skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uhh.. yes. You don't normally hook the guitar amp directly up to the loudspeakers of the venue because the speaker cabinet hooked to an amp imparts almost as much tone and color as the amp itself. (if you've ever used headphones hooked directly up to a guitar amp, it's quite painful and harsh because of this)
Garage Door Openers: An Internet of Things Case Study
That's an old study based on limited information. Its primary value at this point is that it encouraged more research, which found that, yes, smoking marijuana DOES increase rush of lung cancer.

For example, a slightly newer study
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516340/
The Life and Death of Amazon Is the Life and Death of Seattle
I think I have a bit more respect for such behavior. Mercenary behavior and making work decisions based on the potential resume-building impact is a completely natural response to the ways in which the job markets have changed since the 90s.

Everyone can, and should, consider how a job will help them advance their own careers. This is exactly why I quit COMPANY_X. At the time, their codebase was entirely based on not one, but two obsolete technology stacks. If I didn't leave quickly, I would have been locked into that narrow ecosystem for the rest of my life, at a "flattened" company with almost zero opportunity for career advancement. It would have been almost like someone deciding to move into COBOL programming starting in 2016.

And I have been frequently laid off as a result of startup failure, acquisition redundancy, or just the company's loss of contract work. There is no longer any loyalty from the typical employer to the typical employee. If you can manage to work your entire career at a single company, you are an extreme outlier, because at many, if an accountant predicts you will be unprofitable next week, you will get laid off on Friday afternoon, with no severance package.

So asking yourself "would this look good on my resume?" is something you should do very frequently, even if you are currently content where you are. We wouldn't need to chase after buzzword-related experience if HR didn't look at those buzzwords when hiring people!

And anecdotally, the name of a previous employer has helped me to get hired at another company. After COMPANY_X, my future co-workers told me at the interview, "COMPANY_X is great! We know they hire only high-quality people, and we also know that the best all want to leave after about two years. PERSON_1 and PERSON_2 used to work there!"
The problem I worry about with the neuroscience narrative is that it seems easy to justify everything. As I understand it, we don't understand the brain very well, and there's lots of different theories.

A fair number of neural net papers will make appeals to neuroscience to motivate something. Whenever I read these, I wonder to what extent neuroscience could be cited to argue the opposite.

There's a lot of ex-neuroscientists in deep learning. Amusingly, my experience has been that they're generally the most skeptical of the neuroscience narrative.

Of course, some amazing researchers seem to really like the neuroscience narrative -- this is obviously a strong point in its favor. I don't mean to dismiss it. I just think that one wants to be kind of careful when using it as a vantage for thinking.
Maybe it doesn't matter in theory, but in practice they're usually really different. Public spaces tend to emphasize nature more, and tend to be larger and quieter - an ideal environment for relaxing and letting the mind stretch out. Parks don't have an agenda. Commercial spaces typically are small, loud, and filled with kids. They're designed to be more about resting in between commercial activity.
PS3 Firmware 4.76 Released and Spoofer by Arch
See also RMarkdown. It also has very good support for TeX equations, plus inline R code, and it uses Pandoc behind the scenes to handle multiple ouput formats (even .docx!) as well as bibliography. The big caveat for now is poor support for internal cross-references.
Displaying an image on a web page shouldn't be that difficult.

I like the svg suggestion.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_playing_card...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Card_bac...
Too big to fail does not apply here. Interesting challenges that a company faces as it grows.
In a dark corner of the Trans-Pacific Partnership lurks nasty copyright law
The problem isn't with the first part ("it's OK to make mistakes"), it's with the second ("just own up"). When a mistake is made, it's because some part of the benefit coding process failed. I work in an insurance company where 100% of benefits coding changes are put through QC, and then another 25% are put through a second level of QC. The costs of screwing this up are pretty high, and will make people pretty mad. You need to have a process where the vast majority of mistakes are caught before they get out the door.

