skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More likely they are trying very hard to avoid any linguistic profiling. Maybe they google-translated the text back and forward multiple times.

Anyway, they painted a huge target on their back if this is real NSA stuff. I can't see how they would cash-out any significant bitcoin amount ($100k+) without being traced.
This is hilarious—I just added support for Pokémon Go users to our app (launching next month) yesterday.

Step 3: Profit!
Are Rotisserie Chickens a Bargain?
It's very difficult (and often painful) to change your entire thought process. I feel like I had to rewrite my entire personality in order to make the transition. I probably even lost some friends along the way.

In many ways, I feel like a different person - Not entirely in a positive way.
More jobs preferred over guaranteed ‘basic income’
This situation highlights the elephant in the room- People are not much interested in paying for online services, even one as large as FB. Their growth and DAU would suffer dramatically if they had to charge even a nominal fee for use. People will take it for free but it is not worth enough to most to pay even a small amount.
Just wanted to say thanks for making Betty[1]. It was a lot of fun using Betty a couple of years ago before the bot-hype took off.

[1] https://github.com/pickhardt/betty
Just remember - state matters heavily in that decision! If I had lived in a non-recourse state, I would have gladly performed a strategic default a couple of years ago and left the bank to pay the loss in value of my place.
I've never been convinced this is an advantage.

Ryanair (the discount carrier) has a fleet of 354 boeing-737s.

This means they cannot fly some routes the bigger jets can, and other routes they burn more fuel than the smaller jets would.

BUUUT ... maintenance and logistics are drastically cheaper and efficient.

By analogy, I would argue that costs sunk either in training or hiring for specific skills will pay off in the long run.
Some hyperloop proponents insist that right-of-way acquisition will be so much easier that that of a train, because the tube is elevated and might be engineered to have a small footprint of pylons.

I think it remains to be seen whether it can actually be built in this manner. Regardless, there may be still be noise concerns and the problem of creating an unsightly above ground structure. Plus, the very idea of having one close by might be frightening for many.
We're using 'management' as a standin for 'business requirements' here, at least in the most cases I've seen that lead to accumulation of 'debt'.

These things generally start with, "We need feature X for customer Y in Z days.". Engineers dive in, and then comments start popping up - usually variations on a theme: "This is a mess, but it works for now - we'll come back later and clean it up."

The unhealthy process that leads to that is a different discussion. But as engineers, our responsibility is to be aware that it's a reality, and work within those constraints.

Yes, there will be time/resource/budget limitations. No, we're not going to fix that overnight. But knowing it going in, we can take a closer look at some of those 'good enough for now' decisions, and do our best to not produce dog shit.

Sometimes dog shit can't be avoided, but if the pattern above is the normal way of doing business in a company, engineers do have the ability (and responsibility) to do the best they can within those constraints.

Often that means pausing and saying, "I know this is going to come back and bite us, what can we do now to make it better?"
That was my take as well. Writing styles are recognizable, or at least narrow-downable. Writing in that awkward style is definitely intended to neuter any style analysis.
> In my 20 years of development so far I've never implemented a doubly linked list or designed a search algorithm.

You probably target a non-constrained platform, even so, as both a web developer(!) and a CS graduate, I've had plenty of scenarios where using the right data structure and/or algorithm give better perf and/or cleaner code. Sometimes I just use the very handy hash table and call it a day, but having the tools at my disposals is useful.
The Philosophy of Star Trek
While I believe that Soros is a psychopath I feel that you are paranoid about Russia here. (considering that you are likely Polish I can understand that) They have an arrest warrant against Soros, he'll be put into prison should he ever touch Russian soil again and all Soros funded organisations in Russia have been banned and dismantled. All protests by the EU have been ignored.

Why I believe that Soros is crazy aside from the contents of this leak: He collaborated with the Nazis to profit over the death of Jews even though he is Jewish himself. And then he later bragged about how much money he made this way without showing any regret for his actions.

The leaks also show that he financially supports Palestinian organisations to this day that have the goal to destroy Israel.

Our leaders must be crazy themselves because they apparently hold his views on various self destructive policies in highest regards.

I really wonder what kind of drugs they were on when they decided that it would be a good idea to import millions of illiterate, young men from an alien culture that hates us. We now have terror attacks here in the EU on a regular basis and the rise in violence and rapes can't be hidden anymore.

I guess some men and women just want to see the world burn.
Food waste is very small problem. If it was eliminated there would be 1.5 times as much food.

Bigger problem is eating out (restaurants, fast food) where 90% of money is wasted. Or buying expensive ingredients like meat or very processed foods. 10 times more food can be bought if choosing wisely.

