skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My partner and I have two kids. We prioritized that over the marriage ritual. I suspect we will probably get around to it eventually... Is this still so much of an outlier?

I'd like to see the same graphs for birthrates. Of course I suspect there is still a high correlation between marriage and having children and so these graphs are problematic for our future.

Eventually, if we want more babies to be born, we are going to need to vastly improve our support system for families in all their forms.
I agree 100%. Throughout human and whatever other animal we can understand well enough to interact with there has virtually always been an alpha in a pack and betas. Society is dictating that there are no longer alpha/beta hierarchies in relationships, but just one level.

People don't want to "cave" to being "exploited" and everyone is hyper alert about having their feelings hurt so they avoid it all together.

An interesting point I've heard recently is that with working/protecting dogs, it's almost always a bad idea to have two females. They never decide who is the alpha and will fight to the death whereas one male gets his ass kicked and tucks his tail from there on out.
This is true, but then again not everyone thinks the same in their twenties as their forties. Unfortunately, time waits for no one and if you do change your mind then you can.
One of the responses to your mailing list post hits the PHP nail on the head: "Don't piss off users for purety."
It's interesting, but it is also unnecessarily negative in subtle ways, such as: Empowering women tends to lower fertility rates.

Everything I have read indicates that empowering women -- a topic I am highly interested in, what with being a woman -- first lowers infant mortality rates. In country after country after country, fertility rates fall after child mortality rates come down. The result is a swell in population during that period when mortality rates are declining but fertility rates are not.

I have read quite a few articles on the ways in which we are increasingly using technology to empower seniors to remain independent and stay in their own home longer while getting the support they need as they age.

People are living longer in part because of general improvements to health. This bizarre idea we have that everyone over age 65 should be retired is modern crazy talk. When 65 was picked as the age at which Social Security would start, I believe 67 was the average life expectancy. This was envisioned as taking care of seniors in extreme old age, in the last couple of years of their life, after most of them had worked very physically hard in factories or on farms. It was not envisioned as "All humans have some god given right to a permanent vacation of a decade or more merely for surviving to the magic number."

Change is coming. That doesn't mean it is necessarily something terrible.
I respect your position. Thank you for taking the time to elaborate.
I'm sorry, I mixed the date with the Surface event :D
I didn't put the entire picture in the post. In reply to your questions:

We're an online sign-up primary channel (businesses start with us for $4/mo). Our visitors sign up within 10 days of first visit in almost all cases. 30 day tracking is plenty long for us.

We measure goals through to sale. The high level bucket of goals shown in the post contain all actions (ex. Clicking a contact us form but not completing it).

This test was aborted because the traffic was so poor. At 2 seconds per $9.78 CPC I'll stay on Adwords where I know I get LTV positive campaigns.

If you have an example of a successful B2B SaaS LinkedIn campaign I'd love to see a blog post on it.
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> >50+ years and $100m in R&D

> tell this to fusion guys :)

Drop the "50+ years" and tell it to every other SV startup these days... ;).
Ask HN: What is the difference between a CTO and a VP/Head of Eng/Tech?
In different places online I've seen different takes on the two titles, and it seems that there is no consensus which of those titles pertains mostly to technology, and which is more focused on organisation and human resources for engineering roles (although in most cases there is an agreement that there is a specialisation of this kind, at least in organisations large enough to have both roles individually). What is your experience?
Freezing your eggs does not mean you will have kids, just you can have kids.
As Deadly Superbugs Rise, Big Pharma Presses Farm Antibiotics
The Future of Feature Flags: Managing Dynamic Applications
What's a browser got to do with it?
[The conspiracist spam in the comments section is funny]

I find the whole Twitter story fascinating on several levels but most interesting as a non-business. I've always been a bit curious how they would make money on it, there are clearly lots of information dynamics that are valuable, but the whole "this is how millenials hear about things" seemed like it fit nicely into a media slot where it 'front ran' the headlines. Amazed that Dorsey and company have not been able to make it work.
MPI's Place in Big Computing
In 2003, Musk did indeed gave Series A (as well as B and C) seven months after the company was incorporated. At the same time, in early 2004, he took up direct operational control of the company, and has stayed in that position since. The first Roadster arrived 4 years after he took over.
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It's also unwise when your concept probably isn't even theoretically possible.

You can definitely bite off more than you can chew with software, but most problems are actually solvable.
I've found the opposite to be true. It's harder to build the type of commitment necessary for a successful marriage when neither of you really needs the other one. If both of you prioritized career over family leading up to the point of marriage, that's not likely to change after you're married. This is fine (if somewhat less meaningful) as long as you both remain financially and professionally independent, but the moment one of you loses a job or faces a major life challenge that strips you of your success, the other is going to be faced with a choice of either reorienting their priorities or letting you go. Often people choose the former.

