skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Took the risk, it's not actual porn. In all honesty a "safe for work" tag would have been appreciated.

The author's conclusion is salient. For years I used this "entrepreneur porn" as a placebo to the general discontent I had at my job. I didn't feel like I was fitting into my role, like I wasn't making the impact I had expected. At some point I found an essay from someone that took the plunge and "made it." That hit was just enough that I spent my free time reading a lot of ultimately hollow how-to's, top 10 lists, blogging adventures, what-have-you instead of actually getting out there and doing something.

I see a lot of folks doing the same in various forums and communities. Even HN can be just enough to escape reality.
The US Navy has a few pictures of the setup they use for submarines. They use the term 'deperming' rather than 'demagnatizing'.

http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=38120
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That's kind of the point - because of the keyboard you cannot buy your laptop from Bulgaria, Taiwan, or the US where it might be cheaper because your users will want a German keyboard instead of Bulgarian, Chinese, or American.
Or I guess we could do it the other way. No you are wrong. That is not possible on any exchange that I know of.

Luckily there is an easy way for you to prove your contention. The market data feed and order management specifications for all of the exchanges in the US are available as public information. Find a single one that allows that order of operations.

Until then maybe don't spread lies.
>Haelle is a freelance science journalist....“I’m kind of pissed at the scientific community for not coming up with something better for us,” she confesses

Pissed?
1 trillion kilometres apart: a lonely planet and its distant star
I believe your explanation is going to create more confusion.

What I don't understand is that why all these stupid people have become programmers and developers (Obviously they are not any good at what they do) when they don't even understand these simple naming changes. Urrgggggggg.....
Come work in government contracting.
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I'm unclear on that point, is that current applied after construction, or is it an operational mechanism? If the latter, it seems like that would be a beacon of sorts as well (for some other type of detector)
I just learnt how much of a problem integer overflows are, from the author of this library.
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If Wikipedia is to be believed both variants were introduced at the same time by the same company (Key Tronic). The European one fits one key more.

I never had problems to hit the European-style return-key for what it's worth and need a long time to adjust to the US variant whenever I have use them.
When I was at university (a few years ago but not that long ago), the majority of the other students only had one idea in mind, becoming a civil servant, doing 9 to 5, job for life, no pressure, lots of holidays and free time to do other things, and early retirement (I am not even kidding, 20yo students looking forward to retirement).

Working hard, creating jobs, professional success clearly wasn't on the list.

I'd rather be in a society that glorifies entrepreneurship.
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Well, this is Leonardo Da Vinci's letter, not Michelangelo's. Interesting nonetheless.
The point of the Distelli Agent is to deploy software. Think of it as the "bootstrapper". Serious customers would rather use that 200MB for their own software, not for the "bootstrapper" :). Here at Distelli we optimize for the customer, not for our own internal developer productivity.
In European countries it's common that civil servants achieve a distinct status from an employee. As an employee, your rights are relatively typical (you have a 1 month notification period if you are to be fired or laid off, certain procedures have to be followed in order to fire you). However, once you achieve civil servant status after a few years of being a regular employee, you cannot be fired without serious cause, and therefore your job and your retirement are almost completely secured for the rest of your life.
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There should be X to close the image
The Italian keyboard has a £ symbol. I wonder why.
Dude its not 100 ms we're talking 100 microseconds.
There are usages for this kind of image viewer but frankly I find them very annoying most of the time. A good example to follow is the Boston Globe's Big Picture (click in any image at https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture to see a gallery). Just having all images in a good resolution, vertically stacked in a page has an awesome user experience. I can just scroll which fells very natural, and images will just load in background. If you want to go fancy you can have some JS to control in which order the images should load, and limit the bandwidth.
Okay look, I see a lot of snarky posts here about Leonardo doing Fizzbuzz and Leonardo being in a daylong interview session.

Guess what - Leonardo wasn't a superstar back then but he'd worked in Verrocchio's workshop, a workshop that was one of the best in Florence. He learned an immense level of technical skills there. Then he also was a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in Florence. Then he painted the Adoration of the Magi (which was never finished, but whatever). Then he made a silver lyre, which the medici family sent to the Sforzas for a peace accord.

So the modern equivalent of this is something like (and I'm making this up clearly) someone who started at a regionally famous company at a young age, worked there for years to cut their teeth, meanwhile was a regular presence at conferences or Meetup groups in the area, who then worked on a company that generated some buzz but didn't succeed ultimately, and then one of their VCs introduced him to another company.

