skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So happy .NET Core was delayed-- a very cool idea, but trying to write a library that targeted a few platforms was an absolute nightmare. Just knowing the difference between dnxcore50, netcore50, netcoreapp was confusing. Need ASP.Net to run unit tests was strange when I was targeting Web at all, and the dotnet CLI hadn't existed yet.

The standardization around the .NET Standard seems great. dotnet as a CLI is great. Kudos to the team for having the humility of pushing back deadlines and actually delivering an end-to-end solution that actually improves .NET development.
That's interesting. I forgot to also mention that, from what I've heard, if you are going to work for Palantir, their NYC office is where you want to be. That the team(s) there more direct interaction with clients and influence on solutions/architecture.
Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision
A couple days ago we ended the first Apply HN experiment with a big fuck-up, and I'd like to try to make it right. (For background on this, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627). I thought I'd made it clear that we'd make things up and change the Apply HN rules as we went along, but it wasn't clear. It took time and a large stack of HN user comments for me to perceive this, but I get it now.

Maciej, I'm sorry. Your interpretation of what I originally posted was not only reasonable, it was how most people read it. The fault was not yours, but mine. We changed the rules of a game you had won, to cover for my failure to anticipate an unwanted outcome, and you were right to be pissed.

We've offered Maciej the $20k, and he graciously accepted and asked us to donate it to the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness (http://www.cohsf.org/). We'll take care of doing so. (Edit 2016-05-08: We now have.)

A note to HN users: The intention behind Apply HN was to do something new to excite and interest the community and engage it with YC in an interesting way. That did happen, but it pains me that it also partly turned into the opposite. If any of you have suggestions for how to do better, I'd like to hear them.
> GiveDirectly has been running UBI programs in East Africa for years now. They have an all-star cast of economists examining their performance. Their pilot programs were very successful, which is why they are scaling out further.

Possibly the most important detail here is one they call out explicitly in the article: this is the first time anybody's run a large scale experiment of this form which was not based on selecting candidates who were likely to benefit highly from receiving the extra money.

I am completely convinced that giving people extra money can cause a permanent, substantial increase in their income and living standards, if I get to pick the tiny fraction of the population who receive it. That's well-established and easy, and also not viable as a long term solution.

I really want to see if it works the same way when you aren't selecting the best candidates, but just distribute the money blindly. No matter what the answer is, this is really important research that will drive economic policy decisions. We're about to get the answer to one of the biggest economic policy questions of our time, and that's awesome.
In that case, wouldn't you say though that if you receive money without working for it, you aren't really owed anything by society at large? Is it possible to transfer the "having done work" from one person to another? And no, investing does not fall into this category.
just in case didn't know or need detox; http://www.oocities.org/
> “We’re looking to do transformational work with our customers,” Gavin Hood, Palantir’s chief of staff, said in an interview with BuzzFeed News. “Finding the right partner to do that transformational work takes a lot of care and a lot of attention.” He added, “There’s a lot of reasons why that doesn’t always work out.”

Sure it's hard to find suckers who will give you million of dollars for poorly defined return.
Giving people money isn't giving them an economy either, it's giving them currency. The economy comes when they trade, it doesn't really matter if it's dollars, gold, rice, or bitcoin, people just have to agree on it's value.
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The article hints at a larger problem that underlies all data-science-as-a-service outfits: pricing for profitability. How can you price the generation of insights so that you; Palantir etc. can become profitable, while those insights can save on costs for the respective clients? Coke would need to generate $18M+ per year from the insights alone to justify the costs.
It could just be char-rnn output inside a very simple HTML wrapper. I found that a char-rnn can produce a lot of syntactically valid CSS with lots of URLs, so CSS+some HTML+image URLs is entirely possible: http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#training-a-neural-net-to-g...

The template here looks like it would go

"<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script src="sha1.js"></script>
<script src="links.js"></script>

<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-4209567-5', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>
<html>

...[until generation limit, ~1600 characters; note the absence of any valid closing tags]

The low quality of the text might reflect the demands of simultaneously modeling text+HTML+CSS in a too-small RNN or insufficient training (training a high quality char-rnn/torch-rnn to convergence on the entire Geocities corpus, or even just a few hundred megabytes, could take weeks).
>- Sell your startup when a buyer comes knocking at your door.

Would you qualify this as "depending on your goals"? A lot of the advice I read online, I think even some PG wrote, is to not take buyers seriously unless you've actively made the decision you want to sell.
In conditions where it's going to be sliding around on the deck?
I'll give a polite tip of the hat but warn that cutesy redis demos are starting to wear thin. The C++ support in the tools you get after installing build-essentials on Trusty smells like Visual Studio 2010.

