skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bootstrapping the local infrastructure.

Think of it like a game. You start off with a lathe and a CNC mill and some 3D printers and a bunch of other stuff. You now need to grow crops on Mars. You need to refine Iron ore and produce high quality steel. You need to manufacture plastics, glass, concrete. You need to mine water ice to make water. You need to use electrolysis to make Hydrogen to feed the Sabatier reactor that makes Oxygen/Methane from the atmosphere. You need to explore, you need to maintain and expand the habitat, you need to facilitate future flights to make them as easy as possible and to build capacity for offloading passengers and equipment smoothly and quickly. And then you need to figure out how to use locally produced steel, aluminum, concrete, glass, plastics, etc. to build more machine tools, to build more habitats, to build more farms, more life support equipment, etc. How would you build a backup generator system that ran on LOX/Methane using local machine tools and locally produced materials, for example? How would you build high pressure gas containers for life support systems in habitats using the same?

All of this is like The Martian times a million. It'll be go-go-go every day, because the amount of work remaining will basically be infinite for your entire life. Once you "solve" one "problem", once you advance the state of Martian industry, agriculture, technology, etc. by one step, you're really just opening up the problem space further. The kind of people who will do best in this environment and those who are extremely capable, self-reliant, inventive, goal oriented people (basically workaholics).

They could have plenty of freedom, but if you're not 100% dedicated to working to build and advance the colony you probably won't get along with the rest of the colonists. If you don't obviously bring something valuable to the table (which doesn't need to be industrial/technological/agricultural elbow grease, and could easily be things like being a musician, artist, reporter, chef, even a poet, etc.) you'll probably have a bad time. But on the plus side, if you are a very results-oriented, goal oriented person, you'll likely have a lot of freedom. You'll be able to build, experiment, "hack", and explore to your heart's content. For the most part you'll be able to have your pick of interesting problems from day to day, you'll be immersed in a sea of experts in various technologies, all of them eager for apprentices to come learn and help. And at the end of the day (well, years anyway) you'll be able to look back and say "I built that, and that, and that, and that" for values of "that" equal to significant parts of the local industry and ecosystem. Imagine being part of the team of people who built the first structures to house the first Martian forests. Imagine having your name stamped in the side of the first iron foundry or steel mill on Mars. Imagine having your hand prints in the concrete of the first habitat built using local materials on Mars. That's what being a colonist will be like. It'll be some of the toughest work, but also the most rewarding.
Somewhat related question. Has anyone searched for an idea, came across RFS and started working on an idea that eventually got them into YC?
Maybe nitpicking, but the author states that "Your codebase can now create an app that can run on millions of additional devices, and you’ve increased your outreach by several orders of magnitude."

Yeah, Android is growing, but iOS still has substantial market share. Switching to React Native will definitely not give a > 100x increase in outreach.
> It’s been shown fairly conclusively, by Google and others, that fancy technical questions—especially those of the “how many jellybeans fit in a car” type—do not predict employee success.

> Read that part again.

> They don’t predict success. Google showed this by going back over years of interview data and mapping it to how those employees ended up doing on the job. The result? People who aced those types of questions didn’t do any better than those who did poorly on them.

This is somewhere between statistically illiterate and intentionally dishonest. This entire experimental design is one giant failure to understand restriction of range ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_conclusion_validit... ). The finding (1)

1. Passing questions of X type,
conditional on having already passed an interview at Google,
has no relationship to job performance.

has no implications for the question (2)

2. Does passing questions of X type have any relationship to job performance?

The stated methodology is not capable of producing the claimed result.
I'd suggest you check out Google's philosophy on Material Design [1] - it explains it quite well.

HN readers are probably not the intended audience for MD. It was basically intended so that layperson users would intuitively understand how to use an interface without thinking too hard about it - e.g. which areas are clickable? Did I really press that button (The ripple and/or bounce effect gives them a visual confirmation that yes, they indeed did). Items appear to float above each other to give the idea that there is more content underneath, or that they can drill down further etc.

