skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. People are going to die no matter what you do. If you magically were able to get rid of every single gun, mass murders would still happen. So don't think of getting rid of guns as stopping mass murders.
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That's pretty cool. Looking for the text version of it led me to another one more accessible to average programmer:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/159910/Extremely-Efficie...
Reminds me of Magento code for some reason.
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That's the thing, not one solution fixes all the problems that I have with social media management. For instance, I have to pay for one service that favorites tweets and another for automating tweet posts from rss feeds.
How does it use fewer resources? It drives on the same roads, uses the same infrastructure, and costs the taxpayer the same.

If you consider the taxpayer paying the bill because uber doesn’t insure properly, it costs even more.
Protecting property rights is one of the only legitimate purposes of government. Incumbent property owners should absolutely use their government to both protect and even improve their assets. Life, liberty and the pursuit of property/happiness.
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> Two-thirds of them draw their subjects exclusively from the pool of U.S. undergraduates, according to a survey by a Canadian economist named Joseph Henrich and two colleagues.

This is pretty shocking to me. I participate in these behavioral studies and I thought the pool of candidates would have been pretty much the polar opposite; middle-aged women with, at most, high school degrees or GEDs.

I've probably taken 100s of these behavioral research studies over the last few years on Amazon's Mturk program and the vast majority (according to researchers who release demo data) of participants are always the same; stay at home moms with minimal educational backgrounds. With as much studies that get pushed through Mturk, I'm amazed to see it's only a blip compared to what the guy surveyed. It makes me question his results. There are at least a few dozen academic behavioral studies that get posted every single day to Mturk so I wonder just how many of these studies are actually being carried out.
Google is legendary for its inability to have medium-/high-touch relationships with customers. Unfortunately. I've always thought their products were pretty high quality.
You seem to have pretty clear ideas about how users with slow connections might want to experience this.

Would you consider making a pull request with an alternate theme (there are two already included)? You could adjust the styling as you see fit, and so forth. Best of all, were you to actually use this, you could modify the compression settings and even the scaling in a way that fits your needs, even if you don't end up making a PR on the original.

Looking at this, there are lots of ways where it feels like there could be things added to this to make it better -- a photo reorganizer, or something that would let you auto-tag / order photos from within the interface. Those kinds of things would be really neat, but are likely outside the scope of the (amazing) tool that Jack was kind enough to give us. If one were to go far enough down those rabbit-holes, pretty soon one would have rewritten it as a CMS. ;)
“Now, I might be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things. But I don’t think I’m wrong, see, I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something, how careful you have to be about checking the experiments, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something. And therefore, I can’t… I see how they get their information, and I can’t believe that they know it ­– they haven’t done the work necessary, they haven’t done the checks necessary, they haven’t done the care necessary. I have a great suspicion that they don’t know.”

— Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)
Chat with a psych department. It's no secret: extra credit in Psych 101/102 for completing some research tasks. Voila! Data for Masters/PhD students.

e: my wife has a Master's in Psych research. We've talked about this issue a lot.
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Well... except for Quora -- it sounds like they didn't give up 7%, so it's not "crazy" to turn down YC's standard terms per se: http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/11/quora-y-combinator/
We would like to ask for feedback: What do you think is missing that would empower you as a developer in as-a-service economy?
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the story is something mildly humorous happened.
Yeah, if I fly that high, I'm either on an IFR flight plan and talking to people ... or I'm in a lot of trouble when I land. :)
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/11/quora-y-combinator/

> Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo tells me “YC invested an amount that was similar to their standard $120k. They invested as part of the Tiger round.” That $80 million round valued Quora at $900 million, so the startup only traded away approximately 0.013%.
This is called the lipid hypothesis, you could say it has 'shaky' relationship with the truth. A shining example of the quote, "science advances one funeral at a time".

"Current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats." [1]

This myth has caused untold millions to die from western diseases, billions of wasted dollars on health care, and yet it still lives on. The future won't shine a good light on this era of nutrition.

[1]: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1846638
What is sbrk even used for anymore? Surely most heap allocators use mmap/mprotect directly these days. There's no downside.

EDIT: Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, I think the syscall mentioned is beside the point of the post. :)
What project(s) are you referring to? I presume the tracker is publicly visible...?
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Surely they could/should of negotiated down a couple points? Is YC's formula that rigid? I'm sure Quora was way less.
Country can still tax usage of these resources.

