skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I moved to the Bay Area (Berkeley), I had to take the bus to work, and I hated it because it was so unreliable. The AC Transit bus was never on time. A bus was supposed to arrive at my stop at around 8:15 AM, but instead it arrived anywhere between 8:00 AM and 8:30 AM. It also was supposed to pass once every 30 minutes but oftentimes I waited a full hour before another bus came. The last straw came when AC Transit went on strike in August 2010 - that's when I decided to buy a car.

When I had to commute into San Francisco from Berkeley a few years later, I took BART into the city, and didn't fare much better. While the trains were on time more often than not, there were way too many delays when we were en route. Since the underwater tunnel between Oakland and SF is a choke point - just two tracks - whenever there's a delay in there and you were behind it, it would take at least an extra 15 minutes to get us moving again. The BART strike from 2013 was also pretty bad for commuters.

I lived in New York and have been to Osaka, Japan many times, and I don't mind public transportation at all in those cities - they cover a lot more ground than the Bay Area, have plenty of trains and buses and aren't too affected by delays when it happens.
Randall Munroe is a prophet!

https://xkcd.com/723/
C++ is still very heavily used in industries where speed (and memory compactness) matter.
Games, simulation, VFX...

For example, most software used to make film movies / CG imagery: from modelling (Maya, SI), to texturing (Mari), to rendering (PRMan, Arnold, VRay, Mantra, Hyperion, Manuka), to compositing (Nuke).

And it probably will be for many years to come as there's such an infrastructure there.
The Power BI is an incredible product - thanks for listing it here... unreal! Coming from SAP/BusinessObjects products which are generally overweight and expensive, Power BI nails it... Price is free, they offer a download for Windows, web app and appears to have a mobile app. Worth a try. In 5 minutes, I had a dashboard built out of exported data from our accounting system...
Presumably if their sensors say the system has been cracked open, they don't just ship it out to another user. (And they could have many layers of sensors, telling them if it was just via damage (hitting it with a forklift) or someone really getting in.) Considering the potential downside, I'm sure they've done some work here.
OK, I have no idea how the proof works, but I think I read the abstracts well enough to do something that might qualify as pretending to pretend to know how the proof works: (please note: I'm not qualified to pretend to know how this works, I have to pretend twice to get anything that sounds like both math and English)

* Part 1: All chaotic systems are isomorphic to an elliptic curve [traditionally y2 = x3 + ax + b] for some extended definition of elliptic curves

* Part 2: A general method of constructing isomorphisms of chaotic systems to extended elliptic curves

* Part 3: Using the method from Part 2, construct a more understandable model of the chaotic structure of the natural numbers

* Part 4: Using the model constructed in part 3, construct a proof for abc

Hopefully if you understand any of this you can point out why I'm obviously wrong.
The thing about an MVP is that it is still a VP.
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Agreed. There were and are some terrible subreddits, but they aren't the default subs, you had to go looking for them. In that sense it's really no better or worse than the rest of the internet.

I also think the article is pretty misguided in saying that somehow wealthy white men are treated better on the site. First of all, unless you tell people who you are, nobody knows. Secondly, the idea that revealing your wealthy white dude status would lead to better treatment on Reddit it laughable to anybody who's used the site for more than a few minutes.
At first I thought about that too, but as I got further I was reminded about an article about the person to first theorize the Higgs Boson, and how he had only published a few articles in his entire career.
Remember when the iPad came out and everyone made tampon jokes? Fast forward 5 years...
> Every conversation I've had on 4chan I have no clue what gender the other person is,

And yet I'm pretty sure that most people interacting with other anonymous people on 4chan assume that they are interacting with a male until proven otherwise, hence memes like:

* There Are No Girls On The Internet[1]

Or

* "Internet, where men are men, women are also men, and children are FBI agent"

> Even identifying yourself as a female results in "tits or GTFO" responses.

I'm not sure if you realize it, but "Tits or GTFO" responses do not mean "We don't care what your gender is, so don't bother to reveal it to us." If you believe that "Tits or GTFO" is an inclusive phrase, then you're either a massive troll, or I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn...

That response traces its origins to the proliferation of attention-seeking "camwhores," and the idea that Anonymous is male until proven female. Neither of these things has anything to do with 4chan being a gender-neutral inclusive community.

[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/there-are-no-girls-on-the-inte...
Everyone gets called out on everything that might be wrong on 4chan (mostly /b/). Even a perfectly normal being will be called out on whatever, simply because they can.

"Tits or GTFO" is used because it has a lot higher success rate than one would imagine. It detracts greatly from being able to have actual discussions, but if you're on /b/ you waddle through it.

