skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I understand correctly that every time you have pitched VCs in the past 5 years they wanted to give you money? If pitched to many VCs over the years and never been offered investment. The rest of you make it sound so easy
But the editor itself is so slow. It takes 10x time to start compared to Notepad++.
Strangely missing from the article is any mention of http://containerqueries.com or the CSS Element Queries spec that's being drafted up, or really any the stuff we've been doing over the past 2 years…

Here's a list of current articles relating to element/container queries that gives a better perspective on what we have, where we're at, and what we can do with these concepts: https://gist.github.com/tomhodgins/b9fee22fe39e184181368e548...

Also, check out any of the EQCSS demos on Codepen if you want to start playing around with container queries in your browser right away: http://codepen.io/search/pens?q=eqcss&limit=all&type=type-pe...

Happy hacking!
I'm 0 for Thrillers on this list and only 2 for SciFi. So my word is suspect. But still, I would recommend startup.com for the documentaries.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

I'd also recommend 2001, Repo Man, Dark Star and They Live on general principles.
I already did give you a better source in my previous comment. Here's another that measures something slightly different. It took all of 10 seconds to google: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

China has nearly a billion regular internet users and there are over a hundred million overseas Chinese speakers. Finding a "source" on the internet is great and all but at least run it past a basic sanity check.

Given the enormous population gap, how could Russian possibly have more of an internet presence than Chinese?
I'm sure this thread will go to the summaries:

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

"An internet posts a 'movies for hackers' list on Git instead of using other reasonable publishing services as any human being. Hackernews spend hours complaining about how their favorite obscure movie that nobody knows or cares about wasn't included in the list"
We aren't talking about everything created by humans. We are talking about something created by a public university, partly funded by taxes, and with a rather large endowment.

The ADA does not generally apply to individuals.
That's interesting, Stanford's not a "public entity" and would seemingly not be beholden to these regulations (which I'm assuming is different than the law requiring handicap-accessible facilities by private entities).
Why do you expect the language of a middle-income country with a rapidly aging population and unsustainable economic model to somehow become more useful in the next 100 years?

There's also the uncomfortable fact that many Chinese people just think it's funny that a foreigner speaks their language, or they feel like they have something over you because you have to talk to them on their terms.

(I say this as a Mandarin learner, btw)
Kvnode – minimalistic disk-based redis clone with raft support and key iteration
This happened to Stanford as well. I remember watching about half of their videos for a course when all of a sudden it was unavailable. It was frustrating that the DoJ would stifle free learning.

Fortunately the videos were being shared via torrents so I could finish the course, and eventually reuploaded by others on their own personal youtube channels.
The idea that it being a local proxy meaning there is no operational overhead is a dangerous fallacy.

If that's an earnestly literal statement from you, then it means you simply haven't encountered the failure modes that these kinds of set up are inclined towards.

I've worked at several BigCo's, seen them all implement this pattern, and seen every single one of them have fleet-wide outages due to these innocent "local proxies".

Remember FB's 2-3 hour outage 2 years ago?

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-det...

It was /exactly/ this kind of "local proxy for higher availability/caching over the downstream thing" that caused the outage.
The pre-money valuation is what you are worth before the investment. So you're saying "we have a company worth $10 million" and the investor is saying "cool, let me give you $5 million."

So now you have $10 million in company plus $5 million in cash, so you are worth $15 million (that's called the post-money valuation.) The investor gets $5m / $15m—33% of the company.
We open-source an awful lot of our code, including our entire 2016 general election codebase. https://github.com/newsdev/
JetBrains Rider is far better IMHO.
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California is an at-will state. Silicon Valley is in California. Tech employers should just embrace the fluidity of the market and mandate probationary periods instead of long, arduous interview processes. Candidates are already mobile enough anyway, if they're let go then let them work to improve themselves until the next gig.
Yao Ming cracked cold fusion years ago!
John Gustafson’s new “sigmoid unum”/“posit” proposal is kind of interesting; see his recent talk: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/170201.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13562164

It does a variable number of fraction bits, so that the values near 1 are even more densely represented than under the usual IEEE floats, while also providing greater dynamic range (but at reduced precision).

I made a little diagram showing a visual comparison of every represented value in a toy 8-bit version vs. IEEE-style floats:
https://groups.google.com/group/unum-computing/attach/e80274...
Nevermind, they fixed it!
Would be awesome to use InstantWatcher to show a link (if exists) to stream on Netflix or Amazon, etc.