For human resources: income tax on salaries, unemployment insurance, medical insurance etc.

For some materials: excise tax.

For real estate: property tax.
I'll keep saying nuclear is one of the best technologies we can use for power generation. In addition to the fact that the falures at Fukushima, TMI, and Chernobyl were all caused by HUMANS interfering with engineering plans and systems, or not being trained proeprly (Fukushima designers called for higher seawalls, overrulled; TMI was human error massively compounding a simple mechanical failure which could have been recovered from; Chernobyl had key safety systems disabled). There are several newer, much safer designs that when used with proper training and engineers being listened to, can provide us with very clean power with stability and land use that solar and wind can't match. You combine that with wind/solar/water during the day, and you have yourself an amazingly clean power grid that works 24/7.

I was 1, living in Pittsburgh. My father was called in among many others to help determine how to recover.
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I fully agree. I've done minor things in Java and I've been doing PHP for about 3 years. I've picked up React and I've been trying to get into Scala. It's only been three days, but I think it's not for the faint of heart. I can think of a number of solid front-end devs whose lives would be hell if you threw them into Scala (as an aside, I actually like what I've learned so far, though I wish their 'documentation' was not terrible, though I imagine it's probably done that way since it would be too hard to keep it up to date)
Did you discuss at all an equity % lower than 7? I would think there's room for negotiation there?
Check out RiQ from PCS Edventures. http://riq.edventureslab.com/

Their brain box is designed to integrate (snap) with most of the major construction toys: Lego, Fischertechnik, K'NeX, Erector, Minds-i... This opens up the possibilities quite a bit. They also offer a bunch of great robotics curriculum that integrates with their product.

Disclaimer: I work for the company that developed the visual programming app that allows kids to program their robots via tablet or computer. We partnered with PCS on this product. I'm proud to say it's a pretty slick system.
> Some of the best folks I've hired or worked with had no experience with the framework/language we ended up using. Knowing fundamentals is far more important.

This is what we want to be true.

It's not how 90+% of job listings are written, and I'm not sure it's how we hire.

Even if we addressed that problem, it'd still only be true at a close approximation: once a framework/lib/language becomes leaky enough, or has enough of a mismatch between its natural invocation and the problem domain, or carries enough of a culture of The Right Way To Do It™, then it's true that experience with the tool matters... as long as the org is more invested in the tool than a solution that doesn't have those problems, knowing the tool's foibles and practices remains important.
Batteries are improving all the time though.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-battery-energy-density...

Not only that, batteries aren't the only way to store renewable energy. There's dams, thermal salts, and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage#Renewable_energ...

Renewable energy is an area that is constantly at the forefront of technology, unlike nuclear. That is one of the reasons it is so much more promising.
Cf. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...
Florida has the lowest highest point, at 345 feet. If all of the ice in Antarctica melts, the sea level will rise "only" 200 feet. So even in the most dire situation, entire US states will not go completely under water. That said, almost the entire rest of the state would be underwater should that happen.

However, ~1/5 of FL will be underwater, according to the 'unchecked pollution' map, which is nothing to sneeze at.

> a lot of this can be coped with

Well, yes. Humans will likely survive as a species. As the article says:

> Existential nihilists however, can relax: Nobody’s doomed yet. Future Americans are going to deal with the flooded basements and foregone civilization.
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I hate to say it but sourceforge feels like the new "Meg" these days, even uBlock Origin tries to block going to sourceforge. Looks like an interesting project though. I love the support of ReactOS, but I wonder if the project is still active at all? The featured last bit of news is from 2011.
Hmm I appreciate more work in this field, especially Windoze compatibility, but... as said in Star Wars: Clone Wars... "Fifty tried, fifty died".

USBoIP is a minefield.
One interesting thing to note is that this allows for the exact quantification ("pricing") of various forms of dissent. If a large enough segment of the population is willing to pay a measurable financial cost in order to engage in a certain behavior, the government will be able to monitor (and respond) to that in near real time.
Someone broke that page (it's a Lively page, meaning it's editable by anyone). Here is a stand-alone version, running ThingLab: http://www.cdglabs.org/thinglab/
Why do you think it bothers you? Genuinely curious.

