skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[edit: this is an irrelevant remark] RethinkDB supports joins: https://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/table-joins/
"Like many traditional database systems, RethinkDB supports JOIN commands to combine data from multiple tables. In RethinkDB joins are automatically distributed—a join command is automatically sent to the appropriate nodes across the cluster, the relevant data is combined, and the final result is presented to the user."
Unless their policy has changed, it's a temporary restriction of the account until the user helps work with a mod to verify the name.

Happened to me way back in 2010, because my real name sounds terribly fake: Stormy Shippy
I would imagine there's a high risk of cognitive bias prior to even reading it.

I guess I'll find out when I can see the score of more than just the story itself and my own comments...
I'm talking about Firebase :P.
Okay. First off, I can use the mouse with Emacs in most contexts. Second off, the time I'm wasting may well be more than the time I'm gaining from all the features I use that Acme doesn't have. Finally, I use my editor over SSH a lot, so Acme is a non-option for me, even if it is so unbelievably brilliant (it isn't).
It is increasingly important for people to be able to formulate, and therefore understand intuitively, algorithms rather than just to execute them quickly and accurately. Rote is just getting less useful year after year, computers are already great at execution.
Got a friend from Bangladesh that has the same problem. He went with first, last, and a string of middle initials. Still has problems. I often think we need a whole class in college on these type of issues. Probably right after the ethics class.
Currently DDoS requires insecure hardware.

If it didn't, we're one step closer to fixing it.
The russians are more likely to use nukes because any conflict with them will have to be near their borders since their military simply does not have the capability to fight far from home. Its easier to get support from your population when your threat is near your home than on the other side of the world.

China is also in the same situation. They don't have projection capabilities either yet.
LLCs are newish. U.S. corporations have had limited liability for well over a century.
Yahoo email search used kernel module
It's pretty hard to say that human interaction is outside biology without invoking the metaphysical
I got blacklisted because my name is the same as a baseball pitchers name..
Yeah, but the SSH connection is slow enough as it is. VNC would be quite unpleasant. Also, this is laptop, so I've got a touchpad. Not the best thing for Acme.
Real name policies would probably be a lot more accurate if they let the people who know you pick it. Arguably, your name is more for other people than for yourself.
On my computer.
Should Math Be a Prerequisite for Programming?
> At 21, your title is just meaningless words to sucker you into working longer hours

Hah! Having been made "VP of Engineering" at 22 by a rich asshole who treated me like dirt until I left his company 2 years later, this quote resonates.
I was a sysadmin a while back and a user's last name was literally O.

It was an effort to get the back end systems to tolerate that!
As a side note, if you are already in emacs, you could write your articles in org-mode instead of LaTex.

It's gotten to a point where I am starting to see Latex exclusively as a language to compile to, not something you want to write yourself.

If you haven't used a well-configured org-mode, have a look at this demo for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t925KRBbFc. There's nothing out there (open source or proprietary) that comes close for scientific work in my opinion.
Oh sure, you getaway with test and I have kids coming to me in tears because Facebook killed their account. I'm the local sysadmin, but I can't help with SV companies without an actual contact number.
I know of several fortune 500 companies that blanket ban AGPL. It's not just about the intent of the license. These multi million dollar lawyers can not agree beyond a shadow of a doubt AGPL is safe.
translate: US government diverts attention away from new wikileaks dump of clinton emails.
Unity8-desktop-session installed by default in 16.10
>If I took VC funding I might not have the option to focus on a smaller market.

Agree 100% I just wanted to make sure your expectations were realistic based on the what you wrote. I hope the best for you!
Google shuts down Panoramio
I've always found that if I want to get good at some endeavor, partaking in that endeavor does the trick. I wonder how much time and brain power is wasted on preparing. Maybe that's why the really good ones leave school early.
> I tried literally FizzBuzz on a couple of new grad candidates
> About half were able to do it without help

So, one could do it, and one could not?
Wow Microfibre fabrication supports cell growth and could Regenerate Tissue
That doesn't work for utilities or infrastructure.
Yes. But actually the fix I'm testing didn't work, so I've spent the past 5 hours trying different things. I'm now on what I think is my final solution, so here goes another four hours of fun.

