skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you are young is the time when you do startups - of course some would do when they are post 30/40/50 but you will find out it is more difficult to do this once you reach certain age (i.e. get married, have family etc.)

You need to have a goal in your mind - so lets assume you landed a nice job in Bay Area for 100k, lets say you would be getting a pay rise every year (or so) - but would you have to specialise in some narrow bit of tech to do that? Would you continue living like this for rest of your life? Getting pay rises every year (or so)?

From another point of view - when doing startup and specialising in some narrow tech does not sound like a good idea. You want to broaden your skillset, that is - not only tech but also doing business, growing your network of connections that may help you starting your own startup in the future. You need to try to get your head around all of the concepts you possibly can, learn lessons of this startup so you do not make mistakes in the future and do everything you can to get your brain producing ideas. At some point you will evaluate those ideas and most likely set up something on your own - and then you may end up being somebody like Richard Branson? Who knows!

My advice though, do not let your job to burn you out. Contribute more if you feel like it but do not go too far with it for 1) they will expect you to be like this 24/7 and 2) your health is something you can loose easily.

Long-ish piece of advice, so what about myself? I started as engineer in world-wide corp and after 8 years left to join startup. And I have done it 8 years too late since this startup is quite demanding and I'm handling all tech issues together with building the team and keeping them on track. So it's 10 times more challanging now than it would be 8 years ago (and I know it would, working 9-5 job is piece of cake).

Good luck and all the best!
This is incredibly disheartening to hear, but I have to say I'm glad to see the currently top-voted comment is about this, and most of the thread has turned to focus on this.

I wonder how big of an issue this NSL will become for Reddit, or whether it will be forgotten about in a week.

I also wonder what it means for me as a Redditor. "If you have nothing to hide" arguments aside, does this mean it is safe to assume that the NSA got full access to all of Reddit's data and hoovered it all up? Or are these NSLs only able to target individuals? Not sure you can really make that distinction from a data mining standpoint I guess.
Was this not announced at ReactConf 2016 ? :P
How can you head a multinational automobile engineering company and not be aware of this most basic shortcoming of your product?
> double-especially when you factor in that we don't have solid railroads

I think you mean 'passenger railroads'. The US freight railroad is world-class. Lots of spurious debate about railroads in the US comes from confusing the pros and cons of a freight network (which we have) with the pros and cons of a high-speed passenger network (which we don't have). The benefits of a continent-sized high-speed rail network in a continent with low population density tends to be over-emphasized.

http://business.time.com/2012/07/09/us-freight-railroads/
I don't see how such a service would invalidate the argument; you could prevent that service from affirming it, but that shouldn't impact the original canary issuer.

And I don't think canaries are really a feature of current technology; seems like one could have simply posted a weekly newspaper ad with the same content.
In a book by Bertalanffy (50s System Theory) they also measure frequency limits (my blub) in animals. Anything faster than that wasn't registered by said animal. Like waving a a stick 20 times per second would be invisible to him. While at 15 "fps" it would runaway.
-1 for Simple. Not refunding ATM fees is ridiculous for a bank that has no physical ATMs. Also, things like this: "Your Simple Visa® Card will not function on August 6th from 2:00 - 9:00 am EST"
Hangouts absorbed Google Voice:

"Hangouts remains the future of Google Voice, so we’re going to keep bringing the most-loved Google Voice features into the core Hangouts experience,"
Freedom and Sapphire cards are amazing because you can combine points between them.
You mean something like this - https://github.com/CatalystCode/react-native/ ?
So what would an interview like this entail?
It's all good. You still take the feedback and try to improve things. That's what counts. :)

Thanks for the link. Ill look at it again in coming weeks.
I think the last time I'd actually heard of the product in question was Google Reader. But that goes for virtually all of the "X is shutting down" stories I see on HN.
Looks like that one could be used in a gaming/dev rig as well.
Zenefits
Hey @taypo - how is that experience going ? Would love to hear how this is working out.

You are right - this was announced at ReactConf 2016
Thanks for the feedback dsr_!

All data is anonymous. What's posted back is some URLs.
Individual books can be requested with an email.

I do agree this be more secure though. I'll look for ways of encrypting things and add a privacy statement. Any other suggestions for what would make you more comfortable are welcome.

Thanks again!
Hey, in Mexico, they dig holes in the road, and don't mark them ;)
Unless they've got a very specific purpose in mind (like spoofing an email address associated with a particular domain for phishing purposes), don't spammers just spoof a random real email address from the list of harvested email addresses they're sending the mailshot to?