I would say the response "Tits or GTFO" is not so much as to say that "we aren't interested in your gender" as the more popular ending of a post "I'm a grill btw" was. This was a play on people that, when telling a story or asking a question, where their gender played no role at all, stated their gender for no reason other than to gather attention.
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It's not garbage collection(although that's a part of it, but Unreal3 actually had a GC).

It has to do with memory layout. Cache misses = lost performance and being able to structure your memory appropriately is super-important. Look up Mike Acton or any of the Data Oriented Design stuff for more details.
I come across this response quite frequently and I remain mystified why anyone would think that it's important or even a good idea for the millions of people interested in privacy to try to solve privacy issues from the same angle. Skillsets don't even fit for this: as a developer I am well-suited for working on network technologies that don't leak information about their users, but a lawyer for example is much better suited at changing legislation so corporations are responsible for protecting privacy. We don't need a "focus", we need everyone to use their skills to protect our right to privacy.
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Too bad nobody directly addressed your question as to whether it had anything to do with pauses which would be unbearable on the gamer's experience.

Perhaps the question is still open whether properly managing allocation, using object pools as well as other strategies would enable writing triple A games with a managed language.

Or perhaps all we need is a GC race (à la JS engine race we've seen in the major browser) which Google might very well be starting with the recent efforts on the Go garbage collector.
I agree! But let's discuss the arguments on their merits, not toss them aside for being "ideological".
I feel they went from a striking, statement-making 'M' logo to something more playful and lightweight.

I prefer the striking simplicity and strong statement of the previous logo. But perhaps the new one will grow on me over time.
I actually think that comes more from the fact that a lot of people post pretending to be a women to either get attention or to trick people into going along with whatever ploy they have going.

EDIT: I'm commenting on the quotes specifically. I think the first part is probably correct.
Looking forward to hearing her speak on a few related topics at this weekend's Code Camp NYC.
I own the domain name bookmark.org

Contact me by email (in profile) if you'd like to partner in some way.
Sturgeon's law applies.
Yes, I think most people discount what a huge role luck plays in success.
I just launched my project officially and it's generating some revenue for quite some time now (small amount though). I first started working on it 2.5 - 3 years ago, but it wasn't full time, it was always a side project.

It's only me on the project, the whole time.

I don't really have an advice, just work on it and don't give up, as long as you don't give up, you haven't failed.

I wish you a good luck and a lot of persistence!
Bhagat Singh/Rajguru/Sukhdev or Ram Prasad Bismil/Ashfaqullah are good examples but Subhash Chandra Bose would probably be a slightly better one for the sake of generalizability
Endless Legend, Endless Space by Amplitude Games are all made in Unity. While not AAA FPS, they are certainly not trivial games.
Maybe you can convince people on the fringe of functional programming to accept
less pay for the lure of getting to learn a functional language? Maybe it's worth it
if you get on-average higher quality developers because of the affinity for vague
association with functional programming?

There's a bunch of quality .NET developers that regularly come to the Sydney F# meetup which would imho defect in a heartbeat. Definate yes on the lure for on-average higher quality developers and potentially yes for less money. Hiring directly from Meetups is the exact strategy Walmart Labs did w/nodejs to obtain quality talent that otherwise would not have considered them (Walmart [has|had] a image problem) - http://todogroup.org/blog/why-we-run-an-open-source-program-...
It's possible the login gate is a necessary concession: many retail brands have policies in place that dictate a minimum advertized price. Publically offer the product at below that cost, and they will stop selling to you. They do this primarily to protect their other retail customers and to some extent, their brand image.

Crucially though, a brand will often times allow you to sell a product lower than M.A.P. as long as you deal directly to a customer in private. It's possible Jet has made deals with brands that allow them to sell under M.A.P. as long as they do it behind a sign in gate.
Yes, marine biologists deal with those devilish complexities all the time. And this is only a small part of the entire picture. There are also crustacean viruses for example.
Such naivety.
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Not sure I completely agree with that.. hasn't the swiss government and banking pretty much fallen in line with regards to those outlined in the USA PATRIOT act? My understanding is that they've been pretty cooperative here.

Amsterdam may be the safer bet, not safe, but safer.
You are definitely not irrational to ask all this in writing, i would want to do that from both points of view. Even if it's not legally binding, it's always much easier to discuss promised things when you have them written down in some form.
For Safari? They say

> Due to a technical issue in Safari affecting video playback,
please view Network Effect using Google Chrome.

with the words "technical issue" being a link to the webkit bug I mentioned.
No, it gets "time flies like an arrow", but it can't handle the garden path in "time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."

Which humans with only one pass can't either.
It's good to have competition in this area. Influx is giving me whiplash (it's on its third database engine in six months!)

