skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would a basic type system protect against incorrectly interpreting an imperial floating point value as a metric floating point value? That seems like an especially weak example, and fundamentally falls under the realm of logical fault endemic of every possible programming language.

There are legitimate gripes about C/C++, especially in a space with hostile actors an unknown inputs, but that example was particularly weak.
A simple search for the R programming language didn't return anything about the R programming language. I'm not trying to say this isn't impressive, and they aren't doing good work. But I don't exactly think this is a good space to get into as a young company. Lots of resources have been burned by major players making subpar products.
There are lots of incubators which do this, Betaworks being one of the better known.
Ask HN: What are the best tips to teach programming to kids?
The incredible growth of the internet over the past five years
Can confirm... manually went through and opted out of everything I could find... made me feel shitty because I had to provide photos and ID card photos to do it... less than a year later it was all back again. Hired one of the services to do it the second time around... they got maybe 50% of it... and less than a year again it was all back (note I was still paying the monthly subscription to have it all purged). Worse... I had to tell them what sites I found that they missed and waste time dealing with support issues... and let's be honest neither the companies who put the shit up, or the companies who you pay to take it down, are all that honorable. Extortion, pure and simple.

Wish Google would just kill their site rankings, that would largely make the problem go away. Google is allowed to de-list spam sites... why they haven't classified all this crap as spam yet is beyond me.
I see te restored director's cut listed on Amazon video, but it's not available for streaming through them, even for a fee.
It depends on what you already know of course but Laravel or Meteor.
> we can still chalk this up as a win for SV.

But a loss for the investors that bought the stock on the open market. So even if you think that's a good thing it will definitely reduce the chance of seeing another pop with the next IPO.

A 'drag down' is never a good thing for a stock.
Yes, this exactly.
Remind me again what the difference in price between GOOG and GOOGL is. That seems like a good indicator for the value of voting rights, no?
Anecdotally I personally have talked to several people in the last few years who do things like write guidance systems for rockets. My limited sample frequently either worked in C or (a limited subset of) C++. Albeit with a variety of tooling on top to automatically test and catch a variety of kinds of common flaws.

So as weird as this may seem to you, that mindset is applicable much more recently than you might expect.
Have some amusement courtesy of https://www.mojeek.com/preferences:

Crawl date: [x] no (default) [ ] yes [ ] no

(It was in amongst a bunch of other settings that also had those same 3 options)

As can be seen by simply mentally timing the delay, and also by the "in 0.47s", queries seem to be being cached. That sort of admits that the cache isn't that up-to-date.

Also, I tried my standard "bamboozle google" query, "ketmax", while looking for results suffixed with "35", "." and "zip". No dice. (ixquick eventually found it that one time.)
Stocks go up and down. If you're shocked that a stock you bought at 25 is now trading at 24 you probably shouldn't be trading.
Can A.I make it's own predictions in the future?
> he was drinking “lethal” amounts of alcohol: three liters of gin every day.

This is slightly OT as it's a minor(ish) sentence in the article, but I fail to see the reason for the quotes. For anyone but the most hardened alcoholics, that is a lethal dose of alcohol.

Edit: pluralized a word, regardless, I think you have to be in the ~98th percentile for daily liquor consumption to survive this.
McKinsey? Up or out. Not strictly an incubator but similar net effect.

[EDIT] Elucidation
There's also this: https://gumroad.com/l/authority
How is it locked down? The website is free to use... They have some paid products but they don't seem to put any of the contributed data behind a pay wall so not sure what you mean.
I like what I understand to be the core ideas of NixOS to be, but i have to say:
There might be a chance that some century, people both in the industry and outside understand that new syntax, or languages, are rarely necessary, or even beneficial.

Use different semantics if you must, but please use some existing syntax for your DSL.

I'm so tired of learning a pointless new variety of almost the same thing, only with slightly different syntax, maybe some awkward string quoting, and some rather pointless syntactic sugar.

I'm not saying NixOS is the worst offender, but innovating in (mostly) superficial syntax, or using obscure syntax is almost certainly not well spent time except for a few very narrow niches/contexts. Especially not for prospective users.

I get it, it's fun inventing both languages and tools, I love doing it myself!

However, and in general: Don't invent a language when you need a tool, and vice versa.
You can't stop all the drug abuse but the extent of use is not a given. Amphetamine use of UK students appears to be extremely rare compared to the US, its never really been a cultural thing here.

I suspect it is due to very few amphetamine drugs being prescribed, especially to children. It seems to common to hear about people selling their legitimate ADHD/ADD prescriptions to friends in the US. "Speed Paste" is the only amphetamine properly in circulation and its use is mostly restricted to the hardcore "junkie" groups, very much frowned upon from the casual drug community.

