skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recorded a podcast episode[1] with Jason where he talked a lot more in-depth about how he got SubmitHub off the ground. Here's what he said:

> To launch SubmitHub I hand-tailored more than 1000 emails to blogs. It took me about 4-5 months of doing it everyday to get through this list. It didn't just launch overnight, there weren't people banging at my door. I had to go and email these guys, and they didn't respond. So I would tweet them, I'd Facebook message them, I'd send SoundCloud messages, I'd send another email, then I'd try to find another contact... Those 250 blogs and labels didn't come overnight.

I've consistently found it to be the case that there's a lot more information lurking under the surface when you sit down and talk to someone about what they did. What you can surmise from reading a short post or interview really only scratches the surface... which is why it's easy to underestimate how difficult it was for people to launch their successful businesses.

A related anecdote: In Jason's podcast episode he talks about how someone read his Indie Hackers interview, thought "This idea is so easy!", and cloned the look and feel of his site. Of course their clone went nowhere. They didn't do any of the hustling, marketing, selling, etc, because all of that was behind-the-scenes stuff. It was invisible to them, so they failed to factor it in, and instead gave too much weight to the obvious parts.

[1] Shameless plug: The Indie Hackers podcast launches tomorrow morning at https://IndieHackers.com/podcast! It'll be three episodes to start, 1 hour each, and Jason's is #1.
Only if we can get more EVs on the road to reduce petrol consumption.
Other things off the top of my head:

Smolensky's hamonium (rbm)

the LeNet papers

Rumelhart's BPTT

Werbos's thesis

Jaeger's ESN nature paper

Forget gate paper, whose author I forget (ironically)
"The Overhauling of Straight America" seems to be eye-poppingly accurate on first read because one can easily trace back the past 10-20 years and identify events that fit much of what was written... However I think I'd label this one moreso prophetic than any sort of targeted plan.

By that I mean if you were to pick any behavior that is generally unacceptable to society and attempt to change the tide of public opinion, the game plan would come out looking very similar to this document, with simple substitutions for the behavior.

I say that because there is a direct Biblical reference in this article to spiritual warfare - the shield and sword of that accursed "secular humanism" - which is a dig at Paul's instructions to Christian believers on how to remain on-guard in their faith (Ephesians 6:10-17).

So the fact that the strategy in this article mimics what Christians would recognize as spiritual warfare is not really surprising... The article's "six things" are very similar to how Satan works to deceive (John 8:44) and move just about any sin from abhorrent to acceptable -- desensitizing, redefining truth, identity attacks, guilt/shaming, social pressure & ostracizing, etc.

So I've seen that playbook before, and it wasn't written in 1987.
Insinuating that another user is shilling is not allowed here unless you have evidence, and differing taste in open-source software does not count as evidence. Please don't do this again.

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This is awesome. I've been using an older dataset for a visualization of nearby stars + exoplanets (http://uncharted.bpodgursky.com/)

Going to look into using this though.
Nobody really cares about this stuff anymore except weirdoes like me so you might actually be best off asking your prof.

There's also a lot of resurrection that goes on with weird ideas: FastFood cites a paper that cites a paper that cites Lecun's brain damage paper, for example
Mindfulness: Why Leading Employers Are Paying for Workers to Take a Break
As you know, we ban accounts for this kind of incivility. Please edit it out of your posts here.

Also, please be charitable when interpreting others—that is, please prefer a smarter interpretation to a dumber one where plausible. This leads to better-quality discussion. For example, it's more likely that whack meant that most people weren't aware of the extent of NSA surveillance, rather than that no one had literally heard of NSA.

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That was a much more interesting read than I anticipated.
There was an article awhile back about how ruthless the dynamics were for running a business. Basically whenever a user succeeds in finding a long term partner, they exit the platform, thus ending your revenue/engagement for that user. The better you are at matching, the worse your churn will be. This creates perverse incentives for paid apps which take a monthly revenue to keep users on a never ending treadmill.
His biography "wings of fire" is very fascinating.
>It's just not dominated because it is always considered an old people thing, not what young people do

Yes, well that's true, but now it's part of youth culture so I think we're actually in agreement on that. However, what I'm not sure about is South East Asia..? I believe in places such as the Phillipines, drinking culture was largely introduced by the West, but I'm not sure about that.
You could go back to the OCaml compiler. It would take about 1000 builds, each taking 3 or 4 hours.

Someone is working on an alternate compiler so we could try DDC, we'll see.
All of Azure ? :)
DC/OS is a moderately popular workload on Azure, yes.

Disclaimer: I work for MS
Not in Tech and Medicine, but we do in Science. No clue about Engineering.
Hey, I'm Alex @ Top Hat, in engineering

Sorry to hear you had an awful experience like that. We definitely want to provide a better candidate experience than that.

