skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using windows 10. Tried both Firefox and Chrome (both up to date versions) with same results. Menus don't work. Learn More button doesn't work. I can enter a simple formula such as '=5*10' and get a result, but can't refer to another cell. Can't move to anywhere past row 8.
Die, Linkedin, die!
>>I can't be the only one that considers all these AI articles just smoke and mirror puff pieces to prop up the companies value by capitalizing on the hype (hysteria?)

You're not.
So far I have not seen/heard anything remotely resembling AI. Neural nets are just weighted graphs.
> What happens when some of this old hardware breaks and it becomes not only impossible to find replacement parts but also impossible to fabricate new ones in house.

You get a modern Fortran compiler, you compile the old code for the new stuff and off you go. What am I missing?

> Eventually, like all languages, Fortran will die out as time goes on. So few people know it now that it is inevitable.

Like ALL languages? Ha, tell that to the COBOL programmers at the heart of some financial institutions mate. Heck, RPG is still supported on some IBM hardware.
I'm not saying gmail (google) spam people; i'm saying that not using gmail because you don't want google to know your contacts is silly. it doesn't matter if google knows that you, for instance, are in my contact list. they're not going to spam you. i'm not going to not use linkedin because i'm concerned you're going to get an email from them; that's your problem, and not really a problem at that. You just mark as spam and move on. It's hard to imagine a single person has even decided to not share their contact list with an app or service because they're concerned one of their contacts might get contacted by them.
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There is already `e.preventDefault()` happening on the events, so for example when you drag on a touchscreen it would normally scroll the page - but after invoking this it won't do that.

What I'm not sure how to do is block other things on the page specifically also set to happen on the same events.

On a desktop web browser playing around with this I've had success hammering on the Esc key while moving links though. If you press Esc right after releasing most links it won't leave the page :)
I'm not the author but I imagine it would be hard for the author to decide which way to go.

He/she could choose a library/framework (say react or angular) but then you'll exclude people not using these libraries.

jQuery is the common denominator which would allow the broadest support.

EDIT: of course eliminating jQuery entirely would be even better
Nice! Yeah the OBD-II protocol was required on vehicles manufactured after 1997. Not sure if it has a CAN bus, is it fuel injected?
A well-regulated and well-run utility does make consumer battery storage irrelevant.

Though, interestingly you could be taken as saying that flat rate electricity means well-regulated and well-run and often time-of-use rates lead to greater efficiency.
Tableau is for business analysts. Splunk is for Sys Admins. ELK is for engineers with a lot of patience.
Yup. I want to again quote a paper recommended to me on HN a while back [1]

However, the relevance of Turing model is questioned even in case of present-day computing [33] [34]. Indeed, any computing machine that follows a Turing model would be highly inefficient to simulate the activity of biological neurons and experience an increased slowdown. Since the super-Turing computing power of the brain has its origins in these ‘strong’ interactions that occur inside neurons, current models have missed the most important part. Simply, Nature doesn’t care if the N-body problem has analytical solutions [36] or can be simulated in real time on a Turing machine [37].

...

While previous models have attempted to represent Hamiltonians using Turing machines [35] the paper [1] shows that the Hamiltonian model of interaction can represent itself a far more powerful model of computation. Turing made an important step forward; however, there is no need to limit natural models of computation to Turing models. In this sense, the new framework of computation using interaction is universal in nature and provides a more general description of computation than the formal Turing model. In other words God was unaware of Turing's work and has put forward a better model for physical computation in the brain.

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1210/1210.1983.pdf
>Please, just tell me it's not premine.

Why are you opposed to premining? (I had to look up the term, so I'm not baiting you! I don't see the problem, so I'd like to hear your thoughts).
> I'm willing to add increased coupling if it makes my code more stateless.

I like statelessness as a top priority. However I'm not sure how statelessness ever comes into tension w/ coupling. Aren't they mostly orthogonal concerns?

> I'm willing to make it more complex if it reduces coupling.

Complexity = f(Coupling), in my definition. So an increase in coupling results in an increase of complexity. Sounds like you have a different definition of complexity -- I'd love to hear it.
In my experience doing 3D image reconstruction from 1D and 2D sensors, there are often situations where the engineers can only explain what's going on using math equations - and not in any other qualitative kind of way. For some people, this might be considered not "completely understanding" something.
Are there any sources / links you can share on cash real estate purchases in SV or Bay Area? I'm interested in reading more about this and a preliminary search isn't yielding any recent news.
Why do some accounts with >31 karma not see flag links?
Some of the names of the products you are selling made me giggle. I can see it now:

Me: "Hello mam/sir, what seems to be the problem today?"

