skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I didn't express myself clearly. I am not against populist programs to aid humans in deplorable life conditions. But these have to be sustainable, and in 3rd world South American countries, this probably and unfortunately involves not being able to help everyone on the short term. Otherwise, you end up inflating government spending leaving little space for maneuvering when facing an economical crisis.

My point originally was intended at NOT blaming communism, or capitalism as well. IMHO this seems more like a problem involving a government spending all of it's USD100-a-barrel income like a lottery winner, and when the prices fall to less than half of that (which by the way, most countries would welcome happily the amount of petro Venezuela has even at USD40 a barrel) and no other significant investments were made in alternative sources of revenue, they act as if it was solely a natural disaster and absolve themselves of all responsibility.
As a user Facebook's approach seems much better. I can't remember specifically what it was but I recently wanted to make a change to my Spotify account (which I've had since it first launched in the UK in 2009). Support told me the only option was to create a new account. This would have meant losing all of the songs I'd saved over the years, all playlists I'd created, and all playlists I was following. I'd also have to make all of the necessary friend connections again to access playlists I was collaborating on. The worst part is that the 'profile' Spotify has built that makes it's recommendations decent for me would be lost so Discover Weekly and recommendations would suck until it had built a new profile. That's a horrible experience for the user.
You have to admit that it's an apt name for something George R.R. Martin could use, though.
Correction: Punjabi is a full-fledged language whether written in Gurumukhi or Shahmukhi. Uniquely one language with two scripts.

Punjabi is not a dialect of Hindi.
Correct and, now that I think about it, funny.

Leibniz of course turned out to be right (or had the right intuition) but he failed to provide rigorous definitions of limits, functions, etc.

I only made the connection as some models of assignment I've seen use a rule of syntactic substitution from Leibniz in the method of proof.

Rigorous if you're a programmer not used to using proofs.
I will agree with you that Python didn't consciously consider itself institution-centric, but it has valued institution-friendly goals such as readability and maintainability.
omg! I would really appreciate that! I have been looking for data science books.

If you don't mind, could you give me your opinion on this course?

https://academy.microsoft.com/en-US/professional-degree/data...
It seems like most consumer apps incur a crazy amount of technical debt while largely paying people in equity, then if they take off raise a bunch of money to pay other people in cash to sort it all out... Pretty good system actually.
I'd try to put a linux distro on it before I look for options (I guess that's what you'd do with a non-apple laptop too).
This feature used to exist in the web client and was removed. I am loathe to say why because my memory is faulty and I wasn't directly involved with it, but IIRC there were (odd to me) privacy concerns and the usage wasn't high.
You refer to a market in the US that sells radishes for dollars as "free", which presumably means the identical market selling radishes for rubles in the USSR is unfree, and I am the one playing around? I have trouble fathoming definitions so steeped in ideology, it reminds me of the US Congress cafeteria renaming French fries as Freedom fries when France chose not to join the US on some imperial venture.

That's a minor point as you answered the question, sort of. But not to satisfaction. A market in the US or USSR sells commodities at a set price. People buy goods or they don't. The markets operate exactly the same.

As you're attempting to make a rational argument unlike others, I will get to the point. The markets in the US and USSR were the same, despite you following some US ideological line and calling the US one a "free" one. It is production that was different, and control of production. Misdirecting the difference from control of production to "free" markets is just more misdirection and sophistry (which is widespread, not particularly pertaining to you).
It was pretty effortless for me. I just invited my wife via the email address she had registered and it connected it to the plan. Her account was previously on the free tier so maybe that's why.
Serverless sounds like CGI evolved past needing a server anymore.

Oh yeah and remember spawning CGI processes for every request never scaled well. :-)
So as employee #1 of a ten billion dollar company, what was the equity portion of his compensation like? So many YC companies sell equity as a higher risk replacement for salary. What does the outcome look like in a case like Airbnb where the company was a huge success?

Has he even been allowed to keep his shares or sell them on a secondary market like early facebook employees did?
seems like a win-win situation to me.
So, authorities shouldn't focus on preventing young/gullible people from being radicalised in the name of Islam, because they are just as likely to be radicalised in the name of [any other religion] and that poses an equal threat?
I think this is the 2nd such interview where an early employee was a founder of a different YC startup that fizzled out. I think it underscores one of the powerful aspects of YC as a network–the startups that fail become a solid pool of candidates for the ones that take off. They've already been vetted as resourceful hackers (or they wouldn't have go into YC) and they're already accustomed to the startup life (not like you're trying to poach them from Google).

