skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a software engineer, why would I even consider wasting my time with starfighters.io when I can simply go do as many traditional interviews as I want, with the top 10 companies in my field (that are also not using starfighters.io), get multiple job offers that I can use for leverage/negotiation, without having middlemen parasitize off of me.

Perhaps you aren't the target market. That doesn't mean the market doesn't exist.
I don't think it's fair of the author to single out Chinese companies. Any company based outside the US that trades on a public US stock exchange (ADRs) files in a different fashion than US-based companies including requirements disclosed and timing of the filing[1]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/foreign-priv...
If you limit your examples to health declines/old age, then - yes. My point is that the term "aging" doesn't always relate to the old and infirm.

When my three-year-old nephew ages ten years I would hardly agree that means he's more likely to die, just the opposite. A thirteen-year-old is significantly more fit for survival.
This pretty cool map shows distances between languages. English is Germanic and French is Romance but they are quite close.

https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among...
The future of e-commerce: bricks and mortar
This story rings a bell on so many levels.

Not because my stories are the same, but because the entrepreneurial journey is so long.

You have to try over and over and over again and keep learning every time and every time it fails for a new reason there's a new lesson.
I unfortunately don't know of any yet. There are stories on the new California budget, but they only mention "affordable housing" in a general way, nothing on Brown's specific proposals. My source for this diagram is Liam Dillon's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/dillonliam
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You can instruct the Nim GC to not do that using GC_ref (http://nim-lang.org/docs/system.html#GC_ref,string).
Its orbit in relation to other far out planets: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/2007OR10...
This is what Social Engineering is. Asking someone to do something that they normally would do, in order to get the desired outcome.
Buyer beware. May of the things you mention are regulated or banned should be allowed, and let the buyers and businesses handle differences in court via contact law.
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In other words, they're admitting they made some drastic overestimations in their model. They are human beings after all.

How many solar thermal plants have been built before? How much experience do we have with estimating their output?
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i was born and grew up in Texas, moved away 25 years ago and still have a couple of Texas quirks. I simply cannot live in a state that has an income tax, and I still worship the Alamo.
After dealing with the basic lack of humans to talk to for questions on various web based services I've tried to use (Mint, Wealthfront, ZenPayroll), I'm tired of doing these things without guidance of a real, experienced, licensed person, and having to wobble along to figure out important things (like how some expenses are classified, etc) with just the guidance of pretty software tooltips.

I'm probably not alone in this. I think we'll start to see more services that are a bit more high-touch on the employing human experts side.
I used to work on those projects back a few years ago so it all might have changed but I doubt it.

iTunes Store was a more traditional monolithic WebObjects app using Project Wonder. Apple Online Store was a microservices based architecture which really just the HTTP routing part of WebObjects.
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Such a process could create humans who have multiple times greater IQs than the smartest humans who have ever lived. Perhaps as high as 1,000, by some estimates. See: http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-ar...

Truly a terrifying possibility.
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This just made my day.
Long story short here is this app isn't acting as a "merchant" rather as an intermediary between counterparties in financial transactions which requires banking relationships to be established to drive the flow of the funds.

Also keep in mind that Stripe/Square/Braintree etc are processors not banks. They will help you move the funds around but as far as where those are moved from/to that's on you even if you're a Merchant. Once you get into the "middle man" business the plot thickens quite a bit.
That's what I figured. So not "trivial".
The thing about 1 based indexing is that it's a kind of in your face "this is different" decision from the point of view of a programmers of most popular languages. To be honest I wouldn't want to start investing my time into a language where people who proposed 1 based indexing are making design decisions. It's not that I think they are incompetent but it's clear they care way more about some different world than about my programming world and are ready to make my life miserable stating the point.

Now, I don't know if people from that different world (Fortran, Matlab, some other languages used in academia maybe) would feel the same way about 0 based indexing but it certainly sends the message to programmers outside those domains.
Amusingly, there is an obviously-fake review for exactly the same product as your scathing example.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1UCB6JLZ6TRTN/
Uh, I think you're forgetting PHP. Not to mention Clojure is at least as popular as Go. Dynamic typing isn't going anywhere, desire for 'gradual typing' is a very niche but vocal desire in the dynamic language communities. It may lose some mindshare but there are a lot of options to lose that to these days since even the holdouts of 'annoying' static typing with terrible type systems like C++ or Java are making it more and more feasible to ignore/not specify the types in your code.
Thank you. I am aware of some of these approaches.

Do you know how word2vec and other similar approaches handle this?
LOL, exactly but the more annoying ones are in the Questions sections.

