skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SurviveJS book, you can read it online for free: http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/introduction/
http://survivejs.com/

Full-Stack Redux Tutorial: http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial...
Related Reddit post, with one of the authors answering questions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4e15fa/the_largest_...

Also, from that thread, someone posted that USC does an annual film gender study. The latest is here [pdf]:

http://annenberg.usc.edu/sitecore/shell/Applications/Content...
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/320/
Solution to one of the “Millennium Prize Problems”
Repealing Moore's Law
I encourage you to do some quantifiable analysis that you judge to be free from bias and see if you get a different result.

You seem to be immediately dismissing this analysis as not useful, while only providing anecdotal evidence and questions. Do you feel like your points are more/less useful than the quantified analysis in the article?
Location: France
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Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Linux, Node, Django, Python, React,
Meteor (prototyping), Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, C
Résumé/CV: benderv.com/files/cv-benjaminderville.pdf
Email: benderville@gmail.com

Hi, I'm looking for an internship (6 months/February) in a startup, preferably in SF.
CS Master (French Engineering Diploma). Major in Mobile Technologies and Embedded Systems. I also do online courses and lots of small projects. I'm heavily interested in Machine Learning & Development.
With all the attacks from the left against allegedly "privileged" people, I can actually well understand why those people want to secure their property by moving it out of reach. The fun thing about this new outrage (the "Panama Papers") is that it will probably spawn more of that, in order to protect against the populist new regulations and taxations that will inevitably follow.

The only thing I find regrettable is that it is not available for average incomes - I would love to have something like that. In case some massive redistribution schemes appear along the horizon, maybe a new industry around that will evolve.
Indeed. I'm not even asking a view to some nature, but definitively something that isn't a cubicle nor "open space".

Well, can't complain anymore about offices. Founded a startup and now work anywhere, most notably on coffee houses and while traveling on the train (we're based in Europe).
I couldn't agree more. Simply spending the time to understand why you are testing certain elements is valuable on it's own.

The author doesn't mention what kind of tests were performed, but often when I read about the "futility" of A/B testing, it's usually due to lack of up front preparation and discussion of the tests true objectives. So the classic "red button vs. green button" might get you a result in the testing software, but it doesn't necessarily translate to more sales/leads or whatever the ultimate goal is.
I've editied for clearer reading and added more information.
Thank you very much again @ryporter.
Not to mention fishing, guns, hifi, photography... Mostly clearly targeted at a male audience as is evident from the adverts in them.
You're operating under a couple of misunderstandings.

1) most homeless people do not have a mental illness. MI is over-represented in the homeless population, but only one fifth of rough sleepers have a mental illness.

If you look at the chronically homeless (people homeless for over a year) you see that a third of them have a severe mental illness

If four fifths of the homeless population or two thirds of the chronic homeless population are not mentally ill it's hard to see how mental health hospitals would have made much difference.

2) that people with a mental illness must have a hospital bed and nothing else will do. The UK also closed many large hospitals - currently only about 8% of the people accessing specialist mental health services need a bed. Most people need treatment in the community. It's safer, more effective, and cheaper.
Note the original study[1] is awfully underpowered; the reported effect is weak and highly equivocal; and it reeks of 'researcher degrees of freedom' bias --so caveat lector. (It's PLOS One, after all.)

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Interesting...(thanks for the link) But I would have expected them to be consistent within the article? It's done both ways in there.
I'd argue that greed is natural and that the economic system we've invented is more toxic. You can't fix greed, because greed is just a term "outsiders" use for people who act in their own self interest.

People should be greedy. There just needs to be a system in place that aligns the greed of individuals with utility for humanity. I can imagine such a system, so I'm pretty optimistic for the future.
> No sane story for request contexts. I got tired of waiting for net/http support for x/net/context.

This is moving forward. A package context would probably be added to the standard library and integrated with net/http.Request:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14660

How is this issue solved in Erlang/Elixir?

> Coercing Go structs into JSON and vice versus was just annoying enough.

I had the same feeling when I started using Go (coming from Python/JS, and Java/C++ a long time ago). But then I realised that I have to validate my inputs anyway, even in Python, JS or Erlang. Defining a struct and unmarshal to the struct gives me that for free in Go.

How do you solve that in Erlang/Elixir?
I thought maybe there was a new version or something. How has the spec for a perfectly common technology which has been stable for several years got this many upvotes?
Show HN: Plus-A-Tee – crowdfunding platform for musicians
5. How do you plan to crack this market? The existing consumer revolving credit market is pretty resistant to entry. The two biggest players, Visa and MasterCard, both originated as large bank-based credit cards (BankAmericard => Visa and InterBank Master Charge => MasterCard). Other contenders include American Express (financial services, origins related to Wells Fargo in the 19th century), Discover (3rd largest card, though distantly, also acquired Diners Club which I was going to list separately), but they've failed to make major inroads against the two giants.

