skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can go even tinier:

http://www.amazon.com/Shafers-Book-Backyard-Sheds-Houses/dp/...

100 to 120 square feet. And they are (or can be made) transportable.
I spent like 10 hours working on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452445 and I thought I nailed it. Unfortunately, they passed and never told me what was wrong with it. To this day I'm still curious what the problem was!

Anyone here from FB who passed this and knows what I did wrong?
It's OK to have your own definition of what 'stable' software is. For some folks, its what's on the master branch of the repo, for others its software that's been tested for years by a large community already.

Debian has a specific documented process of how their stable releases are produced, and though that can cause problems for some developers because they get bug reports for old versions, that specific documented process is part of what makes Debian special to me.

I sympathize with devs for having to put up with those bug reports, but putting messages into the software to specifically goad the OS package maintainers is just poor form. Surely there's a better way to have handled that.
> Jobs was shown the door because the Mac flopped. It had nothing to do with the ][, which was keeping Apple afloat....

and the Apple II was losing market share to competitors including Commodore and the IBM PC. Thus the need for the Mac to be a runaway seller. Maybe Apple should of thought of this instead of selling an 8-bit computer less capable than the better selling Atari 800 for more money.

> Arguable since only a tiny percentage of Vic-20 owners ever wrote more than two lines of code, while vast numbers of kids use the Apple ][ in schools....

I doubt this. Like erickhill when we finally got some Apple IIs they were used for Oregon Trail, math, and typing.

Atari and Commodore had magazines (Antic for one) that contained about 40% of their content as code. I cannot imagine that those magazines lasted that long if people were not using that content.

Your statement also assumes either the school or the individual could afford the Apple II. Even with the propaganda Apple put out about their deep educational discounts, it just wasn't so for a large number of schools. They didn't have the budget for Apple II's and could buy Radio Shack, TI, Atari, and, especially Commodore. Apple dealers were not evenly distributed and Commodore had better offers. Rural schools ended up with what we got.

We didn't get Apple IIs (the IIe to be specific) until 1986 when the PC was already an educational seller and Apple was flushing the inventory. When we finally got them, they were too valuable to use for anything but educational software.

Never mind our ability to buy any Macintoshes.

Beyond that, the competitors had some better capabilities. Atari was much better at graphics and both the Atari and Commodore had joystick / paddle ports that could be used in sensor experiments (e.g. photocell connected to the paddle pins on the 9-pin port). TI had a nice speech synthesizer that was easy to program. Heck, the Atari Logo was the same as Apple's and came on a cartridge.

Apple was for rich schools and students, Commodore was for the rest of us.

> Incidentally, Sinclair Spectrum/Timex owners make the same claim as Vic-20 owners and it's just as specious ;-)

You can put the smiley face on that but it is no less crass and just as untrue. They too had magazines that consisted mostly of programming.
Nvidia have been promoting something called Roborace, which is running as something to do with the Formula E series. Is this anything to do with that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roborace
If we succeed in training an accurate enough machine learning algorithm, I think the primary purpose will be to screen for asymptomatic atrial fibrillation, and then use a Holter or Zio Patch for a final diagnosis.

The main benefit is that you can prevent cryptogenic strokes, which are often caused by undiagnosed atrial fibrillation:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1311376

For machine learning, I think you're on exactly the right path. The Udacity TensorFlow course taught by the Google Brain team is good; if you can complete that, you'll be as good as anyone at applying neural networks. The Stanford courses (http://cs231n.stanford.edu/, http://cs224d.stanford.edu/) are likewise great, as is Chris Olah's blog for intuition (http://colah.github.io/).

And down the road, if you're ever looking for an internship, definitely let us know! brandon@cardiogr.am.
And this is a huge benefit in the ease of coding.

If you only have two or four or sixteen threads you write overtly threaded code. But when you have millions you don't. Your program looks single-threaded and yet operates better and more safely.
It sounds like a terrible place to work at. If I were you, I'd find a place where I'd enjoy working. I know changing jobs too often can look bad on resumes, but mediocre performance in a mediocre setting for two or three years will make it likely that you get similar offers next time you're job searching. I'd take the reins of my career now, really do some research and have an open mind while exploring the next opportunity. I'd contact employees of companies to find out about their work-culture. I'd also find out about what exactly they are doing and see some codes if possible (to get an idea about how my programming style would fit).
Pretty sure that's a joke, poking light-hearted fun at the rather over-earnest flames further up in the thread.
Sure. I remember when learning to play the piano as a kid that it took sometimes seconds to decrypt the next key when learning a new piece.