I really can't speak for the company—it's just a single sentence in a blog post on an otherwise unrelated topic—but I imagine that's what the OP was thinking about.
Wouldn't a higher nicotine content be preferable? You wouldn't need to burn and inhale as much plant matter to receive the same dose.
I written TeX embedded in markdown the time with Pandoc for reports and papers. It's much easier than writing all TeX.
I'm pretty understanding of occasional bugs, but Zenefits' site has been one of the most consistently buggy pieces of software I've ever used. Every flow has had broken pieces of UI, incorrect form validation, totally wrong calculations, or some other frustrating flaw.

It's an incredibly useful product (and leagues better than the competition) but when they can't even calculate your 401(k) contribution correctly, imagine what's going on behind the scenes...I'm trusting them with a lot of financial and personal information and it erodes a lot of the trust & confidence I would have in them to see such shoddy work.
I've been tirelessly working on this project full time for 9 weeks in a row and it's finally reached 1.0.0.
They already do. Interdisciplinary is probably the biggest buzzword in academia today, architecture is designed to make people cross paths at the expense of inconvenicing them, etc. any good residental undergrad program has a strong coffee shop culture, debates in dorm common rooms long into the night, and inviting common spaces where faculty and students alike spend much of their time (though usually segregated by faculty/student and sometimes division).

I'd argue that in the US, no one does common spaces like a top-tier school.

One of the many reasons the residential nature of education matters and isn't obsoleted by MOOCs.
I viewed his little creation as "extra credit". It shows he knows Sass/CSS and makes him standout from other "boring" interviewees that may have possessed similar skillsets.

Why not make it about their brand? It shows his desire that he wants to work there, and it's also clear he just made this. It isn't some cool thing he did awhile ago and is showing many different companies in interviews. He wants to work there, and that initiative shown will go a long way (and was successful, in this case).

Worst-case scenario is that he doesn't get the job but spent the night learning more about pseudo elements and how the interact with other elements. That's a win-win.
What Computer Science Papers Should Everyone Read?
possibly? Shakes magic 8 ball. Without a doubt.
How to succeed with marketing content?
At least in the comments they're more frank, saying that it's a good move because it's a net positive for them: http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbra...
So would this be useful for compressed virtual memory? It only does compress so it would only halve the memory usage but that's something.
Sounds like you got stuck on indicas when you needed some sativas. Indicas will stick you to the couch, but sativas are more uplifting. For instance, some nice sativa before a workout will yield a more intense workout.

That being said, you know what's best for you, and you really are better off without it.
And there was me thinking Doggerland was in a car park near Slough.
A tax on improvements is always passed on to renters, but a tax on the unimproved value of land cannot be passed on, because the land rent is a pure economic rent.

"A tax upon ground-rents would not raise the rents of houses. It would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent, who acts always as a monopolist, and exacts the greatest rent which can be got for the use of his ground."

– Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

"A tax on rent would affect rent only; it would fall wholly on landlords, and could not be shifted to any class of consumers. The landlord could not raise his rent, because he would leave unaltered the difference between the produce obtained from the least productive land in cultivation, and that obtained from land of every quality."

– David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
I believe most (all?) Elsevier journals require the LaTeX source, so you upload the .tex, .bib and any images etc. to their EES wepage, which compiles the PDF there.
The Greatest Speech Ever Made by Bonzi Buddy
contribution from the paper is de minimis
It also influenced Steward Brand's HOW BUILDINGS LEARN: What Happens After They’re Built. The BBC's adaptation includes some interview with Alexander [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/ZSaWdp833YM?t=12m57s
I find this one more useful for residential building design, by the same author:
http://www.iwritewordsgood.com/apl/set.htm

Available in hardcover on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Constructio...

ATWoB is more philosophical, and lest about specific implementation.

APL includes nuggets along these lines:
"Therefore: Make a public square much smaller than you would at first imagine; usually no more than 45 to 60 feet across, never more than 70 feet across. This applies only to its width in the short direction. In the long direction it can certainly be longer."

