skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “leaning benches” remind me of the mercy seats found in late medieval churches. Old or infirm monks and other clergy could use them for support during long prayers for which standing was obligatory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericord
1st world problems.
Have you considered looking up previous clients, business partners, suppliers, or other stakeholders your've formed over the past 15 years, and asking them?

Prepare in advance, but you bring skills in not only what you did technically, but in a broad plethora of business skills, likely ranging from marketing to operations and finance, and take an attitude as a business owner.

These are great attributes at a VP/Director level.

I'd also suggest contacting high-level headhunters. The type of headhunters that only care about placing 10-20 people per year.
You are right, the antibiotics one is pretty simple, I ran with it because I didn't want to get into personal details.

Let's put a simple one from my experience: No doctor has been able to tell me what the bilirubin is. They go on to tell possible causes, and what it means to have a high value and so on.. but after hours with them, no one could tell me what it is.

The closer I could get was for one of them to tell me that its secreted by the liver (close, but no cigar). The first paragraph in wikipedia explains it perfectly.

I know that my computer is powered by electricity. I know most of the ways to produce said electricity, but I've forgot the details of an hydroelectric plant even though I studied it in college; it's not part of my daily life.

I also know that power lines use alternate current and computers use direct current, but I've forgot the details of the AC/DC converter. Even though I was able to design one from scratch in university.

I also studied the internals of microprocessors up until the pentium, how they were designed and manufactured, but nowadays all I remember, vaguely, is the x86 assembler.

Do you remember every single detail you studied in college? Do you know how to calculate the root of a number by hand? I don't. Not anymore.
Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence? [pdf]
Yeah that first time you quit is easy. Then something bad happens in life and you smoke because you're sad. Now you know how easy it is to quit so paradoxically you don't actually quit. You turn into a every-other-weekend smoker. Then after months or years of on-off smoking you realize that it's no longer as easy to quit as that first time. Now that one smoke is actually going to matter.

Also, nicotine has the highest capture rates of any drug (over 30%) and the third highest dependence rate (after heroin and cocaine). Startup founders with unbelievable amounts of determination may be able to just give it up and say it was "easy" (I said the same thing the first time I quit) but many people are not so gifted.
https://github.com/vsedach/Thinlisp-1.1

ThinLisp is not a typical Lisp implementation in that it does not implement a
garbage collector or many of the other run-time development features of other
Lisps. ThinLisp is designed for producing high quality deliverable C libraries
and executables from Lisp sources. Originally designed for real-time control
applications, ThinLisp stresses run-time performance at the expense of some
development time conveniences.

Prescheme

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.3.4031

Schlep

http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Schlep/scm2c.html

BitC

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.570.5677&rep=rep1&type=pdf

and various others...
Interesting! I once did something related for a game jam: http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/1794/anniver...
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It recently struck me, that if Andromeda would be visible to the naked eye, it would be huge on the night sky:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-incredibly-huge-size-of-androm...
But you don't need the 'gatekeeper'. Imagine if you had a 'trustability' factor that people could cryptographically sign as themselves. You could build a 'trust web', where papers link to other papers by an author. That author's trust ratings could go up based on the citer's evidence.

There's clearly tech waiting to be built here, which might or might not be a startup.
As another anecdote, I've found that it takes about 3 days for me to pretty much lose all the physical addiction. That part is pretty easy as long as you can find a 3 day chunk of time in which you don't have stressful obligations and fill it with some activity (even if it's just binge-watching Star Trek or something).

After that, it's all habit. That takes closer to 3 weeks to break. Here I find it helps to create another habit, maybe buy a bunch of candy and eat one when you feel like a cigarette.

It's all very doable.
1: software engineer / developer / consultant
2: yes, 100% development
3: 18 yo
4: nope.
5: learn statistical AI, learn quantum computing, learn biology.
It's wrong because it means to give up, to close your ears and eyes against the real problem.

Anti-social behavior like "homeless sleeping in cavernous shop entries" does not come from nothing. People aren't normally like this. It comes from their environment being anti-social to them by refusing to aid fellow citizens in need.

Being social means to actively try and be a society. By actions such as putting up these spikes, these companies are only being anti-social themselves.
I guess it relates to this:
"It is one of many slang or dialect words and phrases that you can say but not write using Chinese characters."
Yeah, it also means minorities can be silenced via the majority. While this is good for protecting against incorrect/poorly researched work, it can also prevent novel ideas from gaining traction. Though, this problem exists in the system we have now.
The Guardian - Key points from the Iraq inquiry:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/iraq-inquiry...
>like the myriad societal shortcomings that lead to homelessness

I think the author has oversimplified many important things related to the problem of homelessness. I want to point of some other aspects of this problem.