There is always someone who comments that they don't have the answer.

WTF just dont post if you don't have the answer.
I love my particle. I'm even using it in production now for measuring remote process levels (ultrasonic level sensors, flow meters). I'll probably have 100-200 in the field by the end of the year.
I still liked EOF Java but still there does remain a spiritual successor:

http://cayenne.apache.org
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https://www.teslamotors.com/powerpack

That's the benefit though, right? I can write Tesla a check and they can ship me an entire utility scale energy storage system by rail/truck multi-modal. I can't do that with molten salt.
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I highly doubt it.

The Apple Online Store at least was exceptionally well architected and I would be surprised if that codebase didn't still look good decades from now.

Plus nothing competes with the JVM's library base which are often critical when you have integration with other legacy systems.
My understanding is that the kernel goes to pretty great lengths to not break ABI compatibility, so this should be fine.

I just tried it out with a server I have lying around: https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/0b2736642ddd4669260bd7f... Compiled on 3.16.0-4-amd64, ran on 3.2.0-4-amd64, no issues
The lack of an income tax is great although one should note that property taxes in TX are considerably higher than average. Around 2.5%+ or so.

To optimize one's tax situation in Texas, the ideal situation is to live in a cheap condo/house and make a high income.
Good point. There's no reason we couldn't have Excel as a headless DLL and spreadsheets compiled into a nice useful bytecode except that the software itself is a complete trainwreck of legacy issues.
Yes it is. If it is shipped and SOLD by Amazon Inc., it is pretty much legit. There is, however, also just shipped by Amazon, which is basically selling through third party, but Amazon handles shipping.
Thanks, that's the context that we need. It seems rather odd that someone could write a whole article without going into where "in Our Solar System" this body orbits.

Obviously it's not going to be in the inner solar system, but it seems odd not to even mention the basic comparisons to e.g. the orbits of Pluto or Eris.

Summary: It is out past Neptune, has a similar kind of orbit to Eris.
What does it mean for a stock to be overcrowded? It's a new term to me. I looked for a definition in the article, and couldn't find an explicit one.

Does it mean a stock has a lot of investors with relatively small positions?

Googling only turned up 'crowded short'.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/crowded-short.asp

Is that the same thing?

I've been investing in stocks for a while and this is a new term to me.
Complaining about microbenchmark performance, then perf benchmarking in a completely unscientific way, is pretty bad
(These are non-quiesced machines, etc)

The error bars show it's probably slower, but i'm pretty sure he's not going to get valid measurements to 0.002s by running it once with time without doing things like disabling CPU throttling, etc :)

Of course, looking at julia's microbenchmark for C, they had to do a bunch of things to get the compilers to stop optimizing away their benchmarks, so that should tell you something right there :)

The example they give of sprintf calls is completely misleading, since sprintf_chk is going to be several hundred instructions itself.

Follow https://github.com/lattera/glibc/blob/master/debug/sprintf_c... all the way down the rabbit hole :)
I've been disappointed in Yubico since I saw their advisory downplaying the bug in the original OpenPGP support which meant it didn't require a PIN to perform crypto operations (and of course, this can be done over the NFC interface too): https://developers.yubico.com/ykneo-openpgp/SecurityAdvisory...
A website is software that users run.
From the Github issue [0]:

> Further hostility against the company or our users will
> not be tolerated in this forum, and will be met with
> bans.

Odd reaction. Especially when they've _changed_ from open to closed source, and what benefit is there, really, to a closed-source 'OpenPGP' implementation?

They're looking for a profit, sure, but they're blessed to be a hardware company. It's not like I can just clone they're repo and not need to buy their product.

[0] - https://github.com/Yubico/ykneo-openpgp/issues/2#issuecommen...
Depends on what the desired outcome it. I read the challenge as compromising one of the pieces of software on the website. Doing that with social engineering was the desired outcome.

The attacker thought out of the box to tackle a lesser challenge: getting a string on the website itself. It was technically true under rules, funny, and contest issuer even owned up to it. It's not the real challenge, though. No real-world impact. So, just amusing trolling.
No it wasn't. Apple Online Store was vanilla. But iTunes Store at least used the Project Wonder libraries which is almost a fork in of itself.

https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder
That'd be it. I live in a place where they're very aggressive with road-salt and plowing.
As an aside, what is the deal with kids and tablet cords!?

(Vent over, you may resume your conversation.)
Are you aware of any language's whose FFI is that trivial?
the stars at night are big and bright....
Right on. If you're getting into the ACH debit business there's also a set of rules established by NACHA (aka 'NACHA compliance') which regulates the transactions and controls them to the point where you have to obtain payees explicit approval to move the funds.

