skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All major hosting companies have a sponsoring programme for startups in incubators/accelerators.

Unfortunately I cannot disclose the numbers and the companies, but they are way larger than $5k

$5k in credit for hosting probably has a marginal cost of $0.

On the other end, if you take AWS offer and start using their services, you'll probably won't leave them anytime soon, particularly if you rely on provider-specific systems (SNS for instance).

Startups get a nice discount, hosting providers get an opportunity to supply a future successful startup and very quickly win back the $5k...
Recruiters and investors think talent counts for more than determination
Just awesome, just plain awesome
Hope this bit of code will be useful to you! You can use it to store the state of a function and restore it later.

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For anyone interested, the Internet Archive has a small but tight open source community called Archive Labs <archivelab.org> (all experimental services)

We're working on several initiatives, like bringing OpenAnnotations to the wayback machine, reducing link rot (see: vinay goel & http://vinay.blog.archive.org/2014/12/17/9/), universalizing access to open-access publications, and supporting efforts to distribute and decentralize the web.

Send me an email if you're interested in checking out our slack channel and meeting fellow contributors. Also, if you have a public-good or open-access project you would like help with or resources for, we'd love to hear about it --

mekarpeles@gmail.com
It will keep happening unless someone finds a way to change human nature.
I like it and I upgraded. Thanks!
More Than Half of Kepler’s Giant Exoplanets Are False Positives
Having worked with webpack and babel at large-social-network for the past year, they're great tools and make a whole range of things possible. But as soon as anything breaks or behaves unexpectedly you are in for a hell of a time even just figuring out at what layer or step of the pipeline the breakage occurred.

So it's not just you. I would never set any of this up from scratch for a personal project. And I don't expect you'd need to, ever - established companies will have an existing pipeline (with its own problems you'd never learn externally), and new ones can just use one of the various boilerplate project templates.
The opposite scenario, in which everthing that's not explicitly permitted is forbidden, is worse

With the degree of information asymmetry in medicine it makes sense to regulate medicinal drugs tightly. Before anyone screams: "But FDA stifles innovation" let's say that the FDA exists since the 1960s and the pharma troubles started in the early 2000s.

An alternative theory is overfinancialization. Just the other day the merger between Dow and DuPont was announced. Why compete in the market when you can just buy up the competition? No expensive R & D needed!
The article is about the program in Washington.
How dare I ask an honest question, quick, someone go find the SJW crew!
I am sure you will use their server(s) somehow ("added value service"). Yet another email client that is more than what it seems. Of course, all speculation.
I'm surprised to see no explicit mention of differential geometry.
Let me guess, this "balanced design" is 4x8 on one socket and 4x8 on the other.
It's about the same but everybody uses vim a bit differently so YMMV. I switched from emacs+evil to cursive+ideavim. My annoyance with evil is that `xp` doesn't work, my annoyance with ideavim is that the `{` text object is scope based instead of text based. I've had Esc not work correctly under some circumstances in both (I use c-[ instead) and neither supports iskeyword so * doesn't search for identifier in skewer-case languages.
True, but I've yet to see the decision-based situation in the universe that couldn't be viewed differently by someone.

Compared to Internet second guessing, the lack of indictments is a pretty strong data point.
Journalist to research collaps of 2m £ crowdfunding project-paid by Kickstarter
LOL force change with the pocketbook. yes internet is needed for modern use, use phone carrier for banking, bills, and email. disconnect cable, internet, Netflix, and all other streaming and cloud services, games and all the digital crap. Put a digital antenna on TV. Many businesses will quickly lose money and force change back to somewhat affordable rates. In the mean time back to reading, board games, hobbies, parks, exercise, etc.. they don't cost a penny. If everyone disconnected for a few months you would realize that there is life beyond these time wasting distractions. The best things in life are free anyway.
AT&T Fooled the Press and Public into Believing It's Building a Massive Fiber Netw
Ok, I will call gmail and ask
Trump-to-Voldemort Chrome Extension
This seems to be missing some of the technical merits of Intel's failure and rebirth:

