skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some stream of consciousness writing: I would add to that that the body, brain, mind are in part pressure-based systems and normally if all systems are functioning and energy is flowing as it needs to - then pressure in one or multiple areas won't rise, however if those energies aren't flowing for whatever possible causes - then problems can occur and worsen over time as the brain has its natural systems that will keep evolving and applying pressure; if "you" understand Qi (chi) and how energy can become stagnant in the body, this may be easier to comprehend -- stagnant energy, blocks or buildups, in my experience leads to actual pain sensations in the body, and a simple acupuncture session can help alleviate or eliminate the pains (until perhaps the energy buildsup again); this doesn't necessarily mean it will reduce the baseline of existing causes, that would require more work.
Design of the EROS Trusted Window System (2004) [pdf]
Yeah, of course, but dongles usually have craptennas which cease working once inside a building...
I work for the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) and have a lot of colleagues in late 50ies or 60ies. Most of them profile on some system or subject area, many spent like 20-30 years in a certain branch (like selling channels or timetable systems). So it's normally not about technology (like web/embedded), it's about solving business needs and technology is secondary. People that know cases and special cases and corner cases of special cases and exceptions from all that.

Needless to say, that's "bulletproof" employment. First, these people are extremely valuable, retirement of some of them is even critical to systems stability. And after all there are labor unions etc. making them basically non-fireable.
The contact information on his website gives a phone number and address in Philadelphia, which is in a two-party state.

I have no idea what happens, though, when one party is on a two-party state and the other is in a one-party state.
"Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas" The irony in this sentence from the article is breathtaking.
The PG headline is really the first half of a larger sentence: Write like you talk, and try to talk in concise, plain language.

If you have trouble doing this, the Hemingway App might help.
http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

There are a lot of problems with the way people write. Some writers are too writerly, some are trapped in journalese or legalese, most are too vague. But better than any -ese is being able to communicate complex ideas to intelligent outsiders in a shared, common language.

To do that, you have to think a lot about what your main points are, how they connect, and what your readers will probably misunderstand. Then you address that. You answer questions before they are asked.

Sure, there are other ways to write. I like a good dose of purple prose, or 19th-century Russian fiction. But it probably doesn't belong in a memo.

In the end, you shouldn't write like you talk, because as many others have said here, talking is messy. The real trick is to write in a way that makes people think you're talking to them. The writer finds tricks that make it seem like she's talking, even though speech has been translated to the page. Then the reader can hear your voice, and there's nothing getting in the way.
I really wonder if dataflow machines could genuinely be a feasible commercial processor.

Software is moving more and more towards this type of programming model, from the reactive stuff to even HPC. OoO cores are already small dataflow processors, but their instruction window does not seem to scale.
Is x86/arm just too much of a semantic bottleneck? All the dependency information available to a compiler/runtime is lost when code-generating to x86 (same for ARM), yet a processor core needs to extract the same information again in hardware.
Yes, there's also 'instance of' (P31) [1]. Together, 'instance of', 'subclass of' and 'part of' comprise Wikidata's basic membership properties [2].

'Instance of' and 'subclass of' provide Wikidata with a way to express the basic philosophical notion of type-token distinction [3]. For things that are a subclass of something like 'material entity', all instances are physical objects that have a unique location in space and time.

Not all instances are spatiotemporal particulars, though. For example, one might say "Homo sapiens instance of taxon", where taxon is a metaclass, i.e. a class in which the instances are classes. (Here 'taxon' would not be a subclass of 'material entity' -- i.e. taxa are information artifacts, not physical objects.) Support for this kind of "punning" via metamodeling is a major feature of OWL 2 DL [4].

If this sort of thing interests you, definitely take a look into Wikidata [5]. The project will be a sea change for several key features in Wikipedia (e.g. infoboxes), and will likely be a main hub of the Semantic Web.

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1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31

2. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Basic_membership_properti...

3. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/types-tokens/

4. http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/

5. https://www.wikidata.org
Google Keep - no frills, just the right amount of features. I'd love to find a good OSS alternative, though.
Perhaps I can help you "find" some ideas... they come so easily if one is open to them...

For example, Uber appears to be the end of the taxi business, but it opens up a whole market to developers. You have a beautiful imbalance now, all those taxi drivers and cab companies are heavily incentivized to compete with Uber or lose their companies/jobs.

If there was (and there might be, idk) a platform that allowed all the cab companies to aggregate into an uber-Uber, there's a market for that with known customers. The only obvious issue I see is that in order to make this work, the cab companies would have to give up their fights to block Uber using municipal codes as they are now.

Anywhere you have an imbalance, there's a potential market. The problem is, if you're not on the demand side, your product has the potential of a short lifespan unless it corrects the imbalance.