[1] - https://material.google.com/#introduction-principles
I do think, as one of the commenters on the original thread suggests, that some of the blame lies with the often latent relationship audio software companies have with Apple's release cycle. Ideally QA begins while the OS update is still in beta. This varies quite a bit from company to company, but it's not something to sweep under the rug. The news of audio drop out issues (poison to live performers) persisting through multiple major versions is horrifying though.
What is a company (other than SpaceX) with a super long-term goal that you are excited about?
ASP was programmed using VBScript (and actually extensible - it used Active Scripting, so you could also do JS, and third parties added support for e.g. Perl). And, since it was server-side tech, and very low-level at that, it didn't care what browser rendered the output.

I think this was a reference to ActiveX. Although most ActiveX controls weren't written in VB, either, even though you could do it - the resulting control was just too large to download, because you had to include ~2 Mb of VB runtime (remember, we're talking about the time back when dialup was still incredibly common - and 2 Mb takes 5 minutes to download on 56k). Mostly it was done in VC++ with ATL.
This really isn't the confusing part about Autolayout. The confusing part is the millions of unclear ways to accomplish a given layout. Or figuring out how to make a scroll view content height dynamic. Or move/create anything dynamically, really.

You have to bring in third party libraries to make it easier to work with the API programmatically and then pray to the constraint solver gods that your changing a height constraint constant and adding 4 new constraints into the view hierarchy doesn't throw the most useless error ever seen.

It's just unpleasant.
No, and people don't really ask that interviews. (Or if they do, they shouldn't.)

The point of these questions is basically to assess intelligence (as it relates to coding). It's not about having you solve a specific problem because you might need to solve that exact thing in the real world.

You're right though that part of the issue is a bunch of companies trying to replicate the Google process (which might not even be right for their company) -- and then not knowing what it's all about. So they ask super common or really easy problem, which don't even test problem solving skills.
Pixels and voxels, the long answer
You can't this seriously since it does not mention grsecurity.

No need to "rethink" kernel security, just use grsecurity.
As long as it is systemd based it is not "just Linux".

BTW, it was actually in the Sailfish IRC dev chat that the whole "hire an assassin to take out Poettering" thing was uttered as a late night, off color, joke...
The problem is more like 96% CO2 in the air. Yes, plants need CO2. But I read that if the CO2 concentration is too high, plants stop being able to perform photosynthesis well.
I feel like this article is FUD. Nearly every professional audio interface for Mac, iPhone, or iPad has a 1/4" stereo headphone output for real studio monitor headphones. No pro is concerned that they lost the 1/8" output for bargain headphones on their iPhone.

Any iMac or MacBook Pro from the last 5 years is sufficient for any pro audio workflow. A Mac Pro is still sufficient and is way overkill. A lot of people can be pretty productive on an iPad too. New Macs are coming, Apple isn't abandoning the Mac.

I just updated to macOS Sierra and all my pro audio equipment has either kept working as is or the manufacturer released a driver update within days of the macOS Sierra release.
Criticism is fine. I don't like mindless criticism.

I must have written my original comment poorly, because a lot of people seem to have come away with the impression that I don't want to see any comments that aren't fawning. That's not it at all! I just don't want to see knee-jerk stupid negative comments that add no value to the discussion.

These do cause harm, because they waste time and derail conversations that could otherwise go to more interesting places. It's not a huge harm, but the harm is on the same order as the good that comes of a site like this.

As for #2, I don't see this sort of negativity towards the more mundane projects of other super-rich people when their activities get brought up. I don't expect to see it in this thread, but there seems to be a lot more effort put into whining about why Mars is a terrible idea than goes into, say, doing the same for why Uber is doomed in China or whatever. (Those get negative comments but at least they're mostly well thought out!)
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, its a duck.

