skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if that was too vague. VR is an interesting technology but I am very skeptical of it gaining wide spread adoption. That is why I don't think it should be considered a defining feature of a phone.
Monsanto RIP
I can't imagine there is anything other than a sliding scale at work here. It's difficult to come up with hard and fast, absolute rules.

But there seem to be some easy wins - there is an increasing trend of Jewish users being on the receiving end of tweets suggesting that they belong in an oven. I've seen some tweets showing than when the user reports said tweet, Twitter replies saying that there has been no rule violation and that the user won't be suspended.

Working out a better policy for outright hate speech like that seems like a good start.
My guess is, your down votes relate to your implicit equation of abuse to politics - as though saying statements that politically disagree with you are abuse.
While likely not specifically what the submitter was looking for (that is, will help you get hired), the fact that I immediately searched for "gwern" in the comments so I could upvote or submit myself points towards it definitely being am example of a personal site/project that is memorable.
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Yes, the book is excellent and also recommended :) But for me, having an understanding of git's internals really helped provide a foundation for the rest. Otherwise a lot of the stuff (like rebases, or amend commits...) were just black magic.
The windows install/reinstall is pretty much guaranteed to be a huge pain. Its only easy when someone else set it up in advance for you.

You need have the original install media for each application because there is no centralized repo. For things you downloaded you need to go running around and re-download things, even basic things like drivers.

If you get the wrong network drivers because you misread a model number then you pretty much need a second machine.

This would be a minor thing if I didn't do a ton of windows installs when my friends and families got viruses. I have since given them one re-install and after that if they want me to clean up their virus they get Ubuntu. Dad and Grandma haven't got a virus since their Ubuntu installations and my Brother figured out his shit either he reinstalls and doesn't tell me or stopped getting viruses.
Not a Star Wars theme but the one that worked the best for me was Ravel's Bolero.
How do they get wifi or bluetooth to extend to (1k/3,200ft) when standard wifi or bluetooth is less than 400ft?

Are they taking control of the wifi chip and making it so the packets are allowed to take much longer to arrive to cover the greater distances?
Forget coding. I am so used to at least 2 monitors that working on a laptop screen makes me uncomfortable even for basic surfing. I do it only when traveling since I have no choice.

But I know a team member who actually prefers working on a laptop screen and he writes a lot more code. So I guess it comes down to personal preferences.
I'm not aware of one that covers the entire economy. Do you mean the Total Stock Market Index [0]? There is also a corresponding Total Bond Market Index [1], so that you can balance between the two. (Also, international versions.)

[0] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0585&...

[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0584&...
How Does Tumblebit Compare to Monero and Zcash?
Microsoft, I Forgive You
Yeah, I don't care much about the up / down vote on a comment.

I did want to address setting up the distro so people have a general idea when reading the comments. It is pretty hard the first time around. Having set up Arch 5 or 6 times over the last few years, it takes me 20 minutes. My friend has his up in 5 - 10; it's really easy to deploy once you know how a computer system works. I don't think it's extreme for developers, and honestly it has one of the better documention and like I said, having tried many distros Arch is usually one of the most up-to-date and stable. I run it on my home computer with GNOME and my wife doesn't even know the distro, and she zips around, watches movies, plays music, uses Google Drive or Libre, etc.
Actually, you on your campus might want to try out Jodel – it’s basically a German YikYak clone, but it still has all the anonymity in it.
>A PhD is stressful and takes 5-6 years, but it can be a great experience with the correct expectations and a solid plan. The main problem is that most PhD students don't seem to think about those things nearly enough and have unreasonable expectations.

Honestly, I think the main problem is mostly that PhD students are, on the one hand, full-grown adults supporting themselves, and yet are, on the other hand, paid McDonalds wages to do the most intensive intellectual work our society has for Goldman Sachs hours.
10:00 SVT https://backchannel.com/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-narrativ...
This looks a lot more sophisticated than my starter pack for the same stack, though it would be a good idea to add a Dockerfile. [0]

[0] https://github.com/gigster-eng/python-starter
https://medium.mybridge.co/22-amazing-open-source-react-proj...
This is my personal experience. So it is not going to match anyone else's experience. From my personal experience this is not true at all. I am student and I do see a lot of people. Everybody , I mean Everybody (other than 1 people I know personally) would prefer iPhone over Android without question, the only problem for them was high price of iPhone, there is no competition, they chose android just because of price of it. That was the only reason they were using android phones or service. If they have money to buy it (most of them were student , and short on money) they would change to iPhone in heartbeat.
Applications of topology in computer algorithms
I have to say, the work being done on Servo is really exciting—the first tectonic shift in browser engines to come along in years.

pcwalton's talk about WebRender earlier this year[1] was one of those rare technical presentations that left my jaw on the floor. In particular, the insight that modern browsers are just AAA game engines with a security model, so they should be architected similarly, changed the way I think about browsers. That game developers and Mozilla are both so excited by Rust's ability to safely write parallel systems at scale makes a lot of sense.

