skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that confuses me about YC is that they're an accelerator rather an incubator. In particular, this article talks about revenue growth which is an acceleration stage metric. Seed stage needs seed money to prove a hypothesis. Acceleration stage needs A money to accelerate. Stressing revenue growth at seed stage seems like it could be dangerous to a startup's health. (Yeah, ideally you would want the seed/acceleration transition to be c2 continuous.)

YC offers seed money for seed percentage, $120k in return for 7%, and attaches accelerator metrics. This transaction just doesn't make sense to me at all. Clearly it makes sense to others, given the number of YC applications.
I doubt this would be anywhere near strong enough for a space elevator. And i think a sky hook is something else
I have used it recently. The main thing I like is that it organizes code visually as workflows and it has many pre-packaged "tasks" you can use. This means I didn't have to come up with some structure for 900 script files.

I did run into several annoying errors when trying to import from excel.
Well, it's been pretty tough to get people to adopt some existing crypto tools like PGP that represent a lower bar than writing your own crypto primitives. I'm completely sympathetic to the idea that this kind of literacy could lead to habits and practices that make surveillance harder and that that would be a great thing, but it seems like ubiquitous use of existing peer-reviewed crypto tools represents much lower-hanging fruit.

And in terms of spending, say, 3 hours learning to use PGP and/or get your friends to use it with you vs. 3 hours trying to write your own block cipher and/or get your friends to use it with you, I'd expect almost everyone in the world to get more privacy benefit from the former.
According to this it is in use:
http://reason.com/archives/2016/11/28/the-secret-dangerous-w...
Now imagine crossing the border, connecting to a new telco and being prompted to choose a data plan (or a phone number). This would be great! I’d purchase new phone number / data plan every time I’d cross the border. Telcos would profit from this and I wouldn’t have to spend time researching the best package (I will be presented with the options right in the popup on my phone)

The author has a very optimistic view of cellular companies -- in many countries, the official carrier rates for SIM's are far worse than those available from resellers, so the "Click here to roam" rates are not likely to be the "best options"

If telcos really wanted to give fair rates to roaming customers, they'd just negotiate more reasonable roaming rates so visitors wouldn't feel the need to buy a local SIM in the first place.
I really don't see Rust as a good example of a language getting its syntax right. It reads like Perl. You know what's good syntax? The one that reads like pseudocode (Python is the closest to that).
Yet, I root for D and its GLAS library [0]. It is a young project, but it beats the usual suspects for single-threaded matrix-multiplication. Stuff like "solve or diagonalize, get eigenvalues and such" is not written yet. It is very promising for a one-man project, though. We'll see in 10 years, I guess.

Fortran certainly has a mythical reputation for performance, but it should be challenged every once in a while.

[0] http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
My point is that, with cryptography, they are redundant. If all traffic on the internet is encrypted, why do I need to both encrypt a packet such that only a single recipient can read it and specify an address? Any node on the path to the recipient could do a lookup and find Google's IP address, the client doesn't really need to.
Meetups, chamber of commerce, rotary/kiwanis, swingers club, church, nerd convention, or whatever happens to float your boat.

You've got to press the flesh.
There are a lot of science fiction uses of "skyhook" this is one is them.
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Dude.. that... what? That makes no sense and most of it is not true...
Which members of Congress will vote on that though? You can't get reelected if you cut entitlements.
It attempts to describe certain aspects of human cultural interaction, broadly defined.

I'm not defending it, I share the opinions of many of it's detractors, my point is only that to describe a technical subject you don't understand as incomprehensible nonsense is silly.
I would say objective reality is dubious, and wonder what claims do "survive testing"?

On the one hand, human behaviour, culture and influences is extremely fragmented, to the point where I wonder what is it we're trying to model? The subject we're trying to predict is part of this culture and influences, and probably shifting so fast it's questionable we can, with accuracy, predict much.

On the other hand we have the interpretor, the constructor of the study, who also is colored by culture and influences to the point where we must ask why is a certain model being constructed?What is predicted and why? How are people's actions interpreted to fit that model?
> I tried to talk the Go and Rust people into putting in multidimensional arrays, but the discussion degenerated into bikeshedding, with arguments for fancy but slower representations so you could take arbitrary N-dimensional slices from a multidimensional array.

This is the most frustrating aspect of Rust, to me, as a developer of scientific software. Rust has great potential to challenge Fortran in this domain, but numerics is mostly an afterthought in Rust.
As a side point, "not surprising," "I don't know why anybody's shocked by this" and related reactions are how apathetic people help normalize bad behavior. It's the cutting-edge of acceptance for early observers to assert that they're already jaded and besides that what's taking everybody else so long?