None of the above is a solution, just to note the degree to which groups will gravitate towards and use a drug is not a given. Culture and availability probably affect use massively.
That might be less effective if you can't guarantee that all the builds end up always on the same node.
Cryovolcanism on Ceres
Not really a fair direct comparison to FB. Snap's revenues grew 600% from 2015 to 2016 (versus FB's 54% growth), you have to account for growth rate as well. Snap is estimated to be at $2B in 2018 (by Goldman)[1]. So yes, still overvalued, but not nearly as bad as an implied $5B valuation.

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-is-predicting-s...
It may not be too clear from the headline - but analysts were saying sell before the IPO as well.
Good question.

I imagine this could have been a myth, even a stereotype, among some practitioners. The danger of this kind of myth is clear to me: people struggling with substance use could have their needs with respect to autism denied out of simple assumptions that they didn't 'fit the typical profile'.

This and other stereotypes, for example around race, gender, culture or class, could lead to peoples mental health getting poor care. Now hear me out. I'm not saying that these psychologists are "racist". I'm saying that there is a need for potential biases to be explicitly addressed, and that's what this research seems to do.
Tearing is a property of the output from the GPU. The data takes time to send, and the GPU can be directed to send different data halfway through the process (or the memory it's in the process of sending can be modified, etc.). The display just shows what it's sent... it shows it as it receives it (CRT), or it buffers it up and draws it later (LCD), but if there's a tear, you'll see it just the same.
> That seems like a good indicator for the value of voting rights, no?

It's more of an indicator of the current level confidence in Google's leadership. You can look at that as a point-in-time snapshot of how much investors value voting rights in Google today, sure, but that doesn't mean much for Google a year from now, or for Snapchat today.

If investors lost confidence in Google's ability to execute and believed that the leadership was the root cause of this failure, then the ability to vote them out (or even simply put pressure on them) would carry a greater premium than it does today.
The issue is the backs they don't get are the ones that don't believe in their company, so any company that likes them can't talk.
Pretty rad existential, abstract art. Only missing the really abstract "kidism" in my opinion :) https://kidisms.com
Unconference: 9 Lessons learned from the greatest minds in New Zealand in 2017
Isn't the original commentator arguing that its good for the ecosystem as a whole, not necessarily good for SNAP?
At my current job, we have an "onsite" challenge that we used to hire some Cuban devs. We went to Cuba (from Mexico) and gave the candidates a codebase for Tetris in an interpreted language they did not know. They have 2 hours to transform that Tetris into a Nibbles (snake) game.

The catch? There is no internet in Cuba, so they had to do it using a book, and asking questions to a programmer who was helping them there.
How Lightweight Is a Lightweight Process?
Yea I'll have to find some term sheets laying around, but I can't remember seeing the 90 day exercise being explicitly written into most term sheets. I only have seen it written into people's offer letters. Does anybody know where that language would be written actually otherwise? Some sort of bylaws or something -- seems like that could be relatively easily changed to read something like "exercise period of employee stock options is 90 days after termination of employment unless otherwise stated in employee offer letter and should not be greater than 10 years."
ironically, the unwashed masses that data science has 'targeted' for 'optimization' go through the exact same process and feel the exact same emotions.

apply for 100 jobs, get zero response, and zero reason why.

be told illogical things.

be told out right lies.

welcome to capitalism. welcome to the workplace that is run entirely by data. (or by people who only care about data).
welcome to the future of humanity.
Sounds like a good reason not to bootstrap a company in France!
And here's a slightly more sophisticated version that mimics the animation you see on the Matrix:

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In your Dyalog APL session, type the first two lines, put the opened edit window somewhere you can see it, then go back to the session repl and enter the third line. On Linux's terminal you use the APL+Tab key to switch between windows on the console.

For best effect, change your edit window theme to use green on black. :-)
Static types are the qrusty way to do it. Runtime bookkeeping is wasteful.
It's a kind of tragedy of the commons. If two languages are basically equivalent yet incompatible, neither of the authors did something wrong, but it's a shame about the missed opportunities and problems that didn't need to happen.
> I suspect its a lot easier to break big rules when you're having fun breaking small ones.

That sounds plausible, but I suspect the correlation is very weak. Most people follow rules in a bizarrely idiosyncratic and context-sensitive fashion. For example, taking the escalator when going to the gym to use the stair-master.
Out of curiosity (if you're willing to share), did you actually find a decent source for ski condition data, or did you end up having to scrape and parse?
The Epsilon link 404s, but I think this page is where it should have gone: https://www.epsilon.com/en_US/consumer-information/consumer-...
Mad Magazine Super Special, Fall 1981

Was quite young when I read this and it was maybe my first (or at least strongest) exposure to satire.
But maybe after learning there would be subtle difference in play between different players, based on their values. Just like after you learn the rules of the world and are an adult, you act differently.

