skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone ages cognitively at a different rate, but unless you're approaching 70, which I doubt, that loss of ability to concentrate you're experiencing is unlikely to be physical. If you're under 30 and you're feeling you've already lost significant ability to concentrate you probably want to do a deep rethink on how you allow web/mobile/social media/etc to impact you. It's hard to cut back, because those distractions are an actual addiction.
I know that HN User kokev wanted to do this (since he himself had a particular set of preferences for employer characteristics) but idk what became of it.
Palantir Technologies Discloses $129M in New Funding
Really, the title is just a teaser. I thought this was a rewarding read and I just learned a hell of a lot about the history of radio.

I don't suppose anyone has any book recommendations on the subject besides the ones mentioned in the article?
Some dentists comment on this in reddit (It's old news in the dental world)

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3vsrgo/no_drill_de...

It does pose an interesting question, how do I know my dentist is up to date.
> Regulations...

That is some seriously twisted logic to turn 'regulations' into 'restrictions implemented after the event'.

> My point is that you're lodging a criticism against libertarianism...

What other system wants to strip away all regulations? My criticisms would apply equally to those as well.
37 signals has a 4 day work week during the summer months.
Who the hell reads glassdoor?
Agreed. A functional heads-up display in normal-looking glasses would render almost every smartphone obsolete. Add a good way to do text input (air typing on an AR-projected keyboard?) and most laptops and desktops can go away too.

If we're still poking at tiny screens in 2025, something has gone very wrong.
Does anyone have insight into Google's strategy on all these subscription services?

Is it to legitimize previous tech endeavors to make sure they're sustainable in the long term? Does Google forecast subscription services will make up a sizable portion of revenue in the future? Is the experience better at Google than anywhere else due to the vast amount of data and new technology being created everyday?

I'm not sure I totally get it yet because the revenue Google stands to capture in these markets feels incremental compared to their main advertising and marketing businesses.
Massive Peace March in London by Muslims.  Media Reaction:  Zero
Have a look at https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/next/drivers/jav...

It has a full listing of all ReQL terms and their signatures and optargs
The original FarCry game had that.

A friend of mine did the music/soundscape and worked with the sound-engineers to create layer upon layers of discreet musical loops and sound effects which they then blended together in many different ways.
I think that you (or your source) are reading too much into the actions of Quakers in Pennsylvania. Quakers like all people are fallible, and Quakerism especially embraces the idea of continuing revelation and moving beyond previous barbarisms. There were early Quakers who did own slaves for example. While there were actions that us modern Quakers would not condone, I don't know of any interpretations of history (other than perhaps the book you cite, which I admittedly have not read) that indicate that the Quakers of Pennsylvania engaged in some kind of barbaric war with the Scotch-Irish. While they still wielded considerable power they were never the only residents of the colony and it by-and-large still followed the norms of the day. Quakers were proponents of (what were thought to be at the time) humane punishments such as solitary confinement. I'm not going to condemn the idea of pacifism due to the fact that we were unable to obtain complete purity of fact two hundred years ago in an entirely different society.
Perl 5 has an extremely mature, diverse, and vetted ecosystem, with 20+ years of Perl 5 code out in the wild that people use, maintain, and continually develop.

Perl 6 does not. It will hopefully one day, but come Christmas time, we're not all going to just drop Perl 5 and start coding Perl 6 exclusively. They're Sister languages; Perl 6 does not deprecate Perl 5.
Not entirely. It's like someone calling RAM a "hard drive" - while we could infer what they mean perfectly, I think there's benefit in using correct terminology.
Not sure about this one, but the Liberator is fairly durable. The frame lasted indefinitely while the barrel needed replacing after just a few shots. It is pretty easy to print a dozen replacement barrels in a night.

