skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a brief blog post on some of the major challenges to get this going. Musk's hesitancy to a deadline is great. :) It makes sense, hard to predict the future.

http://engineersf.com/12-reasons-spacex-wont-fly-a-manned-mi...

There's a ton of cool problems lurking around the corner. I hope humanity backs the public part of this public-private partnership.

1. Cargo Capacity — Scaling is Hard.

2. Proper Maintenance — Accessibility is Important

3. MTBF Expectations are too high.

4. Jet Fuel is Corrosive and Methalox engines are a tough
design proposition.

5. Cosmic Radiation — Impedes human interoperability.

6. Solar Panels —Mars Dust Storms impede sunlight.

7. Living Module — 7 month duration for a living module.

8. Microbial Realities — We rely on microbes to live.

9. Parachute Design — Size vs. Thrust vs. Jettisoning Fuel

10. Electronic Protection — Shielding is Resource/Weight
Intensive.

11. Eye Sight — Your ability to see diminishes in space and we don’t quite know how this works fully. (This one is huge)

12. Muscle Loss- you lose muscle mass as you stay longer in space.

To give some context around how difficult it is to build mega engineering projects in the hey day of innovation, just think about Steel. There's over 3K different types of steel and 70%+ were invented in the last 20 years.

Timing, sequence, funding, and focus are going to be such a huge part of this.

5,8,11,12 are really tough. I think the other ones are solvable in some way right now, but will take some configuration/tinkering/experimentation for sure. Plenty of engineers are motivated to work on this kind of thing though, so that's a good signal.
A peptide is already a polymer. This is basic definitional stuff:

>"peptides fall under the broad chemical classes of biological oligomers and polymers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide

Really the people doing the research have responsibility to speak out against this kind of jargon loading hype... Oh I see it is the title they chose for their own paper. I didn't read the paper, but the presence of hyping activities meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator has proven itself a decent heuristic so I won't bother.

Also, pretty much every bacteria is "multi-drug resistant".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfUnwynwZvE
I encourage people to not say, "This won't work, and here's why."

I encourage people to say, "This won't work, here's why, but here's how it could."
Federal politics is very much like sports, while municipal politics feels like a boring necessary tar pit that sucks up time.

These people won't be engaged as retired people, simply because of time. They make the personally rational decision to do their jobs. Also people don't want to necessarily invest in local politics if they feel they may be gone in a few years. A retired person if fairly likely to be in the same town many years from now, possibly the rest of their lives.
Speaking as the leader of the Hyperscan project (https://github.com/01org/hyperscan), I'd say you might not be the only project feeling a bit neglected in the performance comparison here.

It's nice to be mentioned - and even called out by name as the inventor of Teddy (!) - but we're always even more pleased when someone else measures Hyperscan, as it minimizes the prospect of us embarrassing ourselves by posting some self-serving and/or outlandish microbenchmark.

Also it saves everyone time reading the obligatory Intel legal disclaimers...
Redomestication. We're based in spain with some public help in form of soft-debt (very common in spanish startups). That makes slower the process of redomestication, typically around 4 months. If chosen for YC, Is it possible to create a parent company in US to give the x% for the YC investment? Tnx!
> marrying CROs to investigators and vice versa would be super helpful.

Can you explain this idea in more detail? Many CROs are already establishing preferred-provider relationships with investigators.
Great, AppImage is even better!
And if the company goes belly-up while you're there?
Many applications only use parts of libraries, then the linker can throw the unnecessary parts away.
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who are you and why the hell would you send me a message posing as F.B.I? that wasn't funny at all because I'm a felon bro and I thought I was in trouble or something.
That's if you find the $20 worth more than using the opportunity to examine the hypothesis that there is some special ability to understand pointers, something that may be missing even among otherwise fairly intelligent people. What he's giving you is a tool to test a hypothesis you find so valuable you read far enough down a page discussing it till you found a comment you wanted to reply to.

So, is the $20 worth it? Or would you rather be closer to the truth on the hypothesis?
Please what kind of programmer would ever do this?

if (weAreConnected === true) {
this.setState({
isConnected: true
})
}
else {
this.setState({
isConnected: false
})
}

That is just verbose unnecessarily:

this.setState({ isConnected: weAreConnected });

And probably not so popular, but this:

var color;
if (this.state.isConnected) {
color = 'green'
}
else {
color = 'red'
}

Would be simplified often to:

var color = this.state.isConnected ? 'green' : 'red';
You actually give an example to reinforce my point. Austin has to be gerrymandered, because it is already so blue - if it weren't, they wouldn't bother. Gerrymandering is moving the goalpost (of what it takes to get political representation), but as a technique, it has a limited range. At some point the supermajority is sufficiently super that no amount of fooling around can suppress it.
Odd that it calls a reconstruction that doesn't blur "worst case" and "abominable". The smaller the details in an image, the less I want any filtering applied when it's sized up. (Or, you could say, the smaller I want filter regions to be.)
You would thing a distro like this would be more like gentoo...you recompile stuff as needed (which for openssl means almost everything).
LuaJIT != Lua
I totally agree. The first couple of times I heard him speak, I was like "get some skills". But now I can filter out the stutters and delays. And the payoff is huge - the guy is totally brilliant and inspirational. I can see why his employees give it 150%.
There's a podcasts section in the Google Music Android app; what are you referring to?
Those assets aren't free though, obviously.
Benchmarking aside, I think the icgrep approach is very interesting.

