skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it depends on viewing distance, of course. there was a calculation which from 800 came out as a number, which I forgot and can't produce atm. I remember the output. Same as in print when printing fine detail, such as maps, no less than 800 dpi ever (not related, but there was also a calculation which I forgot, but remember the output).
> ...please update your browser using the simple steps provided below.

Yeah, like enabling flash is an update. Good move, Fedex.
it seems to me that revenue is so distant from programming language that you possibly aren't measuring what you think you're measuring.
I doubt it's actually active on most domains even though the RFC asks for it to be so. I would even guess that admin@(domain) might be more effective. Just a guess on my part though.
How would you replace youtube without its content though? That's where it's at.
[GitHub] Open-source 3D JavaScript framework looking for contributors
Surprisingly pretty good. Simple API load tests show response time < 80ms. The C programs themselves are very fast (because there is not a lot of computation involved).
Junior developers barely "know" any technology. You're hiring them to learn. Completing multiple projects with different stacks is, to me, a better indicator than someone claiming to be good at a single thing. "Specialties" are not something a junior has yet.

As far as coursework, that will matter a lot for some companies and not at all for others. CS coursework is not very relevant for writing CRUD apps, but someone doing computer vision or geospatial software will prefer to see it.

Unfortunately you're in the same position as many other entry-level employees: the only way to stand out is through nepotism. Do you know someone you can talk to about pushing your resume to the right person's desk? Talk to that person.
How Noisy Is Your Neighborhood?
This is a great question. We take companies at all different stages, from ideas through those who are already in market with customers.

The "right stage" is more a question of how long you've been working than an absolute state. The more you can get done in a given amount of time, the better.
People conclude things based on their experience using them.
There are a lot of bloated feeling electron apps out there that are popular right now, which leads to people concluding (not incorrectly) that electron apps tend to be slower than native ones based on their experience.
Failures of Deep Learning
I still have no idea what it is.
Yeah it's great, I learnt so much about the GC from looking at that sample.

BTW if you want a bit more info on it, I wrote a whole blog post, see http://mattwarren.org/2016/02/04/learning-how-garbage-collec...
If someone on the admissions team happened to look at your earlier application, sure, but that doesn't get considered. We just look at finished applications when making decisions.
This year's Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
That's interesting – I actually hadn't heard that before but it makes for a notable story. Got a link?
There is a sadistic installation at the MoMA, which is a single, fine steel filament suspended from ceiling to floor. There is a small weight on the floor holding it taught, but otherwise the wire is nearly invisible as you walk through the space. I imagine that is very much the point, but I do not know whether installing it right in the middle of a busy room was also a directive from the artist. In any case, the end result of these perplexing decisions is that a security guard has to be dedicated to stand next to this single piece, all day long, advising people not to bump into it. I cannot imagine a job more Sisyphean.
Reading through the comments here, you seem to have nailed the point where people are talking past each other:

"DDT isn't terribly harmful and is useful" vs "DDT bio-accumulates much more than other pesticides"

As with most such debates, there are points on both sides, but that doesn't mean the arguments have equivalent weight. As someone with no real knowledge on the topic, I'm inclined to trust the latter case that I've heard all my life but keep an open mind that what I've been told could be wrong.

If you (that is, someone thinking that way and not you, above poster) are trying to sway me (as a proxy for a lot of people with similar thinking) to the "DDT should be brought back" side, you need to address the issue that is convincing me. Saying that people have eaten large doses of DDT or that DDT is super-useful for fighting malaria or parasites in, say, Africa, can be true without contradicting that it accumulates in environment and causes harm to some wide groups of animal life.

Even the linked article (which I'll admit to only skimming) doesn't say the charges against DDT were WRONG, just incomplete, particularly in what survives into the modern thoughts on the matter.
Fake emails man. They're free.
Just how it is described.
Any suggestions on how to go further than a video interview the next time you apply? What do you all look for?
It's not like everyone's deployments will just stop working if MS goes bellyup.
What skills do I focus on to become a competitive mid level engineer?
I'm starting my entry level position on Monday and I need guidance on what to prioritize. What makes a competitive mid level engineer?
I like strongly typed language for serious programming, viz. non scripting and hacking away programming.
Wow the latest revision is down to 140% of 1.4.3. I'm impressed.
You are right, thanks for the reminder!
So there is people still using Windows XP. I like it better than the newer versions.
this is pretty cool.
And really, it's Go versus C++, C# and Java that's the actual comparison, not Haskell. That's what Go competes with, and then Python, Ruby, PHP and Node on the web server side.