And not a movie, but Halt and Catch Fire should be on there somewhere...
The letter says

"Automatically generated captions were inaccurate and incomplete, making the content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities."

So it seems like they need to be quite accurate.
Just create a license for algorithms and data structures, since that's the bulk of whiteboarding anyway, since they "don't ever change."
I wonder, could they release with a permissive license, allowing other people to host them or share them?
> you just have to expect the competitors to be too incompetent/short-sighted

Same probably goes to %99.9 of all investors as well, otherwise those %99.9 would have been rich from buying Google after their IPO.

Being short sighted is a humans' thing, probably. not a tech CEOs' thing..
Some appropriate music for this occasion:

Rush - 'The Trees' [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXeUvDOMgGY
Thank you. We worked hard on our last two or three job advertisements. This represents the culmination of probably 8 months of conversation and experimentation.
As properly transcribing a video lecture is more expensive than making the lecture in the first place, it's a reasonable choice to gift something to many but not all people at a small fraction of what the cost would be if it had to be more accessible.

Accomodations are reasonable if they require a small adjustment to the product - like automated speech-to-text transcriptions would be, or making navigation so that it's possible to use with screen-readers for blind people. However, if the required adjustment effort overwhelms the original product, then I'd say that "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" applies - yes, the content isn't perfect, and it's not suitable for many uses, but it's a gift; if you don't want it, then don't take it and it shouldn't be anybody's duty to make that gift differently.
This is absolutely correct.
Where I live (Greece), it's like 40 euros.
Signposting Your Writing
What makes a movie “must watch” for “every hacker and cyberpunk”?

Two criteria come to my mind:

- The movie is likely to teach you something that will make you a better “hacker” or “cyberpunk”.

- The movie depicts what it's actually like to be a “hacker” or “cyberpunk”.

Now, which of the movies on this list are going to do either of those? Probably some of the documentaries, and probably almost none of the fictions.
We've been largely winning against the sea since 1500, and that's with windmills and wheelbarrels of mud. Look up the Afsluitdijk. Or the Deltawerken. Our combined 'water defense works' are considered one of the modern wonders of the world. The Dutch will never surrender to the sea. Even if the rest of the globe will experience some catastrophic flood, the Dutch will figure out how to stave it off.
Needs 'Triumph of the Nerds' in documentaries, and 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' needs to move to any of the film sections (it's not a documentary).
It was very close to the Xbox in terms of its graphical capabilities. The major advantage the Xbox had was its hardware shaders.
It's not about the videos, it's about sending a message. Specifically, that it's critically important to make sure that the deaf have the same access that everyone else does, even if it's expensive and inconvenient, because we as a society demand that level of fairness.
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Most of these laws apply to anyone taking federal money and quite a few apply to private entities.
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People like to say it is s mini Silicon Valley here. A lot tech companies have some presence here Oracle, MS, Google, Verisign, AWS, etc. Obviously this is also government contractor land. Then there there are those buildings without any signs but with 3 layers of fences, and every other person seems to work for the "State Department" (cough cough CIA).

But I think another reason companies like it here is because of tax structure. I hear it is more advantageous for them than being in DC or Maryland.

Other fun thing, apparently if you dig around Tysons Corner you have a high chance of randomly hitting 3-letter agencies' fiber. And then black SUVs come and talk to you in a surprisingly short amount time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05...
> I don't think, if that's their base axiom, they are practically (in a world where we have scarcity of time and effort) reachable.

On reflection, I may have to agree with you here. It's an emotional axiom, not a rational one, and so you can't fix it by rational argument. (You might be able to fix it by emotional argument, but I'm not sure even that would work, nor do I know how to go about trying.)

> This is pretty much what Republicans have been doing for a very long time, and doing pretty well...

But it seems to me that the Democrats (or at least the left wing of the party) has been doing the same. The message has been, if you don't agree with us, you're a racist, sexist bigot, and you should just shut up and crawl in a hole (or die). And it turned out that (pick one): The Republican base was bigger, or the Democrats alienated more people, or the Republicans alienated them less.

> There really are more of us than there are of them; ours just don't get out and vote.

If by "ours" you mean Democrats (as opposed to centrists), then I'd say that Hillary was a very uninspiring candidate. Also, when the DNC chose to hinder Bernie, it turned off a lot of Democratic voters.

