skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On vector similarity, I'd recommend a custom variant of the uncentered Pearson correlation as it better accounts for a balance between discreet and continuous values with vectors that might vary in length.

If you want to get real fancy you can use variants in combination with the uncentered Pearson correlation including variants of KL distance to RV distance calculations if you can fit your such that those become effective.
A New American Atlas of the US – Are We Where We Live?
A comparison to other languages and cultures would be useful.
I did some early work[0] but the project hasn't started in earnest (a big issue w/ electron and web views in separate partitions was just fixed). I made a POC for maidsafe also [1]

0 - https://github.com/cretz/shrewd
1 - https://github.com/cretz/safe-poc-browser
Would definitely be interesting to see a comparison of English/European swearing with other languages.

For instance, it's my understanding that in Cantonese, a grave expletive is a phrase that roughly translates to something like "dead chicken" (source: my wife). I'm sure there's an interesting linguistic story behind that phrase, and it's quite different from normal western cursing.
Toronto actually recently passed Chicago in population.
Pretty sure most libertarians are ok with regulations when they involve possibly causing harm to someone's body or laying hands on someone's body or property, and fraud. This case hits two of those concerns.
Yes, the author committed another pet peeve of mine: omitting Mexico City from the list of largest cities in North America. Particularly stupid, given that it is the largest!
Agreed. For a second I thought it was an ad for a job.
beginning with Marbury v. Madison

Ah yes. Tell me again how all the people involved in drafting the Constitution came to universal perfect agreement in every aspect and detail of what the right way to set up a government was and how the resulting Constitution should be read and interpreted for 100% of situations, to such a high degree that during their lifetimes there were absolutely no controversies about how the Constitution worked.

Hint: the fact that Marbury happened shows what a complete clusterfuck of disagreement and disarray the Constitutional Convention was. Also, Marbury was good law.

And yes, there are older concepts of natural rights, but the one always espoused by people who advocate for the perfect-unanimous-agreement myth of the Constitution is the one used by, well, the people who drafted the Constitution, who'd been busy reading the theories of John Locke on the subject.
yea.. Toronto is just not competitive at all compared to other "scenes"
A pubsub for every occasion – how modern JavaScript became a series of dispatches
Just out of curiosity how would you rank strlen{1,2,3} in terms of difficulty to read?

size_t strlen1(const char * s) {
const char* it =s ;
while(*it != '\0') {
++it;
}
return it - s;
}

size_t ptr_distance(const void *begin, const void* end) {
return end - begin;
}

size_t strlen2(const char * s) {
const char* it =s ;
while(*it != '\0') {
++it;
}
return ptr_distance(s,it);
}

int is_null(const char* p) {
return *p == '\0';
}

const char* find_first(const char* s, int (*predicate)(const char*)) {
while(1) {
if(predicate(s)) {
return s;
}
++s;
}
}

size_t strlen3(const char * s) {
return ptr_distance(s,find_first(s,is_null));
}
"Wanted" Kinda. The villain wasn't really a villain cuz he was trying to save his family (along with himself), while the protagonist isn't really a good guy either.
I dunno, it seems pretty transparent it's bullshit. If I read stuff like this it's obviously signaling a toxic work culture full of company koolaid. I never drink the koolaid. I try to do a good job and work hard, but I never get into company culture stupidity. It's not in my nature.
These big companies have good reason to be afraid. They fall from grace faster and faster all the time.

Look at the turnover in the Fortune 500: http://www.wired.com/2012/06/fortune-500-turnover-and-its-me...
Build Baby Build!
I was first aghast when I saw the new big apartment buildings coming up on El Camino Real and San Antonio Ave in Mountain View and Sunnyvale- with barely 1-5 feet set back from the the sidewalk. Then I realized which side of the table I was and I was like Fuck It. It may not be pretty, someone pulled a fast one on the Inspector/Panel/whoever but they are helping me with making more housing avbl and hopefully rents more affordable.
Beign at either extreme, moving too fast or moving too slow, is problematic. A related field to medical is the Space + Rocket industry. Heavily regulated and if you make a mistake people die.

For much of the lifetime of the industry, NASA was the best there was. They embraced a "zero bug" mentality (http://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/no_bugs.html). It resulted in very slow and costly development and we accepted that as the way things where, ie very expensive and little progress.

SpaceX came in with a move fast and break things mentality. They did not approach this in the way that had always been done (move slow and make no mistakes). They have greatly reduced cost and increased capability to a level that arguably would never have been reached by NASA, all without loss of life.

We don't need to test or develop medical in a haphazard way, but do have to accept that the way things work currently will not result many advancements (at least not rapid advancements). FDA regulations are fine until you realize that you have a currently incurable medial condition, and wonder if medical innovation was easier if you would have a cure.