The appeal of this sort of bit parallel stuff is that you don't get performance variability. It's all fun and games with literal optimizations until you pick the wrong literal - all you have to do is stuff the file in the down-thread benchmark with a huge pile of "Holmes Holmes Holmes Lestrade Lestrade Lestrade" etc and suddenly both rg and Hyperscan will look a lot dumber and icgrep will keep going at the same speed.

Unfortunately, we've never figured out a way to dispense with literal-based matching for the large scale cases that we work with. When someone gives you a dozen regexes - or 12,000 - bit parallel approaches go into the weeds (as do most regex-oriented techniques; DFAs explode and bit-parallel NFAs - regardless of organization - become ponderous).
I never said filter after rasterizing. Pixel-sized squares have the same issue if you filter before rasterizing.

The only reason pixel-sized square survive supersampling intact is because supersampling uses an imperfect low-pass filter (block-based averaging). Here is a good example showing the shortcoming of straight supersampling: https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~tadavis/cs809/aa/aliasing5.pn...

You NEED to apply a true low-pass filter before rasterizing to completely eliminate Moiré patterns. Whether a round of supersampling occurs before this filtering is irrelevant. And pixel-sized squares don't survive low-pass filters intact, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon#Signal_proces...
> ignores all the actual government dystopias that have existed throughout history

I think my fear of potential corporate dystopias is informed by my knowledge of actual government dystopias.
About 35 minutes.

5 min walk to the bus, one bus stop then hopping on the subway for 20 min, luckily I don't have to change so I can just relax for those 20 min. Then a 10 minute walk to the office.

Not too bad at all for living in a nice suburb of Stockholm.
Jesus, ad hominim much? I can't speak for you, but I've never met an idiot so completely useless I couldn't learn something from them.
How does it work? That website is... light on information.
I'm an Ubuntu LTS user. Compared to Upstart in 14.04, Systemd is an improvement. ;)
You and how many other millions of people?

Would the Minnesotans be happy with that?
Many of the "it's bad right now" problems were started because at some point in the past someone was trying to solve a different "it's bad right now" problem without minding the consequences. Just to give an example, a "tough on crime" crackdown back in 90s to deal with a genuine crime wave, resulting in mass incarceration, especially of non-whites.
You realize that what made Apple good for "Pros" is not based purely on specs right? That is a very shallow view of the issue.

For music production and live events for example, the reliability, stability, compatibility and application support is why many chose Apple. To think that professionals choose hardware based on specs alone means you don't really understand the reasoning.
If there was a YC/HN supported cofounder matching program, I'm guessing it would have a lot more success than other attempts that have popped up. However, some important qualities of a good cofounder match are hard to quantify and require serious (and often confrontational) interaction.

Perhaps if YC let individuals apply without an idea to a loosely structured hackathon/conference, some good relationships would form. YC could fund the whole thing, and take a small stake in any resulting companies. Though, that's a little bit legally murky, so some consideration would need to be put into the means by which YC would benefit.
It's likely the OS power management features and/or hardware CPU throttling that is causing you dropouts.
The hardware and software have been optimised for occasional CPU use, slim looks and long battery life.
Musk has already considered this: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elo...
> the only thing that makes sense is to keep living like we are the only life in the universe

uh...we aren't.
so those are the only two choices? automatic cynical criticism or rolling applause? sounds logical. personally i see many other options.
Why not use docker? Instead of messing with all of the configuration and setup you can spin up a container for any server under the sun in seconds and it will be way more portable.

https://hub.docker.com/_/php/

docker run -p 8080:80 -v /projectfolder:/var/www/html php:5.6-apache
> I refuse to believe that disk space is less as it can leverage other libraries in the deps list to load at run time and other can use it too.

If I remember correctly, the argument goes someting like this: modern compilers, i.e. something as recent as the Plan 9 toolchain or a GCC version from this millenium, usually compile in only the necessary code with static linking, and not whole libraries. With dynamic linking, you always have to load the whole library into memory, which supposedly pays off only with heavily used libraries such as libc (e.g. think about how many libraries used by Firefox/Chromium are used by other programs).

