skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, see, in a supply-and-demand market, the price is always too high for somebody, and always not too high for somebody else. So "I believe the price is too high" is a completely meaningless metric.

And, in fact, the same thing applies in reverse from the sell side. They never complain that the price is too high, but some of them think the price is too low - and others don't.

I'd expect that everyone who thinks there's a shortage of engineers is on the employer side. And most of those on the employee side think that there quite clearly is not a shortage.

The actual definition of a shortage is "a deficiency in quantity" (per dictionary.com). Well, that's not very helpful. Deficiency compared to what? Or, deficient by what measure? You can have a shortage personally, compared to what you desire; but for a market as a whole to have a shortage, you have to have something to compare it to. That usually is the state of the market at a time when [it is generally agreed that] there wasn't a shortage.

So if you say, "STEM salaries are twice as high as they were in 1990, even after adjusting for inflation", then you might be able to make a case that there is a shortage. If you say, "we can't find people at the price we're willing to pay, but that price is less than the market rate in 1990", well, my heart fails to bleed for you.
> HN hug of death

I like that expression :-)
Did anyone look at his webpage? Did he actually write anything or did he just reorder Shakespeare's works?
org-mode certainly supports it, which is a big plus.
That's a good point. I wonder if any research has been done quantifying this risk in respect to startups.

That said, startup investing is a real outlier in respect to regular investing. People specializing in it often are motivated by more than generating larger returns, as a return-oriented investor would surely find other fields to be more lucrative from a risk standpoint.
> * there are most definitely some overarching equations that explain it all.

Not so, not for Earth's atmosphere, the topic I was discussing. There are first principles, but no overarching equations, analytically expressible or not. Prove me wrong -- show me the equation that tracks arctic temperature, rainfall, and snow cover, including the feedback effects that join them all, as an equation.

> * when you say "one processor per cube": if you mean cube = grid cell you're way off. You want to have at least ~ 10 000 grid cells per processor to have any level of performance.

It was part of a simple explanation, but in the future, in the name of increased throughput and as processor costs continue to fall, it will be literally true. I say this on a day when the Raspberry Pi Zero is so much in demand that I can't find one for sale.

> * it is definitely not quantum mechanics that makes weather hard to predict. It's what's popularly called "chaos", or mathematically, "exponential sensitivity to variations in initial data".

Both play a part. Quantum mechanics is thought to be the final obstacle to long-term weather forecasting, and chaos theory (extreme sensitivity to initial conditions) is the mechanism by which small initial causes lead to large effects.

Your last three point weren't corrections, so no need for comment.
This is an interesting side topic, social signalling and out of control holiness spirals.

What do you get if you mix the tolerance of a religious inquisition with any side of contemporary politics? You get out of control holiness spirals as each author tries to outdo the previous at being just a little more holy, a little better of a true believer in the real story. Its a perverse game of "telephone".

I propose VLM's law, that any large enough communications system that's not anonymous will devolve into holier than thou signalling warfare. Or rephrased you get three people together, one will slander another to show off to the third how much holier he is. It doesn't matter if we're talking about Jesus, physics, or emacs vs vi, same behavior.

Some of it is a culture of assuming the worst. Because if you've seen what passes for journalism, usually what we see IS the worst.

If you'd like the actual truth on a non-holiness spiral format, the reason why "family values" are described by Christian activists as coincidentally being Christian (well, as they see it, anyway) values is the same propaganda meme as the only opposition to traditional scientific evolution is the binary choice of Evangelical Christian biblical creationism. The same intentional thought process leads to it as a propaganda movement. The point is NOT to debate the issue with 3rd parties, but to assert primate dominance as the leaders of the Christians because they are the ones setting policy. The point isn't that Islam family values are not Christian or only families have values or whatever nonsense when internal doctrine is applied to outsiders who aren't supposed to be part of the conversation anyway, but to very publicly beat chest and tell competitors inside the in-group of Christians to "bring it on" because we are the leaders of the Christians so we decide whats a Christian family value... unless you'd like to argue and try to become top dog of the Christians yourself? Its sort of a misunderstood out of context quote used by outsiders almost as a slur when its really none of their (direct) business who is in charge of the Christian leadership. In a different age the Christians would be slandering each other over translations or various twisted out of context biblical readings, and back then it ALSO had nothing to do with outsiders and they can quite safely butt out and ignore the internal grindings inside the group. Unless you're personally involved in the dominance fight for Christian leadership I can assure you the whole topic is nothing personal, at least not intentionally, and was never meant for your ears.
Kotlin is a beautifully designed language: small, modern + statically typed that's naturally terse and elegant - ideal for both OOP and LINQ-like/functional programming:

https://github.com/mythz/kotlin-linq-examples

Thanks to JetBrain's tooling prowess it also has great integration with Android Studio - Light years better for functional programming than Java 1.7:

https://github.com/mythz/java-linq-examples

Which can seamlessly integrates with Java within the same project. Google/Java/Android Devs are sitting on a unrealized gold-mine of productivity with Kotlin, should be the modern successor for Android.
Why wouldn't you transfer your money out of China?

