skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Close, but not quite. I first interpreted the large oval in the upper right of the image as the Tarim Basin (the large oval desert in China). However, given the city names, it became clear that the distances didn't work. The large oval in the image is in fact the oval lake in Kyrgyzstan (slightly above the northernmost red line).

The lines on Wikipedia's map are so thick that they obscure most of the relevant features in the image.

The bounds of the image on Google Maps is roughly this: https://goo.gl/maps/akaV2mcgUXv (I don't know how well the exact extent matches up). Bishkek and Almaty are at the northern edge of the image, Kashgar at the southern edge, Karakol at the eastern edge, and Kokand at the western edge. In simpler terms, just make sure you can see all of Kyrgyzstan and not really much more than all Kyrgyzstan.
I'm a libertarian that supports unions. If you can get enough of the labor force together to demand higher wages or better benefits, more power to you. I don't think the government should be involved in that. I'm even happy to support socialist style businesses where the workers share ownership. If someone can make that work and be successful/competitive? Awesome. Again, I just don't think the government has any business meddling in it.
Interestingly flying through volcanic ash, even in small amounts, is exceptionally hard on aircraft. So hard in fact that in one of the DARPA call for wild ideas rounds I suggested a "puffer ball" defense system consisting of a steam or air pressured dispenser on ship that could fire a 'plume' of volcanic ash to a height of up to 1000 meters. If any aircraft 'buzz' your ship with that plume up they are going to lose their engines. It could also make for a shore based cruise missile defense where you puff it infront of the missile and hope that the missile's radar can't see enough of it to jog left or right. It is remarkable stuff[1]

[1] http://www3.alpa.org/portals/alpa/volcanicash/03_NASADC8AshD...
lots of people are working on the patient-centric record. No one has cracked the cultural problem and the integration problems. You would be requiring docs to re-enter most of the information in their own system.

Remember, the things we call EMR aren't primarily medical records, they are systems for sending the right codes to the billing systems
That is a great question - I'm actually going to post a blog post about this early next week. Quick summary: 1) It is motivational to work around a bunch of other super hungry startups 2) YC is a great tool and the more experience you have the better you are at using it 3) While I did have a good network I didn't have a ton of relationships with current early stage founders
"Tinder is the go to hookup app in the United States"

Not anymore it isn't. This varies wildly on your age group and location, but the landscape has definitely changed.

Tinder is also loaded with fake profiles now that they seem powerless to do anything about.

And this seems to be from the same guy that's always hawking his dating app/site too, isn't it?
This is what even Google does now for the movies and tv shows on the search. If you are logged in while searching for a movie or TV show, it gives thumbs up or down and shows the approval rating in total.
> . The US has known for at least a decade that spending more on IRS agents would earn more money than it would cost.

Isn't that proven to be a mostly false notion? Lower taxes tend to bring in more revenue and create more employment.
Thanks, I phrased that poorly.
No offense to the Martian mission but I probably got better enjoyment and insight out of the movie so far than the actual mission. Not that it is or should be the only metric, but is the metric that matters to me today.
>Both depend on placing arbitrary limits on the victim of a crime, to excuse the perpetrator's behavior

They absolutely do not.

If a person is sensitive/allergy to something why shouldn't it be that person's responsibility to avoid coming into contact with it? Should all gifs that MAY cause seizures be outlawed on the internet now? Why should it be the rest of the internet's responsibility not to have gifs that may cause seizures?

What if I recommend an anime that may cause seizures, should I be arrested for recommending something?
Eichenwald didn't "turn out" to have epilepsy – he had written about it before. This was someone intentionally attempting to harm someone by triggering a seizure.

And your hypothetical situation isn't hypothetical – people who cyberbully others into committing suicide are certainly charged for their crimes.
I think there is a legal principle that takes all enumerations as closed sets.

You may enumerate a set as an example of a class. You might say, "animals, such as lions, tigers and bears." If you wrote that as legalese, only lions, tigers, and bears would be considered "animals" for the purpose of the chapter.

Legalese has to be really specific with respect to lists, otherwise clever lawyers can argue their way around the holes in whatever manner best benefits their client. If you're going to specify any sub-activity of the industry in question, you have to specify all of them that you with to include for the purposes of the law.

I would say that distribution includes shipment, so "packing for shipment or distribution" is unnecessarily redundant. As such, I would prefer the interpretation of "packing for shipment, or distribution". Just as you wouldn't say "lions, tigers, tigers, and bears" you would never say "shipment or distribution" as its own clause. Distribution is shipment.