Is the regulation to ease fear of a potential death/injury worth the many real deaths of people who we do not have treatments for?
Cities stand to collect higher revenues from businesses (sales tax, business licenses, property taxes) vs residents (property taxes), while the infrastructural load associated with industrial/retail is fairly minimized to roads and utilities, as opposed to scaling out infrastructure for residential zones, such as libraries, schools, parks on top of aforementioned roads and utilities.

Thus any city that can attract retail/commercial tenants and offload low-revenue residential tenants to some other municipality gets to win. The caveat being the tax breaks that cities have to hand out to attract such businesses in the first place.
>>Also, The Atlantic is not a reliable source. It prints garbage like this:

Atlantic may or may not be a reliable source. What about this? A coach is given a whooping $7,004,000 salary.

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh is in his first year with the Wolverines and sits behind Saban with a $7,004,000 total pay. [1]

[1] http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/10/08/highest-paid-c...
If anybody ever needed an answer to the question "will my startup/product be useful for the world?", take a look at this example/product.

This product doesn't seem like a startup-driven idea, but it addresses a serious pain-point for people (more specifically: developers) looking for (remote) jobs in a way that is required to find the right job:

> Using filters to narrow down to a subset of companies to apply to

Great job on this product, it is a great alternative to having to wait 30 days for each "Who is Hiring" without a guarantee that many remote companies who are hiring will post on that HN thread.
In 1994, a post-earthquake power grid blackout in LA caused all the light sources in an area to stop functioning. Allegedly, an observatory received calls about strange shapes and lights in the sky; what people were seeing was the Milky Way for the first time. [1]

[1]: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/04/local/la-me-light-po...

(there's some doubt as to the legitimacy of the story, but it's still a funny tale)
What's wrong with encouraging employees to post reviews? When you sign up as an employer, glasdoor gives you a sample email to send that asks for honest reviews.
I removed all social media apps from my phone. I will still occasionally access them from my laptop now but usually when I'm using my laptop I'm working so the temptation is a lot weaker.
Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers (2013)
> What's actually periodical and wraps around is only the names we give to certain lengths of time

Seasons are somewhat cyclic, to be fair. Centuries are pretty arbitrary though.

> Spiral visually implies years getting bigger or shorter which they don't.

Proper spirals imply a size change, but I suspect GP meant the shape more properly called "helix".
DigitalOcean is missing from this, how to add companies to this DB?
I agree, this is how it should be done! It's very useful :)
Looks a lot like http://asoftmurmur.com/ too.
Why even make batch available? Just make PowerShell th default and be done with it.
Rails Nested Polymorphic Validator
Not sure about this wrapper for an unknown tool, "ag". I don't know, what's wrong with good ol' grep -Hnir ?
LYFT’S $5.5 BILLION PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION
Wow! I've always wondered what these letters were like. H.W. has been known to be supportive of presidents across party lines. At one point he greeted President Obama on the tarmac in Texas and Obama later said (paraphrasing) that it was one of the nicest things anyone had done for him during his time in office.
It's wonderful to see such respect, when a lot of the time in politics we seem to see arguments, low blows, and other forms of negativity.
Former professional poker player here, no limit holdem cash games, mid stakes. NLHE cash games are considered the hardest to solve given the depth of the decision trees. Other formats like sit and gos, spin and gos, and tournaments can be modeled and solved in a more simplistic way.

A group of us (cash game pros) discovered a group of players on the Ongame network around 2010. We combined our databases and found a few dozen players that all shared an unconventional style and had outstanding winrates.

They made very annoying, aggressive plays that were difficult to counter, not taught anywhere in professional videos, forums or training sites, and we're winning at a world class winrate.

All the regular pros talk and knew each other, and no-one knew who these players were.

Combined they took millions in winnings out of the network. We presented our collaborative research and investigation to Ongame and they didn't do a thing about it.

In more recent years players on Pokerstars have received refunds when their security teams have deemed them to have lost to bots.

Pokersnowie is the most advanced commercially available bot and they even have an API now.

I quit playing in 2011 and would strongly advise people staying away from online poker. It's a scummy world, the games are tougher than ever, the sites are shadier in their operation, run higher margins, and with the current progress in the AI/ML domains you're on a hiding to nowhere.

I was skeptical but saw this evidence first hand and lost thousands personally, and this was 5 years ago. Anyone playing online in 2016 that doesn't believe they're up against super sophisticated bots are deluded.

Happy to share more if people are interested.
clang -Weverything -Werror

Buzz Lightyear voice: Errors! Errors everywhere!
Female academics: don't power dress, forget heels – and no flowing hair allowed
A larger government is less likely to be ruled by the prejudices endemic to a single region.
Wow this look is nuts. I'm gonna give it a try.
Ag is way faster.
World's largest cultural centre in Dubai
Apple’s App Store at the end of the app era
How do you know the fab you send your design to doesn't implement a backdoor?