Lauding Go's success over Haskell is not really saying much.
I'm not trying to define what a native app is, I'm only explaining the way many users such as myself perceive it today. The waters are obviously getting much murkier on what fits the definition of native and it does look like the writing is on the wall that the state javascript on the desktop is just going to continue to improve.
The email that's being sent out: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149028593819547&w=2

An article where Rich Salz cites "expert legal counsel" in response to de Raadt questing whether that's legal: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/24/openssl_asks_contri...
this appears to be incorrect.
Apple Patent Describes Dumb Laptop Powered by iPhone
Teachers sound off on SF’s slow pace on housing crisis
I always figured it was to give the illusion of stability and continuity (ironically). Like "Angular has been out since 2010, before React and Ember" especially since a common criticism of Google is that they frequently abandon their projects.
Haha, just in the wake of the Monsanto email scandal we get "legalize DDT" thinkpieces. Complete with intellectual-yet-stupid contrarian ycombinator comments about how awesome mass spraying non-biodegradable poisons is.

Also: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160624150813.h...

>In light of this evidence, NECSI says the cause of microcephaly in Brazil should be reconsidered. One possibility that has been raised is the pesticide pyriproxyfen, which is applied to drinking water in some parts of Brazil to kill the larvae of the mosquitos that transmit Zika. Pyriproxyfen is an analogue for insect juvenile hormone which is cross reactive with retinoic acid, which is known to cause microcephaly. A physicians group in Brazil and Argentina, the Swedish Toxicology Sciences Research Center, and NECSI have called for further studies of the potential link between pyriproxyfen and microcephaly.
My reaction to Alpha Centauri was exactly the opposite: After having played Civilization, I found the narrative in AC to be an annoying disruption of the game I wanted to play.
For anybody in the RTP (NC) area, looks like some local energy events can be found here:

https://rtec-rtp.org/events/
I am feeling a little worried of our changes while applying to YC. I remember reading that YC looks for companies with can grow up to 10BN.

While we think we can definitely grow upwards of 1 Billion which is what VC firms usually look up too. After 1 Billion is gonna depend a lot on being able to lower the cost of the product enough to increase volume

How hard is this rule? What if the company cannot reach that 10 Billions in Revenue in the future is that a weighted heavily on the application?
I've been a full-time Inbox user since I got access and really like it. All of your reminders are viewable in https://inbox.google.com/snoozed

Occasionally I'll set two reminders because I forgot I already set one, but overall I'm doing more and replying to things at the right time without much effort, so it's been a successful switch for me.
iTunes being shiat is a big reason why I don't listen to music as much. I am annoyed with constantly having to figure out what new crapped up way iTunes does X, annoyed with the integration of Apple Music into the iPhone Music app, and annoyed with all the maintenance. My music is a 250gb waste of hard disk space.

Riddle me this: why does the iPhone Music app require cellular data access when all I want to is play music local to my iPhone device? WTF is the app doing? I don't subscribe to the stupid music match function so what exactly is it doing?
I'm going to guess they do have some access. I built an inboxsdk app, and we do indeed have access, to at least what is rendered on the page. But anything that is running js on that machine has that same access. This might be deeper than that if they connect to the API on your behalf.
> Do you own any Amazon stock after having worked there for that period of time

Amazon pays SDEs about 1/4 of their income in the form of RSUs, vesting twice a year. I joined at $187, and sold my shares over time to cover various expenses (wedding, house downpayment, sold the last ones for an upcoming kitchen renovation).

> Queue someone telling me how awful an idea that is, and to just keep throwing into my 401K

Here's the thing... when you buy and sell stocks directly, you are implicitly competing with professionals at the game of 'what is the stock actually worth?'. The professionals you play against do nothing all day but analyze the stocks they've made bets on, build models, look at data, read reports. You might beat them by luck in the short term, but they'll beat you in the long-term at this game. You're both gambling, but they know the true odds better than you do.

My recommendation: Use a robo-advisor to spread your money over a diverse set of ETFs and auto-rebalance them. My friends are early employees over at WealthSimple (google them), a start-up that does this. Or read what it is their robo-advisor does, and do that yourself to save the 0.5% fee.
Home Inspectors on Their Weirdest Discoveries
Tracking pixels.
The case referenced by most US commenters would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....

I've never known whether European antitrust (or privacy) action against companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has had significant global/US effect. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good source on this?
The thing to remember about eyes is that they don't work in terms of frames and pixels.

This is really the fundamental problem with saying "X ppi is enough for the eye" or "you can't see faster than X Hz". This is a digital approach to an analog system. Your brain is tuned to identify resolution in the center of your vision and movement in the periphery, and has all kinds of "special case" circuitry to react quickly when necessary.

Classic example, fighter pilots are capable of recognizing silhouettes flashed on a screen at some ungodly rates. But if you were, say, playing a game, 100 Hz is very smooth already (even CounterStrike), and you might not be able to visually distinguish that from 144 Hz.

