skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really less wasteful? Cartons seem to be easily recyclable using an hydrapulper, while the milkman distribution requires an extra truck trip, wasting a lot of gas compared to just carrying a couple of milk packages along with the rest of the groceries.
There aren't fewer jobs available. US full-time job openings are at/near all-time highs and have been for a while now.
Your comparison is absurd. Did you somehow miss that whole bit about faulty intelligence causing the Iraq war?

The hack seems politically motivated; no one can say with 100% assurance that it was caused by Russia; the DNC is a private organization, in any event, why should the citizens of the US be drawn into a war with a nuclear armed foe over their poor cyber security?
Windowing Systems by Example: 9 – Coup de Grace
This is true, but that was in the 80's and 90's.

In the 2000's, we were told that Saddam still had WMD's and was still using them. Today the evidence suggests these claims were false.
My point is that there are large fields where we may not get access to open source data in the foreseeable future; in the meantime, we are depriving ourselves of potentially useful or valuable knowledge. Imagine if you could reduce the number of traffic deaths by analyzing a closed data set from Lyft or Uber; is this worth doing, or should we just tell the PhD candidate not to bother?
That's an interesting slide, but without knowledge of the size of the dataset it could be misleading (especially considering communication costs between nodes in a cluster).
Proven ways to make money online:

1. Product

2. Service

3. Ads

4. Affiliate commissions

Basically, most online money making involves one or more of the steps above. Let me expand a bit more:

Product

----------

- You can build a SAAS and charge a subscription fee.

- You can sell code such as themes, plugins etc for variety of platforms including WordPress, bootstrap etc either on your own website or through marketplaces such as themeforest, wrapbootstrap etc

- You can create and sell desktop apps. E.g. Text editors such as Sublime etc.

- You can create and sell apps on smartphones/ipad/iOs/Android.

- Create "tutorials" and "how-tos" and charge for them. E.g. laracasts.com

Service

--------

Service can be anything really but for the HN crowd, it could be things like:

- Provide managed hosting services. E.g. Host WordPress sites for clients, provide maintenance for a fixed fee

- Become a freelancer and offer your services on fiverr.com or freelancer.com etc.

Ads

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- Create a niche blog and start writing quality articles.

- Sign up with Google Adsense and/or buysellads.com and hopefully, get a decent amount of quality hits on your blog and make money.

Affiliates

-----------

- Signup with Amazon Affiliates and start writing about their products on your blog. You could make money by referrals

- Do you use a software product you really like ? Check if the company offers affiliate program. Signup with their program. E.g. Affiliate program through themeforest etc.

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Simple, but seems interesting enough, maybe because of that. I very much like the fact that it isn't phone-based.

What is the technology used? Do you just store things in an SQL database and show them?
Space Dashboard
That's pretty natural since it is extremely hard to recover the inverse square law (for gravitation and electromagnetism) from any configuration of spacetime, assuming large dimensions (large compared to the Planck length).

Ehrenfest and Weyl showed this as early as 1920 and 1922, respectively.

3+1 is also baked into the Minkowski metric by the latter's definition, which leads to the Poincaré group being the isometry group on local patches of spacetime; the Poincaré group is a subgroup of the Standard Model, and is extremely well tested in controlled, laboratory settings (and supported by an abundance of observational evidence too).

Extra dimensions of spacetime have to be small compared to the Planck length in order not to be obvious today. For all practical purposes, if such tiny dimensions exist, we can safely omit them from effective theoretical descriptions of everyday physics, just like we can ignore things like very large extra dimensions where the smallest step one can take is much bigger than the Hubble diameter.
You could watch the 'Hello World' Machine Learning Recipes videos by Josh Gordon at Google. Very approachable!

The first lesson is a classifier to separate apples and oranges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxRvEZd3Mw&list=PLOU2XLYxms...
MapD has a persistent store and normally customers would keep that on an EBS volume, so they don't have to reload their data every time they spin up an AWS instance.
Has anyone here used Redux for very large applications? I'm curious if scales well beyond a few devs and 100 reducers and actions.
Dropbox just works.
Go on vacation, my itinerary, all my travel docs, critical material, it's in Dropbox, and often available offline, since wifi can be spotty. Now its in my phone and my Ipad as well. It just works. And if you're cheap like me, you manage Dropbox, not waste it.

But iCloud is the sleeper. In particular, Notes seems to be open on my desktop and all my devices. A terrific application.
It sounds like they're actually conflating the two words in question. Introductory means an introduction, like the thing that helps you get into a subject. Elementary means basic or foundational. Logic and set theory are elementary to the rest of mathematics. They're not introductory to the rest of mathematics.
Extrapolating from Techempower and from the OP's benchmarks, I got:

137% as many req/sec as Node
83% as many req/sec as Go

I'm it sure where this goes when you factor in async IO, but my guess is that Node gains a little and Go loses a lot.

