skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pagedraw | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time - ONSITE

Pagedraw is a startup that gives designers the super powers of developers. Founded by Harvard undergrads, Pagedraw solves the problem of time wasted writing HTML and CSS code.

At the core, we are a compiler that takes as input designer mockups and outputs fully semantic, production ready code (for React, Angular, Ruby on Rails, you name it).

If your team uses React, for example, Pagedraw automatically generates the render function of all your components, from the views drawn by designers. As a developer we believe you should work only at a data level, taking care of the state of the app without worrying about whether something is vertically centered or not. We've raised over $1.2M from investors like Lightspeed, SVAngel, and Charlie Cheever.

The problem we’re solving is not necessarily a new one, but it’s very hard, and we need smart, passionate people who want to join our mission of making the development of apps better for everyone.

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At least one of the brands you listed was close to buying them in 2015, but then it all fell through. Sounds like IAC was also in the process of making them an offer at that same time as well.
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The same can be said of cryptography. Why believe that cryptography is more likely to be used for lawful and social beneficial purposes than for, e.g., terrorism, tax evasion, child abuse, etc.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the latter were in actuality the first adopters of cryptography, especially if you include other illegal uses such as copyright violation.

We could easily say that free market dynamics suggest that the cost+benefit will higher for criminals, especially unless and until cryptography becomes ubiquitous. So why not nip it in the bud? That's been the argument coming from the law enforcement and intelligence communities all along.

Yet engineers are defensive and optimistic about the beneficial usages of cryptography. They're dismissive of usages such as the encrypted iPhones used by the San Bernardino terrorists. And they focus on seemingly esoteric benefits--like improved security from extortionists--that most common people overlook or discount.

I tend to _agree_ with those engineers, am similarly defensive and optimistic regarding cryptography, and place a high value on benefits not obvious to others. I think it's worthwhile to be consistent here. Any distinctions one can concoct to differentiate Facebook and their advertisers from, e.g., non-profits, can easily be turned around later.

The emphasis shouldn't be on _presumed_ abuses, guilt by association, etc. It should be on hard data of actual usage and actual outcomes, with attention paid to implicit biases in collection and reporting. We also need to compare this against alternatives, taking into account (and quantifying) the futility of criminalization or regulation, etc.
dang, why did this and the freelancer thread drop so quickly?
I dont get the hate on standard advertisements. I'd prefer to be targeted with ads relevant to me like camping gear rather than things irrelevant like kids toys.

As long as we avoid physiological tricks like the flashing of frames you can't consciously see type thing (I know that is questionable to having an effect) its a good thing. I get shown products/services I might like to buy, in return I get free emails, news and videos etc. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.
The most impressive part of LuaJIT is that its non-JIT'd interpreter is several times faster than Lua in benchmarks. Great for platforms like iOS which don't allow code modification at runtime.
> HBS is full of analysts and consultants from those firms and institutions taking a pit stop on their way to partner.

Many get their MBA to help them move up from analyst to consultant. Most won't make partner, but many will spin into lucrative executive positions with Fortune 1000 companies. So yes, some already are on the inside track with top firms, and need HBS or another Ivy MBA to move up to the next level. For others, it will help them build credibility and get their foot in the door. In either case, HBS is acting as gatekeeper.

When you look at how much the banking and consulting industries focus their recruiting efforts on a handful of top schools, I don't think correlation or causation is even a question. Graduates from other schools are not getting the same attention (perhaps because HBS has done such a great job screening their applicants already), which further helps HBS grads.

I'm sorry HBS didn't help your career as an engineer/entrepreneur, but this doesn't negate the experience of the 50+% of students who go into banking and consulting positions, for whom an HBS MBA and the alumni connections will be a boon.
Don't forget the Not Yet Implemented features: http://wiki.luajit.org/NYI

Edit: By the way, can someone explain why ipairs() is implemented, but not pairs()?
Well according to the all knowing wikipedia only the Xeon E3-1200 product family has AMT and would be vulnerable. So your servers should be ok, but most every desktop and laptop on your network with an Intel processor from the past 10 years, not so much.

