skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion on this as it always has been is Linux gets some new features first before freebsd but they are always done sloppily, half assed, and start getting refined and fixed about the time freebsd implements the same feature after thinking about it, designing it well, then implementing it.
you can drop me a note at ted@workramp.com and we can see if it's a good fit for you!
I got banned from an energy-related sub-reddit for making a point in a discussion about solar using the diagram in your first link. Context is a bannable offense! :-)

Seriously, though: context is very important. You can't have a meaningful discussion if people are comparing tailpipe to tailpipe. You need a cradle-to-grave view of the system and its inputs, chained back, at least one step and maybe two. It's cumbersome, but otherwise, people keep debating with their comparisons between apples and wheelbarrows. I used to think that people who were picking a micro-location for their PoV/stance were acting disingenuously. But, I've learned that - they really don't know! (Some remain remarkably incurious once shown, though...)

Anyway: thanks for that link. It's one of my all time favorite Sankey diagrams, which I found by accident after digging after that earlier one from LLNL...
Cars are products not platforms, and it will be thus for the time being.

Cars are very complex. There's a lot going on. Changes to one small thing, affect many other things. Safety is a huge concern, and everything has to be tested, tested, tested.

I don't think Tesla's car is really a 'platform' - rather, maybe that have a more advanced and seamless means to update their software, after all, they are pretty new.

Perhaps internally - the software could be more 'platform-like' - in which case, re-using components could be easier, and upgrading legacy cars could be much more feasible.

Maybe we're arguing semantics ... but from a driver's perspective ... it's a 'product'. Some companies, because of their internal processes, just do a better job of keeping things up to date.
thanks Jason! Great to see you here on HN, would love to catch up soon.
Maybe I'm late in the game but Product Hunt was never about finding some new and useful product I might use or buy. And why would be? They also clearly say: "Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about." The keyword here is "talking about".

Now, "growth hackers" ended up believing that being popular on product hunt will get you customers. No - it will not. People who are reading and following Product Hunt are VC - and that is why acquisition by AngelList is an excellent move.
Made so much easier with lightsail - https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/webapp/home/resources
You mentioned that you took some MIT OCW courses, did you actually do the psets and quizzes?
The YIMBYs Next Door
But javac doesn't run it. It's run by "java". Therefore javac is called the compiler.

If things were such that "java" runs all .java files and creates those .class files as bytecode cache, then java won't have been called a compiler.

And similarly, if python had two different programs, one to create *.pyc files and the other runs it, the former one would have been called a python compiler.
I don't know why many people operate under the delusion that the value of their work is the same as how valuable you are perceived. Not to say that there's no correlation, but it's just part of the equation.

People pay a premium for doing business with other people that they like. It's perfectly logical - we all want our daily interactions to be pleasant ones, and would much rather work with people we like than people we find distasteful.

It's completely counter-productive to frame this as everyone else just being superficial ass-kissing hypocrites.
What one thing took your Python to the next level
They had to open source the chip design or the driver?
I was expecting something more like the 'A Subway Named Mobius' short story [1] - it's one of my favourite topology related bits of SF - OK, possibly the only topology related SF?

1. http://www.rioranchomathcamp.com/Topology/SubwayNamedMobius....
I’ve been working sporadically on a strict stack-based functional language called Kitten, with the goals of avoiding GC and libc. No plans for dependent types, but you might like to keep an eye on it anyway: https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten
A 200-year transformation: How the National Mall became what it is today
Better than DSL? Pfft. I know folks that would be absolutely delighted if they could get DSL.
THIS! This is the real issue. Such unfettered access presents the risk that they won't just collect data on what happens during the 20-something minute window. The risk is that they gather files, collect your browser history, and read your communications.
How do you guys see the interviews with Fenriz? I think most of them are on Youtube now.

He have a special place in my personal music history. I started to listen to a bit extreme metal in the 90s and was a bit shocked by my own taste. From the early Metallica to death metal, it got steadily more extreme.

The limit was Darkthrone -- I got an album and (at least at the time) I felt physically sick if I used headphones! Years later, I saw that series of youtube interviews with Fenriz, discussing the music. He was so knowledgeable and, more or less, dismissed most genres I love in metal (Meshuggah, Nile, etc) as not really that interesting. :-)

These days, I can enjoy the early Darkthrone stuff, but it was a funny reality check to realize early that I'm not really that metal, I just like the music. :-)
Europe is a big place. Ever been to a Monoprix in France? It's not exactly unprocessed wilderness in there.
It sounds like a perfect set of experience to go to freelancing and then remote development. It seems like going remote is the 2nd most popular endgame for most individual contributors on HN (lucrative startup exit being the first).

steven777400 is ahead of the game!
I actually disagree - maybe 60% of good software dev is really really thinking. A lot of it is automatic, based on learning the crafts good habits, repeating motifs, testing can be repetitive but is important to do as you go. Making sample data, talking to people writing emails - so there is a chunk that is not deep foo.