As for .NET core, you'll get plenty of warm fuzzy "just happy to be part of the journey" crap here but don't forget that for every unemployed enthusiast chatting in an issues thread on github there are 100 professionals working their asses off trying to ship solutions. That's why you exist. Don't lose that.

"Things may not work perfectly, but that is why it's no production code." Ugh. They called it a Release Candidate! And it was... crap.

Tools support isn't like horseshoes, almost doesn't count. Likewise you need breadth and depth with your Linux support or this is going to be a total friggin' debacle for devs.
Aren't all of these just available at the Wayback Machine? Was really hoping this person found a way to display original pages correctly with their images intact.
> We are now more squarely in the age of Microservices, Mobile first, Polyglot, post-Java JVM languages

Gradle provides only one language, i.e. Apache Groovy on the JVM, for specifying build configuration info. Before talking about "Polyglot, post-Java JVM languages", perhaps Gradleware needs to eat its own dogfood and provide an API so users can write their build configs in Jython or JRuby if they want. Be polyglot before preaching it.
You hear quite a bit about Bay Area companies paying top dollar for fresh CS graduates from top ranked schools. I wonder what compels a Stanford CS grad to take a job doing non-exciting work with a company that prides itself on paying below market rate.

Maybe it's the code names?
That picture of Alex Karp is amazing.

If I ever get too rich to never ever give a f*ck, I will dress like that.

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-05/6/12...
Israel pounds Gaza again
That's on Indiana. Coincidentally, look at the governor. It's almost like they're getting the government they deserve...

Medical works better, at least in part because Californians want it to work better.
Curious what you think about more independent schemes like microfinance or loans for education. Have you noticed any difference between that and outright aid?
I'm not seeing how his wearing a tie reinforces any negative stereotypes. If anything it just shows he's "an example of the stereotypical perception of a bow tie wearer" (a professor/teacher wearing a bow tie) which is... uh.. harmless? I see nothing else but some out-of-context quote form a short term Times writer.

Unless you're going to argue people should never do anything that is "stereotypical" of "that kind of person" I see no reason he shouldn't wear a bow tie.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/fashion/sundaystyles/a-red...
I think the takeaway here is that it generates even remotely valid HTML in addition to remotely coherent content.

I'm not sure why they include those irrelevant promotional quotes on the landing page. Also, zero details on the properties of the network they used.
Keep up the good work, I love being able to see and play with the beta or alpha code. Things may not work perfectly, but that is why it's no production code.
> In that case, wouldn't you say though that if you receive money without working for it, you aren't really owed anything by society at large?

One perspective on UBI is that it is compensatory payment to those harmed by factors which enable greater aggregate economic performance at the result of concentrating returns in a narrower group and driving down real wages for the masses.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was much more variety in wind turbine design. There were two bladed machines, multi-blade ducted turbines, Darrieus rotors, and other exotic technologies. Outputs were in the 50KW range. Pacheco Pass in Northern California had examples of most of those. Some didn't work too well. Loss of blade accidents were common in the early days, with blades thrown considerable distances.

The three-bladed machines won out commercially. Machine size went up because output vs cost decreases with size, at least up to 1-2 MW. Lots of little machines were a pain to install and maintain.

Wind generators used to be AC generators synchronous to the grid. But with higher power semiconductors available, putting a big AC-DC-AC converter on the output to sync it to the grid is becoming popular.[1][2] This allows generating some power during low-wind conditions, and provides much more adaptability to wind gusts. When the wind speed changes, the blade pitch is adjusted to compensate, but on big turbines, this takes tens of seconds. Being able to adjust electrically in milliseconds avoids power grid transients.

The push for permanent magnet motors in wind turbines is more about converting to direct drive and getting rid of the gearbox. Wind turbine gearboxes are a huge pain, wearing badly for reasons that were only understood in the last few years.

[1] http://www.theswitch.com/wind-power/
[2] http://new.abb.com/motors-generators/generators/generators-f...
Oh yeah! I added a "git prune" and "git gc". That does it, right?
> What have we done since the Apollo program was canceled early? Nothing as notable.

ISS? Hubble? Various Mars rovers?

Sure they aren't as notable as putting humans on the freaking moon, but that's also a pretty impossibly high bar to match. The only thing that would best it is humans on Mars.

> We're still highly dependent on rocket engines built by Russia.

That's not entirely true. The Soyuz-U does have by far the most launches of any system at 771, true. But the still successful Atlas II (63 launches and also the most reliable system to date) used all Rocketdyne engines. The newer Atlas V does use a Russian engine for the first stage but Rocketdyne for the second.