Billionaires are going 'missing' every month and the government can pretty much take over your business and take all of your money, for any reason.

To make any kind of money there, you need to pay huge bribes.
I can get the sentimental value of not wanting to leave your home, but why should anyone else care? There are plenty of other places out there to live that are far cheaper.

Full disclosure: I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere and have never lived in a large city.
Great question!

No, no it is not in the spec, as of February 15th, 2016:

http://archive.is/quwUd

Update: I think Peter Hunt is talking about Facebook's internal server-side implementation of GraphQL. That's the only way his comments make any sense given what's publicly available.
The World’s First Virtual Constitution to Be Coded Tonight
Granted, Apple does for some reason charge a lot more for storage than the other brands, but if you look at the 16-32GB phones the difference basically disappears.
Well piracy shouldn't be a positive thing.
I think there's a different level of skepticism needed for ufos and fairly simple piece of technology.

While I don't think the case has been proved its certainly one of those things where there's a reasonable chance of it being true.
OSMhydrant mapping fire-fighting facilities
As a non-us-er, I am shocked to see that people actually believe that somehow their chosen one's love is held for ransom by Debeers and must be bought out with X salaries.

It is so sad that it is possible to socially engineer customs for whole societies, influencing highly intelligent and well-educated people, which customs profit not said people but small corporate entities.

At the same time, it is a very useful example and a pointer to important questions about many other beliefs perpetuated by manipulation and profit.
Coffee naps: How to supercharge caffeine by going to sleep (2015)
Isn't that what, say, IEEE and ACM are?
All due respect, but I don't think it really necessary or advisable to publicly expose the person in question. What's the use of knowing who it was?
The "appropriate response" for the sort of things he was saying used to be a gentleman's duel.
I would call it "annotation" maybe. He didn't write anything.

https://sites.google.com/site/eternitypromised/
You don’t even need to check the SHA256 by hand, just use `brew create <tarball URL>`. It’ll create a formula with a sensible name, fetch its URL, populate the SHA256, and open the file in your editor. However note it’ll create it in the core formula directory instead of your tap; you’ll need to move it yourself.
For morality reasons I would never be comfortable working there. The workplace could be heaven on earth and pay really well but there are simply things that are more important.
Ask HN: Out of beta with paying customers.  What's next?
Hello HN,

I've been working hard on a side project for the better part of a year. After a 6 month alpha and a 2 month beta, it exited beta with 160 users and around 20 actual paying customers.

The question I have is what do I do next? I've bootstrapped this far just by working on weekends and in the evenings after my day job, but my ultimate goal is to work full-time on this and grow the product and business. Is this enough traction to take to angel investors or am I better off taking the slow road of continued bootstrapping?

Some more info that might help you understand the situation better.

- Kernl - https://kernl.us

- Private Wordpress Plugin & Theme Updates, continuous deployment, and purchase code validation

- Processing roughly ~200k update pings a day.

- Hosting around 175 plugins & themes

- Averaging 1-2 new sign ups a day.

Any kind of insights, thoughts, critiques, or questions would be helpful.

Thanks
Point no2. The people that built great products and have good cv's don't have great performance? And why would you want to filter out great product builders because they don't have a CS degree or worked in a big company before?
I feel like the immigration issue has been made about five hundred times more complicated than is really necessary. We need some high-paid engineers to redesign our laws from the ground up, in my opinion.
Is there a name for the thing where every discussion online eventually becomes about stridently defending or bashing capitalism?

SOME PUBLIC FIGURE: I'm leaving twitter, too many trolls.

[ 50 pages of discussion ]

AGGRIEVED COMMIE: ACTUALLY, capitalism sucks!

(As it happens, totally agree with the commie stuff though. All the cheery talk about liberty and voluntarism is idiotic since it acts like primitive accumulation and enclosure don't exist, as if everybody starts out with equal capital to manage, like in a board game.)
I recently moved to another state and decided I need to find a doc. I've had the hardest time trying to find a doc, but at the same time I don't have a large social network local to the area to draw upon.

My concerns in order of importance:

* Does a doc take my insurance

* Are they with in a 20min driving radius

* Are they taking new patients

* Are they not terrible at their job

* Are they remotely personable

* Differentiating between different GP specialties was a bit confusing (internal medicine, family practice, etc)

With 20-30 or so docs in the area to choose from, I'm just going to have to roll the dice and see if things work out. Anything to help make this choice easier would be awesome.
I'm surprised it doesn't use Character Aware Neural Language Models (CNN -> LSTM RNN) but instead a layered RNN. Interesting!
Those are the old laws, the new law is "humans are stupid, algorithms know better"
It sounds like a concept that the author has been toying with for a while, how reading is not only a deliberate choice with an onslaught of competing options, but that the choice, even for those in a literary profession, isn't particularly "well-informed".

