skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an academic rockstar (the high school Physics lab was named after me for 10 years because I aced the NYS Regents and got a 5 on the AP, first student in the school's history to do so) ...until I was sunk by Calc 192 at Cornell. (TWICE.) Taylor and Maclaurin series is what finally did me in. (They were not "optional" in calc 192.) That and the 8-hour-long problem sets. (Yes, 4 hard questions per problem set would take about 8 hours in total to work out. Buzzkiller.) Know how often I've seen Taylor or Maclaurin series needed in my CS career since? Fucking never. It's pure weed-out material, IMHO.

Also, you got an A in the most efficient way possible in that class, in my opinion. THAT is intelligence in a nutshell! At least on my IQ ruler, lol
Do hard, real-time, embedded systems usually have arbitrary sized or changing heaps? I thought most avoided dynamic or non-deterministic resource use as much as possible. Restricting the heap to a known size ahead of time then reaping benefits of HRT GC & higher-level language still seems worthwhile in many use-cases.
Awesome progress. Feels like a real alpha but I'm happy it's even displaying stuff and you can navigate some websites already.
Oh please just go back to reddit.
Not at all! But these stories don't get nearly the amount of media coverage even trivial consumer startups can earn. For instance, Veeva, Service Now, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, and Workday are five of the top ten tech IPOs from the last 5 years. They get a fraction of the coverage even mediocre consumer IPOs (e.g. GoPro/FitBit) got.
Adding encrypted text search to Signal (research)
I think they want you to buy Switch and put all $ and focus on that.
Early start times are because of after-school sports (and other extracurriculars).
Or a PDF.
This year? I'm thinking more like this decade. It's gotta be up in the top 10 of ever. On so many levels, /r/place was fascinating; and I didn't even come across it until after it had finished!
Well, yeah, I did make that assumption, and I will do so again the next time I talk to someone on the internet who defers to rules and tells hypothetical minorities to just deal with hypothetical white supremacists. Based on the conversations I have had in the past, both with people who endure this stuff and people who are insulated from it, it really sounds a lot more like you're insulated from that situation than someone who's had to deal with it. That whole response sounds lacking in empathy for the people who, hypothetically speaking, endure having coworkers wish for their expulsion/death.

Also, in the hypothetical, we were talking about a workplace, not a volunteer group. As for whether card-carrying nazis should be allowed to join apolitical volunteer groups, I think that each group can surely decide for themselves, and this is exactly where a code of conduct would apply, e.g. "nazis welcome" makes it clear up front that nazis aren't going to be uninvited for their views. Then everyone else can make the call whether they want to be involved with the Drupal-with-nazis fork or the Drupal-without-nazis fork.
Preferring convenience and low prices != complicity
I have no evidence to rebut the conclusion—indeed it aligns with similar research on high school students.

However, a big chokepoint at my current school (major state university) is the availability of classrooms. Classes are already booked in the old (and recently expanded!) building and in the new graduate building for 12-plus hours each day.

There simply isn't enough space to put off scheduling courses until 11.

Besides, just because something is good for the average student doesn't mean it's good for all students. My classes certainly have a different flavor depending on whether they're in the early morning or late evening. Even if it's the same course, the differently timed sections have their own character and attract different sorts of students.
You kidding? His company builds the equipment for one deployment. Then they do that for another. Then another. He might get sent in for maintenance or they might send someone else. He isn't doing day-to-day admin at the factor or something.
would you be able to share some dashboard/library or anything that you have developed?
Legendary flight director praises SpaceX for “taking risks”
It felt to me like the argument was that gut-feeling stuff can impede collaboration. I'd argue that, in large collaborative settings, this is precisely where process is needed.

This contrasts against safety process, where you add process to defend against mistakes as opposed to enabling collaboration.
Twin Prime Conjecture
I've rarely had a problem with Amazon in San Diego, but as someone who ships ~1,000 packages a month through USPS - our local postal service leaves a lot to be desired in terms of reliability and consistency.
Qualcomm loses legal battle with Blackberry, must pay $815M
Video and slides from our Dir. of Sales “remoteyear”
Both of these sites rendered BEAUTIFULLY on my phone. Honestly, I don't understand why we aren't capable of expressing appreciation for beautiful websites. I am personally so tired of the boring drudgery that most of the internet consists of. I hope to see a lot more of these alive and interesting sites in the future.
Apple has pricing power because their products are differentiated and they have competitive advantages that give it a wide moat, making it difficult to compete with.

Whole Foods has tons of competition that have got into organic food.
No doubt about that. You'll find a way if you have the motivation. Even if you have to do other stuff until it gets going.
probably not, but i'm sure most people complete more tasks while they are awake than while they are sleeping.
By extension you could say that working with a remote office would make them easier to lay off as well.