There's no romance in embedded development.
I'd like to see the execs barred from country clubs, and a 2yr ban on playing golf.
This is truly a remarkable breakthrough - integration with Hololens would be the most logical step.
Might want to do somthing about that 1MB screenshot rendered as a 770x570 image.
It's not going to be Flash precisely because Flash is dying. It doesn't matter whether the W3C is involved or not, the companies that want this are going to make it happen. The idea that stopping a W3C standard is somehow going to stop the entire media industry getting its way on this is nothing but a fantasy.

Unfortunately, many people who could bring some moderation to the discussions about DRM are still stuck in fantasy land where none of this is happening.
Conventions are meant to evolve. But boy, do you really like making assumptions. Show me a rule I'm breaking, and I'll gladly revise my behavior.
Really powerful AI (Artificial Intelligence) out of this?
I was banned by Quora for not agreeing to repeated edits to MY OWN question. Reason? VANDALISM. Mind boggling.
Yup, hn has a rule about original headlines except where inconvenient.

In this case though they slipped up, "might just make you better" means "likely to make you better" and the "just" no longer conveys "only" at all anymore.
Which points were missed

>campaign ties to the Kremlin

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-clinton-foundation-state-and...

>speeches in Moscow that benefit the Kremlin

https://www.quora.com/Who-paid-Bill-Clintons-2-5-million-com...

We can play this game all day. Both US major federal political parties are neck deep in Kremlin corruption and ties to each other. Trump has also never taken an 'anti-NATO' stance, he wants to shake down NATO countries for cash to pay for protection, and so did Dubya, who threatened my country into joining the Afghan military adventure with that whole 'you are with us or our enemy' speech.

The question is, is Russia trying to get Trump elected which is hard to believe since they enjoy a pretty good relationship with the Clintons, but who really knows I will concede. I'm also not buying the secret IOCs that "verify" state sanctioned involvement, they verify similar attackers, that use a Russian VPS.
Torvalds: Sorry I applied last series from Andrew just before the 4.8 release
Why would Montana be terrible? Montana may be socially conservative, but it has a very strong "Leave people the fuck alone to do what they want" streak.

For example, if I remember correctly, when the 55mph speed limit was being forced on everybody, Montana simply abolished speed limits on the big roads. When the Feds got pissy about that, they simply dropped the speeding fines to something ridiculously low with no license points.
I think this should have a [1992] tag on the title
Can someone do an ELI5 explaining the significance of RethinkDB shutting down? I've seen numerous posts about it in the past week, but don't know anything about it more than RethinkDB pushes data in realtime and is scalable.
I wish we could move to application screening based on portfolios, like architects, graphic designers, and copywriters. "Show me the soource code of at least one application you've written --- preferably two or three." I would pore over it (not necessarily reading every line) and I would know what I'm getting myself into. Unfortunately there is still too much fear that you would be divulging company secrets. Moral: Post some personal projects on GitHub or something, at the very least.
Some people with autism do make significant progress to the point where they can achieve a lot and live a fulfilling life. The muscular dystrophy simile is inaccurate and quite disempowering, like saying "sorry your stuck in a condition so don't try to do anything". Getting a formal diagnosis and professional medical advice is of course a good idea as per the other comment. There are stories and research showing the brain can develop and learn in autistic children and they become more able to deal with the social challenges of life [1]. The OP has already said s/he has made progress with shyness, this is an encouragement to take steps forward in other areas too.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2271608/Can-really...
I'm always amazed by the lack of historical perspective that "real name" policies entail. Like, holy shit, how many historical people used pseudonyms well before the internet because impactful speech can be a very dangerous thing to the speaker. And yes I know you can be anonymous on Quora, but that's only useful if you trust that no government entities can lean on Quora for information. (HINT: shouldn't trust that).