It's like a psychovisual model with a temporal aspect incorporated.
I have no idea what the process is but in a previous application my video (AFAICT from YouTube Analytics) was never viewed.
Those are different situations, bars have a legal obligation to prevent people under 21 from entering or they have to ID everyone buying alcohol.
It's fine that you aren't incorporated yet, and I'm glad you waited! Many applicants have not formed a legal entity when they apply. If you are accepted in the S17 batch, we will help you incorporate in the US.
Why not buy Prime? It's one of my favorite no-brainer subscriptions apart from music streaming. Just curious what your reasoning for not having it is given that you seem to be a pretty big Amazon user.
The news services wont report this because it's not an immediate threat.

This surely is a case now for stopping flying. If everyone made a conscious decision not to fly, be a bit inconvenienced, this would lessen the chance of this and other catastrophic events taking place.
Uh, what? Amazon is competing with retailers, so if Amazon goes away you'd buy from other retailers. In a big city get your books and music from local independent booksellers and record stores (in the country or for esoteric things you get them from alibris and discogs). Electronics you can get from Best Buy, Target, Wal Mart, Newegg. Or you can go to a secondary market for all the things, a little company called "eBay".

Why do I know this? Because I don't use Amazon anymore at all for anything after they blatantly screwed me over as a seller.

Sometimes I feel like engineers on HN have centralization on the brain. We are so impressed with scale and complexity of Amazon! We forget this size and complexity arose because it's trying to compete with (and presumably supplant) an enormous, biologically evolved distribution and retail ecosystem.

If Amazon dies, we all simply go back to that ecosystem, like I did, both online and real life. (And you know what? It's better. Newegg is better for electronics because they only do electronics, and they fight patent trolls; Alibris is better because they have a better selection, better prices, and support local business; Discogs is better for the same reason; all are better because they are focused.)
That's how to fix code that you write. It doesn't help with code that you import or copy from elsewhere.
Azure Service Fabric takes first tentative steps toward open source
I left a year or so back, but it's based in IN (USA) and just got bought by a place in SF (USA). If there was any overlap that's probably enough to identify it :)
I agree. I have a 13 laptop with 2560x1700 resolution (236 PPI) and text quality is amazing - much more pleasant to look at than on my 24 inch 1920x1200 Dells. Also I don't entirely understand people who blame hardware when really it's their software that sucks on High DPI displays (looking at you, MS). Most of Linux distros have no problem with that for quite a while now.
Even though I've written more ruby than anything else over the last decade, I have to agree with this. Ruby is nice OO language, but it's unabashedly multi-paradigm, and that leads to a lot of mess when you get a team with varying backgrounds the result is potentially a byzantine mix of procedural, object-oriented and functional styles.
I've implemented these as well, they're not my favorite and it wasn't my decision to add them. However, after a certain point, for those popups which only appear after engaging with the content, there is some validity to the idea of this as a form of progressive signup/engagement.

Second, newsletter popups, with exceptions such as {Pinterest; Quora; Cook's Illustrated} these popups are not a pay-wall.

The better criticism is of the poor interaction design of such systems that don't treat any click outside of the modal as a modal exit command.
Robotization Without Taxation?
Mine answer is there too but with much less points, the kill FDD thing :)
Hey, can you provide more detailed info about agroforestry (where I should look, etc.)? I was just having a discussion on this the other day with a friend, where our intuitions differed but lack of data stopped us from getting too far. It was prompted by a school for kids in need in India, where much of people's donations went to food, but the food was still poor (mainly just rice, bought on market).

My intuition from a tiny bit of experience growing worms with home-composting was that the same amount of money spent toward tending properly biodiverse land (incl. micro organisms, mycoculture etc.) could provide much more effective and healthy food sources, only if the requisite knowledge was there. So I thought the most effective donation could be an open source repository of essentially recipes for a biodiverse plot, searchable by weather/temperature, type of soil, types of seeds/animals available at market, which provides instructions for how to set up year round harvest.
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> I like my communication channels separate.

You could always keep them separate, if you wanted to. This feature was totally invisible to people who left it turned off.

I personally want to have all my messaging in one place, which used to be possible. Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app, find their name, and then message them. It's incredibly frustrating to have a worse 2017 messaging experience than I did in 2007 with my BlackBerry.

> This might be a naive question, but will chat within Gmail still work? Is that chat provided by Talk or Hangouts?

Chat in Gmail is Hangouts.
Introduction to SpringAnimation
This looks interesting. I've been wanting to mess about with TypeScript, but had only gone so far as scanning through the tutorials/intros. Nice to have a sandbox setup from the start.

Also, really enjoying your "Flocking" script. Well done.
Kids used to chase DDT trucks and play in the fog they sprayed out. While we may talk these days about how people are too paranoid over "chemicals," before films like Silent Spring people were far too confident that they were safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2NmuQW8cjE
This is nice to know. Do Quicklisp packages typically come with test suites? At least then I can check if a package will work before I commit to using it.
1987 isn't very old. There is easily code in, oh, Vim which is that old, and gets used daily.

