skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pareto principle applied to homework, study, and grades.

I spent way too much time worrying about grades. I'm not sure it mattered. It would have been just as good (and probably more enjoyable) to be a B-student with awesome side projects rather than an A-student with none.

(And often, esp. for college, one doesn't even need to make that trade-off when homework is largely immaterial, and your grade only depends on exams.)
Maybe whoever acquires them will finally add support for per-folder exclusions (aka a .dropboxignore file). We can only hope.
Some people are both, it's just easier to project bad qualities onto some expressions of pride than others. There are plenty of people for whom their nice car is just a nice car that they enjoy, and there are plenty of people who take pride in their sacrifices but that pride manifests itself as a feeling of superiority over others.
Because stock price == value.
Debian has a user experience that is slightly rougher than a desktop-focused distro like ubuntu. It's caught up a bit recently, but you still need to be a little more technically-minded to use debian - examples: debian's main troubleshooting help is mailing lists, ubuntu's is forums; ubuntu has more 'automagic tooling' to help with things like non-intel graphics cards; debian requires you to understand it's philosophy to understand how it's resources are arranged, why it's website looks the way it does, etc, etc, but a more user-friendly distro hides all of that.
My issue with standing desks is that to me that would not nearly be enough. Physiologically there is quite a gap between standing and walking, the latter being a lot easier and also a lot more effectful. The whole story is much more complicated when looking at body and brain. We can say for sure we do way too much sitting, but standing is not even half the solution. Actual movement is required, for a lot of physiological functions as well as for the brain.

Anyone who learned to ride a horse should have learned that you letting a horse stand still for prolonged periods, specially with you on top, isn't so great for the horse, it can carry its weight (and you) much more easily when moving. I doubt that I'm different from the rest of humanity when I say that I can't (just) stand for nearly as much time as I can walk, standing is actually really hard (just for me? I don't think so).

I also noticed that even for productivity I need both sitting and walking, I have yet to discover a need for "standing". When I'm looking for inspiration and "to loosen up" after having worked for too long on one problem I start walking, and often find an easy way out of my problem within 15 minutes of walking. But when I need to be "in the zone" and know exactly what I want I need to sit. Walking won't do - too much distraction. Standing won't do - too hard.

I see a place for standing, but if I could do a perfect mix of sitting, standing and walking than standing would be the state I spend the least amount of time in. Maybe a little more with those crosses between sitting and standing, and a lot of changing posture. But in the end sitting and walking are my key states.

"Yes sitting at work is bad, but is standing actually better?":

> “Standing all day isn’t the answer,” said Alan Hedge, a design and ergonomics
> professor at Cornell University. “That’s where we were 100 years ago, and we
> needed to develop chairs to prevent curvature of the spine, backaches, and
> varicose veins.”

The article has a lot more detailed and varied information, as my long text already indicates, the problem isn't black/white and has plenty of nuance.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2014/1...
Thanks for the tip and the vouching - as schoen suggests, it seems like I need a little bit more karma for this.
FWIW this SPA was written with plain javascript + jQuery and one of Google's visualization APIs. Pretty cool imo.
Confessions of a DJ (2008)
But the same can be said for the UK or the USA, and they both have very good Olympic records.
Why Every Product Manager Needs to Know Big Data
May I ask why would you insist on such a thing? Is it about avoiding SQL?
> above-typical levels in sports, art, math, and journalism

I think the term for students like that is "Ivy material" -- or at least, it used to be.
Looking back at previous years doesn't really paint a better picture. Winning one gold medal in three decades isn't exactly what most people expect from the world's second most populous nation.
Why's that? Why not just skip the business step entirely? There is some kind of fallacy in your argument.
Monica Araya: A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels [video]
Pakible (YC W15) Is Hiring Its Lead Software Engineer
Pakible (YC W15) is hiring its Lead Software Engineer.

In the last 6 months our growth has pushed our small team farther than we thought possible. We’ve built an entire manufacturing infrastructure from the ground up and put in the hard work every day for the last 2 years to meet every challenge we faced. Customers have flooded us with demand month after month that has forced us to gear up everything.

