skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how many levels are you talking about?

I agree the worse floating point precision of GPUs puts them at a disadvantage but they still do better for massively parallel problems like fractal renders. (http://www.bealto.com/mp-mandelbrot_benchmarks.html)
Founder of Fuckedcompany here.

Thanks!

I wrote a book, too:

http://www.amazon.com/Fd-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com-Flame...
woah what's up with you people downvoting? I just pointed out what is true and wasn't even trolling. I'm offended, HN. Uber is a marketplace. Facebook is a social network. Craigslist is a marketplace. Uber's network effect works the same way Craigslist's does, and is not so much similar to Facebook's network effect.
Continuations by example
Include the capitals at the start of each sentence and then finish with .com
JSON5 – JSON for the ES5 Era
https://reverse.put.as/2016/01/22/reversing-apples-syslogd-b...
This was never a startup - just a pure scam!
Eh... you do need practice, but if you're willing to sort thru all the crap then reading about things online can be a massive help.

Having things explicitly called out is way more efficient than trying to derive everything yourself (see also, effectiveness of supervised vs unsupervised learning).
Doesn't matter. If companies can afford to wait (and they can), Congress will eventually be seduced by the prospect of billions in free tax money. When Congress finally does it they can pay off all their interest groups without raising taxes. Nobody has to be paid off.

As time goes on, that pot of money gets bigger and bigger. The more people expect a tax amnesty, the more companies will just leave the money where it is instead of repatriating and paying taxes at the current rate, which just sweetens the pot even more.

Also, the president isn't any less beholden to donors. Do you think Obama would stand in the way of something Goldman Sachs (#3 donor) wanted? I don't.
Because classism is a thing. So is legacy of privilege. Literally all of my Indian co workers have been Brahmin.
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It would be a great argument if it were true. But while he mentions rumprun, he doesn't seem to have noticed that it can do all the things he claims unikernels can't do. Nor is there a claim that the current methods are necessarily ideal; it is an exploration of what else is possible and how to make it work in practice.
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Measuring hourly snowfall with a webcam and PHP
Let's say I have a mortgage instead of renting, max out my 401(k) contributions every year, marry a nonworking spouse and file jointly. Compare to someone who does none of those things: the tax rate will be a lot less.
Not only that, they can listen to your in-car conversations: http://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eave...
I don't think they're textured cubes, each larger cube is made up of a grid of individual voxels, each with a single color.
I like the home page. It has the right content, and the layout seems to emerge from a more careful consideration of its content and the reader's eye than do homogenous designs.

Content that loads as you scroll is, I absolutely believe, a trend that will be either overhauled or reviled within five years. And reaching the end of the page actually makes me respect the publication more: they have the respect to tell you nothing more is worth your time, rather than a desperation to milk every possible page view out of you with content of lower and lower quality. I don't want "content until you're sick of it", I want just what's a good use of my time.

The font communicates sophistication to me. It's carefully designed and doesn't impede usability. It's branding, at a higher effort level than the more common approach (a color palette). Typography is increasingly a staple of high-quality web design and they do it well. (I wouldn't use it, but only because they've made it theirs.)

Your other criticisms I agree with.
In my view, better than Hjson [0] as any JSON is a valid JSON5 unlike with Hjson [0], CSON [1], and the likes.

[0]: http://hjson.org/

[1]: https://github.com/bevry/cson
Really, for video, 1080p is absolutely fine, if the video is not over-compressed. Even around 20mbps, 4k won't look better than 1080p, for full-motion full-color video content.

Typical movie theaters use 4k today, and 2k (very close to 1080p) less than 10 years ago. For their huge screens. Of course the bitrate is very high, "up to 250 Mbit/s" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema#Technology_and_...)

For small text and fine lines such as used in a close-up computer monitor, 4k+ can be very beneficial. But for video, it's marketing, and a costly waste.
Yes, and processes in a traditional OS have hardware support too through the MMU and things. At the end of the day something needs to schedule processes/vms, and something needs to coordinate disk writes and what I'm driving at here is that whether you call them processes and a kernel or vms and a hypervisor, you arrive at the same thing, except operating systems are mature at that task, and hypervisors are not.
Bases on years of experience I would estimate that the "good" jobs, often regardless of the field, are landed as follows:

Networking (60% of my "gigs":)
Nepotism (10%, maybe more, much less in my case)
Proven Ability to Deliver (20%)
Good Luck (10%)
IIRC the tax law in the UK was changed to more of a spirit of the law idea a while ago and this is presumably the first signs of that being applied.