Hmm. As far as I can tell, Gresham Dollar isn't a form of revolving credit.

Our initial users are going to be people who have little money or income. These are users nobody else is competing for.

Is that what you're asking?
You understand that "stimulate" in the Keynesian context means "cause inflation and lower real wages", right?

Why would this be a good thing in an economy at full employment?
Wow this is huge! The PDF is in a language I don't recognize. (not that it'd help)
I think it's overwhelmingly a generational thing, not a "white collar" thing. Older white collar workers still want/expect lifetime employment, while young workers of all kinds are more comfortable with labor fluidity.

The vast majority of my young friends are uninterested in jobs which would provide lifetime employment. (As am I.)

Honestly, it was incredibly risky for HubSpot to hire Lyons and the outcome seems predestined. He came in with completely mismatched expectations and an ax to grind.

This is also a huge contributory factor to ageism in tech. Of course you won't hire older people when they expect lifetime employment at a startup which might not even exist in a few years.
6. The "Gresham's Law" bit seems to apply to holders. The key being that people will spend the currency faster if they lose faith in it. But this assumes that the _sellers_ will accept the currency. A loss of _seller_ acceptance will in fact torpedo the currency. I strongly recommend William Stanley Jevons, _Money and the Mechanism of Exchange_, which still serves as the foundation of much thinking on money (~1880).

The plan is to maintain a growing number of contracted merchant partners. If our merchant partners spontaneously stopped accepting Gresham Dollar, they'd legally violate their contract.

As part of their contracts, the merchants must set the same price in USD and GD. Their reward is that their account balance is not subject to the Activation Cap, so all of their GD will convert to USD.

Thanks for the book suggestion. I've added it to my list.
There's no such thing as probation period in law. It's a company specific thing. The laws the same if your own a probation period or not.
7. How is this not a Ponzi scheme? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_%28Ponzi_scheme_company%29...

Hmm. How would it be? Which part of it looks like a Ponzi scheme to you?
Thinking in React was the first tutorial that really triggered me an woaw. It's also quite fast to do.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/thinking-in-react.html
A: A country as unproperous as Afghanistan should probably try to focus more on raising wealth, not taxes. Making it harder for an already poor population to buy computers isn't it.

B: A poor country's advantage is really low cost. Punitive tariffs erase that advantage. Then again, so does high security costs.

C: That's a big might. In the meantime it makes it much harder for the much more numerous industries (with much higher value add) that depend on computers to take off.
>Government doesn't know how to run anything well, because the tenets of capitalism don't apply to government.

Who built the freeway system, ran the Manhattan project, created CERN, put people on the moon, and sponsored the research that led to computing and the Internet?

>The best managers of business are in the private sector where the real money is and where they have the most control.

Given the number of incredibly destructive, if not downright stupid, CEOs in recent corporate history, that's simply not a reality-based argument.

>Literally every level of the population suffers because working is no longer incentivised.

Literally every level of the population is already suffering for much the same reason. Current forms of capitalism penalise long-term strategic investment in favour of asset sweating and smash-and-grab corporate raiding that provide short-term quick-fix profits but destroy long term growth potential.

Wall St will always prefer a quick buck now to a million dollar payout fifty years from now - and that's not a smart way to run a planetary economic strategy.
Both examples are pretty disingenuous.
I did modelling work for a group researching metal foams in my past academic life. Very interesting stuff with a lot of applications if the manufacturing processes can be nailed down.

Our funding was a mixture of European Space Agency and a car conglomerate: light armour for space vehicles and crumple zones / reinforcement respectively (less acceptable to research military applications in EU in my experience).
In practice, it's highly inefficient to expect one company to handle all your promotions. Even if you're ready to take on a higher level of responsibility, there's absolutely no guarantee that they have a position open at that level.

That's why the alliance model makes sense: you might be going elsewhere to find an open promotion, but that shouldn't imply "disloyalty."
These guys: http://www.iskn.co/
Have a similar product that is compatible with any notebook and any pen.

Not sure how the Moleskine works but this one is an "active system": you need a device gathering the data while you draw but it's definitely worth taking a look.
I'm fairly tolerant of bad/odd grammar. ?usually when reading something with crummy grammar all I feel is impression of sloppiness.
Well, this is what you believe it does, but is it proven or at least fairly convincingly demonstrated by at least some model or more thoughtful argumentation?

I have not researched this topic or given any longer thought about this, so at this point I am honestly curious.

For example how would the market react to this? Mostly what would happen with prices of essential goods and housing?

