skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of truth above, imposter syndrome is something I've heard from ~90% of the solid engineers I've worked with.
True, but that's the case for many a rhyming mnemonic:

I never remember, is it In fourteen hundred and sixty-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue?

But of course I remember remember the ninth of November.

Sometimes, though, I'm not sure if I'm correct with I before E except before C.

But I can definitely remember the order to get drunk in using Beer before wine, all is fine; wine before beer: oh dear.
Half the time the fakes are so ludicrously easy to spot that I really wonder why they bother. Fifty glowing reviews of a book within a day of publication all raising the same 4 esoteric points in the review. No doubt 4 points suggested by the author/publisher when asking for the astroturfing.

Completely disregard all Amazon Vine reviews.

Now weight heavily in favour of reviews that have had update edits - "it failed after 2 months. The replacement failed 3 months after that" (common on all makes of $200 LED gaming keyboards) or "after a year it's still in perfect condition". Photos on the reviews are often a good sign too - but only when there's just a few - photos on reviews are rare. So lots with similar framing would be an instant strike.

Try finding a CAT6a cable on Amazon - seems they're all 4.5 - 5* wonderful, yet dig into the bad reviews a bit and most of them don't even meet wire or shield spec. Even those coming from Amazon themselves.

Aside from reviews from specific, trustworthy people, reading the mid-tier and bad reviews gives a much better flavour of what a product is about, and the odd review tearing the product to pieces can be worth its weight in gold.

If it's a marketplace seller my starting point is to mistrust all reviews and let them earn trust really slowly.

I sure won't be going near Fakespot, especially when they're so intentionally vague in describing their own product - it'll be a score to game like your Klout score and all the other meaningless metrics. The astroturfers will adjust what's needed in the fakes to pass.
Amazon open-sources its own deep learning software, DSSTNE
Not only that, many countries have health care systems where the same person who earns their living from testing also earns their living from treatments. That's a tough premise to work with if you're designing health care for Utopia.
I've never even heard of Keep, but I've heard of chores.
Maybe because their video player takes forever to load and so you go off and do something else and then all of a sudden you get a REALLY LOUD VIDEO playing in one of your tabs that you can't find and it's some dude yelling FUUCCKKKKKKK for 6 seconds.. or something.

Then it autoplays forever.

Edit: Does anybody get this problem? Vines take forever for me to load so I can imagine how many people just don't bother if this happens for everyone.
And it's a Passport too :)

I optimised the software to look extra good on the Blackberry Passport.
Virgin Mary's Statue  Continues to Cry 1yr After  Owner's Cousin's Death
Would it make sense to do a large number of iterations (in the millions) of the basic "Hello, World\n" print statement in all the languages to amortize the cost of the BEAM/JVM setup/initialization system calls out?

Isn't it the case that in Java and Erlang we have a large VM environment that also needs to be launched before the first line of the trivial print statement is executed?
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Why is strong/dynamic typing considered such a big deal?
What exactly could DefuseSec be marketing here?

Disclosure: He and I have been friends for years.
I really like the idea behind Concord. No longer have to stress about Hadoop/YARN platform, and I can use the language of my choice (haven't used JVM-based stack in ages).

Is there documentation on adding more input/output sources?
Hey! It's great to see NuScale on my hackernews homepage. After working there as an intern for my first two summers out of hs, I've gotta say that it was one of the most inspiring startups. Since I started, I was able to witness the company grow up from its roots at Oregon State University to develop it's prototypical state-of-the-art designs that I (and many others) think will blow current nuclear power plant projects out of the water. Looking forward to it's first deployments. Hopefully the SMRs will be near enough to where I live to actually get a chance to visit!
I've found the Armadillo C++ library (http://arma.sourceforge.net/) to be a better replacement, when concerned about speed.
When it comes to Amazon reviews, let's not forget some of the older examples of them being gamed. Before the internet 'services' and spammers offering to make fake reviews, the same thing was being done by notorious dodgy authors and creators on a more manual level. Like Robert Stanek, a notorious self published fantasy author who posted thousands of fake reviews of his books (and probably still does):

http://conjugalfelicity.com/robert-stanek/gaming-the-amazon-...

