skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The China part bugs me.

Why?

First, there's plenty of money in he US and Europe. I feel they could have worked a bit harder to secure non-Chinese funding.

Second, like it or not the world is engaged in an economic war with China. The industrial bases in the US and Europe have been destroyed to the point that entrepreneurs have trouble finding such things as machines to sew socks. Issues abound across a myriad of industrial segments.

While some in the western world might be all hippie/feel-good about China this is at the cost of ignoring what has been going on. Before you call me a paranoid asshole consider I've been manufacturing products in the US for over thirty years. During that time I have seen, first hand, what the reality of manufacturing has become. Over the years I've seen vendor after vendor systematically taken out by China's expansion into every nook and cranny of industry, even in areas you'd think make no sense.

Now the Chinese are going to insert "probes" into thousands of startups by means of providing insignificant (to them) funding. This will give them unparalleled visibility into trends, products and whole new industries ripe for pillaging.

AngelList is a fantastic resource. I am sure they could have made an effort to source this fund in the US and Europe. In the grand scheme of things $400 million is not that much money with the clout AngelList has, particularly if spread across a range of investors. I, for one, would not want to have a Chinese investor.

Down-vote away.
A better example would be if a person came into a supermarket in the morning and bought all bread and milk so no one else would have any. It's legal,but most stores would probably have a policy against it.
> The F-35 will eventually cost $1 trillion.

Yeah, but for over half a century of procurement and use, and including all operating costs and inflation.
I wonder what performance gains/losses you would experience if you had the comment outside the function block, before the function declaration.
Scientists Control a Fly's Heart With a Laser
You must simply have encountered a defective socket. The experience you describe is not typical.
As I said, forcing companies to pay dividends was the parent poster's idea. If anything like that were to be entertained, I'm sure the forced dividends would be in relation to the corporation's profit.

As for privately traded corps and partnerships: My proposal was to tax capital gains. This could be done at each realization event, and at that point your transaction will usually have a market price. If you are exchanging stock in two privately traded corps, some way to determine fair market value will have to be found, but that seems to be an edge case to me.
Japan has a similar system that isn't even sanctioned by the government. It's created an entire generation of young people who have dropped out of society.
Not in the languages that I am familiar with. the big question is, whether it is before or after The Comma. The Comma does not need more qualifiers than that.
New app SpotPog alerts drivers to prime city parking spots
Wasn't this posted yesterday? I swear I saw it in the RSS feed.

edit: Yeah, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369608 Weird, what's a repost invite?
On my (stochastic gradient) descent into CRF++
A garden hose which is on 24/7 for an entire year?

That's a lot of garden hose.
Apparently their syndicate partners believe so.
With the help of[1] and some glue code[2]:

if __name__ == "__main__":
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description=("Split up pdf from 2-up "
"to single page"))
parser.add_argument("src", help="Source file")
parser.add_argument("dst", help="Destination file")
args = parser.parse_args()
split_pages2(args.src, args.dst)

I produced a PDF[3] that appears to look ok at first glance (bit off on the margins,
perhaps?).

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13345593/split-each-pdf-p...

[2] https://gist.github.com/ebe2445416ed8b683d93

[3] https://e12e.github.io/files/introcyb-split.pdf
Poland here - yep. We call it "punkt dziesiętny" which literally translates to "decimal point",even though we use a comma.
It is not just the tax code - one can be honest in everything, but the most likely result would be the person is left behind and becomes bitter and unhappy. Because others will break, it at least bend the rules if they can get away with it.

In this case it kinda becomes a competitive advantage - all things being the same, if one company does "creative" accounting and the other doesn't, chances are the latter can't compete effectively.

Th worst in all of this is that the general public views these companies as smart for exploring loopholes rather than getting annoyed with them.