I've definitely received generic spam emails purporting to originate from colleagues (whose email addresses would have been published in the same place) and I think I've even received one or two with my email as the spoofed originator...
You've never seen a genius half-ass something?
Or up state New York. I was driving on one limited-access highway where there were so many potholes the speed limit was 35 M.P.H. Usually I would not adhere to such a ridiculous speed on a highway, but in this case it felt prudent to actually go slower than that.
Actually, you could already use ReactNative with Windows, but there were some quirks.

I just run the packager, with watchman and flow disabled, and it works pretty well. The VS Android emulator is free and so much faster than the default emulator - thats why i use Windows to create Android apps atleast.
Uber CEO must face price-fixing lawsuit by passengers: U.S. judge
Not sure of UK laws, but if they help administrate pension funds and take 0.25% (similar to Wealthfront and Betterment in the US), you won't have much to worry about.

Zenefits (free HR, monetize by being insurance broker) prints money in the US, despite the recent bad PR.
Somebody should make a startup that allows people to sell access to their computers by the minute. Like spot instances in the cloud ... in people's basements. The true sharing economy.
Funny, it doesn't look druish...
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Ninety mile beach?

Then we have to wish automatic cars have a Jeremy Clarkson mode
I write a bit of Haskell in small projects but my background is largely Lisp/Scheme (the mud ball approach). I do admire hard-core Haskellers who seem "thinking in types". I wonder if there are good articles that tell how type-based approach helped dynamic development (meaning, lots of trial-and-errors, and rapidly changing spec, involving many components developed simultaneously by different programmers).

I assume you can encode implicit constraints in types, for example (suppose components form DG, you might encode dependencies to ensure restructuring graphs always satisfy them). Just like to see how it works in real life development.
and whole world is doing it, like they really care :)

http://skytruth.org/viirs/

btw, notice how activity decreased in 2015 vs. 2014 with oil prices falling
If they are trying to copy the Zenefits model, then their HR software product is simply a super advanced lead generation tool to fill the pipeline for their sales reps to sell you insurance and other staffing/benefits-related services.

Zenefits cut corners and behaved deplorably, but I have yet to see anything indicating that their was a fundamental flaw with their business model. On the contrary, it seems like a runaway success in some ways.
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Neat. C# looks more attractive day by day. Is there a decent non-commercial AOT compiler for it (I know that Mono has one, but not sure whether it's any better than GCJ was)?
I'm squatting 500 pounds now, so I can squat 350 when I'm 80 :P
In Rust, our main two string types are String and &str, which are both UTF-8 encoded. For interoperability with other things, we have additional types that you can convert to/from. http://andrewbrinker.github.io/blog/2016/03/27/string-types-... is a recent overview in a blog post.
Someday someone will get an NSL, say screw it, publish it on the internet (with mirrors) and tell the government screw you I now have standing.
The whole point of the article is that this is the early warning sign.
Really awesome, looks like really nice interfaces you've created. Great work.
Apple still sells hardware. Their TOS require it be compiled on their hardware.
If Aaron Schwartz faced decades in jail for piracy what the tax payer financed, how much time should Clinton face?
Actually sounds like a problem with the class scoring system.

Rational actors will maximize their returns, and in a game that has a set number of rounds, the equilibrium won't be met unless there are returns and costs associated to each round.

Your professor should have graded on a running score, per turn, so that there would have been a reason (other than reputation cost with class peers) for the teams to collude up until the end. It would have also been more realistic for the course, since a decade of continued existence is considered more of a win for a political nation than some final tally at year 2050.
Just upgraded and that setting was not enabled after.
[MSFT] employee here.
Among many other things, we've announced today, we talked about Excel REST APIs. This API allows you to access and modify Excel Spreadsheet. This may do what you’re looking for. There are more details at http://dev.office.com/blogs/build2016release. (about half way through the page). Hope this helps.
I was unfamiliar with AIXI, so that was some interesting Google. Also, this:

"Since AIXI is incomputable, it assigns zero probability to its own existence."
I am pretty sure that it has long been illegal to fly any non-FAA-approved aircraft (whether manned or not) near airports without that airport's approval. Does that qualify as some regulation to you?
Jailtime. Jailtime. Jailtime. Long sentences.
That's what Xamarin.Forms (https://www.xamarin.com/forms) does, for iOS, Android and UWP (desktop, mobile, xbox). My preference is still to go the native UI route though. If you take an MVVM approach, you'll naturally keep the logic in the shared code - the models and viewmodels - and you then can build views specifically for each platform and bind them on.
Simple is "just Bancorp" which you could probably say equal things about.
Can you retitle this to say "Juicer" instead of "Juice Box"?