If it was planned this way, it was very smart. If it was an unintended consequence, its very fortunate.
...and, problems change even if the solution doesn't. At this point I only aim to build things that will durable and sensible for about four years. After that, some other change seems to come along that invalidates the original code, no matter how pretty it was.
I always find it strange that Genghis Khan is used as an example this way.

Mainly because he is seen as a barbarian conqueror, so people understand me if I use that phrase.

(whether he was or not is immaterial: though by modern standards, he was a barbarian conqueror and completely unethical)
How is this different then something like Heroku and their add-on ecosystem?
That's true for all types of cloud providers, but we don't call them serverless.

This is marketing bullshit for microservice architecture. It just sounds better with some added philosophy.
Engineers drive trains. Conductors keep trains on schedule.
One thing this article doesn't mention is "executive word processors".

These were cut down versions of full word processors, because executives were not expected to have spent time learning the full package.

Here's an article from 1988 comparing a bunch of different PC word processors: http://jvlone.com/computerpub/InfoWorld/IW_1988-09-26_x-x_Ex...
That's great but European freedom of unrestricted movement is certainly not the norm in the world. Rather it is the rare exception.
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Another way to look at this is that interviews are like tests where you already know what the topics are. So a company with a 'standard interview process' is testing your ability to study for and do well on a test. That's a crude measure of how well you can pick up new things and apply them, within certain bounds.

A large majority of these interviews are also testing for non-technical skills too - like communication, patience, humility, and thought process.

Don't stress out too much about interviews, they're something like 30% technical, 30% non-technical, and 40% luck.
Pneumatic hoses are pretty light too, and pneumatic motors are usually a lot lighter and more reliable than electric motors of the same power. But maybe you're saying that this is merely a function of low voltages and weak permanent magnets, and we can expect electric motors to get a lot lighter? I guess that's possible; can you point me at some exemplary modern motors?

I tried to write a thing here about the physics of the situation — saturation flux densities and layer-wound armatures and resistivities and dielectric strengths and so on — but then I realized that I don't actually understand the physics of electric motors well enough to say anything coherent. How are electric motors increasing their specific powers — is it just by higher RPMs, or is it a matter of more poles and/or better materials and geometries? What are the limiting factors?
There have been various unsubstantiated rumors of Trump molesting a young child.
People seem to have disagreements over how much regulation and what kind of regulation you would have before trade is no longer considered free trade.
I've seen some senior engineers take this too far. It's as if they are burnt out from all the code they shipped into production that broke things. They tend to favor solving problems operationally rather than through correct code. They also favor dumping problems onto third party libraries to the point of causing more problems than they would by allowing a more specific implementation.

Some fallacies I've seen from senior engineers:

"Let's ship the simpler solution even though it has clear problems. We'll hide it behind a feature flag and deploy it to a few machines first to make sure nothing disastrous happens."

"Let's coerce a third party library to do the thing we want even though it wasn't really designed to do what we want. By using the third party library we don't have to take ownership of what we are writing! So much less code to maintain!"

The second bullet in particular can be ironic because I've seen senior-engineer-written code break production because it tried to rely on a third party library to do something without doing any unit, functional, or performance testing to ensure it was doing the right thing and doing it fast enough.

After having been in the software engineer for close to a decade, I see an increasingly worrying trend where companies just assume their engineers are incompetent and favor delegation to third party libraries, external services, and devops/metrics/monitoring to solve all problems. As someone who considers himself a competent engineer, I find the trend saddening because I'm not trusted to write correct code either.
The importance of having an MVP out there that potential first employees can play around with:

'Whereas with the Airbnb guys, they were super early and small but they had a product, a V1, that was up and running. And the product was working. I used it as part of my application process and was like “Yes, this is super cool, this works, I can totally envision this growing and taking over the world and I want to help do that.”'
The question is how much are you willing to trade-off for the managed infrastructure benefits. The database is a level but BaaS is a totally different level. Next would be the programming language. Would you feel comfortable to base your project on a proprietary amazon programming language? (i.e See Apex of SalesForce). Maybe yes but I can't see this becoming mainstream anytime soon. It would be a backward step.
I use some managed/proprietary services too but I always consider it a liability/short term workaround. Most of the AWS services were successful because they are based on open source/3rd party software (i.e. the OS, DB engine etc). BaaS changes totally changes that. It's all proprietary except the programming language which may not be one of your preferred one either. Google lost a lot of ground on cloud service because it promoted a proprietary platform(GAE). The concept was great but we can see how it played out. These are the reasons why I think the current BaaS offers are dead on arrival.
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Well, I do not use Chrome for the same reason. I am also in the process of migrating from Google to services in countries that respect privacy and do not share data with governments without a warrant.
Flash is built-in to Chrome. You'll have to invent another straw man.