I've understood that for a large category of adult learners, when starting on an instrument for the first time in their life, it's the staff notation that creates an usurmountable barrier. So, yeah, it's not definetly 'easy' for most beginners.
In what sense is Nextdoor a private message board? I don't see Nextdoor as being more private than other social media networks. (Genuinely asking, not trying to shoot you down!)
The word staffing seems to confuse me. Reading further, helped me understand that its only for technical staffs. I love what you do under value proposition, as data analysis of the current market will be of great guidance.
source: https://np.reddit.com/r/Nest/comments/4dbbgh/is_anyone_conce...
If you want defined returns you can buy amazon bonds today. if you want to try to triple your money in 5 years, well, maybe that'll happen with the stock again. who knows?
Mark Zuckerberg's imperial ambitions
Verizon bids for Yahoo
Looks like they are in racks of 9, at least that is what the pictures show.

9 X $600 = $5400/month, pretty lucrative for a developer.

One would hope that prices would drop over time due to competition.
I'm obviously not in the know, but I think his liquid assets were low (for a software legend) before the Oculus sale. He mentioned selling his cars to help fund Armadillo at one of his Quakecon talks.
PacketZoom founder here. Glad you liked the project. Could not agree more with the importance of tracking logs (and metrics... but that's a topic for another post).

To respond to your point about absence of Grok like facility, avoiding the need to unmarshal and remarshal the data while passing through LogZoom was an explicit design requirement. The blogpost refers to our pain with Logstash/Fluentd etc. We were in a situation where our production code was fighting for resources against a log collecting facility.

In general, it's best to process the data (to the extent possible) closest to it's point of origin. It's orders of magnitude cheaper to create a well structured log line straight from your production code (where it's just some in-memory manipulation of freshly created strings) rather than in a post-processing step inside a separate process (or machine).

I've spent years dealing with performance problems in global scale production stacks and a surprisingly high number of resource bottlenecks (memory/CPU/Disk IO) etc. are caused by ignoring this simple principle.

I've lost count of the cases where a simple restructuring of the architecture to avoid a marshal/unmarshal step drastically cuts down resource requirement and operational headaches. Unfortunately a whole lot of industry "best practices" (exemplified by the Grok step in Logstash) encourage the opposite behavior.
Overall I like the idea. My main question would be how do you keep it from becoming an echo chamber or an all out brawl?
Go isn't fault tolerant, doesn't support hot swapping and a lot of stuff Erlang do support. The only thing Go and Erlang share is channels.
What do you mean? That KDE doesn't let users choose from a list of screensavers that includes XScreenSaver?

I just tested out XScreenSaver on KDE. As long as I set up the process and keyboard shortcuts correctly, I can still use it (Yay, standard APIs). (Of course, I am limited to keyboard shortcuts and not the 'Lock Screen' buttons in KDE).
For context, see the author's take[0], who would like debian to stop shipping xscreensaver if they wont update it since the author gets lots of support requests for things fixed in newer versions.

[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop...
time to update .plan

[edit: and totally deserved]
You're right, I left off a zero, 8 million people report for jury duty a year. Each potential juror is often researched by more than 4 attorneys. At $25 per juror researched you end up around a billion dollars. $25 per juror is what many attorneys pay for a criminal record check already, so this is a pricing model they are familiar with and I think if the product provides as much information as I believe it can the value could meet or exceed the value of a criminal check. A criminal record might be more indicative of a bad juror, but so few people have them compared to the number of people with other data sources I think the expected value of information evens out.

And this is just the States, there are other countries that use similar systems for jury selection.

I agree I won't make that until there is a mature product, but the question was addressable market, not expected year 1 revenue.

The mvp I'm working on now allows the sharing of information about jurors. This should allow me to gather data on how jurors vote tat can be marketed while still making profit off the sharing app alone.
Wrong link: https://github.com/thejsj/calendar-exercise
I fail to see what the proof is. Apart from plenty of opinion, this article fails to present any numbers from the Panama Papers that would prove that we could pay a basic income year after year.
Pity Prime video isn't available outside of the US/UK and 2 day shipping in Toronto...just poor value for money for Canadians.
This seems like a huge distinction that people don't make often enough with high-performing, fast-growing companies. You see it with Tesla, too, when people claim that the Model S is "sold at a loss", ignoring the fact that a large part of the company's current expenditure is in setting up huge new factories.
Its no like he does it for free. (not saying it in a bad sense)
If the Amazon river dried up we'd all be dead. Most of it's 'economic' value isn't recorded in our myopic economic measurements.
"A larger income, to ensure that no American fell into absolute abject poverty – say, $12,000 a year – would cost around $3.6tn. That is a big number, but one that once again seems far more reasonable when considered through the lens of the Panama Papers and the scandal of global tax evasion"

Regardless of what you think about UBI, the Panama Papers do not prove it could or could not work.

The US Federal Budget is $3.8 trillion. There is no way tax not being paid in Panama is coming even close to the $3.6 tn they mention.

This article is just click bait.
Because everyone that lives in New York should be buying an unlimited card regardless?