Everything is ready for the next step, but we need the right engineering leadership to pull it off. If you’re passionate about building, whether it’s frontend or backend, let’s talk.

Our core team is 5 strong and you would be an integral part of that.

If you’re interested, show us something you’ve built along with a half page write up and send it to:

jobs@pakible.com

Specific projects you will lead:

- Pricing algorithms to analyze and predict decade-old pricing matrices
- Implementing client dashboards and secure transactions methods
- Automating throughput to multi-million dollar print machines across the US

Here’s what you’ll do

- Launch a new web product your 1st month
- Architect a major platform by your 3rd month
- Build and manage your own team within your 1st year
- Code frontend and backend systems
- Work directly with the founder (backend engineer) on new systems and designs

Some background on us:
Pakible started in early 2015 as part of Y Combinator’s winter batch, going on to raise a $1.5M seed immediately after. We discovered the most slept-on market in the world, a $500B market just domestically: Product packaging.

1500+ companies including Samsung, Reddit, Philz Coffee, and the Golden State Warriors already use Pakible. The products you build here will power them and thousands of companies small and large.

Pakible Office + Perks

- Located in beautiful San Francisco (SOMA)
- BART / Caltrain 1 block away
- Uber / Lyft transportation stipends
- Rooftop patio with amazing view
- Indoor basketball hoop
- Fully stocked kitchen / Chef prepared lunches
- Relocating? We’ll help you with housing
- Full health and benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
Direct sunlight kills a lot of things pretty well on its own. A lot of multicellular organisms that spend much time in the sun have all sorts of adaptations to deal with it.
This x1000. So far most of the HoloLens apps are some variant of 'maps on tables' or 'floating screens'. This is totally wasting the potential of this platform.
The raw GDS2 that the customer (in this case Apple) contains the information necessary for fabrication, but to make the GDS2 you need to synthesize and place and route based on a standard cell library. Through their acquisition of Artisan IP, ARM sells standard cell, memory, and a bunch of other chip IP other than just their cores, and each needs to be customized to a specific fabrication process. Intel is paying ARM to customize their IP for their foundry so that it provides a lower barrier of entry to anyone using ARM IP to switch from GloFo/TSMC/Samsung/etc to Intel.

Oh, and all fabs require any IP as intricate as a memory or standard cell library to go through their verification process, as cell characterization is crucial to getting good yield (and not interfering with any other designs in the case of multi project wafers).
"so many people struggle with high level programming ideas, like design patterns"

That sounds more like the movement from "apprentice" to "journeyman." Is it really expected that professional, experienced programmers should struggle with the appropriate application of known techniques?
Write papers like a modern scientist (use Overleaf or Google Docs and Paperpile)
The Dust Has Settled, or Has It? (August 16) #ShadowHackers NSA
Awesome, thank you very much for sharing these. I'll have a look.
The "culture war" is this idea that just because we are gay we're supposed to be democrats.

But you're ignoring that Hillary Clinton was campaigning against gay marriage from 1991-2013, basically up until the Supreme Court made the issue moot. It was Bill Clinton, with 3/4 of Congressional Democrats support who signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 -- the last year I considered my self a Democrat.

Not everyone who is a republican is a christian. I happen to be an atheist libertarian.

Putting me in box, labelling it and then insisting that I must be experiencing "cognitive dissonance" if I'm not a democrat is ... not exactly a rational argument.
Try 'HoloTour' for an amazing demo of virtual tourism on the HoloLens.

[Edit]: Didn't realise that the linked video actually showed off HoloTour :)
Hampton Creek Rallies Employees Around Unicorn Startup Valuation
I'm probably wrong (I have no idea which Linux distribution their AMIs are built on), but this sounds like when you stop a service on a Debian/Ubuntu instance, then run some apt-get command (an upgrade, installing new packages, or whatever) and then it "helpfully" restarts the service for you.