As I mentioned before in this thread I can't speak for interviews that long ago, but these days we have a standard process: we want to see you in your element, so you're encouraged to use your own machine and whatever tools and languages you're best at. We also currently do a pairing-style mini-project where you're free to look things up - Google has become another essential tool for devs, so we want to avoid forcing people into unnatural ways of working that won't reflect their actual abilities in an interview.
WSU Submits $100 Receipt as Evidence of “Concrete Harm” from Trump Order
The League selects people based on their career, education and physical attractiveness.
"A new hire orientation included the unprepared advice: “in IT we have a saying; stay away from the Three Os: Orientals, Old People and Ovaries”. "

Oh wow. I thought my grandpa was the last person on Earth who actually still calls Asian people "orientals". Guess he ain't alone after all.
A closer look at Git rebase
UC Berkeley's Doudna should be livid.

She worked on this technology for years, developing it from it's infancy to in vitro proof. MIT scientists swooped in and within 2 months applied it in-vivo and patented it.

I guess to be rewarded in science you have to be a master in your field and intensely concerned with IP deadlines.

It's really a shame that Berkeley loses licensing on a tech that was 95% developed at Berkeley.
Not many startups move past trivial workloads. And if you do, it's a good problem to have. If swarm can get your mvp up quickly, it might be a good choice.
lets fucking go
VCs aren't playing with their own money. They're playing with funds from many investors. The exits (and writedowns, etc) are controlled upstream of the VC. Right now VC funds are a hedge and the investors don't need a payoff. At some point those investors need action and will require their VC folks to remove them from those investments (see dotcom bust). This isn't unusual and has nothing to do with what Zach mentions in his article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13653819
Whoa—personal attacks, which this is, are not allowed on HN.

When someone makes a mistake, admits it, and takes steps to correct it, we should acknowledge the good in that. Everybody finds themselves in such a situation at some point, and I'm sure you wouldn't like to be piled on this way.

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I wish I have read this comment earlier. Clicked 'Fly Now'. Logged in using my google account and got presented with two huge textboxes. I felt cheated there :D then closed after few seconds.
I'm actually right in the middle of putting that together as well. I quickly arrived at analysis paralysis when choosing how to bootstrap Kubernetes and run it in production given the tremendous flexibility. Tons of options[1], but nearly all of them are incompletely documented. Ended up walking through Kelsey Hightower's K8s the hard way[2] repo to peel it all apart.

End result will probably look something like Terraform -> SaltStack -> Kubernetes.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/

[2] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Infinity Multiplication – Decimal, Precise Float Calculation – Groovy
It will be awesome if you mention this just before asking new users to login with google/facebook.
Your intuition is assuming that rates would increase because mutations enter the general population and then spread through that population at some possibly small rate.

However, the prevailing genetic explanation for increases in autism prevalence rate is that mutations appear de novo (out of the blue) in a parent, and then are passed down to the proband with the disease. The de novo mutations in each case are different, more or less.

The reason that prevalence is increasing under this model is because there is is something that is increasing the rate with which the de novo mutations are passed onto offspring.

This reason is age: de novo mutations occur increasingly with age in germ cells, and if germ cells become offspring at later ages, you will see an increase in prevalence.

Studies suggest that spontaneous mutations in sperm become more common as fathers age, because of age-related issues, and these sperm with mutations are more likely to lead to autism. Because fathers are having offspring at later ages, autism is increasing in prevalence.

Maternal age is less strongly related because egg cells are formed earlier in development.

FWIW, I agree there's probably lots of environmental influences, but I don't think that's the only thing.
Interested to know what other licenses Berkeley lost, can you state few notable ones?
What will you be paying with after your 5 to 30k/year tuition? You can't bleed a stone.
https://distrokid.com/ is a near-perfect landing page for this kind of service. Well done!

Anyone know if there is an equivalent for independent films?
Ask HN: How do Freelancers decide their price (per project)?
I am new to the freelancing world. No idea to quote how much.

Most of the advice I get online is x$ per hour. But that's not really helping me. I have a full-time job to do and it's difficult for me to allocate hours per day/week. I will freelance as per my will in a given deadline.

However how do I quote a price on the project? To make a web application with 5 features say?
Funny, it took me only a few seconds of reading. I wondered to myself why he needs the escape.
There's a community version of the language being developed here: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

It works with the latest Racket versions and includes a HN clone. You can see it running here: http://arclanguage.org/forum

It's true that pg isn't working on it though. I wonder if he's ever getting back to it.
Yep, that's my exact experience with Swarm (1.13). I want the higher-level abstractions like K8s Pods and Deployments, but I absolutely cannot wait around for Swarm to stabilize those kind of things.
Okay, that's interesting. How would that work in practice? It doesn't seem like it would be easy to apply in a timely way. If the rules can be unambiguously checked by humans, would they not be more efficiently checked by machines?
Over 80 More Pokémon and New Features Are Coming to Pokémon Go
Funny, that site's an anti-speed camera site.
The patent system remains absurd.

