skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best code I've seen uses abstractions to decouple itself from the libraries and frameworks it uses. I don't see any references to libraries or frameworks within the codebase, except in thin layers at the outskirts.

The worst code I've seen uses 1,000 frameworks and libraries without abstracting its communication with them. It calls their API's directly, inherits from their classes, and passes their domain objects to its own API's.

Abstractions should reduce complexity, making code more robust and simpler to understand. It doesn't always work out that way, especially when abstractions have poor names, but it can. If abstractions truly decreased productivity, then machine-code programmers would blow everyone else away with their speed and efficiency.

P.S.
I have a deep respect for machine-code programmers.
Surfing, metrics and creation: Facebook and Snap
Looks pretty neat!

I like how snappy the app is. Only thing I'd change is that filter selection: The "standard" menu icon would look better IMO.

Congrats on the good job!

Btw, now that you did a whole project with React Native, what are your thoughts on it?
No comparable web properties have the dropoff that Facebook has (twitter, eBay, craigslist, even Yahoo which seems to be fading faster into irrelevance by the day).
Depends what kind of progressive income tax system you work in. At the end of the day for me, 80% salary wouldn't mean much less net income, but that extra free time would be amazing.
BBC Set to Kill iPlayer App for Windows Phone
That just means you get to bask in the ample natural darkness.
Maybe this article is correct, but I would say there are tons of other systematic limitations of doing a startup in Scandinavia: language, funding, customers etc.

Given this - I would say that Scandinavian founders probably, on the whole, 'swing above their weight'.

The lack of 'AirBnB' and 'Uber' style successes has far more to do with market size, fluidity, and the 'mega centre' of the Silicon Valley than anything.
The average income in Portugal is almost half of what people earn in neighboring Spain and still there's a ton of people without a job. It's not a failed state but it's more like Greece than Spain for sure.
Visualizing physical data from IoT aquaponic systems
Software Engineering Code of Ethics [pdf]
You could make it work quite easily with 2 stage script. Load page, grep for channel name, whitelisted = set $wastemytimelikeitwasworth20centsperhour$=1 and force reload . Make ublock check for this variable every time it parses pages.

but why would you?
[German] Bundesnetzagentur removes children's doll “Cayla” from the market
The thing is, everyone says it's a 'fad' yet look at Twitter and Facebook--a decade later and still going strong. There is something about web 2.0 that makes it immune to the boom and bust cycle that beset web 1.0 companies (like Myspace, Aol, Yahoo, etc). Everyone seems to be using it..and the mobile rich media makes it ideal for advertisers, who pay a lot for those ads
Who are the ones actually building the products that everybody else (and probably you, too) are using, though, and getting rich off it? They're the delusional folks who buy the BS.

This is something I've wrestled with a lot in my personal life: you can have an accurate self-image and never really accomplish anything, or you can have an inflated self-image and achievements that probably don't quite justify it but come a lot closer than the achievements of the people with accurate self-images. Empirically, there doesn't seem to be a middle ground, except for a few rare folks who seemingly have no self-image (they just don't think about it much). That sort of delusional megalomania seems to be a necessary motive force for tackling hard, risky problems. And if you don't have it, then some other delusional megalomaniac will be the one who actually attempts it, and gets resources simply because he's the only one trying.
I used to be one of them. It was horrible.
We changed the URL from https://github.com/botpress to what seems to be the main project on that list.
I'm saying that GM will not have a fully self-driving car by 2018, so you wouldn't be able to take a nap in your car, even if you could afford it.
> Most broker agreements allow them to lend out your shares without your consent or knowledge.

This is straddling the line between completely untrue and highly misleading. For cash accounts, brokers cannot lend your shares without a written agreement allowing it. Although the standard agreement could include agreeing to a securities lending program, this is not common in retail brokerage contracts. Additionally, even if that clause was in your contract, they have to notify you whenever they lend your shares. That right to notification CANNOT be waived in the agreement. So if you have a cash account, no one is lending your shares without your knowledge, period.

