skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they have good revenue, but their insanely high expenses (coming mostly from the high number of employees, but probably other things that assume hyper growth too) make it impossible to turn a good profit.
alrigth then. let's fire up virtual box with a Windows image to check this out :D
Only 100 works of art? I guess the highend art world thrives on artificial scarcity.
A thoughtful articles, but funnily enough, the thing that I like most about it is not the main proposal, but the recognition that the standard library needs improvement. One of the things that I find most offputting about Go is the aggressive insistence that some folks have that the standard library is all you need.
Thats what happens when some of your biggest investors live in Saudi Arabia.
The sad thing is that the market will love this and the stock will go up, while many engineers wonder where their job went, and mid-managers/execs will reap a profit.
Admit It. The Clinton Email Controversy Bothers You
Back when Steven first stopped writing USS Clueless, I was concerned that the content would go away. He sent me, at my request, an archive of the site, which I hosted at Electric Minds for a time. That archive is now available on my site [0].

He was a great influence on everyone who read him, including me. He will be sorely missed.

[0] https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless/
How bad is it looking at the examples and thinking "I love that lambda symbol as a prompt. I want"

I have to revisit my base setup soon. The 1990s wants its bash_profile back
Usually it is about resources.

Half of the commits are from single person, and if he doesn't have or strongly care about Windows, the support just wouldn't be there to maintain it.

That doesn't mean you are forbidden to try it ;)

I have to admit, last I wanted to have IHaskell on windows, I just ran it in docker :-)
Me too. Hi.

If an entrepreneur is worried about "Work Life Balance", I think he/she is in the wrong business.
The double plus enhanced version of the old spell "Charm monster" now comes with an option to raise awareness of the wizard mode in it's victims.
In that place between physical frequencies and brains there is some appreciation that different tuning standards feel different.

I play a lot at A=440, but I also play a lot at A=415 - mostly on the viola da gamba. A=415 is roughly one semitone lower, and it changes the way the instruments resonate. My viol happens to sound good at either pitch, but as an ensemble we find that when we're playing at A=440 the whole sound doesn't blend in quite the same satisfying way. This is due to the construction of the instruments themselves, but also just how those slightly lower pitches sound.

Oh and recorders built to A=415 just sound great. I think that slightly bigger body gives them the chance to produce a richer resonance, but then again you also don't find cheap plastic recorders (or cheap wooden ones) built at A=415 because only "serious" players go looking for those instruments.

One nitpick on the article though - historical tunings don't range from A=415, my recorder teacher has two flutes at what is sometimes called "French baroque pitch" - that's A=392!
As of 2014 the powertrain warranty (Tesla refers to it as drive unit warranty) is 8 years + unlimited miles http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/08/tesla-extend...

The 4/50,000 is bumper-to-bumper.
That is the standard fallacy when people predict the future.

It'll be just like now, but better. Cars will fly. Housemaids will be robots. Computers will talk, but still take up entire rooms.

But the future isn't just more or better. It's also different. That's much harder to predict and grasp.
If you are interested in Concorde, this thread (which starts a little slowly) eventually ropes in some of the plane's original designers, pilots, and even a flight attendant. They talk about every aspect of the plane in the best aviation thread I've ever found online. It's amazing reading.

CAUTION: huge timesink hazard.

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html
http://www.universetoday.com/131557/either-stars-strange-234...

"The Breakthrough team don’t seem that excited about Borra’s findings. They’ve already poured cold water on it, trotting out the old axiom that “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” in a statement on Borra’s paper. They also give Borra’s findings a score of 0 to 1 on the Rio Scale. The Rio Scale is something used by the international SETI community to rank detections of phenomena that could indicate advanced life beyond Earth. A rating of 0 to 1 means its insignificant.

Better reign in the headline writers."
Note that neither dpkg -i nor rpm -i with a downloaded .deb or .rpm is any better than curl | sh. Installing .deb or .rpm packages is more than just unpacking an archive, it's effectively giving root to the package author: both .deb and .rpm files can have embedded scripts that are run at install time. This is probably true for all Linux distro package formats (I hope there are exceptions, but I'm not putting too much faith in that).
Stock options. It starts at the top:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cuplqd1XEAEre6n.jpg:large

Being paid $72M p.a to oversee ~$500M p.a in losses. Great job if you can get it.
I think what you want so say is:

"How does ethics enter into your investment choices? I see you feature Palantir prominently and I have strong feelings about mass government surveillance."

If this is a serious question, maybe don't start with something so aggressive?
Possible way to unlock SIM card?
What are the possible ways to unlock sim card? I tried two of the online services which claimed to do so but all failed.
We built a system, where user can construct complex search criteria and submitted for result.
We were passing the criteria using a custom dsl (lot of coding in front-end to construct and parsing logic in back-end).