More importantly, how would people react sexually? Would they start having more babies just because they now can? What group of people would pick up this behaviour?

For example in my opinion most of the possible wealth accumulation in the third world countries is destroyed by very high population growth (in most countries above 4 times in 50 last years; fortunately this decreasing in many places).

Is this mostly a solved problem for developed world?
Can i join? I can chop it off.
For everyone with a stake? I still see clear winners and losers in that scenario.
Actually two decades now.
How creative thinking can save your business
I found it quick to understand the ideas behind React, but it was a lot more difficult to understand how to apply that to practical problems and to 'think' in React.

React.js By Example [http://reactkungfu.com/react-by-example/] was enormously helpful in showing how to structure various different real-world apps. So if you find yourself beyond the basic CommentBox examples, but not sure how to build your own components then this might help.
Expensive fancy cheese on toast.

Not that I don't love pizza. But even with 50% off, those prices...
Every "autonomous" robot gets a swarm of battery bringers?

They day we defeat skynet, we shall have our Flyswatter ready..
People outside the UK should be able to download BBC podcasts.

The linked programmes aren't currently available on the BBC site to anyone - but linking gives people info to buy the product or find it using other methods.

(I'd be surprised if there wasn't a private tracker for BBC content).
Design doesn't deserve a seat at the table
After fork, the original program is still running. The text specifically refers to the proc promise, which allows fork. It may be tersely formulated, but I really don't see how you could interpret this text otherwise.
Nothing that I've read from Dan Lyons shows HubSpot actually misrepresenting their work environment. In fact, it seems abundantly clear that they put a lot of effort into explaining their work environment and philosophy (would Lyons have preferred that they not have a training program?).

All in all, it seems like they had grossly mismatched expectations. Lyons clearly thought HubSpot would magically twist itself to match his desires for a traditional workspace, while HubSpot apparently thought Lyons might be slightly adaptable. In a just world, they'd both chalk it up to an experiment gone wrong.

Of course, Lyons is a journalist with an ax to grind so he'll make hay off that failed experiment.
Appreciate your feedback. Having shared for several years a house with other people (some of them friends, others people that I was meeting for the first time), we faced problems which were not related to communication only (that can easily be solved with a chat app and sticky notes).Here are a few examples:

- Forget/delay to pay the bills

- Couldn’t arrange to do the house cleaning in a time convenient for everyone due to different schedules. In the end half the people would skip that task.

- When I was sharing a house with people that I was meeting for the first time, there was a need to socialise and plan to do some stuff together. We found out that using an app for social planning was very helpful and we could also get some ideas on what to do.

- Often I would get back late from work, when the supermarket was closed, so I needed someone to do the shopping for me. To solve this problem I was sending screenshots of my shopping list to the house group on whatsapp and I would ask my flatmates whether they could buy me that stuff.

And these are just a few. From my experience when you are out of the house most of the day it is difficult to solve these problems only with a chat app and sticky notes. Often we would use a different app for each problem. So me and my partner decided to build RoomEase.

Before we start developing this app, we pitched it to potential users. So far we have feedback from around 100 potential users and ~90% was very positive (some of them are friends, so we didn’t expect negative feedback on those cases). This gave us enough confidence to move on.

Regarding your last question, you probably mean different target audience. The market we are targeting is the market of house tasks and services, which is a validated one.
Once we get our web app online, if we don’t see much growth on the number of users, we will reconsider the idea and who our core users are.

I understand that the demo is probably not very representative of what I am mentioning on the examples, but it is just an mvp. Again appreciate your feedback, it is good to know what people are thinking of this app.
In an experiment involving 80 Americans

So, worthless.
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Compliance Strikes Again: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Worldpay’s Merchant Portal
[citation needed]

As for your specific claim about confiscation, how about this tag I was reminded of on a blog that's in my early morning rotation: http://blog.joehuffman.org/category/gun-rights/no-one-wants-...

Or Senator Diane Feinstein, who represents a lot of HN readers), telling "Mr. and Mrs. America turn 'em all in" in a 60 Minutes interview.

And let me assure that, using registration lists, guns have been confiscated in the US, e.g. SKSs in California after the government decided they were "assault weapons" after all (OK, you were allowed to move them out of state, but...).
http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/pepm99/bawden.pd...
For anyone interested there is PS3 security explained and it's one more proof that complexity don't make system more secure:

http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Boot_Order#Chain_of_trust_Diagr...

http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Keys
Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe
In an experiment involving 80 Americans

Seriously? 80 people gave them all these insights?

There's something fundamentally wrong with research if they think that's ok to publish.

