skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever. It's kind of like arguing whether you sat on deckchairs or garden chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
The state of machine learning in Rust
I agree with the gender disparity, but not race. The Kaufman Index of Startup Activity claims that more startups are from male entrepreneurs than female ones, but white entrepreneurs account for a lower portion of startups in 2014 than 1996.

The author cites studies on self employment in the United States. I think there is a difference between being self employed and an entrepreneur. For example, I can be a self employed contractor, but not aiming to grow a business as an entrepreneur would.

When it comes to tech startups I could see the industry remaining white and male dominated. Access to angel investors and VCs from a privileged network increases the probability of obtaining funding for a new company. This is especially helpful as more tech entrepreneurs are in school or recent graduates. If I am around college age trying to get a tech startup off the ground, can I find an investor without existing social contacts? Yes, but it will be much more difficult for me than the kid with the contacts.
I don't understand who decides to put sharp corners on doors. It seems like an unnecessary danger.
I have come to this conclusion :

Personal/Family/Friends: Facebook

Professional/Business: Linkedin

Celebrity/Gossip/Politics: Twitter

I have a twitter account but who cares what I tweet. No one really unless I am a celebrity or a famous politician.
What you speak of is a failure of mathematics education, frankly. I meet too many people with this viewpoint, and regularly have to explain that there's all sorts of math out there that would align with one of their skills. People are not taught mathematics from a problem solving interactive puzzle perspective, they're taught it from a rote computational perspective, removing all the sense of wonder and pleasure from doing things within a system of axioms.

I see the argument about chemistry, but I do think there's a very strong crossover of doing math and building software (in the large). In math, you begin with a set of base known statements. Whether starting from the axioms, or working within some system, you begin to build a vocabulary of the system, a feel of the way objects within the system interact, and an understanding of the limitations of the system you're currently in. Through the course of needing to get things done, you combine these various abstractions together to create more useful ones, constantly making your system a little bit more powerful. Often, taking steps back from your system and combining things into elegant ways gives insight into other patterns present in the system, and recasts solutions in slightly different lights with hints as to what they could have been, had you known what you know now. Then over the course of time, you begin to bring in new foreign systems, which you might not understand fully, and you use inelegantly. But again, working through issues, you build up that vocabulary and intuition to solve problems in your space, constantly putting tools and tricks into your belt on how things could fit together. Occasionally something will be insufficient in your tool belt, or a concept you weren't quite clear on will come up in your problems, causing you to go back, learn a thing, and come back armed ready to keep making progress.

To me, that all sounds like what I do when I'm building software.
What does Compass’ $75M infusion mean for the brokerage, and for the industry?
So you can't criticize Putin's wars... I don't know of any reputable political party or media which support invasion wars and annexations in Europe today. (No, Putin's own media are not reputable. :-) )

Elections with more than 95% for any side are obviously fake. It smells of Soviet and North Korea. I've only seen people obviously working in St Petersburg argue that could possibly be true. And you...

And my argument is that on one side there is Putin's paid propaganda -- and on the other side there is more or less the collected western democracies of the world. Those countries usually don't agree on much, but this united us.

You think that position of all the democracies is "highly subjective and debatable" -- after believing that any election result over 95% is real!!

That stretched my ability to give the benefit of a doubt far beyond breaking.

(I missed your post, it came a day after.)
Weather delays must not count. I've had a mechanical failure turn into a weather delay. We get a free hotel room the first night of the delay, but slept in the airport the rest of the delay because it was "due to weather."
His workshops[0] and online courses[1] look interesting, can anyone testify for them?

[0] http://www.fortelabs.co/workshops/

[1] http://www.fortelabs.co/design-your-workflow
On a related note, also the Go stdlib regex package is pretty naive and imperformant compared to a full blown and modern backtracking PCRE implementation (at 1/10 the LOC and complexity) - same thing goes for the reflection based JSON package (which is still kinda "fast enough").

The focus wasn't so much on performance but on initial completeness, good interface, versatility, clarity and simplicity - with faster or more specialized implementations left to the community.

There might be different opinions about that, but I personally like the approach of having a solid and ordered programming pocket knife - that also doesn't replace a Katana for cutting.
I love Tesla cars, I think they look amazing, the technology behind the is incredible...but it is just not well run in terms of money. Musk is a visionary, but seems to overlook his cash burn. I am waiting for the headlines when people are talking about Tesla'a stock plummeting down to earth. Maybe he has enough billionaires in his network of friends to keep him going long enough to maintain his image. I don't know. People aren't as friendly with their money during economic downturns and we're due for one. That's when we'll find out what lies beneath the veneer.

I love his work, but I question his financial decisions.
I can't see giving any weight to anyone in an online forum criticizing when there are people like Musk out there doing actual progress.

