skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Blank has found that more than half of all Silicon Valley founders come from chaotic, dysfunctional families. “It’s the cruelest and most effective training ground for being a founder,” Blank said, "and that ability to shut out everything except for what's important for survival turns out to be exactly what you need to do to be a successful CEO."

The ability to shut out what is important for good mental survival is an unhealthy, dissonance creating behavior. By ignoring what is crucial to one's mental stability and focusing on an arbitrary goal (which is to make someone else not doing the work more money) is an INSANE behavior to practice. It might make sense if it were life and death, but rationalizing the technology improvements that come from these types of efforts, and the money that comes with those improvements, is just a sign of massive societal dissonance.

Technology will continue to increase in sophistication regardless of how idiotic we are with our own mental health and sanity.

These people, mostly billionaires I will point out, only stand to profit from others throwing themselves into something so completely that the chances are that the founders will either succeed widely or end up being broken as a result. Justifying "brokenness" as a needed trait for CEOs using biased blaming statements is a sign of a self centered rationalization. And for what?

That jackass on the right was even laughing about people paying $10 more to sit closer to him. Fuck those guys. Build your own company on your own terms. Live your life fully TODAY, for tomorrow may not be at all.
> Indeed has become much more relevant than during my last job search

Can you expand on this? I've long written off indeed as one of the generic monster.com types that just scrapes stuff from elsewhere and doesn't actually create a fast path to a technical person with hiring authority (vs something like angellist, which does).

It's been a few years though - what's changed? Site looks the same as always.
There should be enough unjustified police killings to gather a dataset and see, in how many cases was the policeman an army veteran?
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Ok I think we are talking about different things. I'm just saying that in a western city popular with tourists (think Paris, NY, London, Dublin) things like accommodation, drinks and food will be pricier. Sounds like you're meaning something different, which I haven't experienced
Also along the lines of single person cars: rickshaws in China and India -- more like a 3 person light car but the concept is the same (fabric roofs, no doors, relatively slow speed compared to full fledged metal cars, but highly agile and capable of navigating narrow old-world streets).

Apparently there are some in SF too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Auto_Ric...
Monorails and maglev both have the disadvantage that they don't do junctions very well. You have to swap a massive peice of straight structure for a massive piece of curved structure to form a junction.
"The best engineer will write zero code" - unfortunately, the author has forgotten to tell us what she does do.
By a similar argument, the world's supply of gold is almost infinitely subdivideable, but still finite.
If you are confident you can hit a 4d coordinate, just point your device out into space at your present time.

(if I got the numbers right, we are 108 years * 390 km/s = ~0.14 light years from the location of the Tunguska collision)
AFAIK the case for undefined integer overflow is optimisations regarding loop termination, carry bit handling, and usage of 64-bit vs 32-bit registers. In light of that can't we say that "The compiler may perform signed integer arithmetic using registers larger than the type's bits and truncate the result when writing to memory"? So e.g.

int a = INT_MAX;
int b = INT_MAX;
int c = a + b;
c > a; // true on 64 bit iff c was NOT written to memory (so -O1 and above); false on 32 bit
(c&0x7fffffff) > a; // false always
// i.e. you can always test if two positive values overflow with
((a+b)&0x7f..f)>a

Another idea I haven't seen used enough is to put values in 64-bit doubles, do your arithmetic that way and check if the final value fits in your integer type. As long as you restrict yourself to adding, subtracting and multiplying you'll get an exact result back (ok unless you run on a buggy pentium from over 25 years ago, but I think all those were recalled). A problem you have to watch out for is if you've entered the range where your ulp is larger than 1 and your math gets inexact.
I actually like flapping my hands, nerding out about things, and being me. I wouldn't want to be someone different, even if that different person had an easier time buying pants, and wouldn't have gotten bullied as much in elementary school. Oh, and I read at rates beyond what is commonly cited as the physical limit, after teaching myself to read before kindergarden.

Some people with very real impairments are against being cured, while some people with mild ones want a cure. And yes, being able to have an opinion and not constantly wanting to rip your skin off means you've avoided some bad outcomes: they probably want a cure.
iOS has Objective-C++, WP has C++/CX, both provide a seamless interoperability with Objective-C/Swift and WinRT respectively and are fully supported by the platform owners.

It is also the approach taken by Microsoft, Dropbox.

My work experience is that relying on second class languages always leeds to support problems down the line.

I had that with Turbo Pascal, Oberon and quite a few other languages.
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In all fairness, future cities may still be designed around that kind of transportation. Not many cities have been designed and built in the last 10 years.