Just let people run with the identities they choose. There's nothing special about a name.
Mad Max Coming Soon to Mac and Linux
I've encountered an environment where they used something similar it was ridiculous.

It turns passive aggressiveness to 11, there will always be rude people or people with poor conversations skills.

However they are usually toned down because there is a limit to how much you can interrupt someone before people tell you off, especially if there is a line manager or a supervisor present.

Now you get stuck with some douche constantly using the disagree sign to your face, and worse it can be maintained throughout your entire speech forcing you to yield or tell them to sod off which means you lose.

It also doesn't really help new or shy team members if they don't want to express an opinion they won't regardless if it's verbal or smoke signals.

Improving meetings can easily be done by having a meeting captain and a clear agenda.
I think that the force that caused it was not being #1 anymore. When Microsoft had the leading platform, it could have contempt for developers, we had to cater to their whims if we wanted wide distribution. Microsoft only opened after they missed the smartphone bandwagon and needed back programmers sympathy.

It was the same story for IBM, it will be the same for Apple: companies are friendly when they try to reach the first place. Then they close up.
Seems fair, they were the ones who profited from the overcharging.
My daughter went through this in Canada; same basic concept and she did not like it and neither of us could make sense of a lot of it.

My theory is that this version of Math is designed by people who hate Math (English teachers). It's all about estimation and fuzzy thinking. Everything that I personally liked about Math as a kid seems to have been stripped away. In my opinion, children who want to become computer programmers, scientists, and engineers are probably not well serviced by this type of teaching.

I'm not saying the old method was perfect either; mostly because if you're just teaching algorithms then there isn't much understanding about why they actually work.
hkgolden.com :) A very famous website in Hong Kong.
From the interviewer's perspective, how do I know that the code you present as experience is actually yours and not copied and pasted from elsewhere
A lot of them are the same people that worked on the first reference genome are working on these algorithms, or have/are mentored the scientists in this article. I would say that there's a lot more to analysis of genomes than you expect; there are many different comparisons that make sense. Initially the most informative comparisons were to other species, where a genome graph makes less sense at the time with the amount of data and compute ability that was available to bioinformatics scientists.

The rate of technology change for sequencing capabilities in the past 16 years makes Moore's law look like the rate of change in battery technology.

16 years ago I didn't think it would be possible to sequence individuals in the clinic before 2050 or so. Now we are building the technology to analyze the varitation in a million genomes.

I guess your question is kind of like, "why didn't computer scientists build systems like Kubernetes or Mesos in the 80s?" The problems and challenges were just different 16 years ago, and there was more than enough to work on between then and now. We don't need genome graphs at this instant, but we will in the coming years. And it's likely that newer representations will come about, too, as more math and theory is invented.
Ah, that's better than another recent tool company that was aquihired/shutdown - WagonHQ, which was also Atom based, but downloaded the core of the app when you started it up.
I have no portfolio. Almost every line I've written for the past 5+ years has been paid for. When I do code for fun, it's never my best stuff because I'm mostly either trying new technologies or it's not a particularly complex problem. This approach would seem to select for pretty specific set of candidates.

The current system is really easy. I prove to you I can code, we talk about technologies I like and things I've done, we talk about work style and bing-bam-boom I either get the job or not. And if I don't like the question you asked me in the interview -- why would I want to work for you anyways?
Stormy did your parents choose your name or did you?
I had to google but: why would you post this.
At a lot of workplaces, there are internal conferences and seminars about all sorts of things. Usually they'll tap on a member of a particular team, and have them give a presentation. Due to the fact that it's about internal code, it won't be applicable to host it on Youtube publicly, so it can just end up being dumped into the company storage servers somewhere.