> I don't think Trump has a political position.

I don't, either. I hope that's good news - if Bannon and Miller prove to be political albatrosses, Trump is somewhat likely to jettison them. (The bad news is that Trump, not having positions of his own, is more susceptible to the positions of those around him.)
Communication skills is more valuable than Technical skills
This doesn't appear to be so much a curated list of much-watch movies so much as a list of all movies about hacking ever.

Here is my curated list of movies ever hacker and cyberpunk enthusiast must watch:

* Sneakers

* Ghost in the Shell

* Tron

Why is Tron there? Because the screenwriter loosely based the character around her husband. Who was her husband? Alan Kay. Tron's protagonist is Alan Kay.
Visual Studio for Mac (currently available as a preview) is a full IDE, meant to be more like the .NET development experience in Visual Studio for Windows.

Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform programmer's text editor, similar to Sublime or Atom. If you are into .NET, it has a good server-side development experience, but for client-side you'll want to stick with the full Visual Studio IDEs.

Code is very extensible, though, and has support for a ton of platforms that you might not normally see supported in the full IDE. You might prefer it for JavaScript, Go, Rust, etc.

Also, Code works on Linux. :-)

Hope that helps!

Disclaimer: I work on dev tools at Microsoft.
This is something that bothers me indeed. My best case scenario is to create a company in the machine learning field there. The idea is not yet mature enough, so I'm giving myself time for now (we're planning to move in a year or two).

As for houses, I've checked and it sure looks expensive, but again - I'm living in Paris area where the prices are insane in my opinion. In the suburbs where I live, it's ~5000e/m2 - with almost 1h commute to work.
I wrote an application in Objective-c
There is a 100% chance that they did not get money/term sheets from 100% of VCs that they pitched.

Don't feel bad, raising money is really fucking hard, stressful, random, and involves a lot of luck.
D.A.R.Y.L.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/
(To be clear, I'm not saying it's an anti-pattern, I'm just saying that calling it "no operational overhead" is naive)
This seems like a better approach than Apple's WebGPU in that it is more realistic (depends on using a usable subset of the three APIs that is reasonably common) and, not started by the same company that is the biggest obstacle to cross-platform graphics APIs in the first place.

It seems unfortunate that it is necessary though. It is clear that neither Metal or DirectX can be the cross-platform API we'd all like so, it seems a shame Microsoft and Apple can't just support Vulkan.
Serious question here for people who know about this.

"I have recently seen several examples of companies doing pretty well and going out to raise B rounds with investors already owning 50-60% of the company. In all cases, they are having a tough time."

I know a company in this position. Not quite going out to raise a Series B, but lots of interest from current Series A investors in doubling down (doing an internal growth round).

What's special about this scenario is that the company is profitable and has millions in revenue and grew 1,200% since the Series A investment round just a couple years ago. But because the pre-Series-A financing was at depressed valuations, there is only 30% of stock for the common, and the founders/employees are (rightfully) worried about dilution. The cap table is clean, but the distribution is unfavorable.

In this case, could founders make a reasonable argument that Series A investors should buy out seed investors and angels rather than diluting the common stock holders further? It seems like secondary liquidity for the angels would be attractive to them, and I heard that when offering secondary liquidity for those seed-stage investors, one could do some sort of "stock-cash swap" that avoids dilution of the common. Anyone heard of something like this or have good reading material about it? It seems like an esoteric "third way" between Series A and exit.
Sure, there's definitely risk. I'm not asserting that it's literally 0 chance. But this risk of this is also tied up with other things that leverage this proxy. So it's not adding a new dependency or a new point of failure. If this has a problem, we'll also have problems talking to other services in our network.