Also, I didn't know Steve Jobs had any kind of relationship with the Segway. But it doesn't seem like he was the biggest fan of it and the launch plans: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html

>I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic

>Screw the lead times. You don't have a great product yet! I know burn rates are important, but you'll only get one shot at this, and if you blow it, it's over.

>Jobs said he lived seven minutes from a grocery and wasn't sure he would use Ginger to get there.

Steve Jobs was a very critical person, but I think he was often right for the right reasons. The segway was a product designed by engineers, and it showed. Its launch was over-hyped and under-delivered. It also doesn't really solve a problem that exists in current cities.
It wouldn't have to hit somewhere inhabited. If it landed in say, the Pacific Ocean you could see massive tidal waves on multiple population centers at once. Arguably a bigger threat than if something of equivalent size were to hit land.

http://www.astronomynotes.com/solfluf/s5.htm
I can't but admire his intellect in other aspects as well.

His opposition against Likud and nuanced reservations against the idea of a Jewish state seem so wise in retrospect.
Why is it controversial to say USA is a different place today? When it clearly is: Black president, wealthy black actors, wealthy black sportsmen and so on.

sandisk5 is been down voted en masse.
Its not for running code, its only for copying the js and link tags. So basically a UI replacement for cdnjs.com
I think both Sci-fi and art has always been a "engineering proposal" from Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci to Star Trek. The Smithsonian Institute seems to agree:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-inventions-...
Does this mean that the incentive to mine has now decreased? Or perhaps that transaction fees will increase to preserve the existing incentive?
If you didn't read these claims from the clearly biased quantum information researchers (many of whom don't work on or receive grants for anything related to quantum computing, even in grant proposal prose la-la land) then where are you getting your probability assessments from? Not to mention all the physicists who work day-in day-out with quantum mechanics in completely different fields who are also extremely skeptical of the absolute physical impossibility of quantum computing.
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I've both read the Isaacson bio and been diagnosed with Asperger's. I strongly disagree (with erichocean) that Jobs was on the Autism Spectrum.

Jobs's bio was in fact a textbook case of psychopathy: his eyeballs "drilled into your soul with a Deadpan Stare"; he was highly manipulative (which proves he was socially adept); and he was so charismatic that colleagues say his presence was a Reality Distortion Field.

Meanwhile, most Aspies can't even maintain eye contact (let alone herd cats). Regarding the diagnosis for Asperger's/Autism, the trait clinicians test for is literally "social ineptitude".
> Chest fridges are not new and have been around for decades.

I'm saying that they might "have been around", but they weren't in any of the stores that sold fridges when I went looking for them. The only thing resembling a chest fridge I have seen in real life in the last decade was some kind of fancy designer-drawer in an upper-class house.
Honestly, the old but still excellent "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie changed forever how I interact with people.

And, to answer a maybe obvious question, no the book isn't about manipulating people. It's more about dealing quirks of human nature and being excellent at negotiating and interacting with people. Can't recommend it enough if you're honestly looking to improve in that sphere.
Which program are you referring to? LSST is fully funded.

https://www.lsst.org/science/solar-system/potentially-hazard...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescop...
Heh, I only ever used del.icio.us to access the site... I think it may have redirected to delicious.com for a while which is how I ever noticed that became a thing.

It's crazy how many different incarnations the site has had.
Anti-draft sentiment fueled the ‘Kingfield Rebellion’
In Vienna?
Exactly none. Experienced good motivated devs can get 80k if they are lucky.
Monorails are still used as a part of "subway" systems around the world, but (from what I heard) they usually have less capacity than regular railways, so most big cities end up building conventional subway system.

Also, it turns out residents and shop owners hate a gigantic elevated structure that blocks sunlight half of the day.
A voice of sanity in a sea of idiocy is refreshing to see. When this[1] behavior is considered just, we have crossed the Rubicon into madness.

Ironically, Einstein advocated searching for truth even when surrounded by misguided fools. What you have stated are the facts, and coincidentally that position is currently considered heretical to the church of political correctness. You will be charged with blasphemy, and silenced.

Please save this post, as I'm sure it will soon to be banned by HN's ever vigilant inquisitors.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj4ARsxrZh8
It is obviously a "hard and controversial" problem to discuss - I don't really understand why. I sense it has something to do with the upcoming US election and maybe there is a lot of campaigning being done online.

HN in general has good discussions on economics and social issues but not on this.
Scheme has an edge for education in computer science (which has different goals than teaching you actual Lisp programming) over Common Lisp, because there are some good books and courses based on Scheme.

