skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to agree with you about the reusability of things. It's sad to throw away a powerful computer/camera/phone/etc just because the latest app doesn't work and it's too difficult to repurpose the old components.

Nowdays, I consciously rationalize and think that tiny camera only cost a few cents to make. It's not actually a valuable item worth preserving. Sure it would have been an amazing treasure a few decades ago, but now it's common and worthless. Perhaps quite similar to parts of a human body - very powerful when they're working together but utterly useless when they're removed or broken. Even long lasting parts like bones have very specialized shapes and internal structure that make them hard to re-purpose.

I still don't understand what you mean by quality. What makes this guy's photos mediocre? The one on the Donald Trump website looks exactly like I'd expect a photo of a politician to look. How can it tell a story? Does he need a sequence of photos showing something changing with time? It's just a person, not an event. The guy's just a stock photo photographer taking pictures for people who don't need context around them, not a journalist telling a story about a specific event.
If you're a man trying to marry up, you're facing extra challenges if the woman values her family's opinions at all. Not too long ago in pretty much all the civilized world the Father controlled who his daughters wed, you had to impress him even more so than the woman.
Martin Shkreli described himself as "focused on pharmaceuticals". I think he missed a comma in that. :D
I would love to do something similar with undertale (or fez) right now, but I pretty much assumed no interest.

I may have to do this.
> It's so easy to write useful but awful things with them, and they're really hard to fix and debug.

And it is even easier to write useful, beautiful things with macros, which are really easy to fix and debug.
You can't ASL X or Y, but you can ASL $0 or ASL $0, X. (Using either a zero-page address or an absolute address.)
CVE-2016-1287: Remote unauthenticated root/code execution on Cisco firewalls
The Women Who Programmed ENIAC
Google "sun percentage mass solar system" and the highlighted answer is "By far most of the solar system's mass is in the Sun itself: somewhere between 99.8 and 99.9 percent."

Please don't just disagree when you don't know what you are talking about.
Not having duplication is better for revenue because having duplicate content fill up your feed because lots of your friends re-shared something is bad UI. I'm not really that much more likely to click on something after the first time I'm shown something, and I start to get actively pissed off at it after a few unnecessary repetitions (this was a big complaint about the spam coming from Facebook games in the early days). Spamming up the feed with duplicate content means that for the same time spent browsing, someone sees fewer pieces of original content, meaning their average click rate is less, and yes, that costs revenue.

But fundamentally duplication costs revenue because it's a bad UI and bad UIs piss off users, leading them to use your product less.
Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
A free-market plan to save the American west from drought
I know a guy in a project that generates a few millions per employee. His share is less than 10% in salary. In this case the discrepancy is easy to see, but the same is true in many other places where it's not so obvious.

But we can see it in the big picture, statistically half the money in the country goes to the 0.01% or something along those lines. All the gains from productivity went to the super-rich.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for you to keep your eyes fixed on taxes and welfare when there is a lot more money at stake. But it makes a lot of sense for the super-rich to ensure that you keep doing it.
That's probably true. The whole benefit of a fractional reserve currency is you can manipulate the money supply to smooth out the peaks and valleys, a bit.

On the other, hand the government benefits tremendously from both growth and moderate price inflation, so when one of the "peaks" needs to be moderated a bit it almost never actually happens.
There are. One off the top of my head is waffle.
How many sales have you had so far? I can see the "DVD player" logic working for DVD player, cars and other possessions that are expected to lose value over time but I don't see this working for real estate and other assets that are commonly seen as investments (Whether they are income-producing or not).

Regardless of which area you're building in, the bottom line seems to be that I'd pay $400k this year for something I could get for $225k next year. Whether I'm in KC and it's worth $220k or Bay Area and it's worth $1.6mil I'm still immediately losing $200k at the time of purchase for no benefit other than having the property a year earlier.
It is literally just an arctangent sigmoid (with appropriate normalization) applied to the fourier transform of the image [0]. The thought that ran through my mind is:

"Are you .... kidding me?"

[0] https://github.com/JalaliLabUCLA/Image-feature-detection-usi...

Key lines are line 103/104, some stuff with ffts and iffts surrounding it.
Uber Agrees to Settle Class-Action Suit Over Safety Claims
"he employed Google Earth to create “North Korea Uncovered.” "

And by that creating derived work over licensed data. The press release says "publicly available satellite imagery", but that doesn't mean you're allowed to use it for tracing.

If the data remains in a Google Earth project it might be fine. But it's not open/free data, e.g. you wouldn't be able to import it into OpenStreetMap or make it available as download.