For example, his books sold maybe ten copies a week, yet somehow got hundreds of glowing and suspiciously worded reviews on Amazon. Got to the point other sites (and Wikipedia) basically put up warning signs.

So yeah, even before the current crop of reviewer sellers started popping up, this system was being gamed by the authors and creators themselves using sockpuppets to flood it with fake reviews for their work.
If you read the fine article, you will see a very clear example of how a highly accurate test can still be misleading for clinical practice if the clinician is deciding whether or not to treat for a low-base-rate condition. Examples like this have been in books about statistical reasoning for medical decision-making over and over and over again since the turn of the century.
> I'm saying this because I'm detecting a trend in a different direction, where tools are making things more confusing instead of more clear.

Rust tools in particular, or tools in general? Just curious; the ease of use of Cargo is one of the things that initially drew me to Rust, and rustup seems pretty cool too (just used it to install Rust nightly on a new machine) but I have not done any serious work with Rust yet.
5 Ways for the Remote Worker to Master Work-Life Balance
Explain please? I cannot make sense of the op's sentence in a way that advocates social engineering.
To expand a bit on construction: it's possible to take a long tube, put a fresnel lens at front, pyroelectric sensor with rotating shutter at the other end. Scan by rotating it with reductors/steppers as a whole. It's also possible to cool tube with contents down to -70 with dry ice to cut on background heat radiation. Maybe it'll lessen noise in pyroelectric sensor, maybe not (and it's quite easy to buy dry ice in Moscow).
I just realized that when I said, "this syntax is available", people might have understood it to mean, "you can use this syntax to index arrays" (which is not true for the array type defined in base). What I meant was, "you can define an array type with this indexing behavior without changing the language (since you can override the behavior of both () and [] on a particular type)".
We could have an app to follow the ones we trust.
Or jonstokes works for a paid, members-only site that provides owner-verified reviews, making his post a subtle advertisement.
We Are Closing the Toast July First
This is why you always want to define your scopes.

He clearly intended for some variant of "any of my software projects that other people actually use", but failed to specify that detail.

But it's nonetheless hilarious. Laughs all around.
Is it possible to abstract the metadata store, which is currently Zookeeper, to be something else like etcd and consul?
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> It's very Soviet

It's not only a Soviet phenomena; American politics has utilized a "paranoid style"[1] for a long time.

> sabotaging crypto

It seems like a lot of people are pretending that BULLRUN doesn't exist. Nobody wants to believe that a coworker might be a collaborator; that kind of thinking can easily erode trust and create paranoia even when it isn't warranted. Unfortunately, the program exists so it's foolish to ignore the probability that it is still working to weaken crypto. As PHK explain in "Operation Orchestra", encouraging weak crypto is much cheaper than breaking real crypto.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American...
It's the same on 0.4, and Strings are getting a big overhaul on 0.5. Here are the results for 0.4:

$ julia -e 'f(a, b) = @sprintf("this is a %s %15.1f", a, b); code_native(f, (AbstractString, Float64))' | wc -l
WARNING: Returned code may not match what actually runs.
628

$ julia -e 'f(a, b) = @sprintf("this is a %s %15.1f", a, b); code_native(f, (ASCIIString, Float64))' | wc -l
194

$ julia -e 'f(a, b) = @sprintf("this is a %s %15.1f", a, b); code_native(f, (UTF8String, Float64))' | wc -l
194
https://consumerist.com/2014/05/12/does-amazons-inventory-co...
You probably should also give up on going to any conferences on US soil in the future.
I (personally) think there is a significant difference between a founder of an early-stage startup and employees.

