.
nitpick: when fanning out the cards and then clicking on one it should stay in the orientation it was in the fan, it jumps weirdly around.

same when clicking on the top card of a stack, it jumps ~40px.
One can keep the intermediary .tex files should they export to pdf. Or for any substantial project one can fix the version of org, as other projects do so with the versions of the compiler or of the libraries. Still, if you are correct, then it is a problem for every user. I haven't encountered such problem in my use, although my use of ox-latex has been rather superficial (some homeworks, a tiny CV).
A ratio doesn't exist outside of the human mind. The same goes for circles.
I don't think we do it just because they are easier to remember, though we are definitely wired for it. I think the main reason we do it for our existence to mean something. For our actions to signify something about ourselves and the world. And that actually affects our present and future behavior. For instance narratives about marriage and love. We are now breaking down the traditional narratives and that is having a profound impact on relationships.
I have an old Photoshop CS5.5 license in case of emergencies, though it's Windows only. On the Mac side I've been using Pixelmator.

HDR and panorama merging are native in Lightroom now, so I don't have to use an external editor regularly anymore. I'm honestly surprised some bureaucrat at Adobe didn't stop them from adding those because they're competing with Photoshop rentals.

As an added benefit, Lightroom merges into DNG files that keep all the data. Back when I had to merge stuff in Photoshop it flattens down to a TIFF and you can lose information out of the highlights and shadows.
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Focus on Javascript apps.

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This essay upholds the gene-centric view of intelligence -- that IQ is physical and with higher IQ we all become geniuses. Except, sites like Quora is flooded with anecdotal evidence that high IQ is as much a burden as a gift, and many struggle just as everyone else to lead their normal lives [0]. Ergo, we have arguments for the genius myth [1][2], and for the importance of emotional intelligence, which would heavily weigh against the author.

We also need to be cautious assuming all performance vectors are better when enhanced. A computer beat us at Jeopardy, just to take the fun out of the game. Now computers are better at face recognition, but no one has ever complained about their lack of brainpower for this. And long ago computers have already had a better memory and have been better at math. Yet, we are finding forgetting is just as important as remembering [3], and that we hardly ever open the math app on our phones to do sophisticated calculations. Sometimes less is better, and more is redundant. Remembering less, forgetting often, and being idiots could be a feature not a bug. Evolution has already figured a lot of this out, and to second guess the equilibrium of our being has yet to prove fruitful.

--

[0] https://www.quora.com/Genius-and-Geniuses/What-happens-to-ul...

[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-media...

[2] http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2015/02/10/the-myth-of...

[3] snapchat, google delete requests
At the research facility that I worked there were so many talks and lectures from around the world and going around the world to talk I have no idea how they ever get any research done. Maybe it's just the Universities that lack this?
I've used autotools and I am definitely not a fan. A 10 line Makefile is probably sufficient for most projects and it'll take you 20 minutes to get one working if you take a 15 minute break.

External libraries are a reality in any programming language. The popular ones that come with your OS of choice are likely very well documented. You don't need to understand the preprocessor, compiler, assembler, and linker to use them. In fact, I'd argue that for most programming you only need to know how to invoke the compiler as the rest of the steps are already automated. K&R C will teach you enough about how to use header files to be able to use external libraries.

A debugger is useful, but something like gdb is not necessary to write C. In fact, I'd say Valgrind is far more useful, and once again, it'll take 20 minutes to learn.

As for supporting open source projects, why start there? Do you learn Python and immediately jump to submitting patches to Django? No, you write your own code and learn from that. Same here, as you are presumably learning C/JavaScript/Ruby/Erlang/CL/etc. to use it, not to add a line to your resume that you are a contributor to some open source project.

No, you won't become an expert developer in 21 days. But since C is such a small language with so few features I'd argue that learning how to use it is more about getting the memory structure right in your head than about learning syntax. By comparison, Python (my primary language lately) has many more types and constructs to worry about.
He should definitely give himself more credit...in the US at least, Apple laptop revenue exceeds that of all Windows laptops combined.
http://betanews.com/2015/08/12/yikes-apple-laptop-revenue-sh...
Procedural Dungeon Generation Algorithm
This is ludicrously old, it uses DDR2 and the date in the URL 07042003 is a bit after DDR2 came out. That was phenomenal for the time.
> JetBrains doesn't need to worry about whether you'll renew year-to-year if they don't produce upgrades that make your renewal worthwhile.

Sure they do: the languages JetBrains IDEs support are also supported by other IDEs, free and paid. If your renewal doesn't leave you in a better position than the other alternatives on the market, you'll leave for some other tool.
The sign-up page is largely worthless -- here is their first issue (from today):

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/the-react-digest/archive/540...
I think the answer is "appear to be the person they want to hire" with the extra degree of difficulty being you don't know the person they want to hire. On the other hand, who wants to be hired under false pretenses? Not I.
Urbana-Champaign is in the middle of no-where. The University is Urbana-Champaign - there is very little city around the campus. It would be one of the worst places to start a company. Not to mention that Illinois is one of the last states where I would want to start a company.
Even if it's true that humans are too dumb to crack AI from first principles -- which as I said is certainly conceivable, and which Hsu alludes to in the quote you've selected -- he's not basing that on the infinite-dimensional space description in the second paragraph. The point of the second paragraph was just to caution against concluding it's an easy problem based on the abundance of intelligence around us.
Relevant: Zed Shaw: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html
There's a few problems with that chart, but the one that jumps out is that there is no Intel Core i5-4660. Might be a typo, but makes you question the attention to detail.
Amazon Web Services Snaps Up Elemental
I should also add - I have had companies contact me to ask if I am interested, I say "Yes, lets talk more." and then I never hear from them again.
The only thing this has over an SSD drive is that there is virtually no wear-out. Though I'm not sure if there is a practical workload that would take advantage of this, considering SSDs should be able to handle constant I/O for several years before they die.