(With OpenStreetMap Bing allows tracing http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing#Bing_Aerial_Imagery).
So, in the US studying a second language is necissary for high school graduation.
Not necessarily. Betablockers can treat symptoms of anxiety resulting from activation of the sympathetic nervous system by blocking the action of adrenaline on adrenergic beta receptors. They may also have psychoactive effects (for example, propanolol appears to have some effect on memory consolidation [0]) but it's the inhibition of the body's "fight or flight" response that is helpful in treating performance anxiety.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propranolol#Psychological
And my point is that nobody would ever deploy this to production. Would you say you're worried about Go becoming C++ if someone posted a quine written in Go to HN?

By the way, Rust has no "template abuse", "ninja exceptions", or "inheritance".
Opportunity cost is a disadvantage.
External connector lisence.

Also I read some Ms documentation that a windows server that runs the database for web workloads may acutally come under web workload. I can't remember that document however.
Yeah, that is really important.

I started creating online courses recently and while I can perform well under no pressure in the comfort of my own home while taking as many cuts as I need to get out what I want to say, I have trouble explaining things live to an audience.

So far I've gone up twice in front of 70 or so people for only 60 seconds to announce my course. It's material I know very well.

The first time was pretty bad. Not a total tank, but lots of fumbling around and eventually saying things in a way that wasn't very clear at all.

The second time was a bit better. It had a rocky start for the first 3-4 seconds (aka. life times when you're up there) but I pulled it together and something vaguely coherent came out. I kind of just went into auto-pilot mode with confidence because it's something I wrote out like 20 different ways when I was working on my introduction video.

I didn't study a script for either of them but I practiced what I wanted to say in my head while I was walking to the venue. Probably not the best plan, but I've never been strong at having to memorize long blocks of text, it's just not how my brain works.

I think you do have to study hard to give a good presentation but being able to improvise is critical, especially if you plan to take questions at the end.
Plenty of projects use github much more intensly then ESLint does, and haven't had the same problems. (Rust, for example, has an order of magnitude more github issues then ESlint, but I've never heard them complaining about github as an issue tracker)
I have a top-end Dell from last year and, well, it's not "there".
There's a theorem that black holes have "no hair": two black holes of the same mass, charge and angular momentum are indistinguishable. So the merge must happen instantaneously: if the combined black hole were "sloshing" afterwards that would violate that theorem.
Eligibility requirements - note the VC ownership issues vary depending on the granting agency - NIH, CDC and Dept of Energy allow majority VC owned small businesses to apply:
https://www.sbir.gov/faqs/eligibility-requirements

In my opinion, the government "march-in" rights are not a significant business concern. Although technically the funding agency has the right the license your IP if you do not effectively commercialize it, in the real world this has never happened:
http://ipinspace.com/2012/04/11/patent-rights-and-obligation...

I agree that a maniacal focus on correct formatting is essential. My spouse had a grant bounced for a font that was 0.5 points too small.
I like Nitrous (nitrous.io/) - they have just reintroduced a free plan.

I use it to code C++. It's nowhere near the levels of VS2015, obviously, but it allows me to have a free dev box in the cloud.
The employee/contractor thing probably gets a lot less attention than the legal status of call-a-ride services and whether they need a medallion and the additional hurdles taxis meet, given that they don't pick up randos off the street.
I was referring to just buying some shares as an individual investor, not the whole company. Then yes, obviously total value matters.
Autodesk Shifts to Subscription Model
Truth....was she nervous, was she not into where was picked for the date, did you not get her humor yet, did she not get yours, etc
that's hardly an issue imo, the value you get from those few jobs is under $20 to you. When running a SaaS it's important to make sure you focus on people who's willing to pay you the rate you demand. I just hate it when everyone thinks SaaS should automatically be 19.99/month. I blame 37signals for starting this harmful trend.
PHP doesn't have tree-shaking, as it isn't compiled, but it does have autoloading: the source code files for classes are only loaded from disk when they're instantiated. This is probably similarly beneficial.
Well, in this case, enriquito's intuition is correct. The algorithm is very similar (if not identical[0]) to the algorithm found in the simplest edge-detection filter, which is to do isolate medium-band frequency contributions in phase space.

https://github.com/JalaliLabUCLA/Image-feature-detection-usi...

[0] I would be surprised if no one has ever used this exact arctangent kernel (with maybe different normalization and parametrization) in phase space.
This is pretty cool. Kudos.
> Did Zenefits employees really gain anything from not having to complete the required 52 hours? Was it really that big of an ordeal?

That was my first thought as well. I can see the appeal in streamlining (what at first glance seems like) an arbitrary process if the final exam is passed legitimately, but a one-time commitment of 52 hours at the start of employment (a good chunk of which you'd probably need to do anyway for the exam) barely seems worth bothering with. As you say, the risks are disproportionate - it certainly makes me wonder what other corners are being cut.
What's so wrong with a free college education?
Certain US politicians as of late have proposed to make college free. It is a good idea in principle.