The Delta IV is also all Rocketdyne. It's also entirely LH2/LOX and yet weighs less than the Falcon 9.
Being homeless with a vehicle to live in is nothing like being homeless without one. I really don't even think it is the same thing. I've been homeless on a number of occasions (related to addiction, I am now in recovery), and I have done it with and without a vehicle.

There is absolutely no comparison between having to sleep on the street and having a vehicle to sleep in, especially during the fall/winter in seasonal areas. I would absolutely live in a converted van if it meant saving money. Sadly, I don't have a van to convert ;-)
This seems counter to a lot of advice I've seen. They want managers to empower employees and delegate tasks. At a certain scale it would be impossible to micromanage like this. What would you say to that?
You are being downvoted because your real world experience does not align with the idealism of the HN readers in question.
Baraff-type impulse-based collisions occur in zero time, which is why objects banging around in games look too light.
> Basically, I'd drop out of the workforce in a heartbeat if I could afford living and a few minimal luxuries. $15-20k/year would do the job to split a cheap apartment with a friend and keep the rest under control. This is half of what some people have proposed as a UBI.

By the way this might be very doable for you on a short timescale, if you pull in the kind of salary most people do on HN. Studies show that if you retire and pull only <4% of your starting balance each year to live off, you can live off it for 30+ years, if not indefinitely. If you were earning $120k, but only spending $20k/yr, you'd have enough wealth to live off after only 7.5 years.
I'm not an expert in this area, but at a glance, an MP cell looks a lot like a GFS cluster, right? It seems like the big differences are that MP is designed for

a) a huge number of smallish files, accessed by a large number of clients

b) file writes, rather than appends

c) cross-cell, cross-zone replication

Is this impression correct, or am I missing other major design differences?
Donald Trump, Nate Silver, and the Value of Data Journalism
I don't think that history is well understood, and there are a lot of urban legends around it, I think. It may have been a political/bureaucratic thing. It may be that Bell needed to stop fiddling around with design and start manufacturing airplanes before they went bankrupt. It may be that we wanted a second-tier fighter to give to some of our less friendly allies, that we could beat if we had to. It may be that Bell just couldn't get it to work right. Another story that I have heard is that they were fearful of losing the supercharger hi-tech to enemy hands. I don't know which, or to what degree any of those stories are true.

The juiced up v2, the P-63 King Cobra had a proper supercharger system. It was more capable at high altitude - though the USAAF felt that the P-51 was better.

After the war, the remaining few P-63s (and P-39s that could be retrofitted with better engines) dominated air racing. Flying very fast at low altitude and turning on a dime (that mid-engine) generally out flew the P-51s. But since most of them were sent to the Soviets and elsewhere, and our own leftovers were simply scrapped or used for gunnery drones, there are very few left. I have never seen one in person.
Live and let live
Free Open Source NRules.net site is now offline and erased from GitHub
> Java here is a pure marketing effort to convince a clueless manager saying hey we got java!

What if there exist Java-based system that somehow can be deployed to GAE with minimum changes...? (e.g.: not needing itext)

What if there exist a company that the majority of developers prefer Java?
Economy passengers may rage after being marched through first class
Maybe something with magnets?
Actually the palantiri were created by the elves as communication tools, even before the sun and moon were created, and used by the good guys for several thousand years before they fell in the hands of the bad guys about halfway through the third age.
So is it BashOnWindows that is the problem, or a frustration with Trusty itself as a distro?
This is extremely cool. I'm starting to see a serious new trend, where automating around IaaS can completely eliminate the need for SaaS.

Why pay for a subscription comment service when it can be implemented as a script in the cloud that only runs on-demand?
> Already, most full time jobs are just make-work.

Wow this is quite a bold statement!
How can you be so sure and generalize so much?
I suppose he is also more likely to clean the public toilets too?
My guess is the hype created through secrecy.
How does Google handle `git status`
Google is the only other company I know of a similar massive monorepo in Git.

How do they offset the length it takes to perform a `git status` or `git commit` where it needs to `lstat` the whole repo ?

(Is the answer simply disabling that feature?)
You're full of shit, man. Just another conceited young person who thinks they are getting back at all the HATERS by daring to go homeless to work on your revolutionary idea.

You completely appropriated the topic of homelessness to give more credibility to your project. And then you have the AUDACITY to pretend to be amazed at the community response when you wrote a huge blog post basically crying about choosing to be homeless and wishing people would give you free shit?