Is there any other benefit to purchase a HyperDrive over an SSD?
* cough *

Fixed. Thanks.
I heard a story that the original indentation style that K&R wanted to use was the same as Allman, but then the printers chose to do the current K&R style to save paper.

Does any one know if that's true, or just an urban legend?
Typora (http://typora.io/) does similar, but it is an OS X application (Windows coming, so the author says).
I started a not to be named University entrepreneurship program. I drew similar pictures and it looked beautiful, as if the ecosystem was bursting with activity. But the reality was different. It lacked excitement, it lacked visibility, it lacked engagement and above all it lacked entrepreneurial culture (which I see as gluon or higgs boson of a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem).

So at the heart of this beautiful map, I created a cultural hub .. a space that was founded and run by students, who elevated the excitement and visibility of entrepreneurship. To top it up, I elected a student women entrepreneur to lead it. It had interesting implications:

1. Entrepreneurial ecosystems tend to be male dominated. By creating a community of student entrepreneurs, lead by a female student, it created a 'safe zone' for other women entrepreneurs to come forward and engage.

2. Much of what we did at the space, was to encourage trying new things, new ideas and celebrating every tiny milestone of a student. I started a FB page, where every student activity was documented and celebrated.

3. In less than 2 years, I helped start over 60 new ventures. Some died or would have died or will die and a few get accepted into top incubators..and others are at limbo... but the process helped students to learn important lessons in entrepreneurship. It is best to do it while still a student.

4. The space helped connect all the dots in the picture (drawn in the article). It brought the organizations closer to the students and helped create visible linkages. It helped movement of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ideas easily across those linkages and removed redundancies in the ecosystem.

5. I gained a lot of visibility in the media and it didn't go well with the fossils of University who claimed entrepreneurship as their own and turned my exciting job into a political game and a living hell. Non of it leaked to my students, but being an entrepreneur myself, I already had many other projects that I was working on ... so I left the University and aside from championing my students from the sidelines now, I find utmost excitement in pursuing my own tiny startup. I am broke, but I am happy and every day take pride in the work I did, to create the nucleus of a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem in one of the top Universities, that would act as a cascading feeder to the community for many generations to come.
any remote positions?
Besides all the good ideas suggested by others for high-level process optimization (small PRs, self-review first, prioritize reviews, have a larger pool of reviewers, etc.), you can also micro-optimize the time spent on reviews proper. A good tool can help a lot here: it will show incremental changes since the last review round (even if the branch got rebased), filter out changes due solely to rebasing, track resolution of any issues raised during the review, etc.

If you're using GitHub, the built-in pull request review system doesn't really do these things very well (or at all), so you end up wasting a lot of time and/or missing things. There are a number of third-party options that do much better but some of the best require you to host your own infrastructure, move your repo, etc. Selfishly (and again, only if you're using GitHub), I'd recommend checking out https://reviewable.io, as it integrates smoothly and requires nearly no setup. (Disclosure: I'm the founder.)
This was the big problem with the Linksys fiasco some years back. The Chinese developers wouldn't give up the source and all Cisco/Linksys had was this binary.
Which countries did the nuclear bomb prevent going to war? There was never any serious prospect of the US invading the USSR or vice versa but MUAD certainly didn't stop them from involving themselves in more wars (generally supporting opposing sides) in the late twentieth century than in the previous four, India and Pakistan haven't exactly softened their stances on Kashmir since acquiring deadly weapons, and the UK even had part of its territory briefly annexed by a foreign power.
> The question for consumers is: why spend >$400 on a card optimized for low-setting play at 4k? Especially when it's a marginal visual improvement over 1440p?

Playing as a marksman in Verdun (http://www.verdungame.com) is amazing in 4K.
I've never been in a situation where programming was an "end" in and of itself. It has always (for me) been a means to an end.

So, I think: yes, it's definitely possible to be a good programmer. If your work-activity furthers the larger goals that you're working towards (in an effective and efficient way), then you're pretty good in my book.
For those who are unclear on the significance of this, Christopher Alexander’s works were foundational to the pattern movement in software architecture & design.

There are some links on Ward Cunningham’s software patterns wiki:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChristopherAlexander
Ask HN: How to give feedback?
What's the best way of giving feedback ? Not formal feedback like manager to engineer. But let's say peer evaluation OR face to face to another engineer.

I read Ben's article on Making of a CEO where he mentions about feedback & S* Sandwich. The message I got is that giving feedback is tricky & not one size fits all.

But, I want to hear from this community on how they give feedback to peers in various situations. How do you take care of the personal dynamics involved ?
Ben's Article: www.bhorowitz.com/making_yourself_a_ceo