It really wouldn't be that hard to compare what you received from the foundry with the masks you sent them. There are services that decap ICs and attempt to reverse engineer them. Here's the first hit I found on Google: http://www.intelligservices.com/Services.htm

You wouldn't need the reverse engineering. All you would need to do is to compare that all the metal layers (and perhaps poly) match what you sent. That's an almost trivial comparison. The hard part of reverse engineering is in figuring out what the circuitry actually does, and you already know that, since it's your chip!

It could be possible for a fab to alter diffusion layers to change the functionality of a chip. That would be harder to detect by services such as the one I mentioned. But it would be very hard, very time consuming, to attempt to hack in a backdoor by only messing with base layers, rather than messing with metal or with poly (where changes are easily observed).

If there were to be a backdoor anywhere in a design, it would be in IP you used on your chip, that you got from either your foundry or from a 3rd party IP supplier. It would be easy enough to hide all kinds of stuff there.
> Tell me what action/fantasy/sci-fi movie is not good guy vs. bad guy ?

Ice Station Zebra
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063121/
I have a friend in Paris who lives with his wife in 33 m^2 (355 sqft). Their apartment is not even technically a studio, but rather a 1BR, they routinely host dinner parties with up to 8-10 people. I've also heard people compliment them on the size of the apartment, they probably lived in places of about half the surface.
To expand on your point:

Hobbes was wrong on one count: Human life in a state of nature isn't nasty, brutish, short, or any of the other War Of All Against All nonsense he proposed unless there's been a serious disaster in the recent history, such as a plague or famine or invasion. In short, humans don't live like Mad Max or Walking Dead or Night Of The Living Dead unless their actual society was just destroyed and they haven't built a new one yet.

In a state of nature, humans live as hunter-gatherers, usually, which is not terribly bad most of the time. However, hunter-gatherer societies still have rules and ways to enforce those rules and hierarchies which are not fair by modern standards of fairness. Strict gender roles are usually enforced, for example.

My point is, humans naturally have a government of some kind, and definitely have rules which you can't opt out of if you expect to keep living with that group of humans. And it is entirely correct that humans raised in that society won't spontaneously recapitulate Locke and Jefferson. But they will have something, and they won't look kindly on people who expect to live outside of their rules and continue to interact with them.

And they certainly won't agree on which "rights" humans "naturally" have. Not even the right to live: A number of ancient societies practiced infanticide, for example.
Brussels, Belgium: CloudFlare's 81st Data Center Is Live
> "I'm not convinced that taking a San Fran gig would necessarily feel like streets paved with gold and scooping up baskets of money"

It won't necessarily, but it may - one important distinction between the US tech hubs like SV or NYC is that while they offer a higher median salary, they top end of the envelope goes way, way higher than it does anywhere in Canada.

There is a class of jobs/positions that straight up do not exist in Canada where large numbers of engineers can make $400-500k, or even more.

An evaluation of whether or not it's worth moving needs to consider where you are in the market. If you're making $70k in Toronto right now and some company in the Bay Area is offering $100k, that's probably a tough deal. On the other hand, if you qualify for someone of the higher-end positions in the Bay Area, you can go from making $90k in Toronto to making $400k in the Valley. That's a pretty slam dunk deal.
My company is tiny in terms of revenue (<1,000,000 per year), and our interchange fees with VISA are 1.5x% . I have a hard time believing that a giant like wallmart can't negotiate a better rate.

2-3% is the top rate applicable only high risk traffic with the card not present.
Google become what it is because of protectionism? Protectionism slows down everything and gives pain to the consumers. You are better off without it.
There is already a ag plugin for vim that will jump you to the matches.

See: https://github.com/rking/ag.vim

or see: http://codeinthehole.com/writing/using-the-silver-searcher-w...
> This puts attorneys like Leiderman in a strange situation: How can you argue simultaneously that your client is innocent and that taking your client to court for the not-very-harmful thing that your client kind-of-maybe-probably did is wild prosecutorial overreach?

This isn't a strange situation at all; it's about as routine as anything in legal practice. It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative .
Sounds like the algorithm was trained by someone with heavy procrastination problems.
something something multipass
This was a table of electricity generated in the United States; unemployment is at its lowest since 2008, with GDP growth at 2.2% - not shrinking.

It's more likely that the drop in electricity generation was weather related, but I don't have the data on hand to prove that.
New “Xbox One S” with 4K, HDR and 2TB HDD Leaked
Indeed. I can appreciate the artistic vision and merit in something and still dislike it.