If you don't like it, the key is to remain surprised that it's continuing. Backbiting on those who do is the exact wrong thing to do, and essentially works to turn change agents against each other. Call it political hipsterism.
Do you have personal experience with this? For example I know someone on disability who used to sell cars, that hunts every day. Is hunting easier on your body then selling cars? I don't think so, but it is likely more fun.
Any global predictor that claims to have accurately determined Trump's victory should keep in mind that he lost the popular vote. Only a state-based predictor can be plausibly said to have been able to make such a prediction.
This account has been posting mostly unsubstantive comments. Please stop and (re-)read the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

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I have a second number from Anveo.com that I can forward to any number in the world. They have voice mail and smart call flow routing so you can do things like forward unanswered calls to another number, set up a mini IVR system (i.e. "Press '1' to call me on my mobile", "Press '2' to call my mom", etc.). They do SMS forwarding for some countries, as well as web based SMS.

They also have a nice service that lets you purchase a number in a foreign country and forward it to your own number. My relatives live overseas so I bought a local number in their country that they can use to call me for free. it only costs me a few dollars/month.

None of these features are unique to Anveo, but I've been using them for a few years and have been quite happy with the service.
How else would you turn left? Cross two sets of traffic lights instead and double the wait?
Fixed, thanks! The article switched between "combined revenue" and "revenue per company," and so did I. I should've made that explicit in the first place.
Yes. It's a cheap upgrade using the existing width of a wide (43ft/13m and up) 1+1 road with wide shoulder and wide lanes to make a 2+1 with narrow shoulder and a wire barrier on the same width.

Sweden was just lucky to have built such wide 1+1 roads as the norm, so a large part of the major highways were (realatively) easily and cheaply convertible.

The safety difference from 1+1 is huge, and the cost of conversion is negligible compared to a rebuild into a real 2+2 road.
With the 1/8"-to-Lightning converter?
Well, sure, running code in interpreter does less optimizations than doing full compilation. I can write an interpreter for your C code which runs out of memory if you want :) So your "you can tell" depends on particular compiler or interpreter implementation, and no, you can't tell what my compiler will do.
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L.A. County targeted in phishing; private info of 750,000 people compromised
I actually believe the PSTN is so ingrained in international networks that it will be around for another 50 years, minimum. Think SS7 and the fact that anything that touches PSTN relies on a legacy implementation at some point (probably all VoIP terminates there at some point, every cellular device, etc.). This is just a guess though on my part..
The U.S. would drive you mad. Pun intended. But yeah, there's a lot of bike lanes without car/bike separation in U.S. cities. The best (worst?) example of this are lanes with sharrows.

http://cossdotblog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/upload...

This is madness for cyclist and driver. As a cyclist, I don't like basically taking up the whole line by riding right over the sharrow, which is what I'm supposed to do to avoid being doored. But then a car can't legally pass if there's a double yellow line. And yet they do pass in the U.S. in this case, because the average U.S. driver doesn't know this is illegal, they don't know it because the primary means of learning to drive: parents or family member > other people honking at you and you decide to change your behavior > traffic tickets. There's no mandatory 3rd party (government or private, accredited) school.

And on top of it, everywhere else there are no sharrows, increasingly people think cyclists are riding on those streets illegally, which is not true.
I have hired a lot of freelancers over the years and I run a successful bootstrapped business. I don't outsource core activities, just smallish things that we don't have skills in house to do. Overall it is hit and miss, but my advice for what it is worth.

1. Only hire individuals. Never hire a team.

2. Watch out for individuals who are secretly fronting a team.

3. Make sure that you have a keyword in your project description that has to be mentioned in the bid by the freelancer. This will allow you to weed out 95% of freelancers who bid without reading.

4. Chat to the freelancer about the project first and if possible hire them for a small private project to scope out the details.

5. Despite all these steps expect only 50% of freelancers to workout. Either hire two at once or schedule enough time to do it sequencially.
I have noticed there is a strong bias that women are more often referred to by their first name compared to men in the same position. For example in discussing college professors, a single-word identifier for a male professor is most often their last name; for a woman it is much more often their first name. Keep your ears open -- you will hear it!
Half-Life 2, immersive storyline with good pacing, action/tension and puzzle/problem solving.
What the fuck is brainfuck programming language?
Agreed. I want to write numeric software, but don't want to use Fortran or C++. Rust looked great, but I couldn't find anything in this domain.
How does that work for all the services that refuse to accept VoIP numbers nowadays? Don't they still need your cell phone number, which keeps changing?
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I think your requirements are fundamentally impossible to implement because they conflict with one another.

> - separate the goddamn lanes so neither car nor cyclist feels uncomfortably close to the other

This requires more space.

