skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My resume spells out, in thorough detail, why someone would consider hiring me. A cover letter is, for the most part, redundant and anecdotal. The one time I submitted a cover letter was to indicate that I had some experience with a very particular field that wasn't reflected in my resume.
I wonder if there's any connection to the snake on a staff widely used as a symbol of medicine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius

It which case its origin may be a representation of the treatment for guinea worm.
Coincidentally I'm currently in the process of networking 2x 80s micro computers (an Amstrad CPC 464, Dragon 64) and a raspberry Pi together via RS-232.

The PCs run BASIC (Locomotive and Microsft, respectively) rather than CP/M. Though there's certainly CP/M and DOS ports.

The eventual end go would be having full SSH capabilities (using the Raspberry Pi to offload the encryption side of things) on 8bit machines so I can work from home on 80s hardware.

I'm sure the novelty will wear off quickly, but I enjoy these little technical challenges.
(Not OP) I did and it's still rather vague. I totally see where s/he's coming from with this question.
As regards the wormhole sequence, one must appreciate the innovation in technique, meticulous execution, groundbreaking visuals, and also the incredible cinematic boldness in showing such a long, strange sequence in theaters at the time. Truly impressive and meaningful work, which left an indelible mark on cinema over the past 5 decades.

That said, a part of me has always wished this sequence gave more thought to the physics and what it might be like to visualize the experience of traveling through a gate/wormhole like this. I don't think the coloration, visual patterns, or sequencing represents much understanding of the then-current physics theory on what this sort of thing might possibly be like, and I'm not sure it even captures it well in the abstract.

Amazing cinematic work which moved the industry forward in a positive direction. I just always wished they'd somehow been able to go even further and applied the same brilliance of vision and execution in technique to an even more refined concept that incorporated some viable notions of the possible/theoretical physics involved in traversing through space-time like this.
That's some fucking bullshit.$100 for a credit card shaped Bluetooth headset? I can buy a full credit card phone for less than 10.
Why would being broke have anything to do with the movement of celestial objects?
Anyone have a good HTTP/2 web server that supports Push as well as WSGI?

NGINX doesn't support push it seems, and looking around for an HTTP/2 server that does support push, the only one I found was h2o (https://h2o.examp1e.net) but that doesn't support WSGI, for dynamic python apps.
Sounds like a great idea. We've tried the point chart but haven't tried to capture his behavior over time in a way that's visible to him.
The Windows runtime is backwards compatible, so there are no breaking changes in WinMD files. You should be able to just generate a module for the latest available version of Windows.WinMD.

Attempting to call functions which don't exist on the OS you are using should just result in E_NOINTERFACE being surfaced by this projection.
How is advocating for a new set of best practices any more "demanding" or wishful than a regime of obligatory replication? And how is this categorically different from current practices such as peer review, disclosing conflicts of interest, an IRB, etc.?
There are also ads that make it appear that if I use a certain brand of deodorant then hot women will instantly flock to me. Should that be illegal too?
This is an absolutely terrible article, it seems the author just quickly threw together a list of alternative computing technologies and added a clickbaity title. Fluidics as a post Moore's law computing technology is laughable. The maximum possible processing speeds are somewhere in the 10s of KHz. In addition, fluidics does not scale down well. Slime molds are purely a gimmick.

However, fluidics was/still is a practical technology for niche applications. Fluidic non-moving part logic devices have been used for for factory process control and integrated pneumatic controllers for aerospace for decades now. Fluidics can be very robust and reliable. In the time period of the 1960s-1970s fluidics was more reliable than similar electrical and electromechanical systems. One thing that still makes fluidics attractive today is its robustness in environments where transistors don't work. Fluidics can with stand high temperatures, high shocks, high radiation, high magnetic fields, etc. As long as the shape of the channel remains intact, fluidics still works. Fluidics has been demonstrated to work inside jet engines, nuclear reactors, and molten steel.

Because of fluidics inherent EMP resistance, fluidics has been considered for use in anti-ballistic missile guidance systems[0].

One interesting current day application of fluidics is kosher sound amplification[1]. Orthodox Judaism prohibits electronic sound amplification on the sabbath because it constitutes work. Using a speaker to produce sound constitutes labor because it creates a sound that did not exist before from electricity. Fluidics is able to get around this prohibition and can amplify sound in the range of human speech.

As far as molecular nanotechnology goes, some of the first molecular computers we may see might resemble the BZ media mentioned in the article. Right now we can make a whole range of interesting molecular devices including logic gates and motors among other things, but it is difficult to put them together into larger devices. It's hard to hook up a molecular motor to a molecular wheel to a molecular suspension to make a molecular car[2], much less wire up a bunch of molecular logic gates in a defined pattern to make a molecular computer.