The best equivalent is parents of a newborn. Do you get to not feed your baby to preserve work/life balance? No, because its survival depends on you. You do whatever it takes. That doesn't always mean working 80+ hours per week. Sometimes it means a vacation to preserve sanity, but there is a certain bar (and a high one, at that) for being a good parent.

Once things stable out, you can start to diversify your life. But until then, there are so many things constantly going wrong or unknown.

That may be an unnecessary pressure I put on myself, but my bar for starting a company is "all in." It's just too hard, with too small of a likelihood of success, to waste time half/90%-assing.
So revolutionary... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
Lens-based enlargment allows perfect image fidelity, while looking cool and steampunk!
Which is why they set it up on Tor and don't tell the police their names. They're like crackers who might quietly email the FBI a tip if they happen to find child porn on a server they've exploited.
The City gets exactly the same amount of scrutiny by financial supervisors, FCA etc as the rest of the nation. The city is special in a political sense in that the resident companies rather than resident citizens are the majority of the voters and steer the borough-level politics - but like any other county council, the CoLC doesn't set regulation, determine taxation, supervise banks or anything of that sort. That is all done by parliament, and applies for the City same as for the rest of the country.
And he inserted the string into HN, and our brains - but I already forgot.

Now insert that string into Linux source code, and I ll get surprised.
This blog post is sort of like a bigger beta announcement, to get things in front of a larger audience and make sure things are still good. It will be the recommend way to install rust soon, but not quite yet.
Yep, that Dasung item is mostly what I found while googling about this. It's a good start, but not useful for my application - coffee shops, beaches, and tents in the mountains.
> Never heard of such a concept.

The idea is that when you want to hire them, you send your Bitcoin to a third-party like Bitescrow, who then arbitrates if the hitman doesn't come through. Usually in the hitmen scams, the third-party turns out to be the hitman site in disguise, and they just keep the bitcoins.
Why do you tell me this? Look what the OP asked.
You can cross compile to iOS today, but you lose access to native GUI stuff IIRC. But games don't usually use that anwyay.
Ah yes, it's clearly better with the subtitle, so we've added that and taken out the superfluous bit ("Let's talk about").
Investor Mark Suster defends his portfolio company uBeam
Go has a set of completely different issues but that's a topic for another post =).
Maybe if Amazon simply posted a score/rating of how many people bought vs. returned the particular product and frequency over time, that information would alone be helpful. However, not sure they would ever share such competitively valuable information directly. They do sort of share it indirectly through the best sellers lists on the Amazon site, however, they do not share details of "how" they arrive at what "best-selling" means.
Not really, no, but making the screen black and white or grayscale at least would probably help. Maybe I'll try that.
Rustup manages installing rustc, cargo, and toolchains: it's not what you use to compile. Cargo does have a single Cargo.toml that manages per-project config stuff. But keeping it in a file is part of repeatable builds...
And if you think normal product reviews are in a bad state... well, then there are web hosting reviews. In that industry, pretty much 100% of the recommendations are driven entirely by 'whose affiliate scheme brings the most money'. Or even worse, they're like a mafia protection racket; pay the money and we'll take down bad reviews, don't pay and we'll take down the good ones and leave only the bad ones instead. Parts of that industry make the Amazon system look entirely respectable by comparison.

Then there's the state of video game reviews, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish. Double so when mobile apps are involved.
GM closes reported $1B purchase of Cruise Automation
It's true. Knowing CNN, I'm surprised they didn't make the headline:

"New technologies Trump Apple"
> It's easy in retrospect to say that they shouldn't have messed around with a business model requiring a bank partnership to get started without already having that partnership before building anything, but they didn't understand that going in

Doesn't have to be in retrospect. Why didn't any of the dozens of experienced investors they met with tell them this? "You're too early" is too wishy washy for them to have got the message.
See my reply to @birken above. I don't have a problem with them specifically prioritizing Christmas vacation. It was more a comment on finding product-market fit.