For learning Lisp programming, Common Lisp has also extremely good books. Both basic, mid-level and advanced.

Examples:

Touretzky, Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

Barsky, Land of Lisp

Graham, ANSI Common Lisp

Graham, On Lisp

Winston/Horn, Lisp

Seibel, Practical Common Lisp

Weitz, Common Lisp Recipes

Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Case Studies in Common Lisp

I would recommend each of these books to people who want to learn Lisp programming or certain aspects of it.
Agree with all of that. My hatred of extreme DRY is due to having been burned by premature/poor abstraction so many times.

Also, there are even exceptions to that rule.. I've seen a number of cases, let's say you've got a bunch of command line utilities that launch different jobs, there's some code that's duplicated across like 10 of them. Be careful with deduplicating that, you can wind up forcing very different things to pretend they're the same.

To put it another way -- it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to abstract some "forNtimes(closure, N)" function instead of just writing a for loop. There's a limit.. that example is laughable but I've seen a lot of abstractions that actually increase the amount of code in my day.
That might work if you have a very small app (example: HN, Reddit, Twitter web client etc)

Imagine, on the other hand, large-ish web app (example: Salesforce, Netsuite). 300 tables in the database. Perhaps 50 of those can be manipulated directly from the menu. Customers, Purchase orders, Quotes, Reports, plus all the supporting stuff like Countries, States, Currencies and so on and so forth.

Each of those need at least CRUD, plus printing, paging, searching -- are you really going to copy-paste that 50 times? And if there is a bug in any of those, you now need to fix it in 50 places. Who has time for that

Or, say, one day you want to add "Export" functionality to all of those. If you have a nice inheritance hierarchy (or composition or whatever), you add it in one place. You are done.
If you were copy-pasting, then you do it in 50 places?

So no, that copy-pasting business does not work beyond smallish apps..
> See, for instance, the following from someone with no connection to FP Complete that I'm aware of: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-August/....

Yes, people make mistakes. He no longer favors that approach, as he learned how bad it is. The difference is that FPC employees still continue to push it even when they know the problems.
The DOOM 3 Network Architecture (2006) [pdf]
I see. That makes sense, thanks. :)
It is completely irrelevant to my argument. My argument is "FP complete employees do X". Saying "so do some other people" changes nothing, it is completely and totally irrelevant. "The sky is blue." "Well so are my slippers! HAHA I devastated your argument!".
This is incredible, I was just on the Coursera website trying to go to my old courses to continue from where I've left off, but I couldn't get to them. The link to my previously enrolled courses was taking me to the newer version of those courses which haven't started yet. So I thought I'll search HN because I remember reading that someone was archiving these ... and boom! it's the top link on the front page! Yay HackerNews!!! There is some Voodoo-AI going on at HN!
I understand the frustration, you can easily end up buying from a chinese seller if you aren't playing attention. But I have a hard time understanding how you were fooled three times.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000EYP57K/ref=dp_ol...

Buy from Amazon - the second choice. Pretty sure that is the default purchase option on the main page as well.
I think a major problem with it, outside of the social stigma that gets slapped onto anything without a massive MSM endorsement campaign, was that it didn't slot neatly into existing legislation.

It seemed aimed at being a vehicle for young and old alike, with no license requirement. But as it didn't fit inside bicycle, never mind e-bike, definitions, it became treated as a motor vehicle. And that dragged in all kinds of regulations.
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The difference being that would focus more on number of sales if their market doesn't have many high value properties.
I don't think it's necessarily just people trying to appear smart to their peers and creating abstractions to do so. I think it's an intermediate programmer problem that comes from seeing their own novice programmer code spiral out of control from sprawling redundancy. It comes from one too many meetings where someone says something like "can't you just change the website so that all the red links and controls are now blue", and kicking oneself in hindsight for not somehow tying it all together. And I think it culminates in programmers thinking that if only they'd made it with some kind of unified but flexible abstraction it wouldn't have been a problem.

So when it comes time to write the next app that "unified but flexible" becomes the mantra, and yes it is fun at the early stages of a project to fantasize about permutations and invent great abstraction towers to cover these cases. But I think the problem that people have is that they don't respect that flexibility comes in infinite dimensions, and that you can only pick and choose a few specific dimensions of flexibility to cover. Not only that, but each unnecessary dimension of flexibility added makes the code significantly longer and more complicated and just generally difficult to reason with. In hindsight from the previous project it all seemed obvious which dimensions should have been flexible, but making that call correctly up front is incredibly difficult.
Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent
yes but was not Germany full protestant?
For those unaware, Coursera shutdown their old platform on Jun 30th [1].