So to make it unambiguous, you could use stricter redundancy aversion: "packing for shipment or shipment".
Compared to 1917? The middle class was in its infancy at that point. Workers were still fighting for basic safety protections and one day off per week.
Homelessness should not be a problem in USA where land is plenty. If homelessness is a problem it is mostly because cities are not growing horizontally fast enough.
List of deep learning datasets
The phrase "cost to make" is a problem here. Most of the millions in movies are spent to claim a share of a fixed-size amount of our collective attention. You could "make" an identical video artifact for a small fraction of The Martian's budget. It just wouldn't get seen.
The government is not getting access to (nor asking for) all queries. The government is getting access to information identifying who searched for a term. Google's query may include all search terms but Google obviously already has that data anyways.

This is equivalent to asking FedEx who in a given city was shipped something from a specific address. Sure when FedEx does a search it may technically search over all shipments from any address, but the government isn't getting access to that information. Hardly equivalent to door-to-door searches of every house.
Can you explain b). Doesn't "the US government pays" mean that the US pays, one step later?
But anyone can make a radio out of whatever parts they want, so they are essentially free. AFAIK, there are no "home builds" for the Home?
How long can a company that sells to the public (the term is escaping me) avoid the draw of B2B? Should they?

Is there any unintuitive advice would you give to companies that might want to start selling to companies?
I'm far from an expert on statistics, but wouldn't the fact that star ratings tend to fall on a bimodal distribution just mean that the ratings that don't fit the bimodal distribution have a higher signal/noise ratio than the ones that do? I'd think you could use a 2-4 rating as an indicator of a thoughtful reviewer. Additionally, it seems like you could also use the fact that a particular reviewer doesn't fit the overall bimodal distribution as a sign that this reviewer's reviews are similarly more thought out.
It's almost acccurate, off by not much. There is a few contributions that don't appear here like guile-nash and guile-log which are respectively tracing JIT compiler and prolog in scheme runtime.
If you believe the job is immoral, yes.

IBM supplied computation systems to Nazi Germany, where they were used to carry out the murder of millions of people.

Had it done so knowingly, its management should have been taken out back and shot, right alongside the other perpetrators.
Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
I've been using Medium for almost 2-3 years now to host my personal site and blog (https://tigran.nyc). I've started to feel I want something more customizable. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
We do help founders with visas. We prepare invitation documentation and work closely with an immigration law firm that we give founders direct access to. We also have late interviews for founders who need more time to get a visa and will even do interviews outside of the country or remotely if required (see here: https://blog.ycombinator.com/us-visas/).
Interestingly, I've been fighting for years over the username "johnhenry" within the tech space. If you're hoping to secure those username, more power to you -- I just hope your name is actually "John Henry".
Build GSM Base Station
Just tried it. It has fired my old capture tool, thanks!
U.S. Navy Asked You to “Hack Our Ship,” Strengthens Cyber Defense
read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13888550
The minute that happens the more accessible community version with polished graphics and interface will become the dominant one. Only dilettantes will play the original.

The problem is he has zero motive to do so. His income is adequate for his needs and he apparently has no interest in fame or other reward. To him there's nothing to gain and everything to lose from open-sourcing it.
Followed up by the most useless comment I have ever read on HN.
Is Finno-Ugric a magnet for this kind of speculation? I've talked with Koreans who are adamant about the existence of a relationship between Korean and Finnish.
I will second that.
I was talking about the person I was replying to, who was asked to work off the clock at blockbuster video. That is always illegal, regardless of whether you are elible for 1.5x overtime salary or not.
>what is so special about running YC that means you deserve a sabbatical?

I missed where this was claimed to be "deserved"?

>It is actually atypical in most professions in the US (at least outside of teaching or academics) to be able to step away other than for a somewhat short vacations[...]but most people can't do something like this.

I'm trying to figure out how this is relevant? Would you elaborate? I don't care about disrespect, but ignorance (i.e. lack of of knowledge) and illogical claims are problematic for me. "Special"?

I missed the parent comment before it was "edited for tone," but your comment comes across with a bit of undue animosity.
If you hit a slice shot in tennis, the ball will travel considerably further because the backspin produces circulation which generates lift. If air was a bunch of bullets, the effect wouldn't happen at all. If you raise a spoiler on a Grob's wing, its lift-producing capabilities drop considerably because the spoiler interferes with the circulation. If air was a bunch of bullets, a spoiler wouldn't do anything.

> Air isn't magic fairy dust that pushes on airfoils from a distance.

No. Like I said, it's a fluid that has pressure and velocity everywhere. At low enough Reynolds numbers, like for model gliders, you can even get away with treating it as a non-compressible fluid with decent results.

> Pressure is impact.

And contact between two objects is really about Pauli exclusion surfaces at the atomic level. So what?
Since the early days of Yelp I learned to read restaurant star ratings:

3.5: Good place, check it out

4.0: Great place, impress your friends

< 3.3: Double check your health insurance first

> 4.2: Fake
It takes 3 points to confirm a pattern. :) Otherwise, it is nice and fortunate to be able to take time off (if you choose) to raise your kids, especially as a family. Especially when they are young and before school starts.
So...to answer directly.