I'm sure there's some truth to it but I think it all comes down to perceived value. If you're in someone's face everyday reminding them of how valuable you are, it does make it seem you are more valuable. A remote worker or someone working in a satellite office is going to have a more difficult time tooting their own horn.

That said, I work from the main office and we have an additional three offices spread across three different countries and I don't feel that it would be easy to lay off someone in one of those offices anymore than it would be to lay someone off in my office. Each person has a specific skill they're bringing to the table and without them that work wouldn't get done.

Perhaps if there was real or perceived redundancy in job skills, the situation might be different but then you've got redundancy and if times get tough, someone has to go anyway. Now we're just talking about who. If there are 10 people on a team and only one of them works remotely, well, that might be the person who gets cut first but if you have 10 people and 4 of them are working remotely, you're back to the same issue of their perceived value to the organization. Whether working from an office or working remotely, the people who have done the best job at standing out are the least likely to get cut.
Yea that's what business schools are supposed to be about - creating "management people."
Added a disclaimer on the repo README.md to clarify the original motive.

But again, at the end of the day, if you don't want to receive emails from nowhere, just don't put your email on your GH profile. As simple as that.
Graphical – Draw dynamic graphics straight to the browser from Node.js
http://queue.acm.org/
Watchers of the earth
Thanks for the advice. I was planning to ask for support from the Philosophy department, but getting it from another school that has a practical ethics requirement is also a good idea.

The professors I talked to referred me to the department chair, who I think has final say over new courses here. Either way, open sourcing it would be fantastic (an entire section is devoted to ethical questions in IP/open source development).
There are also positive reviews on this feature, see:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/healbe-gobe-review/3/
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30681002
https://www.techwalla.com/12049437/healbe-gobe-2-is-a-fitnes...

and supposedly they have improved the device in generation 2 which I'm currently testing. Sleep, step, hydration status and heart rate tracking work well, based on these reviews, a science article on bioimpedance and non-invasive glucose monitoring
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500977/
I have hope I can confirm that calorie tracking works.
This would be a good approach to addressing the aspect ratio issue for video. You'd want a sliding window approach.
The component grey market is alive and well. If they got 25-50% of the previous sales price then the guy who bought it should be fired. My business that lasted for 6 years and broke 7 figures in a couple of those years paid between 6 and 10 cents on the dollar from Flextronics, Emerson, foxconn and others. On occasion there would be an eol part in the lot that they would buy back at 5x the original price for ongoing repair work years later.
Sorry, I misremembered. I tried to correct it above, but it's too late for me to edit.
There may not be a question of who owns the aircraft, but there are definitely questions of whether they have a legal right to force someone from whom they have accepted money in exchange for allowing them onto their property merely minutes earlier and who has not in any way violated the contract.

People seem to think that flight crew somehow have been ordained with god-given authority to suspend the rule of law aboard an aircraft. That is simply not true. People are legally required to obey safety-related crew instructions and placards.

The idea that if the flight crew instructs you to strip naked you are somehow required to obey and if you do not they have a right to eject you from the airplane is frankly ridiculous.

But it doesn't even matter, because the airplane was not in flight, 14 CFR Part 121 does not apply, and the people acting in question were gate personnel, not flight crew.
Getting started with slim.js and Typescript
I don't particularly dislike any of these sites (well, ok, maybe producthunt ... but for balance I like indie hackers a lot), but I think the general problem is that these kind of sites quickly devolve from something authentic to just another marketing channel to be gamed. Same can be said about YouTube, Facebook, etc. But it the case of SV startup sites the cycle is accelerated due to the audience. Good luck solving this problem ...
Nintendo Discontinues the Nes Classic Edition
I'm just a stupid man asking questions
So-- there are caveats. A lot of deep sea life are able to see, and it's because deep sea life also generates their own light. It's a way to communicate to mates, and a way to notice prey, and a way to bait smaller predators.

I also think that echolocation has potential to be equal or better to eyesight! Bats and dolphins do great with it, and I think that it's easy to think of echolocation as being a _visual_ stimuli, even though it's not lightwave-based.

I think the biggest hurdle for an underwater sentient species trying to become more advanced is the difficulties with tool-building. Simple stone tools could be made, but it becomes a lot harder to smelt iron and start doing metal-working.
With understanding of a process comes the possibility (or inevitability) of controlling it. I'm not referring to mythology, but rather technology.
> (eg. I just bought 3 sleeved baby bibs on AliExpress for $1.80/ea -- the going price on Amazon seems to be $16).

I couldn't help but wonder if there is such an explosion of babies with more than two arms that there could be a competitive market in bibs with three sleeves!
I'm kinda curious if there's any evidence that would support or rule out intelligent life having existed on earth before.