This correlates with my anecdotal observation that the smartest people can write bad code, and it takes them quite a while to absorb the stuff of writing good code.. a couple years at minumum perhaps. Its not just about raw thinking power - perhaps the important bits are, but not all of it.
That is not how evolution works.
I'm all for a UBI. Then I can quit my day job and "do whatever I want" instead. Including saving the world. Case in point just the other day I sat down and calculated, because my state legislature hasn't expanded medicaid, I still need to make "x" thousand dollars per year to qualify for obamacare subsidies. What does this mean? Because we have several children, it's a non trivial amount. The result? I will be keeping my day job, and working 8-5, instead of working part time and living off the dole. Come on, government, fund me! Don't hold back! I don't want to work! Who's with me? Raise the pitch forks and torches! :) (I wish I were kidding, but I really did do that calculating...)
They have very different outputs. Compilers produce programs, while interpreters produce answers. More specifically, compilers produce programs in another language (stereotypically machine code), while interpreters run your program to get an answer.

If all you have are compilers, you can never run a program. All you can do is convert it between different languages. Fortunately your computer comes with an interpreter built in: you can think of your cpu as an interpreter for machine code, implemented in hardware.
Altered urinary porphyrins and mercury exposure as biomarkers for autism severity
Yeah, the Energy Information Agency publishes their locations:

http://www.eia.gov/state/maps.cfm

There's a layer there for Nuclear plants too, so it is easy to adjust the map to only show them.
I think the $400M refers to this [1], which based on the reporting seems to be money AngelList has set aside by some other VC to invest in startups on their platform, but I don't think that money is invested in AngelList itself. I couldn't find any other articles talking about investments in AngelList themselves, but who knows maybe they are worth a ton.

That is a fair point about conflicts, that makes sense. Still though if the cash isn't there, it isn't there. I cannot grasp a startup giving up $12M in cash in this environment unless they are absolutely rolling in dough. Doing an equity deal instead of cash is the equivalent of raising $12M at your current valuation (or whatever made up valuation you give yourself in the acquisition negotiations), which seems like a great deal.

Yes, I have no doubt in this deal the founders have "FU" paper money, but I know for a fact most shops and landlords don't accept that as payment :)

1: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/12/angellist-csc/
> skilled software engineers are in very high demand and companies compete very hard for them

I keep hearing this but when I ask how to identify skilled engineers things get confused. ;)
what is the size you are wanting to understanding? Revenue? Cost? Net?

Revenue is easily above the low 7 digits, Net is above the low 7 digits. Essentially the ceiling is not artificially limited, your abilities though are.
Yeah REALLY obnoxious. I was just disabling this after another Uber ride. They do not provide the option to enable location services only when the app is running on screen. I think it might be nice if iOS presented this option regardless of what Uber wants.
I think there's a much more accurate metaphor about what they're doing to each other than "patting each other on the back". [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMeqEDEfniA
I don't think the amount of butter matters at all here... You're still eating Kraft mac n' cheese, which is 100% processed... You'd be better off just eating the stick of butter on its own.
> found evidence for tissue rejuvenation in older mice when they are surgically joined to younger mice

That's terrifying.
I wonder if a modified license that set an explicit fixed boundary would help. "You must contribute back any changes to this software that you make but anything that interacts with it at using its API is exempt from the license." So for example if you took the NFS server source and modified it to be distributed and highly available across multiple servers you'd have to contribute that back but the UI or management software you use build for customer interaction with it wouldn't be "infected".
It's over 9000.
One reason might be that the mentioned genres are highly formulaic to begin with. The standard rap song contains about 2 bars of unique music stretched out over 3 minutes with slight variations. Same with dubstep and techno. All highly repetitive. Classical music got no drums, so you can detect that. Metal got guitar distortion all over the spectrum. So with these examples the spectral images should have enough distinctive features that can be learned. Why should it be different than with 'normal' pictures? Also it looks like they take four 128x128 guesses per song.
Absolutely. I worked as a transport infrastructure planner for both public and private clients in 14 countries. On the side, I started a couple of software companies, and saw how collaboration tools like Google Docs and Github made the decision-making around complex engineering problems SO much easier. (Yes, I've seen lots of stupid flame wars on Github issue trackers. Trust me: on infrastructure projects, it's stupider).

So I started another software company to solve this problem: https://www.podaris.com/. The website is crap (we're bootstrapped and our priorities are currently elsewhere), but what we're developing is very, very cool, and will make infrastructure planning a lot more like using modern collaboration tools for document editing or software engineering.
Too many 3s to be coincidence!
I thought the same thing once, but applied anyway on a whim. Have now been at Google for 11 years.

