skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thought experiment of mine.

Assume that all possible hypothesis or theories (explanations in general) form part of an "explanation space." Some explanations are good (theories), some have no evidence (hypothesis) and some are false (we are riding a giant turtle). Given the number of false explanations, the overall space is infinite. Hypothesis spaces would be islands within the false explanation space, theories islands within hypothesis and the truth as a single point within one of those theory spaces.

The question is, does that mean that the theory space is infinite? If so, that would mean that it would be impossible to know that we've found the truth (as a single point within this infinite space) - we'd only ever be able to conclude that we've found a closer approximation. Scientists may never run out of work.
IMO the real answer is to validate any assumptions by using UBSan wherever possible. Many compilers and many targets are supported.

Even if by some chance half of your C team knows all of the ins and outs, subtle things like this can slip by even when under review.
A passively powered beacon embedded into a bank note, that can be tracked by a satellite? Someone has watched to many bad spy movies or sci-fi...

Are there any countries that have (or at least publically thought about) RFID chips embedded into bank notes?
This reminds me of a presentation called "Deep C (and C++)" (2011): http://www.slideshare.net/olvemaudal/deep-c/
Yes I knew water attracts water, but it is not relevant to the capacitor analogy. You might as well have said water attracts water via gravity, it's just not relevant in this situation.
Even as a Tesla investor, I hope so. I don't care who wins, as long as EV uptake proceeds quickly. Otherwise, humanity is boned.
And India doing it in 1978 (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/highva...)
It's no different than making your yard a sovereignty. Nobody else on Earth has to recognize it, and it's up to you to defend it from anyone willing to take it for themselves.
I left a web dev job about a month ago. I liked a lot about the company. It was a three-man dev team at an e-commerce startup and we ran a Rails/Angular webapp. The founders were great and the culture fit my personality very well.

I left the company after ~6 months because I did not get along well with one of the other developers. We had extreme communication problems and they were causing unnecessary stress.

I like to talk to people and joke around with my coworkers. This individual did not seem to have the same desire. On the company’s general slack channel, almost everyone would get in on the socializing, with /giphys and jokes and whatnot… everyone except this one developer. They never, ever said a single thing on slack that was not business-related. They never even said anything out loud that was not business related.

This communication style caused a lot of issues during code review. I would spend time creating, testing, and QA’ing a feature, and then code review would take at least three times as long as development. I’d get code comments on GitHub that said things like “I wouldn’t do it this way” or “I don’t like the use of a directive in this case. Read this: https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive”. Now, in most cases, changes to the code probably were necessary. However, I felt the tone of the comments was unnecessarily inflammatory, bordering on outright insulting.

I told my supervisor that I thought the code review communication could be improved and he agreed that the code review process seemed to be taking too long. He decided that I should get code reviews before the feature was complete, at whatever I determined was a good point to pause development for a code review. This led to an even longer development cycle. I felt as though this developer pegged me as unskilled, and thus found every excuse they could to tear my code apart. On several occasions while refactoring, I would move code snippets that were written by this developer into a new method or file. GitHub would regard these snippets as if I had written them. The developer would comment on this code that _they themselves had originally written_ and come up with a reason as to why it should be refactored or I’m not using the most efficient method, etc. It got to the point where I wouldn’t even know how to start working on a project. I realized it didn’t really matter. I could write the best code of all time and my co-worker would find a reason why it should all be thrown out. So I just started writing garbage that I took no pride in because it was going to get ripped to shreds anyway. Round after round of code comments until the code would look exactly as if this other developer had written it themselves. It was demoralizing, to say the least.

I really wanted to succeed with this company and had I been in any other department I believe I would have. I got along very well with everyone else there. Within a month of putting myself on the job market I found a new position that paid more and has a dev team with no assholes. I am much happier.
They added Clinton markers retroactively 2 months later, for a long time it was just Trumps marker there
That makes sense. Thanks for sharing
The Welcome Email wherein I try to get the Whole Team thinking about Security
Most wealthy tax evaders have long since brought their money back and laundered it already.

Tax Windows have been open for a long while, people seem to forget that there's been multiple amnesty Windows, the oldest being in the 90s iirc (could be late 80s).
>I know there's the Open Source illumos (IIRC) but haven't heard of anyone using it in production.

Joyent? OmniTI?

https://www.joyent.com/smartos
https://omnios.omniti.com/

SmartOS and OmniOS are both used in modern day production workloads.
It doesn't matter if it's across the whole country because the identification incorporates zipcodes. All ambiguities are local to a single town.
I don't understand this critique of an outdated version of the language. Let's see questions written in C99 using stdint types. Dealing with integer widths is a non-issue.