Even for margin accounts, the same requirements hold for fully paid securities. So if you have a margin account, but you're not actually borrowing any money, no one is lending your shares without your knowledge.

The only case where your broker might lend your securities without your knowledge is when you have a margin account and you are actually borrowing money.
The Netherlands are tiny and a very young country at that time surrounded by much stronger neighbors. With a good fleet defensible though since a lot of parts can be flooded to prevent invasion.
"This is a very short article with very little to back up the claims"

He's a successful Swedish entrepreneur, his insights are built from his experience and observations.
Probably, people are expensive. Minimum wage + employer taxes for a 25 year old in the UK is roughly £78,000 for 24 hour coverage assuming no overlap and no illness, no hiring cost, no management.

I'd be interested to see what TCO they'd need to have to no longer be cheaper.
This article seems like a lazy rewrite of an article about Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism by Alex Woloch in the latest London Review of Books. See the section after the *.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n04/david-trotter/i-say-damn-it-wh...

It's a better read anyway.
Interpretable Models of Antibiotic Resistance with Set Covering ML Algorithm [vid]
Not really a specialist or anything, but I surmised that aging creates what you could call "bad chemicals" in your body.

> unavoidable byproducts of enzyme function, for example, or of protein-to-protein interactions, errors in DNA transcription or translation.

One would surmise that aging adds "bad chemicals" to your body at some set rate. If you ALSO eat old things, that are already full of these "bad chemicals", your body will acquire these bad chemicals faster (because of the extra source).

In short, this research shows that there is some byproduct of the aging process that can be transferred from one organism to another and cause aging in the second organism.
To be honest, I haven't spent a lot of time using Fieldbook or Ragic. That being said, we spend an insane amount of time/effort making sure that Airtable delivers a first-class product experience. In fact, the first couple years of Airtable's existence involved myself and my cofounder Andrew--who previously PMed the redesign of Google Maps--building countless prototype variants to get the UX right, doing a literal hundred user studies with people from all sorts of industries/roles to understand how the full range of how they used spreadsheets, databases, and other products, and researching the prior art by talking to the creators of past products in the space (i.e. MS Access, Excel, Coghead, Podio, Dabbledb, etc).

We think Airtable is to spreadsheets/Access/Filemaker what Slack is to email (and fwiw, Slack itself uses Airtable http://bit.ly/2m58l4U ).

Specifically, our product offers the following (which to my knowledge Ragic/Fieldbook do not):
x IMO a much more intuitive design
x Native Android, iPhone, & iPad apps, as well as an electron desktop app ( airtable.com/downloads )
x Ability to create multiple views on the same table, each of which preserves its own filter/sort/visibility settings
Multiple view types, including grid, grouped records, calendar, kanban, public forms, and gallery: http://bit.ly/2ky3WLB .
x Inline collaboration i.e. @mentions in text fields, record-level comments
x Many more useful field types
x Visual revision history and snapshots
x More integrations, such as with Zapier (see Zapier's writeups http://bit.ly/2lfGr79 http://bit.ly/2l3dZqG ), Slack, native calendars via an iCal feed, and Dropbox/Box/Gdrive/Evernote.
x Greater capacity and smoother performance.
x Full realtime sync for all changes, including schema modifications.
x Lots of little things, like the ability to perform date calculations relative to today (i.e. a filtered view or formula that shows all projects due within 7 days from today and is automatically updated as time goes by), private share-links and embeds to give people access to a read-only view of Airtable without making them sign up for an account, inline document previews (e.g. view a text-copyable inline version of a .DOCX file)