The circular buffer approach is fine, but it does have the drawback of being unable to represent variable-length data (like key-value pairs). It's also harder to compress the data.

Can a GROUP-BY do windowed aggregations? Like, take an average over ten-minute windows? My SQL knowledge is not great.
I like implementing things as languages. I'll probably use perl 6 for its built in grammars. I suppose there are languages with nice parser combinators but I'd like to see what it's like having it designed into the language.
I don't think Uber does any integration like that. Creating a map inside Ticketfly would be easier and it could include an Uber ride at checkout.
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Because it reminds me YC is yet another institution by wealthy designed to perpetuate their own wealth.
As I started reading this I was thinking: "Don't compare it to craft beer, don't compare it to...damn, they went there."

I think Shakespeare is wonderful, but like many things in life (craft beer included) we sometimes mistake obscurity for artistry. It's not good art because it's an acquired taste, it's good in spite of this.
How will this research remain bias-free when salaries are being paid for by YC?

What happens when some of the research that is done paints some of the activities of YC or their companies in a less-than-positive light?
I agree with your parent. The ecosystem on *nix is larger, more robust and cheaper. There's just so many more tools around that you'll end up running a mix-environment, which is obviously not ideal (but certainly not impossible).
Good luck tracking down and suing patient 0.
>You're making the same exact mistake that the guy who decided ant should use xml as a programming language did.

Ant was a badly done turing complete langauge. I did not create a turing complete language I created an very, very dumb declarative language with no functions or control structures - only data.

>As soon as you need loops, conditionals, subroutines -- which are all very common when writing tests

I already have loops and conditionals via jinja2 (a templating language I did not create) on the high level and in python on the step level.

I am not and will never implementing any control structures in YAML (a la ant). The YAML will always remain dumb to help maintain a strict separation of concerns and test readability.

>you're making up your own language with horrible warts.

Warts such as what?
This seems like a foolish requirement for an investor to impose.

The more intent a user has, the higher you'll see conversion rates, generally. And if I've already seen a great price and want to buy my intent is way higher than if I'm just curious about what their price is. Terrible time to kick a user into a funnel if not for contractually-obligated reasons (like other posters bring up).
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Perhaps a mini kindle, I estimate by the image that's about 2x4" max.
Interesting. Mind going more in-depth?
From the perspective of someone like Blow, Rust's concept of safety is like childproofing a house by putting latches on all the cabinets while ignoring the loaded gun on the coffee table.
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@AndrewKemendo, you are right with your post. Time will tell if we are wrong in this thread about jet.com.
Its unrealistic to have expected to make lifelong friends with people whose only commonality you have is where you grew up.
Flipboard Engineering published a blog post on solving this problem http://engineering.flipboard.com/2014/10/summarization/
Again I'm being a bit self-serving, but I think Neil deGrasse Tyson put it better [1, from 1:35-2:30]:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SUpwIAjQs&t=1m35s
Totally agree. Tremendous value.
News flash: I grew up in the same area for 30 years and still feel disconnected. What you're experiencing is ennui.
I'm 32, married, remote worker for a fully remote startup. Get a remote job, work from anywhere you want. I'd never go back to an office or commute. Ever. (I'm planning on living on a sailboat in the next 12 months; my employer couldn't be happier for me)
I'm an independent researcher as well after giving up on the academic community. There aren't that many of us; let's band together.
Is there any way to participate remotely?

I am not applicable for any visa in so-called "developed" countries - too old and without higher education (lack of which does not imply much in some cases, as one might see).
Thanks for the clarification, something I'll have to add.

Out of curiosity, how does it work across multiple rounds? I implemented 1x participatory preferences as a simple lifo queue... For non-participatory preferences, are there any complications in calculating the "everybody goes equal from here up" point (50 in the above example) when everyone got in at a different round? Can you have some participatory preferences mixed with non-participatory ones? Is there a good reference for that (at least for a typical case)? Or is this a "call your lawyer" thing?
I do understand this, and to some extent it can be a valid approach. However, I think that the primary focus should be on fixing the systemic problem you mention. Anything else is just a bandaid at best, and at worst runs the risk of being insulting because it implies that group x or y's work isn't good enough to compete on it's own.
re: plays, sure but I made an intentional comparison with Ibsen who is also a dramatist.

re: Throne of Blood. Yeah it's great and that's sorta the point of wanting modern translations. Shakespeare, freed from the yoke of Old Elizabethan, can be more vital and approachable to modern audiences.
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Great. Now I wonder what else they're cheating on.

Insurance companies calculate that if you've been in an accident/had a claim, you're more likely than average to have another accident/claim.

It's plausible that if a corporation can decide to cheat this egregiously on one thing, their barrier to cheating on other things may be as low.