Yes, inc/dec operators take extra care. Structure packing requires platform awareness, similar to how endianness can matter for data manipulation.
A factory of this magnitude would be a huge boon for a smaller country in Central Europe, the likes of Czech Republic, Slovakia, or Hungary. They're still reasonably close to big markets, and they currently host significant automobile production capabilities [1][2], but with cheaper labor than in the western part of the continent.

Further, competition between them in attracting such plant will likely lead to generous government incentives.

[1] http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/show/al... [2] http://www.oica.net/category/production-statistics/
I wanted this for Christmas.

Every supplier in my area has sold out multiple times already.
While we can never see them merging completely, we can see them asymptotically approach a merger, which does in fact take about 1/5th of a second to get most of the way there.
Funny story about Ben; I ran into him at a low-key gathering in downtown SF (I think Silicon Prairie news put it on).

I knew he looked familiar, but thought it was because we had met previously at a Meetup or something. We started chatting and he said that he worked for Pinterest. I asked "so, what employee # are you?" And he looked at me and said.. "One."

Lol, it finally dawned on me that he was a founder of Pinterest and that he looked familiar because I had read several interviews from him in the past.

He was incredibly humble and kind and was an absolute pleasure to talk with.
I remember reading about the Indian government passing regulations for the tight control of Bitcoin<->₹ transactions in the country.
If their editor uses a 3440x1440 screen it will look fine to them.
But if scale is key to winning here, can anybody compete with china - for mass market vehicles ?

We're already starting to see BYD aiming to have 34GWH battery manufacturing capacity in 2020, same as Tesla.
I think it's nice to have a Thing That Just Works once in a while. I never use consoles (my ps4 sits unused) because every time I turn it on, I have to mess with updates and stuff. I just want to turn something on, play it for 10 minutes, and stop. This will be perfect for me.
Lack of obvious career development opportunities. Concern over the viability of the business. Discomfort with idea that projects were frequently cost-centers without tangible benefits for customers.
Replacement doesn't necessarily means it will be identical. It could be an inherently different but superior experience. Of course it would only work for people who isn't in denial. ^_^
Wait. Based on my reading here I thought it was only in the US that public transportation wasn't ubiquitous and people drove everywhere :-) And that in other countries you didn't even need to own a car.
Is there a point to this besides pedantry? My actual point is that the Hyperloop is something new, not just a rebranding of previous evacuated tube systems. If you have something to dispute that point, then by all means go ahead, but if you just want to quibble over me being insufficiently specific in my explanations then I'll let it be.
I am assuming that's why the cable is so short. If it was long enough to connect it to the console, it would be awkwardly long when connecting it to a controller you place next to you.
Nintendo seems to do nothing BUT short-supply their hardware, based on their history with amiibo, the gamecube controller accessory, the original wii, pokewalkers...
Linux Foundation ‘Fails’ Linux Mint: Suggests Upgrade to Windows or Mac
I recently did this. I bought a case, a controller, an SD card, and other stuff detailed in Jeff Atwood's Retropie blog post. I hooked all this up to my TV, installed retropie, FTP'd ROMs over, and...

The gamepad I'm using works in emulation station, but doesn't work when I'm in the ROM. apparently it's due to thi issue: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/564

I still haven't fixed it because I can't bring myself to screw around debugging a linux system after a long day of coding.

So, I have no doubts that many people can and should use a retropie. But, my childhood gaming experiences didn't involve the location of the RetroArchs/config folder, and I'd really rather my attempt to relive that experience as an adult didn't, either.
Apologies for my very late comment. I'm hoping it still might help someone.

I had the exact same question a few years ago. Not really knowing where to look I ended up going to AngelList to search through the job openings with the tag 'cleantech'.

That's how I ended up at Sunfunder (http://sunfunder.com/). We finance renewable energy in Africa, India and other places that can definitely use a clean alternative to either kerosine/diesel or no electricity at all.

Honestly, I can no longer imagine not working somewhere where I don't contribute to the cause (although I wouldn't mind working in healthcare of something similar impactful either). It makes such a difference in my personal well being.

It might be worth noting that wanting to contribute with our software skillset means you will quite likely find a job where you support others of your team, instead of building the main product yourself. There are of course many exceptions, but most companies I found that were contributing to the cause were not software-first companies.

For me this was a welcome change, and I find it much more gratifying to use my skills to make internal processes work smoother and to support my colleagues than to be making the flagship product in a software-focused company.
Your focus shifts from high-tech knowledge building to trying and figure out how to support the business, preferably with the most simple tech solution you can come up with. It might not be for everyone, but I personally love it.

Besides Angellist I imagine you can find some inspiration on Idealist.org. It might even be worth browsing through the "Who's Hiring" thread on HN for any companies in the 'contributing space'.