The design of this gun looks similar, with the cylinder looking like it is replaceable. I wouldn't expect to reload each cylinder more than once before losing any semblance of accuracy. But again, the part that wears out can be easily replaced with a new printed part. The frame should last quite a while since the .22 that you are shooting with this gun makes minuscule amounts of recoil (compared to a "full-sized" round like the 9mm).
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Can attest. Worked with a company that was going through some serious shit in terms of senior employee departures and had a pretty opaque culture. But Glassdoor reviews were filled with 'Silicon Valley Dream' and 'Making it Big' reviews. The handful of reviews that really told the truth were minuscule to affect the ratings.
Project idea: Make a television system from vacuum tubes that broadcasts in the unlicensed home bands (2.4GHz & 5GHz). It could be either digital or analog, but it needs to use vacuum tubes. I'd like to see if such technologies would have been possible back in the 40's. Bonus points if they could transmit hi-def signals (1+ megapixels)
"Everything is broken and nobody's upset." http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EverythingsBrokenAndNobodysUps...
We Finally Have the Full Story on Ceres' Mysterious Bright Spots
I'm not 100%, but pretty sure that the largest predictive factor of any US citizens wealth... is the wealth of their parents.
It's a form of control. If you hate her work you're a sexist. Sorta like hating Soviet was "fascism". Good to see both sides playing this card.
I'm not who you responded to, but for the record I read the entire article. The reason I pointed out the title and first sentence, is because those were where the op made sweeping statements, which you claimed he didn't.

A little defensive aren't we?
As an ex-Facebook employee, I don't. :)
at a $25B valuation, you need 0.004% ownership of the company for your shares to be worth $1M. Even discounting for strike price, it's reasonable that 10~15% of the employees would have a basis point ownership or more.
Oh, apparently for NSOs. That is not true for ISOs, which the vast majority of startup employees will be granted. see Publication 1004 from the CA Franchise Tax Board, discussing ISOs [1]

Nonresident of California on Date of Stock Sale
Qualifying Disposition
If you exercise an incentive stock option while a California resident or a
nonresident and later sell the stock in a qualifying disposition while a
nonresident, the income is characterized as income from the sale or
disposition of intangible personal property having a source in your state of
residence at the time you sold the stock. Accordingly, you are not subject
to income tax by California even though the services that gave rise to the
grant may have been performed in this state. [pg 10]

[1] www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.pdf
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

Chromatic can, but they'll probably get reverted.
They say we are all the heroes of our own stories... maybe that should be more strongly considered in the context of these shootings.
This is absolutely true. The promise of a big purchase (the anticipation) makes people way more happy than the purchase itself and even being able to enjoy the fruits of the purchase.
Imagine simulating a human brain. I'm not sure how massive a computer would need to be today to simulate the neurons, but an efficient implementation can be made to be the size of.. Well.. A brain.

I could see this causing massive changes in society. An artificial intelligent simulation of a super-smart human, that can be tuned toward a specific problem area and made much more focused and efficient than a purely biological brain could work...
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Do you agree with their high ranking, having worked there?
The American Middle Class Is Losing Ground
Impressive. Are the collector plugins meant to be run on bare metal Intel CPUs? Are virtual Intel cores supported (running collectors in VM guest)? Are other non Intel CPUs theoretically supported? (most cloud hosters use Intel, though some may use something else)
This issue is easy to blow off as "you know what I mean" but it's an important signal that someone has formed an opinion without being fully educated on the topic.

Climate scientists would prefer to debate global warming with people who have actually read a few papers and know the actual implications of global warming (as opposed to uneducated people on either side of the argument that say that it either doesn't matter or that it will be the end of humanity).

Doctors would prefer to debate vaccinations with people who have read up and learned that the chance of a negative reaction to a vaccine is very tiny compared to the chance of people dying from a disease in an unvaccinated society (see polio) as opposed to listening to people who swear that their child got paralyzed because of a flu shot (maybe they did, but they don't make a convincing argument).

And gun owners would prefer to debate gun control with people who actually understand guns as opposed to people who have only seen their children firing 900 rounds/min death machines in video games.

Using the proper terminology is an easy way to say, "I've done enough homework to understand how guns work in a general sense and have at least considered that I should know about something before I make a decision on it."
George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940) [pdf]
I agree.

This reason made me to create new gmail account in order to use Project Fi.
I really don't understand why Google releases product for gmail user only. They advertised google apps for work as custom domain at first.
Yes. It's still sad that we have to have several people getting killed by the same person in the same day for it to become a public discussion. People get shot to death every day, but we don't care because they're all separate incidents (boiling a frog). Also they're mostly black but that doesn't make race the reason.
Six Types of Trump Supporters
So now its we have to tax everyone? Okay.

You've basically gotta take half of the household income in the country to make your plan work. That isn't happening.
Why it didnt worked for me?

or it takes some time?