Downturn: The heat- and power-intensive single-core Pentium 4s, and the stillborn & binary-incompatible IA64/Itanium lineups that prevented them from competing on both the multicore and 64-bit AMD marketing bullet points

Rebound: Dedicated, efficient "premium" laptop chips in the Centrino lineup, to which AMD had no competitors, and which subsequently reunified with the P4's Hyperthreading, plus multicore, in the "Core" lineup/microarchitecture that debuted in the newly-Intel, no-longer-PowerPC Macbooks.

(I seem to remember hearing that Core-era Xeons were good, serverside: Nehalem definitely was, just afterwards)
I suppose that makes sense. Still a little disconcerting that I haven't received one yet.
Yeah but then I still have keys to run home and pick up an extra debit/credit/cash I have and can continue with only minor hiccups.
Thanks for the answer and the SIAM reference, I did manage to pick up something interesting from there, I think. Smoothness, dimensionality and also adaptivity are vast topics indeed. Good luck with the future work!
You are pointing a way forward for Theranos' investors to save their bacon: indemnify the lab testing service.

Within short order the market will offer two kinds of tests: Theranos for the plebs, Labquest for the patricians.
> That would be Windows, and it's already here, and already viable.

If you mean the Windows Desktop platform then I don't agree. That platform is simply not viable any more. A normal user can't do basic stuff like download a free game and play it like on iOS or Android. Installing anything (even from reputable sites) will infest a Windows PC with viruses and spyware.

Windows Store Apps don't have this problem, but the Windows Store has very few quality apps and is lacking in many areas. That must change for Windows to survive.
Thanks for posting this, this is great.
Unless you're in Europe, here "socialist" mostly means government.
School That Is Tolerant of Anti-Vaxxers Suffers Massive Chickenpox Outbreak
Senators Feinstein and Schumer would sooner race to the front of the line to turn in their guns...
generally speaking as a startup, I'm not hyper-worried about spending 5K in hosting costs and unless you're an entirely social/pre-revenue startup, by the time you're spending 5K in hosting, your business is starting to make some decent revenue.

I'm much more focused on getting and having enough users that I get to worry about spending 5k on hosting.
Parts are parts and iOS devices have a lot of non-commodity parts that can't get "bricked".
Seems like a good direction, seems more intuitive to me. Very classy that it is all in a github!
I'm arguing we can't get away from the status quo. If everyone can follow their muse, muse-following will devolve into a pissing contest. And if some people choose to work and others don't, those who work will become wealthier/stronger/more advanced than those who don't. Then there will be conflict between the two. A surplus of resources does not eradicate human foibles.

People were saying the same things in the Edwardian era about progress solving all of life's problems. Then we started World War I to a large degree because people were bored and wanted stimulation. This is just another utopian prediction that won't come true.
Alton Brown reviews Amazon's dumbest kitchen gadgets
I just read Good Gut, it's a very very very bad book. About 10% enlightening accepted science and about 90% rampant and very wild speculation. Filled with little chapters that take in many cases very tenuous unproven theories (they come out and say that) and then use weasel words to then write a whole speculative chapter about it.

I learned a lot about how digestion works and then a lot about how to make a book out of very thin gruel.
Agreed. But there are many implicit mentions. Lots of physicists pick it up on the side in other subjects, which probably isn't ideal.
Costs and Risks of UK’s Draft Surveillance Powers Probed
I'm no expert, but reading TFA I can't help but think that though this new training is an improvement, it's not going to make much difference. It would take a saintly person not to menace and abuse the public when placed in the position in which we place cops. As long as we rely on the goodness of people, on the availability of "heroes", we'll be disappointed. We'll still have a system that rewards corrupt and brutal behavior while imprisoning people who smoke pot.

