skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I buy that Indecision is a good strategy, but I will say that "Doing Nothing" is a perfectly acceptable problem solving strategy sometimes.

* If you can't control the situation, don't stress about trying to.

* Leverage your power when you in a position where its the most powerful, and not before.
Is there a reason this is published under your domain and not YC?

Just wondering because it sounds like this is the collective wisdom of all the partners (even if you're the one that wrote it).
Agreed, this post is nonsense. The author should consider doing research before forming & posting such opinions.

Executive compensation is not included in SR&ED. Even if you're a CEO who codes, only the time you spend coding can be claimed. The salary claimable is capped at $100K (I believe) for any major shareholders (or family members).

It is also well established that whoever owns the IP gets the SR&ED credits and foreign companies are not eligible for SR&ED.
If I would reply to all the emails, pull requests, issues, people send me about my OSS code, it could be impossible for me to write a single line of code every day. Eventually I believe the solution is to take what you get from the community, and to provide replies and feedbacks, by spending a fixed amount of time, and trying to sharpen the sensibility to focus on the most promising interactions, pull requests or whatever. It will sound gross to many that expect a reply that does not arrive, but it's better than to stop doing what you love which is writing OSS.
>Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.

-MLK, I've Been to The Mountaintop, last speech the night before assassination
The Russian ex-con and the Bitcoin-powered investment with “100%” returns
this is why technological immortality will make our society more moral.

if you're going to be around for thousands of years, the only way to avoid being held accountable for decisions like this is to not make them.
All links from that site are auto-killed. Some are vouched for and rise from the dead.
With particular hardware and software you can. Edico Dragen claims speeds for bcl -> vcf of 20 minutes [1]. With Microsoft Research's snap aligner and 450GB of memory you can get whole genome alignment in ~30 minutes and then variant calling can be done in a couple hours.

1. http://www.edicogenome.com/dragen/dragen-gp/
Replacing your water jugs with Kool-Aid at the office just seems evil to me.

Founder/VC/moneyhat friendly isn't always employee friendly. Employees exist to be exploited so the founders and VCs become extremely wealthy.

The best way to drive productivity is to convince your employees there's a vague "external enemy" they've gotta beat. Turn it into mental cult gymnastics. Bind their self worth to the success of the company. Grow at all costs.

There are circles of belief though. You should always know the truth yourself (founder), then you decide which lies to tell the board, then which lies to tell your management, then which lies to tell your employees, then which lies to tell the media/public/world. (where "lies" also equals "putting a spin on the truth" or selectively withholding information (hiding faults in the hopes of improving them before failing completely, etc).)
No. For the government to decide which local industries should be winners or losers without first consulting the public seems to me to be an abuse of its mandate.

If there is a legitimate economic case for why some industries should be the winners and other the losers, (and I do think that sometimes such a case does exist), then make it public and let the public support you.

Yes it will be harder to pass the treaty but that is the price we pay for an actual democracy.

And in the end it will not be any more efficient to hide the negotiations as then corruption becomes a major issue.
I like how the download page refuses to mention not only proprietary OSes, but also Arch (naming Parabola instead), and only grudgingly names Debian.
Because the tech industry is dragging its feet.

The explanation tech companies have for not having a more diverse workforce is that the applicants are just not out there to hire. Of course, any good tech worker could take an additional five minutes to think about the problem and discover that there are ways to create the applicants, by improving the communities that will grow the applicants.

But that takes time, and money, it's hands-on and it's not easy. And overseas workers are cheap.
I don't understand where you're getting the increase in context switches from. The expectation should be the opposite, since the network stack is almost certainly going to be user-space and in the same process

Does it make sense for every application? Unlikely. Does it make sense for an application that runs on 10k nodes, and where moving all IO to poll mode user-space doubles the number of requests you can serve per unit of time? Saving 5k machines worth of capex buys a lot of engineering complexity.

And since we know that systems like this have been done, 2x should not be an unreasonable number. See for example https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14... and https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hl/papers/mica-nsdi2014.pdf
Bret the Hitman Hart gave some insight into the games industry in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdIGG36GgU
this is the first time I have ever heard of "light-field photography" and I am at a loss as to why this is exciting or a critical technology for VR. I don't get it. Why is having a grid of slight perspective shifts better than just have two perspectives for each eye?
Someone beat you to it https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/practical-haskell/
That sounds great, but, we don't have a huge exponential growth rate or short lifespans.

So, you can easily end up with vastly more people with 25+ years’ experience than <5 years’ experience. That's not a problem for programing or electricians, but for highly physical skills your body breaks down and you don't need 3 supervisors for every worker. For some jobs older workers are simply worse.

