skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The President's Summer Reading List
It's not really that bad. And on the plus side, VisualVM helps a ton because you can connect to a running JVM and actually see what's happening with the garbage collector (among other things).
"Scratch your own itch"

I've built two apps (MDB Viewer and Postico) because the tool I needed for my work didn't exist. It turns out, other people often have similar problems!
Yeah, not sure who can swallow that "planning for long-term sustainability [has] been widely practiced" for "the last few decades."
It has to be processed and formatted. The reporter uses a shorthand system that needs to dealt with, and you need to be able to figure out which party is which. Also, I'm pretty sure the reporter just blasts on through, so it would be difficult to distinguish between cases without some human intervention. You probably have hundreds of people getting arraigned in one session in the Bronx.

Digital audio can be more difficult. Automated transcription sucks, and the costs for human annoyed machine transcription are very high.
What is a PS-1? PS/2 I've used but never heard of PS1
just got to give them more to lose otherwise, that's how it works.
Yeah, this is terrible. I ended up picking random answers and storing them in LastPass on the note for my account.

The whole experience is hostile to users, and probably pretty euro / western - centric. I don't know how they localized the list, but I would be really surprised if they got everybody's possible responses to favorite music genre and whatever in there.

And, of course, using PUBLIC information about people as a security feature is beyond stupid. If your okcupid profile helps me hack your account, I don't think that counts as "two factor".
I suspect your calculation ignores that grant money isn't a yearly stipend, so after the $73,600/person runs out those people are back where they started.
1) think of frustrating situations that you encounter in your daily life
2) determine if that is a situation other people also find frustrating
3) if so, there is probably an underlying problem to the situation, just waiting to be solved.
Ouch. This was cool data to have, and Facebook turning off the API tap ruins more than just this particular company's business model.

Let there be no mistake; these APIs are designed such that the house always wins. Facebook is not a 'Facebook Federation Protocol', and now they're following in the footsteps of Instagram and Twitter in limiting data outflow when it no longer benefits them.
That manifesto site drives me completely nuts. It reads like somebody is trying really, really, really hard to describe Erlang without actually saying, "Erlang".
Could you elaborate? I've never done either and I'd be interested in hearing some more details about why it's not working out for you.
a) You recover by eating and sleeping.
b) Anyone can squat. How do you think people use the toilet.
c) It works the body in precisely the way our physiology is.
I like the spirit of this, but there's a major problem with it. Sending poor people out of the city into the suburbs for rich white court can be a tremendous burden. Why not just have those judges take on some of the poor city caseload? They surely can afford the commute.
Soooooooo, I'm going to say "bs" on this claim. Sure, I get that the relationship between poll and reality is murky, but if Trump takes California as the "app maker" suggests, I will literally eat my hat.

Smells of anti-intellectualism to me. "Don't trust those people who literally have doctorates in figuring that stuff out, I have a non-scientific and unvalidated instrument, but I am in tech so of course I'm way smarter than everybody else!"
The problem is that people feel they need to be motivated in order to get to the gym. This is the wrong approach. How can you get motivated before you start exercising?
The key is just to get yourself to the gym, don't think about motivation... just get to the gym. And as you start to warm-up and start your lifts, the motivation will just happen.
This is my experience anyway.
Resources/links for App Product Managers
The last spam that got through GMail's filter was from amazonses.com. It wasn't clear how to report it back to Amazon.
Isn't it perfectly rational for a new grad to want to get some prestige on his or her CV? Especially as those companies probably pay better than the alternatives.
Arduino is not the next big thing; it's arguably a few years past its peak. But the thing is, it's really really fast to prototype stuff.

Last week I needed to convert an analog voltage to a pulse width -- I had a potentiometer and I wanted to control an ESC. It took me less than 10 minutes to breadboard and code that on an Arduino clone (Teensy).

The week before, I needed a frequency counter. Again, it took less than 10 minutes.