I think it's related to this, but this is just what I can remember from some articles in the paper.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-avoidance-gen...
That may have been true with the original SSL, but consider all the B2B APIs, VPNs, and other critical stuff happening over TLS these days.
Perhaps this mantra has fallen into obscurity in the exuberant times of the past few years. It'll probably be coming back soon enough.
Erlang's M:N scheduling isn't what makes it slow. And not all of Erlang is slow either for that matter.

The reason it works for Erlang is becuase M:N is the only model. There's no alternate supported model trying to maintain some competing set of semantics to muck up the works.

You can induce problems by running code that doesn't fit inside the model such as NIF code. But as of R18 you can consume a separately maintained threadpool for that stuff.

When the paradigms collide there are sometimes bizarre non-deterministic interactions, but there's nothing wrong with M:N scheduling, craploads of core infrastructure systems are running on M:N scheduling kernels/runtimes.

If you've used money in any way whatsoever ever at any point in your life you've critically depended on this "fad" and will continue to do so for a long, long, long time.
Have you ever had to change your form because a spammer added an exception for you?
I didn't write the tutorials, but this guy did: https://twitter.com/bigardone
The definition used in someone's essay means ass all to me. It's he definiton uaee by the common man, if you'll excuse my microaggression.
find another job first.
This gets maximum visibility now, coming just before the Super Bowl crowd hits town.
> They're not doing anything illegal (you'd imagine at least - I doubt it would be an easy task to decipher exactly what they're doing to determine legality)

Fortunately (if a bit paradoxically), in the UK, for taxes, following the letter but not the spirit of the law is against the law.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/29/part/5/enacted
I think this is a change from that honestly, if I'm remembering correctly UK tax law was changed so that companies deemed to be going against the spirit of the law after an audit could be forced to pay the appropriate amount of tax - I imagine this is a consequence of that.
I think the cultural fascination started with UFOs started with the first sighting on June 24, 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting

After that, it was picked up in movies and TV, with the first movie being the 1950 film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Saucer Movies and TV continued to imprint the human psyche with the image of flying saucers for many years.

Flying saucers also had the benefit of being much easier to hoax in pictures and video than cylinders or other shapes, for obvious reasons (an old hubcap or pie pan could be a UFO, and spinning them like a frisbee provides gyroscopic stabilization).

The only thing close to flying saucers in terms of mass recognition and capturing the world's imagination would be greys. The movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_... in 1977 popularized this image of aliens, even though aliens in fiction have included grey skinned beings since at least 1893: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_alien

Prior to greys, the most common cultural alien in popular culture, or at least in English language, were https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men or anything with antennae, sometimes with helmets. Following these, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians were popular, probably most popularized in the V series in the early 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%281983_miniseries%29

But, nothing beats the flying saucer.
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> There's still nothing yet that really competes with Westlaw or LexisNexis for professionals though.

I have a few friends at big law and they have 100% access to Westlaw or Lexis which means they do not need any of the alternatives at this point. That said, many, many, many small to mid-sized firms cannot afford access to Westlaw or Lexis which is why these various initiatives and companies are so important.

At a fundamental level, these services all help improve the odds you will win a case when hiring a smaller law firm. A lot of people comment here about how there are not society improving companies anymore (uber for food delivery), but I am a believer that each of these companies in this space are fundamentally important to our society.
The Yelp CEO announced a sixth star and it is insane
From U.S., the ABC's of Jihad (2002)
It's not Real Programming [tm] unless there's a scripted build system. And a big conference.
I think it refers to the number of entries in the palette.
Thanks for refining the definition. Having done so, it still seems to fit your case.
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Hacker News' charter (from the guidelines): "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
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“The X-Files Revival”
Thank you for wallabag! I have been using it for quite a while and it's really quite nice.

I look forward to trying the new version. Does it handle HN posts now? The last time I tried to bag an HN post with the old version it failed :)
The more interesting zooms magnify something like 10^256 times.
This is only tangentially related... are there any open source databases that implement materialized views as well as Oracle? Postgres is getting close but they're not there yet...
But it's likely very accurate. The article doesn't seem to say they were compelled to do anything by legal force instead they worked with the regulators and came to a mutual understanding rather than forcing it to go through a long, complex, and uncertain legal process.

Lots of places are increasingly cracking down on the legal and ethical grey area of tax avoidance/minimization. The outcomes (like this one) are long coming but still positive. Lots of populist folks would like to see heads roll, but what's actually happening is probably better because it balances the interests of the people, the corporations, and the regulators. They're doing good things in a realistic way.
I agree it's a lot about luck and work, but I think you are missing an essential key to success: relationships.
Right, my objection to the textured cubes is that they are not the volume equivalent of a pixel. Pixels are point samples without shape or texture. These cubes have both.