Many of the courses on the old platform are slowly coming back on the new platform. When I built the list [2] of courses on the old platform the course count was 472, now its around 390. Some of the notables that I was excited to see come back are:

Neural Networks for Machine Learning with Geoffrey Hinton [3]

Computer Architecture from Princeton [4]

Programming Languages from UW by Dan Grossman [5]

Introduction to Natural Language Processing by Dragomir Radev [6]

Many of these courses were last offered a couple of years ago. Hopefully more courses form the list [2] start coming back.

[1] https://www.class-central.com/report/coursera-old-platform-s...

[2] https://www.class-central.com/collection/coursera-old-stack-...

[3] https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks

[4] https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch

[5] https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

[6] https://www.coursera.org/learn/natural-language-processing
Agile is supposed to be a development process, not a business process, but I've never seen it implemented that way.
>>If the company has one position to fill, and if they ever interview/contact more than one person for filling that position all the people who they contacted other than the person who got the job has wasted time, right?

No, this is more like the company interviewing people when there are -- and will be -- no positions to fill. It's like a hiring manager going, "man, I really need some practice interviewing people, I should go post some jobs on job sites!"
You're right on many points, but I feel like Venezuela is more of just an innocent (or maybe not-so-innocent) bystander in the current energy tug of war going on right now between the U.S. and Russia / OPEC. The increased tapping on U.S. natural gas reserves hasn't helped any of the smaller nations that rely on energy exports, so I don't think the U.S. is intentionally trying to destabilize Venezuela like it would have in the 70's and 80's- it's just a side effect of the current global energy industry.
Where are these new ones forming exactly?
autistic programmers can be great but they can also be a liability. I am not saying this to be mean, it is just my experience. We had a situation once where an autistic person repeatedly did extremely inappropriate things both to people within our company and outside. It got to the point that it wasn't clear whether it was a result of his autism or if he wanted the company to fire him so he could sue for discrimination.
All the names are 'Coursera Curses' instead of 'Coursera Courses'. Someone there must have been really upset with Coursera's approach :) .
While we're on the subject of crackpot ideas - don't forget that Nikola Tesla has occasionally been blamed[1]. Not sure how big your tinfoil hat would need to be to avoid a Tunguska-level event!

[1]http://www.teslasociety.com/tunguska.htm
It isn't manufactured in China, that's one of their main selling points.
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Instead of ringing the doorbell, it could send a text-message. That way, if you have sleeping babies, you won't end up having to deal with them waking.
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The Segway has been reborn as cheaper, cooler, smaller hoverboards.

Jobs was right, the idea of the Segway was a good one, but the execution wasn't quite right.
> The real world is not a dataset.

I've seen this cut both ways. Particularly in neural nets for video, which I'm working on, datasets such as HMDB51 are extremely difficult to the point where they may not represent the difficulty of the real world application. Many vision tasks in the real world can actually be constrained by camera angles, assumptions based on experience about what kinds of objects are in the frame, lighting considerations, or other things that make the real world task actually easier than the dataset.

> AI won't save a broken business plan.

Best point in the article and the thing I worry most about day to day. Even if your AI is crazy good, if you don't have a market and people willing to pay for your product then it doesn't matter.
More details please.

* Are we talking a few giant files or thousand of small-ish files?

* Who is on the receiving end? Technical people from who we can expect that they are able to run some command-line stuff or your average joe?

* What type of scenarios must the solution work? What OSes? Is it acceptable to install extra software or must it work out of the box?

etc. etc. etc.
You should only solve the same problem once. Avoid coupling and complexity. Try to make the code easy to understand.
Half Lutheran/Protestant, half Catholic.
Tao of programming
Here's a dirty secret:

You don't need a real estate agent, particularly a buy-side agent. Look at the housing markets in the UK and Australia. Buy-side agents have never existed there, and are a particularly odd quirk of the U.S. market. When you close the deal you typically have a banker there, and ideally a lawyer. So what does the agent actually do? Drive you around to houses you have already previewed online?

Being a real estate agent is no different than being an investment banker or a consultant. Realtors are deal-driven and therefore, not a true advocate for clients. If a client pays more for a house than they should, then the buy-side and sell-side agents make more commission. If a house sells quickly then it is less hassle for the sell-side agent. So to be fair, there is something of a balancing dynamic to the market, and there are surely good and skilled agents out there, but don't count your real estate agent in your corner. Their interests are not necessarily aligned with yours.
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