In the case of my wife and I, we built our lives together. When we met, we had little or nothing. So our priorities were never material, always each other, and everything we have is shared.
Not really, because his experience extends beyond the CO role. But to take your metaphor, I think right now it's akin to saying, the two people in the running for CEO are respectively, an egomaniac/possible rapist, and a sociopathic habitual liar. So the alternative of someone with deep operational and policy experience that has proven they aren't an egomaniac, and can be trusted beats both of those handily.
I assume simpler thing is more probable.

Additionaly - if you can design top-down and bottom-up at the same time - it means you already know what will happen. Why even do the simulation in that case?

So, if we're living in a simulation - no reason to bring Gods and ultimate whatevers into this - much more probably we're just their equivalent of the Conway's game of life: https://bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Why should they be made to walk an extra block? So that they don't die.

A fact that should be increasingly relevant as the reigns are slowly handed over to computers.
Pro Tip: adding a plus sign to a goo.gl shortlink will tell you where a link goes and some stats about it. https://goo.gl/rqLDfJ+ . Similar for other popular URL shorteners.
Oh wow - how is that achieved? I've spent my career in mobile and didn't know this was true on desktop
do you read any of the redef mixes?

https://redef.com/channel/media/feed
https://redef.com/channel/media/mix

https://redef.com/channel/tech/feed
Maybe. This report seems to just take Dropbox Google Microsoft and Box into account. But is iCloud really that big when you talk about usage? They store tons of data but most of it might be just iOS backups which are activated by default for every user. Consider that usage or not.
I don't get it either, but the reason I don't get it is it's free to give a tiny link at the bottom of the page letting people go to the other version. On mobile you don't see how many pages match your search result, so for googling an uncommon spelling you're guessing at, you don't know if it's 37 results on the entire Internet or 737,328 results. It would be sooo easy to add a tiny little link.

So why don't they do that? It should be super simple to do -- just do it! Likewise, here, it should be easy to get to the other link. I don't get their thinking here. (Plus, mobile versions of browsers should be basically as functional as normal browsers these days, so it's not like that's a good reason. Mobiles run desktop versions of sites just fine -- wasn't there just an article saying that the iPhone 7 is faster at single-core CPU tasks than any Macbook Air ever made?)
They might leave a large portion of the geography of the country behind, but they wouldn't leave a large portion of the people behind, which is what happens now. I live in California, and presidential candidates hardly ever campaign here despite the fact that we are one of the largest states in both size and population.
hey Josh!
This sounds like micromanagement, even from a VP of engineering. The CTO should be setting long term vision and roadmaps, VP checking things are progressing & handling the majority of the business side (hire/fire, sexual harassment + behavioural issue), then directors down deciding how to do things.

> Sometime down the road legacy applications become expensive to manage,
> but rewrites almost always deliver zero value to the customer.

What a weird thing for a CTO to say. Even in my role, I can justify a rewrite by identifying the savings in support, maintenance, and infrastructure, and balance that against the time for the project & make a call that in 6/12/X months, we will have recovered the cost of the rewrite & be saving the company month money (which then can be used to develop more user-facing features, improve performance, etc.)
I agree, although I suspect that the time for that was a couple of decades ago, not now. Still, we have to fight.
This article is about marriage rates, not birth rates.

Also, why are millenials unable to replicate memetically? I don't see any evidence of that. If we're determined to effect change through technology and environmental activism, surely we're capable of spreading these ideas far faster than breeding. Surely working harder to provide a stable human population with access to healthcare, education, and security is a far higher goal than "marry and make babies"
The smiley used to be in Visual Studio http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31532267/can-i-hide-the-s...
I agree, and my reply was also unnecessarily flippant.

Historically speaking, we don't have a good tack record of assessing infrequent but catastrophic risk versus consistent but small reward. As a society we tend to consistently choose the latter. Then try to retroactively reduce probability of catastrophic failure.
Would 1-flute, small diameter endmills help keep the feed down? Your jobs would take a lot longer, but I think there's still room to maneuver even if you have to limit feedrate.
https://github.com/Maratyszcza/NNPACK/blob/master/src/x86_64...

(from https://github.com/Maratyszcza/NNPACK) is also a pretty reasonable AVX2 GEMM implementation written in a Python assembler, it's a bit easier to follow than the OpenBLAS kernels and has very reasonable performance vs OpenBLAS/MKL.

I second the guidance to just use a BLAS library. I'd guess you'd see a 2-10x speedup at least. It looks like you're only implementing a classical MLP library (which is fine for learning, but not the best choice for something like this, integrating VW into Redis would be a much better choice IMO).
Largely agree here. We're a few years in (nowhere near "old") but I have seen a lot of these questions and these end up being the most humbling, but rewarding, experiences.