Over 30,000 organizations already use Airtable--this includes tech cos like Airbnb, Box, Wework, and Tesla; non-tech cos like Atlantic Records and Penguin Randomhouse; educational institutions like CMU, Rice, and Stanford. We're growing our team and continuously releasing new enhancements to improve the product experience for all users.
Seems very unlikely since it would inevitably cause many to lose faith in the currency. If they really want to cash out, they can just do what almost every other upstart cryptocurrency founder does and make it clear they're taking some of the pie.
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https://www.dzd-ev.de/en/news/news/dzd-news/article/37872/in...
TL;DR - etcd is the best, according to coreos :)
Some migrated from Myspace and other networks, but Facebook was able to capture the invaluable older demographic who had never used social networking before and are less inclined to switch. Facebook was able revolutionize communication much in the same way the car did for transportation.
While what you say is true, its incredibly amazing how good ADCs are in the modern era.

3 Gigasamples / second: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/adc07d1520.pdf

The fastest OpAmp I can find is this 18GHz GBP: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ths4303.pdf

At 3 GHz, the OpAmp would only offer a gain of 6 which isn't really enough for much accuracy.

Granted, the OpAmp is like $5 and the ADC is hundreds of dollars (and the ADC is only 7-bit accurate)... but the digital world has gotten scary fast and scary good.

That's why Oscilloscopes, even GHz-Oscilloscopes are being made with digital technology today.

Hell, this crazy product raises eyebrows: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/analog-devices-inc/...

26Giga-samples (Nyquist of 13). I mean, 3-bits sucks, but holy crap is that fast. A 26GHz ADC would be able to perform digital-filter analysis on 2.4GHz Bluetooth and Wifi without any aliasing what-so-ever.
Smells like the original Jurassic Park!

But at the insistence of Malcolm, Arnold tries different ways of counting the animals on the computer. The count reveals that there are 292 animals in the park, much higher than the official figure of 238. Malcolm concludes that the animals, including the deadly velociraptor, are breeding. Wu cannot believe it, because all the dinosaurs are female. http://www.novelguide.com/jurassic-park/summaries/iteration3
Yes, the walls and ceiling conducting are important to this (otherwise there would be a large induced electric field outside the room).

There are capacitive elements in the pole which is important for allowing it to be resonant at a wavelength much larger than the room (the wavelength used is over 200 meters).

The very long wavelength means that, in theory, one cuold design a room with less of the perimeter conductive (a wire mesh would certainly work; they suggest that doors and windows, or even conductive panels that are connected could work).
I think it's precisely for those times that they have the fourth bullet-point;

> Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable.
Rovio is from Helsinki. King.com from Stockholm. One of the Skype founders was Swedish and they HQ'd in Estonia. Unity3d from Denmark. Opera from Norway. Nokia from Finland. It's already happened and unlikely to be isolated incidences.
Isn't that a plot of people who search Google for the term "google"? If so, I imagine it's something people who are familiar with computers and the internet do not do often.
It really depends on if I believed that my fifth day would be mine or would the demands of the work bleed into that day? Similar to 20% time at Google - it's easy for your "real" work to take over that time if you don't defend it actively and it's unlikely that you'll be vigilant the whole time.

I think in knowledge work - trading off time for salary is generally not a great move because we're almost always "on the clock."
Some shops call this "synthetic monitoring" where the tests run are a subset of a full integration test, that can be run at regular, but timely, intervals of say every 10 or 15 minutes. "The happy path" for some typical use cases.

This monitoring shouldn't brush aside other system-level monitoring - which can alert on abnormal memory, disk space, error rates, etc.
Uber doesn't necessarily need 24-hour coverage though, because demand peaks during commute hours.

However, self-driving vehicles can end up being a 'base load' that runs 24/7, and then Uber just pays drivers to appear during peak times, so they can avoid paying for (labor + driver's car) during unnecessary times.
Off the top of my head, here are some guesses for possible toxins that could accumulate:

1) Advanced Glycation End-productions (AGE) from normal metabolism

2) Trace levels of heavy metals, dioxins, etc. from the growth media

3) Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation increasing with age-related damage

4) BPA, phthalates, or other potentially nasty things leaching from the plastic growth containers

5) Lipofuscin

6) Misc age-related inflammatory cytokines

7) ????
Ciao guys, I am sorry I was out for dinner, and I do not own a smartphone, so I lost your comments.
Yes, you are all right, the website is beautiful but not informative, I will work on that. I still didnt have the time to dedicate a streak to that and add some info.