I mean, if humanity goes extinct and it's another 65 million years before another intelligent species evolves, what evidence would they have of our existence? All our buildings would've long since crumbled into dust or been crushed by plate tectonics. Metal will corrode and rust away after a few thousand years. Our largest stone monuments will be gone after 10,000 or so. You'll find occasional fossilized skeletons, but all that would tell future species is that a bipedal mammal with a large brain once existed. Even plastics, the bane of environmentalists, degrade over a couple thousand years.

Probably the only thing we'd see would be a huge mass extinction and an unusually rapid change in the earth's climate. Which we've seen several times in the geologic record already.
Towards the end of WW2, Britain's 617 Squadron ("Dambusters") used 10-ton Grand Slam bombs against massive concrete fortifications, such as U-boat pens, and structures, such as bridges, that could be destabilized by underground explosions. Because they were designed to penetrate concrete, they probably had more steel and less explosive than this bomb.
These tech workers seem to say otherwise about both working conditions and turnover: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/4fg44p/1...

Glassdoor is filed with them too

I'm glad you are happy at your job. Many people disagree.
But when it was written when there was no bash. Or even sh.

It was written in B before the C programming language was created.
Most difficult is accounting for, and introducing into a chat, folks wholly unknown to anybody you talk to.

A trick is to try to say how you know of such folks, finding a path or paths along which you can form a link, such as "my dad's mom's son" or "my pal's husband's pal" or "a woman who knows my boss from an old job" or "I know of a particular lady's writings from a class I had at school".

This social platform's author own account within said platform shows an additional gimmick or option, viz., translation, insofar as you'd normally hail said author as "[small gray animal with a tail]", but within this platform's constraints as "[said animal, only in Latin]".

This is not so hard for participants whom you call with words common to kinds of things, kinds of animals, jobs, and so on, but possibly difficult for folks lacking a commonality of naming of this sort (viz., with "nomina propria").

(Sorry if "viz." is illicit on account of what it actually stands for... you can just think of it as "in particular" if you want.)
"One could also ask "why do you feel entitled to their money for the content"?"

No, you absolutely could not. The content is the result of their hard work. You could no more say that than I could say that I'm entitled to having you paint my house without paying you.

"Honestly, some of the best content I have ever gotten was (in essence) "gifted" to me by the creator; whether as a free download, or perhaps directly given to me in some fashion. I enjoyed it so much so, that I felt compelled to gift them a monetary amount back, along with some kind words of thanks and encouragement for them to continue creating."

That is the creator's choice to do that. But not every creator wants to do that. In those cases, you should not take their hard work without paying for it.

"I've just simply not purchased those items, even though I do want them - are they somehow still entitled to my money?"

No, but no one is saying that. In fact, people are saying that is the proper way to go. Yet, many here are saying that they are still entitled to the work despite not paying for it. I find it extremely disingenuous that you would try to say that, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105718
Arabic has had a tremendous influence on Spanish (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language_influence_on...) which shows up occasionally in English. My personal favorite is that California is derived from Khalif, a Muslim Ruler (same word that Daesh uses to refer to their leader today).

In 1917, Ruth Putnam printed an exhaustive account of the work performed up to that time. She wrote that both Calafia and California most likely came from the Arabic word khalifa which means steward[6] or leader. The same word in Spanish was califa, easily made into California to stand for "land of the caliph" خلیف, or Calafia to stand for "female caliph" خلیفه .[7]

Maltese is another language that has a surprising amount of Arabic influence. The way they say their numbers is almost exactly the same as Arabic.
2015 - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
Drop United – A Chrome extension that drops UA from your flight search results
My experience (as someone who was elected to public education administration) suggests it's often more about logistics. For example, adjusting how many bus drivers (and busses) are needed in a district to serve elementary, middle and high schools. Staggering start times reduces the need, but drives one of these options to be earlier than the others.

High school sports complicates logistics later in the day.

It's not just a question of learning; it's also a question of cost and resources.
No one is stopping you from innovating. If Disney wishes to sit on their laurels with Mickey Mouse, that's their problem. If people don't like it, they'll go to other things.

I will, however, point out that they are very much not doing that.
Isaac Arthur has a very interesting video that touches on that specific topic, but with a space exploration angle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7fLNvpl0c8
Any reason why you went then Kubernets as opposed to Docker Swam ?
Not just parsing - also type checking. And it means free support for all the various GHC language extensions that only change what Core is generated.
I really like the "Big Data in Real-Time at Twitter" slides at https://www.slideshare.net/nkallen/q-con-3770885. They explain their original implementation and why it didn't scale, possible new implementations and their current one (it's a bit old though). It's clear and easy to understand.
Electric bikes are crazy expensive, though.
Good catch, looks like it was edited some time after I quoted that earlier text.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14103091
My experience with Amazon support is that they won't refund 3rd party counterfeits until you've argued with the seller for weeks and come back with the documentation of the counterfeit and lack of refund.