Forgot the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242508
I've seen some of those failures but made a different conclusion: None of those teams had the balls to say 'no' any time management got even a little bit upset about anything.

Now, part of that is on the engineers, but the only solution I know of is solidarity. But a lot of it came from systematic abuse from the project managers, wearing them down and then calling them incompetent when they couldn't deliver.

Just like this article says farther down, everybody is good at something. I've only had to talk about firing a handful of people (rather than reassigning) and it was always because they were belligerent to progress, or because of Dunning-Kruger Effect - they would not admit they weren't good at something and keep creating 2x as much work for everybody else who has to clean up after them.

Punishing people because they aren't good at everything is just some sadistic bullshit that makes small men feel important, and a lot of those are attracted to middle management. It's twisted and wrong and only rarely does a company succeed with that kind of corporate culture. And when they do there are always memoirs from the victims.
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The first thing I notice is quite remarkable, this is a cryptocurrency inspired by a science fiction novel??

It all comes full circle with Cryptocurrency first being described in Cryptonomicon.

Haven't had a chance to dig through all its claims.
You seem to be mixing up social networking in general and FB in particular.
"but the thought of losing a chance to do"

Einstein worked at the Patent Office pushing paperwork too. He had spent two frustrating years looking for a job "he wanted to do" before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Patent_office

He thought about science and philosophy in his free time.

His patent office job was related to science because he looks at all kinds of inventions, but is not directly involved in it. Looks like you and him have that in common! You haven't lost any chance! Go on, keep living.

Other people use Google as people before them used the library, and if that's not to your liking, you're free to resort to Google less and more on your own mind's thinking skills!

So it looks like you're on a similar track with Einstein after all!

I apologise, now you have no excuse. Go do engineering and think about physics.
I don't think I was, I was doing Starting Strength, so if it was too heavy, it would have been by 1 kilo or so. I doubt it, though, because I had plateaued at the time, so I just lifted around the same weight every time.

I wasn't overly exerted, I had done the lift many times with a straight back, etc, something just "popped" during one of the lifts, and my back hurt like hell for weeks, and nowadays that injury comes back once a year or so and renders me unable to move for a few days.
>One of the habits that she identified as healthy was drinking freshly squeezed juice, which she saw as a virtuous food, every day.

fresh squeezed juice. They point out that the juice w/o the fiber IS the problem. So that includes smoothies with any fruit juice.
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Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.

- The reproducibility crisis. It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the scientific literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis"

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu, and upload about 1 million a month. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to reproducibility, we think the way to solve the reproducibility crisis is to build a new peer review system that (a) crowd-sources peer review from the academic community and (b) provides credit to material that journals don't publish (data-sets, code, replications, failed replications).

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (a) and (b). We realize that addressing reproducibility is a huge challenge. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us. We have raised $28 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

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'Why do people like something I do not enjoy?'
Untrue - it works just fine with Pocket Casts, for example.
If you are on linux:

Merely having a "vPRO" CPU and chipset isn't sufficient - your system vendor also needs to have licensed the AMT code. Under Linux, if lspci doesn't show a communication controller with "MEI" in the description, AMT isn't running and you're safe. If it does show an MEI controller, that still doesn't mean you're vulnerable - AMT may still not be provisioned. If you reboot you should see a brief firmware splash mentioning the ME. Hitting ctrl+p at this point should get you into a menu which should let you disable AMT.[1]

1. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/48429.html
"The cultural experience of the decade"

I mean they may have got that part right.
Thank you. I believe the tests are converted to HTML by a custom Ruby script: https://github.com/howl-editor/howl/blob/master/site/bin/spe...