And for what it's worth, I've definitely fucked this up in the past and caused downtime as a result of a setup like this. The pros still outweigh the cons in practice.
What is accuracy of state of the art algorithm for audio captioning? YouTube has about 95% accuracy according to some folks. And what is the accuracy needed by regulation? If cost of running algorithms is the only issue, there should be a smarter solution like whoever is watching video lectures has to contribute some compute from his device to run algorithm.
Could you also add a tag/filter for remote jobs? Thanks.
Today I was looking into using the VS Code debugger for embedded C and I was surprised that the c/c++ extension is not open source. Does anyone know the reason?
Yes, they are. See my other reply.
A browser-based front end/gui for GDB
Exactly. I'm sorry OP, but with all due respect, you're delusional if you think your strategy would improve upon AWS's availability. The only way you would do that is to deploy a solution like you mentioned on infrastructure that has higher availability than AWS. Hint: that doesn't exist. AWS may have low statistical availability for the month, but on any longer timescale they're still the very best in the game. You need to remember that whatever caused this was a black swan event.
I think the pokemon games will eventually get ported to thw switch. Which is great.
Rust Language Server Alpha 2 Release
Worth of company before investor gives company cash (pre-money valuation): $10 million

Worth of company after adding $5 million from investor: $15 million.

Investor now owns $5 million dollars "worth" of a now $15 million company

$5 / $15 = ~33%
Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
Building a cluster discovery service using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
Yes, but this is major evidence of short-sighted thinking. If you're resorting to using a silly marketing campaign to convince people worldwide to come apply for jobs in your city, you have a serious problem already with a lack of skilled people, otherwise you wouldn't be resorting to such a desperate technique.
(I invoke my pedant-pass.) As formulated in the title, "How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]?" you could argue that this is the cardinality of the Real Numbers. What the article says it is really talking about are single-precision IEEE 754 floating-point numbers. However, I could define any number of my own floating-point representations at various sizes. The cardinality of all possible floating point representations would be the same as that of the real numbers. This is true even for irrational numbers, as one could formulate floating point representations that specially represent those numbers.

(Also, this is arguably an exception to Betteridge's Law, and arguably not an exception to Betteridge's Law.)
The same way it owes people with disabilities the best parking spaces, loading zones, ramps, automatic doors, accessible restrooms, elevators, places to put wheelchairs on buses and subways, TTY phone numbers for essential services, the right to bring service dogs where pets are not allowed, etc.

Mandatory disability accommodation is a huge part of our society. There can certainly be reasonable limits (for example, noncompliant buildings that predate the ADA were not torn down).
motivation doesn't imply correctness.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1373373/Study-show...
AWS maintains an entire region named GovCloud explicitly to isolate sensitive workloads and meet compliance requirements. The "security clearance" is basically just a background check to make sure you aren't a spy.
The "purchase" link goes to kickstarter which says the project is canceled?

Are you charging people for a beta test?
I am pretty sure if the email had read "a panda petting zoo might advertise during the campaign" this article would never have been written. The only reason this is controversial at all is because it involves the NRA. The article repeatedly mentions the NRA and leaves it as an open question if the NR A was interested in running ads. Requesting comment from the NRA would be appropriate in my opinion.
Aw, I'm a hackerpunk so only 1/2 are watchable. I just don't know which half.
Bloom and Bust (2015)
I honestly believe that learning to program is similar to learning to speak languages. You can't truely learn them after childhood. Atleast not in the way that you could when you were a child - in the way we learn our native languages. That certainly doesn't mean that someone can't 'learn what programming is' but I have serious doubts that someone who learns to program as an adult will ever actually program like a native.

I could be wrong on this and I'm sure there are some exceptions. But I suspect the answer to your question could only really come from a gifted teacher. Asking a seasoned developer how to teach someone who has never programmed is probably akin to asking seasoned artist how to draw like a child. They probably can't really know the answer because of their level of sophistication and the fact that their brains have long since migrated the skill from the section of the brain that learns to the section of the brain that masters.

I'm certainly no teacher but perhaps something with a gentle learning curve such as basic HTML where the reward to effort ratio is faily high. Or the classic 'guess a number from 1 to 10' type of program which is easy to accomplish with a little assistance and teached loops, print to console and variables.
When I switched teams within my company in 2014, I was due for a new work notebook and I got a Macbook because everyone in the new team was using them. I have been screaming at macOS's bizarre window manager, ridiculous Unix userland and only half-full-featured Outlook and Lync ever since, and praised my Arch Linux VM where most of my actual work is taking place because it helps me keep my sanity.

I'm posting this because, near the end of the year, the 3-year depreciation period is over and I can (or rather, have to) get a new notebook, and it will definitely be a Windows machine. ($work only has official Windows and Mac images.) Outlook and Lync ^W Skype-for-Business will work much better (I will be one of the few on the team who can do such amazing things as record Lync ^W SfB sessions).

So yes, I am one of the guys you asked for, although probably not for the reasons most people expect.