When you add asyncpg to the mix my money is on Sanic winning by a long shot, in a benchmark that includes e.g., 3 queries and returning the results as JSON.
"Design for Hackers" from David Kadavy is a really great introduction to design for programmers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119998956
Are you saying this is the kind of question that an investor would only have the luxory of asking several weeks into an actual relationship?

To be fair, Reid said he spends a long time with people before pulling the trigger (40 hrs+ for founders) and you basically must come in through a refferal.
If it makes you feel any better, I've disliked him for years.

Ultimately the answers are obvious: he was never a presidential candidate before. He's never had this kind of scrutiny and exposure before.

It's one thing to be a dick when you're a real estate mogul and reality TV personality. It's a wholly different issue when you're running for the highest office in the land.
The very old iTunes search bar. I still miss it.

Basically, because the list of songs was short-ish (in CS terms), it would fiter it based on the current search textbox what seemed like instantly.

I would have a large list and filter it down each time the user types another letter: and concentrate on making that as fast as possible.
Bitmessage: a decentralized, encrypted, trustless communications protocol
fair enough but software cost 3-4x the (already high) hourly hardware cost seems excessive.
You can sink 10 years into just about any software to make it run faster. I wouldn't think that reflects on the inherent difficulty of writing a compiler in the abstract.
True. I'm just reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover, very informative. Just arrived at the chapter on cheeseparing, cheese rennet, cheese renning, and cheesesteak - fascinating, and very useful in my day job.
You're right. It's been years since I carried around a flash drive, only to lose it, or not know which flash drive has...
Yep. I think a large part of Redux's success is the genius decisions that Dan and Andrew made during its initial development. Keep the core API minimal, apply functional programming principles where possible, and provide primitives and hooks that allow others to build extensions for their own specific use cases. (The fact that they're both extremely nice and well-respected people doesn't hurt either :) )
Then compare Walmart to Kroger and Publix. Publix charges around 10% more than Walmart per Walmart's ads in exchange for more variety, fast checkout, and high service. Kroger charges a mix of that and Walmart prices on things to attract basically every demographic with similar benefits offered to customers. Both pay workers well with benefits with Publix treating them well. The result is the two collectively sucked $135 billion a year out of Walmart's potential revenue.

So, the highest profit and customer satisfaction companies in Walmart's model & market get there by providing decent pay, benefits, and job security to workers plus treating them better in Publix case. Same pattern emerges in lots of other industries. Probably better than what Walmart was doing. That Walmart keeps copying Kroger and Aldi, but not Publix which is employee-focused ;), shows they know those methods are better. Their management greed and control-freak nature makes them adopt more selectively and slowly.
Great projects exist in every language from COBOL to Lisp.
Stage 4. Acknowledge that your stuff (and software in general) is now and always buggy somewhere cause it's just too complex for humans to write correctly and whatever your efforts it will just malfunction.

State 5. Never change anything or do any useless activities or upgrades unless you really have no other choice and there's clear demonstrated value in the change.

Stage 6. Get someone else do it for you. Like the silly enthusiastic junior dev who is willing to sacrifice his weekend for some stupid problem.

Stage 7. Switch career to something sensible such as a baker.
Hi,

I have used 2checkout for years. They also accept payments from PayPal customers which helps if lot of customers want to use funds from their PayPal account.
Same, the steaming music service has heen frustraing for me, my music goes missing due to license changes etc.

I'm thinking about at least relying on keeping my own digital library again. Also, have to agree about the music stores, they were and are good fun. I say that as they seem to be making a comeback.
It's not wasting gas of the float is electric. Plenty of clean ways to charge that, especially considering they're unused during most daylight hours.
Yep, it absolutely does. See http://redux.js.org/docs/faq/Performance.html#performance-sc... for answers on that specific topic, as well as a list of some real apps and use stories at https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma... .
Sans the drone (at least as far as my knowledge on the matter goes ,which is not very far) they already do this and the maps are freely available:

http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/
I answer why I don't run Amarok on Windows - I get downvoted. Is HN just Slashdot v2.0?
"web"

Wow. That's descriptive.
I was originally replying to a user that mentioned how Ford et all respected their workers, not just paid more.

Also, I'm not sure I agree that Ford did pay more, since the string attached mean the jobs are different. If some company offered me 5% over my salary but required me to be on-call, I'd say they would actually be paying me less.
Flawless code for a fraction of the cost, matter of time?
The issue isn't the tactical implications of putting ABM launchers in Poland. The issue is the false claim (propaganda?) that the US put nuclear weapons in Poland.
Why does a store selling items in bigger boxes need to pay more?
Costco pays much better than Wal-Mart.[1] "(Costco) pays workers an average of $20.89 an hour, compared with Wal-Mart's average hourly wage of $11.83." There's an article in Forbes on why Wal-Mart shouldn't raise wages to Costco levels.