None of this is to say that one shouldn't be honest. Just be aware of what it costs to be honest, in a system full of loopholes
Out of curiosity - usually party candidates deeply reflect their party platform. Under what circumstances would you want to vote for a party but not their representative candidate?
China is striped to show them as using two different standards. Only time I've ever been to China, was last year I spent a week in Shenzhen, and all the plugs I saw looked like upside-down Australian. I know there are some slight differences in pin length and so on, but my Australian laptop and phone adapters worked fine. So if one colour is type I, what is the other colour?
Are there commodities where you do think people should be allowed to corner the market?
The tension between loving what you do and making a living
US is bigger than California.
Yeah, but they're being billed $90,000 a year.

I suspect if it was just a broken pipe, the person would be motivated to fix it.
Angus Deaton's badly misunderstood paper on whether happiness peaks at $75,000
While I agree with you, I think the shaming and bullying has emerged from the sense helplessness people feel in being able to change laws or receive justice. These days the common belief (and possible reality) is that the rich dictate the laws and we're powerless to affect change. By publicly shaming, raising awareness/rage, and generating a large undercurrent of dissent, people have found they can affect change.
Feels kind of invasive reading this.
I understand the spirit of exploration and fun that this was done with, however the author talks of using this in "production". This scares me. These types are not interchangeable.

I would love to see a disclaimer and/or a discussion of what can go wrong

EDIT:
If I add the floats 1.5 and 1.5 to get an integer, is the result 2 or 3?
>written in 10 days in the late 90's

Netscape browser has not been used in a long time, and JS has been standardized as ECMAScript since the late 90's.
Is there any research on the net cost of this confusion? Or is it just one of those things where we can easily quantify the switching costs, so we don't bother with the cost of the status quo?

It's like right hand drive cars, which seems like an easy win to get rid of, but are so wrapped up in culture that we are pretty much stuck with them.
Your right, I was confusing them with EqualLogic (I went back and read this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dell_ownership_activit...) to figure out what I must have been thinking about.

Thanks for the correction.
Understanding Common Table Expressions with FizzBuzz
Push notification component for XMPP
Joey Hess is a developer in rural Tennessee with similar problems that we city folk don't have to think of (running everything off a 12V DC battery, collecting your own water). http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/ is a good place to start for some of the things that need to be taken care of.
Hmm! I don't get it.
You're not easily going to locate the culprit by driving around if the runner-up is using 1295 gallons per hour, third place is 1287, ... etc.
Dell will buy EMC for $67B
I'm a bit on the fence:

On the one hand, no, being crazily abusive of the situation IS his/her fault. Legal does not imply moral or ethical, for good reasons. We legislate the minimum necessary because more restrictive legislation would harm people who have valid reasons/exceptions. Then we rely on social pressure to encourage people to not abuse that gray area.

So we have someone blatantly abusing the system.

(And while I tend to give people extreme benefit of the doubt, I have troubles believing that someone is ignorant of the drought and their relatively high water usage - if it's not the property owner, then it's someone maintaining the property that hasn't raided the issue)

I am not at all a fan of mob justice - but at the same time to ignore the role of social pressure in maintaining a balance is to invite a society I don't want to be part of: where everything not explicitly illegal is therefore endorsed.

Mob Justice can be a terrible thing: it's applied unequally, tends to ignore subtleties and justifications, and is hard to put back in to the bottle. At the same time, the law can not be the only determination of what is "right", "good", or "encouraged".

We need to find some middle ground, where society can disapprove, and the disapproval has weight but not so much weight as to strangle or suffocate someone that doesn't conform.
I don't think that adds up to x100 or even close but I see where you are coming from.
Can this be true (1300 gal/hour is 5m^3/hour 24/7.)? At first I thought it was impossible. They I crunched some numbers...

I don't think this is within the domicile. It must be for irrigation. So let's estimate how large the lot would have to be.

Bel-air is [google] 2.9 sq mi, or 1880 acres. A golf course [1](in Iowa, first example I found) uses on average 233 gal/acrehour on their worst month. So 1300 gal/hour is a lot size of 1300/233 = 5.3 acres. This is an upper bound [2]

5.3 acres? That's not necessarily a large lot! Especially if it's for the largest of all lots!