Saying "Juice Box" is just click bait so people will gasp at the idea of a juice box so expensive, then you read it and realize it's actually a juicer.

(Sorry for putting this as a reply to this thread - not sure how else to ask for a retitle.)
Some have speculated that it could be an honest Q&A with the former SoS based on their findings (to get an official response). Others are speculating that it could be a chance to actually catch her in a lie, based on their findings ("Five months ago, you stated X, is that still true?" having evidence that X is no longer true).

Pure speculation, of course, but man would I like to be a fly on THAT wall...
Just to correct myself: it's Banks's later book Excession which was directly inspired by Civ. The video game hadn't yet been released when "The Player of Games" was published, and I can't provide evidence that Banks was aware of Railroad Tycoon or its predecessor board games.

"Excession" is a good book as well, and appears to draw on email mailing list culture. http://www.tor.com/2015/03/06/on-iain-m-banks-and-the-video-...
"Of course, this type of single-snapshot-in-time study can’t tell us whether the athletes’ training actually changed their muscle health over the years or if the athletes were somehow blessed from birth with better muscles, allowing them to become superb masters athletes."

I really wish they hadn't used world class athletes, who almost always have major genetic advantages.
Fellow Schwab customer here. Unlimited ATM rebates has been great. I was surprised at bow nice it felt to whip out my Schwab card next to the scary little free-standing ATM machine at the cash-only shop with some ridiculous $4.00 ATM fee. Felt like a cheat code.
Sure it can

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.2.0/docs/Contro...
I misunderstood the bottleneck, not having had to do that. (Distributed metadata for the parallel filesystem could actually be tuned to be memory resident.)
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Those are both terrible strategies for trying to fix the problem.

How about doing more science or more journalism? Those things have the dual benefits of helping solve the problem and actually being possible without zombie time travel.
I am still trying to understand the logic of cars that follow other cars, as if you can trust them. How much deviance from the lane can the car you are following take before the autopilot just says, hell no.

the state of the roads isn't what is stopping self driving cars. considering the amount of road construction going on at any one time no amount of markings are going to help, then toss in rain, bad lighting, and snow.

No, what is holding them back is the programming and processing power that cars are expected to mount. As humans can drive with on their sense of sight cars will have the advantage of sight that see in conditions people cannot plus also have maps available at all times which should give guidance on where the roads really are.

The roads are deteriorating foil is typical election year crying. the bridges and roads are much improved since the 90s and the key fact most writers and readers of these articles don't understand is, the federal government does not have domain over many of the roads that need maintenance.
>is there a theory that encompasses General Relativity and defines a theoretical largest possible distance/time?

It's possible to define a universe of nearly any possible shape, but most aren't really compatible with our observations. One that fits reasonably well would be the de Sitter space, which fits most important criteria, and has a finite size at each moment in time.
That's fucked up, this stuff is so frustrating and pisses me off.....this stuff will keep happening until stronger fines are in place. Rather than setting petty fines, the fines should instead be something like 0.5% of the company's revenue. That'll get them listening because it's a substantial enough amount that the risk of getting caught isn't worth it.
Go's popularity in hobby projects is probably due to it being a pleasure to work with. After programming in C++ at work it's a language I turn to at home when coding for my own enjoyment.
I got up to 250+ (3 reps), this makes me feel like a feeble baby! Have you been lifting for long? I can deadlift 300+, I bet you deadlift 700? Curious, lemme know!
Seriously? Just use all the sensors you've got to determine the edges of the road, divide the width of the road in half, and the right-half is the direction you're traveling in. Based on the size of this half, determine number of lanes. Create a virtual box so the car stays in the space of where the right-most lane should be. No need to read road markings to stay in lane.

edit Nevermind, I forgot that not all roads have an even number of lanes in both directions (even considering single turning lanes and medians). But absent a median or any markings at all, the above is a relatively safe bet. I'm sure they could build a set of heuristics to accommodate the exceptions.

Humans have spatial vision, so we should also be able to create cameras that can make out objects floating in free space (such as traffic lights), piece out their components, and compare them to a set of common criteria to determine its intent, the way humans basically do.
It's at odds with employees' own agendas as well -- nobody gets promoted for fixing a few bugs. Rearranging buttons, that is something your manager will notice.
IO is the bottleneck there for most applications, but there are some massively distributed grid computing projects that run on BOINC like Seti@HOME.
Nice that you skipped past where Chomsky explicitly recommends we "support" PKK (and incidentally is for delisting):

Chomsky: They’re killing Yazidis. So what do you do? You support the people who are saving the Yazidis. Who happen to be on the US terrorist list.