This thread is a perfect illustration why. We have numerous comments claiming that police should just put up with serious risks to their lives, which is ridiculous. The risks that e.g. deepwater oil workers face are inherent to current oil drilling technology. Though such workers are paid enough to accept those risks, safety technology is always improving. In contrast, every risk involved in police work is due to arbitrary decisions society has made, which could be changed at any time if we cared enough to do so. It's no wonder that police have responded with a bunker mentality.

Society has invented numerous victimless crimes, many of which attempt to counteract basic psychological and physical drives. Society has outlawed "risky" behaviors rather than punishing actual harms caused by those. Society has given municipalities, agencies, and contractors commercial interest in draconian enforcement. Society has decided to employ multitudes more police than we actually need, so that they are forced to menace the public in order to make work for themselves.

My suggestion for a maxim of policing would be to follow physicians: "first, do no harm". Actually living that rule would be a vast change to current LEO practice.
Math, computation, grammars, are just models, syntax, that we sometimes use to consciously express things about the world. We could assign syntax to a system composed of whatever thing and say that is Turing-complete or that follows the productions A->B and B->BB of G_1, an imaginary grammar, just because we can assign to it certain symbols as inputs and others as outputs. Numbers, symbols, don't exist in the real world. Math entities only exist as syntax, as human artifacts. They're language entities. That's why they're based on axioms.

I don't see the point in saying that syntax is physical - I mean, the neurons firing in our brains because of photons getting in our eyes explain how I recognized the shape of a car, not that a 'hypothetical 2D array' gets 'processed' with some 'gradient-based algorithm' unconsciously in our brain. It doesn't make biological sense. Turing didn't even defined what a symbol or a computation is in terms of Physics, he just made a (very cool and beautiful, by the way) model.

Chomsky is simply wrong. He's just thinking here that language is suddenly physical, that we have a grammar-processing CPU in our brains, a form of a Universal Turing Machine! Can this number, '1', be physically somewhere in the world, taking in account modern physics and not some weird Platonism? or we just use it as language to refer to physical entities to talk about them? I do think the latter is the truth. Grammars are math entities which we sometimes use to refer to certain things written in books or other spoken things that just happen to have some physical shape in form of sound waves (words) or even to refer to an imaginary entity we've created with math, just like abstract machines. I don't think there's some weird computational thing going on in my head, that's just an oxymoron. Just neurons firing, blood being pumped, neurotransmitters being sent, in all its glorious and mysterious nature. The mind, on the other hand, exists as a high-level feature of some parts of the bigger brain system, it's caused by real things; that mind that lets us do conscious calculations. But that 'Universal Grammar' wouldn't be inside my mind anyway because it's supposed to be unconscious. It wouldn't be a feature of the mind-spanning parts of the brain anyway.

In the end, it's just the whole Nietzschean critique of mistaking language with reality all over again.

I cannot recommend John Searle's work on the subject enough, like the book 'The Rediscovery Of The Mind'. He explains all of this way way better than me.

P.S: Yes, if you think hard about it, this logically implies that a Strong AI won't ever exist. Sorry, Skynet!

P.S.2: Sorry for the long post and possible grammatical mistakes, I'm not a native. And I sincerely hope you enjoyed this post even if you don't agree with me. Have a nice day!
The "add some meat if you want" part.
Sorry I should have included the link in my post since I searched and found it.

https://github.com/brendenlake/BPL.git
There is a balance between the need to preserve officer safety and the acceptance of danger required to do the job.
'World's biggest' drug kingpin ElChapo declares war on ISIS with chilling threat
Do you have any Xen nodes or did you migrate them all to KVM?
Sure, in absolute numbers, $200k is great. Relative to a multibillion liquidity event, and in particular where founders kept so much, it's a shit deal. Two guys have 18x all their employees combined. Oh well, the employees were bad negotiators who sold themselves short. But they created two billionaires and had fun and a working salary along the way! :-)

At any rate, this always bothers me because even though we do what we do because we love technology and helping people, and it's not all about making money, I believe that everyone should reap the rewards in a measure equal to their contribution. Very few people realize how much the cap table favor founders and investors. People happily say "I'm not here to get rich, but if this works then we'll all make money together." That's great, but the reality is that if it succeeds, still a handful of people will rise to become amongst the richest on the planet, while the rest get a very nice (sometimes awesome) payout, but still a tiny fraction of the first one or two. Employees: you were never in it together. You were working to mint a billionaire.
> Are you saying that there startup job offers aren't inflated? Or that they are?