"When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.[...]Therefore: Locate each room so that it has outdoor space outside it on at least two sides, and then place windows in these outdoor walls so that natural light falls into every room from more than one direction."

There are 253 patterns in the book, covering governed regions down to building wall details.
Fuel UX – A Set of JavaScript Components for Bootstrap
Some papers incorporate talk into their branding.

"Natural unrefined paper" "100% rice paper" "Natural hemp gum"
Not sure where i read it, but it kinda reminds me of how a math professor walked past a room where a presentation on some problem (not sure if it was biology, physics, or something else) was held.

One glance at the formula on display, and he recognized it as something that had long been solved in mathematics.
> I really hated the language you use to describe build tasks.

Yup. For some reason that escapes rationality, MS chose to control the build through Workflow Foundation. And they build a horribly complicated WF "script". Pretty much universally hated.

But you may be pleased to know that they have now abandoned that, and each build task can now be described pretty much by the scripting language of your choosing.
I have not read that book or yet seen that show, but I enjoyed your analysis. It rings true.
Unless you own a super common word or group of words as .com; it doesn't make too much of a difference. Only enthusiasts will use a smaller service, regardless of its usefulness and will be ok googling for a domain or entering a less common TLD. Wait to see if it develops and if it does, use your profits to buy the right domain for more casual consumers.

I'd say best you can do is make your site https and responsive and make sure you have all relevant SEO data to increase its indexing performance.
Malls will throw you out if you clearly have no intent of buying anything.
Very interesting. This appears to do much better something I've been working on a PHP wrapper to do for a while now. I ended up currently opting out of compression as a whole and just using STORE zips to send multiple files at once without having to keep data in memory. This is absolutely worth looking into. It's been a long time since something on HN has gotten me this excited.
That's also true about Word docx submissions, too. After acceptance, you approve their proof.
This is a terrible pitch deck, for an unrealistic plan. Their projections (slide 8, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11gPEGbVzfPQolFgkPWyD...) look like they were just copied from a Google image search for "startup growth graph" - they have absolutely no indication that they're based on reality whatsoever.

Nick Bolton seems to be fixated on this idea that Synergy, despite all indications to the contrary, needs to be a startup, and he's been making increasingly doomed decisions to that effect for years (hiring additional employees, moving to the high-rent Bay Area, etc).

What Synergy needs to do is swallow their pride, find a company like Google (or Microsoft, who are increasingly supporting open source, especially when it lends legitimacy to the Windows platform) who would be interested in funding an open-source project with no return-on-investment beyond the fact that their employees use it, and ask for a job there subsidizing it, the way successful open source projects like Linux have grown.
Why doesn't your landlord squeeze more margin now? Because your landlord is already charging the most they can convince you to pay.
I catch myself thinking about my own life in story/movie ideas constantly
I don't have evidence. All I have is lack of evidence. Skepticism leads me to conclude we do not know the effects of smoking marijuana w/r/t cancer with any certainty. Correspondingly, it would be wrong to call the prospect a myth, as you cannot say that with any certainty.
Had a RAM disk circa 2005 was a fun experiment especially when you could fill it with very cheap DDR 266/333 modules but it wasn't really useful.

You could maybe get 8GB in those days usually you would get only 4GB while it was possible to put an entire game or at least the big chunks of it on there or alternatively some video content it was clear that it would never get anywhere.

They are still much faster than SSD's the problem is not even the cost but it's the fact that none of those can any meaningful capacity even beyond the physical limitations the memory controllers we have just can't support a capacity which will be worth while..
> 1. Microsoft employee until they notice I'm hanging out on hacker news instead of replying to e-mails and "fix the glitch".