Right now there is already a form of free college education---a PhD in science. The cost of the PhD is generally paid for using government research grants. I know this because I am such a student. That said, I am definitely not treated as a student; rather, I am treated as a source of cheap labor. Each year, the University pockets a large sum of government grants to "educate me" and then puts me to work as a TA or in a lab.

So what does this have to do with a free education? My concern is this: If students are subsidized then colleges will lose incentive to provide a proper education. Colleges will start to abuse their student population. Instead of offering courses, colleges will corral students into internships. In time, I fear the student body becoming an unpaid labor force, giving away their time for free for the sake of obtaining practical experience.

This is why I fear the free college education.
Memory operand is not a register operand. Unless you're one of those who consider 6502 zero page as 254 registers (IIRC, you couldn't use addresses 0 and 1, at least on C64, because they were used for ROM visibility and I/O control).
Idea: crowd-sourced issue triaging across many open source projects that rewards issue triagers with reputation points.
> The rate only increases if your income is above $250k, which doesn't seem unreasonable.

How "reasonable" that seems would depend on from which side of the $250k mark you are looking at it. Of course it is an easy sell to convince people to vote for a tax they don't have to pay. But such is democracy... two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
I can't get it to respond in any meaningful way. Seems to just spit out random, almost sentences.
>>You have confused scale of corruption

Everything that I wrote, right from the prime minister's office to ordinary man on the street is public knowledge.

>>definition of corruption with something that you think is wrong.

If you think corruption is only when a printed note is exchanged, I wouldn't be surprised to see why its so hard to eliminate corruption in India. Bulk of the corruption doesn't see any exchange in money. Its the favors and grants that are exchanged in way that facilitate further ease in earning money. Bargaining ministries, portfolios, license et al work this way. Heck bulk of the corruption in the Media in India doesn't even involve money.

>>I remember we had to bribe a local fair price to get sugar and better quality rice. Those days are over long back.

When did you leave India? This was the scenario circa pre 1995. I don't even know any one close, even my relatives who are poor who take rations from government fair price since more than a decade and a half. I think only BPL people get it these days.

>>Also I don't see private company managers favoring people from their state of region as a corruption.

So true, most beneficiaries of a scam rarely see the scam as a scam. They see this as an one time opportunity to get ahead, and others are supposed to lie down and co operate.

Like I said before, most managers who do this think they are just "helping" their pets.

>>It all depends on company's internal policies and whether they can run profitably under those cases or not.

A manager openly manipulates employee ratings, discriminates on the basis of language, geography, caste or religion. The person in full knowledge hands out rewards to people who don't deserve. And denies and discriminates against those who do. Not only do you see nothing wrong in it, you seem to be justifying it.

Hardly surprising, why its considered impossible to eliminate corruption in India.
Facebook and Google's combined revenue grew by $14 billion in 2015 compared to the year earlier. We are hardly in "the apocalypse". Internet properties as a whole are still growing even if many smaller ones are not, and the big gorillas still want to grow and have the money to make large acquisitions.
that's a silly/wrongful quote IMO... I've produced/recorded music for over 20 years and loops from other people are not only cheating, they are not your damned recordings and you sound like every other loop-arranger out there... it's not really that difficult to record real-world sounds and guess what!? you can use those same audio tools (your daw + plugins etc) to manipulate and sweeten YOUR recordings just as easily as you do with others recordings aka loops.
making music with sample-pack loops is basically just dj'ing/remixing... which I also have done for over 20 years so I know the difference...
Using boughten drums is not cheating, as it's generally about the way you tune them and play them that make the difference, versus loop manipulation that literally is about modifying otherwise sample-for-sample copies...
Guitar tonality = 80% in the fingers and the ear/mind of the player... The pickups and amp/pre-amp combination DO make the other 20% perhaps...
As for making drums from goat-skins, well it's not exactly rocket science...

now, onto the the problem I have with the actual issue at hand: it's not like the author is saying to write your libraries in assembler. he's saying that maybe you don't need to include gems upon gems that themselves reference other gems, as the dependencies pileup and get ridiculous and the performance suffers, which is actually a major concern with Rails and other monolithic frameworks with single-threaded processing etc.
for crying out loud, he's even giving you permission to specify your behaviors with a ridiculously high-level concise language aka Ruby... how much more direct and obvious can a point be and still be missed?
>A good hobby I recommend everyone that will help you totally tune out from your work is jiu jitsu

Yes! If people only knew the type of escape that was possible, both mental and physical. American blackbelt Chris Haueter once recalled how he would eagerly drive hours to the gym in his shitty car, from his shitty job and shitty relationship, because he knew it would all roll off him when he hit the mat.
I speculate that DFW's take on it would be something like: sure, we can reap some rewards by working hard and being prepared, but really the amount that those things affect our lives is really small compared to huge, uncontrollable things, like which genetics you were dealt, or whether your parents were killed by a tornado when you were 5, or what country you are born in.