What I call a voxel is much smaller (on the order of a screen pixel), and drawn as a point sprite or screen-facing quad with a single color. Texturing is achieved by having many voxels with different colors/materials.

Here are some videos of what we used to call voxels:

DOS game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51E_G7NCXVM

Gameboy game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zVy-4CEFQU

Medical imaging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLqFNhVL68

Note that they were not using voxels because they had a certain artistic style to them. They used voxels because with the hardware they had, this was the most realistic rendering they could achieve. Once GPUs came out with hardware-accelerated triangle rasterization, voxel engines died.

For more information about point-sampling, see this classic paper, "A Pixel Is Not A Little Square":

http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

And for a more in-depth discussion of sampling, albeit in one dimension, watch Chris Montgomery's video "Digital Show and Tell":

http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
You know, I've heard the phrase "fish or cut bait" as a way to tell people to quit vacillating, and I've heard the phrase "cut and run" meaning to cut loose what is holding you back, eg an anchor.

Never seen the two conflated like that though.
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Is there a resource that tells me which of these features are available in the latest stable Node version?
A word of advice: don't ever get into the medical software field. I've tried it twice and saw the same problem each time.

The sales cycle is a year long. At the end of the year the result is either "we are sticking with BigCo's crap that they told us they would improve the last 5 years" or "budgets are due and they need a new wing so ours was cut"

A coworker explained it perfectly: the industry is run in fear. Fear that if you buy software that fails you will be fired. Fear that if someone across the street buys some software and it works you better get it too.
Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered Harmful (2002)
Last time i checked, IE9+ are still supported browsers. Of which, IE9 has no support for Flexbox and IE10+, only have partial support.
(Not counting Edge on those stats as it is after all an entirely new browser).
Well, bear in mind that before it was flying saucers, it was flying airships[0], and before that, many of the phenomena now associated with alien visitations and abductions were attributed to demons or angels. And of course, before it became known that there was no life on Mars of Venus, most aliens claimed to be from Mars or Venus.

Strange how the technology and culture of aliens always seems to align with human cultural and technological norms, and how they always seem to be, biologically, human or humanoid. The aliens created by science fiction authors are often far more alien than the aliens people actually claim to encounter. The diversity of life on Earth is more alien. Never any Tines or Puppeteers or sentient blobs of dark matter or or twelve foot tall squamous hyperdimensional polyps. Just... strangely unusual space people in unusual space cars. But never too unusual.

I'm an extreme skeptic about UFOs as alien spacecraft and of alien visitation because, other reasons aside, the universe they seem to describe is depressingly mundane.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship
I think that would be down to the recruitment agencies most of the time. Truth is they have a phone call and assume it's 2 separate words.
Sorry for being a noob, but if car manufacturing can be automated like this, why can't phones be automated in the same way?
Apache Rave: web and social mashup engine that aggregates and serves web widgets
wait so which department is the FBI under and which department is the NSA under again?

... ah nevermind, I'm sure that doesn't mean anything.
> with highly educated parents I could have amazing conversations with, who would encourage me to achieve and grow even more.... I find I constantly have a mindset of "I'm not good enough" and it's paralysing.

I went to Medical school and for a period of time was surrounded by people who, for the most part, came from affluent or otherwise successful families. My experience was the opposite of what you might have expected: I met many people who felt like they weren't good enough, whose parents weren't encouraging to them, and in several cases had no relationship with them whatsoever. Which I guess is only to say, if you want to be "Good enough" you just have to accept yourself for who you are and continuously try to be better. If you want to apply for the top tech jobs, you should. And if you fail, you should ask how you can improve, do so, and try again. Ultimately, you can only ever be good enough if you try. Failure isn't a disastrous outcome; its absolutely a part of the process of getting better.
> against the spirit of the law

Those are dangerous words...
That was before we had open source. It only prevented companies like Netscape and Microsoft from distributing better encryption. It can't stop individuals sharing encryption code and algorithms. All it takes is one copy to get outside the "borders"...
I'm not sure about that, but if you are right, that would be even worst ...
What is time from unemployed to employed for 55+?
Here you go then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_or_cut_bait#The_changing_...
How Spotify Builds Products [pdf]
Reach 50M people. The Muse is hiring back end and fullstack engineers
could you not incrementally improve the UI, without a drastic surgery of the UI? For example, add an extra screen here or there, add theming support, then allow UI customization, then, add a new IU selectable as a new theme, etc etc.
An old friend and I were talking a few weeks ago and I smiled when he said "We were so poor growing up we didn't even realize we were poor." And we didn't, we were so poor we couldn't even pay attention. It's was good tho. It's still easy for me to live in a tiny apartment and exist on a steady diet of eggs'n'oatmeal, apples, and frozen chicken bought in bulk.
Also, Pantheon seems to be doing very well as a PaaS for Drupal and WordPress.
Is there a good way to look up no_std crates? For crates written with no_std, is there a keyword we should be tagging things with?