Google did this with ads, Uber with rides, AirBnB with rooms, tinder with.. well, you know.

Each of these markets had an unseen demand side which each of the companies exploited. Find an unfilled demand and fill it. It doesn't need to be huge, but if it's in the way of someone already moving there, you greatly increase your chances of being acquired.
Are you saying that staying employee as a programmer is correlated to being unmarried?
That's the government's claim, more or less. The article says that's not evident from the actual trades done: he may have simply changed his mind after the orders didn't get hit. A piece of evidence the article gives for this is that much of the filling of his second order was later, well after algos had a chance to see his cancellation. So there was no need for any spoofing anyway.
Can't speak for V8/Go/CPython but the JVM has a lot of knobs to turn (quick look at enterprise instances I've been responsible for: max/initial heap size, max/initial permgen size, max/initial newgen size, enable/disable dump on OOM, enable/disable GC logging, enable/disable compaction), some of which also depend on implementation (e.g. the IBM JVM used to have a different default GC policy which favoured fewer but longer collections and some of the parameters behaved subtly different from Sun's).
"Defense of mass incarceration" is only a neutral summary in an environment where mass incarceration is not a volatile topic, which would not be Hacker News.

The article is probably going to go mostly unread anyway, since most people never bother to RTFA to begin with, but at least the title doesn't have to be snark bait.
HN really jumps the shark best when it swaps definition of words to support whatever it wants to support.

Hemingway's writing style was far from being convoluted.
I find that the moment I tell it I dislike something it gets spooked and goes back to one of the songs I told it I liked years ago. Which I probably did like, then, two hundred plays ago.
Background: Famo.us was trying to build an open source javascript animation library meant to unlock native performance on mobile[1]. They took many millions of funding to do so[2] .

It didn't quite end up working out that way. Also, there's a community-run "fork": infamous[3]

[1] http://famous.org/
[2] http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/13/famo-us-raises-25m-to-doub...
[3] http://infamous.io/
Do you mean because it's a great sentence in the context of this essay (maybe the best one in it), but you judge that you couldn't get away with saying it verbatim in conversation?

(If you were explaining the idea in this essay?) Or please explain.
If Sony doesn't actually own the exclusive right, then Joe's House of Copyright Notices being an agent of Sony is not relevant to whether Joe's House of Copyright is authorized to act on behalf of the owner (because Sony is not the owner).
> You didn't really address the examples which mschuster91 provided and that's important to understanding the problem:

On the contrary, I addressed it entirely. mschuster91 seems to be under the impression that the teacher evaluation schemes boil down to nothing but the simplest possible before-after comparison of grades of students, ignoring all issues of demographics, differing student quality, differing school circumstances, etc. Such a scheme is indeed absurd, as his counterexample proves, but it is not what has been proposed by pretty much everyone! The actual proposals are well aware of what he thinks is the fatal problem, and go to often elaborate lengths to model and adjust for these sorts of heterogeneities in order to quantify the value-added of a particular teacher. The problem is recognized, included, and mostly dealt with. Whether the solution works entirely or is worthwhile is unclear, but he's arguing against a strawman.

> One estimate has ~12% of NYC public school teachers being punished by the flawed VAM in use there:

So I've looked at http://mathbabe.org/2015/04/02/the-arbitrary-punishment-of-n... and I have zero idea what she is trying to show. She assumes independence and treats it as a coin flip. Ummm.... what? With that sort of logic, you could show no one could expect to score a 1600 on the SAT. When criticized she links to a real analysis†, which shows considerable non-independence which means her numbers are wrong and will overstate how many will be denied tenure based on the VAMs. By the way, why are you phrasing it as 'punished'? That sounds like you're assuming your conclusion. If VAM doesn't affect hiring decisions, there's no point to bothering with it in the first place is there, but if it does affect hiring decisions, that means teachers are being 'punished'...?

† not that I think too much of it either, since it relies mostly on an argument from incredulity and pointing angrily at some scatterplots, and tries to ignore the r=.35 correlation of ratings from two subjects; to put an r=.35 in perspective, the correlation between years of education and intelligence is only ~r=.55! Even the best IQ tests won't correlate with Gf more than r=.7 or so. r=.35 is pretty good for a single pair. I don't know why he thinks a .24 is 'minuscule' when that means you're predicting half of variance... (I wonder if this is a graphing problem? He doesn't seem to jitter the datapoints, which for a large amount of discrete data will hide a lot of the density; a plot of r=.35 of n=6k should look much more striking, like this: http://imgur.com/KcwmJJH ) For implications, look at the first graph and think about classification rates. Look at the datapoints at 100 along one axis, then look across to see how many correspond to <10 on the other; hardly any do, and the 100s are almost all mapped onto 80+ on the other axis. Or look at the 0s. In terms of identifying the bottom decile, it's doing a good job.
Have you never given a presentation in your life? They are practiced and prepared beforehand.
These corporations want to be treated as "entities" for many legal purposes. Yet, when they fuck up, they want to be able to say that "employee a" didn't know about "x".