Shh, they might find us.
Huh? He's not arguing that "AI is beyond the capabilities of mere humans". (Where did you get that from?) He's arguing that it's a hard problem, that the presence of lots of brains can lead people to mistakenly conclude it's easy, and that it will be easier with smarter humans. His argument would have worked just as well concerning heavier-than-air-flight, meaning that just because we see birds everywhere doesn't mean it's easy.

It's conceivable that un-aided humans are too dumb to crack intelligence from the ground up (and therefore would have to brute-force the solution through simulation), but Hsu isn't even arguing for that.
I had everything: indicas (Lamb's Bread!, OG, Sour Diesel!), sativas (Sour Honey!), hybrids (Blue Dream!), edibles, wax...

It's not so much the strain as it is my brain and its addiction to dopamine.
Do you mean this[1] Windows SDK?

[1] https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-10-sdk
Those were my first thoughts too...

Specifically China is pulling a Toyota here. Coming in on the low end where "It doesn't matter".
I've been to San Diego, and IMHO its summer, spring and fall are uncomfortably warm.

> Freezing winters from late October through early March? No.

Some of us find freezing cold and snow to be pros rather than cons.
You can separate the calls while keeping the streams intact.
> "I had high hopes for Clojure for a while, but they're fairly user-hostile, even if they think (and loudly assert) that they aren't."

Is that a prevalent opinion? I'm often in #clojure/#clojurescript and found the community quite helpful.
Well this is both good and bad news. I'd really like it if they kept an option for the old pricing model available. I'm not a fan of subscribing to software updates. I'd prefer to have the ability to keep using an older version if a newer one changes in ways I don't like.

On the other hand, it would help for me since I tend to program in several different languages, and purchasing a new license for every one isn't something I really like doing.
The Resistance: TableTop SE2E02
"You might as well argue that since heavier-than-air-flight is a search problem over an effectively infinite, high-dimensional landscape of possible machines - and that since it took evolution billions of years to produce birds, we have little chance of stumbling upon a working design for a wing."

Tired analogies between AI and flight are dead-ends. Until we have identified AI-side components of the analogy that corresponds to "air", "wing", "lift" &c., the analogy is empty and unproductive.

IOW these analogies neither get us off the ground nor do they take us anywhere.
Beyond Jupyter: what’s in a notebook?
> Why do people think they can build anything worthy of the name "AI" by just fucking around with neural networks

Are attributing that position to the author? I don't think that's what he's saying at all (italics mine):

> The frontier machine intelligence architecture [at] the moment uses deep neural nets.... Silicon brains of this kind...have recently surpassed human performance on a number of narrowly defined tasks...We are learning how to tune deep neural nets using large samples of training data, but the resulting structures are mysterious to us. The theoretical basis for this work is still primitive, and it remains largely an empirical black art.
The 'greater rate in the past' would correspond with the supposed inflationary model of the universe (a very fast expansion just after the big bang), only the wording here is a bit confusing.

For more info: http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/origins/inflation_zero.php
Dependently typed programming and theorem proving in Haskell
I'm of two minds about this. In one way, I was updating Appcode, PhpStorm and IntelliJ once a year anyways, so this is going to be considerably cheaper.

On the other hand, I liked the safety net that if worse comes to worst, I'll be able to keep my existing license forever. Losing this leaves a kind of sour taste behind.

If this was really about simplicity and not at all about profit maximization as they claimed, then they would keep the perpetual usage rights and make the subscriptions only required for the updates.

As it stands now, they could stop developing their products tomorrow and people will still be forced to pay until something better comes around
Dawn of a Revolution (2013)
Skype Redesigned for Android, iPhone and iPad
Why is it trying to download HTML files when opening in Chrome?
Also, the somewhat more troubling genetic explanation for individual's achievements (e.g. von Neumann), based on anecdotes from "some guy who knew him" and "some guy who works at MIT". Genetics surely has a part to play in intelligence, but to say that it will turn out to be the determining factor in leu of resources or environment seems to me a bit of an extraordinary claim.