I understand that hypocrisy is frustrating, but perhaps this situation is more illustrative of the fact that "The System" has so pervasively invaded free spaces (physical spaces as well as psychogeographic ones), than it is that these (or others) are just young punks who won't know any better until their older and wiser (like us -- by implication?). What criteria do their motivations not satisfy, and in what way do their actions or desires/beliefs/ideas impact you to the extent that it would provoke any reaction at all? Is it dishonest to say you're disconnecting and still wear shoes? That doesn't seem right to me.

I'm forever interested in why righteous motivations seem to automatically provoke feelings of judgement or disdain from some people, who usually make comparative observations about the relative purity of a project or intentions, against their own values and wisdom.

There are certain people for whom the simple act of someone's wanting to do something substantially different (and who knows, maybe better?) seems to be an existential threat. I'm not saying that your reaction here is that serious, but I've seen it in many others.

It just seems like there is a knee-jerk reaction from many quarters that finds any discussion about alternatives to simply accepting and living within the defined parameters of "The System", and I wonder where that often-vehement opposition comes from.

*typo edit
Url changed from http://gizmodo.com/the-placebo-effect-can-make-you-enjoy-the..., which points to this.
> we should [...]

No, again, you're reforming "I would like..." into "we should". There's no should about it.

JavaScript is nowadays quite a nice language. ES2015 and the way forward gives us a language that could happily go for another 20 years with few issues.

WebAssembly doesn't solve the problem btw - most of the things people hate on JS about (that aren't just dumb "I don't like loose typing or understand prototypical inheritance" complaints anyhow) are to do with how it integrates with the key web feature: the DOM.

DOM is where everything goes to hell on the web and it's going to be just as much of a mess in C/Rust/Haskell/Clojure/brainfuck as it is in JavaScript.

Also your comment about Babel is just strange. The reason to use Babel is to support older parsers that only understand ES5 syntax. That's never going to go away. We'll be dealing with older parsers for 10 years after WebAssembly launches - so guess what? Now your toolchain got longer, more complex, and you still have to output JavaScript anyhow.

Yaaaaaay.

Or, you know, you could learn JavaScript properly and realize that it's a completely useful and great language that is just as good as whatever your pet favorite is when applied to the tasks at hand.
The human problem will never go away, though. Ultimately, someone is going to want to cheap out on something, and will be unable or unwilling to consider very-low-probability catastrophic events, probably partly because people are so bad at thinking about very-low-probability events.
A more appropriate question is not, does software estimation help improve project management, but is project management a suitable model for software?

I am a proponent of the idea software is a new form of literacy. We generally do not project manage the next paragrpH or the next chapter. writers are often faced with deadlines, but rarely have to justify themselves on a daily basis.

Improving estimation will just result in slightly better inputs to a process that at best hinders us and sucks creativity and joy.
This is a pretty bad practice. You should use hashids [0] for this, instead!

[0] http://hashids.org/
Thank you, please understand your lovely response is zero percent correct, thanks.

95/100
This is also part of the mainline Linux kernel now (look under drivers/usb/usbip/ and tools/usb/usbip/).
For USB there's always a MU - very compact folded up: http://www.themu.co.uk/
I found it:

"Hi, we thanks for the happy! Thank you for love! :-)"

100/100
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Thank you so much. I bookmarked your blog about Inner Mongolia a while ago and wanted to find out how you did it. Thanks for publishing it!
Strangely, what you are doing may be closer to helping humans than the caricatures from the story. The tickets presumably represent real problems experienced by real humans, and maybe the labeling and triaging brings them closer to actually being addressed.
On the one hand, this looks incredibly cool. On the other hand, I actually find it a bit worrying. With things like BadUSB[1] still out there, I would be worried about anything that gives USB devices more wide reach or higher privileges.

That this project aims to offer "full functionality" of the device, afaik, means it is likely doing exactly the kind of thing that I find worrying. Can anyone talk about this a little more in-depth?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuruzFqMgIw
I am fascinated. Maybe that should be enough, but I guess I have to write a bit more here, because we are not in twitter.

