skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it proves your point. Almost everyone has an analogous service competing against them, either because "great minds think alike" and other people noticed the same need around the same time (e.g. digg v. reddit) or because they heard of someone else doing it and thought it was a great idea they could jump in on. I listed Facebook and Twitter, but I could have gone on, there are many services that were once dominant and got overtaken by something that is functionally equivalent or even functionally worse, but had more attractive dressing that drew users in.

The things that caused Facebook to spread like wildfire were not "twists" or enhanced value propositions highlighted in marketing material, nor were they Facebook's raison d'etre. If we're being honest, the most probable reason Facebook came into being despite Friendster, MySpace, etc., was not some analysis of the marketplace, but it was probably as simple as Zuckerberg had some of the code sitting around from his failed contract with the Winklevosses, and he got a kick out of people submitting their profiles to his service. Not much of a twist there.

Facebook exploded basically by accident, and the rest is history. There's no reason that the next Facebook couldn't have a similar history.

The gist of what I'm saying is that "the twist" or the killer feature(s) or whatever you want to call the things that drive adoption are less announced (e.g., as the reason your startup exists) and more accidentally discovered, happened upon. That process of discovery occurs by a segment of applications entering the marketplace and iterating based on what they see their competitors doing and what they see their customers responding to. It's hard to know a priori just what combination of tweaks is going to excel out in the marketplace, so several competitors that don't have a unique value proposition (aka "twist") are valid. Any one could eventually stumble into a formula that allows them to win and overtake the incumbent.
You know, I read some of the harsh comments you got from people, and they may have been right to say these things, I don't know. But kudos for taking it in stride and maintaining a positive attitude. Good luck in your projects.
> I could not care less that your company had failures in its infancy

> Just because you're new to the market doesn't necessarily mean you get a pass on quality/success

Contradiction?
Yay. We replaced one mess (table-based layouts) with another (CSS.)

Have you ever view-sourced the pages on this site? Many nested tables...
I would suggest that if it's impossible to buy the item at the meaningless price that it's an instance of false advertising.
My phone keeps getting unavoidable pop-ups, I'm sure it's a great story though.
>> the absence of a set schedule removes the biggest drawback of public transportation

>With a set schedule, I can just go to the stop, wait a minute, and a bus will come – most lines are running every 5 or 10 minutes anyway (or 15 to 20min in the suburbs).

Your European is showing... ;)

In Canada and the US, except some core routes in the urban centre of major cities, you will never see 5 to 10 minute frequency. I feel like this lack of schedule would have far more benefit for North American commuters.
Likewise. Might be fascinating for kids to have some "ready to roll" machine learning routines e.g. Watch the cat explore and learn how to get round a maze
Have we not had enough yet? I hate how this is acceptable. We are either free people or we are not. What's it gonna take for our criminal government to stop seeing us as the enemy?
I don't know. But I think that if we ever get to that point, then it would probably lead to a doomsday scenario of existential angst. Anything that happens after that...is really a boring footnote in the history of machinery's triumph over humanity.

Still, there's differing levels of dystopia. One where humans are still able to help each other is certainly better than most alternatives.
10+ years ago... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik_(packaging_method)
This is a possibility, but if they don't cave, Clinton is not putting in Merrick Garland. And I don't know that Merrick Garland has any sympathy for Scalia's argument.

This is a case where the more liberal justices tended towards an anti-fourth argument as long as the surveillance was done in a public place, and neither Obama nor Clinton have shown themselves to have a problem with universal surveillance that I'm aware of, in any case, ever.
It's true but it's suspicious to require to sign a contract with government to have the money. They should instead have just publish a specification of what a car should have to qualify.

The fact that the 3 majors German car makers have already a head-start for this subvention whereas there are lots of electric car models from other car makers doesn't inspire trust in this process ...
> I like most: it's extremely responsive and never lagging.

I spent an embarrassing amount of time yesterday figuring out why login forms in my app were incredibly laggy to text entry with stock keyboard + Safari.

Root cause? Had hundreds of login items in the keychain for that domain. Whoops!
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If you're interested to see more alternatives to Gorp and Gorm, here is another one; http://github.com/azer/crud
AFAIK they never tried submitting in bulk so I'm not sure why this (sensible, I think) process is used as an argument against them. I don't know if they tried to post piece by piece (and when/if they gave up).

But there's a pretty well documented anti-grsecurity sentiment on the lists dating waaaay back. So if I were them I wouldn't be necessarily convinced that I should invest my time in slicing to begin with. ;)
> The only thing keeping laser microphones...