However, it is significantly easier to make periodic structures. Metal Organic Frameworks(MOFs) offer a way to organize molecular machines into periodic structures. They are pretty great for this because they self-assemble and have a bunch of open space for molecular machines to move around, but still close enough that they can interact with each other.

Some researchers have proposed that we could use MOFs with molecular machines in them to make cellular automata with mole quantities of cells.[3]

[0]http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDo...
[1]http://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/132nd/2aaa8.html
[2]http://www.cemes.fr/Molecule-car-Race?lang=en
[3]http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2012/CS/c1cs15...
Not necessarily that important, but Ubuntu's versioning scheme doesn't work the way you think it does.

It's <year>.<month> and they release a new version almost always in April and in October, meaning that the past few Ubuntu versions were 14.04, 14.10, 15.04, 15.10 and now 16.04, which is what you're running.

They then have the usual dot-releases appended to that, so you're probably actually running 16.04.1, the first revision of 16.04.

So, yeah, you would usually say that you're running "16.04", not just "16", as 16.10 will be a completely different version, again...
You're right, Tesla should just pack it in right now. They have no competitive advantage or product that anyone wants, and Nissan has far better prospects than Tesla ever had.
on many occasions, i've seen a dog mistake an empty plastic bag, pushed down the street by a breeze, for a dangerous threat to its existence.

could seagulls have been making a similar mistake?
Serenity – Business Apps Made Simple with TypeScript / ASP.NET MVC
If the resource you're linking to is a database (or to speak more strictly, if its only representation is a resource of a noms-database media-type), rather than an HTML page or something, can't the browser can be configured to pass it off to a Noms implementation, complete with the dataset identifier within? I mean, that's what people do with page numbers in PDF files, right?
I just unfollowed BuzzFeed years ago. Problem solved.
T-Shaped was used to distinguish people based on skills. Presumably the prior thinking was just generalists and specialists. T-Shaped acknowledged that some specialists might have some skills in other things. By saying everyone is a XXX you remove any value that categorization might have.

I say screw the metaphors and just understand what skills people have as you need to, because simple categories are only useful for simple decisions.
When I said why its flawed I was providing the likely reason and not evidence of the flaw. Rereading my comment, I can certainly see how one might interpret otherwise. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.

When it comes to the specific evidence of the flaw, I think schwap's comment that I was replying to has it covered.
It's not the "sales were down" part that I object to, it's the incorrect conclusions they draw from it.

Tesla explicitly stated the reason for the missed deliveries. The published production and delivery numbers match the explanation. I suppose they could be lying, but I haven't seen anybody go so far as to accuse them of that here.

I'm not lamenting the press for criticizing Tesla for missing expectations. I'm lamenting the press for taking a number that clearly indicated a slightly delayed production ramp and publishing articles talking about how the company is doomed because people aren't buying their product anymore.
How do you lower someone's frequency in your feed?
I've noticed that the latest trend about men vs women have evolved from 'men and women are equal' to showing that there are actual differences between the two sexes.
Oh, so it's not purely a rainfall issue, it's whether you can get away with a deliberately drafty house.

That makes a lot of sense - SF may be cool, but it's rarely cold. SF heating bills, even in houses with a pretty ancient and inefficient system, are low.

Yeah, no way you'd get away with that in those other cities you mentioned.
My litmus test is checking how many "titles" authors list on their pages. The more titles the less likely I am to take their word seriously.

Pretty crude heuristic, but seems to work with very few false positives!
Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01759

Quotes from the paper:

Both char-CNN and VDCNN are trained on a NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU, while our models are trained on a CPU using 20 threads.

Table2 shows that methods using convolutions are several orders of magnitude slower than fastText.

Our speed-up compared to CNN based methods increases with the size of the dataset, going up to atleast a 15, 000× speed-up.

Table 2 shows the speedups of:

ConvNets: 2 to 5 days on GPUs

FastText: 52 seconds on CPU
Oh, ok, sounds like we're in agreement then. Thank you for clarifying for me.
...for servers! ;)
Farm Bureau ( fbfs.com ) sold fb.com to Facebook few years back.
U.S. Will Launch World’s Largest Battle Robot Ship in 2018
I am a strong proponent of Nim but this is probably the worst idea I have ever encountered in language development. Honestly!

Partial case sensitivity and the special underscore case are features I can live with. Unfortunately this has actually become a stumbling block for a wider adoption of Nim.

All strange special features should be optional, not default.
> The median standard of living in Appalachia is higher than that of Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Russia, China, Latin America, and so on.

Care to give a reference?
Specifically, one is either an egoist for receiving any type of reward, intrinsic or extrinsic, and regardless of intent, or an idiot otherwise.
Where did you see that Tesla missed their "sales goal" ? Can you point me to a source ? Tesla orders (which is sales) were up by 67% http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/257043598...