This will be a perfect match for those kind of cases.
Having effective universal computing and making it usable for people are different enough that there's plenty of room for people specializing in both. Consumer hardware isn't anywhere near finished changing, and I'm sure a lot of the changes on the server level will continue to affect the hardware in people's hands. Intelligence is partially a matter of coordination. It's best to have lots of devices with specialized tasks, so there's room for phones, home servers, data centers, and all the IoT devices. Smart phones were always dumb without a lot of networking. Technology is developed enough that we're seeing the development of ecosystems that are almost as interdependent as natural ecosystems.
Cinemas, during the film :)
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Google being a made up word is probably copyright and trademarked... and probably could be more broadly enforced.
The YAGNI Principle
I would keep learning and exploring math until I drop dead.
In the event of a total nuclear war, wouldn't it be imperative for all sides to destroy all cultural and scientific artifacts of their opponents?
There's also Chris Davis' Idle Theory: https://web.archive.org/web/20160513191724/http://www.idlex....

As Ran Prieur, owner of another similar rabbit hole, once put it:
"The idea is that the purpose of life is not to accomplish something, but to do as little as possible."

Ran Prieur is here (anti-consumerism and beyond): http://www.ranprieur.com
Study art & animation
I'm surprised that no one mentioned wait but why yet: http://waitbutwhy.com
Clearly you have never encountered the strange "comma first" brigade.
I remember one place that had a "wall" plugin at login where you could leave public messages, and the BBS software also included some special escape sequences that would resolve to the current user's name, phone number, etc. Not a real security hole since you could only show someone their own information, but it was bags of laughs to post something like "Hey <firstname>, I've been trying to get hold of you all week! Isn't your home # <phonenumber>?"
I also love the organization and writing style. I read reviews for things I'm not even remotely in the market for (what is an immersion blender?) simply for the enjoyment. Another great review site with a similar style is outdoorgearlab.com.
How VR Will Make Humanity More Responsible
Has anyone read the actual book mentioned in the blog? Opinions?
Scores seems to be very poor, look at the happiness and angry results. Totally doesn't match with the faces. Bad online presentation of this services.
Sublime vs Atom if you prefer.

The point still stands
They qualified the statement with "rarely". And even if new stuff is being researched, it's very rare to be life changing for most developers.

Instead we get yet another generic build tool or MVC framework. React actually reminds me of writing php/asp code more than a decade ago.
Spot on. Author of IHaskell here; written the majority of the IHaskell codebase, and, as you guessed, I haven't used Windows in over a decade.

That said, I am happy to help folks get it working natively under Windows. There is a somewhat challenging technical issue, which is that IHaskell uses the Haskell `unix` package, because it needs supports for creating and using pipes in order to intercept stdin, stderr, and stdout. I'm sure that this is somehow also doable on Windows, but it just takes someone who wants to dive in and get it working; I'd be happy to advise such a person and merge any changes they need to make.
Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
I've been a web developer for the past 10 years and I've mostly used PHP in my projects. I've also had a chance to code in JavaScript, C#, Delphi. I've had the chance to build large website (>500k users/day) and desktop apps used by millions of users per month, but I always used the technologies that felt comfortable to me. I knew Zend Framework very well, so I used that one to build the services.

My "oh wow" moment was when I discovered Phalcon PHP framework (https://phalconphp.com/en/) about a year ago. I've switched all our projects on this framework and saved thousands of $$ because of the performance impact.

The other thing that made my day was when I discovered Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/). I never knew Python, but I decided to give it a try. The performance is amazing (I always thought that it was slower than PHP - I was wrong) and it seems I can build the projects faster that I ever could using PHP (with any framework).

What were your "wow" moments in your career? What was your best decision to improve your work?
You should check out imgix as well. They have a really nice crop feature along with automatic quality adjustment and serving different formats (webp/jpg) where available.
https://docs.imgix.com/apis/url/size/crop
Coming from a more "bottom up" perspective it's likely that the derivation of these numbers are related to the implementation rather than anything to do with the musical theory. Digital technology makes working with arbitrary numbers quite straightforward but often times certain number patterns simply "emerge" as a result of characteristics of components, integration with other legacy technologies or even just ease of calculation. Then these numbers just become legacy themselves and you're stuck with them!
YouTube is being rebuilt on Web Components and Polymer
It's a Haskell kernel for Jupyter. The nomenclature is a bit outdated, with the title (and a few other places) referring to IPython when they mean Jupyter; this is because a few years back there was no such thing as Jupyter, and the entire thing was called IPython, so it was accurate to say that IHaskell was a kernel for IPython.
Sadly not. 8 hours going west, 6 hours going east. An ideal flight is about 12 hours, giving uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep as well as time for a movie, dinner and breakfast. Even better if there's no jetlag. London to Joburg for example.