Let me explain.

How the homelessness of all the homeless people can be blamed on the societal shortcomings? What about the homeless person's shortcomings?

Blaming everything on society and ignoring the personal shortcomings may gain political advantage but it sets very bad precedences and spoils the entire societal fabric. (The Marxists/socialists always use this as a tactic to sway public mood and that is more harmful for the free and humane society.)

e.g. I may be homeless because I sold my house and spent all the money on drugs or in the casinos or on watching movies or on prostitutes or on the internet or on something else to derive various types of carnal/non-carnal pleasures. In this way, not only I became homeless but I made my entire family of 4 children and a wife homeless.

This is just one example. The other major reason is immigration of huge number of people who are unskilled and/or are unwilling to work and migrate to cities which are more popular and hence are more costly and thus find themselves homeless.

How exactly can such homelessness be blamed on the society? In the first example, the person, who enjoyed the freedom of choice, must face the consequences of his/her actions.

In the other case: it is EU leaders' foolish (almost suicidal) decision to allow unchecked immigration to flood the European cities and make the life of the people already living there a hell. One of the very important reasons for Brexit is related to immigration, especially the immigration of people unwilling to integrate: i.e. people from Islamic countries.

I don't deny that there are some people (especially children) who are homeless not because of their own but because of someone else's actions. Let's agree, for the sake of argument, that a more humane society must take responsibility of such homeless people.

But even then, even if the homelessness of such people is partly due to some societal shortcomings, why the rest of people should suffer to provide space (e.g. public benches) for the homeless ones to sleep on?
I've got a simpler solution - scientific paper should not be considered valid until another team replicates the findings. That would quickly get rid of all of the fake results, plus would weed out all of the research that nobody really cares about. Also require that all data is shared, and that until your results are not verified or replicated by a team from another university/country you don't get any more funds.
It's not yet idiomatic or good Go code now, though, is it?

IIRC the initial state (1.5) was mostly machine translated code from C to Go.
You couldn't conveniently type those codes on a keyboard and there was no standard way to display them. You'd need a special editor for such files, eliminating the main advantage of an interchangeable text based file format.
i never made the claim that any large company relies solely on internet advertising for their income...?
How to figure out your kid is a hacker
Depending on locale.

I believe in the Canadian French locale (and maybe many other locales), ";" is considered a separator (a "," equivalent).
Generally this should be managed by configuration management (Chef, Puppet et al), which makes key additions and revocations trivial.

Additionally OpenSSH supports CA signing of public keys with user metadata, which I've found to pair nicely with LDAP.
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Re: I fully agree with this advice -- especially the part about weak warm intros being far inferior to good cold emails. I'd much rather see a good cold email than an intro through a mutual connection that barely knows me and the other party

PSA for startup founders reading: this is the type of investor you want. Seek out investors willing to do the work.

So many VCs will publicly gripe about inbound messages, unsolicited pitches, etc. I have heard many VCs explicitly say they will not meet with someone who isn't warm intro'd.

They will beg you to follow them on Snapchat or Quora to create brand for deal flow one minute then bemoan the people who want to actually have a conversation.

Leo's POV is refreshing.
Is there anything to stop the UK government censoring this report? I pose the question after it was delayed for publication by the government last year for after the general election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EJK8K0ypl4

It would take seven years to publish and would not seem conspiratory to suggest the delays have helped reduce public attention / demand for the report.

Would it be possible to gag order certain reports or use governmental powers to achieve this?
Had the same kind of idea - apparently "Facebook for Scientists" is apparently a thing.

http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2014/08/researchgate-faceb...

https://www.researchgate.net/
I'm not sure if this is really a good thing. Possibly people are happy that some really annoying problem finally got fixed, rather than celebrate the feature itself. "GitHub stopped killing puppies" would also likely make a front page.
> I once heard a theory that whiter skins were considered more aesthetically pleasing in old days (in East Asia), because at that time everybody worked at fields, so being pale meant that your family is so rich that you don't have to work. It was something that couldn't be attained by most people.

> Fast forward to the industrial age: now poor women worked all day long in a factory, barely getting sunlight, while rich girls would visit beaches and sky resorts, tanning themselves. Suddenly, being slightly tanned is now considered "healthy" and, to some degree, "more beautiful".