Which is why if you pay your credit card statement by phone for example, you'll hear the service rep read the consent form for you to say 'yes' once they are done before they can withdraw the funds.
Theranos is working on a technology that will exist in the near future, confirmed by many many other companies working on it, so it seems quite likely: someone will succeed in using less blood, to run more tests.

That doesn't sound like a totally alien idea, and since Theranos will probably not deliver on this promise fully, someone else likely will. However, the uBeam sounds super dubious. I think wireless energy is probably possible, but without a prototype a consumer could feasibly use in their home, and the large amount if scientists I coming out against this a few years ago doesn't seem to have shrunk.

So, yes it is a really hard interesting problem, but all the fun ones are. I wouldn't have invested with the expectation of success, but that the technology developed could be used for something else/is valuable.
Well, it's not exactly plaintext, HTML is an interpreted language.
If distances used 1 based indexing:

metric distance conversion chart:

cm m km
1 1.00 1.00000
2 1.01 1.00001
3 1.02 1.00002
...
101 2.00 1.00100
...
100000 1000.99 1.99999

The ratios between the values aren't fixed now; we can't go from cm to m just by scaling by 100. We must subtract, scale then add.

One based indexing falls apart if you have to index a region of storage as bits, bytes and words at the same time.
All over, actually. I trawl forums, review blogs, & news articles. The more the better.

"Professional" reviewers in particular fill a gap- some of them have had their hands on just about every <vacuum> ever made, so they can provide something frequently lacking on storefront reviews, an opinion well informed by experience with many alternatives.

I also like sites like DxOMark, which provide raw test data that you can review yourself.

The main theme though is just, many sources. Any one person can be bought, but not the whole internet.
I remember very clearly when something or other about this company got posted here awhile ago and almost immediately thereafter someone submitted a blog post explaining in basic physics terminology that the company's premise was in no uncertain terms total bullshit, and reamed the entire startup community for heaping attention and praise on them without thinking through what (to the author) were obvious faults in their plan.

I enjoyed that piece. I like it when the discussion reverts to basic math and physics to resolve points of contention.

At any rate, it continues to amuse/distress me in the time since then that the company is still around and still has investors, etc. Do people still not get it? It won't work.

On some level, moreover, it disturbs me that people are actively pursuing a technology that would effectively be torture to household pets. Does that mean nothing to anyone? Do they get that dogs and cats would be able to hear this as a siren in their skull?
That's partially BS generics are not always the same as brand name drugs. The manufacturing facilities are not the same the suppliers of active ingredients and the degree to which they are purified are not the same. So if insurance is covering brand name drug it's actually better it be prescribed vs generic.
> Open sourcing would only help find non malicious bugs.

1. This isn't exactly true; Yubico as a whole might be trustworthy but that doesn't mean individuals within the company can't slip in something that looks benign but breaks security, and slips past the other developers. Such vulnerabilities are documented even in open-source code[1].

2. Even non-malicious bugs can have security implications.

[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7388
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Do you want to understand? I'll try to help, but it seems like I'm using math terminology and concepts you're not familiar with, and I don't want to presume you're interested in learning math.

Sadly, we're not even talking about the meat of my point, you got stuck on the uncontroversial preface to my real point. My point was that Nautilus is wrong and maybe being sneaky by saying that aging accelerates near the end of life because the probability of dying is going up. That's not true, and the bowling analogy shows why.

Over time, the probability of pins being knocked over goes up. But you can't conclude that the bowling ball is accelerating. The author made an incorrect conclusion from the data to make his point. It might be intentionally misleading, or it might be a mistake, but it's nonetheless incorrect to suggest that an increase in the probability of death must have been caused by an increase in the rate of aging.

Now, if you want to learn the difference between CDF and PDF, look at the first two pictures in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

I'm not saying that the PDF of death by age should be a bell curve, I'm stating a fact. It already is a bell curve. Go look at the data. You're trying to argue against reality with logic. You're right, it doesn't have to be a bell curve. But it IS a bell curve.

https://www.longevitas.co.uk/site/images/ELT15.png
http://www.aihw.gov.au/uploadedImages/Subjects/Deaths/age-de...
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldselect/l...

Very few people die of old age at 55. Many people die of old age at 80. Very few people die of old age at 100, because there are very few people left. That's a bell curve. Does that make more sense?
A website is either data a browser interprets or a combo of it plus software (eg Javascript). This is compromising his software only in most technical, trolling sense. It won't affect his apps at all.
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"A dwarf planet", not "An". Also, too many commas and no need to capitalize every word.