How about retired people or people on a fixed income that are not work commuters?

How about someone that works in their neighborhood but still needs to use mass transit occasionally?

How about students that largely don't leave their campus tether but still need to use mass transit albeit less frequently than a commuting professional?

How about someone who bikes as their primary means of transit but still needs to use mass transit infrequently?

Its not really unusual at all is it?

So if you can't afford or don't need to purchase an unlimited subway that's your problem?
Being a woman in technology (late 80s-2012ish) was always incidental to the job, something others pointed out to me ("You know you're a role model for other women, right?" "Uhhhh..."), or something that occurred to me for ten minutes on a weekend once every few years. I don't share the author's belief that "gender blindness" is a bad thing -- IMO all genders need to realize and believe that gender is simply irrelevant to the work, neither a benefit nor a disadvantage.
Take a look at these:

* Combining Markov Random Fields and Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Synthesis (http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04589)

* A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style (http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576)

They do much more than photoshopping. It's actual synthesis of new images in the style of a desired painter.
There are some simple interview tips in the video below, I'd say if you get these down you'll have nothing to worry about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38cUwnkoDxk
Please don't link to jwz.org from here, it redirects to a NSFW image when the referrer is HN.
Or we could just move beyond property taxes as a means of funding municipalities. Trying to tie the market values of one's house to taxation, then trying to untie them from market fluctuation, is simply a poor heuristic for measuring a person's capability to pay taxes. A much better heuristic is progressive income taxes. So here's an idea: make real estate taxes more equal, more nominal, and more predictable long into the future. Then close tax loop-holes and use income taxes on state level to fund municipalities. Nice side effect is that funding could be based on need rather than how rich your neighborhood is, which would improve the equality and fairness in social services provided. And no more moving to the rich suburb because you want your kids to go to a good school.
How are you vetting both sides?
lol apparently administering a test is so much easier than asking personality questions and interviewing cultural fit.

so glad I left that place.
Must have been a quite a few years ago?

I never saw any personality tests done at Google.
We're lucky in that information covered by HIPAA (e.g., the medical record) is handled by our academic partner at UCSF, the Health eHeart study (health-eheartstudy.org).

I think it's a bit of a misconception that you always need an extremely low error rate in medicine. Many of the existing tools are quite poor. CHADS-VASC, for example, is the primary score that cardiologists use to prescribe blood thinners, and its c-statistic is an... unimpressive 0.673. (0.5 is random, and 1.0 is perfect.) Given that the side effects of unnecessary blood thinners include brain hemorrhage, even a modest improvement to CHADS-VASC could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

So my message to data scientists considering going into healthcare is... please come! You don't have to achieve perfection to save lives. Even a mediocre statistical model would be an improvement in so many areas.
This article is pure polemical, without any justification for its claims (not even a back-of-the-envelope estimate of what kind increase in taxes would result from ending offshore tax evasion). Outrage is not a substitute for mathematics or economics.

I personally support UBI, but we need to ensure that it's sustainable.
Debouncing and Throttling Explained Through Examples
Totally illogical, how do tax loopholes for the rich get affected by giving everyone a basic income? The middle class will pay more tax and give it to the poor. The super rich will continue paying no tax...

The worse thing is the article is titled "proof". Where is this proof? It be nice if the rich did pay for a universal basic income.
LOL, that link redirects to a graphic meme hosted on imgur. I'm guessing he has a redirect set up to spot HN referrals. Make sure to open it directly. (i.e. copy-paste into address bar, right-click and open in new tab)
By what measure? The measure of as many experts as you can find.

Copying a specific painting is a very different thing. It's hard for entirely mechanical and chemical reasons. Trying to make a new painting that blends in is much more interesting.
I used "we evolved" in the sense that he used it so I could communicate with him; in actuality, I subscribe to the Selfish Gene hypothesis where "we" really don't matter at all. Our genes compete for survival against not surviving. They compete against each other inasmuch as they are in competition but otherwise they cooperate in the sense of accepting each other as part of the environment in which they propogate.

there is a direction and purpose to evolution, it's: replicate or cease to exist.
1st July 2006 Amazon shares traded for $26, they're currently bouncing around $600.

See here: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AMZN+Interactive#{"range"...
1gb isn't huge on the desktop, especially if the cache expired LRU.
> Hit up linkedin and track down ex employees, ideally in the same job role. See where they ended up, and hit them up and ask why.

100x this.

I did this for my last position since a recruiter I've worked with mentioned that the company had some sort of an exodus recently (at that point). The guy not only responded quickly, but gave me a GLOWING review of the place (mind you, he QUIT!)