The manual and API docs are hand written in markdown.
You're on to something here - physics vs math as a demarcation line is actually a thing:

German patent law for example has had the term "Technizität" as a neccessary property for a patent to be valid.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technizit%C3%A4t

Money quote from the BGH (German Supreme Court):
"Als patentierbar anzusehen ist eine Lehre zum planmäßigen Handeln unter Einsatz beherrschbarer Naturkräfte zur Erreichung eines kausal übersehbaren Erfolges."
(GTrans:"To be considered patentable is a doctrine of planned action using controllable natural forces to achieve a causally overlookable success." :) )

i.e. You gotta use physics in your patent.

I have been coming back to this time and again, and today I still see it as the least shitty definition in regard to what should be patentable and what shouldn't.

Other national patent offices in Europe have used similar demarcation properties and it had served them quite well...until the degradation of patent standards started here as well around the turn of the millenium, with the first act being the EPO starting to issue software patents in rather blatant violation of its mandate.
Yes, but.. It's also the first revival of AMD in more than a decade :)
I use them primarily for voice chat. I have two sets, since they only last two hours in voice mode - they go from zero to full-charge in 30 minutes, so I can hot-swap if I'm on a long call.

For music quality, I use Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2. But for VoIP and podcasts, I usually grab the Airpods.
Werbungsleereschmierigkeitsgefühl, maybe.
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Yes - play/pause works better. I have Siri completely disabled.
If you're looking for BS marketing-speak this is amateur work.

Want to see the pros? Sit back and watch Arnell take it (and Pepsi) to the next level: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell....

There's literally a slide that references "light path with gravitational pull" -> "gravitational pull of Pepsi", "relativity of space and time" -> "Pepsi aisle."

Or the slide referencing the expansion of the universe to explain "the Pepsi orbits"

Among my favorite documents of all-time.
You're possibly thinking of microcode for the x86 CPU.

This vulnerability is in code running on an entirely different processor that resides in the PCH on the motherboard and is initialized from the flash ROM on the motherboard long before any OS boots on the x86 CPU.
Whoa, I cannot disagree more with the premise and the conclusions of the author.

Exploration is absolutely one of the key goals of data visualization. Tukey's insight was two-fold: First, that statistics puts too much emphasis on confirmation but not enough on systematic exploration of a data set. Too often researchers do not understand their data. They bring their own biases and preconceived notions, where they should be listening to the data.

Second, too often is visualization mistaken for confirmation. A curious pattern or an outlier may just be an artifact of the layout algorithm. The "find" part of visualization should happen through mathematical insight. Graphics can at best describe the underlying mathematical reality but no more. One cannot strictly speaking "find" anything, only form intuitions or illustrate already proven insights.

Perhaps the author's difficulty in evaluating his students work lies not in the exploration part of their assignments, but in his own pedagogic emphasis on "tools," "frameworks," and "users." None of those things are relevant to data visualization as such. They might be goals for a business built around data visualization (to produce tools, or to identify user needs). A university should offer more than job training. Those interested in users and in "what one gets paid for" would do better in an internship or at a more narrowly technical trade school.

I don't know how "finding" is any more of a goal for data visualization than "exploring." Data visualizations tell stories. They often support the first and the last step in data analysis: the exploratory phase and the presentation of findings. They are inherently subjective, evocative, concise, artful.
Whenever I leave the house, I have a set of Airpods velcroed to the back of my phone case.
Guesstimate has been a word for 115 years.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...
Hey, I'm a Mech/Aero engineering sophomore in the States with a bunch of computing experience in the fields you've mentioned (specifically in the software-based human-model interface). Would I be eligible for an internship position? I can drop you an email with my qualifications if you're interested.
The post states they sought $25M in funding. Curious to know if they were successful in closing that amount.
Foursquare is my secret weapon whenever I need to impress with restaurant selection.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242120 and marked it off-topic.
Has any action been taken against them by other countries or even private industries for this?
Intel patches remote exec hole hidden in biz, server chips since 2008
Not efficiently possible,

But given enough time and memory, shouldn't it be possible?

Although maybe that would require more than the universe has available, in which case I suppose it would be impossible in that sense I guess.
>I always had that feeling of someone standing behind me calling my name.