The Emporer Without Clothes is you sir, who sits from your chair, complaining ever so.
In my view, much grief can be avoided if people that have a mind able to build things that can have an impact for better or for worse, will use that mind to also control how those things will be used.

When engineering and philosophy are divorced, bad things happen.

Unfortunatelly that may not even be enough. Intelligence doesn't have morals, and when it is employed with a predatory mindset, there may not be escape for the "prey" without a fight.. The arms race may be a mechanism of evolotion. You either accept it, or dissapear..
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Better than node.js

import * as csv from 'csv-parse';
import * as fs from 'fs';

type Line = [string,string,string,string,string,string];

const parser = new csv.Parser({});

parser.on('data', (line: Line) => {
if (line[0] === '42') {
console.dir(line);
}
});

fs.createReadStream('mock_data.csv').pipe(parser);

$ /usr/bin/time node parse_csv.js
43.61user 0.85system 0:45.61elapsed 97%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 60076maxresident)k

$ node --version
v6.4.0

Edit: Using fast-csv

24.28user 0.20system 0:24.58elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 91780maxresident)k
Hopefully, you don't own a car or motorcycle; you'll want to stick with bicycles, because the government already tracks your vehicle purchases.

What about property purchases? Without a county domain registrar on titled property, it's your word versus somebody else's that you own your property. You won't want to buy real property since the government tracks that too (and for centuries) and it's publicly searchable. The government jackboots will say you don't own the land you stand on without that, just like the thugs of the InterNIC/ICANN do regularly with centralized DNS. In short, don't buy real property.

You'll also not want to buy a plane ticket, as those are tracked as well.

Don't open a bank account--your bank will regularly report about you, especially large transfers of money. Find a nice hole in the ground on your untitled real property and convert to metal. Or use Bitcoin if you trust the system enough.

Definitely don't use a cell phone--they can find you.
Build a Legacy: The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a PM for Data and Analytics
There's always the overflow flag in the cpu, I don't get why it's not readily available in C when needed.
This same carrier just some days ago issued a statement on average their mobile data customer used 13GB of traffic in August.

http://corporate.elisa.com/press-releases/bulletin/?id=41240...
Are the other more benign categories also rerouted in the same way?

Being able to for example, send a picture of a book knowing I'd get one back would be pretty nifty. Food would be a popular topic for swapping pics judging by the main page.
Meet Visual Labs, a body camera startup that doesn’t sell body cameras
Distributed systems are hard to get correctly when there's a few extra milliseconds of latency. Imagine now having 30 minutes of latency be the norm, and sometimes more.

It's an interesting problem I hope I'm around to witness.
This is ridiculous. People aren't charging 100% of the time, and even when in use, the chargers burst to 80kW, but they don't average 80kW. All you need are some batteries to level the load. Assuming 20kW average, and stall being used 20% of the time, that brings your calculation down to 4,000/120 =~ 33m2. Accounting for night and bad weather, let's quadruple that to 133m2. That's about a quarter of an acre for EIGHT stalls.
Similar project but with different backends: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy

- pushover
- pushbullet
- simplepush
- xmpp
- telegram
- pushjet
- notifico
- {linux,mac,windows} desktop notification
>As an example compile this with optimisations (should work the same with signed integer overflow):

Interesting. Clang and GCC both produce a binary that gets terminated by SIGFPE under normal compilation, but using -O3, Clang's output will run correctly while GCC's output will still SIGFPE.
> Has technology made money laundering through a restaurant any easier?

> Actually, technology has made it more difficult to launder money. "Unless you’re using virtual currency such as Bitcoin, it isn’t easier today today than it was forty years ago," says Myers. "In reality, every bank has highly sophisticated software that can flag transactions much more easily than they could in prior years."

I don't see how Bitcoin would make it easy to launder money, since it's completely traceable and publicly auditable.
You have a lot of trust in those unelected politicians.

I imagine their first fiscal decision would be granting themselves the authority to buy corporate debt. Nothing beats acquiring productive, physical assets with infinite fiat currency! What's the term for an economy where the state owns the means of production again?
Sure. But the population of the US is 320+ million. The peak population of the Roman Empire was probably in the region of 70 million. And that peak was in the 2nd Century CE, whereas the 640k figure is from the 4th Century CE.
I feel you're trying to defend go without much objectivity. Such performance gap needs to be addressed properly instead of saying it's pretty good already.

It doesn't sound right if go takes 5 hours to finish csv parsing job while Python takes 2.5 hrs.
Unless you have a "duty to respond", you are not required to act.

Even if you are a paramedic with the local fire department, in uniform and walking down the street, unless you are on-duty, you do not have to act. You'd be a massive dick if you didn't, but there is no legal requirement.
The article argues that wrapping by default is the wrong choice, and that C and C++ got it right with UB-on-overflow. GP points out that for unsigned integers, C and C++ got it wrong, too.