That was my first thought anyways. I'm just really annoyed by the fact that Debian/Ubuntu automatically start services before you have a chance to configure them (or even decide that you want them to start automatically, under normal circumstances).
Unfortunately, there is no easily accessible API to get Olympic medal data, so the creator of this website undoubtedly has to do some semi-manual data input.
I think it would be useful in various situations.

In my particular case clients of different quality are connecting to a local datastore. I'd like to make sure that even if they mess up validation the data in the store still matches the schemas it claims to. Of course, I could have them connect to a local process instead and have that process handle validation before the data goes in the store, but it's always nice to avoid intermediaries.
Stop the .NET GC Running with TryStartNoGCRegion()
Show HN: WSL-Programs; a list of programs' usability on the WSL
I think he's just having fun being irreverent and silly. Within the larger academic community Thunderf00t isn't some intellectual titan, he's just yet another guy with a PhD. From an academic perspective, I'd think that having a strong youtube following is like being king of the rats.

However, I would absolutely agree with you that Thunderf00t is adequately qualified to make most of the criticism that he has made in a variety of his debunking videos. Thunderf00t is doing our culture a valuable service by debunking that ridiculous re-breather apparatus, 'solar freakin roadways', and the allegedly endless water bottle. Its sad that people are so ignorant of basic science that they are taken in by this snake oil.
Curse has tendrils in dozens if not hundreds of niche gaming sites, all with ravenously loyal fans with really high usage rates. When I was a kid I wanted to improve one of their data visualizations so I sent an admin an email about it and they never got back to me :-(.

Edit: I really hope their isn't a consolidation of gaming communities like Twitch is trying to do because it's only going to pander to the lowest common denominator, which in gaming tends to be absolutely cringeworthy.
New microservices templates rapidly deploy, customize cloud-native apps
Looks similar to http://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/
In my experience at least, living without "lovers" is vastly easier than living without "friends".
Apparently I need to be logged in to see the "action shots" of the standing desk because it's flagged as "adult content"?
I'd like access to JSON Schema's impressive tooling. I haven't seen anything like this for SQL schemas: http://jeremydorn.com/json-editor/

(Though if it exists please tell me, I'd be very interested!)
I dream of the day that I can program while backpacking through the Appalachians.

Also, title should be fixed -- "Excerise" -> "Exercise".
I wasn't sure from the article how specific they were about sitting. Are all types of sitting equally harmful? Does the chair matter? Does posture matter? According to the article, the primary conclusion of the health experts is that you should sit less and "move" more, where "move" means anything that "increases your metabolism 1.5 times that of being absolutely still". What about fidgeting while sitting? When working on a problem, especially when excited, I tend to bounce my legs while sitting. I wonder how much that increases my metabolism.

I read somewhere that standing alone burns about 20 calories per hour. That doesn't seem like much but according to the article, this slow burn is necessary and somehow promotes heart health in a way that is not matched by sitting for an hour and then burning far more calories later.
I recently got one as well. I haven't used it long enough to report much about health benefits, but I absolutely enjoy standing up while keeping focused. The one I found is FAR more affordable than the others with similar quality / features, even with all the bells and whistles (automated, memory settings, stylish desktop, tall enough for me at 6.6").

Only problem was that it took about 2-3 months to get here. But they were always responsive when I asked about the delivery schedule. All-in-all, it was absolutely worth the wait.

https://www.autonomous.ai/smartdesk-sit-to-stand-height-adju...

- I have nothing to do with this company except as a fan of my desk.
I have probably about a dozen domain names (mine, not $work's) altogether. I think three are at Gandi, the remainder at Namecheap. I believe that every one of the domains that I actually use (some are old and now unused but I still want to keep them), I'm running the DNS via AWS Route 53. I don't actually use their API as my RRs pretty much never change, the service is just very reliable.

That may change in the near future (I manage the authoritative nameservers for $work) but I can't recall a single issue I've had w/ Route 53 (or Gandi or Namecheap, for that matter).
I've always thought butterfly was a bizarre event. It's one of the most complicated strokes, and it's slower and more tiring than the front crawl. As far as I'm concerned, it's an arbitrary stroke.