This would be a good use case: sharing video about company-private materials.
The good news about silkworms is that they're not in it for the long haul anyway, so as long as there are no teratogenic effects, it's all ok.
Well of course I had heard of liquid assets, liquidity, etc.

But I'd never heard of money described as liquid capital. It seems like the most apt definition of money.
I'm of two minds about this.

The first is the one that had so many wonderful and valuable experiences out on the playa and considers it such a special place. How dare someone without the proper deference for that special place come out and ruin it. So I understand where the criticism is coming from, but...

The second is that Burning Man is about inclusivity and impermanence. It's what made the event so special in the first place. What was isn't unimportant, but maintaining it as anything other than a memory is. Like meditation, what is in the current moment is what's important. And lamenting change prevents fully embracing that new experience.

What strikes me as necessary to "save" Burning Man from being "ruined" is to embody the values of the event. Be as inclusive as possible and embrace the impermanence of the event. Meet exclusivity with increased inclusivity. Meet clinging to past experience with increased focus on embracing the present moment. New burners won't understand what the event is about and old burners will have forgotten. Inform/remind them by example, not by condemnation.

I don't like thinking about anything having been lost. That's clinging to the past in a way that feels antithetical to the Burning Man ethos. Every year, many burners will ask themselves, "is this event still for me?" I started answering, "no" a few years ago. But that doesn't mean I think Burning Man was ruined or has failed. It and I have evolved in ways that are no longer compatible. It's changed me and I like to think that, in my own small way, I helped change it. And as much as I'd love to still be in my 20s and still experiencing all the wonder of those late-90s burns, that reality doesn't exist anymore and pining for it only creates craving and misery.

The article should mock (or at least not dignify) people who believe that something has been lost. Those people have forgotten the purpose of the event. Listening to a beautiful song can be a sublimely moving experience. But you cannot capture that experience by choosing a single note and prolonging it indefinitely. And yet people believe they can capture their experience on the playa and relive it year after year. The song changes over time and eventually ends. Acknowledging that doesn't make it any less beautiful.
Another one is https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior/tree/master. You can see the AI I built for it long ago at https://github.com/akkartik/brooks-ruby-warrior.
Doesn't Adobe Connect already cover this space pretty well? Enterprises have been using that for both live and recorded video and webinars for years.
If we have flying cars, we might not need to perfect self driving. Because autopilot for planes exisit....
Reacting this way is surely the worst thing you can do.
..and not a critical-thinker!

:D
> First, the bulk of consumer use does not require high instantaneous bandwidth.

The bulk of consumer use also doesn't require high usage caps so this is an extremely noncompelling argument.

My house also does a ton of streaming and I do a lot of remote desktop. I do care about decent peak throughput.

> And from what I recall, cable companies generally throttle those uses anyway!

Maybe? I'm super in favor of net neutrality but I also recognize that throttled cable internet is still faster than unthrottled DSL.

> Meanwhile I'm consistently doing >2TB/mo on DSL.

So by your math, a whopping 6Mbps.
Sure...got it working but how do enter math? You know, $x^2$ or integrals or fractions?
Easy way to lose your customers or why you should not use Google CDN
William, you never mentioned why you decided against starting to close some of the source.

Are you are trying to strike some sort of balance between capitalism and altruism?
Let's assume that a typical floating camera has a field of view of 100 m^2. That means to cover 1 km^2 of land, we would need 100 floating cameras. Now the total surface area of land (not water) on Earth is about 150,000,000 km^2, so we would need 150,000,000,000 (150 billion) such cameras.

Next, let's assume that the micro controller powering the camera, transmission, wifi, and drone circuitry requires 200mA and 1.2V [1], or 240mW. Let's also assume this whole assembly is reduced to just a single motor, and draws better-than-ideal current [2], which would require another ~1.1W/377 minutes of flight time, or 175mW/hour, in addition to the 240mW/hour to power the camera and related circuitry. This is absurdly ideal, as current quadcopters require about 250 Watt to fly for 20 minutes with a weight of 600 grams, or 750 Watt/hour, a two orders of magnitude difference.