For example, on many occasions I've eaten dishes at restaurants that were clearly put together with incredible vision and experience. And yet it would not be something I'd ever order again. Which isn't to say I'm picky. I've repeatedly eaten dishes knowing that, with time, you can learn to enjoy something. I used to hate sushi in particular, and the characteristic flavors of Japanese cooking in general. It took me years of persistence to enjoy various Japanese dishes, but I've come a long way. But that doesn't always pan out. I've eaten balut many times, but at this point I think I'm just gonna throw in the towel. It's too livery, and while I enjoy foie gras and other heavily herbed liver pates, I don't think I'll ever enjoy balut. (The balut broth is amazing, though.)

I like to think that I _get_ brutalist architecture. It's generally meant to be imposing in general. But also a style that, because of the unique characteristics of concrete, permit the architect to experiment with different shapes, configurations, and patterns (or, conversely, utilize fewer patterns).

But it's too challenging. That's not the kind of environment you want to be forced to deal with. By being imposing, it can't be ignored. It's like being surrounded by bears in the forest--it's not the kind of imposition you normally appreciate, certainly not on a regular basis. The designs might be flexible in terms of construction, but it's entirely inflexible in the way it evolves with the surrounding environment. That's one thing architects don't pay enough service to, IMO--continuity with the past _and_ future, both wrt to form and function.
Thanks for the tip. Is grayscale better for your eyes also? I'd imagine it would be.
Great job! One note: a few of the images/logos are broken. Example: https://remotebase.io/reinteractive
Because it creates an implicit expectation that your review should be positive.
Indeed, I previously lived in a 2LDK in a very nice tower mansion in that ward (in Shibaura, near Mita Station), and that was around 700sqft for under $2500. I was sharing with a friend (so my rent was only half that) but it was amazingly comfortable.

My current place is a 1DK, slightly smaller than the apartment in the article, but even that feels big for one person. In any case, after living in Tokyo, I find it hard to describe a 300sqft apartment as "tiny."
https://shareonline.in/category/vehicles/cars/
Lab Worker in Pittsburgh Is Accidentally Infected with Zika Virus
Only volume manipulation.
Setbacks are very often a complete waste of space. I think www.strongtowns.org has some articles explaining the details.
A simple program running for billions years on trillions of bits...of course the result isn't going to be "simple." Still, knowing what the code would hardly be useless, and we are spending a lot of resources on trying to figure out.
Magento Banner Slider Extension for Your Online Store
I'd rather have my time wasted and the meeting rearranged than have a bad meeting. The outcome is the same - you make no forward progress either way - but rescheduling means you still have the opportunity to have a good meeting with some positive outcomes.
They're slowly, slowly picking up it seems. Gradually, more parks & such are being designated dark sky sites (which spreads their name- I learned about IDA @ Canyonlands), and a few towns like mine are starting to adopt dark sky initiatives.
There is always his website: http://www.lynnemusic.com/
http://archive.is/h939P
Sans-paywall link
What made you think that these groups of players were associated with each other? What made you think that they were bots, beyond just winning often?
Please come up with twitter handle and post latest jobs there.
Those who haven't read the Monad (Powershell) Manifesto[1] are doomed to keep repeating Unix's failures.

[1] http://www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/10/01/monad-manifesto/
Detached house is over 1M in Toronto. But there are plenty of semis and townhouses that are way less (700K?) and condos walkable to downtown for half of that.

Amazon is in a class-A tower right next to the banks and they cannot hire enough.

And ALL the good engineers I know have good jobs in Toronto or Waterloo. But there are plenty of bad ones that wouldn't pass a phone screen.
I'm not, currently. But then, the mobile phone market has a tendency to go in the opposite direction than I'd like, and I end up dragged along, of course.
The Fundraising Wisdom That Helped Our Founders Raise $18B in Follow-On Capital
“Safe C++ Subset” Is Vapourware
Firefox, but I have noscript.

It's not too uncommon for websites to just end up as blank slates with noscript, I just never expect it to be because they literally told the browser to hide it and somehow scripts tell the browser to nevermind that and show it.
Yeah as long as you're willing to lose your job, shutter your business and have the FBI confiscate all your computer equipment in a pre-dawn, guns drawn raid of your home.

Sounds so easy.
Even the hunter gatherer societies traded. You'd frequently find people wearing decorative shells far inland.
Keep in mind though that anyone with reason, could easily fake a lot of volume: 2 address, starting amount, swap back and forth until you eat up the whole thing with fees.
Autocomplete is another good example. Instead of having my autocomplete API call go through the whole dispatch -> reducer flow, I just update my component's state when I get a response.
You're not worried about accidentally corrupting data? I do that all the time with spreadsheets. Seems like it would could be pretty bad if you accidentally labelled something gluten free and it wasn't.
Yes, you're right! I mention this in my README:

> Inside vim, vim-grepper or ag.vim is probably the way to go. Outside vim (or inside a Neovim :terminal), tag is your best friend.