(No double entendre intended here with "gets", by the way.)
You need to wait a few seconds (5-ish) for the data to populate once you've selected a region on the map.

Here's the link if you want to skip the article:

https://maps.bts.dot.gov/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html...
But with 8K you can have the same font size as you currently have with 4K but with a better clarity...
Can your add-on remove all mentions of the Kardashians, Taylor Swift, Kanye, and Bruce/Caitlin Jenner?
"One decision that hasn’t aged terribly well is the way the game lets Max score with progressively hotter secretaries as he cracks more cases."

Watched a James Bond movie lately?
Kindred Spirits – Our Investment in Founder Collective
I run a whois on the domain and enter the technical contact in the subscribe box.
I think he may meant that if you were to process everything for a 360° view, you would need 16K. For games that are rendered on the fly, you probably can do with less (have the card render only the portion of the scene you see), but for video, you would have to shoot at 16K.
This seems highly unusual. Did the person try to buy uranium on Amazon or something?

Nonetheless, like the story of the guy who had his google account inexplicably closed, this is a pretty good wake-up call to download all of my invoices via Amazon and back them up somewhere.

I always kept my confirmation e-mails when an order ships, but the invoices themselves would be good, too.
Is that a USA thing? I've never seen such behavior in my life.
GMail also lets you download all attachments as a zip instead of downloading them one by one. That's the only reason I hop over to GMail.
Gryadka is not Paxos, so it's probably wrong
I'm sure your departure will affect their profits greatly.
>just support their own rubbish
They support ALAC, a lossless format. Sure, converting is a slight hassle, but doesn't take long. The quality is the same as in FLAC.
70x faster, with the caveat that the way that Ruby code is written really does not lend itself to speed.

E.g. using method calls inside the class instead of accessing instance variables instantly springs to mind, as does the "unsorted priority queue" which is basically a horrible abuse of Array but wrapped in a class that makes it even slower by adding additional method calls for every operation.

That's not to diminish the speedup Crystal gets, because it does illustrate how slow MRI's method calls are, but it'd be interesting in seeing a comparison with an astar implementation that was actually written to be fast in Ruby.

Also would be very interesting to see a comparison with jRuby+Truffle, of course.
First, there are many different Scheme implementations and they differ significantly. The standard is small and SRFIs not always sufficient, so implementations invent their own extensions. There is some review of available options here: https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guid...

Personally, I use Chicken Scheme for command-line utils (thanks to AOT compilation Chicken Scheme programs start-up time is much shorter) and Racket for GUI programs. Both implementations offer stability, ongoing development and a package ecosystem which has most of the things I need. They also provide extensive tooling, with Racket going as far as providing an IDE and visual debugger.

Most of the problems you'd have when replacing PERL or Ruby with a Scheme would have to do with library/package availability. If your use-case doesn't require a library which your Scheme lacks it may be a suitable replacement for PERL, Ruby, Python or JavaScript (node).
This is definitely possible-- I've done even more than basic PoC (Anna's slide deck was one of my starting points in fact).

https://github.com/phoffer/crystalized_ruby
I think 32" 4k is too dense for most people, but maybe a 40" screen could work. I have 20/40 vision, so my eyesight has long been surpassed.
I think so. The point was that you couldn't make a hardware go beyond its limits (video cards, monitors, HDD, keyboards, CD-ROMs)... then I lost my patience and stopped arguing. Funny that at those times, "hardware guide" books were a thing, and one of my opponents was one big writer in my country. Never heard of him anymore, by the way.
Is empathy overrated?
How about cookie policy popups/notifications/extra-top -bar? It's getting increasingly annoying to browse the Web. Basically you have to close some signup modal, cookie warning, chat head before you can start reading the content only to get another blocking modal right after scrolling - which will 'kindly' ask you to disable ad blocker... It's getting better and better!
> The more you can get done in a given amount of time, the better.

Time meaning calendar days or person hours? E.g. if you're comparing a two cofounder startup with a three cofounder startup, where they've each been working full time for a year, do you care more about absolute progress after a year or about progress normalized to the number of person hours?

Obviously after you invest the main metric that matters is progress per calendar day, since that's what affects your IRR. But if a startup hasn't taken external funding then there is a more interesting discussion to be had about the relative meaningfulness of each, how their importance might be shifting over time, etc.
I think it needed to be done. There is a lot of stuff .net framework that doesn't really make sense anymore.
It was a high reliance on a monoculture which contributed to the devastation. Smart "agroecology" would not forget the "ecology" root, meaning it would design robust, biodiverse ecologies to produce our food.
Chrome extension to post to HN and search a page on HN
Banned accounts can still post, but their posts start off as [dead], meaning only users with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile see them.