I've done more elaborate projects, but the point is that the overhead to get started is tiny.
Explain the ursurious telephone rates under your "complexity" theory!

Contractors aren't responsible for security -- that's a threat to their margins and to the corrections Union.

The reality is that prisoners are just seen as a mark. Inflated goods bring more money into the prison, because inmates don't make enough to buy $8 Cheetos. So relatives wire money in through some scammy system. Often the prisons get commissions for these types of sales as well.

I'm not a bleeding heart for prisoner luxury. But I hate seeing people getting ripped off by profiteers.
Linguistic cues to recognize personality in conversation and text (2007) [pdf]
Ask HN: How to get out of Tech and still make a decent living?
I've been working as software engineer for over 15 years. I feel burned out and have no interest left in this field where learning new things just keeps you at the same place in life. And no respect for experience, unless you demonstrate on a whiteboard with your implementation of a sorted bubble tree list.

My question is, how to successfully get out of tech and still make decent living ($100k+).
Has anyone tried small business that worked out for you?
I think philosophy has traditionally been more of a self-consciously humanistic pursuit, so even though there's some cross-pollination with STEM it wouldn't fit super well into that category. The thing about contemporary thought is, there's a lot of instrumentalism hidden inside it especially in high-tech circles. This arises in large part from instrumentalist prejudices in education. OTOH, the wider world of older philosophy is somewhat dangerous to modern education so it tends not to go there.
Remember that concrete expands and contracts, and the pressure of the water influences that process.
Well, that was fun for aboit half an hour, then my brain was all "so why are we parsing fixed space fonts again? Did I miss some memo?"

Would be a lot nicer with normal presentation. The menu structure works pretty well on a mobile phone. Don't miss the pictures at all. 6/10 would play with again.
If you exercise and are more tired, then you need to eat more. And stay off the sugars and carbs.
Not only is Clojure "a reasonably sane Lisp", it's a practical language that feels designed (because it is) using "power trough simplicity", decomposition, decompletion.

This frees up an enormous number of brain cycles to design the upper layers.

It embraces it's host (JVM, JavaScript) which enables tremendous reach and code-reuse; at the same time it fixes most WATs and subtler pitfalls (by using immutable, persistent data (structures) by default).
As I read it this is about data formats, sharing and reusability.

sandstorm.io is about running apps on shared hosts safely.
Spring Boot is very good. I can't imagine writing enterprise Java code without it anymore.
> Academics hated it because there were much better grammars.

Surely not at my university.

By 1998 it had already replaced C as the language for distributed computing classes.

C with SUN RPC or PVWM was just too clunky to keep on using and was used just as introduction to distributed computing.

Same with compiler design classes.

The ECOOP'99 was full of Java related presentations with the keynote of Jim Waldo about Jini, something that would just come in handy in our modern IoT days.

> We had fantastic C compilers and IDEs. And, Java had immature tools.

On which OS?

Visual Age, JBuilder, Zortech all were quite similar to their C and C++ siblings.

> The patterns proliferated with Java

Nah, they were already quite common in C++ with CORBA and COM/DCOM projects.

EDIT: typo to => too
+1000 - any ideas? Stories of successful escapes?
Exploring Emergence
Breaking down the physics behind Simone Biles's gymnastics
I'm sure it worked well in many cases. But, in our case, we were developing for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows NT. The VMs would behave differently in different environments, and I remember VMs stack dumping on many occasions which became a major support headache. We used to call it 'build once, run nowhere.'
Go for it! There are definitely situations where I am unsure how to architect something and I'll just go to a coffee shop with a notebook and sketch out pseudocode while I think through different possible implementations.
Looking at how Go has became successful, which is basically Java 1.0 or if you prefer Limbo merged with Oberon-2, it isn't very far from how people pick languages.

At least the amount of insecure C code decreases, as it gets written in a safer language
Well, the originator was a 'losing' LISP guy who admired the robustness and practical effects of the other approach:

"However, I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach."