"We cheated on the diesels, but totally not on anything else." Cue the lighthearted ukulele music and fresh-faced children flying kites.
Not if they sell equity!
I'm a UNIX guy at heart actually that works in an mixed-environment. Don't completely agree w/comment about mixed-environment being undesirable - most shops are heading down this path anyway of anything goes with the micro-services route. Completely agree with you on tooling, things are getting better in this department namely http://octopus.com/ && http://getseq.net/ which funny enough are also Aussie. My main concern re: .NET are the attitudes of companies and software developers that use the technology generally are anti open-source by default. That does however make it very easy to become noticeable from an employment perspective vs the nodejs/ruby/python/java community.
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Not only is their product good, but their service is first rate.

I was recently working with the developer of the ASynK contact synchronisation tool ( http://asynk.io/ ) to track down an issue I was having synchronising contact details from Fastmail using CardDAV.

It turned out to be a Fastmail issue; one of their developers was quickly on the GitHub issue chatting to the ASynK maintainer about it, and they had a fix in a couple of weeks.

Impressively clueful support.
Hearthstone isn't what anyone would normally call a AAA game though. Until the end of the beta they only had 15 employees working on it.

They basically had to use an established engine because they didn't have the budget to build their own.
"the people who would have benefit from these policies [...] are long dead and gone. The people who oppressed them are also dead."

In a way, public policy can still reward your ancestors and punish their oppressors, despite their death. I'd bet your ancestors would have wanted opportunities for their descendants, just as we do for our kids and grandchildren.
Hey, sorry for the late reply.

Just to clarify, I didn't have the same idea, I had the idea that I wanted to make sure I was learning the material, I'm not sure/convinced a quiz is the way to do it, but at least you are doing something. I just had a thought and too many other projects :)

There may be a lot of book recommendation products out there, but name one. I'm not suggesting you build a book recommendation product but as a side-effect of your product, you could help people to buy more books.

The difference between blinklist and bookgym is that they are selling access to the content. Sure, it isn't the real thing, it's like they are selling a knock-off. Not as good as the real thing, but you're getting it cheaper.

For one, I wouldn't spend $10/year for what is currently there. And I don't see how you can scale without crowd-sourcing, so you've got a bit of a chicken/egg problem where people won't want to pay until you have content, but you won't have content until you have people supplying it, whom you're expecting to pay.

I completely agree with you not creating a ton of quizzes at the moment, until you see the market is interested. That's the right thing to do. But you also have to be able to measure market interest, which is a bit difficult to do without content. I don't have a clear answer for you there.
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But most of those major releases require some amount of custom work on the engine. They still need C++ programmers who can understand what's going on under the hood.
It's not that you couldn't write a triple A game with a managed language.

It's that you can _quite easily_ write a triple A game without using a managed language.

For games, managing memory is not a big problem. For other kinds of apps, it can be. In some apps the lifetime of an object is not well defined. But in games, it tends to be very well defined.

If you want a good explanation of the problems game developers face when trying to use GC, go read Rich Geldreich's post on it (http://richg42.blogspot.com/2015/05/lessons-learned-while-fi...).
Yea, but you're ignoring the fact that people might want to get malaria. Not everyone likes being taken care of; some want to live life the way they want to (e.g. short and fast, but without bug nets).
"I wish everyone had the chance, but nobody would use it" could be better.
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BART should be a massive success story, given its original objectives. The Transbay Tube is running at nearly full capacity and they cannot push any more workers into downtown SF if they wanted to. And the experience is ten times better average public transit, eg relative to local bum-mobiles.

Compare that to the local SF MUNI, which is primarily focused on enriching the corrupt union and corrupt vendors. And of course, service sucks, because nobody cares about it other that the political kickbacks.

Except! BART is exactly the same. Every few years the BART union threatens to shut down the San Francisco economy, and the politicians always, always fold.

So the conclusion should be: BART is actually only successful despite themselves because they control a key piece of infrastructure. Otherwise it is just your typical shitty corrupt government transit OP.

You want CA High Speed Rail to be run like BART. Check out the CAHSR blog. They have a very active poster in your corner.
Unfortunately, unplugging DC power plugs under load tends to damage them much more than the equivalent AC plugs. Similarly, DC rated circuit breakers and fuses are much larger than their AC counterparts. The reason is that the zero-crossing of the AC voltage waveform naturally allows the developed arc an opportunity to be extinguished. DC current/voltage has no such zero crossing.
Looks like he was an angel investor in a lot of BIG startups, so not too surprising:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Pre-YC_angel_invest...
We're still experimenting with Docker, but aren't using it in production yet. Definitely going to check out these scripts though, especially that dnsmasq container.
Reading email is certainly latency sensitive. It IS called FASTmail.