Well, if your are an "entity", then -- particularly in cases like this -- I don't care about your "employee" components. You, Sony, made a patently false statement having legal implications. And if you had done... "due diligence" upon your own corpus of knowledge about yourself, you would have known this.

So... prosecute them under perjury. Punish them harshly. It's the only way to get them to pay attention to their obligations, obligations for which they are a primary source of the records needed for proper representation, as required by the law.

Personally, I favor revoking the licenses of lawyers involved in this. Make such patently false representations, and it is career death for you. (I guess I am "caring about the employee", in this case, contrary to what I said. But such employees also have a separate, professional obligation to the bar. Hold them to it, and corporations will have to seek higher standards in order to make use of their services.)

P.S. Yes, I am pissed about this. An individual stands a good chance of being thoroughly run over by such mis-representation. Corporate entities use it as a business strategy.
Rather than taking writing advice from a programmer/venture capitalist, I recommend Steering the Craft, by Ursula Le Guin, which will help ground any writing you might do in solid understanding of the "tools" you have available as a writer-- pace, grammar, the sound of words, and so forth
Hemingway used simple language, not conversational style.
And they are. Android versus iPhone, Nexus versus Galaxy, etc.

If I hire someone to cut down a tree on contract, I can't dictate their tool of choice - only that it complies with what's necessary to complete the work.

There are plenty of fair criticisms of Uber. This isn't one.
Note that rustfmt is still highly experimental, it didn't even compile on stable Rust until yesterday. I wouldn't actually use it quite yet, and I feel like its mention here in the blog post is mostly as future-proofing for when it is actually ready.
Distance to Mars
Once Upon a Time – Dreamcatcher (Pre-Air Prediction)
This one wont have any better, pretty much every router I've seen (good ones) with a cellular interface will have a PCB fractal antenna, these work fine for any residential environment if you get a good enough reception on your phone to get LTE bandwidth the dongle will work just fine.

The only routers I've seen with an external antenna are those that are designed to be put in data centers (you coax it to an external source just like you would for GPS antennas for DC grade NTP appliances) or hardened routers mostly for military or heavy industrial use that might be put in a mobile data center (tricked out shipping containers and the like) which is either shielded by design or by circumstance.

The dongle i have gets about 60mbits, my phone gets a bit under 50, and BTW it technically has an external antenna connector (most dongles do btw, it's a trade secret ;) shh) with a micro BNC connector they often used for testing some dongles have it as a feature but virtually all of them (I have yet to see one, I've seen one with unpupulated BNC slot but others from the same make and model had it so i think it was a production goof than a design choice) will either have them built-in on the PCB or an unpopulated slot for one.

Here is an example of an off the shelf 3G dongle go down to the PCB layout you can see the mini/micro BNC connector in the right image in the top left corner.

http://www.3g-modem-wiki.com/page/ZTE+K3565-Z+(Vodafone)

So get a dongle strip it out of the casing find the BNC port, get one of these http://i47.tinypic.com/2rr9av8.jpg and you're golden, if you want to work for your gold star then either cut/mill or my favorite use that soldering iron and carve a hole/slot for you to push the cable through or if you really want to make it skookum 3D print your own casing and you got your external antenna.

P.S.
Feel free to name your 1st born after me.
Pretty heavy if this is true. How reliable is this site?
In the manner of discourse such as you have exemplified with your comments under your current pseudonym, it is difficult to ascertain your intended trop, voice, or topic. Thus, I hereby request that you rephrase in a more course or colloquial or blunt manner.
If you keep making comments like this one, which is in a totally inappropriate style, you will end up being silently banned from HN (I mean that this sometimes happens, I didn't downvote you); which is a shame judging from your other brief and on-point comments. This really isn't reddit.
And here we find direct evidence of the effects of over-consumption of cannabis.
It's not exactly how you talk.

It's just not flowery and embellished and wandering.

People really don't read. They don't care. They don't have time.

Keep it simple and they might read part of it.
That's actually mentioned in the OP at one point: elephant ivory is sometimes passed off as mammoth ivory since the latter is easier to take out of the country.
I laughed. No, just a very vague, disconnected, unreferenced part to a much bigger construct that I'll eventually have time to write out - so it will at least appear a little more grounded in reality, and science.
I wonder what's the sleep-state/consumption curve. Linear or not.
... I think I might have talker's block.
DNN is a key technology of the future. I highly recommend the education program Professor Karpathy mentions at the end of this post. All are excellent and free.
> Don't use abbreviations, long words we may not know, pretending to be Hemingway.