Costco has some advantages which don't involve hammering the employees. Their stores are plain warehouses. They only sell in bulk. They have a membership system, which not only encourages repeat visits, but cuts shoplifting way down. (Few shoplifters will come in, be photographed, and buy a Costco membership.)

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-walmart-cant-pay-costco-w...
BitMessage is very useful for receiving notifications from Dark Net markets.
:) Thank you for the encouragement. That's good information to know. I've got a hand wired prototype, and it seems to work ok, so my PCB is going to be similar.

That's one nice about (tube) guitar amplifiers: max current is at the power supply pin, about 72ma, despite transferring 27w or so. So your voltages are pretty high , but your traces can be pretty thin. The big thing is leaving plenty of space to prevent arcs.
" I would bet that Costco employees had more years of education, and more successful (i.e. years not fired for cause) work experience."

You'd loose money. I've met many Costco employees. Most were either high-school students or older people without degrees who simply applied for the job or were referred then got through an interview. They care more about whether you'll work hard than anything else. Then they tend to stick around longer since they get paid and treated really well so long as they work hard. Lots of retail workers would like a job at Costco or a similar place but there's just few openings since people don't quit often.
Are you saying this is the kind of question that an investor would only have the luxory of asking several weeks into an actual relationship?

Forget several weeks, probably over a much longer time period where they are socializing in a friendly way spanning multiple events/dinners etc...

I think there is this notion that there are no "politics" in the startup world which is poison to anyone entering it with the naive idea that "Idea, Talent, Traction, Timing" are everything.
Here's a link to the deck Reid talked about
http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/
On occasion I am forced to use toPDF on my ios devices, plus some gymnastics to save documents to Dropbox.

This might have been obviated by some share nonsense I did with iPhotos. Dropbox seems to be working better and better.

Available offline is the killer feature of both Dropbox and Drive. You still cannot depend on connectivity, and have to plan ahead with critical documents. It becomes part of your travel routine.
I like Jira's JQL search functionality. (This is for rather structured data, which are issues in a project management system).

It offers autocomplete for logical operators, search operators, field names and even for values (where there is a limited amount of data available to select). And it offers enough power for nearly all queries I could think of so far.

(In contrast to SQL there are no subselects or explicit joins, but there are plugins that make subselects available).
Don't forget: Facebook capitalized on the scheme by offering above-market wagesa and refusing to participate. They poached a lot of good engineers that way.
Right. Unfortunately, Rotate and Repave are not common practice, just like periodically restoring backups isn't.
Bringing the Talents of Project Managers to Live with Agile Project Management
That's the website of the Black Lives Matter Network, which has little control or influence over what people who identify as part of Black Lives Matter believe, advocate or do.
Sure, but a simplistic C++ compiler will still produce code of acceptable speed. The same is not true of simplistic compilers for languages like Javascript.

Meta-tracing a la PyPy is such a revolution because it enables low-cost creation of reasonably performant tracing JIT compilers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12714756
Have fun:

http://crackmes.de/archive/
You don't seem to realize that allowing labor to move from critical/essential work to nonessential work is a good thing. That's how the system is supposed to work. What would you call sommeliers, chefs who create Michelin-rated restaurants, movie stars/writers/producers, surfing instructors, etc if not nonessential?

Automation makes things cheaper. Look at food, it was the largest expense for most families for a very long time. Now for most families in the US it's not even close. We have taken the jobs that used to be in that area and gotten rid of them, and instead moved them into service industries like the ones I referenced above. Making things cheaper means more disposable income to be spent on luxury/nonessential items, which creates a market which didn't really exist, which in turn creates jobs. This is not hard stuff here.
We're working on it. One day I expect it'll be considered normal.
Plus, he wanted his employees to be able to afford one of his vechicles.

He wanted a consumer base.

With Globilization--they can build it in the cheapest country, and ship it to anyone around the world.

What bothers me with American entrepreneurs who follow this business methodology is they took advantage of our school system, relatively safe neighborhoods, relatively fair legal system, and they turn around and build their widget in the cheapest chit hole country that pops up.

And when things don't go their way they use our legal system/government to work out their dilemmas. And of course, they would never live in the country that makes their product? Except for tax purposes?

At least have the decency to move to that country you make your widget in? I don't want people like you as my neighbor.

It took a few moral/hard working generations to make a culture that could coddle entrepreneurs. Let's just see how long it will take for the system to break down/tarnish, and we turn into just another chit hole country? A country with desperate citizens. A country where people will do anything to make a buck. A county with no morals/ethics.