The legality has nothing to do with it, as it has been demonstrated over and over that law enforcement will employ methods that can charitably be described as "legally questionable" and then attempt to hide it (see stingray). What is stopping them is limitations imposed by the physical world - both in number of windows and the fact that laser mics don't work the way they're portrayed on television. This is the reason why digital key escrow is infinitely more dangerous than physical key escrow (like fire department lockboxes).
My understanding is that it breaks things.
No, it's made by a different company.
My percentange was incorrect, I was thinking of a different company. It's 89%.

89% of Google's revenue comes from their ads they display on their search results, and in their adchoices network.

Source: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Google-earn-money
There are bazillions of these "system modules" available for any kind of CPU, here is one for the AM335x:

http://www.myirtech.com/list.asp?id=467

http://phytec.com/products/system-on-modules/phycore/am335x/...

You can buy these with any level of high-density connector you desire, if you need all those pins. No need for a big messy BGA device.
This one does not have ads. Five filters comes with ads. Big differentiator!
Snap and Tuck
> the absence of a set schedule removes the biggest drawback of public transportation.

I'm wagering that most everyone who thinks this way is mentally comparing against their most familiar American city. In Germany and Switzerland (and probably others), the trains and buses run on a schedule, and if a train is more than about 30 seconds late, you'll see the locals starting to anxiously cross-check their watches with each other.

When you can plan down to the minute, using public transport becomes much more convenient and efficient (This is easier with trains than buses, though the buses do stop and wait at stops until it's time for them to proceed).
Ask HN: How long did it take you to get your first dev job?
Been hunting for a month, probably 10-20 applications. 1 interview, haven't heard back yet.

Am I being too impatient? How long did it take you to get an offer for your first full-time position in dev? What should I expect?

Edit:

Thanks for the feedback so far!

- I'm applying for work in Vancouver, BC

- I have friends in tech; one works at a company that's aggressively hiring and he gave me a reference. Unfortunately not even an interview from them

- I have some internships/student work experience in dev, but they're lower tier (unheard of companies)

-Been going to meetups/hiring fairs. I've had good discussions with engineers there, hand them my resume, but probably gets lost in a pile/black hole of HR
Calculators automate at least some "mental effort" and have existed since 2000BC. Perhaps you mean creativity? But even in that case automating composition of music was experimented with as early as the 1960s.

Certainly our ability to automate is much more refined than in the past, but I fail to see the fundamental shift you describe.
The Eternal September all over again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Depends on how you build your application. Small focused processes work great. If you're not careful, and all the functionality gets stuck in one huge executable, it's possible to have long pauses. If that one huge executable winds up interacting with a serial device, like an old printer, or dumb terminal, well buffers are small. data gets lost. you have to resync and it sucks.

FWIW, my experience with that stuff is with java perhaps a decade ago. It can all be made to work with smaller heaps, better partitioning, but you wind up introducing more, but bigger buffers.

It almost never matters. Right up until you have to read the status from some old microscope, or something equally obscure.
+1. One reason why most front end engineers go not have good CSS skills. No amount of LESS or SASS will fix CSS.
There have been plenty of historical examples of automated mental effort from Wall Street trading, to telephone switching, to legal research, to librarians, record keeping, accounting, logistics management, forestry overwatch, security, safety regulation, meter reader, parking enforcement, communication, art, banking, many examples throughout history.
He's one of the few people in the world with a more nuanced understanding of blockchains than either "it will male bankers obsolete" or "it's useless nerd money", and that writes about it publicly.
I think that is a feature of AP Exams, not a bug.

How would design a uniform final exam for all, say, Calculus I courses? Sure, you can only test the intersection of all, but that encourages the teachers to only teach that subset. Instead, AP exams test the union of all, and normalize the score so that you only need, I think, a raw score of 60/100 to get a 5 on calculus. That way, teachers are encouraged to experiment with their curriculum, and students are not overwhelmed by the need to know everything there is to know. It's really a win-win solution.
I'm wondering if something like IPFS is where the next layer of fun will really be for developers.
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thank you for the reply. I am aware that saccharides are essential in our bodies in order to produce adenosine tri-phosphates (ATPs) which are units of energy used by our cells to perform everything from translation and commutation of genetic information, regeneration through mitosis, nervous actions carried out through active ion gates. I am also aware of multiple peer reviewed research papers (one from UCSF comes to mind, but I cannot be bothered to search it) that have shown direct links between cancerous cell growth and glucose (a monosaccharide).

p.s. the reference to a black cat crossing was intriguing from the perspective of a psychoanalyst studying the HN mind.
USPS has been accepting FedEx, UPS, etc shipments for years at no charge. All it takes is an add-on piece of paperwork with your box application. You then have your shipments sent to the street address of the P.O.
So something _has_ changed in other words. You used to implicitly trust Yubikey's word that they put the publicly available source code on their devices, just like now, but you used to also be able to verify their code such that you could be fairly sure that if the trust in the company is warranted, their product is fairly secure, or more importantly, find security issues in their code.
> Heck, go is billed as a systems language and it's GC'ed! That would be crazy 20 years ago.