So the hope is (combined with a general strive for small programs), since text pages are shared between processes and statically linked programs only include the absolute necessary code you end up with a smaller memory footprint.
(I'm not sure whether you save disk space, but I don't think that would be a problem nowadays. Heck, look at go binaries.)

And I guess, the linker could do more whole-program-optimization on a statically linked program, since all the coude is available.

> For static executable the same dependent library will have to linked to all binaries. Maintenance is a pain in the neck.

Generally you would want to have a proper build system. In case of StaLi, they have one global git repository (/.git). An update is simply "git pull && make install".

I don't know if this process is slower or faster than binary updates, but if they strive for small programs/binaries, then I guess it doesn't matter as much.

Source-based distributions, such as Gentoo, have the advantage that you don't have to wait for someone to publish an upgraded binary, you can compile it yourself, instead. This might give you a slight edge for security vulnerabilities.
I believe we are already doing that, even in this thread;)
Perhaps YC could pay people to take a 4-12 week startup school, in which group projects were heavily encouraged. If a company was formed out of the school, YC would get the right to invest at the standard investment terms.
Large C++ Legacy Applications: Planned Refactoring
Be prepared to REACT YEAH
OP is not complaining about dynamic type -- the examples appear to show where 'type' doesn't apply at all.

The funniest/alarming example for me though was immutablility. The documentation exhorts the developer to take care not to make assignments to immutable objects. And there's your immutability: just don't change object and it will be immutable.
Yes! IMO the most promising approach is Ethereum's Casper protocol. See http://vitalik.ca/files/mauve_paper3.html for more details.
From http://www.luatex.org/roadmap.html#tbp:

There are currently three engines in use in the TeX community: pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX and they all serve an audience.

The pdfTeX engine is a stable extension to TeX that has eTeX on board as well as a few extensions. It provides hz and protruding and supports advanced PDF output. It is fast and reliable and sort of frozen with respect to functionality. It will stay around for ever but has only limited provisions for dealing with OpenType fonts.

Then there is XeTeX which supports Unicode as well as OpenType by means of third party libraries. It integrates nicely into the current infrastructure and support from macro packages is easy as there are no fundamental changes in interfaces and functionality. It uses the eTeX r2l typesetting while LuaTeX uses the Omega (Aleph) method. Support from macro packages does not demand changes in the core.

The LuaTeX project uses a different approach. Instead of using libraries it provides an extension mechanism. This keeps the program independent and permits the flexibility that we like so much. However, it comes at a price. First of all LuaTeX does not have the performance of its cousins, although for instance the average ConTeXt MkIV run can be faster in LuaTeX. LuaTeX also demands extensive support at the macro level if you want to profit from its benefits. Just adding some support for scripting is nice but the power of LuaTeX only shows when it's tightly integrated. This integration is also needed in order to provide macro users some stability as most of them are no TeX programmers. If such integration is not what you want, you might consider sticking to the other engines as there are no real advantages to using LuaTeX then.
Google Go and Rust promote it. However, deploying web services is different than Linux distro.
I didn't know you could fetch HTML attributes values through CSS properties. Neat!
It's not directly your fault, but I wish there were more discussion of making humans a multiplanetary species and less discussion about the discussion here.
If you don't care enough to vote, or are just tuning in for a couple of weeks before voting, then maybe it's better that you don't.
Why would I share the secret to success? If you could predict the stock market, you surely wouldn't tell CNN.
My point is that things don't change fast. Multigenerationally, sure. Fast? No. Not even close.
Yes, it's not just about specs. I didn't mean to imply it was. Apple also optimise for an ultra thin/light chassis and battery life. These are not what you want for sustained high CPU applications with a real-time requirement. A mobile workstation running a stable build of Windows 7 would certainly give stable audio. My reasoning matches that of the article: Apple's yearly software/OS upgrades and Prosumer hardware are not giving the
"reliability, stability, compatibility and application support" that you claim.
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webapps running on firefox os is intuitive,in the end, all the apps we used are web-apps, trello, stackoverflow, facebook. Using similar web technology for webapp development seems intuitive, unlike java or C# or swift for app development.
Well I think it depends on what kind of code you work (or worked) on. My first two jobs were on decade-old PHP codebases with thousands of global variables and copy pasta galore. Only the damn cynical can survive in that kind of mess, because it literally feels like the system is trying to fight you. I imagine legacy COBOL programmers can also relate. Now if most of your experience is working with green field systems, such a level of cynicism is not needed and may even be detrimental.
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That's awesome! :)
If you think about it, TeX is just a compiler, right? It operates on trees, and translates some input to some output. I'd love to see the equivalent of LLVM for TeX: a modern, modular implementation that implements known best practices and is easy to integrate into other environments.