A lot of the writers I know say they write to understand and refine their ideas. So maybe it just started as a personal thought and then he decided to publish it, maybe because he hears similar questions often?
William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and Twitter(2010)
Higher ups.
He publicly exposes himself, via email and comments, all over the place. He wants people to read his stuff.
You don't challenge every idiot that insults you to a duel.

Since duels are extremely risky, you would only demand one when something more important than your life is at stake. Like your honor, or that of your beloved. To put honor at stake, the insults must be issued in public, with a specific goal of that besmirching. Even then most reasonable people will take steps to allay the situation before it gets too bad.

And that was only something the nobility did. Everybody else just started a fight. Taking a few swings provides everyone around with entertainment while letting you work out your anger in a relatively safe way.
The traditional way to handle too many rich people moving into town is to suck up to them as you charge extortionate prices on ordinary stuff that you can pretend is rare and exclusive.

One of the great things about rich kids is that they never really learned how much anything is really worth. So you can hand them pretty cocktails made from rail booze and gold leaf, and they gleefully hand you your next 20 car payments.

So you're looking at it the wrong way. It is an opportunity, not a curse. Turn that foreign investment into foreign spending. And try to make sure that a good portion is spent on you.
Reading the comments (2015)
psql2csv is just a wrapper around what you're describing. The point is that you don't have to write the "boilerplate" when all you need is a single query. Plus, it works nice with stdin and stdout, making it handy for queries stored in a file, or for piping the CSV to another program.
Looks like it's yet another cloud one based on the code here [0].

[0]: https://github.com/mguterl/sensi/blob/master/index.js
Notes for ThisWeekInStartups Ep.621- Podcast by Jason Calacanis
List of graphical user interface builders and rapid application development tools
Dan Ariely's Irrational Card Game
Reminds me of Dennis Mortensen's (founder of x.ai) recent article on the rise of Vertical AIs: http://thesbjournal.com/1165-2/
You can read some of his rude email exchanges here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/humanities.lit.autho...
a law engineer?
I remember reading this piece in my AP biology class senior year of high school. I was born in central Kentucky and this story (this exact article actually) is used very often in upper level biology classes as a case study in genetics.
The answer is to read it, point out his mistakes, and tell him to stop yammering about being a genius, because chances are he'll get further if he doesn't waste too much time on bragging about nonexistent progress.

If he actually doesn't make a single mistake that you can find, it's time to hop a step up the chain of command at your local university and do it again.
I would love to see git-diff type notation on the text of various laws - 'senator so-and-so added this', 'paralegal Y removed this clause' - with commit-messages for each.
thats an interesting point, but i wonder, how do you know its true? i initially agree because the internet enables social reclusion, but i dont know if i have anything more concrete to go on than that. as someone who went to small middle and high school, i've seen how often people who would just be ignored because they are rough around the edges end up being great members of the community when proximity and exposure help overcome the initial friction. i guess what im saying is i agree with you if there is some reason to believe that there is something that has actually lowered proximity and exposure, and im not so sure the internet really has, but i really dont know.

i would say the writers response is very helpful though, it contextualizes alan for himself. could it be more helpful and less insulting? sure, but its pretty good overall, especially when you compare it to how little effort alan put forth in the communication.
Many of us bought ours before the patch...unfortunately.
Actually the windows start menu used the same folder structure as the Win 3x program folders items.

>Windows 95 Back in 1995, people lined up at midnight to get Microsoft’s latest release of Windows, and it was the first version, alongside the enterprise-focused Windows NT 4, to introduce the Start menu. It was designed to make Windows easier to use, and group or organize applications in a list. Before it arrived, Windows users could access apps through Program Manager. It was largely a basic list of apps, with no real organization.

Clearly not even looking at how the start menu works from a file structure layout is kind of funny if you're going to waste your time writing an article about it.
Interning for Palantir is a pretty big resume boost for college students, and they have one of the highest paying internships in the valley. There's some serious benefits to going to Palantir.
I don't agree that society has failed him. It takes two to tango; he has played a part in it himself.

He's a Shakespearean conspiracy theorist, who spends inordinate amounts of time on this one thing.

It's just a bizarre thing that most people could not make heads or tails of. I don't believe that no one wants to be his friend. I just don't think anyone knows how to be his friend.
I also never had one in Europe outside of the UK.
This isn't outing someone that's trying to be discreet. He's pushing his agenda, with his full name, and is proud of it.