I pay maybe 4$-5$/day for food and I routinely throw away half. That's 2$/day wasted. But eating at restaurant wastes so much more.
If they keep word, going public not happen, one million bitcoin too many
Given that producers, distributors and consumers will also be happy to capture savings, how much of the savings will be captured by a fourth party?
> The answer I pretty much always get from people when I ask, "Why did you start with (whatever NoSQL they chose)?" Is, "Because (whoever) said it's faster and scales better."

Pretty much the classic http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/?
maybe "unhedged" here is the important bit.

accumulated technical debt makes the software project less robust / less able to respond effectively to future events.

there are many examples in life where failing to do maintenance / prepare for contingencies is a clear short/med-term win, provided something unexpected does not occur.
The friendly C and boring C proposals are quite close to what I'm thinking of. I was sad to see friendly C abandoned.

I hope to find the time shortly to take a stab at something along those lines.
So... watch several of his other videos and then decide whether to watch this one? And that's to save time spent on consuming non-worthwhile content? You could stand to be a lot more specific about what your beef is with this youtuber and how that links back to the arguments given in this video.
It would be nice if a tool could dynamically tune based on server conditions, too much sequential io? Increase read ahead and swap out applications, too much random io, reduce read ahead, etc.
They didn't google translate back and forth a few times, because both google and the NSA would have a copy of the originals, and that would out their original text / writing style.
I spent the morning complaining at my business partner about how nobody seems to be solving the transaction classification issue. Every site (xero, ynab, pocketsmith etc) seem to think its ok to push all the grunt work off to their customers. I actually spent a couple of hours in the weekend hacking together a script to handle smarter bank transaction classification for me. This couldn't be more timely - will take look and have a play!

Edit to add: also interested in having a system that can project based on previous expenses to help with cash flow forecasting. It's insane that with 3 years of nicely classified data in xero we still have to more or less manually figure out what the next few months look like.
> I think we can state it did fail.

I think we can state it did fail as a graphics processor.
iAlwaysStartGreenFieldJavascriptWithCamelCase_but_then_comes_the_json_and_all_is_lost.
Acetaminophen use in pregnancy linked to child's behavioral problems
Gym Selfies a Sign of Tough Times for the Economy
What you're referring to is not a court ruling, but rather an opinion letter penned by the DOJ in a case to which it was not even a party. It holds no legal weight.
"fusion-powered self-driving flying car moving inside a hyperloop."
Snapchat to Buy Vurb for More Than $100M
A funny sketch about running out of ideas by Ze Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8
Well, unless I lose my job keep paying for it. There are always risks with every financial decision. I'm just accepting those risks right now and I feel like that's a good decision for me. It might not be for somebody else.
I suppose a lot of ideas behind graphics on Larrabee end up in OpenSWR project. So anyone interested in scientific visualization might check it.
Holy shit. I'm quite a cynical person, but this deserves the "restored my faith in humanity" trope. Mad respect for both JetBrains and the researcher. $50k is nothing to sneer at.
If you're going ES6, why not just:

import {solve} from 'logic'

solve((x,y) => x === "mcbob" && y === "bob" || x === "bob" && y === "bill");
1-4% sounds low. The figure I'm more familiar with is about 6% of global petroleum use.

IndexMundi gives ~5 million barrels/day of jet fuel consumption, 2012.

http://www.indexmundi.com/energy/?product=jet-fuel

That compares with 90 mbpd global petroleum consumption in 2012 (BP Annual Statistical Review, 2016)

That's 5.5% of petroleum consumption, which is about 1/3 of total energy (BP, 2016). Carbon allocation is to petro, gas, and coal, so 2-4% of total CO2 emissions actually is about right.

OK, you pass ;-)
I'm just curious but do you have a specialty? And if so is it domain or technical? Like the ruby guy, or the HIPPA guy etc..
Hi, author here!

I didn't invented the combinators for regex, that was already in ocaml-re (which is used as backend for tyre). The combinator approach has many advantages:

- You don't need to remember which regex syntax the library is using. Is it using the emacs one ? The perl one ? The javascript one ? The bash one ?! (shudder) ...

- It's "self documenting". Your combinators are just functions, so you just expose them and give them type signatures, and the usual documentation/autocompletion/whatevertooling works.

- It composes better. You don't have to mash string together to compose your regex, you can name intermediary regexs with normal variables, etc.

- Related to the point above: No string quoting hell.

Now, tyre doesn't really improve any of that. If anything, combinators are simpler in ocaml-re[1]. What tyre gives you is the automatic extraction and casting of matching groups into the desired datatype (and the reverse direction, but that's almost free bonus). No need to select groups manually and transform into an integer, no need to reconstruct tuples/lists/records, tyre will do that for you (and handle conversion failures cleanly).