Modula-3 was a systems language with GC that was released in the late 80s. It could be disabled for applications that couldn't benefit from it, but in the long run it helped Modula-3 be a much safer language for systems programming than anything with manual memory management. After all, most "systems programs" aren't OS kernels anyway.

Even if I were to write an OS in Modula-3, the first thing I'd do is write a real-time GC as an `unsafe` module (possibly mixed with some assembly), then write the rest of the OS such that it can make use of that. Hell, modern machines have so many cores that it might not be crazy to dedicate a core to a concurrent GC. There are also GCs that allow programmers to set a cap on latency, and the GC always ensures that it returns control before the cap is reached [1].

Given the considerable amount of research that has gone into writing operating systems in managed languages (Lisp, Oberon, Haskell, C#, ...), it doesn't seem particularly crazy to me today. Besides, there are plenty of other reasons to dis Go :p

[1]: http://www.cesura17.net/~will/Professional/Research/Papers/b...
If you count variants of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel, "composition" with less mental effort is even older.
You don't evolve proper security though a million tiny commits. You design it. This is why containers on Linux will probably never have the security that Solaris or the BSDs have, and this attitude is why. It will never get better until that is rethought, if you're right..
The economic consequences of the chilling effect will have to be severe before they impress either lawmakers or internet companies. For the latter, there is too much riding on the monetisation strategies. And the race for the smartest exploitation of personal information is the new Wild West (or Gold Rush, if you will), only this time not confined by a limited amount of square mileage.
The 5 stages of renewing of your apartment lease
do you know the level of security they put their code through? Especially for mission critical systems? Most of us programmers take for granted libraries and COTS products that we find online when we have little idea who coded them and if they put backdoors in them. Most programmers have no idea security of their systems especially if most are put together as fast a humanly possible. Simply put ... you cannot use COTS/Open Source for warefare systems. There is a reason the military now considers battles spaces land, sea, air, and cyberspace.
As I said: forums. For example, if you travel a lot, flyertalk. There are several forums still alive for PC enthusiasts especially if you are building small factor machines or insane gaming rigs: hardforum, overclock.net etc.
A bit of a and a bit of b. The intention was to protect private property from government snooping without probable cause. It was a way to balance property rights against the governments' law-enforcement powers.
I think that's an Apple no-no. Which is a shame because the iPad is the best mobile enterprise Windows access device in the market.
What would you propose as the syntax?
Nvidia has been making some pretty cool strides with https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker, but I wish they would expose some images / docker run commands directly instead of wrapping it with their own (bespoke) Go tool. In its current form its utility strikes me as really limited since it can't be used with other tooling.
It's not the best reporting, but from what I can tell, the FBI is collecting evidence against auction bidders who allegedly conspire to pay less for foreclosed real-estate. The auctions take place on the courthouse steps, and the bidders have been accused of working together to keep prices low by intimidating some bidders and conspiring with others. I'd love to see the auctions moved to a website marketplace. Maybe a good startup idea?
Actually - the browser demo is just using plain HTML and frontend JavaScript.

The node part is only for generating higher resolution prints, offline (no server). :)
Well, if you voluntarily put in your home device designed to listen to you around the clock, and send the data out, you can't complain it listens to you and sends the data out, can you?
Sorry, but that just doesn't make any sense to me. Practically 70% seems like enough to understand most narrative. I've read some really difficult texts (translated German theology) and for anything of meaningful complexity 98% is unreachable without a huge vocabulary and understanding of both oddities of grammar and the construction of narrative or argument.
The frequency response of most microphones (before DSP filtering) does not perfectly cut-off above 20 khz. I suppose if you were really paranoid you could walk around blasting exceptionally loud noise around and above this freq for privacy ;). Although your local dogs might not be too happy
The brain does need some glucose to function, but the bulk of its energy need can be met by ketones. After adapting to this energy source the need for glucose is low enough that it can be met entirely by gluconeogenesis (making glucose from proteins and fats). Humans can survive on a zero carbohydrate diet with no cognitive impairment.
> ...your body needs certain kinds of sugars to function...