It can't hurt to try.
Sure, that's why you use the surname instead. In interviews I can see the need for informality, so first names are fine there, but when commenting on an interview or story I think it's better to return to the formal, surname only, references.

> So, Elon, what do you think of Blue Origin's colour scheme?

>> I think Musk's response to the interviewer's stupid question about colours was interesting.

>>> I like Muskrats.
Not cheap living.
Uhh, that's generally not the purpose of housing laws. Residents generally benefit from higher housing prices, since they usually own houses. From what I understand, it's a mix of giving political power to local homeowners, protecting housing prices, and opposing things that make the area less desirable to live in. NIMBY bullshit, basically.

I mean, sure, it's marketed as being a measure to control housing prices, but so is rent control.
Doug Rabson did most of the early work on alpha. I sent him enough patches that he sponsored me for a commit bit. My primary desktop for several years was running FreeBSD/alpha. First was an AlphaStation 600, then an API UP1000.

I was very sad when alpha got axed, but I agreed with killing it. FreeBSD is about current hardware.
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Yes, using ear plugs more consistently would likely help improve quality. Housing quality where I live (NZ) is
abysmal, and you hear all outside noises very clearly. It's half between living in a well built house and living in a tent.
Fear of being seen to be insufficiently cutting edge.
> I think it might be nice if iOS presented this option regardless of what Uber wants.

I delete any application that requires all-or-nothing location privileges; if Uber acts this way now I'm done using Uber.

Being able to make it such that location services are an all-or-nothing proposition when there is clearly support for "only when using" in iOS annoys me to no end. The fact Apple doesn't do this is what is actually alarming, given their stance on "privacy".
I agree. I know a couple of outliers at Google who work long hours, but even the business folks aren't working much more than 45-50 hours per week. None of the engineers I know work more than 40 hours per week.

I've heard that some engineering teams at Amazon and Apple work long hours, but never heard it about Airbnb, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft (last 5 years), or Uber.
In most countries it is illegal to impersonate law officers, police or not. It's very strange that it is not so in Germany.
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"Uber collects your location data from the time of trip request through five minutes after the trip ends, including when the app is in the background."

From source listed in the article: https://help.uber.com/h/ba9dd342-158d-421f-a9ea-0e6c7aaad726
Virus engineered to rely on artificial amino acids, used as vaccine
I mean, why otherwise would they call it 'sharia law'.
Great idea, terrible execution imho. Native UI is still a bit thing. Also, needs filter for android developers.
Octopus does not originate from latin, but instead greek. So it would be octopodes[0], however, we all speak english, so octopuses is fine. Or, you know, use what you want because english isn't prescriptive...

[0]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-are-the-plura...
>>I delete any application that requires all-or-nothing location privileges; if Uber acts this way now I'm done using Uber.

This is the calculated risk Uber is taking. Presumably they believe that they will only lose a tiny sliver of their user base over the all-or-nothing approach. Now that they're well past the "early adoption" phase in many markets this is a "smart" corporate play.
I got a job at a perk-loaded web shop along that same vein, and the thing about "toys" and various other benefits is that they help my time at the office be more efficient. In particular the cynical view that they keep you at the office longer has some truth to it, but the mechanism at play is relatively honest. For example take free food; I love not having to go outside to get lunch. I'm often in the middle of a good flow and it's so nice to be able to bring some food to my desk in 5 minutes instead of having to spend an hour finding a seat, waiting for the check etc. This means I can get more done while at the office, and still go home early to be with the kid.

Similar for the other things like the pub or foosball; I can have a quick evening of hanging out with friends right there on the premises instead of driving an hour to meet up somewhere. So again the time saved ends up helping the company, and benefits me as well because who likes to sit in traffic.

I'm not saying it's better to do those things 100% of the time, but some healthy fraction. Of course it's a nice break to walk down the street for lunch on a nice day, etc.
We can sponsor a transfer right now or a new visa if you are quota exempt. We can also apply for a new H1B in April, assuming you have some other US work authorization (i.e. OPT) that will cover you until October'17.
This is the perfect example of development for the sake of development. The new user experience is terrible and provides the user with zero extra benefits.

I seriously can't see how a product manager signs off on these updates.
is mild close enough to cold?

https://nomadlist.com
Of what value is a substance that has a half life of 1 ms?
>>For most people, this means coming to work some time between 9 and 11 AM (breakfast ends at 10 AM) and leaving between 5 and 8 PM (dinner starts at 6:30 PM). My schedule was a little different: I came to work between 9 and 10 AM and left between 12 and 2 AM. Yes, you read that right. I spent a lot of time in the office, to the extent that my co-workers asked me if I lived there.