PJON is the layer 2 of the network protocol stack and so its speed is directly related to the obtainable speed of the data link layer used.

PJDL and PJDLR are the data link we propose, and their maximum speed is:

Added by Esben Soeltoft - 09/03/2016
Transfer speer: 48.000kBd or 6.00kB/s
Absolute communication speed: 6.00kB/s
Data throughput: 5.00kB/s

Obtained on Arduino Zero, the maximum cross-architecture speed:
_SWBB_FAST mode: Transfer speed: 25.157kBd or 3.15kB/s
Absolute communication speed: 2.55kB/s
Data throughput: 2.13kB/s

LIN has a max speed of 20kbit max operates at 12v, need a UART, max 8 bytes data frames
PJON has a max speed of 5kByte/s operates with no additional hardware totally software emulated on the voltage level you prefer, max 65535 bytes packet.
This is not the "atom-based" LLD http://lld.llvm.org/AtomLLD.html

While conventional linkers work at the compilation-unit level (one source file, usually), placing that whole source file's functions adjacently in memory [1], an atom-based linker is able to take the smallest linkable units (individual functions, each static/global variable...), and arrange those optimally.

As I recall, the OS X ld is based on this model. However it remains more limited as it doesn't support GNU ld's linker scripts and only limited command-line parameters, so it's not exposing all the power of the flexibility it would provide.

As far as I know, AtomLLD remains an experimental project with only 1 or two people working part-time on it.

[1] although modern linkers also add LTO (Link-Time Optimization) to rearrange things after everything's been integrated/
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Most of the ones I have been on the inside of (I am not currently inside of any of those) are fairly preachy internally and do discuss the ethics of what they are doing. Sure, that discussion is more "realist" than what their PR pushes out, but it is still not even close to absolute cynicism. They don't always pick the ethical choice when push comes to shove if there is a lot of money on doing the wrong thing, but it depends somewhat on the level of wrong (for the record, I am talking about perfectly legal actions here, just with possible ethical externalities). In as much as they justify things, they justify them to themselves too. You can argue that they are more cynical as you go closer to the center, but I have no evidence for it either way, and the ones actually designing and implementing the features are not in that center. I'd rather deal with someone who has to rationalize their unethical actions and thus at least consider the downsides than someone who just doesn't care. In my experience, S.V. companies are more often full of the former than the later.
If I was to decide, it wouldn't matter which one. I would rather have the
candidate tell me about the projects he's proud of (and why he's proud) or
projects that gave him a big, important lesson (and why).

Even if the candidate didn't have the degree, it could be of little importance
if he provided some evidence of skills (completed projects or work experience
would be enough).

Granted, I haven't been in the hiring position for quite long time, so I may
not be the best person to ask that.
Having a better autopilot than your competitors can strongly drive sales and revenue if that's what the market wants.
>There are lots of textbooks that showed you how to get 6.5 digits (21-bits) or 7.5 digits (23-bits) of accuracy using normal parts machined to 1% precision.

Do you happen to know the name of any of these books? I would love to play around with something like that.
I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that Twitter ads are not very valuable. Empirically, advertising is the one area of Twitter that's growing (total revenue, revenue per user, etc.). Its their user growth that has stalled.