Issue: https://github.com/motyar/notee/issues/1

Blog: http://motyar.notee.ebarnouflant.com/
If I'm not mistaken, you can use the installation guidelines on swift.org, and just skip the Xcode related parts. I believe you just need to run the downloadable packages and install them, and they shouldn't require Xcode or anything. Then just add Swift's bin folder to your shell path.

https://swift.org/download/#apple-platforms
Objective C was poorly supported outside of the Apple ecosystem. Plus Objective C as a language hasn't been all that preferable to most developers. There was basically no reason to use Objective C at all outside of iOS and Mac development.

Swift, on the other hand, will now have full Apple support on Linux, and is a much nicer, and potentially more useful language. I think that with some effort on the community's part, it could become a serious contender for server side development.
With ad revenues drying up (Adblock, general lack to interest to ads) Google is forced to look at other avenues to make money and selling stuff to people is a great way for that.
It is hard to explain why we don't use more nuclear power from an economic standpoint

It's very easy to explain why we don't use more nuclear power from an economic standpoint.

See, for example:

Government subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past fifty years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away, according to a February 2011 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power/nucle...

It's something of an anti-pattern on HN to think that nuclear power is somehow this secret source of cheap energy and it is only those damn anti-science greens who conspire to give it a bad name.

It's not. Nuclear power is expensive.

Some will blame unfair (?) government regulation for that. It is true that regulation adds to the costs, but regulation seems reasonable given the fairly large costs associated with accidents.

Some will claim that the dangers associated with Nuclear power are overstated, and that coal kills more people. I agree that coal should be replaced, but not with nuclear.

Some will claim that only nuclear power can provide base-load capability without greenhouse gases. I disagree, and point to the range of energy storage capabilities available now, the rapidly dropping costs of batteries, and the increasing decentralization of the power grid.
I absolutely read the whole article. Did you? At no point does it ever mention that a NoSQL solution is better in any circumstance. It is completely making a statement that MySQL is better as a key value store than a NoSQL db.
Are people downvoting this because I didn't use a convincing enough example? Or because they think this is part of the anti-Go sentiment here? Or because they actually believe in total relativism? Sincerely curious. Maybe people aren't relativists but actually believe that markets are magic and always make the most deserving things win??
I can't determine what the postulates are that this proof is based upon. If someone has a relatively succinct explanation, I'd appreciate it.
A good discussion from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3379928.
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You "might" be able to do transmissions that high with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krytron
You might want to consider TMail21 (https://tmail21.com). We just soft-launched a couple of weeks back. It is what we call a Lean BPM app.

The idea behind TMail21 is that is starts with Topic-Oriented Discussions and then allows a user to progress to Goal-oriented Discussions and finally to what we call Lean Processes.

TMail21 was designed to look and feel a lot like e-mail, so it feels instantly familiar to most business users.

Until now, traditional Business Process Management (BPM) has been a code-oriented solution not geared towards regular business users. TMail21 is definitively geared towards regular business users. We refer to this as Lean BPM and in fact have created a Lean BPM Manifesto https://tmail21.com/lean-bpm-manifesto/ to enumerate the principles of our approach.

I should also mention that Lean BPM and Project tools like Asana/Basecamp/Trello solve different problems. Some differences
1) The Process-to-project ratio in a typical work environment is very high (often 100:1). So there may be 10,000 process instances vs. 100 projects. So, obviously this calls for a very different interface.
2) Processes are really good for capturing recurring work patterns. In Lean BPM, patterns that repeat often can be easily institutionalized into Process Templates.
3) Unlike tools like Asana which are primarily orchestration tools, a key element of Process tools is capturing and evolving a meaningful process state.

These points are best illustrated with an example. Let's consider the example of a Blog Post. An organization may do hundreds of Blog Posts. These could be done as Projects,
but are probably better done as Processes as they tend to have similar goals, process state and tasks.

So the Sections (Process State) of a Blog Post may contain
a) Title Ideation - A text Section, to brainstorm titles
b) Article Outline - A rough outline of the article
c) The Actual Article - A text Section with the actual article
d) Blog Form - A form Section with fields like
Blog Title,
Process State (CONTENT-CREATION-> OUTREACH-STARTED -> OUTREACH-ENDED),
Blog link,
Tweet link,
Facebook Post link,
Google+ post link,
e) Planned Tweets - A text Section
f) Hashtags and keywords - A text Section with hashtags and keywords that will be
g) Influencer Outreach - A Grid Section with a list of influencers that will
there will be outreach to. Each row will represent a single influencer and their
outreach state
h) Checklist - A checklist that lists the tasks required to complete this Process.
There seems to be work under way for (and a status page) it:
https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/F%23-for-Core...