So, not the same as a person with no experience to show for getting a daylong interview with fizzbuzz and a take home project. In fact the "interview" probably took days to weeks in that case!

edit: And yes, of course I don't think that's a good way to conduct interviews. But it sure as hell wasn't a better or more efficient or more equal opportunity system back then. Progress has happened since then. It just should be happening at a much faster rate now and it's not.
Have a look at the Marshal module. Marshal can be polymorphic because it has compiler support and can rely on runtime internals (similar to how comparison is polymorphic or the Printf module can work). It works for pretty much everything where the representation is known to OCaml (the exceptions are things like extern C types wrapped in OCaml types).

Example:

let f x = 2 * x + 1
let s = Marshal.to_string f [ Marshal.Closures ]
let g: (int -> int) = Marshal.from_string s 0
let () = Printf.printf "%d\n" (g 2)

Note: this may not work in the REPL and you may have to put it in a file and compile it.

Note also that serialization need not be polymorphic. See e.g. the s-expression mechanism [2], which relies on metaprogramming facilities.

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Marshal.ht...

[2] https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/data-serialization-wit...
Think of the money that could be saved if the Danes and Norwegians would just use the same keyboard...
There are only two different versions for key shape and positions if I didn't miss one: the US variant and everything else.
Also, I will make covered vehicles, safe and unassailable,
which will penetrate the enemy and their artillery,
and there is no host of armed men so great that they would not break through it.
And behind these the infantry will be able to follow, quite uninjured and unimpeded.

I assume this covers tanks?
> Prices on the exchanges may get worse for a while...

What time scale are we talking about? (ns, μs, ms or even several minutes ?)
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Works great!
(btw, here's mine https://github.com/starikovs/stupidbox %-)
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What are fatal accident rates like for construction of the Delhi and NY system? Workers' wages and benefits? Land prices?

> Giving them more money is not the solution; putting them in jail and paying Singapore to administer our transit is.

Do you think that's practicable? I thought you were a big supporter of of the rule of law rather than arbitrary politically motivated jailings.

Evidently a lot has gone wrong with NY transport, but "just stop giving the MTA money" is not going to result in better transport, and "the MTA is incompetent" reasoning seems to mostly lead to adding yet another layer of procurement/management rules that makes them less flexible and more wasteful. What would be an incremental, politically acceptable change that we could make to improve matters?
There's a Facebook page for the concerned: https://www.facebook.com/UnblockMedium/
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Likewise to academia and professional science, by the way: 70% of all faculty are adjuncts, and most working scientists don't even become adjunct faculty. Thus, almost everyone working in science on a daily basis is either a grad-student or post-doc (paid low wages because they're theoretically a trainee for a position they'll never really get) or an adjunct faculty member (used to do the teaching labor the administration wants done but which would distract real professors from frantically applying for grants).

Oh, and advancement runs on a feudal hierarchy[1].

[1] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
It really seems unlikely that the situation will change in your current workplace. Best to start searching for something more fitting to your wishes. Good luck!
If you call yourself an engineer, then the tenants of this article should be seared into your neurons. When enumerating possible solutions to a problem, one of them is always "Do Nothing". Find out a way to eliminate the problem before attempting solutions to the problem.
Nicely done! I especially like the timeline. Most of the data for the search results I tried are available via DBPedia and other sources and you did a great job tying it all together.

BTW, re: UI: I found it easy to use, and it looked nice, on the iPad Pro I am using right now. It is kind of people here to offer suggestions for improving the UI, but my suggestion is to leave the UI as is and keep working on the back end stuff
From my vantage point, Palantir appears to be an amusing house of cards.

The gossip on this coast, where most of their government and corporate overlords live, is much less rosy.

Basically, any civilian agency that gets told it needs a "data science" or "predictive analytics" capability from the executive Cyber initiatives just buys what the law enforcement and intelligence guys bought. Silicon Valley is also widely believed to be superior to the local scene.

These factors drive a cycle of government purchase leading to sweetheart maintenance deals leading to product validation leading to more government purchases.

Their "forward deployed engineers" are what the rest of us call "software development consultants." Their tool stack is a series of pretty visualizations over a typical data lake setup.

It is designed to be accessed by techs (analysts) and not devs. The essential algos were forked from Paypal's fraud detection code. Their products (Gotham, Metropolis, etc.) are all derivatives of that initial decade-old effort.

Palantir is still just a $250 mil revenue, zero profit startup. It runs on private investment cash that it will never be able to afford to repay, absent continued infusions of revenue from a confused government patron.

Their CEO announced in 2013 they won't IPO because disclosure rules for public company reporting requirements would make "running a company like [Palantir] very difficult".