I spend thousands on Amazon a year, if I have a well-documented counterfeit claim I want a quick and easy refund.
Blind nationalist attitudes like those in the Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, and Moscow?

The classic KGB tactic "accuse the enemy of exactly what you are doing" is all too transparent here.
> MSG_PEEK is only used AFAIK only in specific applications that need to "peek" at the message without consuming it

I never used the MSG_PEEK flag, but over 15 years ago (maybe it wasnt implemented yet?) I accomplished a similar task by using the SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT flags which worked nicely on Windows too. The goal was to have several UDP "agents" listening on the same port on the same machine (which would normally raise an EADDRINUSE error), all of them examining a packet and acting upon a header contained in that packet. All them would receive a copy of the packet on their respective socket (that was the flags purpose), so that they could filter it and act only if the header contained data relative to that agent. This allowed a very modular approach where once the protocol was defined I could compile only the agent I needed without touching the others.
Thanks for posting the link. I'll take that as a sign that you're open to some feedback and pursuing this conversation…

(First, as a bit of background, I'm a cofounder of Svpply, a fashion/aspirational-consumerist startup from about seven years ago. I've spent a lifetime thinking about why things like Lot 2046 are catnip to some folks and repellent to others. You can guess which side of the divide I fall on.)

The clothes people wear (and, to a just barely less obvious extension, all purchases people make) reinforce identity. The quick and easy stereotype is that people who buy expensive clothes are snobs; I would proffer a more generous depiction, that they are people who love beauty and want to be part of a beautiful world.

What most people miss (and I'm referring to both the beautiful people and their critics) is that folks on the opposite end of the spectrum are also engaging in reinforcement of identity. This thread is full of people talking about Hanes and Gilden t-shirts. They are projecting an identity of down-to-earth pragmatism. They are every bit as engaged in a game of ego and showmanship as that douchebag who stepped out of a GQ photoshoot. Normals and slobs spend way, way more time looking down on fashionistas than vice versa.

All consumption is conspicuous. Repeat that a few times. All consumption is conspicuous.

Lot 2046 is threading the needle of an of the hacker genius startup design savant. The punk cowboy of Neuromancer, the startup founder credo of decision fatigue, and the clean white workspace of Jonny Ives. The appeal of Lot 2046 is specific but deep.

Now I'm looking at your site. The physical goods that you're selling are pretty great! The experience and identity that you're selling is nonexistent.

Just take a look at the wrapper of the “Tokuno Milk”, or ponder the name “Hi-Chew” (I stuff my sister’s kid's stockings full of this kind of stuff every xmas, by the way). These candies are tasty and exotic and weird! And when I indulge in this kind of thing, I'm incidentally reinforcing a self-image of being a person with exotic and fun tastes. When I share these kinds of things, I'm giving the gift of exposure (there is fun weird shit that you can enjoy too), and also projecting that I am a gateway to fun, exotic, weird things.

I don't mean to give you the impression that this is the POINT of enjoying those things. The point of good food and good clothes is that they are good and beautiful and fun. But again, all consumption is conspicuous.

Another way of thinking of this is, why does every product you carry come in the wrapper that it's in? Now extend that to the space the item is sold (in this case, your site). Then look at the product Lot 2046 is selling, and how the store selling that product extends that identity.

The difference between Lot 2046 and Supercandyshop is that he understands his target demographic's subconscious aspirational identity, and you don't. All you're selling right now is a product. I can get products anywhere.

You need to target yourself somewhere between Lot2046, https://www.lootcrate.com, and Sanrio.
I feel like the "Cloud DVR" is kind of a legal workaround, probably because of the contracts they have with media providers. PlayStation Vue has one and it sometimes offers you "recorded" content and sometimes "on-demand", which is subtly different and mostly doesn't matter. Creators and providers are dragged into the future kicking and screaming, while Netflix and the like are eating their lunch.
If we're generalizing to all of Europe, which is obviously unwise, then cycling is a skill used to get to school or college.

Unfortunately, I don't speak another language well enough to search for statistics outside Britain and Ireland.
why no mention of python? seems strange than any modern programmer to leave it out.
Get non-data folks to understand the value of DataScience
Surprised you're using RabbitMQ. It's one of those things which work great until they don't (clustering is particularly bad), and then you have almost zero insight into the issue, and have to resort to the Pivotal mailing list.

Have you looked at NATS at all? We're using it as a message bus for one app and it's been fantastic. It is, however, an in-memory queue, and the current version cannot replace Rabbit for queues that require durability.
Chess in another example. If memory serves, "Checkmate" was derived from the Arabic "Sheikh maat" (the Sheikh has died).