I actually heard this exact theory about skin perceptions in western countries, and I think it's regarded pretty well by sociologists/historians. Being "too pale" is an insult these days among Whites, and many people specifically go to tanning salons or lie in the sun, just to tan/darken their skin tone.
> in a way that they may find offensive

IANAL but isn't that too vague?
"Hi, I'm ${ME}. I'm the founder of ${COMPANY}, and we make ${STUFF} that ${IMPRESSIVE}. Would you mind if I sent you a 2000 word essay, or would you just delete it after five seconds?"

Don't waste two days writing a 2000 word essay if there's a significant chance it will simply be ignored. Establish the relationship first. Heck, I'd have a hard time getting my wife to read a 2000 word essay, no matter how important I thought it was personally.
> and even worse it rarely improves the quality of the paper being reviewed.

That might be your experience, but I think it has significantly improved the quality of a large fraction of the papers I have been an author or co-author on. I have encountered one bad reviewer in the past, and in retrospect perhaps I should have taken more notice of his report. As a reviewer, I've only had one negative incident, which was when my comments were overridden by the editor. My experience might be specific in my subject, as we only have one referee per paper.
> the difficulty lies in finding an individual to
> measure that will make BMI fall apart

I'm 5'11 with a 36 inch waist. This gives me a waist-to-height ratio of 0.507, which has me just under or over the healthy cut-off, depending on who you ask[0].

I was 212lbs this morning, giving me a BMI of 29.6, which has me at the border of "Overweight" and "Obese Class I (Moderately obese)", and is high risk.

I don't think you'd think I was a weird shape if you looked at me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-to-height_ratio
Obsession to things and materialism is not something good, but simply saying be happy with what you got is not always true. Let's say you want to buy a new computer, do you need it because the one you have already is not sufficient or is it just for bragging rights, when it's the latter you probably will find some after-rationalization, that you will need it when you try to make some new big data tool or play games. Humans are not very good at critically evaluating their possessions, we become emotionally attached to some of our things and might start to hate other things, e.g: anthropomorphizing our car doesn't do us any good. Sometimes it's better not to have a car than do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b67l_yxUc (Basil Attacks His Car - Fawlty Towers - BBC)
I'm about 6'2 and very lanky. My problem has always been that I don't eat enough, and my doctors have told me all my life I need to consciously try to eat more (which I try to do) to gain weight. I don't really do any planned exercise but I don't have a car so I get some daily workout from walking/cycling. In short, I'm no fitness nut or bodybuilder.

Every time I've taken BMI, the result is that I'm "slightly overweight". That's bullshit. If I actually tried to eat less, I'd probably end up having health complications related to malnutrition.

So BMI is very much bullshit when applied to individuals. It might have some relevance for the average case, and therefore be useful for demographic comparisons of large groups.
This observation has fed into the Go team's design philosophy; they're doing their best to minimize the "knobs" the GC has, because tuning them is inevitably a black art. As far as I know, there's still just one right now, GOGC, documented in the third paragraph of https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/ .
That's not going to work for Astronomy, or results of multi-year studies.
Accepting lots of money at a ridiculous valuation is a worse deal for most startups.

+ Scenario 1

Imagine a VC offered you $100M on day 1 of your startup, valuing you at $300M. Is that a good deal? Or a disaster in the making?

Well, what if someone offers to buy the company for $100M, your VC will balk. Maybe you discover barriers that will prevent your company from ever being worth $300M. Your VCs encourage you to experiment and take a hail mary shot. Ultimately the company flops and goes out of business. In this scenario you raised a bunch of money, got a "great deal." but have little flexibility on the exit.

+ Scenario 2

Now imagine another scenario where you raise $5M, valuing your company at $10M. This is a "worse" deal in terms of dollars raised and valuation. But now imagine that same acquirer comes along offering $100M. Your VC will be happy with a 10X return and you'll pocket $50M.

The quality of the deal ultimately can't be assessed until you exit. But don't mistake big dollars and high valuations as evidence of success. Fab and Quirky both raised huge piles of money to build out new ecommerce businesses and failed dramatically. Wayfair by contrast, raised no VC and built a $4B business. Choose your metric wisely.
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The main thing is, that they machine translated the Go compiler itself from C to Go, so the compiler had not so great Go code. The rest of the runtime probably was already human-written in Go before that. And of course, anything which has been under development since then is human written, like the new SSA-based compiler.
TL;DR; What you learn in an Economics degree.
Except that's not what "concave" and "convex" look like.