HN-YC is a VC ( vulture capitalist ), an 'angle' is off-hands give's unconditional early-money to boot, but certainly doesn't micro-manage and change diapers.

YC seems to be building a 'cult' and now that the high-tech 'go ipo' exit is closed, and the only cash-slush is microsoft/google/apple, and when that money goes south, ... well there will not be any exits. Thus heatlh-care may be a target, just follow the money. The notion of attracting 100's of bright young lemming's and leading them to SV, and isolating them from the real-world and feeding them with bullshit, is brilliant to say the least. L Ron Hubbard was CIA, iQtel ( YC SV ) is CIA, all this stuff is nothing new. My guess is their breeding 1,000's of high-tech manchurian canndidates to be little Snowden's working in salt-mines at Fort-Meade, or Utah,

If U want to be an entrepreneur "Just Do It", take a salary cut, live lean & mean, get to work, figure out how to sell a product, and let the cash flow build your business, and all along the way buy apartments and farmland, as much real-estate as you can. Then your exit will be soft&easy after ten years.

A good plan is to school 15-20, work corp ( learn what they do ) 20-25, then do your own biz 25-35, and then retire at 35 and run away from biz and live.

Being a wage slave even for $150k/year is BS, and when you get post 40+ your stuck in a rut. YC-HN can paint roses on feces all day long, but feces is feces
Sadly this article is a little light on details.
I used to work in the threat intel space, there were vastly different qualities of TI and none of them were cheap.
I agree that worrying about TI is pointless if you're hopelessly out of date for patches/etc, but its still useful as a defense if you deploy it properly.
I have applied many times . I now have a patent for a technology that I believe is a disruptor of enormous proportion. I have asked repeatedly to get a few minutes with someone to discuss this technology, because your application process doesn't seem to work for this.
There are no minimums. We assess each application on its individual merits.
Google Banned Our Game Satirizing #BlackLivesMatter; All the Speech Is from BLM
No. That would be a very unsuccessful company.
Technically this is a demonstration, not a proof.

Does it prove the pattern holds? My "intuition" says the pattern holds, but I wouldn't bet my life on it just from this diagram.

Unrelated, I find it easier to see the pattern if you draw it with triangles.

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Bucky Fuller pointed out that associating the second power with the area of a square (as opposed to some other figure; and the third power with the volume of a cube) is a choice.
> and tomorrow someone at RedHat might decide the audio stack should be rewritten for systemd

I can see it already, make pulseadio depend on logind under the banner of making audio device access "more secure".
It's not like there are zero benefits to working in the UK vs the US though. University tuition is cheaper being one example.
If one of our 3 co-founders (CTO), is in a different state right now, should we still include him in our application video?
Yes, multiple data points for the same thing. Exactly. It's to get a better measure on that thing (problem solving / coding).

There are absolutely people who "learn" dozens or hundreds of problems and then still don't get a job. That's actually a good signal about the interview process. Preparation shouldn't land a bad engineer any ol' job they want.

Unfortunately, it sometimes does -- and that can happen when a company asks easy or well known problems. Far too many companies do that.
People are actually drilling holes in their iPhone 7s to make a socket
SeaWorld is building a virtual reality ride experience
He was completely up front about how early they are in this project. He even acknowledged his overambitious timelines, saying that the one he presented was the most optimistic and probably wouldn't happen.

I can't understand how this kind of openness gets labeled "a reality-distortion field."
Why don't you share your idea right here to try to catch someone's attention? Being vague isn't going to help.
I've recently completed a project of moderate complexity. I began development on Python 3 in a Jessie vm, and later ported to and deployed on Python 2.6 on CentOS 6.

The process was not without its challenges, but developing on a modern platform and backporting was a breeze, and I'm not worried about upgrades.
Whats your product and use case?