Now, with a solid general education these people can move on to less physically demanding work, but trying to plan out the economy 40 years into the future is a bad idea.
> I'm not sure where I said anything like that

Here (my emphasis):

> Adblock Edge was discontinued a little while back [...] uBlock Origin is apparently now the blessed alternative [...] but I immediately found a few potential tracking issues with its default lists [...]

"but", implying Adblock Edge somehow did not have the "few potential tracking issues" you said you found in uBO.

Hope it's clear.
New front-end tool: Use, and combine, API data on the front-end with ease
A lot of Guix devs use Debian as our host distro. Debian's main website doesn't mention Arch or Guix either.
Example: Movie The Road was quite true to the book, but much more viscerally horrifying. A VR "you're there" version would indeed be significantly ... less fun.
It's not possible to have decent discussion about this. ESR has made a weird claim, has not provided anything at all to back it up, and has made very many weird comments in the past.

If we're going to talk about this we may as well just talk about chem-trails or how the moon landings were hoaxed or other stuff that's equally bollocks.
All of these will give you some answers. The reality is there is SO MUCH MORE INFORMATION to be gleaned from our genomes that these solutions do not account for.
Unfortunately not. I'll make that clearer in future.
Man Who Hasn't Showered in 12 Years
A Deep Dive into Financial Industry Mobile Development: Part One
> > Oil is still going strong

> Oh really? It doesn't look that way to me.

What are you looking at that indicates otherwise?
I'm running Firefox with NoScript (set to default deny). I get the full article with no paywall when I click the link.
"More impressively, Atlassian has never taken a dime of venture capital financing" - that's totally false as they actually did took a few investments, but truth to be told it was years after they were profitable.
Why is Apple search so terrible on all their products?
The Spotlight search on Mac is horrible and constantly needs to be reindexed. Search on iOS is equally as terrible and frequently doesn't find apps installed on my phone if I search for them by name. And the iOS App Store search consistently is underwhelming. Why?
It would also explain the amounts of normal matter and dark matter (4.9% normal, 26.8% dark), there could be a couple of universes that are close to a given universe (like ours). I'd be curious what sort of geometric configurations (along with equations) would lead to ~5.47 universes worth of gravity to leak through to each universe.
Many things can affect your reasoning, that is true. But the issue is how do you prove it, and if so, does it even matter what you prove if the person isn't harming anyone?

Coercing someone into psychiatric treatment in some facility until the person "is better" is open ended in nature that it might effectively mean imprisonment for life.

That's why there is (or should be) such a high barrier for this.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy for the family in this article and if I knew 100% for sure that (reasonable) action X and Y would have this positive outcome - I would do it.

But the problem is that more often than not you cannot know because we all can't read the minds of others.

There are cases of people living in (for us) unimaginable conditions by their own choice. And some of them are even willing to fight for their right to live in such a way.
Firefox, as of this update, is completely unstable on Mountain Lion. I have two notebooks running Mountain Lion, and both have the same issues. Opening new tabs results in this weird bug where the current page is changed to the about:blank page, sort of, and the new tab doesn't actually appear. I've used Firefox since 2.1, and this organization is now falling apart, in terms of producing a functioning product. How is it possible to make a worse browser in 2015 than they made in 2007 or so?
It seems like the link to "for the web" should go somewhere explaining what web support is built in. (Is it just server-side or is there also JavaScript compilation?)
Wow, that brings back memories. This was the first piece of software I ever owned.

I learned so much from that Atari 800 as a teenager.

Understanding the difference between COLOR and SETCOLOR (where COLOR didn't refer to a particular RGB, but referenced whatever happened to be in the specified SETCOLOR; this is presumably how the flashing alarm screen is implemented) taught me about indirection.

I wrote my own "Breakout" game in BASIC. At first I had a long IF/THEN to react to the joystick direction, and it slowed the game appreciably. I later found (after seeing an example in one of those magazines with the type-in-this-program's-source-code) that it's far more efficient to store offsets into an array, and update the paddle coordinates just from indexed lookups into the array.

I had an interest before this, and new some rudimentary basics, it's stuff like this that gave me the incentive and the means to learn much more.
In my experience, SR&ED is a system that exists to employ government bureaucrats and their symbiotic ecosystem of consultants and auditors -- everyone else is a loser. And I felt this way before we at Joyent were audited; after we were audited (which came back clean, but was incredibly time consuming and extraordinarily painful) my opinions on SR&ED are much more pointed: we still have a Canadian office and it hasn't affected our hiring there (Joyent is hiring in Vancouver![1]), but I want absolutely nothing to do with SR&ED ever again in my life. (That is, we have not applied for SR&ED credits since and will never do so again.)