More abstractly, Twitter is very information-seeking / interest-oriented, which seems very ideal for advertising.
If you want some funding or impact, an accelerator for a proven deep-learning architecture could be useful. Prior work in neural computation got plenty results. Just havent seen many independents try it for deep learning. One wacky idea I had was using analog accelerators for complex, evaluation functions in genetic algorithms. The digital chip would just feed each solution to a bank of them with fitness result popping out other side. Another idea was attempting any of that with Field-Programmable, Analog Arrays to see what results they got. Lowers development costs vs making masks for custom circuits.
I'm talking about simple type constraints. Think Eiffel, not F* - entry and exit conditions for sections where there is temporary unsafety, and constraints on types for persistent unsafety. Universal quantifiers only, and decidable theories only. Dafny's level of prover.
It's not slowing down, the problem right now is that there are too many people applying at the same time. Look at the statistics on linkedin (I think you need a premium account though). It goes up to 500 applicants for one single engineer position at a big startup. Web, mobile or whatever... That's a lot! And it's only people applying through linkedin.

Not a good time to be out on the market right now. From what I've seen so far I'd put at least 2 to 3 months applying everywhere to get something.
Sadly you are probably right as I do think her actions at least border on the criminal. But there are plenty of bolt holes largely out of the public eye for well-connected people.
If it's anything like Apigee IPO it would be a huge disappointment for their employees
Generally any information regarding an upcoming merger or acquisition is extremely tightly controlled. Unless you work in the executive team or a team that would be directly involved in a potential merger, it's unlikely you'd hear anything.

I too work at a large, public company. My company acquires companies semi-regularly and I've never heard about any of them ahead of the public announcement.
He mentioned that wages went down 10%. But is it the whole story ? what about longer hours at terrible factories, child labor, leaving your country home to live in some awfull dense city residence, possible lack of stability due to not owning land, etc ?
If they have zero user lock-in, then Instagram/Facebook have zero user lock-in too.
I recently had a two week break between jobs and happened to pick up Picketty's "Capital in the 21st Century".

It's a bit of a slog of a book, partly because of the reiteration of numbers and historical contexts, but I think there's nothing in there that shouldn't be above the capabilities of the hacker news crowd if they have the time/tenacity.

Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that it's better name would probably be "Capital across 3 centuries with a weird period of two world wars and a depression".

You don't have to agree with the last chapter or two, but it really does provide a great historical introduction and overview and discussion around what's actually happened in economies over the last few hundred years, if not being a bit number/graphy.

Not only will it give you some context for what the industrial revolution and historical economies/societies were like, but you'll also understand why the 20th century was different, rather than typical, and why certain generations have some of the beliefs they do about how tech/capital/economics/society works.

To bring it back into direct relation to the article title: the industrial revolutions weren't exactly the greatest time for the common man, and what we might think of as gains to such was actually the optimism and atypical effects of rebuilding after the period of 1910-1940s...
> I can honestly and without deception say that I cannot do what is asked.

The general consensus seems to be that you'll be turned around.
At this point the outcomes for her can only really be binary. From a selfish perspective she might as well continue to swing for the fences.
The Congo Free State (= Belgian atrocities) started in the 1880s as well.

The Ottoman Empire was a world power up until the first world war - suggesting that other world powers should go to war against them because of how they treat people in their own sphere of influence is completely missing the context of the times.

Hell, it's even missing the context of the current times - how many western nations intervened in the annexing and oppression of the Crimean peninsula by Russia? What is the World Cop doing about the clear oppression of Tibetans by China? What is anyone doing about the plight of North Koreans under their murderous dictatorship? What about the Khmer Rouge in the 70s, where the World Cop actually backed the people doing the genocide?

Context is important.
High overhead lights, especially fluorescent ones make me feel simultaneously exposed and confined, like a goldfish in a fishtank at Wal-Mart just waiting for some dumb kid to snatch me up.

Darkness is fine, natural light is fine, pools of lamplight are fine. But big banks of ceiling lights make me want to crawl under my desk and hide.
Thank you!

Do you have more recommendations on the front-end part?
Tesla fans seem to believe this very very strongly. Do you get a massive mobile bill from your car? Does your car have a huge storage device in the trunk? Does it upload 50GB of data over your wifi every time you park it in your garage? If not, the amount of data that Tesla collects for this purpose has probably been dramatically overstated.
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