I have mixed feeling about biotechnology, though. On one hand I'm a big fan of human genetic engineering for increased IQ which is looking extremely possible in the near future (hopefully something that will be available here in Singapore before I have kids), on the other hand as these techniques get cheaper and easier to use we may get to the point where any madman with an IQ over 145 could kill hundreds of millions. Nick Bostrom asks this question in his book: if building a nuclear bomb turned out to be trivial, like putting sand in a microwave, would human civilization have survived? We will find out if synthetic biology keeps advancing. Or maybe this is my nightmare and the patent system will slow down progress enough to save humanity.
A big difference is that using sed is producing a single known output that is clearly evident, it's much less clear what all the loops and calls is producing, it may even be an example of premature abstraction.

I don't think relying on shell commands is a bad thing though, it's just part of the unix philosophy, every build tool in existence will call external programs like the compiler itself. I doubt you could find another build tool that can replace values as simply as sed. The shell command would actually be unnecessary on newer versions of make.

Totally agree on the evaluation model though.
Where to telnet
Speed is probably not your most pressing concern if you're using Scheme, I think.
Moreover, Racket has the best ecosystem out of all the schemes, with lots of high quality and maintained libraries and a massive standard library, and it's not only a language, but also a platform for creating DSLs fully integrated with its IDE, DrRacket.
Also, Racket can create standalone binaries (though they don't make programs any faster).
most of your point is valid to other broker too.

compare RH free trade to other broker.

I find it useful.
I was as surprised as you are, https://advertising.yahoo.com/
How smartphones' barometers can help predict thunderstorms
http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.htm... oh Juergen

> Machine learning is the science of credit assignment. The machine learning community itself profits from proper credit assignment to its members. The inventor of an important method should get credit for inventing it. She may not always be the one who popularizes it. Then the popularizer should get credit for popularizing it (but not for inventing it). Relatively young research areas such as machine learning should adopt the honor code of mature fields such as mathematics: if you have a new theorem, but use a proof technique similar to somebody else's, you must make this very clear. If you "re-invent" something that was already known, and only later become aware of this, you must at least make it clear later.
I'm American, lived in Brazil for 8 years, became totally fluent in Portuguese, worked at a local company, etc.

After about 5 years, I realized that no matter how much vocabulary I learned, how perfect my grammar was, or how reduced my accent was -- I would never get the references to childhood cartoons, or any of another 1,000 things that came from growing up there. And it's actually crazy how much of casual conversation revolves around all these things.

And finally coming back to the States, it was all just so easy -- such a luxury to have a whole shared cultural history with people I'd hang out with, so many jokes to make, so much richness to the conversation. Social conversation felt "full" again.

That's what they never tell you when you learn a new language -- the language alone isn't enough.

Addition: the funny thing is, I have a lot of non-American friends who get all (or most) of the American cultural references, because so many of them revolve around TV/movies, and those are exported around the globe. So part of the American so-called "melting pot", I suspect, is helped by the worldwide ubiquity of our entertainment culture.
The TGI Fridays in San Bruno. Or the cafe at Santa Clara Fry's store in the evening and on weekends.
Isn't that another example of manufacturers not supporting their hardware? Are the windows/FreeBSD drivers still maintained or do they just still work?
Until there is a security flaw found in the driver. Then what do you do? The linux driver model is much better for users and security.
Yahoo tells users they were hit with cookie attack
True, but on the other hand people seem to believe their own opinions are "objective truth" more often than is justified.

This being the case, perhaps it's a nice idea to err on the other side for a change.
This movie has been absolutely panned by the scientific community.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/andrew-wakefields-vaxxed-an...

Though I appreciate your optimism, there's no amount of evidence that could convince anti-vaxxers at this point.
There several manufacturers of YBCO wire now, e.g. http://www.superpower-inc.com/content/2g-hts-wire
An important note: this assumes he spent no money. Obviously, this is a ridiculous assumption, as he has lived a very ostentatious and expensive lifestyle.
How good would we be at predicting future life expectancy? I'd say we're probably pretty bad at it.

The fact that businesses selling life insurance make money over the aggregate, despite sometimes losing money in the individual, seems to imply we're decently good at it.
Jennifer Doudnas plans on genetically modifying humans
I like how the license explicitly disallows its use in the current DARPA challenge ;)
Our production setup is actually still on Digital Ocean; we're currently testing GCP (GKE + Salt-managed VMs) with a staging cluster to see how it works in practice.