Right now I'm only interested in being a farmer, but I'm a technologist at heart and would love to hear about your product.
Have you read Christopher Alexander? (Pattern Language, et. al.)
If I were in their shoes, I would avoid conversations with someone who boasted a patented technology. It's just begging for legal trouble.
What is the "no children" rule? (Didn't watch the whole video)
Underperforming versus it's competitors. I know of several websites that do 1/1000th of the traffic and have similar, if not better revenue.
I'm not talking about those comments. I'm talking about the mindless knee-jerk "Mars sucks, you'll just die in a box" comments that contain zero substance.
Wow really, that is amazing and unsurprising at once. I can only imagine the debate that led to this regulation.
Are there any active attempts at finding alternatives to proof-of-work?
A Beginner's Guide to Apache Flink – 12 Key Terms, Explained
> If there's even a small chance of success in establishing a self-sustaining colony [...] then any degree of personal risks levied on individual colonists are "worth it" from the species level

No, the risk v reward curve has to be better than an equivalent risk v reward curve for a terrestrial species survival project to justify the mission.

I would argue that just about any PhD in epidemiology, disaster relief, or geopolitics will have a risk/reward curve far better than any Mars mission.

People keep making this argument that, absent any other information, a two planet species is more robust than a one planet species. But that's not the choice we're facing. The choice is a two-planet species versus a more prepared one-planet species.
I dunno. I'm a bit more phlegmatic than most, but these sort of things bother the heck out of me.

Most of the things you get congratulated on during these events are things that the company pays you to do, and as other people said, they're not actionable. "Keep doing your job competently!" is not really an action item.

For me at least, pointing out friction and drag is a far more useful way of improving both my own skills and the amount of work the team is able to put out.

Everytime I hear congratulations on things, unless they are truly extra ordinary, I just tune out. This meeting happens every other week. What are the chances of that many extraordinary efforts being exerted every two weeks?
Well, you are sort of on the right track. If they interconnect the data even more, they'll make more money. Why is a merger that impossible in your books. It will be just business between two advertising companies.
That's ok--at least you're taking action. We'll probably have some questions about how you'll develop the in-house technical talent you'll eventually need.

Top 3.

Wait to apply until you have launch data if you think it will be significant (but still apply before the deadline, the bar for late apps is definitely higher).
Periodic System of Numbers
I might be wrong, but I expect Elon Musk to become one of the most exceptional hero's of our times. No other billionaire is creating sustainable businesses like Tesla and Power Wall for the good of as many people as possible. He risks pretty much all he has for his ultimate dream to enable humans to start exploring the universe, and by doing so preventing the looming extinction of our species.

The amount of talent and power this guy has while being so humble is just very rare. As soon as I can afford a Tesla I will definitely buy one, not only because it's a great car, but even more to support these kind of people.
What doesn't work about our process for this?
How far in did you read? It get better as you go, although it's still simple fantasy at heart.

The first few books were not all that good, and I'd say the series really hits its stride around Death Masks, and gets better from there.

If you're looking for something a bit heavier and more complex, might I recommend Charles Stross's The Laundry Files? I'd say they're The Dresden Files' darker cousin. In fact, the protagonist of the former is a confirmed fan of the ladder.
Thanks for the details, just wondering is the implementation mentioned here available to review somewhere? Is it included in the realm core repo?
Yes! I love A Pattern Language.
It gets better as time goes on.
We have PureScript which is statically typed, pure functional language compiling to JS, can't it be adopted for React Native development somehow?
I spent several months farming in Oregon this year I definitely see the appeal of making it a career. This product is a web platform for allocating and measuring resources in local food systems. It's aimed at any farmer on < 50 hectares, but especially entrepreneur farmers who have limited resources.
I don't know about that site. I just came here to say that we should really be "doing science" to Reiki. You can feel it, so I refuse to believe that there isn't something there susceptible to the method.