If Canada wants to do something for startups, they should setup a sovereign wealth fund that does early stage investment in Canadian companies -- and then it should actively help make those companies successful. SR&ED is a transfer payment from Canadian taxpayers to Canadian consultants; it should be scrapped, not fixed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10312448
Interesting. I didn't even know these existed. So the big question. I live in the US. Should I save up for an electric car or save and wait for a hydrogen car?
Welcome to modern capitalism where regulations are bad and long term survival doesn't matter.
Duck typing is far more important.
He said that he would fix typos and add some stuff, not anything that will make the text itself necessarily better. His writing just isn't that good for something that will be handed out to a lot of people and were there a very real purpose of them understanding it. But as most thing coming out of YC I guess it's more marketing material for the people who buy into a lot of the SV stuff. Maybe he should talk less about "things" and more about ethics, seems like that is something YC companies have become known to fail at recently.
Paris of the Plains
Brilliant, you have just solved the halting problem.
I love simple, hand drawn images on websites. Something about it makes the website/service appear much more user friendly. www.dropbox.com/ and www.basecamp.com/ seem to agree..
The cards generally don't work overseas.
Nupic showcases it's "What did the fox eat" use case which uses cortical.io's SDRs of words. In this example it "asks the question" what does the fox eat after teach it what other animals eat, and without ever seeing fox before, it's able to accurately say what it eats since it groups foxes with coyotes, etc, which have a similar SDR. However, this is a sequence... They fed it sentences only in the form "a eats b" and then fed it "fox eats", and it replied "rodent" or whatever... The SDR's have to be sequences in order for the HTM to work. So if you ask "Guess how many balls are in this jug", you have to do an implied computation to guess how many possible balls fit inside the jug, and that implied computation is not the word sequence (or sdr sequence). Even if you gave it an infinite amount of similar questions and answers like this, it would never be able to figure out a general way to answer the question, which means you could always stump it by giving a different sized jug + different sized ball.
Say what you will, but

>After taking the CEO role without pay, he printed a small book for each staff member on his philosophies, which declared that the company was devoted to their growth.

>"Company leaders should seek to make all their employees happy, both materially and intellectually," Inamori said.

I'd take a pay cut to work at a place like that. Enjoying your work, feeling like you will be taken care of, and being able to grow and develop are huge "benefits" that aren't easy to find in many jobs.

ETA: Regarding the cutting of 16,000 jobs, yeah, not grand. But the article isn't clear on why, and if anything it's implied they were efficiency cuts. Man does it suck to lose your job, but 33% is better than 100% and companies really shouldn't have that much bloat.
I'm confused, where did the gender crap at the end come from? What was the point of that?
I think this is just the direction that needs to happen. The manufacturing and mining countries have a strong disincentive to carbon taxation -- the first mover gets the "prize" of losing market share to their untaxed competitors. So they will make lots of populist noises periodically, but eventually not be effective at it. Australia got rid of its carbon tax, and even when it had it it compensated many of the major polluters to shield them from its effects. China announces "targets" that are generally a little worse than what was predicted to happen already -- carbon output peaking in 2030, etc. Canada will make lots of "progressive" noises now Trudeau is in but eventually they'll do little to harm the competitiveness of their resources industry.

If you're going to get carbon taxation, it needs to happen at consumption, because that's where you're not asking turkeys to vote for Christmas. Tax materials and products at an average rate for that product by default, but at a lower carbon-dependent rate if there is an independently verified audit trail for the environmental impact of its materials and manufacture. Effectively, a VAT or GST rate that depends on environmental impact.
>Education should not calculated solely in economic terms because there are social returns to it.

Tell that to Pearson and the rest of the private education industry. They are legally obligated to view education in economic terms over social returns. Effectively infiltrating and subverting public education.
Pseudo-Random Number Generators for Vector Processors and Multicore Processors [pdf]
They don't have server-side "DNA", unlike Google and Facebook. The executive management were not competent to hire competent server-side people, basically. They are getting there though...
This already exists. The modern unlicensed wireless protocols all play nice with each other using some form of carrier-sense.

The problem is that LTE-U is going to use a TDMA scheme, and, according to the article, will not include any collision avoidance. This means that it may start transmitting at the same time your wifi is transmitting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364197

"Twitter has over 4,100 employees in more than 35 offices"
Can an On-Demand Lawyer Startup Transform the Legal Business?
San Jose leads nation in wealth and productivity
This article points out that US plants in places where there is cheap hydro power will stay open. Sounds like at least in the US the market for aluminum is working as it should.