Before GCP, we set up a staging cluster on AWS. It was okay. The biggest pain point is that AWS's VPC does not match Kubernetes' requirement for per-pod IPs, so anyone who installs on AWS ends up setting up their own overlay network (such as Flannel or Calico). That's a big downside, because VPC isn't fun to deal with.

You don't really notice how antiquated AWS is until you move to GCP. Everything — networking, UI, CLI tools, etc. — feels more modern, sleeker and less creaky.

One area where GCP is particularly superior is networking. Google gives you a Layer 3 SDN (virtual network) that's more flexible than the rigid subnet-carving you need to do with AWS VPC. The tag-based firewall rules are also a breath of fresh air after AWS's weird, aging "security group" model.

It's not all innovation, of course. Some services are carbon-copy clones of AWS counterparts: Pub/Sub is essentially SQS, Cloud Storage is S3, and so on, with only minor improvements along the way. Cloud Storage, for example, doesn't fix S3's lack of queryability. I've also been distinctly unimpressed with the "StackDriver"-branded suite of services, which do things like logging and metrics. I don't know why anyone in this day and age would bother making something that doesn't compare favourably to Prometheus.

I should add that the security situation on GKE could be better:

* GKE's Docker containers run in privileged mode.

* There's still no role-based authentication.

* Containers end up getting access to a lot of privileged APIs because they inherit the same IAM role as the machine.

* You can't disable the automatic K8s service account mount [1].

Another scary thing, unrelated to GKE, is that the VMs run a daemon that automatically creates users with SSH keys. As a team member, you can SSH into any box with any user name. Not sure if real security weakness, but I don't like it.

I love the CLI tools ("gcloud" and so on), much nicer than awscli etc, and hopefully much friendlier to junior devs.

[1] You can disable the mount by mounting an "emptyDir" on top, but that makes K8s think the pod has local data, which causes the autoscaler to refuse to tear down a node. Fortunately there's an option coming to disable the service account.
Agreed, I was just showing my work.
Or maybe if all the other apps suck?
Meetups. There are a zillion technical meetups.
A long time ago I came across an ebook from Sitepoint that talked about this very subject. Pricing per hour has the effect of placing a cap on your income: your hourly rate x the max hours you can bill in a year.

Instead, you should bill based on the value to the client, in terms of increased revenue or decreased costs. For example, in 2007 I built an online appointment scheduler with real-time availability for a high end Beverly Hills hair salon. It took about 20 hours of work total. If I billed say $50 an hour I'd have $1000. Instead I sold them on the fact that they didn't need to hire a full time receptionist at $24k per year, and I was able to charge them $6000 for the project. They are still using this system today.
Intel drops its sponsorship of the Science Fair prompting an identity crisis
C'mon, "swipe" was in top 10 words of the year 2015 according to Collins Dictionary

swipe (verb): to move a finger across a touchscreen on a mobile phone in order to approve (swipe right) or dismiss (swipe left) an image

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/05/binge-watch-20...
I too often see a fundamental misunderstanding of what made Delphi so great. Yes, you can drag and drop controls onto a form in a lot of tools. It can compile native code. And yes, Object Pascal was nice to read and maintain.

But the real issue is rapid database applications. Being able to create business apps very rapidly was always Delphi's thing. It was a really fantastic replacement for Paradox and brought Turbo Pascal and Paradox together to create something amazing.

For that there still isn't anything. There are a lot of things that are close, but nothing with the same level of power and speed. The closest thing I've found is Django. Hopefully that clarifies: it's not about GUI anything.
Must be https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/learning-tens...

To be released in June.
The incentives aren't aligned. A doctor who sees a lump and does nothing has a huge downside risk: it could be malignant and everyone will believe that the doctor is at fault. A doctor who orders the test will never be blamed for a fluke complication during a biopsy.

It's hard to resolve becuse it's not even about money. It may be the doctor who is blaming himself.
The censoring of people in real life and the internet in the name of "safe freedom of expression" is the ultimate downfall of our society.
I had a college roommate from Hong Kong for a couple years. He specifically asked for an American roommate, and I think we both benefited from the exchange. His English was far better than most of his friends after that time. It's hard though, if I were in his place, I might have been more insular as well seeking out those with my native language.

He also got to laugh hysterically as he saw me try to pronounce some greetings/messages in Cantonese to his father who would call from Hong Kong, so there was that benefit too.
I've started to get the same impression. It seems like VCs, as a result of one or two past successes, now attribute to themselves omniscience when it comes to choosing companies.
We use vSphere to manage 1k + vms and it works well. The ansible plugin to manage it makes most of the pain go away.

I am seeing this from a dev perspective who has stuff running in those vms, spawn vms and kill vms. We have a systems team who manage the more systems part of it.

cheers