In fact, I recommend Chrome to unsophisticated users (hi Mom!) who need access to flash content. I tell Mom to never install anything ever. (She's managed to get malware on her Mac, even though I keep reminding her not to ever click on anything that says "your computer needs updates", etc.)
"those that stay in the business are the ones that thrive and succeed, whilst those who struggle to advance tend to quit and take more suitable work."

That depends on the company they are working for though. I have seen people (from tech and non-tech roles) tell me they are seniors/managers because they have X-years of experience.

More often then not, if someone needs to tell me they have X-years of experience rather than showing through example, I roll my eyes, and stay away.
Nintendo didn't miss an opportunity. Ten years after Wii, it's disrupting gaming again. Once again targeting casual gamers with something amazingly enjoyable.

Pokemon Go is a game that can be sold as hardware, and the hardware it needs isn't cutting edge. Most importantly it is a game that works with the parent as gatekeeper model and hardware that isn't a smartphone with a browser means it can be safe for small children.
According to the paper, there's a decrease in demand by the primary home device for activities trackable by comscore. This is the data used (not technically an assmption). I do not see the paper claiming more than this.

The conclusions do not apply to aggregate demand from all device types. Only certain types of activities are tracked.

My personal opinion is that the inferiority of online time is due to the increase in use of and substitution to additional devices and apps that were not tracked in the dataset - and a higher income better affords such alternative devices, apps, and their data plans.
This could actually be the source of a bug I (and others) have been experiencing for a while. I'm listening to Spotify when all of a sudden, music pauses and I get a "your account is being used somewhere else". The first few times I actually though it was true, but since then I've tried to "log out from every device" and log in again on one device, only to find the bug happening again 2 minutes later.

Seeing that, my hypothesis is that I gave Spotify access to a 3rd party app way back (maybe a Sonos sound system at a rental house, maybe the Uber app) that has been using my token to play music without my explicit consent… and there is no way for me to revoke those tokens.
If you're interesting in learning more about syntax-case in general, I've been learning more and FameInducedApathy on reddit sent me the following resources that I have found very useful:

Macro By Example: ftp://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/techreports/TR206.pdf

Dybvig's classic paper: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/%7Edyb/pubs/tr356.pdf
Not exactly the same. There are a few reason I might mute someone (opposed to unfollow):

1) They don't know I've muted them, which can be nice for personal friends that are just too damn chatty.

2) They can still DM me, again useful for closer acquaintances.

3) I'll often mute temporarily, e.g., I'll probably mute several people for a week during the RNC convention, because they'll be much chattier than usual. Or I just recently muted somebody who would not stop with Brexit articles. I care about it, but as a USA citizen, I don't need 70 tweets a day about it.

4) I still see replies to the muted person (from other people I follow). I don't see tweets directed to other people unless I also follow them. So if muted-friend-1 tweets something and unmuted-friend-2 responds to 1, I'll see that tweet and can swipe over to see the full conversation. IOW, I still see "@mutedfriend that's awesome!", whereas if I unfollowed, I would only see responses that purposefully broaden their reach, e.g., ".@mutedfriend blah".

Anyway, not a huge difference, but yes, there are enough small differences that I'll often choose to mute rather than delete/unfollow.
> I'd skip an industrialization like that

That's how the British empire industrialized (in India, Ireland) etc.

The western countries bordering Ukraine had food shortages the same year the Ukraine did, no mention of that.

Also if you read New York Times during this period, the reporters travelling the Ukraine said there were no famine conditions - the Times said this, not Pravda.
Would you mind sharing a bit what makes you say it's really hard ?
> Besides, government is not a business.

I'm not entirely convinced of that.

Many government systems operate very similarly to a corporation.
That problem you’re having with kernel_task is probably due to this¹:

“Activity Monitor may show that a process named kernel_task is using a large percentage of your CPU, and during this time you may notice a lot of fan activity. This process helps manage temperature by making the CPU less available to processes that are using the CPU intensely. In other words, kernel_task responds to conditions that cause your CPU to become too hot. When the temperature decreases, kernel_task automatically reduces its activity.”

There’s a high chance it’s reaching these temperatures so easily due to dust buildup in the MacBook. If it’s possible to open it up, I’d recommend doing so and dusting it out. If it’s not possible to open it up, you may have to take it to an Apple Retail Store and have them do it for you.

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¹ — https://support.apple.com/HT203184
OK, here's one sort of relevant statistic. 1910 census at http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/36894832v1.... and you want 36894832v1ch02.pdf in there, page 5 in the PDF (which is page 129 of the actual census document). I got there via https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html if you want to look up other years.