It’s horrible to be using coal-powered electricity at all, and especially for anything that can be produced with “free” surplus electricity and then stored indefinitely and shipped relatively cheaply.

We can all only hope that prices of wind/solar continue to drop, and governments around the world – especially China, the US, and India – have enough governmental/institutional strength to overcome corporate and government corruption and rein in their use of coal power in the coming years.
Can't speak for poster but I suspect this is being used pejoratively in the context of "lifestyle business" == "living off passive income".
Reading the advice in the handbook, I don't think it's all that different from what you'd need to start a lifestyle business. You still need to start with a business niche that is underserved where you can make a few customers very happy. You still need to focus on improving your product (or service) to the point where people will give you business via referrals - pounding the pavement for every single sale isn't a very desirable lifestyle. You still need to listen carefully to everything your users say, and to focus tightly and improve the product.

The difference, I think, is that a lifestyle business is a startup where you take your foot off the gas once your income meets your personal needs. It doesn't need to be a monopoly - in fact, it's better if it isn't, because if it is some other company will likely monopolize it. And you don't need to deal with the fundraising and hiring parts of the handbook, since you never get that big. Everything else seems to apply, though.
As I am typically more amenable to restitution and rehabilitation than to punishment, crimes under color of authority that infringe upon the individual right to privacy should be punished by a certain term where the offender has no reasonable expectation of privacy, anywhere or at any time.

They don't need to be in the Panopticon, just completely unable to keep the smallest aspect of themselves secret from the public. Enforced celebrity, complete with automated paparazzi, ought to do the trick. A year of that, followed by some post-trauma counseling, would probably ensure at least a little extra caution in obtaining reasonable and specific warrants.
"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap."

- Dolly Parton
Electrolysis ("e10s") has been enabled by default on the Nightly and Developer Edition* channels, if you'd like to help test it.

* Although we're currently running an A/B test to measure performance differences with e10s enabled and disabled, so you might fall into the disabled cohort when you run Dev Edition. This experiment is scheduled to end in a few days.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, on Kubernetes

Really cool example! Just FYI, pre-emptible VMs would only be $0.06 (vs. the bid of $0.10 for AWS Spot Market). I mention because the author talks about cost being a concern.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#machinetype
I'm looking at climate change as a global event that indicates otherwise. Saying that oil is going strong is like saying that the gang running through the streets breaking windows is making the window business strong.

Global climate change is costing the world tens of trillions of dollars, and the cause of this huge burden is our use of oil. Oil is not going strong, it is causing global-scale mass extinctions and will cost first-world economies trillions and trillions of dollars in the coming decades.
American muscle cars rule roads – and polls
In Nim, you can use the type `auto` for proc parameters & return types: http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-auto-type

When you use the `auto` type, the compiler will infer the type automatically from the context of the proc invocation or from the proc body. The inferred types can be different for the different parameters. So you can have a proc declaration that looks like:

proc inferTypes(a, b: auto) # `a` & `b` can accept different argument types

Within a proc, you can also create bindings & variables without needing to specify a type:

let iBinding = 1
var fVariable = 1.2

The following typeless code will compile & run without any complaints or problems:

import strutils # `%` operator

proc inferTypes(a, b: auto) =
echo "$1 $2" % [$a, $b]

proc main() =
inferTypes(25, 30)
inferTypes(1, "hello")
inferTypes(4.4, 7)
inferTypes("cat", 9.5)

main()

When the above code is compiled & run, it will produce the following output:

25 30
1 hello
4.4 7
cat 9.5
I can still remember my first exposure to video games.

It was during my dad's (second) wedding. My grandfather told me he had something to show me. He brought me into the bar at the reception hall, and sat me down in front of a Space Invaders machine with a stack of quarters. The rest is history.

Just thinking about this now, I'm re-experiencing the darkened environment of video arcade, with weird electronic noises from every direction. I had a few quarters in my pocket, and I was trying to decide which machine to spend them on. The movies War Games and Tron may be iconic, but their portrayals of video arcades really didn't match my own experiences.
There are only two kinds of people who regularly complain about the state of Linux security: OpenBSD advocates and security vendors who want to sell you something. Seems like an awful lot of the latter are quoted in this WaPo piece.
This reeks of some kind of PR hit, but there's no obvious candidate for the source or motivation. The reporter gets some simple stuff wrong, like "The Linux kernel runs on the New York Stock Exchange", as opposed to a more correct usage of "Linux runs the NYSE trading" or somesuch.

It also reeks of he said/she said journalism, but the kind where you're supposed to figure out whether "he" or "she" said the truth, while the reporter mains a kind of false objectivity.

All in all, not a service to anyone.
Short History of Mandarin Chinese