East cost flights to Europe are horrible.
You don't really have to know anything. And the current free course does not have anything to do with neural nets. They use monte carlo, kalman filters, particle filters, PID, etc. You should feel comfortable with probability theory and if you know some linear algebra, the kalman filter example is going to make a lot more sense.
> Y6553 Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part

That's horrifying.
It would be useful for those who have recommendation questions

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254393/what-exactly-...
In my experience if you use multiple Google accounts you get login prompts all the time: half the time the Google Doc/Drive link requires me to switch to another account, and occasionally asking for password confirmation as well.
Yeah I think this is a good use case. But is that going to be a huge business for Microsoft/Google/Amazon?

There are serious companies (like Netflix) that put their entire infrastructure on cloud platforms. If the concerns the OP raises are valid, no company for whom ML is a big (read: high usage, high paying) feature is going to rely on these cloud services. And startups that do rely on the cloud services for their MVPs are going to move off as quickly as they can. I can't think of any successful cloud platform for which MVPs and small features are the main customer use case. Heroku comes to mind, but even then there are mid-size companies that do rely mostly on Heroku.
IME, most environments are this toxic. At least the ones hiring are.
Graceful shutdown with Node.js and Kubernetes
Why this? Burnt-out entrepreneurs are failed entrepreneurs, aren't they?

There's always a limit on how much time you can spend per day, and this limit is far below the time you are awake. Push it too far, and you do not only lose your working power, but also your motivation and your inspiration.
Haskellers tend to be fond of their type system.
But somehow this is only a huge deal in Syria and irrelevant in Yemen...
> Taxiing to the runway consumed 2 tons of fuel.

Wow. Just wow. These engines are obviously far from their designed power band when taxiing, but this is incredibly inefficient.

So basically the travellers would cause more pollution in the 10 minutes of taxiing than in maybe 10 hours of driving a car...
Fidonet was neat. I think I sent a message to a Fidonet forum in Thailand or Cambodia (from Oregon) once, and someone answered, but it was about a two week round trip. For anyone not familiar, a participating BBS would dial up its upstream hub in the wee hours of the morning and exchange messages, and the hubs used dial up as well, so sending messages between major cities took days, depending on how many hops they took. Toward the end there were even some email gateways, so you could send reeeeaaally slow email as well.
This is a throw away account. I'm writing this because I'm the embodiment of poor and the embodiment of lack of social mobility.

As a child of divorce, I lived in affluent suburbia. However, everything was devoted to keeping the house and to food. There was next to nothing for anything else. I had three jobs going through high school. When I was in school I was told that I couldn't qualify for financial aid because of how much money my father made. His life was dedicated to revenge on my mother and he spent HUGE swaths of money to avoid paying $200/month in child support. Getting money from him for tuition or getting him to sign on the student loan forms was an impossibility. Ironically, I had none of the advantages of being poor.

Graduating average was going to be 96%. They kicked me out at the last minute almost. Truancy. I had the flu for a couple of days. Doctor's note required. The father trying to make my mother's life a living hell by yelling everyday at school administrators did not help either. Nothing in my life was stranger than having a school administrator that I had never previously interacted with tell me that they want to kick me out of the school simply to make life easier for themselves.

Finding employment in 'my field' had not been easy. Usually I worked at mind numbing non-WDS Windows 7 deployments for a one or two month stint. I have not been able to ever get work 'in my field' that paid over $20,000 USD per year. I've had employment where I was programming at minimum wage and the clients were billed $3000 USD per day for my work. Respectfully negotiating was of course fruitless in this situation. I've been in this sort of situation several times. The worst people seem to find me and take advantage. Usually, pay to billing factors are between 5-10.

I started to not want to interact with employers in person. I started making my living making making Android Apps for clients on RFQ sites until 2014. I was getting paid from $50 to $400 per app or app framework. One client took one project and now has over 100 million users across a dozen similar apps. I was hoping I could start to charge more but that never seemed to happen. The best thing that happened was that I had people halfway around the world constantly hounding me to work at what was essentially still minimum wage.

I am lucky because I took an early interest in Bitcoin. I'm willingly hiding in the lowest caste of society. I'm trying to work on myself. I'd like to be treated like a human being one day by an employer, when I am ready.