I guess a lot of Olympic sports are arbitrarily limited though, walking and triple jump come to mind.
>have you tried searching for something in, say, Bash's manpage?

I frequently have this problem where I have to wade through a lot of irrelevant matches in less when searching for a keyword in a manpage, and I've been thinking about it for a bit. In my mind, the best solution to the problem is for the manpage authors to be more careful in not using the important keywords elsewhere in the manpage, but in reality, I don't think it's doable to avoid that because what words are important will vary from person to person and even from situation to situation.

Usually my way of finding an answer is to first consult the manpages and if I don't find an answer within a few seconds then I'll just use Google instead. It's a bad habit, I think, because when I'm without internet access -- which actually does happen from time to time, e.g. when I'm on vacation -- I end up having troubles finding out how to do things.
I bet the smaller countries tend to have lower test-retest intra-class correlations, olympics to olympics.
Intel's new Joule system can help gadgets see and understand the world
Wasn't that the ill-advised move five or so years ago that tanked Netflix's stock, causing a quick reversal?
I also love ${TOOLKIT_IM_ACCUSTOMED_TO}! It's very good and does all things.
How Konami's 'Track and Field' Launched Biggest Video Game Tournament
My shop relies on an Ant script for our builds. We still manage our dependencies by hand and package everything ourselves, but we've got a system that works.

We're (slowly) working on doing an upgrade to all our infrastructure, so one of the things we've examined is moving from Ant to Maven. While there's a lot of people that've expressed dissatisfaction with it, you can't ignore the fact that tutorials, setup instructions and such seemingly to a one are written with a pom.xml in mind.

So to that end, I wonder what place Gradle has. I've played with it a bit outside of this project and it seems nice enough and does its job, I guess I just don't understand what niche it fills that neither Ant nor Maven don't already handle?
What the fuck is a "framework programmer"? Using the existing ecosystem is a good thing.
Only presenting facts doesn't make something fair. Deciding which facts to present can affect a statement's fairness.
Univision is buying Gawker Media for $135M
Are you really proposing that a universal file syncing protocol which must be implemented across all OSes for every FS will eat Dropbox's lunch?
The Scientific American Guide to Cheating in the Olympics
Friendster was a clumsy product.

MySpace was limited in features, and a fugly interface.

Neither had talented people.

Zuck started at Harvard. That was his core user base. The Ivy League. Basically marquis 'customers' in social.

Think of how massively that affected recruiting and attention? The network effect of Ivy League x 1000. It would have been trivial for him to get investment.

But in the end - forget culture - the basic features were just better, and for every great feature, there are 'smart things' happening internally that are good. Zuck deserves credit for that.

I used to work a little bit with MySpace. Their culture was 'LA Cool Kid' i.e. 'The Standard' hang-out types.

They reminded me of a Record Label - totally hip - totally useless. I feel sorry for any Engineer that had to work at MySpace.

If you knew the culture at Lycos, Excite etc. - and compare it to Google, it's a little bit of a similar story.
If anyone want another concrete example of a tagless interpreter in OCaml, I wrote one on SO awhile back:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22676975/simple-lambda-c...

Candidly, I find them a pain to write, but it is faster and integrates with the host language's type checker.
This is great. It's be good if the lat/lon was updated in the URL so you could bookmark your own city.
You saw like 0.0000001% of the population and feel like you have a justified opinion? Wow. Well, personally I'd be embarrassed to say so, but to each his own.
A Magnetic Wormhole (2015)
JS and CSS are obviously super messy, but that's a whole different issue.

I'm thinking more of cases like letting people write some HTML in a local notetaking program or something like that -- what's a nice subset of tags you should give them so they can make text look good, but doesn't commit you to supporting the lovecraftian being that's the entire HTML spec?

Also your last line made me laugh. Nice delivery=)
What's the resolution of these displays? -- I can't imagine using Outlook (!) on my Rift DK1.
> What are you building that needs to be split up in such a way?