And to your point, quality-of-life is super important in the long term. When you're small and don't have money (not sure about their funding situation), you are default dead until you hit that product-market fit.
A lot of the comments here reveal not having read the fine article (which is not very long). If you look at the graphic labeled "How Accurate Tests Can Be Mostly Wrong," about halfway down the displayed Web article, you will see a very carefully worked out (and realistic) example about how even a very accurate medical test can result in mostly false positive indications of a disease--all that is necessary for that, mathematically, is that there is a low base rate of the disease. Examples like this have been commonplace in books about statistical reasoning for making medical decisions for more than a decade, and I have shared links to Hacker News before that make this same point. This is something everyone needs to know (but the investors in Theranos didn't know) to make sound decisions about how much testing to do and what to do with test results.

Other authors who write about this issue are cited in the article kindly submitted for our discussion. I urge everyone here to read a lot of the writings of Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis,[1] who is quoted in the article.

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/john-ioannidis?tab=publica...
To me the biggest thing that Julia brings to the table is the amazing concurrency support.

You can not only easily create parallel tasks on your machine, but on any machine that you have ssh access to that also has Julia installed.

That is simply amazing. Until something else can do that, Julia is going no where but up in my mind.
I found the sources to rustup's setup tool but not rustup itself which gets installed by rustup-init. Can you provide a link to the right repository?
I think you'll like this then: http://www.nand2tetris.org/
Weird how the article opens to a huge video interviewing a guy who did acid with Jobs. Kind of lame, really.
I'd guess topic knowledge would also be a big deal. If someone reviews a pocket knife who has never used one in their life, it will be a different review from someone who hunts often and sharpens their own knives.
It's not obvious it's in their best interest to block fake reviews. If product A has zero reviews and product B has ten glowing but fake reviews, which one makes more money for Amazon? Sure there's long-term reputation risk, but that's harder to quantify.
Microsoft OneNote isn't?

Honest curiosity. I haven't use either, much.
Another problem on amazon is allowing 3rd parties to "piggy-back" on original listings that aren't available directly from Amazon itself, and then the 3rd party will either substitute or not actually have the original item at all and ship whatever.

So the original item gets legit great reviews. But the reviewers never mention which seller they bought from. 3rd parties glam onto the high ratings and a lot of people get disappointment either with fulfillment or the product itself.

This is why I no longer buy unless it is amazon or amazon fulfilled (so I can at least return it). But you pay a premium for that.

Amazon could solve this by just noting which vendor the reviewer bought from on the subject line.
I'm guessing many HN readers aren't going to be familiar with the Toast (though I might be wrong?) and just wanted to preemptively defend it. Browsing the front page right now, it's easy to mistake it for clickbait-y sites pandering to 20 or 30-something women like Jezebel or Bustle. It's so much better than its peers, though. In some ways I actually see it as kindred with some of my favorite elements of the HN community: an unusually thoughtful and respectful comment section (relatively speaking), and an openness to the eclectic so long as it's interesting. For instance, among other things on the front page, there's this little snippet on "How to Politely Decline a Proposal from a Byzantine Emperor," which is exactly what it sounds like:

http://the-toast.net/2016/05/09/how-to-politely-decline-a-pr...

It was also one of the only independently run online publications that seemed to me to be on its way to being quietly successful in a "two or three people can make a small profit on it indefinitely" sort of way. Guess I was too optimistic. Anyway, RIP the Toast. I'll miss it.
Should be trivial to write a small consumer in python or golang. I'd suggest asking on a place like stack overflow or somewhere else. You could literally do this in ~5-6 lines with pykafka.
Buying from Amazon is NOT a guarantee of authenticity. Popular items such as PlayStation controllers & Beats Headphones have a bad reputation for being knock offs.
Are musl builds of the rust+cargo toolchain available via rustup? For running rust+cargo on Alpine.
One hypothesis some suicide researchers have floated is that suicide has multiple aspects; the dark winters damage people emotionally while reducing energy, and then when the light comes flooding back, their energy levels recover before their emotions. Result: suicide. Apparently there's some analogies in depression treatment where you're briefly more likely to commit suicide after a treatment starts working. Here's one paper on the topic: Vyssoki et al 2014 http://www.gwern.net/docs/2014-vyssoki.pdf "Direct Effect of Sunshine on Suicide". There might be something similar at play in Greenland.
Always read the 3-star reviews.