Patient: "Well, I only had a little TrainWreck left, so I mixed it with Gorilla Glue #4 and now I am rekt"

Me: "Soooo... are you having a medical emergency?"

Patient: "No! Heavens no! Did I call 911? Why is there a firetruck and ambulance outside?"

Me: "Ok, we will be on our way. Your Doritos and Oreos are right over there... take care"
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Agreed...further, I'd want to be able to turn them off, easily...I'm stingy with bandwidth and giving away data related to my personal preferences...

The only feature I want (or really need) in an "appliance" , of any sort, is easy access to diagnostics if it fails...

I'd prefer appliances with something like OBD (II, III), installed in automobiles...
For the sake of the argument, let's accept the premise that variable demand requires variable pricing.

Is there a technical reason price differentials have to be so large in California? In an efficient market, even with variable prices, would the differences be so extreme and would peak demand prices still exceed the cost of storage?
There's a more recent article in the New Yorker that follows Mr. Bostrom around a bit and is a good general read:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invent...
MSI in general seems to be all pain. Back during the netbook craze their take shipped a Suse install with missing drivers.
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"It doesn’t always rain when you need water, so we have reservoirs - but we don’t have the same system for electricity,” says Jill Cainey, director of the UK’s"

Actually... we do. It is called pumped hydroelectric storage [1], and it is essentially just a reservoir, a pump, and a turbine.

[1] http://energystorage.org/energy-storage/technologies/pumped-...
I agree with many of the points you make, I don't agree with your assignment of blame. Good developers can make bad decisions. It's just that it may not be seen for a year or two. In a SaaS platform it's hard to see around a corner a year from now.

The thing about technical debt, is that once you have accrued it, it doesn't really matter how it got there. You either accept it exists and carry the balance or fix it. And typically, it's the role of management to recognize this.
Only thing I would caution here is that Postgres HA is notoriously difficult to set up and get right. Something like CouchDB is designed from the ground up for high availability and scalability. So if your design calls for only a document store, probably best to avoid Postgres.
Tech recruiter here.

It blows my mind that linkedin exists. I believe its Zero to One that talks about how Reid realized rather than try to replace recruiters he made a tool to help them do their job.

Non recruiter/sales people use it as some type on online resume and look at how great I am page while recruiters get access to everyone they could ever want.
Not to be that snarky asshole, but this sort of comment doesn't belong on HN.
From experience, there's a nontrivial intersection between the BI stack and the operative administration stack.

However, in the difference, the admin stack with ELK, Riemann, Graphite, InfluxDB, Airbrake, Icinga and whatever else assumes that 30% of the information right now is worth more than 100% of the information 3 weeks later. You know, my application port is closed, first level support is getting hell, I need any available information right now.

On the other hand, the full data warehouse/tableau stack assumes that 100% of the information is more valuable than anything else. Good DWH-Guys and their analysts can do very awesome data voodoo, predictions and analysis, and the admin stack won't be able to reproduce most of that. It just takes 2 month of data collection and 2 - 3 weeks of analysis to get the result of that grand voodoo. And Tableau can automate that voodoo after it's been done once.
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Interesting post, but I don't understand his way of deleting rows that aren't in data.json. Creating a separate table seems overly complex: why not just store a list of ID's in memory and delete any that aren't in that set? Creating a list of 100,000,000 integers in Python takes 900mb (4.2gb for a set!), which isn't that much. Stick it in one big 'DELETE WHERE id NOT IN (...)' query.

Or better yet just TRUNCATE beforehand.
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Am I the only one that likes getting email from people who want to give me a job? I use a separate email and filter the messages out of my inbox. I go in there every week or so and see what's around. For recruiters I think are genuine and are working on cool projects I just politely say I'm not interest right now but feel free to reach out again later.

It's good to see there are people interested in my talents and want to give me money to use them. LinkedIn allows all of that communication to flow from one place.
Yeah, I'm curious why it needs write access or personal info beyond your email.
More and more i get the feel that humanity need to relearn to pay for quality.
Nice to see a ruby sinatra app for this service :)
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Bahaha, nice.
>I'm curious what your opinion is of our current advocacy campaigns attempting to "force" tech companies to hire more women, or "force" movies and TV to to have more characters who are ethnic minorities.

There's a huge difference between writing a crappy article on Kotaku and some jerk threatening to dogpile Twitter w/ false SEC/FTC reports. This has been the crap that's been circulating since NRx/alt-right and GG reared its collective fugly head. And they often operate under false pretenses of "free speech."

>Maybe they should! They'd certainly be well within their rights.

Or maybe they know something certain free speech advocates refuse to disclose: institutions are largely fossils of their time. Trying to convert an evangelical university to their cause is as Quixotic as you can get.

>Although I'd be interested to learn more about a situation where someone like Savage was prevented from speaking at Liberty University, as I hadn't heard of that.