Hasan: The PKK.

Chomsky: Yes. They are the ones who are primarily responsible for saving the Yazidis.

Hasan: If the Americans say, "We will drop bombs, and they have been working with various Kurdish groups." Do you support that? I’m just wondering. You, as a critic, do you support that?

Chomsky: Support working with the Kurds? Yeah.

[...]

Chomsky: To the extent that they are supporting the Kurds in Rojava, as they call it, so the Kurdish area of Syria, have defended their territory, seem to be developing, as well as you can under these conditions, a fairly decent society, very different from anything else in Syria, they certainly merit support.
very good. ty
Who says he wasn't aware? Most likely, he wasn't aware that the specific place where they were planning the demo didn't have markings.
It's a combination of sensors and AI. You'd be surprised by how low quality (wrt framerate & resolution specifically) the sensors used in production autonomous features/vehicles are.
See mobile-eye's papers and products: http://www.mobileye.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/StereoAss...
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I'm adding this one to my "Games to Play" list.
Kirigami! Kirigami! Kirigami!

https://dot.kde.org/2016/03/30/kde-proudly-presents-kirigami...

https://subsurface-divelog.org/2016/03/announcing-subsurface...
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That seems unrealistic. Single core performance still matters for algorithms that can't be efficiently parallelised. Moreover, writing efficient, parallel versions of a lot of algorithms is hard, and often introduces significant overheads of its own that must be outweighed by the better scalability that the parallelisation brings.
> The $700 might be worth it if you were able to use your own reusable veggie squash bag

Just buy a Juicer - there are plenty on the market.

The point of this is so you don't have to peel the produce yourself, it comes nicely prepacked for you - for a modest extra fee of course.
FWIW, the current preferred web server at JS seems to be https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-cohttp (which supports both Async and Lwt). I wouldn't go so far as to call it a framework, though.
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More likely she would want to draw it out as much as possible so she could get immunity as president.
Try it at a casino. You'll feel like you're robbing the place.
Air pollution != climate change.
On the subject of transport uses for beaches - there is an airport here in Scotland that uses a beach as a runway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_Airport_%28Scotland%29

It does have scheduled flights - but the schedule has to take account of the tides.
The article says the discoverer was manually reviewing 300,000 pages of data (in graphs) because "a computer isn't easily programmed with such a vague task as "find something weird and cool ..."

But then it says:

> Because of it's oxygen atmosphere, Dox's spectral graph looked truly unique, and he brought it to Kepler.

That seems to argue (strongly even) that computer based analysis would have picked up on this star pretty quickly. (Obviously assuming competent data modelling + subject knowledge)

Perhaps the discoverer will now automate things a bit? :)
Thanks for such a rationale comment. People so often default to ad-blocking as the best option. I suspect they will be the first to complain when websites start dropping quality because they have no funds or insert 'cash for comment' everywhere and you cant trust news/reviews at all.

If you think about it, that a business can give you so many cool products (e.g. emails, movies, news, calls etc) at no cost with the small inconvenience of having some ads while I've largely learnt to ignore anyway if pretty darn cool.
My high school world history teacher ran a game like this for the class. He booked a whole week for it. After two days we had destroyed the world in a nuclear war. He made us sit quietly in class for the rest of the week as punishment! What a great lesson though in how terrible people can be.
Surprised it hasn't happened yet, not sure what the penalty would be but I'd guess months rather than years.
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The next major Python version will be Python 8
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Why is Python being relegated to "systems programming" along side C and C++?

There are probably literally millions of Python web apps out there, not to mention sites like Instagram and YouTube running on Python. Python hasn't ever really been a systems language.
405 north in the rain is fun. Even better in the dark :-). Or just 5 north all through the LA area.
Just don't hold the spacebar. {blink blink}
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Check out Gigster. Generally get around $100/hr, more for rush jobs/etc.
I mean like give me the preceding row from the current. Very useful for calculating anything from a simple rate of change to a properly doing a temporal database. Arrays as a column type doesn't get you that.
The point of functional programming (or any good programming style, really) is to eliminate unneccesary dependencies (by which process the necessary dependencies are clarified) not to remove necessary dependencies (which by definition is impossible).
I am not aware of any vehicle with autonomous capabilities which bases it's operation on "following other cars".
Which spez responds to and says: "I've been advised not to say anything". Only explanation I can see is NSL.
Been lifting with a focus on powerlifting for about 7 years, my last meet total was 515 squat, 585 deadlift and 336 bench at 185 lbs. Be patient, get on a tried program, put in the work, eat and sleep and it'll come.