So for example I really just cannot bring myself to play a "dick" character in games like Fallout 4, Skyrim, Mass Effect, etc, but I know plenty of people who delight in it.
It displaces them in the relevant metric (ad penetration), so I think it still fits fine in this context. It would be different if the original commentator was arguing that Snap is going to displace FB/Google's current revenue.
Then what word would you have used in this presentation, given no established word existed?
They also increased their losses from 2015 to 2016, and their growth is slowing substantially as Instagram is competing more aggressively with them.
> Heroin, taken in correct dosage

by what ROA ? You smoke it, and you're good until your dependence increases. Then you must smoke it to feel normal. But if you slam it, you'll get high again. Do that a while and your dependence increases just as before, now you have to slam it just to feel normal. But if you just got someone to give you their dose, then you could slam 2 doses and get high again...and now you're in overdose territory
> There are a lot of differences between FB and SNAP.

> [1] Again, directly from their S-1: "We do not intend to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future."

That's not one of the differences between FB and SNAP, the same risk is listed in Facebook's S-1 (only the word "cash" is missing).
In some ways I find the drug policy hilarious.

If you cannot stop drugs being used in what arguably should be the most secure, closed system, how on earth do governments expect to stop in outside?

I would love to know how prisons are so incompetent when they literally control all the system's I/O.
Or just `cd /usr/lib/go/src`.
>I don't think too many people will pay a monthly fee to have their information removed from these services.

$5-10 a month right here, and I am not rich (yet). Time is valuable. My offer goes up with assurances/contingencies if my name is still on the lists/I am affected (e.g. LifeLock's $1M backing guarantee).
Seconding Google Sheets.

We have a large and mature codebase, but we're always iterating with new features. These often require data entry by experts in the company (in our case, stylists, marketers, copy-editors, etc), and the first-pass at the CRUD behaviour is usually just a spreadsheet. Everyone understands them, and most editing/coordination is done in a sheet while a developer builds the models and front-end in the main site (Django), then a simple import script using the Python Sheets API sticks all the data in the database in one go. The second iteration is usually a simple management interface of some sort or user-preferences.
On the face of it, claiming you lack the ability to access your own phone appears evasive and dishonest. Beware of this. Apparently misleading or obstructive behavior might cause more severe consequences than invoking your legal right to remain silent, speak with an attorney, etc. Asserting constitutional protections against unlawful search or self incrimination is not an antagonistic act and is less likely to anger an officer or escalate their investigation.
Wise advice but if the distinction between preferred+common is a real difference, then don't take the stock. Hella don't take the stock.
> That's not one of the differences between FB and SNAP, the same risk is listed in Facebook's S-1 (only the word "cash" is missing).

I didn't say that was a difference - I said that their plans not to issue dividends combined with their unique voting structure was significant.

That disclaimer means something completely different when you're talking about a company that is issuing stock with voting rights (even when the CEO has majority ownership), as opposed to a company in which the stock carries literally no voting rights.
> it will definitely reduce the chance of seeing another pop with the next IPO

"Pop" is a function of the gap between what the underwriters pay the company (the offering price), what the underwriters offer the market (the opening price) and what the market offers itself (the first-day closing price).

Lower first-day closing expectations thus mean less "pop", less profit for the bankers and/or a lower offering price for the company. If you believe, as I do, that valuations are touching on frothy, none of those is a bad thing.

Keep in mind that Snap was happy to go public at 14 to 16 a share [1]. Bankers priced at 17, it opened at 24 and then we got this mess.

> A 'drag down' is never a good thing for a stock

It can be healthy for the market if it encourages sustainable practices. That's my point--it's good in the long run.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/16/snap-pric...
Depends on what you do. If you're yet another web dev who does little more than glue together other people's code, maybe. If you have a deeper skill set I think you'll be fine.
And I'm arguing that it is not good for the ecosystem as a whole.
> It's not clear how deregulation would work with drugs like meth, which DOES seem to inherently cause health damage.

Pure clean meth causes harm. Dirty street meth obtained using the methods addicts use would be more harmful to the addict and to society.
> The proposed limit on students from other states and countries — which would be the first ever for the 10-campus public research university — comes after a scathing state audit last year found that UC was hurting California students by admitting too many out-of-state applicants. UC President Janet Napolitano has blasted those findings as unfair and unwarranted, but state lawmakers are requiring that UC adopt a policy restricting nonresident students in order to get an additional $18.5 million in funding this year.