Because social conservatives know what the believe and will exercise it to its fullest within the law (and sometimes outside of it)? Just saying.

So you can stump for a cause that does not need protection (considering the strength of EFF and the ACLU on these matters) or you all can admit that maybe just maybe being PC isn't all that bad. And maybe just maybe a bigot should be freely called a bigot and jeered by the general audience whether or not John Cleese wants that to happen. Guess what? The Marx Brothers dealt with jeers and rotten tomatoes thrown their way so I'm sure modern comedians can deal with mean tweets and crappy Kotaku hit pieces.
Is that actually important, though? Does it mean inexpensive small-scale energy caching in off-grid areas is impossible? Would a truck-carried air tank (or bank of them) hooked to solar-powered compressors not actually work, or be cost-prohibitive?

Size doesn't actually matter here.
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"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others." - Harry J. Anslinger, first US drug czar.
The analytics space is over-crowded.

Software eats the world and the education system. It's becoming increasingly easy to find developers. https://gh-prod-ruby-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/image/f...

To some extent, companies might be trying to use too much data? Who knows.

Life Time Value capture in the analytics space is sufficiently difficult. Let's say you're an analytics customer:

Early stage customer: Use any one of the 100 integrations analytics companies listed on segment.com's website. You DO NOT need to track hundreds of parameters. Conversations with customers have 100x the value of tracking the small things at this stage....usually.

Mid-Stage Customer: Maybe you choose one of the 100 companies that makes the most sense. You start paying for it.

Having these early and midstage companies as customers is tough. The vast majority of them fail.

Big Customer: SnowPlow Analytics? Splunk? Tableau?

That being said, I think there's businesses to be built, but only semblances of unicorns and minotaurs.

15,000 web and mobile apps are coming out tomorrow. What % of them are analytics related applications? (Hint: A larger one than you might think). Just have a gander at the applications that are listed on promotehour.com and startuplister.com's list of app launch sites. There's now 100+ launch sites.

To win big in VC money, you have to take risks, the analytics space seems well established with a slew of best practices that are extremely well known. Ie. not risky enough to warrant pouring VC-istan money into.
I seem to have struck a nerve :-) For what its worth a while ago Uber had a story on their site about lemonade (https://newsroom.uber.com/uberstand-exposed/) which got me thinking at the time how that might actually work. And the idea sort of popped out. I take no credit for connecting Uber and Lemonade into a startup idea, only for their go to market plan :-)

Happy Friday everyone.
She may need to pivot into the Plated for Lemonade Stands. Just send the chef prepared ingredients (meyer lemon, rare plant sugar and The Timmy Brothers water) and a step by step recipe to make the lemonade at home. She could then sell services on top of that to have a local independent rep prepare the lemonade for you.
Why do that when you can just sell a whole new laptop?

The whole pile of turtles is about shipping new units...
I like a lot your "Precision doubler":

https://github.com/voidware/dp/blob/master/dp.h

You gave me an idea for multiprecision numbers with variadic templates (like tuple<> with head/tail).

Thank you!
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Part of the problem is that natural gas and diesel peaking plants have historically been cheap enough that there hasn't been a demand for alternatives.
Manning was ... put into solitary confinement.

That's what we man by "tortured".

Though "living death" might be a better description.
They may or may not (be allowed to) have a sense of humor about it. Our 24 Hours of LeMons car's publicity was sent to Matt Groening by a friend, and he passed it around the office. Apparently he asked their publicity folks if they could invite us up to show off the car about the same time that legal asked about sending us a cease and desist.

In the case of the car, it's probably fair use and the only issue was likely that we have non-Fox-approved sponsorship on it, but they probably decided their advertisers wouldn't complain about it because it's not exactly big bucks changing hands here.

So yeah, we got to meet Matt Groening and David X Cohen and Al Jean and a lot of the writers. It was definitely a cool experience.

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You call this a tax return!?

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S07E17/702635.jpg?lines=+You+call+...
Thanks for reposting this, quite interesting.
Because initiating a conversation with a friend about LinkedIn is more respect and mindshare than this service deserves.
Frankly i suspect MS would love to ignore the consumer world, except that then they would lose their beloved "total cost of ownership" argument for doing B2B sales.
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that article isn't readable without a login
I'm talking about languages on a larger scale. Do you mean to tell me that COBOL or Fortran will last _forever_?

All languages die out eventually. It does not matter that it is a programming language, the concept will remain.

Nothing is perpetual, nothing lasts forever. I hate to break it to you, but eventually something will give.
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Not when 90% of them aren't even local.
Yeah, but maybe that is all brains are too?
My last gig paid high five figures for a server license, and after a year of trying to get it to work as wanted, we threw it out and wrote our own in-house web solution with open source tools.
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Interesting, thanks for the report there. Coincidentally, this misspelling is also present in all the subtitles that Simpsons World uses!