TBB was in alpha at one point. So was OpenMP, MPI, ...

Just because you have an established library doesn't mean something else can't come along. Said another way, just because new doesn't mean to dismiss it.
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Do you have a quill pen? Hmm, didn't think so. If somebody came along and said: "Hey, look they both write, why use that fountain pen." Then we'd likely be writing with feathers today.
</rant>
A Rogue AP Locator on the back of mobile device
Thanks for commenting!

> Between nodes, it gets more fun...however it's still a rather well understood problem.

Indeed it's understood, but the scalability problems switch somewhere else once your communication becomes the bottleneck. One advantage of dataflow-like paradigms like yours is that you can avoid major barriers like in Bulk-Syhnchronous-style programs. Those barriers start to become costly when you run with ten/hundreds of thousands processors. That'd be super interesting to see your library scale in those settings, similar to [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mani_Zandifar/publicati...
Is that equally true of the incubator side and Research?
What are the limitations of forming an Engineering union?
I typically have a good idea for how the community will feel on a given topic - but I'm not so sure on this.

Of course buy in and undercutting is a limitation of any union - but what would be some of the less obvious negative effects on engineers specifically?
> "challenge the first amendment"

sorry, what? i don't think assault is protected by the first amendment. at the risk of sounding naive i have to ask why Manson wasn't protected under the first amendment?
The promotions are the reason to job hop, aren't they?

That's always why I moved in SFO. Wisdom I always received was every 2-3 years it's time to move out and up. It's served me well. I think now I'm "career" as we like where we live and I want to build something in my division.

And yes, we easily offer that. Why is this a surprise? Our costs are lower and our clients are largely the same as they would be in the Bay Area. Our major markets are national and international. We don't discount our enterprise level systems and new tech for having been developed in fly over country, and we have a MUCH lower cost of doing business. Physical plant is CHEAP here as are our taxes. This results in more capital available for HR, and we consider human capital our single most important investment.

Our entire strategy is built on innovation and we do that by hiring the top talent we can. That means offering top tier compensations.
And since the mirror isn't perfect, and becomes less so for every photon it absorbs...
Speaking as a non-American millennial, that is largely true though.

I think the current generation American kids will be even more worse.

When I saw kids in the US and when I see the kids in India. Its just feels like American kids live in some kind of Disneyland. The level of competitiveness and hard work as a culture in kids in India have is just a whole double digit factors higher.

The fact is that US ecosystem is largely saved because of the Economic inertia and the endless stream exceptionally talented pool of great people who immigrate there. That large replenishing pool of people pays for the party forward.
> This is equivalent to asking FedEx who in a given city was shipped something from a specific address.

It is neither equivalent to nor even really analogous to it. It's more like asking a retailer that keeps such records for a list of every purchaser of a specific product.

Which, just to be clear, is something law enforcement will do in some circumstances already.
I agree, that's a good point. I think it's a different cost/value proposition with Airbnb vs Netflix, since you paid for a, sometimes expensive, service and then when the service is rendered you can review it, whereas with Netflix, while you are paying for the service you're not paying directly for a movie/show. So, with Airbnb, since you invested a bit of money you feel like you should take the time and review, but with Netflix, if it's not too simple you may just skip the review.
Alright, thanks for making it clear that you're on the side of lack of knowledge. I'll give you a quick summary:

Whether you are aware of it or not ""Fee2PlayRobbery#8816732" on their phones" is for the vast majority of entries "pay for round". This occurs so overwhelmingly often that it's fair to ignore any other kinds of entries as lone outliers. And if you can't tell that it's "pay for round", then that is exactly what they want and an explicit design goal of hiding the price behind multiple layers of redundant currency and keeping the price invisible for the first few tens of hours and then slowly ratcheting it up over time.

Valve has done nothing that is even remotely similar to this.
I think because they've been a member for less than a year.
It is not a good idea to apply to YC to find co-founders.
I think this is a great start. More and more companies should start doing this. That way people will get convinced to take these packages and move to smaller cities where they can have better life.

It doesn't make sense to cram your family in a 700 sq. ft apartment and still pay $3500 rent for it. I like other people was very excited about bay area but after coming here I often wonder whether it is worth it. Also, 30s is where you start saving more for future. giving that money as rent makes my heart cry.
modern cards are migrating to a model where CPU and GPU have have direct access to the same memory region with zero copy

Hmm, looking at the Metal docs, that's not quite how I read it!

Here's Apple's "best practices" doc (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/3D...):

"Dynamic buffer data is typically written by the CPU and read by the GPU. An access conflict occurs if these operations happen at the same time; [...] For the processors to work in parallel, the CPU should be working at least one frame ahead of the GPU. This solution requires multiple instances of dynamic buffer data"

It's still zero copy, but they're not literally peeking and poking the same buffer at the same time.