I also have a personal list of bookmarks I keep with companies that might be worth working for, impact wise. Feel free to e-mail me and I'll send them through.

If you're from Belgium or Netherlands I actually made a site myself for job openings specific in renewables/health care/other impactful stuff, http://joppo.org/. It's so obviously a work in progress that it's embarrassing to share it, but it might be useful to fellow BE/NL peeps.

Feel free to contact me any time if I can help out.
Microsoft is a lot more than just Windows.
BTW, Google Ventures has a better way to do this which relies on public data, Project Sandhill.

By looking at data from Crunchbase, Angelist, etc you can get a deeper graph of the interrelationships in Silicon Valley. If I was looking at who to invest in, or M&A, I'd be looking at data like that, as well as talking with investors and people they've worked with.
No, it doesn't have a positive net charge. In a plasma, the electrons are still part of the substance, but they are no longer bound to the nuclei, and are free to move about. Similar to current in an electrolyte, current in a plasma is the result of electrons moving one direction, while the nucleii are moving in the opposite direction.
I don't actually care about playing oracle (and even if I did, I probably wouldn't consider anything about the UK statistically significant for US election outcomes)

When the results come out, they come out. Until then, people can spout whatever crap they want, and I can just choose to tune it all out.
In PA, when you change your address with PennDOT (who runs our DMV), there is a checkbox to update your voter registration. It's not the most obvious connection, but it seems to work pretty well.
Models are just datastructures and algorithms; presumably, you mean there is an implementation of those, and that the Fed uses that implementation as the 'official' one.

That's fine, but I prefer my models to be language-independent.
I think his meaning was if you're looking to create new ML algorithms, rather than just apply the algorithms of others, you'll need C and C++. If you're just looking to apply the algorithms of others, or if you're 100% sure you'll only be (for example) using TensorFlow to develop new algorithms, Python should work great.
I'm kind of working on that stuff. Onwards...
Same for me. The editor window was blank until I clicked inside it.
1000 years or a million - it's irrelevant I think.

After 1000 years of evolution and progress, we may have very different ideas about everything we understand.

We might possibly abandon Mars 'terraforming' for going to 'ready to go' planets that we can access further away.

Humans are not very good at planning at that horizon.

The only group that does that is the Catholic Church.

The big Cathedral in Cologne, Germany took 700 years to build. Imagine being born, raised, trained, and then working on a project that started 300 years ago and won't be done until 300 years after you are dead? Imagine being the guy in charge of that looking for investment 'for the next phase'? There are always more pressing costs.

It takes a commitment beyond that which our 'GDP' numbers capture.

Admittedly, 'space colonization' shares some of that impetus.

But the reality of it is, most people put their $ into Kardashian news.

Until then - my crazy but most actually realistic bet is that Wynne Hotels and Vegas-like entities, maybe Sandals resorts are the first people to make Mars accessible after NASA makes a few landings.

There will be a Casino on mars before most other things.
Which scene are you referring to? It looked like Strange was wearing Yeezys in the opening operating room scene, but I don't remember seeing anything else.
It's all part of agility vs. efficiency, but not in the way people think! If people are heavily utilized they turn to Excel because they can get through a few simple things really fast. There's risk to using things like R or Julia because you can't see (literally) how to do it, or what you can do, and trying something different will earn you a rapid sacking at the hands of the super utilizers.

But pretty soon you are mired in spreadsheet hell. Nothing can be seen or understood, everything is invalid or valid - who knows and worst of all when something stops working you don't know why.

And you don't know when it will stop. Goodbye agility!

Any spreadsheet with more that 2 days of work to reproduce it should be counted as IT and put on a formal risk register until it is recoded and removed. But dream on..
Too pessimistic. Some people, such as myself, haven't stopped playing these games since the 80s. I can beat SMB easily within ten minutes, but I still get a lot of enjoyment every run. (To say nothing of the other fantastic titles!)

Plenty of people have moved on to better technology and more sophisticated games, but let's not assume every player would get bored of these true classics.
There are only so many times that I will repurchase the same old games for the sake of nostalgia. This isn't like re-buying the white album again because the record vinyl wore out. Nor is it re-buying Thriller because the cassette tape broke. This is more akin to that time you bought Beauty and the Beast on Blu-Ray when you already bought it on DVD and on VHS.

The only way I would be on board with this is if it shipped with every NES title Nintendo currently owns the rights to, and also had the capability to install the full catalogs of other companies, such as Square Enix / Taito, Tengen, Bandai Namco, or any of the other successor companies to the original NES game developers.