Isn't this blackmail? Or am I missing something?
If this kind of work interests you, I'd also recommending reading Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski's DNA fountain paper (which just came out in Science). They've done some really nice work on error correction, and they also understand the sequencing technology limitations, etc. Of course this is all really expensive to read and write now, but sequencing technology is only getting cheaper and cheaper. Here' the link to the updated preprint: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/04/074237.f...
No, open source is not a necessary condition for security. But we agree that it's insufficient, which is progress.
The point of his post is "it's good for Snapchat in the long run - it indicates a healthy company."

So, it's very good for investors who invested in the company, i.e. the sorts of people that won't be selling the stock within 2 days of buying it. They'll hold on, and presumably make money in the long run as the values drag down.... and back up beyond the ipo value.
It does say this. One of the last slides says 4% of the additional size came from adding more debugging information, excluding anything to do with the new inlining.
>I'd expect that in most high-growth companies the impact of individual contributors quickly gets washed away after they leave

I'd argue it's the opposite. Early employees often have an outsized impact on the trajectory of a company and get it to a point where additional hiring is possible. Future generations of workers tend to iterate on the existing (unless there's a significant pivot) and come on board in a more de-risked situation often with salaries much closer to market.

Most start-ups also present equity as a form of compensation for work performed (trading cash for illiquid options). To take away that earned and vested compensation component because an employee doesn't have the money to exercise within the 90 day is not only arbitrarily absurd but also grossly unfair in my opinion.
What 9 Peter Thiel Fellowship recipients are doing today
JavaScript Tree Shaking in Webpack
Agreed that it's a cool idea, especially if extended to international travel. Some parts of the world are closer than we expect.

Local note: Why would a Seattleite fly from SeaTac at $562 to Vancouver in order to arrange other transport to Whistler? There are direct sub-$100 buses SEA-Whistler...
It's a state school, so no.
Good. State universities are perversely incentivized to prefer higher paying students from out-of-state and international.

University of Washington, the state's top school, is now 1/3 non-state residents. It's a serious problem.
Yea seriously, coding schools are not gonna happen for many people with not the best education.. I mean I know tons of smart people who don't want to write code even though they could do it. So the trade school thing can be economically explained very simply:

Current situation in 2017:
I pay a plumber to fix my pipes $800 for 2 hours of work. Ouch.
1000 other people in my area pay that same amount. $800,000 USD has been transferred from many different people rich or poor to the plumbers.

Future, where we have more plumbers competing for the same job:
Job costs $400.
1000 people pay only $400k to get the job done. So the people in that area have $400k more in their pockets to spend on other things.
The now greater number of plumbers all make less money than the small number of plumbers that existed before. However, you have maybe 50 plumbers in an area instead of 25. So you have more people who are working a job that keeps them alive and busy and happy and far less likely to be doing drugs and likely they will have kids and get married.

So basically the concept of asking a community to cover the cost of paying for trade schools for more people is I think extremely smart to do. And the people who get cheap education to do these trades generally are going to feel pretty happy about that as well -- like "hey people in my area care about people doing these jobs..., so I'm a valuable person in my community.."
Because the investors' cash is the thing that enables high growth companies to survive and be, well, high growth (who do you think pays said employees' salaries?). Not saying they don't often make out much better than employees, but no one forces you to accept a term sheet you don't want to, and you should understand the implications of the equity you're getting walking in.
No, it's not blackmail. Funding contingent on policy changes is a norm, not just in the California but in the US and, I'm going to go out on a limb, across all western democracies. State legislators presumably have the power to compel policy changes in the UC system, so conditional funding isn't really even them playing hardball.
according to pessimists
Martinfowler.com – A Collection of Software Engineering Patterns
Something weird is happening in your examples, because the one with classes works correctly for me - the second class is not present in my bundle.
Agreed, Nix the language is probably unnecessary. (The main benefit I can think of is avoiding depending on the moving target that is basically any other scripting language they could have tried to co-opt.)
I'm in Youngstown. Watching the news in our area is horrifying anymore.
"in Hot Real Estate Markets" was the implied ending.

So with the shorter title they were just trying to simplify - not lead anyone astray.
It's not perverse if out-of-state students fund reduced tuition for in-state students. But apparently that wasn't happening in the UC system.
It is blurrier!
They aren't entitled to state funds if they ignore the state's wishes. If they want full autonomy they need to go private.
Forge: Mixed Reality for Mobile
I dunno, I guess I just don't see it in the example I was talking about. Elsewhere, sure.
https://expa.com/
Did you read the article you linked beyond the first paragraph?
http://sciencenordic.com/heroin-clinics-improve-addicts-live...

>Reduced the number of days spent on crimes to a third

Not all crime is committed by heroin addicts so the programs won't stop burglaries completely but they have been shown to dramatically reduce the amount of crimes committed by participants.

http://www.citizensopposingprohibition.org/resources/swiss-h...

>Crime Issues: 60% drop in felony crimes by patients (80% drop after one year in the program). 82% drop in patients selling heroin.