So WebGL "just" needs to offer zero-copy access to buffers from JavaScript. That seems at least possible...? TypedArray would be the key component, and that already exists. Whether all those pieces have been put together in the right order yet, I dunno.

Anyway, low-overhead access to the GPU from JavaScript seems possible in principle.
So here is the punch line, can they make a movie of the incredible accomplishment of these women and have it's proceeds cover the cost of developing the mission? :-) That would be pretty profound serendipity.

One of the statements in the article that I really liked was this one, "I would star at the dark and wonder what was beyond it." That is the kind of curiosity you want to nurture in your children.
> If I recruit two co-founders of color and one woman primarily for the purpose of getting into YC is that shunned upon?

Only if you're naive enough to admit it.
How does YC feel about funding seed stage projects that have to test market before actual growth? I'm currently CTO of a new distributed entertainment platform, and the investors we're talking to all want us to grow now. Conservatively, we feel if we seek growth now we'll be in some minima of quality that is too similar to competing products and not actually different enough to be sustainably disruptive. We ideally want a year of experiments before we commit to attempting explosive growth. Thoughts?

PS. We are raktor.org, working on telepresence participatory theatre, which we believe is the future of entertainment. Currently in VR, though whether it's VR or not is not relevant to our long term goals of being an Uber-for-theatre-performers.
Dwarf Fortress is essentially reverse engineered with a third-party tool called dfhack. It hooks into the program and all of the mods and graphical tools use it as a middleman.
Palantir is 5x more efficient than IBM if you look at revenue per head.
Strange stuff Trump tweets at times - (at times he reminds me of Daffy Duck having a temper tantrum). It a grasshopper response, hop(tweet) and there you are flying through the air.
Yet Trump is quite intelligent!!
Why this contradiction? I think he has been in a command position for so long that he acts like the Red Queen - "Off with his head."
I hope Musk(and others like Thiel) is able to introduce greater demonstrated intelligence into what Trump says/does?
Great presentation of the problem, code to solve it, and performance analysis. A super enjoyable, not-lengthy-at-all read! Certainly makes me more interested in RaftLib (even though I don't do a lot of C++ programming!).
"And they happen to be women." I don't know about you but I count three men in that picture. Not even counting the rest of the people that undoubtedly worked on this project who were a mix of men and women.
Weaknesses detected by PVS-Studio this week: episode N2
Huh, thanks for the link to the talk. That wasn't in the original article so I could hardly believe they got that correct.

Still, I don't see how that's justifiable even if they can drop grenades. They won't be able to do it very effectively, and in fact if it's close enough to drop a grenade on troops you probably don't want to be detonating a Patriot missile in the same area.
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You're doing a fair amount of requesting a dwarf to do a job. But you aren't usually commanding a particular dwarf to do a specific job at a specific location. Simcity is reasonably similar.
> Lower taxes tend to bring in more revenue and create more employment.

Got some examples where this actually worked?
Does YC typically invest on startups that may possibly have overlapping market segments?

For example Boom Aero focused on supersonic and another startup applies to YC with subsonic aircraft.

From what I read typically VC firms usually don't fund two companies as such example.
This!

My dream is to build an open source app that gathers all these personal ratings (from Netflix to Pandora to GoodReads to restaurants) and puts it back on where it belongs: the users hand!!

Unfortunately finding the time to work on this will be tricky..

Anyone knows if that's a thing already?
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Are you giving me proof that there are no performance issues, based upon the overall metacritic scores being high? Just about every Nintendo game I can remember has had performance issues, remember the NES? "Nintendo slowdown" was part of the game play! I gave proof above, I didn't say I was authoritative. Stop your condescending attitude.
If you're not specifically looking for Computer Modern fonts in your figures but just want vector graphic WYSIWYG exports with your pick of font (beyond what Matlab renders natively), my Matlab figure export tool works well:

https://github.com/djoshea/matlab-save-figure
It's a rocket to Mars. That's always cool.

However, there is a big difference in sending a rocket to Mars with 2015 technology vs. 1960's technology in terms of cost, reliability, materials, etc.
Professor Caveman
Let this guy have his freedom of speech.
AFAIK+AFAIU Racket does have some specific kind of macros (ported to Guile but not in Guile distribution proper), There is guile-log that has no equivalent in Racket. Both support multiple language frontends but Racket seems to have more languages and in general Racket community seems bigger.
The Republican controlled house, Senate, executive branch, and majority of state governments highlights how important it is that people and companies resist, and that we support groups that do.

Casting it off as, "it's just a job someone has to do it", is a pretty weak defence.
Not sure how this compares with the other links shared here but, I have found MIT's OCW, especially the parts on Hashing to be pretty concise.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...