Grammar, FTW.
By "new" I mean that only relatively recently in human history (in the last ~100 years) have people been able to live long enough that these become health problems of concern. Before the 20th century, most folks just got sick as a result of an infection of some kind and died.

All I am saying is that there will be other new problems that are uncovered as we continue to extend human life-span.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
I wish I saw this sooner (HN news needs notifications!). You can sign up for our email list to start and you can also start a thread on our forum (https://forum.flair.co). Excited to hear all the cool things that you want to use it for fyi :)
Unrelenting jingoism for the 13 years of mandatory schooling, that's what makes Texas Texas.
> Theranos is working on a technology that will exist in the near future, confirmed by many many other companies working on it, so it seems quite likely: someone will succeed in using less blood, to run more tests.

Except we don't need more blood tests[0]. With uBeam, there's no doubt that if the technology works, it would be a game-changer. Theranos was facing both technical and market challenges, but with uBeam, it's a purely technical challenge.

0: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/theranos-is-wrong-we-don...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5765
Its really difficult to find a proper travel agent now that all the websites have taken over. Maybe they'll come back.
Don't forget. Aging population. Seniors don't drive as much as working age citizens. And the number of baby boomers retiring is the largest cohort in history to move into that age range.
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Do those regulations have any teeth? Because it seems like it would be very hard to enforce.
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Yes - there is a click and rotate. No dev kits just yet - we are getting close to shipping the first set of preorders and pretty heads down on that but it has a nice bootloader so you will be able to reprogram it over the air as well as via some exposed pads on the back. Would love to hear some of the things you are looking to use it for!
I did this with my brother. Would always ask me beginner programming questions instead of getting Google-fu (while running a business making FileMaker Pro integrations, ugh).

Eventually I LMGTFY. He stopped asking.
It's using this: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/engagement_... but if you are smart you can reproduce a lot of the functionality using both http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... and http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl.... We are also coming up this quarter with a fully integrated self-service API that will make doing all this much easier (especially the dialog part). Stay posted.
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Yeah - tell that to our investors :p (j/k I love them but they felt it important to keep focused on the marketing for a while longer).

Definitely need to add some marketing pages though, one for 'generic knob' examples, and then I actually think it would be best to split up the minisplit/window ac bits from central heating and cooling.
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The lesson here friends is to fail faster. The lack of momentum on the kickstarter should have been a clear red flag.
But then we'd need another site that reviews and rates sites that review and rate sites that review and rate reviews.
Well, sort of. Erlang has the array module, which does actually index at 0, intentionally to feel like an array from another language.

The primitive collection types index at 1, but, as you said, are almost never indexed that way. I'm not sure the motivation as to why, but the fact it feels clunky to use them that way is a benefit, as it raises resistance when you're using them wrong (as indexing them almost always is).
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Ha! That's kind of hilarious that ITMS used Project Wonder. Thanks for the info, assuming you had some way to know. :)
The way I would have done it:

1) Parents are charged via typical merchant mechanism to fill their account with "credits" worth $0.99 each, costing $1.00, and can optionally allow the app to automatically top-up their account when low.

2) The service sends cash in a registered mail envelope at a frequency configurable by users, with mailing fees paid for by credits.

Then the business can function and grow a user-base, and by holding the balance, the company can build up a lot of cash-on-hand which will enable them move onto the bank integration they originally wanted. Bonus: receiving legitimate mail and getting cash in hand are very exciting experiences for a kid.
> Then we'll have to choose: do we want newborn babies or really old people?

That's the interesting question isn't it? And _who_ gets the privilege to answer?

I have no idea to what extent we'll defeat aging and extend life. However, it is reasonable to expect that we'll at least manage to go far enough that concerns about population will enter the picture as well as much more strange problems that have never existed but which should be considered.
Investor seem to like bombastic claims and bombastic people.
White papers are an entirely different kettle of fish. There you can get paid five-figures, but it's a much higher work load.
I can't agree more our startup is working on time travel there's no doubt that if the technology works, it would be a game-changer. Since it's a purely technical challenge we expect to raise a trillion dollars in our seed round.
I disagree with that article as it makes no sense. Their assertion that tests === diagnostics that map 1:1 to a disease was baseless. Tests don't answer the question "doe patient have diabetes?", they answer the question "what is the patients glucose level?" 115 mg/dl.

Maybe the patient forgot to fast, maybe the test was a fluke? Either way a consistent average of 85 would put that out of range. SO I found the five thirty eight article stupid so I guess I misunderstood why more health data would be bad.
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