The additional context that this isn't a single incident is important. He spends a great deal of time emailing anyone that has anything to do with writing and goading them into reading his theory.
Unfortunately it is cloud based (signalr), so if they decide to close the service, my Wi-Fi thermostat becomes a basic programmable thermostat. I haven't yet sniffed the traffic between the thermostat and their servers to see if it would be possible to replace their service with my own.
nothing beyond ... "think deeply, be worldly, travel!"

I'm failing to see the bad part.
He wrote tons of commentary on each of the sonnets. He clearly put a lot of work into this.
Transferring your H1-B is much easier than getting one..
Graph.no – Weather forecast via finger (2014)
Huh, I only ever heard people mentioning this issue for 10.11. Never heard about it at all when 10.10 came out. I bet that's why I never saw any explanation for this reason, because people who had heard about this with 10.10 were just assuming that's what was going on.

Incidentally, I had no idea about ⌘L to show logs during OS update.

In any case, even if the OS update takes a long time, the end result is you still have the same /usr/local you did before.

Also, FWIW, the discussion you linked to references TeXLive, as does the blog post you linked. I wonder if the issue here is not in fact having anything in /usr/local, but rather having used a package installer to install something into /usr/local (which I assume TeXLive does). It doesn't make much sense to me for the OS updater to move everything out of /usr/local and then back in one-by-one under normal conditions. But if you used a package installer to install into /usr/local, then it would make more sense for it to do something like that (which is to say, it may have special behavior around things covered by package receipts).

Edit: Well, under normal conditions, it might still move the folder away and back, but I'd expect it to just move all the top-level items from the folder back, instead of manually copying all of the nested files).
You can't compile Rust without types and inside functions, most types come from inference and coercions, so "type checking" is really "type resolution".
Are Car Sharing Services Worth the Risk?
Relevant Scraping/Crawling Lead Mining Tools:

http://grabby.io

http://fullcontact.com

http://emailhunter.co

http://clearbit.com

http://toofr.com

http://import.io

http://kimonolabs.com

http://apifier.com (favs)

http://elink.club

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My wife is a student and looking for internship she will work for a company that helps people write about how they ran over than grandma if she gets a legal. Morality and ethics have a price always.
If you have the ability to intern at Palantir you have the ability to intern at any number of more responsible companies. Palantir has a bigger booth at the career fair, but I'd bet working at Apple or Uber is just as much of a resume boost at much less of a societal cost. (source: am a college student)
Do you remember that time Steve Jobs and Obama had dinner and discussed engineering immigration?

http://www.businessinsider.com/when-steves-jobs-and-barack-o...

"Jobs continued to press the engineering angle at the dinner, saying that at the time Apple employed 700,000 factory workers in China, plus 30,000 engineers to support those workers."

We need the best talent of the world to be a technological leader nation. nonetheless, there is a big amount of jobs that need a good engineer but not a bright mind as Wozniak.

This is how globalization works and we need to keep up or be defeated by a better player at accepting STEM immigration. Let the fear aside, confront the global arena and struggle to keep being leaders of the world.
Two months is a short time but I had sort of expected this given how bad their service of performing last few days. That is why I had started moving to other services.
Thanks, I'll check this out. I had mine professionally installed, so I generally trust the company that did it, but always good to double check.
> When a blog has time to display a load animation in 2016 someone,

Using JavaScript client-side doesn't necessitate this. You could inline the data into the page and you would not be able to tell if it was client-side rendered.
Oh I see his comments on each of the pages now. Thanks
I think these tools underestimate the impact stress has on coders. I would dare to say more than 30% of ability can be impacted. Since coders rarely write code under extreme stress unless they work for stock market apps I don't see the point of having such a huge confounder.
LLVM compiles fast code for things that aren't C++ as well. Maybe you could say it's biased towards static languages.

Also its compilation speed is supposed to be fast in terms of AOT compilation, but not necessarily fast enough for JITing javascript in web-pages.
What makes them a shitty company? Why is their work reprehensible?
Linux Homebrew[0] can cover it for linux. Just need Windows Homebrew.

[0]: https://github.com/Linuxbrew/linuxbrew
"As it is now, very few specialists have enough clout to arrest the current momentum, and software professionals, hardware professionals, healthcare workers, and engineers are likely the only ones that wouldn't be scoffed out of the room if they threatened a general strike."

..and why would they strike? This group is probably in the top 10% of workers paid in the US.

I find it a little strange that a group that has the most power, money, and benefits even thinks about striking.
This sort of is composition. It's like a static version of the Decorator pattern. Here's a vaguely realistic example:

http://blog.ryannedolan.info/2014/03/scala-pattern-stackable...
His work is as interesting as it is bizarre. It's less about "exposing" and more about "understanding."