skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other words, "Drive until you qualify." This was certainly big in the 90s and 00s and still happens a great deal today but I think people have become less sanguine about it because:

1) people are more aware of the serious detriment to quality of life a long commute by car produces,

2) in many places, how far you have to drive keeps getting longer (or the roads keep getting slower), and

3) too much decentralization can close off opportunities that are theoretically in the same metropolis by pushing the commute from being arduous to being unacceptable. So the reason you moved to the metropolis (access to a large number of opportunities) evaporates as you move further to one edge.
I wish I could summon this on demand. It is dangerous, but not as much as one may think. What I discovered thanks to random sparks of passion and frequent cases of procrastination is that a lot of the "rest of your life" is made of time-consuming bullshit and doesn't really need that much of an attention.
> 900M - 1B is defined as the Monthly Active Users figure.

Okay that's the disconnect. Monthly uniques typically count is unique accesses of a web page by non-bots / spam. This is how I've seen it defined in every analytics software package I've ever used. Monthly active users is a vastly different concept as it implies repeat access within the month.

Though judging by the downvotes on my parent comment I'm guessing my thinking of the terms is NOT standard? Not going to lie I'm a bit confused around this. I'm going to have to look into it more.
For Microsoft GitHub repos, there's some kind of automated tool that enforces CLAs. Whenever there's a new pull request, it checks whether the author is a Microsoft employee or not. If not, it checks whether there's a CLA for that person, and if there isn't one, posts a link to a page that handles signing, and records the result for future uses. Repo owners are also notified accordingly.

It also seems to have some kind of threshold for code size, because for small contributions, it says that CLA was not required.

You can see it in action from users' perspective in pretty much any repo under https://github.com/Microsoft/, if you search for "MSBOT" in pull requests. E.g.:

https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+MSB...

(note the labels)
CS PhD in Engineer? If interested in Seattle, there are new hires for phds at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook. Lots of other companies would hire you, but those places hire lots of new phds. Mine was a top 30 us, so basically invisible, and I had lots of companies trying to hire me.
AGPL will probably scare off commercial contributors. You've also got the problem that there's a very high bar to entry in your project. I have the same problem with trying to contribute to Dokany - I just don't have the skills. Many of your potential contributors may also lack the required operating system to do the work...
Before we start making tons of blanket statements about millenials' turnoffs, I think we should consider that there are plenty of rational reasons to not live in the suburbs. Plenty (non-NYC/non-SFBA) metros are equally as expensive in the suburbs due to increased transportation costs.

The suburbs idea is not applicable to SV/SF since most of it is suburbs to begin with. Only a small portion of San Jose is what most people would consider city.

The crux of my point is that one-liner solutions don't universally solve the problem.
Genius coders make complicated concepts easier to wrangle, almost by definition. Don't know anything about your friend's skill level, but I did want to challenge that perception.
>I'd rather have tests than types. Unless your type-system is sound; most of them are very, very far from it.

As I wrote, static type systems are a superset of dynamic type systems. So they can have both.

Besides, static types are, among other things, automated tests for the trivial stuff -- which the computer automatically tests/ensures them instead of a human writing them as busywork (and potentially getting them wrong).

The "sound" type system requirement doesn't make sense either. A non sound type system can still catch the majority of parameter/variable misuses automatically. With dynamic type systems you don't even have that, so essentially what you wrote means "I want it all or nothing". Cool when it comes to personal ambition, doesn't make sense when what you get still protects you from all kinds of errors and helps you refactor and self-document your code.

>I've done plenty of refactorings in huge statically typed codebases; types are a very, very superficial help there. Everything compiles fine but now you're passing 20 to a function whose range is 1-10. Or you're now generating the wrong filenames.

That would matter if static types somehow prevented unit/functional testing, which they do not.

And, depending on the language, the help of static types can be far from superficial. Even in Ada, back in the 80s, you could define the 1-10 range as a constrain on the type/input parameter.

Yeah, they don't catch all problems -- but that's good too, else we would not have jobs.
I should also mention that we've found React Native to be far more productive to use than Appcelerator or Xamarin. Not sure what the author used to determine those charts near the bottom.
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> Japanese produce and meats are just fussed over to such a degree for which an American consumer has no frame of reference.