[1] http://news.cybergolf.com/golf_news/johnny_walker_asks_how_m...

[2] Note that the numbers I used are specifically assuming a certain amount of rainfall, which California doesn't have. I'm too lazy to use the numbers given in the article to have a better estimate, but I used "conservative" numbers so the lot size is an upper bound
It feels creepy to read this, like if you were to hack into someone's private emails or Facebook or such.
Also, a quick search says a golf course might use 1 million gallons per day.
no, just minimize your code prior to production, and that'll rip out the comments. That's been best practice for years.
But that's the point: everyone believes somebody else is doing due diligence, even when it's not actually happening. This is a huge problem today because of the "party round."

Just look at Zirtual[1] and Amicus[2][3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036321

[2] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tec...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8082785
Julian Assange: police removed from outside Ecuadorian embassy
Then you definitely don't want to google Napoleon's letters to his wife Josephine.
That's pretty far on the high end of that...
http://irrigation.wsu.edu/Content/Calculators/Residential/Ga...
Shaming people for doing things that are legal but nonetheless antisocial is the only way to avoid the situation where you have to make everything that's bad also illegal. It's a time-honored way of enforcing social norms and avoiding overly-legalistic social frameworks.
In St. Louis, Fears Rise as a Landfill Fire Nears a Radioactive Waste Site
I don't find this creepy or invasive at all. A bit hard to read, as my eyes are suddenly blurry, but I'm glad to have read it.
As others have said, you can always strip comments in production builds. But I agree that this is utterly silly - I'd like to see a movement to deprecate including comments in parsing at all. Anything that makes use of such a feature is hacky weirdness from the start.
From the article:

>That's already in the works at LADWP, which could go from a two-tier system to four tiers. Marty Adams of the DWP told me that in the case of the highest user in Bel-Air, the $90,000 annual cost of water would rise to about $125,000.

Instead of tiered, there could be a progressive multiplier, e.g. a multiplier equal to the gallons used: 1 gallon = $1 ; 10 gallons = $100; 100 gallons = $10,000.
I could imagine a billionaire wouldn't really notice it, as they'd probably expect it would cost a lot to keep a large lawn lush and green.
Why would the airport vehicles not be more efficient battery vehicles? Charging infrastructure is then of no concern, and baggage trollies and safety trucks are all low speed/high torque applications electric vehicles we're designed for.

Most pushback tugs are already transitioning to all-electric, and have a very low duty cycle (push/pull a few aircraft, go plug in to charge).

The electricity->hydrogen->electricity cycle is terribly inefficient. Batteries are the answer.
Just as a counterpoint, in the book "Moonwalking with Einstein", the author talks quite a bit about the fact that many of these methods survived for a long long time, and people in the past considered memory an incredibly important proof of someone being educated.

The methods seem to have been "lost" mostly when better options for external memory (e.g. writing and printing) became more universal. (iirc - i'm probably messing this up somewhat).
it's a yearly thing in portland to out/dox water hogs.

only 1 resident managed to go over 1 million gallons this time.

see: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-25154-hydro_hogs.html
Look at the attached picture. I count EIGHT officers in that picture alone. Add to that the multipliers previously posted and you can rapidly approach that kind of cost.

I'm not sure why 8 officers would be required to keep an eye on one door for one person, but that's a tangential question...
This might be on a 20 million dollar estate though. The home owner probably has never actually seen a single bill, their assistant handles that.
I'd like to know how precisely the force sensors are calibrated during the manufacturing process, i.e. what is the variation in maximum detected pressure across iPhones?
Show HN: Dragons of Destiny iOS Game
VersionPress 2.0 Released
They're not so bad: http://www.ebellking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image...
Show HN: Load Test Your Website or API with 600k clients at just £9/month
doesn't assembly do this?
Man I am justing reading Surely you are joking mr Feynman,
this comes in the right time
I could have saved you some effort. By "computer" I meant "personal computer". I presume that everybody here would understand that I didn't mean "device which can compute", i.e. all servers, cash registers, calculators, difference engines and Turing machines. I'd have thought that this would've been obvious since I said 95% off the top of my head, and your very own link says 91.47%.