"There is a final benefit to worse-is-better. Because a New Jersey language and system are not really powerful enough to build complex monolithic software, large systems must be designed to reuse components. Therefore, a tradition of integration springs up."

Richard Gabriel https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
I learned FORTRAN in at a summer job between jr and sr years of high school from the source code of some version in 1978 on a MODCOMP mini computer with IBM terminals where I saw zeroes with dots in the middle for the first time.
This is similar to electron-compile, built by my fellow desktop app coders over at Slack.

https://github.com/electron/electron-compile
Ahh of course! I had the thought to take this into account but couldn't wrap my head around the math last night.

cA/p is just the time it would take to earn the money to buy A at the current production level - seems much simpler now.

I think the last term should be `cA/(p+pB)`. When I solve from there[1] I get `cB * pB < cA * pA`, which means that the most optimal item A will have the largest product `cA * pA`.

This would translate to:

res.score = res.cost*res.powerGain
...
}).sort(function(a,b){return b.score - a.score})

Does that check out? It seems too simple, and now that I'm thinking more about it I think this would be functionally equal to what I already have. Did I do my inequality[1] wrong?

1. http://i.imgur.com/pyMY3zr.jpg
Mail-in-a-Box
SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch
Looks amazing! Im an iOS developer myself would love to help/test in anyway. HMU
Sure, universities embraced it in the late 90s because it was easier to teach to undergrads, and CS programs were becoming cash cows. But, the researchers that I knew certainly weren't using it for their own Computer Science research (aside from VMs and heterogeneous environments).

Yeah, Jini was cool! And Tuple spaces, etc. There were some cool things being built on Java, but few people were embracing it as a silver bullet.
The best would be to do as we do.

My employer works with both eco-systems, so we happen to jump between JVM and CLR all the time.

Actually on my case, I am jealous that on .NET side I get the AOT compilers for free (NGEN, .NET Native, MDIL) instead of having to buy them, official unsafe, painless FFI, while I will need to wait for Java 10+ to use them on JVM based projects.
probably doesn't need that -k flag, I was just using it to test HTTPS server with a self-signed certificate
I think making tools is a great thing to do as a computational biologist... But I feel the main goal of a computational biologist is not to just make tools but to make discoveries in ways that biologists could not have even dreamed of. I hope one day this field of computational biology can stop calling themselves computational biologists and simply call themselves biologists.

I also find sometimes the inverse is true: computational biologists who don't know any biology. I think there is work on both sides to bridge the gap.
key point - "spacex has yet to actually reuse any of its vehicles"
The legal worries about putting stuff in the cloud are much more apparent with companies outside of the US, in my experience.

Was formerly part of a US company that was pushing a new product hard towards a cloud-based model. They were expecting a particular foreign customer to go for it.

The customer said "NO WAY. EVER."
Instead of isolated examples that happen to use math, would it make sense (or even be possible) to start a platform for visualization of mathematics? Something like context-augmented LaTeX. Not a computation engine (like mathematica or sage), but something closer to a github for math (visualization and exploration).

Consider how much time it took you to learn Gaussian elimination from a book or lecture vs how long it would take to see an animated example and then pick up the details.
Or consider how ambiguous mathematic notation can be [1].

So much of mathematics (purportedly the most structured knowledge produced by humankind) sleeps in mountains of unread journals and inside the brains (software) of mathematicians that are trained to do these visualizations on wetware.

It is a feature of math that these aren't hard-coded, as in the abstract one can conjure up any edits the imagination desires without the complex implementation details typically required by a computer. And in some cases a visualization (such as geometry) can be misleading and reduce generality [2].

However, there could be much to be gained by the majority from the hypothetical platform. Computation packages like mathematica only incidentally help visualize, as a byproduct.