The Japanese are famous for high quality Kobe beef, but the truth is most meat in Japan is actually not very high quality at all and Kobe is a relatively rare exception. Same with poultry. Most people don't want to believe it but, despite all the McDonald's and factory farming, America has the best meat on average, and at maximum too.
The AGPL is more restrictive than the GPL. It's a tricky choice to make.
I've had a Yahoo email for years and then got fed up with it so got a Gmail one and set Yahoo to forward to it. Works for me and I think Gmail is fairly secure. Yahoo seems kind of bad security wise. It's all free now though I used to have to pay Yahoo to forward.
"So, what a kilowatt hour of high-grade electric energy can do for you? Many useful things, i.e.:

deliver 4-5 kWh of low-grade heat (or cold) into your home (depending on COP of a heat pump)"

Huh? I assume he means 0.4 - 0.5 kWh?
Drinking is a marketable passion - you could become a beer/wine connoisseur, or something like that.

The worse thing that could happen is to discover - like I did - that your passions are in inverse relation with work. I loose positive feelings about programming and start to stress out pretty much immediately when a project starts to feel like an obligation, which makes me 10x less productive at work than on my hobby projects.
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You're not using the word "expect" in the same sense he is.

He's demanding transparency and good faith from the FDA.
OMG! He speaks the truth!

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24530/what-is-the...
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> Because they are lots of employees who want to convert their stock into money to but things this window gets flooded with sellers and employees wind up getting 80 cents on the dollar compared to other stock holders.

I receive stock in compensation. I have elected to auto-sell it - this works even during trade window freezes.

Alternatively, they may end up getting 120 cents on the dollar, compared to other stock holders, if the stock rose in price between the time that other insiders could sell, and the time that employees could sell. If the company's on an upwards trajectory, this is quite likely.

> Also it's not like there are a bunch of private investors waiting to write $555M checks to company's whose financials suck... how could that make any sense?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
Very well put. As a contractor, there have been some jobs I've worked that have sucked the absolute life out of me. They've made me question whether it was a good choice to follow my passion of programming into a career.

However, just as easily, there are jobs where I am excited to go to work and am able to embrace the fact that I am having fun while doing so.

No doubt there are more boring jobs than fun ones though.
The other interesting part is that it's a very niche product in itself. If you go off the theory that most contributors are trying to solve a problem for themselves, then people who need an FS driver are

a) rare

b) likely to be making a commercial product, in which case the main competitor to WinFSP isn't Dokan(y), but CBFS.

The author of Expandrive could probably add more to this - his product is based off CBFS.
https://fundhub.xyz/

When I started investing for financial independence, I wanted to find the best investment fund for me, but I couldn't find a webpage that listed all of them and let me filter them. So I made one.

I tried to answer the majority of the questions through the interactive chat on the landing page, but feel free to ask more questions here!
>> Universal Scene Description (USD) is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications.
What does this mean for the layman? I got a 404 for the 'getting help with USD' link
I'm curious - and surprised nobody seems to have mentioned or asked - what happens to all the sailors working aboard the ships, which are now stranded offshore?

Do they continue working aboard, knowing that they probably won't be paid (because the company is bankrupt)?

What's morale like? Can they leave, and how would they logistically?

What kind of laws and rights (if any) apply to them in these circumstances?

It's funny to me to be thinking about how our Christmas may be "ruined", meanwhile hundreds or thousands of workers may be out of jobs and effectively indefinitely stranded at sea.
I explained the ways it's suboptimal, worst IME is for drive-by contributors from larger firms.
Been using their tris.com for a while, very cool concept, the extension looks very cool.
I'd follow the advice from this guy who finished four years of MIT CS classes in one year: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algeb...
Indeed. One can expect all one wants, but the business incentives for the media are strongly opposing integrity and truth. Which one can see daily, most obviously when some outlet is reporting on a topic one has direct experience with.
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Sorry about the confusion. It is all TLS under the hood, SSLv3 is completely disabled: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl#supported-ssl-prot...
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This is cool. Also a fan of the James Altucher (sp?) book. Agree on making it easier to let people comment/crowdsource review components of the idea... I think that would catch on if it was easily accessible... maybe when it gets bigger you'll want to organize by category. Maybe a public Trello board would be good for this.
I think a lot of resources out there at the moment are full of ML jargon and math. And a lot of new stuff that is coming out attacks the absolute beginner. This kind of sucks .. I started using torch, familiar with old fashioned NN and just wanted to quickly get up to speed on convolutional networks. It has been a PAIN (resources I find are either too deep or not deep enough). In any cases .. thanks for putting your links .. they were most helpful.
Heat pumps are more efficient than just using a resistive heater.
I assert that anyone who has visited Argentina or Uruguay would strongly disagree with you that any country in North America would outperform their beef in flavor.

I would easily be disproven if you had some kind of authoritative source.