> - don't require extra space because every square meter counts in a big city

This requires less space.

Like, it's easy to gripe about any particular traffic design, but the domain is constrained by a large set of fundamentally opposed requirements, so it's always a big compromise in the end.
4chan? It is not there.
Steve Gibson will go into levels of detail that amaze me. The podcast on Rowhammer is a perfect example - down to the minute details of how VMs store memory pages...

Its also can be a great sleep aid.
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The war on cash is nothing more than a power grab by the globalists, who want total control of cash (so to speak) flows, both global and (thus cash) local.
See I'm fine with all of what you just said. The problem comes at the next step, "Testable claims are dubious so XYZ."

Being skeptical is healthy. Inferring from your skepticism is not. Inferring leads to refusing vaccines, embracing homeopathic medicine, or asserting that a $15 federal minimum wage will have no disemployment effects in rural US counties.
Because you can't solve systemic issues if you've got the mindset that individual users should be blamed for their statistically inevitable mistakes.
Thanks for your reply. I was just wondering if there are any technologies that would help me make sure they're doing alright.
That's a good mechanical design. Flexible robots like that are cable-driven from the base. All the expensive parts are in the base, where they can be protected. The motors and gear trains don't have to be lightweight. This reduces cost and improves ruggedness.

The arm just has cable guides and the wiring for the plug. There's probably a $10 cell phone camera and a light source near the end, for zeroing in on the power socket. That eliminates the need for high precision positioning. There are no exposed joints, so the whole thing can be encased in a flexible covering for weather protection. If you put springs in the cables, the tentacle will deflect if bumped without damage.

Flexible robots like that have been used industrially, but the low precision and problems with cable wear have been a problem. For the power plug application, neither is a problem - final positioning is camera controlled, and the mechanism operates maybe once an hour in busy locations.

Tesla should have deployed this by now. Something about that thing seems to upset people, though.

Robotic gas station pumps have been built using more common robot technologies.[1][2] They're big, complicated, expensive, and commercial flops.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YV79YcSvYQ
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qALPymP1f6Y
C can be faster than Fortan if you optimize it so. Fortran is built to run at very close to the max C speed for these things out of the box (as I understand it after doing some extensive googling a while back).
But prices were in URV, which is what really matters for inflation control.
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It does seem that the author thinks there's a moral component to the subject. But you may want to dig into the word "crusade" a bit more. It's over the top here.
A 10 gb limit makes it unusable for me, so that's probably why I discounted it.
Tunisia might be the most progressive country in the MENA region -- guaranteeing gender equality and women's rights -- but all that happened under the former president, Habib Bourguiba. The ousted president, Ben Ali, did very little for progressivism; under his reign, he enacted neoliberal economic reforms that while may have made the country wealthier as a whole, lessened living standards for the average Tunisian. Economic growth masks the fact that buying food is an issue, the education system is inept, and unemployment levels are at all time highs. The people's discontent with the secular government can be seen in the political polarization of the country: in recent elections, the Ennahada party -- Islamist in belief -- captured half of Parliamentary seats; their voter base all came from the rural inner region of Tunisia. When you have a group of disillusioned youth, combined with a pervalent Islam sentiment in the country, I don't think the popularity of jihad would be a paradox.
Humans behaviour. A gazillion synapses interconnected together first directly in our brains and then by being part of a context.

I think it's like building a model accurately predicting the grains of sand around the world. Sure, theoretically we can get really really good at measuring everything, so we pretty much know where all those grains are, but I suspect we're not close.

Instead we must do, as you say, "decent approximation" – and this is where my line comes in. I think the crudeness of our current models to predict human behaviour are equivalent to roughly knowing where the Sahara desert is.
I ported my cellular number to GV a few years ago and haven't had it refused by any service that needs a phone number.
I find it odd that you refer to "Bernard" when he's almost universally referred to as Bernie, but simultaneously call John Bush "Jeb". I'm missing whatever the intended meaning of the way you wrote these names was.
Huh? Then you have to send "google.com" as a string instead of its IP address, which doesn't have any benefits, and can even change meaning during the time the packet is traveling... not to mention that it'd flood the DNS servers for no good reason.
Came here to post this Larry Smith link :)

Even though Jobs gets some hate on HN, these interviews/speeches have never failed to inspire me.

If you don't ask, you don't get -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI

On a very formulaic life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ydp6bR5HXw (I couldn't find one without the bad bg music)

Stay hungry, stay foolish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

I do realise, on some levels, he was not a good person, or atleast came off as an ass, but listening to these interviews and speeches, I feel I can relate to him and his struggles.
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TL;DR

Not every company that has a revenue chart shaped like a hockey stick is going to become a multi billion dollar business. Consider looking at metrics other than growth when investing.