The C11 standard agrees that when an integer would overflow, instead it wraps, while carefully avoiding saying that it's overflowing simply to preserve the defined term "Overflow" for the error code. In contexts other than the C11 standard it's fair to say that the integer overflowed, even if the language specifies that it wraps and "can never overflow".
>A frequentist point estimate converges to truth (with P = 1) as N -> infty.

Since we are never at infinity, our observations are always finite, all this is saying is "we always deal with approximations of reality," i.e., statistics is never, in fact, about the "actual truth", it is about testing the set of our limited observations of reality against a model.
Wait, wait... you're saying that a battery is a shaky proposition? For an energy company that currently can only provide energy during the day?

SolarCity is an energy company. They collect and sell energy. They do not sell any solar panels. They use the customer's homes for a distributed collection system. But they sell energy. And currently they cannot sell energy at night.

Conveniently, lithium batteries are a proven product growing in popularity. What's sweet is that SolarCity has close ties to a company that has shipped more large scale lithium batteries than any other company in the world. Nissan has shipped a lot of 24 kWhr battery packs since 2011, but Tesla has been shipping 56 kWhr packs since 2008, 85 kWhr packs since 2011, and now ships 100 kWhr packs.

You know what would be great? If Tesla sold more product, and if they did so through a partner company that needs lots of batteries.

Oh boy, then they'd need a bigger factory! If only...
That's crazy talk. And the described PM is crazy beef-jerky resource abuse.
testdisk/photorec
The 140 char limit is precisely the reason you have the opportunity to "connect" with people to whom you have no professional relationship or interest. It is, roughly, the number of characters you need to make a salient point and gain a strangers attention.
Any feedback/criticism would be appreciated :)
The Real Bionic Man – Superhuman
> Anyway, to answer your question, the Fed would exercise fiscal policy with the same aims and goals by which it uses monetary policy.

Then we are so screwed.
I grew up eating mostly steamed and smoked fish. In the US often fish is served either deep fried (and breaded) or with some kind of sauce that kills the flavor of the fish.

Of cause "Chinese" restaurants are the quintessential American food joint so they do a lot of deep frying of everything including the fish.
Banning foreign non-residential ownership is insane! You apparently want to live in a world where people are not allowed to buy a holiday cottage in France? Or prevent people from buying a city pied-a-terre and a country house? If I have the money, and I want to purchase another house in another country or city, I should absolutely be able to do so, and I cannot imagine a world where this would ever not be the case... And, to answer your question, purchasing the house benefits me, the owner. I now have my own place to stay in another country or city, whenever I want to go there.
Budgeting solar is like chopping firewood for winter. You cut as much as you think you need. Do that again. Then the whole process again.

There are so many factors that can diminish the amount of power available at a particular location that the only reasonable thing to do is overbuild. Imagine a line of teslas at an upstate New York charging station. They cannot get to work without power. But it's raining. And it's winter. And it's 6am. And that treeline has grown a foot higher, pushing dawn back an hour. You cannot have too many panels.
WW3 RUSSIA MOVES NUCLEARS MISSILES 50 MILES FROM US TARGETS
That's absolutely right. I suggest a simple experiment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12420407

It should be possible to come up with ~10 'clone' games (slap trump/hillary with a fish, hit trump/hillary in the face with a pie, etc) by swapping a few assets. Phonegap could be used to deploy the same simple javascript/html5 app on android and iOS. Submit each app to Google/Apple and see what the acceptance rates look like. I would think that would be enough to confirm or disprove the existence of any bias.
DRAWING ERASERS VS MOLTEN ALUMINUM
As someone notes on the bug, if you were rolling your own, there are some other things you could do--return a [][]byte that's a pointer to its internal buffer, only usable until the next row is read.

Making a version of encoding/csv that retains most of its features (custom delimiters, handling backslashes and quoting and \r) but streams like that would be a fun open source project for someone who likes Making Things Go Fast.
As an example compile this with optimisations

Could you be more specific? I'm not sure I'm following your example. Referring to the assembly output here might help me:

https://godbolt.org/g/RN1Ngm
the tag small has an interesting half naked, half wasp, drawing...
csv-parse is hardly the only CSV parser for node, and it is by far the slowest: https://github.com/phihag/csv-speedtest (csv2json depends on csv-parse, so it's unsurprising that it's even slower)
Not him, but:

It's clear that the trend in software is towards higher abstraction, and that's what makes selecting what to learn so hard.

But maybe a heuristic: learn thing that could not be abstracted(unless AI appears), or at least choose a few abstractions up ahead.

One such thing is desinging and developing domain-specific-languages, which also looks to be an important tool in some systems.