I would agree with your assertion that Japanese beef is not high-quality compared to Australian or U.S. meat. I think the parent poster was talking about produce, though.
How to design a cheat proof content rating system
I am planning to code a feature to a site where mostly user generated content is presented. I want to give the logged in users a way to rate the content. In order to prevent cheating of the system i am planning to give users rating points according to their activity. What would be the best way to design a system to make it cheat proof as much as possible? do you know any case studies about cheat proof rating systems or any algorithms for such systems?
Even funnier, because most of the brands don't even own most of their branded hotels, they're usually franchised. Hilton/Marriott/Starwood/Choice/Wyndham/Accor collecting 5% to 15% is basically the same thing as AirBnB is if you're not using someone who actually rents out part of their home.
>Oh I know, but my opinion and experience in half a dozen statically typed languages over a decade is that most type systems add much more overhead to development than agility.

In what sense?

With type inference you don't have to manually specify them.

With a variant type, you don't have to confirm to a specific type, but can accept all, if you want it.

And you still need to conform to an interface in a dynamic language, if your function is x.indexOf(x) you still need to make sure to use it on two strings, if it's a math function on some numbers (and depending on the function, on a range), etc (1). So you are not even spared that -- instead, you just lose the help from the compiler when it comes to it.

(1) You could e.g. let a numeric type string autocoerce of course, but auto-coercion can also happen in static languages, is orthogonal to static vs dynamic typing, and is also generally to be avoided).
That's actually exactly what I do now for most of my projects.

But it doesn't replace having to keep your OS updated, dangling with firewalls, etc.
Great, and I still have no idea what I'll actually be doing day to day. If I didn't know anything about it id think you were just trying to pretty up a pig of a job.
really cool audio reactive visuals!
I am curious about demand for this skill in the market.

But I just don't see it - machine/statistical/deep learning gigs just seem really rare.

I know this isn't a great metric, but searches on Indeed.com:

"deep learning" - 873
"machine learning" - 9,762
"statistical learning" - 65
java - 72,802
javascript - 43,785

Same searches on LinkedIn:

"deep learning" - 646
"machine learning" - 6,952
"statistical learning" - 34
java - 43,845
javascript - 30,818

Even the "machine learning" search on Indeed, with 9K+ results has 1300+ from Amazon, followed by a much smaller number (in low hundreds each) from Microsoft, Google, others (including some that look like staffing companies).

Even on HN's who's hiring Sept 2016 thread phrase counts:
14 "deep learning"
79 "machine learning"

I completely agree with the idea that being able to use some deep/machine/statistical learning is going to be a toolset that data hackers need to have. I even think that there is a bit of the "build it and they will come" magic waiting out there.

But I think the best way forward is to be working in data and figure out how to generate value with deep learning - this will be much more productive than trying to seek out a deep learning gig in terms of promoting deep learning in the workplace. Heck, that's a suggestion I would be wise to take myself . . .
Nope. Heat pumps have a COP > 1. It's quite literally a pump moving heat from a cold place to a warm place. If it takes 1 kWh to pump 3 kWh of heat from outside your house to inside (in winter), you've heated your house by 4 kWh. Note that the electric energy used to drive the pump is transformed into low grade heat, which in this case is useful.
By that definition Google and Facebook should do the same. Or asking a farmer to give away their seeds for a similar reason.
To be fair, it's not just them.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/13/some-context-for-that-n...

"In any case, claims that the sugar industry sponsored one study back in the 1960s, and this means everything we’ve ever thought is wrong and biased against fat and in favor of sugar, miss the point (especially since there are probably problems with both sugar and fat). Whatever study the New York Times has dredged up was one volley in an eternal clandestine war of Big Fat against Big Sugar, and figuring out who’s distorted the science more is the sort of project that’s going to take more than one article."
Very timely:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/global-historic...
Cables are generally raised to the surface to repair.

Anyway, it's only 50 miles from Russia to Alasca making this a relatively simple connection. Hawaii would be hard to justify unless it's really cheap.

However grid storage is generally fairly cheap. Just going east to west across Eurasia also gives very good solar coverage.
If that is the only impediment, I will switch to GPL tomorrow.

I suspect that there is more than that. I suspect that people no longer like the GPL. I am actually one of those people.

My intent with WinFsp is to allow any open source project to use it without restrictions (commercial or otherwise). The only thing I want to restrict is closed source commercial uses (in which case I offer a commercial license).

Unfortunately I am not aware of an open source license that is compatible with other open source licenses and does not impose any restrictions on them. The only open source licenses that I know that allow unlimited open source use, also allow unlimited closed source use (which I would like to restrict).

If anyone points me to such a license I will be happy to consider it for WinFsp.
It appears you linked to your own HN article?
So these ships are just sitting there off shore?