[1]: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-re/blob/master/lib/re.mli#L20...
Not necessarily, there's a way to run Google Translate offline (the app can download translation files, and you can then run it even after you rip out every antenna physically and put the phone in a faraday cage)
No, we won't. Environmental concerns aside, there's enough for 100-150 years by current market/consumption rates. And nuclear energy (with closed cycle / fast breeder reactors) is possible for ~ million years given present consumption, including the ability to synthesize artificial fuel or making hydrogen fuel cells. And I am not even talking about fusion power.
Keep your secrets secret: Ansible Vault
Chapter markers are a potential solution IF podcast producers use them and mark them accurately and IF your podcast player of choice supports Chapter markers.
Yes, in my opinion the parent is trying to poison the well while saying "I'm not poisoning the well", then saying "How dare you suggest I'm poisoning the well when I actually said I wasn't poisoning the well".
You can left-justify text, just like in actual books. That alone is reason enough to jailbreak, it baffles me why amazon are so tone-deaf regarding this.
> very processed foods

That's not really accurate though. Half the point of heavily-processed foods is that they can use non-aesthetic parts of the animal or plant to produce edible food.

- Mechanically-processed chicken is made out of the parts of a chicken that you could never sell as beautiful chicken breasts

- Baby carrots are carrots that are too ugly to sell

- Fillers like corn syrup and soybean oil are calorically incredibly cheap to produce, and very efficient use of cropland.

More accurately, it's organic and locally-grown foods that waste the most cropland by being low-density (and are thus more expensive).
i think trying to explain in the language of options isn't a great comparison, perhaps a clearer way to think about it might be in terms of "robustness" to possible future scenarios (see also Taleb's Antifragile)
Isn't this a case where Intel should not of talked about their internal R&D until they had a clear product & message to bring the market? I wonder if this lack of discipline cost Larrabee the correct narrative that it should have.
I was thinking the same thing... I can only think of "bragging rights" or a learning experience.

Although I think this is what makes the (internet) world awesome at the moment. The author sounds like they were mucking around to see how far they could get. Put some thoughts down for others to read and who knows?

Whenever we're recruiting, we always look for interesting things a candidate has done. Something like this will easily get you a first interview...
Imagine the consequences of blowing up a Hyperloop track segment. It will be the prime target of any terrorist group out there — hence the security.
It's nice (for a European) to read an article with metric measurements. But:

> "Our family of four managed to get our weekly organic waste below the five-kilogram mark, ... This works out to about 250 grams per week for each family member"

Isn't that 1250 grams per week per person?
It's one step away from "Many People Are Saying Apple's Cloud Key Vault is a Crypto Backdoor".
You're not being punished. If it's not a good culture fit and pay for your personal situation, you're right, you don't have to apply.

Women not asking for enough isn't just our experience either. There's research that backs up that women consistently don't ask for as much as men. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-conf...

As for the rates, we acknowledge they're lower than average publicly on our website. However, our folks only work 40 hours per week. We're really diligent about that. So some folks are making more per hour from their last jobs that worked them 60+ hours per week.

It's also worth noting that we're bootstrapped. We don't have investors, which is both a pro and a con. One of the pros is that we have a lot of control over the culture so we make Corgibytes a place that works for the right people. One of the cons is that we don't have a deep pocket of investor money to dip into. We have to go with the market value for what people are willing to pay for our services and that determines what we can pay our staff. It ends up being less, but we try to be upfront about it so there's no surprise.
I first thought the article was about using the cloud to improve Autotune (the singing tool) settings.
I was mainly referring to "And for employers, because it means they can make do with programmers who don't want to think."

Sorry, but I don't want to work in an environment where programmers don't want to think or don't have to think. That is a scary thought. Has nothing to do with being locked into the past or being closed-minded. Just the opposite actually.
Not sure what support is like in illustrator but the generation is super simple. You can base64 the font and embed it inline in a style tag.
It was interesting. Too bad the company profiled doesn't really value the developers--if you look at their careers page, they pay 110k for lead devs, and 90k for senior devs: http://corgibytes.com/careers/ . I respect them for stating it up front and I know they are 100% remote, but those salaries seem a bit low to me.

But that's just ad hominem. I think working code is almost never worth a rewrite. See "Things you should never do, part 1" for an old chestnut on the same topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Buying stock in a company that is doomed to fail and end up with share price of $0.

Saying "YAGNI" and not implementing the foobar component would be like choosing to not buy the stock.
Yes, of course. I've meant prepackaged expensive meals.
Snapchat can be thought of as the most popular Augmented Reality app. They are the only app I see widespread in North America that convinced users to actually use QR codes, if only occasionally. Filters are an example of great UI in AR: it's intuitive because it interacts with your natural world.

Snapchat is very well positioned to take location-based features beyond just filters. I think these kinds of real-world interactions are an awesome trend and a lot of the tech has yet to be built.