This gave me exactly the confidence I needed to confirm that the job was as cool as I thought it would be, and I was right!
I have a problem with them complaining about honest feedback. although, a companies focus should be on growth they need a good product to keep customers.
Better boyfriend – Silicon Valley's latest startup
It used to be that we developed, tested and polished software before releasing it. Does anyone else miss those days?
No way, you are just wrong. Markets existed well before capitalism and well before corporations, and they exist where neither of those things exist.
Composability, it's what makes Unix Unix. Doug McIlroy and his pipes, that's what makes it powerful in th ehands of a skilled operator. Your system grows with you

Possibly a nightmare for someone else to reason about, so I accept that aspect. But every long time plan9 user I know (and that's about 20 I know by name to their face + more I meet at conferences) finds going back to plain old unix a retrograde step. It's like going back to a 16" b&w tv.
Australia, but not New Zealand? C'mon.
We have all three at Google, but we don't show the alcohol to the interviewees.
We use Heka in production and it has changed what would have been an ELK stack to a EHK stack with 0 regrets. The fact that the collector nodes can ship directly to ES without having to go through an intermediary node is extremely special...it reduces system complexity a lot.
Yes, I mean the standard lock screen. Of course you can explicitly run it.
Of course Mesa had pointer arithmetic, null and dagling pointers.

Any systems programming language has them.

However there is a difference between having them as an addition to strong type features and them being the only way to program in the language.

For example, using arrays and strings didn't require pointer arithmetic.

In C all unsafe features are in thr face of the programmer. There is no way to avoid them.

In Mesa and other similar languages, those unsafe are there, but programmers only need to use them in a few cases.

C was designed with PDP-11 instruction set in mind. For many years that the C machine model no longer maps to the hardware as many think it does.
Also, this particular raceway is in an isolated area.[1] There's lots of open space if anything goes badly wrong.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/1oTTBJNGEjL2
First, I recommend reading Dale Carnegie and Switch for tackling cultural issues with diplomacy. You're going to need this at every company.

How is DevOps? Is there room for improvement or learning there?

If you are going to switch companies because you see no way to fix things, how did you interview those teams to ensure they don't have similar problems?
First, you can run TONS of them, which is an enabler for program designs that native threads doesn't work well with.

Second, they are much lighter on memory (well, comes with the first point, but still).

Third, the supervising VM/environment has more fine-grained control over them than with native threads.

And in any decent implementation, they are absolutely load balanced across cores, why wouldn't they be?
I have a finance degree and am in the US. I've been self taught for the past few years. I know the basics of programming and its easy for me to learn a new language but proving to tech firms here has proved difficult except for small short term gigs ironing out wordpress issues and writing data mining scripts. Any advice how to break out into the industry would be greatly appreciated.
Reddit+finally+has+an+official+app,+hopes+to+get+it+upvoted
The whole situation is nuts. And it boils down to how rigid the package management system is on traditional distros. And no, the likes of xdg-app will just rellace one problem with another. As i see it the solution is more likely found in the likes of NixOS/Guix or Gobolinux. There updating a dependency tree piecemeal is straight forwadd, without having the whole tree duplicated a million times over.
Perhaps HN could do something to automatically wrap jwz links in a web cache.
This is a great question...in theory.

The problem with it (at least in my experience) is that most people don't know how to answer this, so they'll give the most generic stuff they can conjure at the top of their mind. Furthermore, your interviewers aren't given any incentives to telling you what they really think, and they are much less likely to tell you something negative about the position when put on the spot like that.

That said, I usually ask this question when I can't think of what I really want to ask. :)
I remember quite the opposite, by 2013 people were quite concerned about react size (can't exactly remember it's size, but I think it was somewhere close to how it is nowadays or larger)
>You've done something wrong then?

Well, the idea is with Erlang you can't.
Facebook releases services marketplace in India
Oh, wow. I thought it did. My bad!
Charge them. That sounds like at least a week of fulltime work. Check what consultants take for that amount of work in your area.

If they say no, you say no.

Also, if there's no pay, wouldn't you have copyright over that part of the code then? You could arbitrarily tell to stop using your code at any time, and sue them if they don't..
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1. I agree. I think this app could be useful to the consultants too by making their jobs easier. I think I would still see a sale, just from a consultant not the attorney. I think two separate markets would be those who can't afford or it doesnt make sense to hire consultants and the consultants themselves.

2. The biogdaphic/demographic data is all from forms and attorneys would have no reason to lie to their own device they are using to reference juror information from. I think most of the information would be reliable.

3. The defense cab use it too ;). But seriously, the juror selection process is designed for each attorney to be able to get rid of anyone they think is biased against then with the hope that by both attorneys doing this those left create a fair hury. Is this optimal? No. Would my tool make a suboptimal solution better? Yes I believe it will.

I think it is the programmer optimization drive in us that makes this seem crappy that it isn't being completely overhauled since it isn't optimal, but my solution does help.
Yes they let scientists study the layers.

You can create hight maps by casting light from each side of the painting and using the shadows for your hight map calculations.