What stops pirates from taking over the ships?
What about the crews just taking what they want and leaving?
Cool, the demo looks good and I really like that it links to a real transaction when used with metamask. How is this different than BitSquare? Do you plan to compete?
It's a mess out there. Everyone's bribing.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/13/some-context-for-that-n...
You've also got the problem of driver signing, especially on Windows 10 Anniversary. Microsoft really doesn't want people without signing certificates making drivers.
I wondered about that too. What if they all decided to simply abandon ship and head for land, leaving a ship to flounder and possibly become a hazard to other vessels or cause an environmental problem when it crashes into a reef or similar?
You're right, I was a fan of them early on for the development ease and I still think they do a great job there.

However the premium you pay for that experience continues to rise, while the alternatives are expanding dramatically (GC, AWS, DO, other PaaS).
HTTPS security is more important now than ever, this tool will help you migrate
That is a false dichotomy. They can gather some better evidence in ways other than executing a raid on a probably-innocent party.
Oxytocin and dopamine?
What? The Tweaker: the Real Genius of Steve Jobs Malcom Gladwell's new story isn't up to HN's standards? lol

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/the-tweaker

(Suroweicki and Gladwell are two of favorite authors on their staff right now.)
That is a very good insight and one that I agree with.

BTW, I am not really trying to make WinFsp into a product. I simply created it because I am a file system writer myself and wanted a stable FSD for Windows.

I was originally planning to put it under the BSD, but I spent too much time and effort to simply give it away.
> > STI; LRET works too, and it's faster for stupid reasons.
>
> Interesting, didn't know that.

In case you're curious, here's an implementation for Linux:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/...

There are a couple gotchas. RF and TF won't work right with the LRET hack. You need to make sure not to clear IF until the STI, as otherwise you lose the magic one-instruction no-interrupts window. And it's unclear in the spec if NMIs or MCEs honor that window, so, if you want to be robust and your kernel can recover from NMI or MCE, you should detect if this happens, rewind one instruction, and clear IF again before returning.

Other than that, it appears to work perfectly. :)
I've been out of college for over 10 years and I wanted the job because it was full stack at a profitable company who treated their employees well.

Unfortunately my cs degree was from a state school and I've only worked enterprisey jobs with the current misfortune of an architect title. I still have other paths to financial success like consulting or management (hell no).
So Newfoundland has been paying to relocate communities since the 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_(Newfoundland)

I'm looking through the government's publications to try to understand this better. Does anyone here know if the relocation assistance includes any help relocating the community intact to a new location, or are they simply being paid to dissolve the community and leave? It would be interesting to see these folks all given neighbouring properties in a city so they can hold onto their social capital together.

http://www.ma.gov.nl.ca/faq/faq_relocation.html
http://www.ma.gov.nl.ca/publications/relocation/Community%20...
The officers, at the very least, would be criminally liable.
Not just the future of hospitality... it's the future alternative to home ownership.

Think about it: You could literally wake up, do your morning routine, and then step out of the RV and into your workplace. You come back that night... and the next morning you step out into Yosemite Valley for some hiking. You just rent RV berths -- everything from campgrounds (Yosemite) to high-rises (in major cities).
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I found these statistics to be very helpful.

I'll be honest, I have my own misconceptions about YC and it's put me at an impasse of wanting to apply.

1.) From what you read, it seems like everyone has a positive experience. At least in my network, that doesn't seem to be true. I'm not applying the logic that it sucked for X, therefore it must suck for everyone. I just want to know who YC works best for and who it doesn't. After all, the old adage goes, if you're selling to everyone, you're selling to no one.

2.) Following up on that point, I thought very few enterprise startups did YC and that YC would be weak in that category. From the stats, it seems like a majority of startups were enterprise focused! But, the standard YC terms kinda suck for enterprise startups. If your ACV is +$100k, why raise $120k for 7%?

3.) When is the right time to apply? Taking some thinking from pg, you should make 100% focus your customers and product. If I needed to raise $ now and wasn't accepted into YC, I would just go try raise money at that moment. Seems odd to hold out and keep trying.

Once again, I think most of my points are misunderstandings about how YC works. I don't think this should help reflect anyone else's decision to apply. I think it's very likely that I will apply to YC. I just wanted to get some of my thoughts out.
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What are you going to steal from these ships? Everything's in containers and those are packed really tightly together, there's no accommodation for opening these doors while the ship is loaded.

If you have another self-loading container ship you might be able to pull off a big heist, but who has one of those just kicking around?
It seems like the "connections" aspect is spot on, especially if you are considering founding a startup (and also seeking funding).

That said I've certainly met and worked with engineers with degrees from prestigious institutions that were lacking in their skill set, particularly when it came to "real" field work.