And there's also a CoreCLR branch: https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/tree/coreclr

If anyone is interested in helping out, there is also a wiki page on how you can help port it to CoreCLR: https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/How-to-help-w...
Yes, those of us living in gun-controlled hellholes where we don't wonder if our kids' school will be the 20th shot up this year, or where gun nuts with AR-15 can legally show up to intimidate us at our mosques, surely crave the freedom of America's gun culture.
Great point!

Generally incomes and wealth increase with age. If your population is more heavily weighted in one particulat age bracket (baby boomers?), you'll see a shift in wealth distribution, even if everyone's average wealth at a give age remains the exact same.
Ah I remember when I was trying to learn Perl. Because I knew PHP at the time, I thought it was awesome, even better than PHP. Now I just use Ruby, but I'm happy Perl is still alive.
Most victims of guns aren't attackers that were shot in self defense. Are you saying it's better that large number of innocent people get killed than a minority of self-defending people? That doesn't sound like a safe solution overall - it only benefits the people who take more action to defend themselves and hurts everyone else.

Question too - how do you use a gun to defend yourself against somebody else with a gun? Doesn't it come down to who can "draw" quicker - which will surely always be the attacker because he's the only one who knows what's about to happen?

Or are you only talking about defending yourself against people without guns who who might use them impulsively so they don't have the advantage of surprise?
I've found the best way to know if I'm going to work well with someone is to have previously worked with them before. Look for people you've enjoyed working with, be it a co-worker, classmate, someone you've worked on open source with.

Things that I think must exist between cofounders.

* You must like and trust each other.

* Make sure you are able to be candid with each other.

* Know each others weaknesses. Really another way of saying have realistic expectations.

If you have no prior work experience try working on a small one-off project to get a feel for each other's working styles.
I don't know about Saudi Arabia's plan but pretty much Google is in a 'find something else or die' mode. We'll see.
I am not an expert, and so I ask that you read the below comment and let me know how (and where, that's important too) I'm wrong. Honestly, I realize below might be ignorant/controversial/silly, but please help me learn if you know the field/explanation.

Admittedly, I'm making numbers up, but I can really only see a gov't skewing by 10-200% before unsustainability. In a free society, lower bound. Higher end, something like Venezuela.

That doesn't seem like the kind of range that would be a practical concern. Suppose we solve AGW, we face petroleum shortage in the medium term, it's probably going to require a different scale in change of emissions and petroleum extraction to matter.

Governments are inefficient, but those as inefficient as the orders-of-magnitude difference we're talking... those we call revolutions! [/dramatic effect]

Apologies for the comedy if that's not your style, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
It might provide a rapid, general approach to non-convex optimization for neural nets.

And that changes everything, probably more than anything since (the iPhone|the internet|computers|penicillin|the industrial revolution|fire) depending on how optimistic you are. It'll change things a lot, anyway.

See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/qml/
With perfumes it's also a somewhat actual health hazard, for some people (if someone is allergic or over-sensitive).

For me it is just an inconvenience, but I do feel a bit sick in department stores because in so many of them, you have to enter via the 1st floor fragrance department. But apparently that makes commercial sense, i.e. the additional sales to impulsive perfume-buyers (profiled mostly to be women) is more important than the non-sales of anything to me.
Not all the channels were usable in one area. Tuners were not very good at rejecting harmonics back then.

Today, we have phones with four or five radio receivers and three transmitters operating without interference. It's amazing that works. Receivers are far, far better than they were in the tube era.
Why not? They are paying more taxes than they were before, benefiting society as a whole.

Let me ask it another way. If some moves from the lower class to the middle class, does that benefit society as a whole (ignoring the taxes).

I would say yes.
The proof combines Hamiltonian complexity techniques with aperiodic tilings, to construct a Hamiltonian whose ground state encodes the evolution of a quantum phase-estimation algorithm followed by a universal Turing machine.

Just when I thought linking quantum mechanics with Turing completeness was cool, they went one step further and linked them using aperiodic tilings.
Also called a zip gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
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I do not believe there are any problems known to be solvable by QC, and unsolvable by classical computers.

The space between unsolvable by classical computers and solvable practically by classical computers is... significant.
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> Receivers are far, far better than they were in the tube era.

Only two "far"s? That's a significant understatement :P
No, calling a woman a woman is not sexist. Yes, it is definitely just you.
Is there a specific reason a quantum computer would be better at simulating a human brain than a classical computer?