Since we would have 150,000,000,000 such drones, we would need .175 Watt/hour*150,000,000,000 = 26.25 Gigawatt/hour to power this system (but in reality more like 112.5 Terawatt/hour). To put that in perspective, the Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric plant (the largest in the world) produces 22.6 Gigawatt/hour at peak capacity and 98.8 TWh/year.

Maybe solar can help? Recently flexible solar cells were fabricated with 12% efficiency and a power-per-weight ratio of 23 Watt/gram. To power our quadcopter, we would need about 32g of these new solar panels, and continuously sunny conditions (since adding power storage to a solar powered quadcopter would add weight).

Of course the bigger challenge is logistics. How do you produce 150 billion of anything? If it takes 1 second to produce 1 drone, that's over 4,700 years to get them all. Do you work in parallel? Do you make 3D printers to print other 3D printers to then print these drones? Even at a failure rate of 0.001%, that's 1.5 million drones failing at any given time. What about costs? $1/drone? That's the annual GDP of Belize.

tldr; Invest in solar cell research and 3D printing.

[1] http://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/8659/measure-tota...
[2] http://multicopter.forestblue.nl/lipo_need_calculator.html
[3] http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v14/n10/full/nmat4388.htm...
Entry-level jobs are cheap and the company I am working in used these profiles almost exclusively in its pre-funding time.

Took a few months to a year but now the guys are churning out good code... and groaning about their low salary. Time we get that funding round completed!

How it works is that you take an entry-level job for a cheap salary in a field you like. One or two years later, you change job, as you now are experiences. For a weird reason, the industry does not manage to raise salaries. You have to switch jobs for that.

So you may hear people (probably including your parents) saying that accepting a too low salary will put you in a situation of perpetual underpaid worker. That used to be true for people who planned to work at the same company all their lives. It is not true in the startup world anymore.
What does it mean that "supported programming languages are Java and Scala"? Are other JVM languages allowed?
I'm in a similar position. I get what I call interview fright. As soon as pen or marker touches paper or whiteboard. My mind goes blank. Literally my mind is scrambling how do I do a loop.

On the flip side I can sort of understand. I actually interviewed today. They had from what I saw 5 people interviewing today. 30 minutes a candidate, with 6 employees screening. Imagine how much source code they would have to review. In addition correlating that to a specific candidate.

Interviewing is an art. I think we're still ironing out the best way. The first person a director had marked the heck out of my resume and highlighted it. He knew what he wanted to ask, yet he let me lead the conversation.

When I lead interviews I asked basic syntax questions. Then what data structures you would use. Then the bulk was whatever was bothering me. I would treat the candidate like a co-worker. Come to them for a sanity check, am I insane is there a better way. I'll denote this only works if they're comfortable with you, they need to feel like your team mate. People hated me because id go over time limits....

I have been searching for the past four months. I get home I hit hacker rank or study. To say the girlfriend is unhappy is an understatement.

So these coding tests, are not fun. A lot of people have trouble with them. But you can work on them. After one phone screen, the interviewer asked are you done. I said hang on a sec. I reviewed my code and added exception handling, and fixed several syntax errors. That mindfulness helped alot.

Today I got to the ux ui director. They asked to see a prior project. Then engaged me about my design decisions. I essentially got a free consultation and it was amazing.

I'm long winded sorry :/. I'll close with this. I do dance improv, poetry slams, and open mics. I have to practice for each. It took ages to memorize a poem, and choreograph it. The interview is your audition. You have to know their script. Know their lines. Your going for the lead role, and you have got to know how to mesh with your partner. Bust your ass, it sucks but get the role and enjoy yourself.
Hurricane Matthew: Haiti dead reach 800 as south awaits aid
Easiest way to answer is with Quora itself: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-behind-Stormy-Shippy...
Fuck that, throw a bottle full of liquor at them.