Take for instance the videos by 3blue1brown [3]. Their appeal (and those in the parent link) is that they reduce the individual mental overhead and that a carbon copy of the visual is imprinted in the learner.

There is no punchline to this comment. And I'm certainly not an expert on the matter. I still find the 'movement' fascinating.

[1] https://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers...

[2] http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/743067/visually-dece... (not what I had in mind but this will do)

[3] http://www.3blue1brown.com
Isn't it unreal that there are people who spend millions of dollars to figure out if 200 year old bottles of booze are really 200 years old?

I don't normally rage against the rich, but reading this article made me fantasize about locking a couple dozen raging alcoholics in Bill Koch's wine cellar for a week.
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (needs visa sponsorship)

Looking for: Product management

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzZqkA1idX93SVU3YnN2cHJSZ1k...
True, interesting collection of Merlin engines they have. If nothing else their spare parts cache is huuuuge. :-)

Can't wait to see what they launch with the refurbed boosters.
Jazz in the 21st century: Playing outside the box
I just set up mail myself last week. Postfix on FreeBSD over at DigitalOcean. Did everything you did and was quite frustrated that my wife seemed not to be getting my email. The thing is, I sent a test email before adding SPF, and then one before adding DKIM, and Gmail figured out they were all part of the same "conversation" so because the first one seemed spammy the rest were penalized.

I made my own fresh Gmail account and messages go through fine. So I'd try that: make a fresh account from the one you've been testing with, and see if mail goes through.
Question about the second stages: Are these left in orbit or are they deorbited?
Personally, the appeal of electron is that most of my knowledge for writing web apps is immediately portable to desktop apps as well. Using the same tooling, language, and with more control over the environment, you can build good enough applications.

Are there gray areas where everything is an awful hellscape of trying to mix node apis and a browser? Oh yes. Is the experience not the absolute best? Yeah. However, I feel the trade is worth it to defer sinking time into native desktop applications.
they have done an engine reignite test on one of them.
move to a developing nation. i spent 2 yrs on a service mission for mexico. really opened my eyes to how different life is for people outside the US. simple things like mobile phone banking are huge game changers in these countries. go and look around for awhile and you will find some big opportunities.
“Notion” a great tool for productivity
Magic beans ? This sounds familiar.
Supposedly a reused booster will fly in the next 3 months; they're still haggling on price with the customer.
Collection of Interesting Research Papers
If there can be up to 12 ms difference, how can they definitively say someone who swam a 50.100 s beat someone who swam a 50.110 s?
Please recommend me more here so I can update my collection.
"our own political parties" - you do realize both candidates are not exactly clean when it comes to foreign interests?

What's to say the GOP or DEMs are not partly or majority owned by some external money? Thanks to Citizens United and SuperPACs you simply can't know.
My friend and I were just talking about this yesterday. I was surprised when he said he couldn't find a suitable solution.
> Would they all have their access revoked?

Yes, I imagine they would. They would also probably be taken to court for breach of contract, and the courts would fine them a substantial amount. I would certainly hope that this would be the case - even the top 20 universities have to obey the law, and producing research has never been a valid excuse for choosing to ignore a law you don't like.

Criminal activity is not the answer here - nor should it ever be.

What the universities can do, if they cared, is re-negotiate their contracts with the publishing houses. Of course, this requires assigning a monetary value to the amount they care, which must be greater that the inevitable price increase they woulld incur for the change in access restrictions.
A CDN doesn't have the in-house expertise to do this successfully, and the fundamental nature of file storage is at odds with how they operate.

Every CDN is desperate to add other businesses to their portfolio, because vanilla CDN is considered a commodity. Unfortunately, they are all focused to distraction on bottom-line costs (which are almost entirely network driven). This will lead them to fail to recognize how to nurture a non-commodity service that is largely systems driven.

Then there's the operational culture shock. CDNs operate many small deployments where data loss has no hard consequences. Dropbox-like companies operate few very large deployments where data loss has extremely major consequences.