My sense is that they'll never IPO because it would collapse the company.
French court 'orders Uber to compensate' Paris taxi rival
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Well, technically you don't need to know JSX, but it pays off to know it IMHO. Moreover, the DOM API is much more complicated than React API and the latest doesn't depend on the particular browser you are using.

But yes, to use a technology, you need to understand it.

Regarding the size, you are right, I wouldn't recommend to use React for such a tiny task.
I'm not an expert in this area, but the impression that I've gotten from the React front is that one of the benefits and reason for traction it isn't a framework as much as a very good way to handle the view layer that's flexible enough to let people take liberties with the rest of their application design...and the way that it handles it works very smoothly with server side rendering as well.

Much like jQuery being able to work with other JS libraries smoothly was a big selling point, React seems to be providing a modular approach that's flexible enough to work with many of the more opinionated options out there without having to dictate everything about the application.

One of the biggest churn points around JS frameworks wanting to do things this way or that way, full single page app or hybrid server side / client side, integrate to existing site or build from scratch.

End of the day, the browser is the view layer. Most of the other frameworks that try to make it significantly more than that are always going to lose when being applied to existing systems or server side heavy systems.

The React approach is basically just simplifying and removing pain points. It's easier for Rails to define some standards on the server and database side because the server side is where the core logic of every application lives. You're not going to try to apply Rails to an existing application, so it doesn't have to worry about fighting that battle. That is a major consideration of client side code, which is why you're seeing more wide spread usage of React. It fits more use cases instead of trying to be Rails in the browser.
Anthropic arguments such as this are good for examining reasons why spacetime with a different number of dimensions might not support interesting universes, but they fail to ask answer the question why we have a spacetime with 3 dimensions.

Some non-string theory attempts at formulating quantum gravity have started without an assumption of space-time and attempted to make it an emergent property, and given 3-dimensional space's quite unique properties that feels like it might ultimately be a better course of reasoning.
British English for "annoyed"
Can you really call it "region-locking" if you are free to use anything else but your users prefer not because it provides advantages for them? Separate keys for ÄÖÜ are important to German users. It's not done to lower the resale value but to sell it to the first user at all.
I feel with you, but there is a nice solution :-)

I moved to France from Germany, I had first to unlearn the German layout (QWERTZ) and then learn the French AZERTY. But as you say it is so bad! Additionally I was travelling for work and sometimes was exposed to type on different layouts and was very frustrated because I was accustomed to AZERTY. After one week in Russia I took the decision and switched to QWERTY, configured it to US International with AltGR dead keys [1]. This give the advantage, to have all the accents you might, the French, the German ones as well as Turkish and some more by combining. Plus you have the convenience of a keyboard layout that was used to design most of the programming languages. When you are in a front of somebody's French computer - the English layout it is just some clicks away (Left Alt + Left Shift on most Windows).

Just to give you some idea of how to get the accents:

AltGr + ' + a -> á

AltGr + ` + e -> è

AltGr + " + e -> ë

Shift + AltGr + x -> Œ (I don't even know if it possible to get this one on AZERTY)

Shift + AltGr + , -> Ç (This one as well is not possible on AZERT AFAIK. I think for this character the , was used because the key has on the top half '<' and on the bottom half ',' so it resembles ç). With Shift you get the capital letter and without the normal letter.

and so on.

If you buy ThinkPads you can chose to get the US International keyboard layout. Not so sure about other brands.

This was definitely one of the better life hacks for me - I never looked back.

[1] On Linux you get the US International AltGr layout shipped. But on Windows there is only a US International, but without AltGr dead key. I find it very disturbing, because for example if you want to type a double quote (") you have to type " + Space and the same for tilde, single quote and back tick. So I had to dig around to find US International AtgGr dead key layout. This comment gives some info and hints to another alternative that I didn't yet try out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10948810
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We've been sailing for a little over a year now. We've encountered many US flagged boats where there isn't a single US citizen owner, captain, or crew aboard. This has been the case where the owner is Turkish, Israeli, Emirati, and lots of middle-east countries.

The super yachts still prefer to use the Marshall Islands, Caymans, or Gibraltar as their flag of registration.

Our boat is US LLC registered since my wife, a foreign national, can't be a direct owner for a US registered vessel. Nor can I be registered owner in her country as a non-citizen. So a US LLC is a convenient neutral mechanism. It's split 51/49% with me having the controlling shares as required by law.
The prices will be worse until the higher speed link problem is resolved. That speed advantage allows the HFT firms to have less risk, that less risk gets translated into lower spreads (ie better prices) on the exchange.