[1]: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/#...
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258
Yep. But the same can be said for a lot of tech that eventually trickles down to the mainstream. Video teleconferencing was once the domain of enterprise and higher education but now your mom does video calls on Facebook or Hangouts or Skype when she wants to see the grandkids (maybe not your mom but lots of moms)

I actually think VR telepresence is a lot more intriguing to me than just playing cooler looking video games. I mean...the game stuff is the easiest thing to do first because you've already got established frameworks in place for the creation and rendering of complex 3d environments. But when you start getting into depth cams or light field cams combines with more advanced and ergonomic display hardware and high speed networks, you're moving toward having the pieces in place to allow people to virtually be someplace else and communicate with others in a way a webcam can't replicate.

Definitely interested to see how that field looks in 10-15 years.
Funny, I saw no man coming here.
Interesting; can you expand on that?
There are a lot of comments here such as "Git has a horrible UI/UX", "I don't want to have to learn the inner workings of a tool", "Certain systems are designed so well that they can be understood as black boxes", and a lot of other complaining about Git and it's idiosyncrasies.

I think this needs to be dissected a bit. First, Git operates in a manner (internally) that is foreign to most users of other SCM systems. Second, Git has a bit of a "tacked-on" nature to it's CLI that can make use cumbersome for newcomers especially when they have been taught the shortcuts before the fundamentals.

For the first problem, I think this is where the black-box comments apply. And honestly, I think treating SCMs as black boxes is what got us into the situation we were in before Git. Version control, branching, merging, change management, and change deconfliction are hard problems, IMO. Personally, I think the base level functions that Git provides, combined with Git workflows from Atlassian (and others) really helps provide a daily routine to handle these situations. After cloning: branch -> change -> index (or update) -> commit -> pull -> fix conflicts -> commit -> push -> merge (or pull request) -> repeat. There are some variations depending on your branching model, but by-in-large this is what prevents regressions and forces people doing the committing to resolve the changes and not to break master.

I think you need to understand the "internals" of any SCM to really be able to conquer the challenges of distributed version control and the complexities of modern software development. I've worked in Rational ClearCase shops, and we needed a ClearCase guru on site too. Every team should have a Git guru.

For the second problem, yes, the CLI is a bit clunky at times. This, combined with a misunderstanding of Git fundamentals can lead you down some bad paths. Cleaning up the CLI is an independent problem from Git internals - and I'll admit some taxonomy/hierarchy/ontology/whatever of commands is probably needed to refine the day to day workflows. However, if you mess up the repo because you don't understand the branching and merging model, you are going to have to use the more "specialized" commands which, let's face it are going to be a bit more cryptic. This is the same for any system that has some maintenance or repair type functionality.

This is why I say, learning how Git works, allows you to learn the branching model better, which will hopefully allow you to avoid those particularly thorny paths.

Sure, you can choose some other SCM system that seems less cryptic or easier to use, but you will likely find yourself in a bind someday in those systems that you will need it's cryptic commands to get out of. Or more likely, doing a lot of work that Git would have allowed you to do in a fraction of the time.
Noisy Data in Data Mining
https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/16
so, a cd. You can't buy an index fund, because for the timeframe we're talking there's a high risk the market will be down when a big opportunity presents itself.

My problem with the article is that it's missing the important piece, which is the types of opportunities this guy is talking about. My personal experience, is about once or twice a decade a good investment (10% APR or better with low risk) comes my way. Housing is an obvious one in a several areas, but I've also seen business opportunities as well.

I'd say it's not great advice in general for most people though. You have to be vigilant for opportunities, and for most people, if you already have a mortgage, 401k is often better than IRA since it's matched (be careful of 401k with >1% annual fees, there's an inflection point where lifetime fees costs more than the matching).
Does only one company need to win? I don't think so. 91% of smartphone profits go to Apple! I had no idea it was that high. http://fortune.com/2016/02/14/apple-mobile-profit-2015/
Of course that doesn't account for profits from web activity, which is dominated by Google.

Apple will continue to make incredible profits on hardware, while google will do the same with advertising on the mobile platform.
This isn't even a well formed question. How would you compare the two? There isn't even one Android phone to point to as the basis of comparison, or one corporate bottom line.

Do we count the money lost by Samsung in this last flub? Do we count Xiomei even though their economics are quite different from Apple?