Look at the IR first page, paragraph 5. They missed their "delivery goals".
In game development, there are more testers than developers. It's the job from hell.[1]

[1] http://trenchescomic.com/tales
As a non-technical founder, I have made tremendous progress on my MVP with the help of codefree! Brent walks you through the process, showing how to do things, and why.

So glad I found it!
Diagramming the Story of a 1-Star Review
Your opinions aren't uninteresting because they aren't spicy, but because they offer no value. You're in the company of people who spent years in Asia and other parts of the world running businesses, conferences and making deals. Yet, you focus on the lowest level of discussion. It's the "me, me, me" attitude so common in places like SV.

You assume no one else know what you know because you read some Wikipedia article. Everything you talk about like social problems, privilege or censorship is completely apparent to anyone who ever set foot in China. People are there despite these problems not because they are unaware.

People don't bring up US flaws because this is some country competition were you should keep score, but so you can understand that you value certain things and ignore others. Just like anyone else, including Chinese people. The world is mostly the same.
Selling immediately isn't necessarily the ideal plan. Often when shares vested in my career they were worth only a bit more than the "strike" price.

Often times I have "sold to cover" which is to say exercised the option, and immediately sold enough of the stock to cover the cost of exercising the option and paying the tax. At that point you have shares in your company in your brokerage account where the "basis" is the fair market price when you exercised them. A year and a day later (to convert to long term gains) I've sold half the shares.

When my RSUs at Google vested they would automatically sell some to pay my tax obligation, but I would instruct them to sell half as well. Same philosophy. Get some of the money diversified, keep a bit of skin in the game in case it had a gain.
So, What Makes a Good User Story?
We're early, but we're not that early. We have over 4k users and 300-600 daily users.
> It is not just about terrorism. It is a normal procedure to question people who travel from that region.

No, it isn't, you're off base on this. Turkey is one of most popular tourist destinations for the UK, a vanishingly small percentage of people who travel from Turkey are interviewed.
A good applicant is someone who has the skills to do the job well. Full stop.

You can increase your chances of an interview marginally through a significant investment of time, but you'll get more interviews by spraying resumes. Especially good candidates with valuable skills.
Mainly because we're still getting beta feedback and in development. We're on version 0.99.5 and working toward 1.0, so depending on what beta testers tell us, there could potentially be sections of the app that change completely and some features are simply not complete. We want to get it out of beta and into 1.0 first, otherwise it will be a distraction for our small team. ..so yeah tab-indenting and lack of code comments. :)
National French Fry Day July 13 – 2017
recent college grads? is that a common acronym?
National Chocolate Eclair Day June 22 – 2017
This reminds me of FB tacitly approving of those overly aggressive social game ads / updates for a while, until FB itself became strong enough to not need them anymore.

It also reminds me of Twitter encouraging 3rd party developers, then cutting them off once they became strong enough to be alright without them.

Clickbait articles surely padded FB's bottom line, but now that FB has become strong in the news feed / media source space, perhaps it feels that it can separate itself from the devil's bargain.

Yes, I hate clickbait just as much as the next HN'er (and would like to not consider it in the same vein as Twitter API use), but putting aside the nature of the content, the power dynamics at play seem analogous.
The Lifecycle of an Eventbrite Webhook
The point would be to render the frame(s) before the input arrives, to reduce latency. You can only display one frame, but you don't know which frame until the user actually inputs something.
https://www.facebook.com/help/745556738851537
Author here: you're right, nothing revolutionary here in technique. Most/all of our actual process is ripped straight out of http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/. But my experience, over the course of Spreedly interacting with 100+ candidates over the past few years, is that just doing pretty standard things well, with attention to detail, is in itself revolutionary. We hear story after story from candidates about other companies they have or are interviewing at that are completely disrespectful in how they're treating candidates. Whether this is cargo culting, lack of time to do things right, or a righteous belief that it's OK to treat candidates poorly, I can't say, but it's pretty disgraceful.

So, I wrote this little thing both since I needed to write it down for my coworkers anyhow - this is how we do things, showing respect for candidates by keeping reciprocity, incrementalism, and relevance in view - but also in the hopes that it's one more brick in a wall of "you're worthy of respect" for candidates.

The post itself wasn't about our actual process, though I did use examples from it; I hope to write about the actual process later. But I will note that my experience of phone screens is apparently very different from yours: I've experience them as a chance to pre-grill and filter candidates, and ours is 100% not that. I ask zero questions, but instead just talk about what we do and answer any and all questions candidates have. You're right that doing an intro call with each candidate isn't scaling, but we're not replacing me with HR, but instead have a live weekly intro call that candidates can join where I talk about the company and they can ask questions via text and I answer them on the spot.