Is this actually something that needs to be said?
The fact that the PS4 runs FreeBSD has been written about extensively. The contributions they've made, less so... mainly because most of the work they did was before they announced that they were using FreeBSD, and they went to significant lengths to avoid that information leaking out (e.g., shell companies were set up so that code could be contributed without revealing the ultimate source).

Probably the most easily identifiable contributions are in LLVM; Sony is one of the largest contributors to that project, and it's entirely due to the PS4.
Never seen a three-lane road with shared overtaking lane here in Germany. Those seem positively dangerous. 2+1 is fairly common on Bundesstraßen, though. They typically don't have a divider but the signage makes it very clear who can use it.
I was wondering the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War makes for a harrowing read.
The subway cards are quite expensive, and keep getting more so. Right now a year ticket is around 850 EUR, a month ticket around 80 EUR.
I did read you claimed Apple apologized to you before I wrote that response. Which is why I asked where is the apology.
Well donotpay.co.uk has already managed to piss me off by requiring I register an account before even being able to test it.
This is true; language, like other complex systems, exhibits order at various scales. However, even using a "state-of-the-art" algorithm like Wavenet will be insufficient.

For example, suppose we implement short range order detection, as you mention. Then, a very well written essay about the history of various metaphors used to describe General Relativity would receive a low score, because we'd be talking about trampolines, marbles, spider webs, and maybe even balloons at the same time. Your algorithm would immediately classify this as nonsense (similar to what I have written above).

The problem is not in detecting structural integrity. The problem is in detecting information integrity.

A nonsense essay about metaphors cannot be distinguished from a reasonable essay about metaphors unless your network knows what a metaphor is, how isomorphism works, and knows how various ideas relate to that.

Long story short, you can't hire an english teacher to grade a paper you're submitting for your GR course. Such a paper would be immune from random insertions of the word "not" or changing random real-valued numbers to other numbers, etc. Any NLP-only algorithm would immediately identify a false positive here.

On the other hand, a grammar-only-grader would be reasonable, because grammar is mostly independent of topic, meaning the AI would not need domain knowledge to grade it.

To understand language, AI is going to have be a lot more versatile than simply finding order within a paragraph, which is the most naive approach.

When a human reads a paragraph, they are playing with much more than simply the words contained inside the paragraph. IIRC, the ML community isn't there yet -- not because they don't know -- but because computing isn't there yet.
I think that would only work for day long ranges. What if I want the events that happened in the last hour, or that are scheduled for May?
I know a person who works in atmospheric physics group. All the heavy physics simulation and modeling happens in Fortran, and then they do the "lighter" analysis, summary statistics, plots, visualizations, etc with a Python-based stack.
The fact that "soft" sciences are too often junk sciences is not proof that "empirical proofs" aren't required. The opposite is true, in fact.
The only podcast I listened to for years with any consistency was FLOSS Weekly. This later exposed me Security Now, This Week in Enterprise Tech (TWiET on the set! I love the catch phrase), This Week in Law (which zero of my law school and lawyers friends address when I send them good episodes), and recently Triangulation.

In the new era of Software Engineering Daily and Changelog, as I see Leo Laporte as the godfather of podcasting. I disagree with a lot he has to say, but I respect him greatly and dream of meeting him one day. He is one of my heros.

And Leo: I use Emacs, and no so much Perl. I have nothing to interview for, but I can answer to your favorite question with at least half of your favorite answer, if you read this somehow!
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I've personally re-implemented bond daycount for multiple markets several times at different shops. Maybe quantlib has this? Have never been allowed to use it.
a place for communities to form.
Wolfenstein 3D predates the Gameboy Color by six years (1992 and 1998 respectively), and was officially ported to the SNES in 1994, the Gameboy's contemporary TV video gaming console, so this isn't retrofutristic at all.
Crap, I am not even familiar with that episode, and SN is the longest running on TWiT. Link? Is 498 or 576?

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/498

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/576
Yes you probably want to build on a cliff made from something more resistant to coastal erosion than chalk.
I love this paper! I built my compilers course out of the ideas in it:

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~jpolitz/cs75/s16/index.html

I think the incremental approach is terrific, because it allows you to get to a program the emits assembly and builds a working binary in week one. The first thing this does is give a concrete example of what "a compiler" is. The second is to provide a great foundation for discussing static vs. dynamic and what decisions are made at compilation time vs. runtime, without needing a full implementation. These concepts are not obvious (e.g. when can and should a check for unbound ids happen? What about divide by zero, or overflow, or type mismatch?), and deserve to be carefully taught and considered.

This lets the course build up a new feature, from front-to-back, each week or two, and consider its implications on the whole pipeline each time.