Everyone is so eager to justify the idea that Apple "won" a war of some sort. Jaded tech writers on their throne of paper and blood pronouncing it "done" because they're bored, while the stuff we've seen in Microsoft and Google's R&D demos suggest it's just getting started.
Devdocs.io – API Documentation Browser (like Dash)
Some ramblings about Twitter
>"a degree in how to do research"

Well, here is how I was taught to do research:

1) You come up with a vague idea that one thing should be
positively/negatively correlated with another thing.
2) You measure some proxies for those two things that have only
been half-validated, if at all.
3) You make a bunch of dubious statistical assumptions and check
whether there was *exactly zero* correlation between the two proxies.
4a) Your sample size was too small relative to the noisiness of
the measurements and p>0.05. So you ignore the result.
4b) Your sample size was large enough, or you got lucky and p<0.05.
So you publish saying these results support your theory or are
counter-intuitive, depending on the direction of the correlation.

Please do not think this is at all a critique of my institution/instructors, this is a (the?) method being taught as "science" worldwide. Basically, I have nothing to add that hasn't been said before about that method:

http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/staff/christianb/downloads/me...

http://bml.bioe.uic.edu/BML/Stuff/Stuff_files/biologist%20fi...
I bought the Custom Art Music One that I linked to in the above post. Most of the reviews I'd read agreed that it was an insanely good deal considering the quality-per-dollar ratio. And I don't regret it.

Maintenance: there's a little wire loop with a plastic handle included in the pelican case it ships with, lets you clean wax out of the canal. Tip: if you think one of your headphones is dead, just clean the wax out of the canal, it was blocking the sound. That's it – super simple, no idea what other maintenance you might be talking about.

Insertion/removal: nope, still quite easy. You have to give them a slight twist but definitely not hard.

Can't speak to the Music Two vs. Music One because I only have the latter, but I'll tell you that I've owned a decent number of headphones (in ear, over ear) and that the Music One are the best I've ever had.

EDIT: I swear I'm not shilling for this company. There are plenty of other great IEMs on the market. I just like these.
Here is also a somewhat representative example of various grid initialization pay attention to version 3 where the compiler unrolls the loop in O3 its likely the fastest version. https://godbolt.org/g/mMBhuW
Simply by using the phone's GPS and sending all messages to a centralized server which then broadcasts it to the "in the area" participants.
While most people here will probably disagree, I believe that Microsoft's approach, that is, with AR, will be more successful. Virtual Reality has yet to prove that it can be useful in areas other gaming.

Augmented Reality has plenty of use cases - in more areas than the consumer space. For example, the demo that Microsoft showed off yesterday with testing out how furniture looks before you buy it could be huge. Or how about an app that has you stand in front of a mirror and try on clothes - online?

AR is life++; VR is reinventing life. The former will almost inevitably come easier and find more success, at least initially.
Palantir has been deployed into banks for years.
Brave is also testing micropayments, with a 5% cut, https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
So we are paying to remove ads?
Twitter is currently in the trough of the hype curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
Skills are recursive. If you're jack-of-all-trades, it means that while you're neither good at A, nor B, nor C..., you're good at the combination of X = {A, B, C, ...} ;). Find something for which you need to apply many of the skills you have - single-minded people won't be able to follow you there ;).
Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go
I think I understand what you mean... but basically your data with get put in a store and you access it in your component. Its similar to ember-data its just doing less behind the scenes. For example you do an action, fetch, then reduce, then store your data in immutable objects. In ember this is all done for you so its more code.
Like the simplicity. Maybe flattr could create a similar plugin? Their support buttons didn't get enough traction, unfortunately.
Lowell and Fitchburg aren't that far away, and have plenty of cheap commercial real estate, unless by "facilities" you mean a fully dressed laboratory/shop; and by "Boston area" you meant Boston, Cambridge and maybe Somerville...
> You sure it's not sinking?

As the article implies, it isn't far from profitability, and is cutting back to ensure it will be profitable.

Silicon Valley demands hockey-stick growth, but there's no reason why Twitter can't keep ticking along comfortably.
Thanks for mentioning this. You've hit the question I've been focusing on most. I've been a Twitter user for more than 10 years at this point, and for a long time they weren't as serious about abuse as I wanted. Not even close. But I think this time might be different.

I want to be careful to respect my NDA here, but I think I can fairly say that a) I was totally skeptical when I first started talking to them, and b) I now think there is a lot of reason for hope.

Private stuff aside, I think there are a couple of public reasons to think this may be the turning point. One is the enormous beating they've been taking in the press about this for the last year or so. The other is that their abuse problem was a big factor in them not getting offers from a couple of suitors during their attempt to sell themselves. I think it's safe to say their abuse problem cost investors literally billions of dollars. That is a pretty big learning opportunity.
Check this out: https://github.com/zeit/hyper
The Secret of How Pearls Form
What about those of us who don't have internal voices?
Somewhat. Sinecures come in many forms.