Microsoft are so far from niche it's unreal, and it shows a great ignorance on behalf of the author to look at one product from one arm of a diverse organisation, which has been at the forefront of CS research for decades, has competences that Google et al absolutely do not, and compare it to other companies which only have vague product-line overlap so blithely.

This is ignoring the manufacturing, supply chain management, distribution, retail competences that the other mentioned companies have, which Google and Facebook may never have. It's also ignoring fundamental aspects of marketing such as brand equity, positioning, etc. It's also ignoring the fact that some of these companies are already embedded in industry, via their product line and also via consultancy. Lastly, it's taking a single current snapshot of the industry, and is ignoring the fundamentals of organisational strategy and competition and capitalism, which would suggest that the companies mentioned will adapt and compete to survive (in b4 Innovator's Dilemma). Not all companies will do this successfully, but the companies mentioned will.

It seems like the author is judging these companies via their perception of a small subset of their products, and the market's perception of them (some of their share prices are up and down) without looking at the fundamentals of each business, their diversification strategies, product line strategies, their financial metrics (which the author could've looked up in 10 seconds), and so on.

I mean to suggest that these companies are in trouble because of OSS such as MongoDB, which they have partnered with, support, and sell (and more than likely funded at some point), is very silly, but that's precisely what the author has done.
Wow re: Sacco! Good recall -- assuming it's the same person. I guess her PR spin abilities apply to her career too.

P.S. I find the language re: $10M funny. $1 less is still a big number, and I sense weasel words.
Does that also mean Daraprim's only use will be for AIDS shortly?
See my post bellow estimating how large their lot should be assuming golf-course irrigation. I came with ~5 acres

This individual is a jerk, no doubt, but 5 acres is small, so their overall usage compared to the total for LA county isn't very significant. LA county as a whole is abusing water.

I'd suggest a tiered pricing scheme. Current rates for water usage bellow what 99.9% of what the LA uses (to make it politically expedient), and two orders of magnitude larger otherwise.
I seem to have something in my eye
Came in to this post thinking of Joey as well. I use multiple utilities he's written. All on a small laptop and solar power. I don't know how much has changed since '12, but there is a nice summary of his infrastructure here: https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/
You need to have "intellectual property" of some sort (patents, brands for franchising, copyrighted software). You create a number of corporations - one that is tax resident in a tax haven like the Cayman Islands and domiciled in Ireland, one that is tax resident in Ireland, one in the Netherlands, and one in each country where you sell your goods or services.

You then go and hire a good tax accountant who has experience with the Double Irish tax dodge (look it up on Wikipedia), and Bob's your uncle. (Though a double irish is harder to create for new firms since 2015 - you might have to acquire a ready-made shell corporation.)

Of course all this only makes sense if you have profits in the tens or hundreds of millions, so that paying for the shell companies, your Irish headquarters, your tax accountants and your lawyers is cheaper than actually paying tax.
After my dad died my freshman year of college, I wrote a letter and sealed it. It's so hard to understand that a person that was so important to you won't be there to hear everything you wanted to tell them.

Since then, I've loved studying letters between friends and lovers.

This is a great letter.
Driving through some of the more mansion-laden neighborhoods (Buckhead on e.g. Habersham Drive), you'll see signs near the curb saying things like "IRRIGATION WATER DRAWN FROM WELL". I presume those were meant to discourage torches & pitchforks.