There's large swaths of CTOs who are only hired to code at early stage startups.

CTO is a real title with many overloaded definitions.

The duties also vastly depend on the industry/vertical.

Eg: I'm a CTO for an infra startup that sells to large companies. Part of my job is technology direction, part of it is sales, part of it is keeping the engineering team happy, and part of it is coding.

I'm imagining a CTO for a more cookie cutter SAAS startup would have a some overlap but a lot of differences.

A lot of my job is just aligning code being written to revenue and attaching ROI to projects being done.

I've become a way better communicator over the years by sheer force. Otherwise you can't get much done.

Technology at the end of the day is about delivering value to customers. A big part of the CTO's job is making sure that that happens.

Duties tend to change as teams grow too. The CTO title is a moving definition. Company vertical/business model and stage matter quite a bit here.

I would say overall, when you're small, you're just doing what a founder does: filling in the gaps till you are ready to hire someone better than you for the role you hand off.
Largely agree here. We're a few years in (nowhere near "old") but I have seen a lot of these questions and these end up being the most humbling, but rewarding, experiences.

There's large swaths of CTOs who are only hired to code at early stage startups.

CTO is a real title with many overloaded definitions.

The duties also vastly depend on the industry/vertical.

Eg: I'm a CTO for an infra startup that sells to large companies. Part of my job is technology direction, part of it is sales, part of it is keeping the engineering team happy, and part of it is coding.

I'm imagining a CTO for a more cookie cutter SAAS startup would have a some overlap but a lot of differences.

A lot of my job is just aligning code being written to revenue and attaching ROI to projects being done.

I've become a way better communicator over the years by sheer force. Otherwise you can't get much done.

Technology at the end of the day is about delivering value to customers. A big part of the CTO's job is making sure that that happens.

Duties tend to change as teams grow too. The CTO title is a moving definition. Company vertical/business model and stage matter quite a bit here.
This should be required reading for every modern man.
It seems to me like there's a fairly strong case for using them for transporting goods, at least. Much more durable than humans, tracks can be laid in places that would be far too risky to run humans through.
Since I can't reply to both of you, thank you for the correction but oddly the facts aren't "important" for this case.

Myself and pretty much everyone I know if asked what is the average divorce rate would say it's around 50%, many of us also have the pleasure of having close friends who married really early (early 20's) going through a divorce right about now (in their late 20's to early 30's) which solidifies this perception even further.

In this case like in many others the perception is what matters, even if in reality it's quite different, I wonder why this hasn't been addressed more frequently since in the early and mid 90's the trope of the 50% was broadcasted all the time.
> Rarely. Mostly they care about meeting quarterly goals and budgets; and ease of finding inexpensive, more-or-less competent talent. In both of these, PHP excels.

This. In my previous job, I was literally told by my boss, that they'd consider switching from PHP to something like Ruby or whatever, but PHP programmers are cheaper so that's why they stick with it.
What to expect from Linux in 2017?
I'm not sure why people insist on assigning agency to this phenomenon. If you wanted, couldn't you invoke the 'many worlds' theory and suggest that our particular universe exhibits the same properties as what you might find in a simulation? This would do away with the need for an agent who is simulating.
Thank you for explaining that.

> Really, it seems to me that the issue isn't necessarily with plea bargains in general so much as with plea bargains with massive differentials to the original charges.

I agree with you. I think the root cause is completely unreasonable penalties for certain charges (which is especially true of drug charges). With a smaller differential, the bargaining power of the prosecution is drastically reduced (as it should be).
Discoveries of Mechanisms for Autophagy [pdf]
Yea, people miss the fail whale.
He has also been involved in an electric car (and battery) company, a solar energy company, and a space travel company. Much more recently.
Low pressure is only reached for a portion of the flight. In a relatively short trip like LA-SF, as Hyperloop was proposed to do, the plane spends quite a bit of its flight time climbing and descending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J01iDyHq2p0
"remove parties from the ballot process"

Sounds nice. Alas, there's always winners and losers.

The fight is always people vs capital. Anything that weakens the party organizations empowers the monied interests.

"generate sufficient support to get their name on the ballot"

In my jurisdiction, any candidate paying the modest filing fee appears on the ballot. What are the rules where you live? Of course, the Presidential race is a whole tarball onto itself.

There has been interest to lower the bar even further. Such as gathering 200 signatures (to a petition) in lieu of the filing fee.
Ocean Plastic Mostly Near Surface, Study Shows
In many cases it is not the laws as such, but the judge that is the problem.
Do you deploy in forth containers, focker containers? and how do you manage a lot of fockers at once?
Online Marketing 101: How to Engage the Eye and Reach the Heart
Practical action can be taken without having to angrily scold the person.