Sell the complete NES catalog--or as close to it as the lawyers can work out--just one last, final time, and keep that same device on the market years into the future, and I will consider buying it. Otherwise, this is yet another iteration of re-buying the original NES games on a different console platform. Not falling for that, Nintendo.

The review touts "only $2 per game!" but in today's market, $2 will get you far superior games from studios and developers that need it today to buy their top ramen noodles for the day after tomorrow. The original Legend of Zelda just isn't that great of a game, and I already bought it once. I'd rather buy something new (to me) through Steam, GOG, or Humble.
Spacetime has a positive cosmological constant, so it's closer to de-Sitter than Anti de-Sitter. It doesn't really have to do with curvature exactly, which is given by the Riemann tensor (so it doesn't make sense to say it's positive/negative).
Some £100 notes are circulated by some Scottish and Northern Irish banks (which are allowed to print their own currency), but given how rare the £50 note is, I'd expect the £100s be very rare even locally, and almost non-existent anywhere in England.

They almost certainly wouldn't be accepted anywhere except banks (many shops are suspicious of even low value non-standard notes), so I don't know if you can really call that "in circulation throughout the UK".
> But, the absence of dynamic memory allocation is also a characteristic that makes cobol extremely stable and safe, and mainframe applications legendarily bullet proof.

Of course, it can also make programs curiously limited.

If you have a COBOL program that loads its configuration into memory before processing data, you may find that too much configuration (think things like rules, transaction codes, etc) results in your program no longer running because the array that holds it isn't big enough.
I would say it really depends... There are UML diagram generators with whcih you might want to integrate (e.g., PlantUML) that would meet the needs of someone creating documentation.
Alternately, they may use their own UML tool (or a free one like Eclipse Papyrus) to create the diagrams they need and then extract those as pictures that you can import.

IMHO, adding full UML support is crazy for your application and would potentially add years of development.

Even adding simple, non-model based UML creation would be a significant burden if you are a small company. Plus, there might be open source generators or generators you could call programatically to generate the images desired.

But first, you probably need to better understand your client's actual needs. I have doubts that they would need all the UML diagrams...
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "a gravitational wave has mass (carries mass is more accurate)"? That doesn't fit my understanding of gravitational waves.
He was talking about his personal perception of the future not the technicalities of existence. Jesus the level of poindexter in even philosophical pleasantries is suffocating on HN.
Black money and such a large parallel economy had become a big problem. And like it or not, we were being forced to stay a part of it while trying to get out of it.

This sudden demonetisation has not curbed the problem, but it has hit a RESET switch on the parallel economy (black money). That is great news. First, people will not want to lose their money and this will result in huge tax-inflows. Second, some people will get prosecuted for tax evasion - sending a strong signal. High tax rates will still drive a small percentage of people to evade taxes. But upgraded technology will delay recurrence of large scale black money problem, probably for decades to come.

Long queues at ATMs and petrol(gas)-stations. I thought it could turn into an anarchy kind of situation. But most people feel happy about this inconvenient but necessary decision.
C is beautiful.
Seems to me you will love Euro Truck Simulator 2.
Aren't the major English-speaking countries already cooperating in this abuse of power?
You are writing convoluted code and hoping that your compiler will figure it out and convert it internally to the form I posted. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. In this case it generates reasonable code but doesn't vectorize it for some reason. WTF.

I prefer to just add alignment specification and move on, assuming I don't care about portability. If portability matters, reread my original post ;)
Applied Finance with R (new DataCamp course series)
Gravitons are simply quanta of gravitational waves. They arise in the same way as photons in electromagnetism. There's nothing goofy about them.
Machine-learning algorithm quantifies gender bias in astronomy
Amazon (in the US) sold out of all of it's Preorders within hours of the preorder launch a few months back.
The author here. Thank you for the feedback. I take it as my failure explaining what this library is about. I will write a followup post to explain why I think this library supports an actor-like programming model.
Who said India will become cashless? Illiterate and poor masses don't have to worry about how to transact in electronic money. They can happily have cash, whatever little amount they have and enjoy just like they are doing today. Its just the elite goons that will have trouble.
I have a strong negative bias vs Apple and everything they make.

One thing is Apple is not a closed source company. Though it is a mixed bag they have made some good contributions to the Open Sources world. Though their Walled Garden is YUGE

https://developer.apple.com/opensource/

* Bonjour

* Webkit

* Swift
Hmm as much as I'd like to agree with you, don't think its necessarily spurious on the facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India

From another perspective, the Rs 1000 note was demonetized in 1978 as well to curb unaccounted money. More than 30 years later, we've had to do it again because the underlying problem wasn't solved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_1000-rupee_note

Maybe this time it'll work. Time will tell.
If you like systems programming, you should look for startups using Rust or Go. I think they are more popular in the startup scene right now.