Aren't. Conventional wisdom is that folks who work for a startup take a significant haircut vs. working for an established company.
I thought the same thing from the title.
Everyone's an armchair economist so I wouldn't count econ out.

I think that math/physics are more accessible to the layman. I know where to go if I want to get deeper into this subject.

I really don't know how to start becoming an amateur chemist or biologist. I've wanted to learn more about synthetic biology and gene therapy, but it's not as simple as cracking open a math book or going to a dev bootcamp. I wish these resources existed though! My best guess is because exploring chem and bio have bigger resource requirements like lab space.
Um..."very solid today", "kind of soft today"...what exactly would you track, without more tools to analyze it?
If someone physically steals a credit card, it's quite obvious to the owner of the card, and they can have it cancelled.
It sounds like you were given opportunities you wouldn't get elsewhere and in exchange you showed them loyalty and didn't leave them in the lurch by giving them 6 months notice. To me that's a great success story for both sides.

Do you feel like the advantages given to you weren't worth the 6 months extra you felt like you had to stay? Why?

The first company I worked for full time made me the solution architect for a 20 person project even though I only had 2 years of work experience at the time. Successfully completing that project put me an easy 5 years ahead of my peers in terms of career growth and very few of them have caught up in the 10 years since.
> You can have a long, happy and prosperous career working with a single stack that someone has made work on your OS of choice, but if you don't enjoy feeding the machine, there is a ceiling on your flexibility and problem solving ability.

That's what gets to me the most. I'm fairly confident in my problem solving abilities and coding skills. But I frequently lose all motivation to do good work when 80% of what I do is "feed the machine". There are times when doing it makes sense for the problem at hand, and then I feel motivated, but most of the time feeding the machine is about dealing with shitty code, bad documentation and unnecessary overengineering.
I really like this analogy! The only thing I'll add is that I don't think you necessarily have to enjoy "feeding the machine", but as you said, you need to realize that it doesn't go away and that a lot of our value as software developers comes from our ability to continue to make forward progress when it happens (and sometimes even inventing a new way around it). I certainly don't always enjoy it while it's happening, but I do feel a sense of accomplishment when it's finished.

This phenomenon is one also of the biggest reasons people who set out to "learn to code" end up giving up.
The Kick Off 2 World Cup: Competitive E-sports with a 25-year-old Amiga Game
Twitch plays modern art
The only reason I use the Starbucks "card" is that I get free drinks with it. Walmart will only succeed if they offered some similar type of kickback to the customer. I don't see it happening.
Crowdfunding for a Jump&Run Game on Amiga Classic: Dream of Rowan
Strapi – Fast. Reusable. Easy to use. The next generation framework for Node.js
I use the Firefox version of Zotero[1] to archive links. It works quite well, and is more searchable than PDFs.

[1]: https://www.zotero.org/
> We have a VERY large network of point-of-sale registers, all built around the old swipe-to-pay (often requiring signature) credit card model.

Yeah, well, I'm in Canada and we had about the same thing, yet in the last 5 or so years we've seen 2 major changes (chip and pin followed by tap to pay) and most business have kept up, I haven't used the swipe in 3 or 4 years and the tap I'm now able to use tap at most places.

Is there a problem with adoption in the US for some reason that doesn't exist in other places? Perhaps Interac has some special power here or something.
Not only is prasad from Sai Baba’s temple one of the best-selling items on OnlinePrasad’s “Top Temples” list, but it also has an average five-star rating from over 45 reviews: “When I opened the box,” one customer wrote, “I felt the divinity & presence of my lord.”