I would really like to see the citations that "body needs certain kinds of sugars to function" connotes that we must perforce consume sugar in some form (which I interpret "not the greatest thing in the world for our bodies" implies while we might not have to eat table sugar, we need to at least eat carbs that can be readily converted to glucose), at least in modest amounts. People who start out as epileptic children put on strict ketogenic diets able to carry out successful lifestyles for decades without any other restrictions are prima facie empirical evidence that we most assuredly can synthesize what little sugars our bodies do require beyond very small amounts of daily net carbohydrates (20g per day or less, equivalent to 5 teaspoons table sugar), and do not have to include sugars in our diets.
Could you qualify your use of "private property" to account for the many ways in which the "property rights" are assessed in terms of the 4A, e.g. in terms of surveillance?
It works in the browser - the demo is just a static site. The same rendering code can also run in Node if you want a higher res print.
Is there a known explanation of how a newborn gets its biological age reset, given that the newborn starts from the cells from its aged parents? If the answer is not understood, it may be easier to research this instead by studying say zygote formation.
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Every year there are companies in SV that raise Tens of millions of dollars without any public prototype, and many fold before they release their product. Most of the time, such failures are not newsworthy. Why is this case so polarizing?
Keep in mind that you also knew how to do this ahead of time (installing the CUDA-related libraries is overwhelmingly difficult if you haven't done it before), and didn't run in to any issues with numpy / scipy version compatibility (I've had quite a bit of "fun" having to install numpy etc. from source in the past), and were presumably lucky enough to have a well supported GPU.

Is there a motivation for anaconda other than "it includes the stuff we usually need"? It strikes me as somewhat strange that anaconda is so often recommended but it forces a divergence from using the mainline packages with vanilla Python.
Instead of depending on generalizations, I'd say that without Clarence Thomas and Scalia (and also Ginsberg, Breyer, and Souter), it would be legal today to record what goes on inside your home without a warrant. So to generalize about conservatives or liberals in this case would probably not be helpful because both the liberal-leaning and the conservative-leaning justices split. What is absolutely true is that the two most right-wing justices were on the side of the Fourth.

All I'm saying is 1) that the next person to appoint a Supreme Court justice, and the last person to appoint a Supreme Court justice, are both New Democrats who seem hostile to Fourth Amendment defences against surveillance, and 2) that the author of the opinion that protects us from total audio surveillance, and the fiercest defender of the Fourth in the Court is the one currently being replaced.

Take it as you will; I'm not hopeful at all, but there's nothing I can do about it anyway. I honestly believe that any justice that Emperor Trump would put on the court would be more likely to preserve that view than not, and the opposite would be true for any Clinton appointment.
I am a native Chinese speaker (lived in China till college), and I once tried the AP Chinese problems for fun with a friend of mine (also a native speaker). We both find it surprisingly difficult, because it really is geared towards second language learners. One speaking question was like, describe your favorite Chinese film and explain its cultural significance. Okay, I watch films with friends all the time, but it never occurred to me to ponder their "cultural significance", and I have only like 60 seconds to prepare.
That is almost true, but there's one exception in those GC'ed languages due to the dichotomy of value types and reference types. The confusing behavior on capturing the iteration variable is one example.
Conservatives have a pretty obvious hole in their logic, where they both want to legislate morality and reduce the state's ability to enforce such legislation. The modern liberal on the other hand is much more single minded in the expansion of federal responsibility, and logically granting the powers necessary to accomplish said responsibilities (firearm registration, clipper chip, etc). Pretending that it isn't a false choice for a moment, I'd prefer the confused conservative position.
Apple extended C with block closures years ago.

int b = 0;

^(int a) {
return a*b;
}

The declaration for lambda variables is almost identical to function pointers, just with a ^ instead of a *, so there's nothing to learn (or unlearn, like C++ forces you to). The ^ looks like a lambda, and historically the lambda of lambda calculus actually was a caret accent over the variable. The argument list can be elided.
Whether a warrant is required is a federal Constitutional question. Requiring consent to record a conversation is a statutory creation (and state law at that). State law doesn't define what does or does not violate the Constitution.
I've read in multiple places that biohackers are using Intermittent fasting as a way of preventing cancer.

By making sporadic (eg. once a month) fasting periods of 12h to 24h, they expect to starve cancer cells in their very early stages (basically using the underlying principle of the article).

I would be extremely interested in seeing a study of the incidence of cancer in people doing Intermittent fasting vs general population.
I can imagine a webserver that drives a little robot via bluetooth. Low consequence for failure. It's easy to imagine the webserver part of the functionality causing a long pause, and a "stop" message to the robot being late.

golang would do a fantastic job at this, i think it would be far more enjoyable than C. Latency almost never matters. But sometimes it matters.
Reminds me of Greenspun's Tenth Rule Of Programming:

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp.
Internet publishers must have some reciprocal moral obligation to their readers if their readers are morally obliged to "pay" upfront.
I think BlackBerry use them on their Android kernels.
Needs more studies. Armchair analysts find it intuitive though, but we don't know for sure yet.
Maybe! What do we know?