Those are usually people who have given some thought to the good and bad about a product.
True, but if performance is your key concern, you shouldn't use either of them. Octave and MATLAB are great for prototyping matrix based numerical algorithms. And for this purpose I find Octave much more pleasant, since it is less nitpicky regarding its syntax. And once I have something that works and want to apply it to huge datasets, I usually rewrite my code in C++.
Both Rust and emscripten do produce notably large output. On the Rust side it's true that the emscripten port won't use jemalloc, but instead the emscripten malloc (which presumably is better tuned for its environment). Also the wasm format's main design goal is to reduce binary size.
It isn't a better summary in this case (though the article's title is ok once the subtitle is put in), but the rule has to work in general, and in general we aren't able to read all articles closely enough to vet rewritten titles.
Why would you have to pay anything? Have a friend tweet the response.
> Laziness. It's usually faster to ask someone a question than to look up the answer.

:(

My common answer is "If you're too lazy to read the documentation, I'm too lazy to cut & paste it into the email".

Followed by them complaining about how I'm an asshole...
Or the ever insightful:

Q: [Any question]

A: I don't know.
The first half of the sentence is saying, "Don't do things the hard way (hacking) when you can do them the easy way (social engineering)". The second half is saying "Everyone should know this."
Do you think they're using foundationdb?
Deep Neural Network Hyper-Parameter Optimization with Rescale
That's a great example too, because Amazon actually ended up following up and banning cables that were found to be non-compliant with the spec, largely based on his reviews: http://lifehacker.com/amazon-bans-non-compliant-usb-c-cables...
One-based indexing is also used in Fortran, which seems to be used in a great deal of numerical computing even today. Additionally, BLAS/LAPACK is an important linear algebra library written in Fortan.

I am somewhat confused by your discussion of startup times. Since Julia is a "programming language for technical computing", what scenario are you imagining where startup times would be a significant concern?
I think you misunderstood EME. It doesn't let browsers compete on equal footing. The parts that actually matter for accessing Netflix are deliberately excluded from standardization.

So here I have my shiny new browser. I implemented all the relevant standards. Now, how can my users access Netflix? They can't, not unless I can strike a deal with one of the CDM providers, who, incidentally, for the most part are browser vendors themselves, i.e. my competitors.
People probably put too much stock in percentages. What do the (after-tax) absolute numbers look like?
White papers traditionally can be almost any length. I've written some that are 3 pages long, others that are 15-20 pages. Each with variation in technical information, ranging from "Here's what's important to know in this knowledge domain" to documentation of a proprietary programming language.

While some of these are written by analyst firms, quite a few are not. They're work-for-hire, often by techies or journalists who know the area in great depth, and who can ask the in-house experts the right questions and turn those answers into something genuinely useful. (Well, when they're good. Mine are good. :-) )
What I don't like about "cheerleading" articles like this is they didn't mention the problem installations such as Ivanpah. A few damning sentences from the Ivanpah Wiki:

In November 2014, Associated Press reported that the plant was producing only "about half of its expected annual output". The California Energy Commission issued a statement blaming this on "clouds, jet contrails and weather".

When you're blaming "jet contrails" for your problems, there's a whole lot of hurt being swept under the rug.
Well, the full domain will probably give you a hint of why I'd want a very solid "twist" before I went up against it: https://keep.google.com/ It's a default install on many Android phones I've had. Your app isn't going to get that.

And, just because I've been on the internet a while and I know what comes next, let me repeat my point: Yes, you can compete with built-in apps, but you need a twist. "Shared lists" is a solved problem; if that's all you've got, you've got nothing.
Pretty sure developer.apple.com has been Rails for a while. Maybe 4-5 years.