I got more than 80 questionnaires back for my high school geography project.
Solar became practical and economical for mainstream usage about a decade ago. It wasn't an alternative.
Actually, there is generally even more opportunity for career development in startups than in larger organizations. If the company is growing, new positions are opening up regularly and there isn't a large bench of talent to fill them with.

When I was a manager in a small startup, I tried to regularly discuss their career goals and how they could develop towards those goals. One of the benefits of a startup was that we had a lot of flexibility to create experiences matching those goals.
I just finished reading the second (paper-back) edition of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys and he has added an "Afterword" to the book that discusses the diversionary and duplicitous tactics used by Wall Street (Both HFT lobbyists and others) to re-frame the arguments he originally made in light of public discussion prompted by the book.

I found that one chapter almost as disturbing as the rest of the book.
I'm not sure if this accurately represents how people remember things. It's normal to be a bit fuzzy on a topic a year after learning it if you aren't regularly applying it. What matters is that you can learn it again quickly, and I think preparation for technical interviews works fine for testing that already.
> you can't load shared library at runtime with Go.

I've read again the documentation, and you're right: it's not possible as of Go 1.6.

> Yeah, [Jeremy Saenz] didn't feel humiliated so much he stopped writing about and programming in Go and interacting with the Go community all together

It's true that I don't see Jeremy posting stuff on its blog, Twitter, GitHub or elsewhere since a few months, about Go, or about anything else. But how can you assert it's related to the Go community being harsh?

> That doesn't make them more open to changes

I'm a bit of a programming language geek because I like beautiful theoretical things. This is why I keep an eye on OCaml, Haskell, Erlang, Elm, Clojure, etc. I sometime share the frustration with Go being verbose and naive. But I also needs to get things done, and want my code to be readable, understandable and maintainable in 10 years. Go is an interesting tradeoff, betting less on the advances of PL theory, and betting more on good engineering (the excellent work on the garbage collector being a good illustration).

Yes, I'd like some kind of shortcut for error handling (like the try! macro in rust), I'd like to be able to define custom generic functions and containers like the built-in ones, I'd like being able to declare non-nullable pointers, and I'd like to be able to create "share-nothing" goroutines with a "let it crash" philosophy. But I'm not willing to have these things if they break the language main benefits, especially its simplicity.

Maybe the Go team is not open to the changes we're discussing because they just don't align with their goals?
Can open source programmers be sued if their programs use encryption?
There's abundant evidence that there are vast differences in the productivity of different programmers in the same company. Denying that doesn't make it untrue.

The best way to punish the Bezos of the world is not to work for them. Which it seems like more and more people are—most of my friends wouldn't even consider a job at Amazon.
N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala
in a nutshell the competition to uber in SF was so dire, as to be laughable.

It's weird I have lived in UK and Australia and never a problem getting a cab to show up. Nonetheless uber seems to be getting popular in Sydney due to the cost savings and ability to use an app.
So if I say Nazi Germany did a good job building highways I'm promoting Nazi ideology?
Porsche now makes a flat 4 engine again- the new Boxster/Cayman engines are turbo 4.

On the cost issue, Porsche famously tried to cut costs for the 996/Boxster gen 1 by using a common cylinder head casting for both sides. This was done by flipping it over for the other side. The only problem with this was providing the drive for the camshaft from the rear of the engine. To do this, they created an intermediate shaft operating at the rear of the engine. This worked ok but it couldn't have an oil fed bearing, so they used a roller bearing. This caused a failure rate if something like 5% of engines, and caused a class action suit that Porsche had to settle.

The other advantage of boxer engines is their suitability for air cooling and packaging. In fact, Porsche produced an aircraft version of the flat 6 but it ended up being too exprensive to build and run, despite outperforming a lycoming by a long way.
Unions will not improve everyone's earnings. They will compress the differential, and as someone who likes getting paid more than the average programmer I absolutely would oppose that.

Doctors, dentists, and lawyers don't have unions. They have professional associations (which might be a good idea for programmers) but they still negotiate individually.
All is planned; If there is a cat around in a 5 Km radius will be sucked into the box by the powerful fancy box effect, protecting the baby.
> Rather than defend against a perceived attack, I think a policy of agree and amplify makes sense.

The reply (not mine) was not a defense. It was adding a new point of view to the conversation; that this disagreement might be mostly involve a mismatch on what abstract words like "job security" mean. It's implied that progress might be had if people broke down and discussed details a bit. Like, "is it a good idea to assume a company will be around for 50 years?"
That's a wrong attitude for a shop teacher - nerdy types are usually very good at mechanical work.

You're right in that the best way to learn is to do.
> reskill

I am pretty sure that's not a word. Which I only point out as using corporate newspeak to reply to a post about disingenuous corporate newspeak is an interesting conversational tactic.