According to that document, in 1890 (I chose that year because the document actually clearly describes the classification criteria for that year, unlike other years it mentions), the "Negro population" was 7.5 million, of which 1.1 million were "Mulatto" and 6.3 million were "Black" (there are some rounding errors here; see document for more exact numbers). The definition used in that census was that "Mulatto" only included people with at least one white grandparent; this would obviously include the ones with a white parent as well. This doesn't directly tell you anything about interbreeding rates per se because there may have been systematic differences in the numbers of children different types of couples had. But it does indicate that even in the 19th century a fair number of children who had at least one black parent also had a white parent. Somewhere between 1/14 and 1/7, if I'm running the numbers right (the former corresponds to a "mulatto" having one "white" grandparent and three "black" ones, while the latter corresponds to having a "white" parent and a "black" parent).
At which she failed miserably. Same with most of her initiatives when Billy was POTUS.
Mentions Utah-based YC company SimpleCitizen near the end of the article.
Nice! I didn't knew about gosensors library.

I started with the same path, using github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus, but it exported too many application metrics (an order of magnitude more than the sensors I exported :p), so I went to a more custom approach.
It's difficult to judge teams based on revenue. A software company makes $100million. Is it the developers? the sales team, the marketing team or QA team that get's the credit? do you split it evenly? do you split it by the number of hours worked? If you have a company, there is really only one team, all of the company, all the other teams are usually sub teams that are interdependent on each other.
Ycombinator hates me and won't let me edit typos above, just noting.
I've done the opposite: use d3 to provide React-like semantics.

- Basically the data fetches get pushed to a lightweight queue/topic system in the browser (using publish.js).

- Each part of the page listens for messages it cares about and updates the page accordingly.

There is still some of the d3 plumbing (I must specify how updates differ from mere element creations, and handle the exits). But I still get a nice decoupling between the different parts of my app. Coupled with browserify, this ends up with semantics not unlike Erlang (I even named the listener method "receive" and it acts on patterns of messages).
'Evidence' for Turkish 2003 coup plan predates publication of used font.

Font metadata proves 2003 Turkish coup plan evidence was faked.
News at 11: winging it is less work than being careful!

(Of course, the situation gets fuzzier when you must account for other factors: work/dollars/lives lost due to bugs in dependencies, the integral of maintenance costs over time, etc.)
1. Try wiping the drive and reinstalling the OS.

2. This sounds like it could be a hardware problem—try sending it back to Apple. You can get a hardware lemon from any manufacturer.

3. Do you want Windows or Linux? If the latter consider a Dell XPS: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/the-xps-13-de-dell-co... or Purism laptop (high DPI version to ship shortly: https://puri.sm/posts/4k-at-last-purism-librem-15-rev2-4k/).
FT says three weeks: https://next.ft.com/content/a0e0134c-4d08-11e6-88c5-db83e98a...
Cool! I've been wondering if there is a feed of only the good stuff. If HN itself doesn't provide one, maybe there should be a separate site that does that filtering. I was thinking it would be manually curated, but maybe a list like yours would work as well.

Maybe you should set up such a site. All it would have to do is link to the articles and to the corresponding HN discussions.
ha the Dick and Bob bit is pretty darn funny
I think today it's more useful to think of most software as a living organism interacting with it's environment - it's constantly evolving and adapting to external changes (user needs, dependencies, 3rd party services etc.).
Vulkan is pretty close to "as low level as possible".

If it's available, it'll certainly be a tempting target for those who have lower budget and those who need to port it faster.
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Sounds like DigitalOcean is "too startup"
> Prometheus is about dimensional numeric time series metrics only (no log-based analysis, no per-request tracing, etc.).

Any thoughts on a companion (open source) system that focuses more on logs and such?
That's essentially what I found in my time working with them. This was public sector so the idea of budgeting the hardware cost as a lease and paying per print really appealed to the administration.
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"And grandpa, what was great uncle vu4374fv18's fight?"

"He snarkily shitposted to the internet whenever someone cared about an issue that wasn't the most pressing societal issue at the time. Even if their profession brought them into closer proximity to one than the other."
For certain types of problem that may work well, but for me, learning from my mistakes has been where I learned a lot.
Engineer as a title is largely meaningless in the software world because anyone can apply it to themselves. Once the self-proclaimed engineer hit critical mass, people who may not have otherwise done so now feel compelled to join the bandwagon lest they get looked down upon or take less pay because the well-financed companies hire engineers, not hackers or programmers.

It seems OP is mocking this mindset.
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How police unions actually hurt police officers
No, call them extremely fast lifcycle servers.
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