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edit: I meant the Scientific Method you jerks. ;-)
I don't mean to nitpick but is Elon always this bad of a presenter? He sounds sickly and hungover and unpracticed. A strange performance for probably one of the most important ventures in recent human history.
The lack of documentation was one of the reasons I ditched FreeRTOS and moved to ChibiOS, which I'm enjoying a lot. It has a much nicer API and cleaner codebase, really good demo projects, and a good discussion forum where the main developer usually answers any questions in a day or two. Unfortunately it still isn't that much better in terms of written documentation though.
Objective-C also uses ARC by default, and that's been the case for several years now. In any event, avoiding retain cycles is relatively straightforward and most iOS devs I know would agree that the low memory overhead and lack of GC pauses are worth the occasional extra effort of weak references.
I doubt an electric jet engine would be much quieter than a conventional jet. The noise mostly comes from airflow over the airframe and the difference in pressure of the exhaust stream and ambient air. You'll still have both in an electric jet.
Many YC companies post job ads for engineers on HN. That's a great way to start. Nearly all are constrained in how quickly they can hire great engineers, so you can also probably just email the CEO directly.

Our advice is: Hire slowly Be very generous with equity *Have a very high bar for early employees
>Here is a short list of areas where semantic segmentation is available: Graz, Paris, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Dar es Salaam, and Mexico City.

If the method is general, why only these areas?
How to Solve FizzBuzz Using Machine Learning
On my desktop i have a mute key on the keyboard, and it shows up in X11 as a special key. From there i have set the XFCE keyboard manager to run some ALSA commands on pressing it to toggle the mute state of the master volume control.

Works fine, but then i do not have any transitory (USB) audio devices.

I suspect the lid close can be bound similarly (but these days you have the whole crapola of powerkit/powerd depending on systemd-logind handling the gruntwork, so who really knows).
I think that's a great application of AI. It's a very crowded market at this point, so my biggest question would be "why will this one win?"
VC's ( vulture capitalists ) is money backed by rich old people, or in general young rich guys that just can't walk away from high-tech, but most of the time VC's are lawyers, as its the lawyers that have to package the deal, so that the entrepreneur gets 10%, and the house gets 90%.

The idea that the only road to WEALTH is VC, is insane, almost all the great fortunes were made by boot-strap, all a VC does is ensure that when you done that the FOUNDER, who actually did the work, walks away with 10% of the pie, or 1%. The deal is to walk with 100%. This is why BILL GATES is the richest man in the world.
The MC68000 is wonderful. First 'big' CPU that I wrote code for. As a teenager. Cracked many games on the Mac (512KE). 0x4e71.
I could buy that a few years ago, but EV adoption is taking off and some big automakers are now chasing Tesla's lead. Even if Tesla keels over and fails, their impact will be felt for a long time. Similarly, SpaceX kickstarted a new age in space launches by showing that the old ways really could be improved, getting reusability out from the long shadow of the Space Shuttle, and getting private companies into the game as more than extensions of the government. Like Tesla, they've made a big impact now even if they collapse.

The hero worship should be pretty simple to understand: he's built (with the efforts of thousands of people working for him, of course, it's a huge group effort) amazing things. Every time I get in my car, I marvel at it. He's landed an orbital rocket on a barge in the ocean. Several times! Even if somehow these things somehow fade into absolutely nothing, they're amazing accomplishments.
Proof of Work is the process by which registered value (an electric bill) is converted to fungible value. It is nearly 100% efficient (depending on how you quantify waste).

That is not true. The proof of work is the mechanism required to prevent users from casting arbitrarily many (fraudulent) votes on blocks because Bitcoin is anonymous. If Bitcoin were not anonymous, you could just give one vote per block to every user and everything would be fine. But Bitcoin is anonymous and the proof of work essentially only replaces knowing all users by making it hard to cast a vote and in consequence even harder to cast many. So the proof of work is logically the component in Bitcoin establishing some kind of identity for users and has nothing to do with the creation of value.
Here are 5 out of ~200 that fit this category:

Helion
Oklo
Rigetti
OpenAI
Gingko Bioworks