And for what it's worth: "the current market dynamics" in tech hiring SUCK. So long as I have any say, we'll be playing moneyball by ignoring them and instead just continuing to iterate based on what actually works.
Ask HN: Why am I suddenly getting spam calls on my cell phone?
I've always heard of people getting spam calls, but as recently as 6 months ago, I never received any, and I have used this # for almost a decade. Now, all of the sudden, I get several robocalls a day! I don't know what has changed, but it's downright annoying!

I pay for this phone, not them!
That article is two years old.
Just deduct points from any article that uses these phrases:

"... with this one weird trick..."

"... you won't believe..."

"... people are losing their minds about..."

"... mind blowing pictures of..."

"... what happens next..."
But then the post displays the non-clickbaity title, which defeats the point.
Rectum Leap

... kind of combines the old title with the new concep ... eh ... never mind
Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
I have noticed this too. Large increase in the number of spam calls and texts I get in the last few months.
Augmented reality app idea for fast food restaurants
glasses that shows "04:23", or "1:23" in big numbers over each customers head showing the amount of time they have been waiting. All the employees wear special glasses and can see those numbers but the customers don't.
I wish they would open up a clickbait-score API so places like HN could benefit from their research, but I guess if they did then the perpetrators would use it to test work-arounds.
People fall for bread and circuses.
So you're saying that you don't know either.
What makes you think this is default? It most certainly is not and will be removed completely in the future.

Edit: here is a source: http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#syntax-strong-spaces ("... if the experimental parser directive #?strongSpaces is used..."). The last time this was discussed I said that it would be removed completely, and I still believe it will be. It's simply not a priority for us right now.
Figuring out what a Startup CTO actually does
OP here. I just received another robocall 30 seconds after posting my original query!
1:1.5 tester:developer may be more accurate.

We don't use a lot of good practices in my current office. I wish we did. We use C and fortran, one guy insists on C++ (which he calls C).

We used to (before I came onto this project) do much better with using static analysis tools and good mapping of: (requirements <-> specification <-> design <-> code) <-> tests. The reason this stopped, people retired. The people that came in to replace them didn't understand the value of good practices and tools for those things because, well, they were awesome rockstar coders. And they are. But they assume everyone else is too. Which is a fatal mistake. They're terrible at management, but good engineers.

A major problem, as well, is that we're on the maintenance end of the system. These aren't fresh projects or clean slate projects so we're stuck with the historical code (effectively). And too much of the initial (generally good) practices and processes didn't survive the transition.

I've read a number of your posts, usually when I see your handle I make a point to read them regardless of how long they are. And sometimes I realize it's you just by the content and look for more in a thread. In principle I think we're on the same page. In practice, I made some expedient choices for myself that have kept me from being able to (on the job) make extensive use of these ideas for a while.

One other reason, though, that we'd likely keep the same ratio is just the nature of what we test here. Radios with an esoteric messaging protocol. It's only used by us and a handful of others. A test case may involve dozens or hundreds of key messages to simulate a "conversation" between two or more radios to determine how our software behaves, with thousands more sent automatically. It's made more complex by the (IMO) relatively poorly designed protocol. It was satisfactory, maybe even good, originally but has become overly complex and possibly contradictory in its specification as new features were added over the years. Which is where better design (not just code development) would be nice. I started on, but never finished, going through all the messages that could be sent and what the responses ought to be and when to try to produce a better simulator than we presently use. One of my goals was to identify where the specification was contradictory, but I haven't been given time and I'm not willing to consider it after work hours. Another goal was to make it easier, with such a high level functional model/simulator, to develop some of our other systems that rely on this same protocol (or some subset of it). Something to verify/validate our implementation against.

EDIT: In a past life I worked with LDRA as our primary static analysis tool for C. We had much better processes in place to track the relationships between spec, requirements, test procedures and code (we used Telelogic DOORS). On personal projects exploring these ideas I used Ada, and wanted to use SPARK Ada but found the documentation at the time to be sparse online, and my personal time waning so I dropped it.
The company I was at was purchased by a much larger competitor. It wasn't a startup in the least. It was a 12 year old company. The first employee was an IT guy. He didn't win anything. Most of the 250 employees were laid off except for the IT team of 25 or so people. Customer Service, collections, marketing, operations, etc, etc, all gone. It was a high pressure situation and heartbreaking to witness and also somewhat gut wrenching to wait for the other shoe to drop.

One thing I learned is that during situations like that, the acquiring company sometimes NEEDS you to be there to ensure that their purchase does not lose value. In those cases they will provide valuable incentives. So if you find yourself in that situation and unhappy, feel free to find a better offer since you may well get a high value counter-offer.
You might also be interested in Jai [0] which has many of those things but is not a 'real language' yet or possibly ever. Lots of interesting ideas though.

[0]: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md