We chose the season 15 cutoff pretty much arbitrarily. We're not necessarily opposed to later seasons, but we'd like to have some better season/episode filtering in place before expanding more.
I'd say the increase in pay and title outweighs any negative resume effect from too many jobs. If you are jumping around a lot because you are a rocketship that's a far different story than if you are jumping around a lot because you don't fit in anywhere.

That said: since you were in fintech you may well be aware of this, but programmers at financial firms don't exactly have the same status or workplace conditions as programmers in software driven companies. If you don't know exactly what I mean, shake your network and find someone in the industry to have a frank discussion with.

Good luck.
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request

I use a Chrome extension that removed the ability to see the news feed on facebook called News Feed Eradicator.

Since installing it I've saved a lot of time because I can still use Facebook messages and view groups that I am a part of but I don't get caught in the mindless scrolling trap.

I would pay for a similar extension for linkedin. I have to use linkedin for work but I find myself scrolling mindlessly way too often. Does anyone have the ability to put something like that together?
By all metrics the business is doing great, but stock holders demand more growth and act irrationally over "sentiments". This is not reasonable or sustainable.
Aren't number 1 and number 5 opposed ?
> At one point, Google ran a test that pitted its search engineers against RankBrain. Both were asked to look at various web pages and predict which would rank highest on a Google search results page. RankBrain was right 80 percent of the time. The engineers were right 70 percent of the time.

I don't really understand the point of this metric. Why are they predicting what ranks highest on Google search? Wouldn't a better metric be who predicts the correct place a user was looking for?

Is the thinking that if they are using machine learning, than whatever the user is looking for should have bubbled up to the top?
Very interesting. I suppose, in fact this would be rather slowing down the page in most cases, if applied as a common rule. That is, provided you were using self-contained inline-resources only. Using any kind of include/require mechanism would change the picture in favor of a touch-as-late-as-possible strategy.
Niche markets are fine and good since they are not encroaching on the biggest mainstream user markets.

"the best thing we can do is help people connect the dots between our software and their other vendors."

Yes. And the worst thing Autodesk has done is try to inflict costs to this "connecting the dots" - namely, denying realDWG support for those they consider a strategic threat. Since there is Teigha this is not financially an unsurpassable problem but it's a pain in the ass for anyone who can't use realDWG.

Autodesk is in a position to wield leverage through DWG, they have the financial incentives to do so (and have done so) and for a company this is quite understandable.

Construction industry software is so ready for disruption.

A hint for any ambitious software engineers with a penchant for linear algebra - grab a few beers with some buddies who are trained construction engineers, ask to observe their work for a day with any software they are using, and observe how simple the principles underlying most CAD software is and how obnoxiously expensive and low quality most of such software is. Grab the construction engineer buddy, a computer graphics engineer and an applied mathematician. Start from a. performance b. quality c. shareability. Rule the market.
Hydro only works if you have geography on your side. Flywheels don't have the capacity to do utility scale demand shifting.

So, excluding hydro, am I right in that the economics of energy storage do not work (yet)?
> Google could have done this with G+, Twitter can do this today with proper reorientation, Heck FB could wipe the floor with these jokers (WhatsApp could too).

I keep waiting for any of those companies to pull their heads out of their butts and realize this.

Google's product strategy seems to be a random-walk, Twitter's platform is too far from LinkedIn's workflow to make it work, but Facebook? Facebook is the kind of company I'd thought would have figured this out.
I get zero spam to the email I have a LinkedIn account on. I get a shit ton to my gmail, no matter how often I click unsubscribe, send to spam and whatever else.

So both your experience and the grandparent's are possible - they respect you, once you've signed up.
It would be great if there was a directory of users.

I'd use it if I knew people in my network or people I'd be interested in following were already using it.
Seriously? Where do you live, out of curiosity?
Yeah it probably makes more sense to just use this kind of setup [1] except you ditch the mirrors and just embed the pipes directly into the road vs putting solar panels on the road.

[1] http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/images/4-1-1solar_the...
Neural networks are really just a fancy statistical regression.

Just the same as you could run a high-degree polynomial regression on some data and "not really know" why it chose the coefficients it did or why it yields a particular output for another input, neural networks typically involve a lot of mysterious coefficients, and it's hard to qualitatively explain why the neural network gives a particular output for another input.

But in both cases, the underlying principles and mechanism of action are very well understood.
She won't last once a troll holding a lemon-related patent sues her in East Texas.
To be fair the markets are really getting beat down today. e.g. LinkedIn is down 45% from $194.