I have several crates providing access to GPIO/SPI/I2C under Linux and would like to put together a roadmap for having the interface to these types of devices that is portable to various platforms and devices (e.g. Linux as well as Zinc, ...).
I grew up without privilege. While I wasn't "dirt poor" my parents and grandparents were. Two of my grandparents lost everything when they were kicked out of their homes in Gaza City in 1929, and the other two were kicked out of their homes in Belarus in 1915.

Because I am Jewish and an Israeli citizen, I am hated by most of the Liberals in Silicon Valley.

Yet, I managed to succeed.
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My suggestion is that people who are learning, especially if self-taught, should dive into other peoples source code as soon as possible. Build something of medium complexity, then choose a couple of either the simplest or most useful libraries you used, and start reading the source.
I think if you had a superconducting solenoid that exerted so many teslas of magnetic flux then it would diagrammatically levitate. But not sure.

I think it's possible for a hoverboard-type technology and also, there's some theories that seem like someone would had pursued them by now but no one has or the govt did and it didn't work. In my experience, there is no "new physics" type technology possessed by the government and there is no UFO coverup with the government. However, the USAF polluted things with their psyops or whatever it was they were doing, so it is near impossible to discern anything.

But I am a skeptic.
Diacode team here. Thank you for sharing the post. This article is part of an ongoing series of blog posts that covers the whole Trello clone / tribute that our colleague @bigardone did.

We didn't submitted it to HN before because we were waiting to complete the whole thing and create a proper index for all the articles. The part 6 will be published tomorrow and you can expect a few more articles in the next weeks.

I'd like to clarify that this is not a product, it doesn't cover all the awesome features that Trello has. It's just a learning experiment that we're sharing with the rest of the world.

Finally, to give you some background, we're a small Rails dev shop (5 guys) who works remotely. We're now playing with Elixir and Phoenix and having a lot of fun with it. I'd totally recommend any dev to play with Elixir, specially if you come from a Rails background.

Kudos to our colleague @bigardone for putting all of this together.
Didn't Neal Stephenson predict this decades ago?

"There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery." _In the Beginning, was the Command Line_
Google doesn't leap, which implies commitment. Instead they dally. And it's not yet clear that this sort of dallying can actually produce results. It may even have the opposite effect, e.g. the way Glass ruined the wearables market.
Aside from the fact that it's the young who are being wrecked in employment, there are logical reasons why a company in some area of competition may choose a younger person over an older person.

Obviously where experience matters more, companies might choose an older person, such as in a high-level executive position, where I presume most people are older.

But experience isn't everything, and g tests have consistently beaten years of relevant work experience as a single-metric predictor of work performance. I don't doubt that you'd want your kernel security team to be veterans, but other companies are justified in hiring young people out of college and having them learn as they go.
...is that I could still include the statement in a release of my own. And then you could. And another could.

I might have a RISC-V laptop before they finish Hurd. It still won't even run on RISC-V.
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Why do you need Elixir for building this kind of project? Any real benefits?
I'd venture to guess that the level of automation in phone and car manufacturing is comparable.
Voxels with a texture index vs. voxels with a color index is not really a big distinction in my eyes. They're both integers. The way in which you resample them, as well, is not invalidating. Otherwise "pixel art" would also be invalid as it's built around display output methods that are not mathematically correct(NTSC signal, square LCD pixels, etc.).
Well that was my memory of it, how they put it can be read here, section B2.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Is "WeakMap" really the suggested way to implement private class properties?

Using "this" as a key into a Map of private variables looks bizarre. I would rather keep my code concise than create a layer of obfuscation.
Yea to be clear. This article is kind of written horribly and the title is click-bait. Everyone who follows Docker should know that Dotcloud used to be the name of Docker.

However, as the article explained horribly, many like my self didn't know they sold their PaaS service where they originally developed Docker to another company.

The original dotCloud (aka. Docker) is still fine. Is not going bankrupt or shutting down. The owners of the service they originally built is going down.
laughing at the see also section.
>Remember that their programs haven't been shown to save a single person.

To be fair, any attempt the NSA did make to justify itself to the public would immediately be dismissed as propaganda, fabrication or parallel construction and entrapment. And their job doesn't require public goodwill - the people they actually have to answer to have security clearances. So if they had ironclad evidence that their methods worked, there's no reason to reveal it to you or I, Snowden or otherwise.