People like you are what is wrong with tech right now. I hope you fail.
You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
IMHO it is important to distinguish between doing science and being a professional scientist for the same reason it's important to distinguish between (say) playing a sport or a musical instrument and being a professional athlete or musician. Sports and music are democratized in ways that science is not. It is taken for granted that people can play sports or musical instruments without being professionals, but for some reason this is not the case in science. The profession of science oozes with disdain bordering on contempt for those who are not members of the club. This is a very serious problem in our society. It's the reason that climate-change denialists and young-earth creationists get as much traction as they do.

The Mythbusters were not professional scientists (they were professional entertainers), but they absolutely did science. And they did good science. Your dismissal of them is IMHO a symptom of the problem that they more than anyone else took a step toward solving.
I agree. They haven't done much of anything. It's a larger problem that led me to counter any claims that a technical solution would happen. Just slow it since it's a political problem involving apathetic voters and corrupt politicians. That has to change to counter this mess.
Not really sure exactly where OP is coming from, but kudos to you guys for all the hard work. Just worked on a MVC6 app recently and I really like the new DI and front-end tooling features. Thanks!
What C library is there that I can use? I don't want a C interface to Bullet.
The other smaller startup city is Cambridge, which in some ways is even worse - less dense housing and a complete lack of decent transport links in of any kind, because all our transportation centers on London.
Hey, well said.

Fuck-ups happen. The biggest difference is how you deal with it.
>and that works.

Depends on the browser. IE > 8 doesn't support it.
If you're honestly interested, start with Google.
http://lmgtfy.com/
Yeah, those schemes tend to work a little better. If the recipients of mircro-financing are subject to the risks associated with taking credit, they tend to invest it better. For instance, the mobile micro-loans given by Safaricom (http://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal/m-pesa/do-more-with-m-pe...) are actually given by a bank and defaulters are black-listed for loans as little as Ksh. 500 (~ 5 USD).

These schemes create opportunities whilst reminding people that poor decision-making has consequences. The only reason that this works is because these schemes are run by banks rather than non-profits. Perhaps there's a little room for more regulation around the margins these institutions should make off of these loans... but at the same time they're opening up credit lines to people who would have never had them.
That's true you don't actually need a browser to do what you're talking about. In fact I'm pretty sure x11 already does this.
Cheers for doing what's right, double cheers for the donation!
Except when you can't.

Landlords very often just won't take you on at all if you don't show evidence of preëxisting stability. No proof of stable income? No housing—you can even offer to pay up-front or whatever, and they just won't bother dealing with you as a special case, because why would they deal with the special case when there's a dozen other safe, predictable, normal people in line behind you?

Got an income, but can't prove it to be consistently enough? Congratulations, no housing for you. And thus begins the downward spiral.
This is a cryptic post, what, in direct terms, happened?
Here's a little timelapse video of the Google Analytics real-time page showing 4 hours of being on the home page of Hacker News. :-)

https://twitter.com/jimpick/status/728712464687239168
Could it be that our brain simply overclocks/underclocks in certain situations, leading to different perceptions of time? Such a construct would probably never occur to either Bergson or Einstein.
What about the widespread awareness of encryption and the necessity of secure cryptographic communications? In many laypeople's minds Anonymous and the "deep web" or "darknet" are synonymous, they all occupy the same zone in the cultural consciousness. Popular culture is culture.
>What, people are going to stop wanting luxuries?

Yes, check out /r/financialindependence

There's thousands of people living frugally to retire early with ~1-2 million which is basically UBI over a lifetime
There's snitching in Anonymous too but yet it doesn't cease to be because Anonymous is tacit membership. It's much more distributed and akin to the spirit of the internet than closed exclusive groups
Thank you for what you do for the .NET community! Especially for what you guys are doing with https://live.asp.net. I really enjoy all the discussions and banter between you, Jon, and Damian. It brings a much needed human-element to these big framework changes. I do feel like there have been many surprises along the way but you guys handled them just fine.

Just try to get some sleep Scott. ;)
Plottable.js is the only charting package I've used that's a real library, not just a set of pre-canned charts. Sadly, the devs don't seem to have a lot of time to devote to updating the site.
Look at the linked threads perhaps?
It's a straw man to assume that "serverless" refers to physical servers. The argument is triggering my irony detector, since that usage is itself a marketing category so broad as to be meaningless. Only in the client-server model does "server" have a definition worth reasoning about, where "server" refers to the passive listening endpoint in that model.

Lambda's published reference architecture is asynchronous invocation via queues listening to pub/sub events, which in integration terms is the antithesis of the client-server model. There is no listening server in the client-server sense.

So whilst the term "serverless" has obviously been chosen as a catchy marketing term for the mouthful that is "asynchronous event-driven self-scaling platform-as-a-service", it's not wrong.