I love and agree with the premise that AI augmented people will be enormously more productive than traditionally intelligent people, but I think that access to educational and child rearing resources will define the difference, not genetics.
I don't know if people are aware of this but Richard Stallman (rms) uses a Loongson-based laptop from Lemote.
Define "real value". Prices are driven my many-to-many auctions, and each market (housing) interacts with its supplements (transportation, food, energy, finance,...). The value varies from person to person, and much of the value is parasitic: I derive value from getting paid by my job, and my home, transport, etc enable me to do that job. If I make $100K/yr, is my home providing $10k/yr of value? Or $40k/yr? If I get a raise, is my home more valuable because it supports my higher income? Or is my transportation more valuable? Or is my food more valuable, as it keeps me healthy?
You also have lack of evidence of unicorns causing cancer.

You're also choosing to ignore the studies that show moderate use (e.g. people who smoke it casually and aren't huffing 24/7) show no increase in cancer.

Maybe if you smoke from the moment you wake until you pass out you might have an increase of cancer. Same way that drinking water til you die of water poisoning is a thing. It is freakishly uncommon and you'd have to more or less choose to do so on purpose.
Mashape is another startup that contributes a lot in the API space with mainstream OSS projects such as: OAuthBible [1], Unirest [2], HTTPsnippet [3], Guardian [4] and KONG [5].

[1] https://github.com/Mashape/mashape-oauth

[2] http://unirest.io/

[3] https://github.com/Mashape/httpsnippet

[4] https://github.com/Mashape/guardian

[5] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
Regarding #1: he did mention, offhand, that folks might use json instead of xml, which is basically what happened.
I think there are two Silicon Valleys.

The biggest companies like Google, HP, Intel and Apple are able to work on products so complex there is a ten year time horizon, and occasionally we get a company like Tesla, but the overwhelming number of the angel investor startups are about marketing first and technology second, so the "non-technical cofounders" are looking desperately for technical cofounders.

Amazingly this even describes some of the unicorns. Uber was ahead of the curve by a year or two with a mobile app, but Uber is big because it has money for expansion and the war chest to fight city hall.
Some people run faster than others, some people think better. This is not worship, merely the celebration of the best intellectual performers.
>Why would I want to deal with MS on any other platform?

Because C# is a great language.
On number 9:

"Apple's laptop sales will exceed those of HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Gateway combined by 2010"

So, the prediction mentions "laptop sales", but in his grading, he talks about "Apple Macs only have 13% market share", which I would assume means unit market share? Given the profit share vs market share dichotomy seen in smartphones in particular, I'm left wondering if he isn't a bit too harsh on himself here. It seems likely to me that sales-based market share would substantially exeed unit market share for Apple Macs; surely Asymco or some other smart analyst has run the numbers on this?
Love the logo! Did something similar here [1] for our blog's creative/digital arm [2] with actually a somewhat similar approach. Probably a few months ago. Their's is a little more elegant though :)

I just want to make a quick comment: Everything the Stripe's front-end guys touch is pure and magical perfection. They definitely have a killer front-end team - design, UI/UX, and more.

[1] http://codepen.io/ncerminara/pen/MYvELv

[2] https://digital.scotch.io
12 Hiphop Piano Covers in Under 2 Minutes
Some Notes on Christopher Alexander (2008)
Are there really that many people building .NET projects on non-Windows systems? It's been my experience that companies that are using .NET are pretty much full Windows everywhere.
Why isn't this guy a professional writer, hes so good at it!
http://www.ddrdrive.com/

http://www.ddrdrive.com/menu4.html
Young children don't need 'meaning' to enough life, which IMO is a philosophy as valid as any other.

I used to have quite a bit of existential angst and personally I found the most useful thing to do was finding something interesting and do/learn it. It's easy to get into a rut where month after month you follow the same patterns. Especially when living in doors most of the time removes most seasonal variations.
Deploying Dart to Google Compute Engine