.....

You can fool Indians into doing anything by using religions as manipulation tool.
MindMeld Launches Voice Assistant 2.0, Says Voice Search Growing Dramatically
I didn't link to the wrong thing. If you read that article the top cities excluding Nara are all in greater Tokyo.
The max time for Kanagawa is not reported, the average time for Kanagawa is 90 minutes (for men with kids under 6). Your calculations are median / max / average of averages.

+/- 3 sigma = 99.7% of the sample, and we know 3% is > 2 hours (for all of Japan, not Tokyo). There's near the same percentage of LGBT adults in the US (~4%).

All we're arguing over is the use of the word normal. Would you be happier with "uncommon but not an extreme outlier"?
Revolutions do not need a majority. I think our best guess is that fewer than a third of the then colonists (USA) supported the proclamation of independence.

It is true though that with FPTP, you don't really need a majority to win elections either so it might be a wash.
No matter the seed you will find in the vast majority of cases they contain anti-nutrients that are toxic to mammals. Lectins, glutens, phytates, etc.
Encryption with a backdoor is not weak it's unencrypted. Anyone who says they want such a thing should surrender their band account credentials first so we can demo what will happen.
> [The media] simply do not see that as their role. For most of them, a posture of “neutrality” and “opinion-free” blankness are the highest values.

> ... that’s all one can expect from large sectors of the U.S. media: cowardly neutrality, feigned analytical objectivity ...

> Shortly before this article was published this morning, Cuomo re-appeared on Twitter and apparently had a change of heart from last night’s proclamation. ... Sometimes, social media shaming works.

Am I the only one really bothered by what the author of this article thinks news should be? As an instrument to shut down political ideas you don't like? I find it ironic that he criticizes the idea of limiting freedom of speech to fight terrorism, but then thinks we should turn around and silence bigots.
Well the results are... this was likely the best way they could put a knife in ChromeOS as a platform.
Biology, and I Assume chemistry as well, are in practice all about lore; the peculiarities of particular entities are where the action is & theory is a relatively small thing that falls out of that. So not only do you need a lab to do experiments, you need to be hanging around a lab to pick up all this disjointed lore.
I was being sincere, and I think I identify with what you mean. A subtle (not discomforting) blanket of anxiousness has the power to snap me into focus.
This is a new framework on the basis of koa.
As the ORM used known waterline.
Comfortable studio for designing API in the browser.
And much more.

I found this today and was impressed.
Soundboy – My talk from YC startup school (2014)
Your definition of lift is very different from the commonly accepted one.

If an aircraft that weighs 1000 kg flies level, then the lift has to be 9800 newtons.

That means the lift is the sum of the effect from both the bottom overpressure and the top underpressure.

You can check it from any dictionary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_%28force%29
Yep! You can use those BI tools on top of your Redshift or Postgres instance :)
Depends.

He can now take out a loan against his shares for $300m if he wanted, which is something he probably couldn't do before, since the stock wasn't that liquid. And he might not have been interested in selling more.
"Whoosh"
Unfortunately, the section on Plasma Physics is rather sparse.

Introduction to Plasma Physics by Francis F. Chen and Fundamentals of Plasma Physics by Paul Bellan are good next-step texts, and this crowd in particular might enjoy Birdsall and Langdon's Plasma Physics Via Computer Simulation

Also on the computational topic, Kane S. Yee's 1966 paper "Numerical Solution..."
As much as I love Greenwald, he can be really facetious. Trump said that immigrant Muslims should not be admitted, not citizens. Some hacks reporting a late-night e-mail that was put straight few hours later notwithstanding. The article notes that at the very end, but why not link it from where the allegation is made?

And, ladies and gentlemen, we bomb Muslims, day and night, and have been doing so non-stop since the beginning of this century. Let's keep things in perspective: temporary immigration ban vs. forever war. Cannot agree more with the Teju Cole quote toward the end.