It also means that you need to agree with everyone, what the meaning of every symbol is. For instance symbol of "convex" you give, might also be a street intersection, so you can't really just rely on the shape of a character, and you need to spend many years memorizing each one of them. If you look at reality, your assertion that

> people from distant cultures [...] converge with the writen language

is really not true. Chinese writing systems aren't universal in a way that makes them easy to pick up to express yourself in. Quite the contrary.
That's not "win-win" - the corporation wins, but nobody else really does.
I'm not sure that most people would be particularly offended by the fact that it reduces drug dealing, theft, littering etc.

The problem, at least for me, is the sleeping bit. I would much rather that people didn't have to sleep out in the streets and if that issue were properly tackled then I doubt many people would be complaining about the benches/spikes etc. But then, we probably wouldn't need anti-sleep benches if the homelessness problem didn't exist.

But as long as that does exist, making public environments hostile to desperate people just looking for somewhere, anywhere, to sleep for the night seems like entirely the wrong answer. It's not solving the problem - it's just moving it to somewhere presumably less pleasant than that bench could have been.
Well, yes, that's exactly the point - a single site without redundancy does mean that you will get some hours of downtime every now and then; either it's ok if the site is down for such time, or extra redundancy is actually warranted.
Another problem with Java is inability to return multiple values. For that one often creates a wrapper object holding the results. JVM can recognize this pattern and stack allocate those wrapper objects, but it does not happen always increasing GC pressure.
For 2D games where you can batch heavily (Textures in atlas, single material) WebGL is fine. And for games like that it indeed does not make sense to go native if it works fine on all target platforms. Except if you care about power consumption.

For modern 3D game, even in mobile, you do need way more than that and 100 draw calls is very limiting.
Maybe if you have fast internet connection. I'm on a HSDPA+ connection and Twitch is unusable, not even the VODs. Then again, Youtube and Vimeo is pretty much the only sites from which I can watch video streams smoothly.
The tldr itself would be a small book size
Waste of money (£10million)!

Chaos in the Middle east is great for any country who wants to suck its resources cheaply without having to be hold ransom for it by a dictator. "interest of the country" has cost 160,000 lives in Iraq, none gives a shit because the future of black gold is secured until the next invasion

I'm a massive hypocrite, I'm about to fill up my car with the exact same oil and go for a pointless journey.
Question: from browsing the manual, the scoop is something very different from a Bussard ramscoop, correct? And the physics are all non-relativistic?

I don't mean to knock the game at all, it looks absolutely fantanstic and just the list of inspirations makes me want to play it, very much.
Shameless plug: I'm working at the MIT Media Lab on the PubPub project (http://www.pubpub.org), a free platform for totally open publishing designed to solve a lot of these problems:

One is peer review, which, as some have already mentioned, needs to be done in an open, ongoing, and interactive forum. Making peer review transparent to both parties (and the public) makes everyone more honest.

Another is the incentive of publication itself as the ultimate goal. Instead, we need to think of documents as evolving, growing bodies of knowledge and compilations of ongoing research. Every step of the scientific process is important, yet most of it is flattened and compressed and lost, like most negative results, which are ditched in search of sexy click-bait headliner results.

Another is the role of publishers as gatekeepers and arbiters of truth. We need a medium in which anyone can curate a journal, and in which submission, review, and acceptance procedures are consistent and transparent.

Another is the nature of the medium itself. It's 2016, and these dead, flat, static PDFs are functionally identical to the paper they replaced! Insert your favorite Bret Victor/Ted Nelson rant here: we need modern, digitally-native documents that are as rich as the information they contain.

Another is reproduciblity. We should be able to see the code that transformed the raw dataset, tweak it, and publish our own fork, while automatically keeping the thread of attribution.

The list goes on and on...
it will, if you require that the data is shared and can be analyzed by another group. In some cases it will slow down the progress initially, but I think in the long term we would be getting much better results.
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Same one that a taxi dispatcher is.
Isn't 'the scientific paper' a kind of dated concept? I'd love to see the whole scientific process from start to finish in a 'notebook' form. Why summarize findings in a paper at the end of it all, when all steps (including conception, data gathering, successes, missteps, comments, and corrections) could all be viewed as a whole? It would seem to be more in line with the intent of science.

I'm not a scientist, obviously. And, I realize that practical science has as much to do with reputation, fame, and the climbing of academic hierarchies as it does with research. But, it would be so cool to see science more as an evolving, collaborative process.
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