"Need" is such a fickle word...

I'm using the Lambdas to build an event sourced system on top of microservices. Because I can hoist so much infrastructure from each service, it makes each service significantly easier to write and manage. This allows the application specific code to change without rewriting the routing/auth(z)/provisioning code along the way. I can even rip out whole services and the others are blissfully unaware.

Because Lambdas are only charged when invoked, it keeps the costs down. RDS is my biggest expense by far, but I'm under a Standard 1X Heroku instance. If you have a service that isn't used much, Lambda's can bring your costs to near-zero. An added benefit is I can be fairly liberal with deployed lambdas because I'm not thinking about machine/hour costs. Multiple staging environments? SURE!

After a little while in the Lambda world, I started to see them as little lightweight workers. They can be told to listen to nearly anything under the AWS umbrella, and AWS is _chatty_. Pair it up with the API gateway and you can build 3rd party integrations. Before I had to set up a TON of infrastructure to have these abilities. It's pretty liberating.

Finally, I feel like the ideas in Serverless are both interesting and not well explored. I hope to share what I've found with others as we chart this new territory.

> And how many people access the system?

I'm not sure about what you mean by people. Users? Developers? I'll answer both.

For now I'm the only developer, but I expect that to change within a year. The local Docker powered dev environment keeps me sane with a simple `docker-compose up -d` to bring it up. The infrastructure hoisting significantly reduces the service's LOC, making them easier to grok. Isolated development environments and very light mocking ease local development and testing. I do pay a penalty when doing integration tests locally, however, but I'm punting that into my staging environment for the moment.

I have some pre-alpha users that are helping me shape the product. I admit at first glance it looks foolish/overkill/wat for my user size. Before Lambda, this architecture _would_ be too complex, and pricing would be prohibitively expensive, for the size of the product as it exists. That's what Lambda (and Serverless in my mind) brings to the table. It leans on Cloud Infrastructure and it's charge-by-use model to bring architectures like microservices to the hobbyist and small businesses. As the tooling and docs improve, I expect it to further blur the lines in "DevOps".

Could you tell I'm a little excited by Serverless/Lambdas?
"Sever mode" What is that?
Hmm, if I'm parsing your sentence correctly, yes, I used to work 5 days a week, I requested it be changed to 4 (with a 20% reduction in pay), and they agreed. I can also go back to 5 days if I want, since they've indicated they would prefer that, but I strongly feel that a 5-day work week isn't a good fit for me right now.
Nobody knows everything, so I must admit I don't see the point of the article. Maybe sometimes you get lucky and have the relevant knowledge for seeing the big picture. At other times you won't have that knowledge. Are you proficient?
Introducing {py}gradle, an open source Python plugin for Gradle
My only issue with carbon fiber is that it is not very easily recycled. Aluminum, on the other hand, is quite trivially recycled. So while spaceships made from CFRP are great in the short-to-medium term (a single spaceship can get a lot more use), I hope that we figured out how to recycle CFRP sooner rather than later.
This seems about 3 years to late and 6 years after they should have. Processors are a symbiosis of design and manufacturing. Intel pursued the objective function of manufacturing way way to far down a local optimum.
Actually much cheaper to give them all bus tickets out of town, like Portland, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, San Diego, San Francisco, NYC, Colorado Springs, Houston, Las Vegas, and other cities have done. But Prisons probably generated more profits.
I found Princeton's Buddhism and Modern Psychology particularly interesting [1]. You can read the course's overview to decide if it would be of any interest to you.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-of-meditation
You can say that about any successful person/company.

Sure, luck may have played a large role in Facebook's initial success. But that was over 10 years ago. Many companies experience that initial success and then go nowhere, e.g. MySpace. Facebook, on the other hand, has continuously surpassed everyone's expectations. It's not until recently that people have began to accept that Facebook is here to stay. Discounting Facebook's repeated successes as luck is just silly.

Building a $350B company does not happen from luck, it requires a constant stream of good decision making.