At first glance it may seem like it's just storing some bits here and sending some bits there, but the focus of your business and the collective instincts of your team are big factors in your product and company succeeding in a particular market. Greatly larger SSDs might lower certain barriers to enter the file storage business, but there's more to it than that.
Depends on the launch. There is no remaining fuel in a second stage for any Delta v to lower its orbit into the atmosphere in most launches. A launch to GTO at 350 x 36,000 km will eventually decay. In some satellite launches there is a third stage (like a fregat, but not the same thing) which performs the final circularization of the orbit. In others the satellite itself does this. In a launch to an MEO orbit like 1500x1500 km the 2nd stage is going to stay up there pretty much forever as dead debris.
So it's racist to drive now?
Is there a way to access the other language versions of wikipedia with it? I would like to give my children access to the dutch or simple english wikipedia versions.
More to the point: the fact of that violation of law can be used in extraordinary ways to control people through threats and intimidation.

That is in fact what happens in poor and minority districts everywhere. It can happen elsewhere, and does and has in despotic regimes and times.
Which you didn't seem to think were relevant to list while making your claim. And which are both odd things to "just know" about a person. Did they say one day "oh yeah, I voted illegally lol"? Doesn't seem like the type of thing which comes up in conversation easily.

EDIT: To be clear, I am asking specifically how you know you saw people who were ineligible to vote voting. A follow up would also be why you observed this and didn't tell anyone.
On the other hand, there are audio tools in the Free Software world that wouldn't be possible in a commercial context.

The point is this: its up to the user to gain maximum value from their investment. Nobody is going to do that for you.
Eh, anything less than 0.0125s is 3cm and a tie. Pretty darn close to 0.01s and all you need to do is make sure the pool is accurate to within 2.3cm instead...

Much more interesting to think about the delta between the clock that's accurate to hundredths.

Someone could win with a time of 23.01s vs second places 23.00s... But is the delta really 0.01s, or was second place 23.00999999 with a delta of 0.00000001s?
> What should the markup be?

Allow competition and let the free market decide.
Most if not all ISPs have MTAs for customer use. I don't know how Comcast would like me submitting from Postfix, but I don't have to worry about that and my personal ISP can handle being a next-hop MTA just fine if I need it.
Year of the Monkey 2016: Zodiac Luck, Romance, Personality
Similarly, the Democrats have a lot of people who wanted Clinton, and 3 million more of them appear to have turned out to vote than did Sanders supporters.

I just don't see how, if widespread primary rigging is effective and not all that difficult (since the DNC, who really aren't all THAT clever, supposedly "rigged" it without much in the way of repercussions) Trump could end up the GOP nominee against the wishes of the GOP elite.

It's quite easy to explain Clinton's win without any shady "rigging." It's quite difficult to manufacture 3 million net votes- that's either a lot of ballot-box stuffing or a huge voter disenfranchisement campaign and there's no evidence of either. The simplest explanation is that the Dem constituency consists of people who want her.
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

Kevin Murphy: Machine Learning: a probabilistic perspective.

Christopher Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Macine Learning
The electronic voting machines used by many districts are not only insecure, but run by former felons (link from 2003!) [1].

The only reason I can see why we use voting machines run by criminals is that the powers-that-be want it that way. No amount of ineptitude can survive for 15 years without a small group benefitting immensely (and then selling that access).

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031218/0933248.shtml
I'd love to see a traffic graph of your cupboard to know what an HN Slashdot effect looks like in Mbps/pps.
How do graduate students with no background in teaching become adjunct faculty teaching courses that cost the same amount as ones taught by tenured professors?
Still amazing to watch!
Can't wait to see the Falcon Heavy liftoff, followed by two simultaneous first stage landings.
$1000/week seems alot to be taught by such a guy, IMHO. A student could do that for free, from Apple's website, and be only one week behind where they would be. So Flatiron is charging $15k for a one week head start!