You keep using that name, but I don't think you have read any of his works.
Where do you get 1 cubic meter? Anyone talking about grains in such a small area without referencing volumetric differences between grains, is making up measurements. There are multiple order differences between sand types.

http://www.sandatlas.org/brain-games-with-sand-grains/
I used to keep a few plain text files for such tidbits, broadly and generally grouped by topic. "work.txt" "programming.txt" "hobbies.txt", etc.

Now, those have been mostly replaced by similarly named folders and I just use wget to save pages & their files into the appropriate category.

The text files still hang around though for little chunks of interesting code, part names/numbers, references, and similar tidbits that do not need any media to go with them.

Occasionally I start new ones, as interests change. When I do, the old files get renamed or deleted. I've got various "notes" text files going back 20+ years, and because they're in plain text files (or html + images), I don't have to worry about services shutting down, proprietary formats changing, etc. It's a system that has been working very well for me, and I don't see any need to change it.

However, I do recognize that this works for me because I do not use a bunch of different devices, so I don't care about syncing, or using my method from mobile devices, etc. If you have those use cases, you'll very likely be happier with something else.
Because no self-driving car will ever have pedestrians dart out in front of it?
Not free, but an excellent book along the same lines, is John Levine's "Linkers and Loaders":

http://www.amazon.com/Linkers-Kaufmann-Software-Engineering-...

He's been the moderator of comp.compilers since 1986, so he's got a lot of practical Q&A experience to draw on.
YouTube and its system doesn't issue DMCA takedown requests; what law are they breaking?

It's not illegal to takedown whatever videos you want from your own platform, nor to allow a partner company from choosing videos to take down.
Send their support a mail or tweet. See the thread at https://twitter.com/josh_triplett/status/587614288686096384 .
Quite. There is that ghastly put-on cutesy/folksy over-friendly style that a lot of startups use - which is every bit as stilted and ill-fitting as over-formality.
Could RIM open-source QNX, if the Blackberry Android device is successful?
Better than Google? Really? Source?
> Few people use passive voice in conversations.

Where did you get that from? Passive voice is extremely common in conversations.

"He was acquitted of robbery" (passive) is probably more common than "The jury acquitted him of robbery" (active). "I was born in 1973" (passive) is much more common than "My mother gave birth to me in 1973" (active). "The X-Files was cancelled in 2002" (passive) vs. "Fox management cancelled the X-Files in 2002" (active). Even very colloquial phrases like, "The Cubs got wrecked in that series." Etc.

[Edit to expand/clarify examples.]
Regarding "multiple files": HTTP/2 will fix this. We won't have to combine things into a single file anymore.
Micrographia by Robert Hooke
Maybe he was just exploiting other automated traders doing dumb things?
I actually love the sentence but I wouldn't expect it in spoken english. (That part is ironical in the sense that it goes against the core of the article.. Seems like an exception that proves the rule). Written word gives the reader more time to absorb the content than spoken word and hence I feel it is OK to use metaphorical language to make the point and make the reading experience delightful. But Paul's point is well taken that it's better not to use flowery language for most of the time. It takes a lot of skill to not go overboard with that thing.
Project Guttenburg has HTML, ePub, and Kindle formats: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15491

Book scans: http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/nat_hist/...
IoT Intro: SMS me when I leave my garage door open
The Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by R.Taylor and A.Wiles (1995) [pdf]
"I can tell you our first hire was next in line for a cushy market job, and he was being actively poached, not us."

Was this really your experience? Mine has been that if you had to move on to a cushy market job you would have gotten a much better one than your employees. Founders are rarely actively poached but that's only because everyone assumes the attempt would fail.
I would like to see a deep dream selfie ...

Feed it an initial picture (noise, clouds, a selfie) and then backwards manipulate the input to maximize the assessed quality of the "selfie".

I guess that would look pretty funny.
This reminds me of this paper published a while ago [1] (coauthored by Colin Firth -- yes, the actor) that studied correlations between political beliefs and the structure of certain brain regions.

Quote: "Here we show that this functional correlate of political attitudes has a counterpart in brain structure. In a large sample of young adults, we related self-reported political attitudes to gray matter volume using structural MRI. We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala."

[1] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2811...
Indeed, "write like you talk" is not quite the right way to go about it. In my experience that usually leads to a stream-of-consciousness mess.

However, one thing I have found almost universally helps my students is similar: read what you have written OUT LOUD. Is it halting and hard to read? Confusing and obtuse? Then you should probably fix it. There seems to be some magic about actually speaking the words out loud (as opposed to just reading it like normal editing) that helps a lot of people figure out when a piece of writing is bad.