Conversely, the slower links cause the firms to take on more risk, for which they need to make more money, that happens in the form of increased spreads.
No one uses Polish keyboard in Poland. Since windows 95 the first thing you do is to change from polish 214 (QWERTZ) to polish programmer keyboard (QWERTY)
But how do we know if it is in our blood? That is probably the hardest part.
μs or ms. As I mention below, there may be a little delay as people failover and reassess their view of the book, but that's all.
As someone who lives in a russian-speaking country, I must note that the russian keyboard layout is a nightmare. It's already been written about (http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/105/) but I only realized how bad the situation is when I learned how to touch type.
Eh, as far as the list of frightening things that people don't know about goes, electricity is pretty far down the list for me. Most people just don't come into contact with it often enough, so simply saying things like "don't get near a downed powerline" is probably good enough.

Stuff like radon or CO are way higher on that list, in my personal opinion. Hell, even people's general ignorance of their countries' political process and what their (elected or not) officials are doing is way more frightening to me than their ignorance about electricity.

Sorry to be so damn pedantic.
That is also the currency symbol of the Italian lira [0], which was in use before the euro.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_lira
Jane did even less work by outsourcing the task to a guy she found at rent-a-coder-for-peanuts.in, so, clearly, Jane is the one who is the most productive there.
Probably the most elegant way to manage your anxiety
Clicking outside the image should close it. That's pretty standard nowadays.
How could you possibly be more wrong?
Why We Get Fat is an excellent book that investigates this topic: http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259/

In short, for most of us, our fat tissue is regulated primarily through our response to insulin.
It seems to me Leonardo that you don't have at least 15 years in any given field. I'm sorry but I'm looking for a senior engineer.
Good soundbite, but if using 200MB of extra space would let you lower your prices while offering the same service (by increasing developer productivity) then I bet many customers would take that.

And did you try spending a person-week or so of dev time trying to minimize the size of the Python version? That would be a much smaller one-off cost than the costs of migrating everything to Lua, and I could easily imagine you'd get it down by one or two orders of magnitude. (You could do the same for Lua too I'm sure, but if we're talking about say 5mb vs 200k then that's "who cares?" size for most customers).
Sometimes I really worry how much I depend on software written by Apple.

On the weirder end of Safari bugs, mine can only open t.co (Twitter short link) URLs about 1/4 of the time. The rest of the time it sits there, eventually telling me the server is not responding. Apparently it is a bug at a "lower level than Webkit". The mind boggles as to what it actually is, and it's been like this for months.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/22/10813862/Safari-sucks-at-t...
Flash is expected to be dead in two years
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hft is about as unethical as that guy buying that apple you liked before you. speed isn't evil; it's been the deciding force in market based transactions for eons.
For those living in or visiting Paris, you can see this application letter (or a replica?) at the Pinacothèque de Paris until the end of the month.
Probably something like :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_fighting_vehicle
I am never bothered by unused variables when I'm doing exploratory programming in Go because if the variable is still unused, I haven't written enough code to get to the point of running it for testing.

I used to be bothered by the import thing, but then I installed goimports, and now Go is actually better than other languages for imports. Just write "foo.Bar" in your code and goimports will automatically add "baz.io/foo/" to the imports section on save.
I'm sure the transit worker making $50k/year to sit in a booth and say "go use the metrocard machine" will get mad if I suggest firing her. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be the right thing to do for the taxpayer and the MTA customer.

I'm also pretty sure you are deliberately misreading me since you ignored the fact that I cited several countries where wage levels are comparable to the US (e.g., Singapore). Singapore's just uses "modern" technology and replaces two $75k/year conductors and a $150k/year driver with a robot train.

("Modern" = technology that Paris has used in production for 18 years.)
It's what you're used to. I'm used to the UK keyboard and when I tried a US macbook the only thing that bothered me was the height of the return key. I found that I must have been hitting the top of it when touch typing and on a US keyboard I was hitting the \ key instead.
In my experience (I left Mac over a year ago, so it may be out of date), Parallels has always felt a little faster than Fusion on Mac when running Windows, especially if you were running games.
The left shift on an ISO keyboard is the same distance from your left pinky as the right shift is from your right pinky. I don't see how it would be (objectively) harder. Plus with an ISO keyboard you get to move the `~ key down closer. I prefer to program on a US-International / Dutch Apple keyboard. It may be Stockholm syndrome from having to work with German keyboards.
It doesn't for me I had to use ESC.
There's a kernel of truth in that a lot of start-ups are pretty bad at product development or working in a sustainable way that produces quality results, because the founders are focused on something else -- the "vision", the business model, or even hiring.

If you add up all the generalizations in the article, though (e.g. looking good for a future acquirer above all else) we're talking about a small fraction of start-ups, not start-ups as a category.