I'm not sure the distinction is all that meaningful.
The original data is 11.8 million gallons per year. Converting that into liters, then dividing by 365 * 24, and applying 3 sig figs to that result we get 5100 liters / hour.
This analysis is spot on. I think the fundamental idea here is to use VMWare's excellent products as a gateway into the cloud. In theory, it should work out really well. But like you said, I'm rather skeptical that Dell can actually deliver great software.
> Nothing about the term "immigrant" reserves it to the poor

No, but it is generally reserved for people whom have permanently settled in another country. That doesn't include H1B (non-immigration) workers that could be thrown out if fired.
Yes, and the Chinese have logical reasons for accepting lower returns because they're exposed to risk in China that domestic PE firms aren't exposed to. This said, it should be noted that when the music stops, these firms aren't guaranteed a return at all. Many of them are going to lose. It's just a question of how much.
Why Firefox Rapid Release Schedule Is a Bad Idea (2011)
this shouldn't be called as a book. It is consist of some comments about some specific topics in few pages.
I understand there is at least another door, plus of course you have to keep an eye on roofs and so on.
Starting an IT Blog
I would like to have an IT blog, but I don't know what to start with. Would you advice please how to make your blog more popular?
As a computer guy, I was always a fan of the 3-in-a-row Italian ones, because you could attach a lot of them to a power strip without too much hassle.
Infographic: Activists Investors – Bill Ackman vs. Carl Icahn
>In October of 1946, Richard wrote his late wife a heartbreaking love letter and sealed it in an envelope. It remained unopened until after his death in 1988.

It is a very heartbreaking and sad. But was there instruction for it to be shared publicly? It will pain me if someone is sharing this just to further their own agenda. It seems kind of private.
I have also experienced sparks in a US socket. How glad I was to come back to the civilisation of semi-insulated prongs and switches.
I don't know much about it as well to be honest other than bits I've seen and I opted for avoiding the area pretty soon after.

If it is, its ultimately self-limiting. Other cities around the world have happily embraced urban density and its done wonders for all concerned. Nice new affordable housing. Landlords make more in quantity not necessarily margin. Commercial ventures have more customers and employees.

SF is really weird to me and I can't quite grasp the motivations for not densifying in a meaningful way other than a rather simplistic "Keep the charm" kind of motif. That seems to trivial as an explanation to me, but other stories always invoke long circuitous logic that boarders wayyy to heavily on the Immigrants=bad speak without actually invoking it for my tastes.
That is called doctor shopping and doctors hate it. They will just assume you are trying to get drugs. Doctors don't care about your problems any more than a veterinarian cares about a dog or cat.
> What leads you to believe the syndicate leads are doing real due diligence?

Never said real due diligence, just most of the due diligence that is actually done

However, if one is investing in 1,000 startups then due diligence is actually of less importance as you approximate a normal distribution of returns..
One slight correction to your "less idealistic view": It's not just (or at all) that one party believes they are the best to represent the whole, it's that they believe the other(s) are HARMFUL.

Ergo, disempowering that other voice is in everyones best interests.

While people can often do "evil" things (manipulative, etc), they usually do them for "good" reasons, at least according to their internal rationalizations. [citation needed :) ]
Sounds like something Postgres would be very good at, using window functions or (probably recursive) CTEs; its query language is much richer than both ElasticSearch and MongoDB.

Postgres' text indexing isn't as advanced as ElasticSearch's (and indexing performance is definitely lower), but it's not bad at all. If you only need basic term support and not actual term vectors, you can use plain Postgres arrays, which have all sorts of supported operators, and can be translated into tables and back to perform some really neat in-memory queries.

One downside, of course, is that you don't get any sharding for free, and if your dataset is large enough you might have to manually partition your tables, either using Postgres partitions or by explicitly sharding (e.g., using pg_shard).
It's explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806904
A CEO’s Account of How RewardMe Failed
Even granting that:

> Is it worth squeezing the cities when farms consume 80 percent of the water that people use in California, while they generate only 2 percent of its economic activity?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/03/a...
other discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dell&sort=byPopularity&prefix&...
I guess I'm not going to be productive today. stares in fascination