Maybe this is something like what LuaTeX is trying to do? It's hard to tell from their web page.
From home to bus stop 5 minutes, take bus to office which would take around 1 hour, then 10 minute walk to office.

so in both ways, i would take around 2.5 hours.
This sounds very similar to a programme in London called Entrepreneur First where they recruit individuals based on their technical skills and then form ideas and teams during the programme.
> What if the biggest threat is bad ideologies?

Then changing planet doesn't help unless the colony has people who are protected from them compared to those left behind.
I understand that people have different priorities, but as others already mentioned licensing deals end and you might find yourself without access to countless favorite albums at some point, despite having paid Spotify & Co. for years. And that's not even discussing the huge amount of obscure, leftfield music and rare stuff that won't be available on any streaming platform, ever. For me, as a music enthusiast and collector, the selection on streaming platforms is way too limited.
The same applies to films and shows - there the situation is even worse. Netflix selection is very, very poor and of course they know it, which explains the heavy focus on original and exclusive content.
Ask HN: Where to get a tech / programming job?
I know this is a very broad question, but I'm wondering if there's a common place for self-taught programmers to post their résumé? I'm 30 and have taught myself how to develop and design a JS / PHP / CSS web app, however I don't have formal schooling and usually don't meet all the pre-reqs I see on job postings. I know I'm capable of learning and being an effective worker, so I'm wondering if there's some site where I can show people why I'm worth taking a chance on.
No intermediate representation, which is puzzling to me. There's so much shared structure between languages, especially things like closely related European languages. You get none of that with this approach.

Either way the intermediate representation would probably be a vector, so not very practical for human use.
> Part of me wishes HN had a really strong moderator that slapped down nay-sayers. If you're not contributing something valuable, comment deleted.

Pointing out flaws == not valuable?
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You have little to lose with applying to YC and getting rejected, nor do you have with investors.

If you fail to get a seed-round going after meeting with maybe 1/2 dozen VC's you will be significantly 'more ready' for the next time you meet. Once you've made more progress and reached more milestones, you can probably even circle back with investors who said 'no'. You might have more cred with them.
The context of this entire thread was about mobile ecosystem. The concept of "cross platform" only holds when you're comparing two similar ones
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Feedback is always appreciated. Please raise a bug if you have concrete suggestions on how to improve my project.
Upstart solves the same sysv-init problems that was the motivation for systemd.

And systemd should be an improvement - it started after upstart, and hit production well after upstart :)
wasting time is being persistent for bad reasons
If you install VLC, you can let videos (or audios) play in the background. I also found it more stable for watching/streaming longer in NewPipe.

For that reason I call it NewPipe/VLC, or as I've recently taken to calling it, NewPipe plus VLC.
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And of course, there are never any bugs in software, ever, because we have integration testing!
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/26555760682
> Installation uses HTTP to fetch a boot volume image.

This is a problem with all of the suckless software and it, well, sucks.
I quite like JavaScript for relatively light scripting tasks. In that role, I find it pretty well-suited.

For complex applications I'm as leery of it as anyone else.
> I like the idea of a guaranteed floor but no ceiling

Raising that floor seems like it would simply devalue the dollar. I'm not sure how having no ceiling helps the situation.
Proof of work also gives goldbugs that warm and fussy...
"Personally, I would choose to go even if there was a 50% chance of blowing up on the launchpad."

Do you really mean that? In the real world, knowing there's a 50/50 chance your life would end, you would take that risk for the chance to be a frontier colonist on Mars?
Nonsense. They have a clear philosophy on what makes software suck less, it doesn't matter where it comes from.

http://suckless.org/philosophy
In this theory the reconstruction filters need to work as both downscaling and upscaling filters. A box filter looks good for integer-ratio upscaling, looks bad for non-integer upscaling, and looks terrible for downscaling.

What you want is a non-linear filter - it's pretty obvious that you can invent good upscaling filters (like Waifu2x / NNEDI3) that aren't based on FIR theory and can't be used to downscale.

> Or, you could say, the smaller I want filter regions to be.

And that's the opposite of you get from linear filters. There's a resampling filter called sinc that's "perfect" - it reproduces every frequency in the input signal - but it looks terrible for images because it tries to reproduce pixels based on every other pixel in the image. So you get ringing all over the picture instead of sharpness.
Aldo?
Another platitude of a "balanced" diet. Not even dieteticians know what that means for purposes of weight loss. Muscle loss is a major problem for people who fail diets and bounce back. Muscle once lost is very hard to regain. Lack thereof will also reduce energy output making further attempts harder.

Even a vegan or near vegan diet easily exceeds required caloric intake for weight loss. Going for healthy foods is no good if caloric input is too high.

Protein has a star quality in that it suppresses hunger directly. The trouble is finding sources not also laden in fat and also making it palatable.

What you need is a highly unbalanced diet, but one that will not damage your health. It is very tricky to set up.