I really find them disgusting. Sorry. I just do. I won't be back for the MBA's rebuttal. (Remember who paid for that line of thinking. Remember the generations before that sacrificed for your current theories. Remember that father with the good union job that is now pretty much gone. Argue with your kind.)
Hyper-Reality – provocative kaleidoscopic new vision of the future
There's probably a good reason they are using server hardware. But sure, just like you could slap consumer CPUs into a server for a cheaper unit cost, you could use consumer GPUs.
Yep, sorry about that:

Here is the Titan X link http://bit.ly/2e6C3Gg

Here is the K80 link: http://bit.ly/2eiIwvp
As of now it is up again, just noticed it personally. So no need for backups or archive.org :)
I suppose I did start parroting what I said last time I commented here on kratom thread, yeesh.

I ought to have qualified it with a disclaimer if I was just going to repeat myself. I feel it's decent basic information on kratom for the uninitiated, but I didn't mean to parrot myself like that. It's been a long week.

My apologies, and thank you for clarifying.
Huh? Why would a connection to reality be required to get started with machine learning?
See, the thing is: I spend much of my time trying to show people that good tools can be used to make good software. We have MUCH misinformation, and people don't even understand that you can prove a software right using theorem provers, don't know anything about type system - "C has types but they don't work" - and etc. I've heard arguments like this all the time, and that really sucks, because then you get limited by tools "you can hire people to work with".

In fact, I've been hearing for 10 years things like "what, OCaml? where do we hire someone to work on this?", "Haskell? nobody uses that", and more recently "we cannot use Rust as we don't have anyone that can possibly understand this". Saying "PHP is just another language/tool" is just throwing the towel without trying to understand anything.

What would you think if someone said "coal is just another fuel, stop trying to push electric, let me use coal and go on with life"? Well, a lot of people believe this, but let's pretent there's a consensus on this, shall we?

So, the question is: you CAN use PHP for doing web development. You can also use coal as a fuel. Not only that, but all libraries are written with this in mind, all code bases and fragments of code are focused on web development, etc. Coal is also combustible, a lot of manufactures dominate the technology, it's cheap, so.. hey, energy!

Even if the language is pure crap - as coal is as a fuel - people will only hit the crappy parts when their system is already implemented and being used by more people. "Hey, this language has a lot of issues" - "hey, this coal thing really polutes". Too late. You already have a full system implemented, you have experience with the language - or energy production technology... so you just change your workflow to accommodate this. Or you just never realize it - "whatever, no big deal" - and keep using it, as you see the advantages as more important.

There's tons of factors that contribute to the PHP popularity - the same thing with C, Perl, etc. Doesn't mean the language is good, and also doesn't mean everyone has to agree with you that "it's just another tool, let's go back to business".

So yeah, no.. I won't let you go on with PHP, sorry. I want better tools, better systems, and I want to spread knowledge. I guess we are going to agree to disagree on that.
The principle of sending whatever is important, but in reality most modern consumption literally follows the ethos of 'go fast'. Perhaps dropping Websockets helps out; it's a freedom of choice to pick speed over compatibility.
Blooper Fixed :)
I don't know that they need to, but I can see where it would be beneficial to pay more if it led to better service of the more affluent customers that frequent the stores.

The point about the large packages and much smaller number of items was more that they need less labor to keep the shelves full.
Don't laugh: this is the next big step in cloud computing infrastructure. Imagine Linux compiled to the BrainFuck ISA running a Docker container running a BrainFuck web application. Of course, we will clearly need a solid BrainFuck-to-JS transpiler to make things web scale.

Could it get better than that?
But we already have engineering experts in the field telling product it's not a good idea. The problem isn't the lack of expertise, it's the lack of ability to push back on a stupid task. The point is, there is no mediation here. If a UI/UX person can tell them what a bad idea is, so should an engineer be able to. Thus, engineering cannot be the slave of product in an effective organization and product that insists on its pixel perfect designs is by definition low quality (because nobody is perfect).
The instruction encoding seems inefficient -- they don't use the full 4 bits of information (the first bit is always zero except for `.`). Why not use a 3-bit encoding, since there are 8 instructions?
LOL. I work in the same building as Urban. I'll be sure to point it out to him on Monday, I'm sure he'll be amused (or annoyed at my position in the queue of people that have already informed him of this). :D
They left their source map open. Interresting tech choices:

- React / Redux / mapbox-gl

I always look at the data table implementation to see how far people go. And here they made their own implementation based on d3.

Here's the sources for those curious: https://github.com/d8d/mapd-sources/tree/master/out
Technically, they aren't rats, but "muskrat catcher" is a profession in parts of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat#In_human_history:

"In some European countries, such as Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, the muskrat is considered an invasive pest, as its burrowing damages the dikes and levees on which these low-lying countries depend for protection from flooding. In those countries, it is trapped, poisoned, and hunted to attempt to keep the population down"
We'll probably start hearing it again as we slowly move to a demand delivery grocery model.