We spend a lot of time rationalizing that our successes are somehow due to our efforts and our failures are somehow not our fault. We especially idolize high-status successes, like Picasso, and venerate such rationalizations when they come from such people. And we especially despise such rationalizations when they come from the poor, and so we hold silent contempt when we hear the homeless man on the subway explaining why it's not his fault he is so down on his luck.

But [I think DFW might say] in the end it's still really just one fatalistic crapshoot. That's not a good reason to work harder, nor is it a good reason to slack off and just say "c'est la vie." It's not a reason for anything ... it's just how things are.

I'm not saying this hypothetical DFW point of view is right. I'm just saying I don't think it has that much to do with rationalizations about past successes being used as motivation.
I'm a former Rdio user who's migrated to Spotify. It's clearly better in some ways but I struggle with trying to understand some of the decisions the team has made.

Just off the top of my head...

- The queue is fundamentally broken and useless. They really should rename it to "play stack... kinda".

- Clicking on an album to play it puts you in a subtly different state than playing the first song in that album. I'll let you figure that one out.

- The activity stream is one-way. there is no way to reply to a post. You are just shouting out into the darkness.

- Gestures don't work on osx, you have to find and click the tiny back button to go back.

- It's track/playlist based but playlists have a 10k song limit, so there is no way to keep a large collection of 'favorite' albums.

- From a list view there is no way to tell if an item is a single or a full album without clicking into it's detail view.

- No way to change your avatar. It's tied to whatever your facebook avatar is.

- Playlists have no description or image - unless you are a music label partner.

And dozens of features and niceties that Rdio had that you probably can't appreciate until you used them.

There's a slack community (Rdio Lovers) with hundreds of people that can't find a service that is anywhere near as polished and complete as Rdio was.
"If wanting to know up front if this is designed for the future or the past is an edge case, it's a pretty crowded edge. Python 3 was released eight years ago"

good point: a quick search reveals that Py2.x is still in a lot of legacy code (dependencies -- the big one), so I always check first:

- https://python3wos.appspot.com/

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30751668/python-2-vs-pyth...

- http://hiltmon.com/blog/2014/01/04/python-its-a-trap/

- https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/01/21/python-3-adoption-web-a...

- http://www.randalolson.com/2015/01/30/python-usage-survey-20...
> and the final series converges.

Or not, and we yell "look behind you!" and then dump the infinities out the window.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization
Well, PH > LEED =)

Would be great if you had some blog posts about the decisions behind the engineering.

I'm pretty interested in this stuff and would be curious for example how you arrive at ZE given different consumption patterns with different people. I see a lot of people pointing at solar as their low hanging fruit whereas I'm much more of the mindset that minimizing temperature variance is much more important.

Doing pretty good with my current house already but would love to see more pointers towards a more rigorous approach towards insulation, air tightness etc.
Rackt is moving projects to React org
But we have direct experimental confirmation of light behaving light both a wave and as a particle. Do we have any such evidence to show gravity exhibiting particle like behavior?
Long winded response, but this is something that I can quite personally relate to.

My senior year of college I was tasked with giving a presentation on an entire semesters worth of work to the class, no problem - except the catch was that you weren't allowed to have any notes with you. I'd never had an issues with presenting or speaking in front of audiences before, a little bit of nerves like most people, but nothing more than that. Well the day of the presentation comes and in my mind I knew ahead of time that it wasn't going to go well - I'd never given a talk to a class with no notes and I had convinced myself that without something to reference I was going to screw up. Well 30 seconds or so before it's my time to speak I begin to get the fight or flight response and start to have a panic attack - mind goes blank, heart literally pounding, I'm frozen. I don't really remember what I said, but I remember spouting off a lot of "umms" and "fucks". It sucked.

I eventually got over that embarrassing moment, but I'm convinced that I've now actually taught myself how to easily have a panic attack during moments that trigger even the slightest bouts of performance anxiety. Conference calls, medium-sized meetings, you name it, my body triggers an anxiety response - something that I never had a problem with before, it's debilitating, and I fear that it's holding me back in life.

The only thing that works for me (that i know of) is taking beta-blockers when I know ahead of time that I may be "in the spotlight" discussing or presenting something at work. They work wonders and really silence the physical responses that the body produces that are ultimately the catalyst of a panic attack, but the effects don't last veery long. So unless I'm popping pills all day, I'm basically always on-guard and fearful of those impromptu situations that pop-up where I could be called upon to speak - an "unmedicated" me could easily freeze-up slip into panic mode.

I sympathize with Dr. Habib and I'm wondering if anyone else on HN is in a situation similar to me and how they're coping, treating or hopefully curing it.