Tenure's more important because it means you can say naughty but true things about the powerful without losing your job. As structured right now, in the physical sciences, a base salary won't support research.
H-theorem in quantum physics
While I support the general idea, it irks me that this concept also includes tracking of my browsing history ("distributes the money from your subscription to the sites you visit based on the time you spend with them"). I would like to see more transparency with regards to how this information is used and how much of it is actually exposed to the developers of this plugin.
I think that tunes with a strong repetitive beat seem to work best over something that is pure melody. Bolero hits on that count.
Yeah, I guess he coined the name.

I used to call it "bicycle-wheel-shaped human" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12226420.

(Actually, I still call it that way. I like my analogy better - it highlights that at some point, skills tend to connect to each other, and you end up discovering a common base connecting separated disciplines of thought.)
Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for months?
Too soon?
Well, they could make it harder by relaying messages to people 1km+rand() around you
I miss being able to create chromeless browser windows in IE. You could complete control the GUI. I think it was removed because of security reasons of being able to trick users into thinking it was a native OS window.
Amen, ubuntu was horrible experience, I mean I loved it as I love linux over windows, but it kept crashing on me, and having issues, and too much bloat. I tend to run thin w/ i3 instead of a more graphical desktop environment anyhow. So Antergos (arch) was a much better choice and it's also very beautiful and runs a lot smoother.
Interesting. Thank you. The comments on this article are http://hackingui.com/sketch-design/a-year-using-sketch/ good to see the prevalance of the tools. I didn't know anything outside adobe was considered good.
Of course. The page is much older than 40 days...
Merkel seems to be conflating the issue of search engine algorithms with social network algorithms. Search engine algorithms do their best to find what you are probably looking for -- it is a self-selecting filter bubble and they are working as intended.

Additionally, there are numerous search engines, unlike Facebook and Twitter which have effective monopolies over social media news sites.

In the case of social networks, Zuckerberg is 100% on the money on this one. Anecdotally, I've noticed my Twitter and Facebook feeds are extremely diverse in opinion and philosophy. The articles linked to and discussions had on each of my home pages are wildly different than what I would find if I were only searching through the news sites I habitually visit.
I was looking for a new phone recently as mine is 5 years old. It still works but I was just comparing around mostly for fun.

Besides a bit faster hardware, some more DPI and "assistants" it is mostly the same. My gen 1 Moto G which I got for $170 a while back is still mostly ok. The hardware still looks the same. Anyone remember the jump from flip phones to smart phones? That was a huge difference. Something completely new. The upgrade felt like I was buying something completely different.

I guess I was expecting something more by now. Modular hardware, can plug more memory or more hardware into it. A different shape. A ridiculous battery life.

The only exciting thing I saw is made by a Chinese company I never heard of: Xiaomi (don't even know how to pronounce it). It is this phone: https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/25/xiaomi-mi-mix/ it doesn't have a bazel, looks square and slick, 256GB memory. I can see buying that. I don't see shelling $700 for a Pixel or for an iPhone.

Then I noticed Project Fi by Google. That would save me money every month. However given Google Fiber winding down, I am worried as soon as I jump on Project Fi, it will be shut down as Google does with many of its products. So the initial excitement there has kind of waned.
HIV’s “Patient Zero” was exonerated long ago
When I want to read a contrary view, I don't subscribe to a new magazine or type in the address of a blog I've never seen. How would I know which one to look at? So I Google it.

I don't want the algorithms released to the public where spammers can read them. That won't help diversity, I'll just get articles from the best spammers.

I wonder if Merkel already knows better but thinks this statement helps her politically somehow.
I like my Apple Watch more than my Fitbit. The only thing they need to do is improve the battery life.
They're offered a lot of stock because they're worth something to the company. Same goes for new grad engineers pulling tons of income in stock. It's possibly a bad strategy for a tech company to start firing the people it values most.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice.

Some more information might be helpful for answering your question. I found LegalZoom to be very helpful for simple things like forming an LLC in my State. But it really depends on what stage your company is at. What kind of company do you have and what sort of legal needs do you have (or think you have)?
I agree completely with you.

However, one minor nit-pick:

> 401k is often better than IRA since it's matched

Some IRA's are matched as well. SIMPLE IRA's for example, are effectively like a 401k for the user; your company still matches up to some percentage, although you gain some freedoms in being able to take your IRA account to any investment company, not just the one your company chose. SIMPLE IRA's are cheaper and easier for a small business to run for their employees.
Or increase the radius randomly after a pair of users have communicated for the first time.
ATC here, our Tech Ops people say 20k. They are 2048x2048.
Popcorn Time API
It is more difficult than OOP because of its strong association with mathematics (ie category theory and logic). Without this background knowledge it becomes like a magic black box with monads, monoids, applicatives..etc etc