Giving into anger is the easy thing to do, but in doing so we become emotionally blinded to more practical courses of action which we may have realized if we had kept our cool.
Show HN: Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis Cloud API
This is pretty amazing. Navigating the EC2 pricing documentation is such a hassle.

I tend to think of costs in terms of monthly, as well, and this is valuable when working out cost-proposal estimates for projects I'm pitching to potential clients.
Picking a cloud database for analytics: the SQL options
Hyperloop (and pretty much all "PRT") is a joke and whoever invested in this should be embarrassed. Just get it over with and build high-speed rail.
Back when city streets were still contested between pedestrians and automobiles, there were many cases of cars going in excess of 40mph on city streets. Due to the many fatalities, people pushed for requiring governors to keep cars from exceeding 30mph, to the resistance of automobile owners. The details of this were in some article posted to HN in the last few years. The result was, instead of governors, making "jaywalking" a crime.

An interesting thing is that NYC has a speed limit of 25mph now.
Not going to grad school.

I've always wanted to teach, so thought I should go to grad school to be a professor. I applied, didn't get in, decided to join the working world but teach on my newly formed blog (betterexplained.com). It's been one of the most satisfying and enriching parts of my life, with complete freedom about how I want to present things, along with some measure of financial independence (another life goal).

You never know if an event (not getting into a school) was "good" or "bad" until years later (http://www.katinkahesselink.net/tibet/zen.html). It helped give me a sense of equanimity about events.
But what goods need to be moved so quickly? Autonomous vehicles are going to bring plenty of improvements to shipping and delivery, and are happening right now.
Loops (especially FP loops) are often dependency chains limited wich prevents OoO execution. Unrolling (and using multiple accumulators) help create multiple independent chains that can be executed in parallel.

Edit: for this specific loop the only dependency is on the iteration variables whih is not an issue here, as the loop should only be limited by load/store bandwith, assuming proper scheduling and induction variable elimination from the compiler.
And not just the loans. Marriage is heavily stacked in the favor of women and the slides who make less money. More and more men just don't see the upside.

And what are the actual upsides? Visitation rights. Medical decision rights. Slightly lower taxes. Not testifying against your spouse. Anything else?
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/gibe-gybe-jibe-and-jive/

Shows the other meanings of the homophones - English huh!
Apologies if so. There are benefits and annoyances that come with Umatrix/Noscript.
Why Does the Universe Exist?
DDG failed every single technical search for me. I was putting !g to get google every time. It was at that point I realized Google really still doesn't have competitors in this field. Any search engine can bring up common stuff, say articles about the current election or celebrities, but all the others I've tried with technical content (not just software based) bring up pretty bad results.
oooh, this is good.
This sounds really annoying.
Google internally-initiated successful products that come to mind: Cloud (2nd or 3rd in market, lots of revenue and growth), Play Store (also lots of revenue and growth), TPU chip, SDN, Photos, Chrome, ChromeOS.

Google (vs Alphabet) often acquires companies that have a seed of a useful product. Android for example was apparently not in a usable state when it was acquired. 99% of the creative work is making the thing actually work, not in having the prototype.

To say Google's own engineers didn't create Android because they didn't commit the very first line of code is doing them a disservice.
This is a valid concern, but it's definitely not one that should impede efforts to construct one or prove its viability. For one, hyperloops have a lot of potential value for shipping. For another, most of the designs don't seem to involve a huge number of people in on point at once, and it wouldn't be hijackable in the way than an aircraft is. To be honest, the simplest form of transit to use in terms of ease of access combined with potential destruction is just a car or bus, right?
It's definitely a story of economics. Raising a family doesn't mesh well with being a fungible producer of labor.
So funny, I just left that page to come here. Thank you, unsung hero/creator!
does that mean once you loose your master password, your whole online identity is gone for good?!
Huh. Apparently, running Postgres on RDS is tad bit more expensive than MySQL. Why is that?
> All laws are moral. However, immoral actions may be lawful.

Are you saying that there is no such thing as an immoral law? It sounds like from your comment that you're saying: There may be immoral things you can do legally, but legality provides a "base" morality.

Women must keep their face covered in public, Jim Crow laws, etc.
If one were a cynic, one might suspect that UW is just playing the troll itself. Assuming that it isn't, what controls are in place that help UW avoid registering and then seeking royalties on trivial patents? If administrators decided that WARF should instead contribute $200M yearly, wouldn't the resulting patent inflation carry the whole operation into troll territory?
If were were dogs this information would be relevant. Unlike someone's generation we didn't rush into marriage and then get divorced.