I'm not writing this to ask for help. I'm writing this to say that the stigma of being at the bottom is very very real. And while it, at least for me, has predominatly been an internal battle of asserting self-worth, there are definitely people who saw the precarious situation that I was in and use it for their advantage. Or to revel in being cruel.
Femto Photography [video]
Yes. In my opinion the 1.8" HDDs are the main technological feature that made the iPod possible.

To me, this was the most amazing thing about the iPod. 5GB inside this tiny package... it seemed impossible before I learned about those tiny hard drives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Modeling_Lang...

http://bpmn.io/
I'll start --- I once spent a couple days on a summer job looking through industrial incidents rel
http://www.appsloaded.com
I did Computer Aided Drug Design for my undergrad. I wish I knew this
Very short-sighted thinking. Most multinationals were started by entrepreneurs, some even bear their names: e.g. Boeing, Ford, Dell, Bristol-Myers-Squibb. If you create a start-up unfriendly regime ( like in EU currently), they don't get started. Out of 1000 startups one becomes Boeing and 20 become sustainable medium size businesses that can be discarded for the microeconomic estimates.
"Investment bankers" do absolutely love companies that raise money (and the faster they burn it the better, so they come back to raise more).
- drop web development and learn low level programming and hardware.

- spend more time volunteering in animal sanctuaries.

- never read another business book or listen to a business podcast again.

- never think about marketing, SEO, CAC, conversion rates again.

- spend more time cooking.
I had a similar experience. I grew up eating spicy food, with no issues whatsoever, aside from the topside burn. At 21 I experienced a tipping point wherein my gut became sensitive to spicy foods. I had to rethink my relationship with spicy food, else cope with the symptoms you describe.

I am very curious what the physiological basis for this change is.
If you are comfy with Java, consider Ninja Framework for your backend. Dead simple configuration and ramp-up time. All of my sites based on it have been so fast (page loads < 50ms), I have had no need for AJAX at all.
When an entrepreneur is excited about a thing she's building, the truthful answer to "how many hours per day do you work" is typically "zero or twenty-four, depending on what you consider work."

I agree entrepreneurs can get burnt out, but at that point it's become a "job" and is probably time to move on.
The strange problem that I've experienced, as tszyn mentioned, is that in the shop, after 10/15 minutes, it feels great (to me felt better than the Aeron), then the bad surprise is in the long term.
You absolutely see it in TBS broadcasts of Family Guy, where they can get away with speeding up the show without impacting its look and feel tremendously.
I'm in the same position. Plus with too many short term positions on your resume it makes finding a job at all (let alone a decent one) harder.

I have been at one place that was good though, unfortunately I left it to relocate. I haven't found anyway remotely close to the same quality in they ~6 years since.

I've developed a few proxy questions to estimate exactly how shit they are though.
Online Pitching for Startup Bootcamp (an Asian Accelerator)
The author clearly understands the git concepts.
>3d models

blasphemy
I found this quite cool. 1 line pitches in the comments that you can get instant feedback on. Full disclosure, I'm an alumnus of this accelerator.
Tesla spun bad statistics to make that claim. They're comparing highway driving to all driving, and highway driving is statistically safer. They're also ignoring demographics, as Tesla owners tend to be affluent and older. If you take this into consideration, it actually suggests that it's less safe, however with such a tiny sample size it's too early to draw any conclusions from the data.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/0...
> Whoa. Your last comment before this one was 6.2 years ago.

Now that's what I call Lurking ;)

Too bad there's no Stackoverflow-style badge for it.
I've been past this point for about a year now, living on the profits of my business stuff, all of which is ticking away well enough that I can get away with a 10 minute or less "work day" most days.

As others here have predicted, I spend a lot of time outdoors (having moved to France specifically for the rock climbing) and building tree forts in the back garden for the kids. Pretty much any day can be a day off, so if the sun is shining you probably won't find me at the computer.

I also find I still work quite a bit (which translates to a few days a week for me). Partly because I realize that products come and go, and that these ones will eventually plateau then fade away, so I'd better have another one in the pipeline to replace them when that happens.

But partly because it's fun. This has been my hobby since I was a kid, and it's only an accident that somebody decided that we should start paying computer programmers hundreds of thousands of dollars back in the 90s. Had that not happened, I'd be an Engineer who programmed in his spare time. I used to spend most of each year traveling, and I'd find that the thing that brought me back to the "world" was never money, but the need to use my brain again.

I bet that even if this next thing [1] takes off and leaves me idle again, I'll probably find another fun project to work on.

[1] https://unwaffle.com/
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Here's some interesting reading about a more rigorous treatment of the Dirac delta: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function#As_a_di...