This is the kind of devotion to work/study, I wish I could emulate. Especially, given his age, working for 8 hr on company work and then 6-8 hr on your personal work/study without getting distracted is amazing. He should, and he indicated would (which is good), not ignore the work/life balance.

Congrats and thanks for posting.
Glad you had a good time. Any concerns about working on personal projects using Google resources (whether or not you used their laptop, you used their building, wifi, snacks, etc.). Wouldn't they own the IP? (if they wanted to pursue it)
> Uber collects your location data from the time of trip request through five minutes after ends trip ends, including when the app is in the background. We do this to improve pickups, drop-offs, customer service, and to enhance safety.

Meh, sounds reasonable as long as they don't collect data outside this window (although they should not make it all-or-nothing, a third option of "While in use" would be better).
Here's some maps of annual average wind:

http://www.nrel.gov/gis/wind.html

It's not very windy in the south, relatively speaking.
Ok, I don't see how "one species dies and another lives" represents anything that is 'good'. It's just one way things could be. They could be other ways, and evolution doesn't show any preference for any of them.

What you're missing is that 'good' is defined with respect to a goal. From an evolutionary standpoint (whatever that really is), the complete extinction of all life is just one possible way things could be and it is as good as any other way things could be. From a human perspective, this is awful. As is any future where humans don't exist.
I'll confess to having trips that were like scenes out of a horror movie, including experiencing death. I'd categorize them as beyond "bad" to "nightmare" or torture trips.

That said, I learned a lot from them. In fact, I'd say that I learned a lot more from my bad trips than from my good trips, and found the bad trips much more valuable and profound.

They helped me face a lot of things I didn't want to acknowledge or didn't realize in my ordinary life. They were, as they say, years of therapy condensed in to hours.

My bad trips also made me feel great respect for these substances, and made me very wary of casual use. I also believe you should always have an experienced sitter whom you like and trust.

I can't find it now, but there's an interview with Erik Davis where he tells a story of how Terrence McKenna had turned someone on. Afterwards, that person screams at McKenna: "What did you do to me? How could you! It was so..."

So McKenna asks him: "But would you do it again?"

"Why? Because what does not kill you makes you stronger?"

"No," McKenna replied, "It is what kills you that makes you stronger."
I can't say I'm heartbroken that Uber disabled my account after my card on file was replaced (thanks Home Depot!) and I didn't update it. This wasn't even tied to requesting a ride, I think I'd opened the app to see what coverage in a suburban area looked like.

IIRC the "get my account back" process was going to involve sending a copy of my drivers license and the dead card which had been cut up several months earlier, and it just wasn't worth the hassle of even following up.

And this was even before all the "all your ride of shame are belong to us" brouhaha - so now they want to track your walks of shame as well?
On one hand I agree with you, but it wouldn't work as a unilateral policy. There are definitely apps (such as a weather widget, for one example) that lose major functionality if you don't allow location even when not technically in the app. Either way, I won't be using Uber anymore for this reason.
Olympic hero Michael Phelps looks to dip his toes into Silicon Valley
I'm constantly amazed at how long large projects like buildings and skyscrapers take to design and build now compared to the 1930s. Is it just that the huge efficencies we've gained with things like CAD and project management tools have been dwarfed by the expansion of bureaucracy and regulation?
Ya, not arguing that it's a good idea. Just that I think it is technically legal.
Interesting, well written. Gives a window on how a corporation manages relationships with young smart people, and the actual psychological impact it has, the effectiveness. Thank you.

Nitpicking: "Disclaimer: All opinions expressed below are my own." ??? Who else? How does poor legalese help your story? I swear: nobody will sue you.
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Rails 5.1 could have Webpack option
That's pretty cool, I'd like to use something like this to tell me what genre my own songs are. It's annoying to write a song and then upload it to some service or another and have no idea what genre to pick. :-) My stuff is somewhere in the jazz-influenced singer-songwriter american piano pop realm which is a combination that works for me but it generally feels like I'm selling the song short if I have to pick only one.
Same in Germany. It was just clear to absolutely anyone around that those weren't actual police officers thus they were failing to impersonate anyone. It's the same reasoning that allows people to wear shirts with "fashion police" written on it.
PrivacyGuard and Orwall prevent applications from using the internet/GPS without your express authorization. Anyway if you want absolute privacy toss your smartphone in the trash can, cancel your contract with your ISP, commit social suicide and go live off the grid.
What Is HiDPI and Why Does It Matter?
This isn't "development for the sake of development", no data collection is for that. This is to figure out where people are going. Addresses give you an idea, but they're not always precise. You may just give an intersection. Now, they're trying to figure out your actual destination.

They're going to use this for monetization somehow. It's always about monetization.
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