Another thing is prototyping with very high-level tools, because it gains you experience in working with customers, extracting requirements, product management, etc.
Not yet, but great idea! I'll definitely add that to the feature list.
What are you trying to sell exactly and to whom are you trying to sell it?

I currently live around a bunch of upper middle income Americans (>$200k annual household income), and I have family and friends in poor rural America (<$10k annual household income). Both groups are struggling much more today than they were 10 years ago. Maybe the higher-income ones are still living well, but their work environments have become so extreme that I rarely see them around anymore. I can see that many are being are pushed to their limits just to maintain what they have.

There's a reason why Donald Trump even has a chance at winning the presidency. Many of both of these groups want to see the whole system crash and burn. The media personalities like to think that only the poorer ones are supporting him. But, when I talk around my neighborhood, as much as my neighbors dislike him, they'd also secretly like to see him win.

There has been some frightening instability rising in the US, and it had a lot to do with inequality and unfairness. Many people are realizing that working hard doesn't matter as much as they were taught.

Anyway, package up what you're selling as a solution to the above crisis, and I'll try it out at least. Otherwise, it just sounds like you're complaining that the billionaires are being treated unfairly.
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Why else would the US go to such extreme lengths (Iraq, Libya) to protect the petro-dollar? Without near infinite global demand for dollars we would be completely crushed under our own debt.
Twitter? Really?! I guess that fits with the overall _missive_.
I got a stupid question from a stupid American(me):

What would happen if ammo was taxed the same way cigarettes are in the USA?

An example, someone buys a semi-automatic gun or automatic weapon...well than the ammo is taxed at a modest 5000%.

You can have the guns all you want..but if you want to use them you pay the right cost to the degree of dangerous of the gun weapon...ie automatic ammo is taxed higher than say shotgun shells.

State, both local, US states and federal would be exempt from the ammo tax.
I'd really like to see it done git commit style.

You get 140 characters that will show up as someone scrolls through tweets normally.

Then you're free to type up as much as you want assuming someone's willing to click your tweet to see the full version.
Actually, if you read the references by the economists that I cite, in most situations the developers want to maximize profits which means building for higher density. In much of Manhattan, for example, there are many areas with low 6 story brownstones that could be replaced by higher towers, but the zoning laws don't permit this. In London, where I have lived for about 6 months altogether and in the American cities I mention, the issue is bad use of land because of poor zoning codes.

I lack the experience to comment on the situation that you mention relating to Catalan.
I was a maths minor and dropped out of a MSc in Applied Maths. I took many courses that would be considered advanced by most, such as Stochastic Calculus, Partial Differential Equations, Multivariate Statistics, Time Series Econometrics, etc.

But I left academia over a decade ago, and have never used any of that. I have, however, used a few things above 8th grade maths, such as linear algebra, regression analysis, and some basic numerical analysis. I used once a FFT.

All in all the author is spot on. And I believe an advanced degree in maths is not a legitimate requirement for anything but a handful of positions, and most of those aren't particularly desirable.

I still remember fondly my days studying Baby Rudin, though. Definitely one of the courses that made an impact in my education. But in hindsight, it's been as useful in my career as my study of Latin.
I did this (avoided buying a car in lieu of Uber/Lyft) my first year in Palo Alto/Menlo Park.
I lived in Hew York before coming out West so I was strongly inclined not to own a car, I didn't even bother replacing my drivers license after being pickpocketed 5 years ago. Using Uber frequently was actually pretty enjoyable. My ride was only about 15 min/$12. each way (sometimes I'd bike), and the drivers were usually interesting to talk to. Last year I did end up buying a car. With payments, insurance, parking, and gas thrown in (and the fact that I take Caltrain to get into SF or other cities), the economics really didn't make sense for me to buy a car, but it did improve quality of life in terms of just having more impulse to go out and drive to places, whereas with relying on Uber/Lyft, the thought of the money transaction for every ride discourages me from using it except for pragmatic reasons (yes, even though owning a car is more expensive in the long run).
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The science is pretty solid as far as psychology goes. Thinking Fast and Slow is often recommended on HN because it provides such a good overview of how the mind makes decisions with what Kahneman calls system 1 and 2. He ended up winning a nobel prize for his work in decision theory.

However I think matching what we know is right to ancient texts is the sketchy part. After all, there's plenty that's wrong in the ancient texts, we just don't see them.
That's easy to say but it's not like they started sponsoring when things became riskiest.
First Ever Confirmed Case of Puppy Identical Twins
That sounds completely worthless, PyPy doesn't need a Cython version, and its library is a Python version of CPython's native csv module.
But if that's the case, the fact that we all learn the same thing(even something as powerful as math), doesn't sound ideal at all, and a multidisciplinary knowledge strategy should serve us better, right ?
Bitcoins can be tumbled though I think?