I spent a few days to get know Go language, and now I am more than satisfied. I mean, all the project ideas which are floating in my head should be written in Go.
Possibly slight off-topic grumbling... I automatically disengage when reading a post where the opening paragraph is just a high-five killing-it startup pitch. I understand we all gotta hustle, but it seems like the majority of posts by startups are just done for recruiting or to call attention to themselves. I click the links to get some good information, but wind up feeling like I'm being sold a vacation time-share (with the opportunity to work at the startup! :-)

> Applications for YC’s Winter 2016 batch are closing soon, and that has the team at WayUp (formerly Campus Job) feeling pretty nostalgic. During YC, the company grew faster than ever, we hit the crazy goals we set for ourselves, and we closed our Series A around Demo Day, bringing our total fundraising to $9.1M. And on top of all the traction, our team of 8 had a ton of fun.
Last week I sat in a meeting with representatives from half a dozen startups attempting GenIV fission reactors, along with a public utility that's investing in that type of work.

They said their main problem was the NRC. It has regulations designed for large light-water reactors. If you're attempting, say, a small modular molten-salt reactor, you have to pay several hundred million dollars up front for an extensive, detailed design and regulations to fit. Then the NRC makes one binary decision: if you're lucky they approve you, in which case all you have so far is a piece of paper that allows you to build something. If you're unlucky they deny and leave you with nothing.

Not surprisingly, it's hard to find investors in this environment. They said if we at least had a phased approach, so they can get some assurance for investors, it'd be an improvement. Even better would be a more flexible regime similar to Canada's.
Agreed, they have done a really solid job of eroding trust over the years.
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I've been using 2 distinct languages for FE and BE from the very beginning of my project, and I think that's one the best decisions we made.

It is true, you have to duplicate your models i.e. physically write the same code in 2 languages, but with ORMs this is pretty fast. At later stages, the amount of dup code is always less and less. On the pros-side, this intrinsically prevents you from taking shortcuts, leading to better separation of duties.

It depends on how big you think your project will become, I guess. :)
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I use my best judgement to estimate the time the task will take. I then double that number and report that as my estimate. For times great than one month - multiple by a time and a half instead.

One month? No, six weeks. Two hours? No, four hours.

The reality is typically somewhere between the two numbers. So the estimate remains fairly accurate and most things are finished ahead of schedule.

There are too many variables that cannot be accounted for when giving an estimate. How often am I going to get interrupted? Is there going to be legacy code that causes a bug to surface and has to be refactored? Etc.
*if you're under 40.
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seems the network latency would break the realtime expectations of high data rate USB 3.0 hardware on the USB bus.

and using a still image from a webcam seems like the worst use case... there are much better protocols for serving video streams.
I agree but still, its her wedding. The focus should be on her and the future, not her predecessor and the past. There are plenty of other occasions for such a loving memorial, for example the anniversary of her passing.

The problem with software people is they too often treat people like logical code. Hence the stereotypes.

Feynman's letter itself is beautiful precisely because it isn't logical. Not only because he was writing to a dead person, but also beause he so deeply respected their intimacy and cherished her feelings even after her death that he kept the letter private. In other words it was a real letter not a memorial or tribute. It would have been quite logical to publish it in her honor. But he did not!
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For me, it's more the principle of the thing. This just seems like an insane way for an interpreter to behave. Even more insane is the proposal of minifying server-side JS!
Agreed. I was previously a founder with a company in an incubator in which we were able to negotiate the terms of the deal. One founder spent 3 months basically trying to negotiate the terms and at the end we didn't take that funding and it was like lighting 3 months of time of fire on equity discussions that didn't matter if we weren't successful. If you only have 2-3 founders, it's a major distraction/waste of time up front when you really need to be taking advantages of whatever the incubator provides (connections, mentorship, pilots, etc.) and executing. If there are no advantages, don't join the incubator. If you don't want to take VC funding, you probably shouldn't join an incubator/accelerator since VC connections are usually the few consistent things the incubator can provide.
>It seems that the algorithm simply didn't understand the context where it would be socially acceptable to use such language, It's kinda like a small child!

Thats correct. I further used the the suggested rewrites and it came back with some wild suggestions. It is hard to get $100%.
Bill Gates is investing in LFTR, as per http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/07/23/bill-gates...

They are tweaking the process. I wonder if that has anything to do with the NRC?
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I appreciate the serious response. You might be the only person here who didn't downvote me to oblivion...

The whole nature of defining a superpower (and the taxonomy that follows) is a difficult one, a point lost on most people here.

Thanks again.
tight.