(It also looks like the author removed the popovers. I didn't see any popups when reading the article.)
To your point I think that you just always have that risk. But I'd rather have that 20% I would have spent either invested in a 401k or a retirement fund or even using it for other things like getting another degree. Now I'm not saying those are necessarily the wisest options, but I like the opportunity. I mean this in the kindest way but all you're arguing against here is the risk/reward. In the same token, what I'd home values appreciate 30% in 10 years and all the while I'm renting the place and having somebody else pay the mortgage? Just different risk factors is all. If I find it impossible to get a job as an engineer doing the work I do, than the entire country is probably in another depression. I'm just betting against that.
A linq interface to visit the resulting parse tree.
I think the parent is referring to the particular stylistic decisions that differ from what's most common in the JS community. The author uses tabs to indent (instead of spaces), snake case (instead of camel), no semicolons, etc.
Im curious if it's because of who builds these condos and perhaps theres a management revenue fee to collect as well....
YC has a strong focus on revenue it seems.

They talk about 'ramen profitable' meaning - squeaking by with enough money to pay basic bills and survive. I think this is great advice specifically because of how it empowers you vis-a-vis investors. It changes the game radically -> no 'desperation'.

But they also have this thing after YC 'time to profitability'. Seems they are big on that.

Frankly - despite bubble hype, there is something to be said for getting tons of users. If you have tons of users and a 'basic' type of revenue model you could apply that you know will work - even basic ads - then I think it makes sense.

LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram - so many just focused on getting tons of users and I think that their valuations were reasonable. An acquirer can roughly calculate how much each user is worth.

I think it depends on a lot on the type of business model.
Eating at restaurants is not a waste of money, it is much more efficient for many people. At a restaurant, you can get food much more quickly, and with no cleanup time afterwards; if you value your time, this can quite easily turn out to be a cost savings compared to home-prepared meals (especially if you value variety).

It used to be more common to purchase restaurant food, and home-cooked meals were a luxury for the rich a few hundred years ago, but income and sales tax have imposed higher transaction costs, and made restaurant food more expensive.
> the Hyperloop concept was that the tracks should be much cheaper, since all you need is a steel tube

[Technical nitpick first: tube is a structural element, while pipe is something that can hold pressure.]

The price of pressure-rated steel pipe is roughly proportional to the diameter squared. At 132 inches in diameter, the hyperloop pipe itself would cost at least $600/ft. It would also weigh > 1000 lbs/ft, so the support system would be absolutely massive and probably double that price. That's just the cost of raw materials.

For comparison, Elon Musk's total cost estimate is $1400 per foot per pipe [$6 billion total cost, 380 miles, two pipes], so I'm inclined to say that his estimate might be a bit optimistic.

From what I can tell, total cost per foot for maglev is estimated around $6000/ft. [US highway construction cost per lane per foot is also around that number.] But I understand those numbers as the total cost including also engineering work, shipping/logistics, actual building work, buying the land etc. While my $1200/ft estimate is just raw materials.

So if we as a very coarse estimate say raw materials is 1/4 of the price, hyperloop is not significantly cheaper than maglev.
It isn't that scary once you take into account the fact that our brains are just as finite as any other resource available to us. It's a virtue not to make more mental effort than what is strictly necessary to complete the task at hand.
The list of people who downloaded an offline google translate app followed by their phone going dark is probably not lengthy.
Why is working at Google your holy grail? I'm genuinely curious, I don't have a problem with your goals.
Cars and houses are not the same thing. Cars depreciate in value from the moment you drive them out of the parking lot of the dealer. House values generally stay the same or go up.

Continuing to make payments on a house when you're underwater on the basis that you can still live in it is a really bad idea. Even if you can afford the payments, why would you want to overpay for something? That's why so many people walked away from their houses during the real estate crash: when you have no guarantees that the asset you're paying for will appreciate in value back to the original value, it's a much more financially sound decision to ignore the sunk cost and cut your losses ASAP.
Army Vet Arrested for Hanging Flag Upside Down in Iowa, Charged with Desecration
> Suddenly, for many Westerners, the problem with food was that there was too much of it.

Whenever eating around some friends from South Asian countries who grew up just barely on the positive side of starving, I always make a point of eating everything on my plate (or all the meat off the bone). Because lots of times I've gotten the comment "you eat like a white person."

But I wonder how much of that is cultural and how much is socioeconomic? Do poorer people in the US also waste a lot of food? Do wealthy people in India waste a lot of food?
Interviews suck specially for senior developers.
Why should I have to prove myself over and over again by doing idiotic basic algorithm type of questions on the whiteboard? After having worked for over 25 years as developer in major companies, shouldn't interviews be about a conversation?
- can you imagine interviewing medical doctors the same way we interview in the tech industry?
DR. Smith, please show me how you do open heart surgery in this dummy here... (because most interviews happen at the whiteboard)...
OpenSurgery: DIY surgical robots
What about third parties and independent candidates? Such an app would just serve to strengthen the two party duopoly and propogate the fallacy that there are only two sides to every issue.