Sounds like a psychological issue, not a technological one.
Agree 100%, I just refurbished my 6-year old Macbook Air instead of buying a new computer because Apple doesn't sell anything today I actually want. I know for sure my next tablet and my next phone won't be Apple, so they have until this 2011 Macbook Air dies (for the last time) to come up with something worth spending money on, or else I'm back to the PC market! Same goes for all of the Mac users I know, we lament the golden days of Apple but are glad to have experienced them.

This Apple is starting to go rotten.
Not to mention the vast majority of android devices have vulnerable wifi firmware, that will never be updated. Somehow fans of phone security think there is nothing strange about replacing a phone every 12 months to keep receiving updates...
That's just you. My sister has a similar approach (sending out periodic emails) and I find them utterly tedious to read, too polished and edited to approach any kind of spontaneity or intimacy, and mildly annoying as a reminder that she can't be bothered to keep up with any of my online social activity while expecting me to stay up to date with what she considers important to report.

Yes, quite a lot of social networking interactions are shallow, as are most real-world social interactions. but I've also made quite a lot of good friendships from what started out as shallow interactions. You're doing social networking right here on HN, you just treat it differently because it's (I presume) somehow connected to your professional activities.
Except that perhaps all those middle men in between talent and event organizers are what make an event successful?

Complaining about "middle men" is not dissimilar to complaining about "the Man" keeping you down. Is there a largess of utterly pointless people in a large bureaucratic organizations? Surely. Are all those "middle men" that take money in exchange for coordinating setting up and tearing down Cochella profit monsters? No, probably not. Lots of them are quite necessary, as Mr. McFarland and Mr. Rule just discovered.
So does Apple... the call here is to use something other than MP3.
It puts those Android phones among the more vulnerable devices. Don't use those Android phones. I recommend iPhones to anyone concerned about security, but you can substitute the Google phone of your choice; I don't want the argument today.
Is there value in Angie's List? Every time I wind up there from the open Internet, I wind up not knowing what I'm doing and eventually leaving. Is it like a yelp that you have to sign up to get access to?
Stronger means higher leverage for the typical programmer. Assembly language isn't very high leverage (I say that having written several games professionally in entirely assembly language).

Assembly language also doesn't natively support either closures or objects, except in the sense that of course you can build them from first principles, Turing Completeness and all that.

Until someone proves to me that Haskell can be used in a reasonable way by a "typical" programmer, I simply won't think about pure-functional when I make general statements about languages.

I fully admit this may be a hole in my brain, but I don't understand how to break down the problems I face on a daily basis into Haskell (or any pure-functional language), so I just talk about the universe of languages that are not pure-functional.

I've looked at Haskell tutorials and gotten at least hip deep into the language, by the way. I just usually end up dealing with problems that require levels of complexity where FP tools fall down. Your mileage may vary.
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At this point my advice would be for you guys to just leave it be. Stand up and walk away from the computer and go watch a movie for the night. You've made your call on this issue, you have unspecified "plans" and unless you care to reveal them or you care to change your stance on this issue there's nothing more to say or do here. You just need to let the anger blow over.

You don't gain anything by further antagonizing users at this point. And from your stance here - you don't actually want these people as users, correct? Essentially you've decided that these users are so-called "devil customers" - they're not profitable and you want them out of your clientele.

That's why you're essentially hardforking away from their hardware. So their opinions are no longer relevant to you, are they? As such this is literally a no-win move for you, the only thing it can do is hurt your business's image.

Just walk away, this isn't a good look for you guys.
You can search Amazon for these soft latex things which help keep Airpods in place.
I have never used it, but the Intel Multi-OS-Engine is something like RoboVM and they updated the license from proprietary to Apache about 9 months ago.

https://github.com/multi-os-engine/multi-os-engine
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No, instead you wanna deliver driveby opinions without defending them.
No. Math is not physics, as physics is not chemistry.

Patents exist to promote novel applications of physics and chemistry, but do not forbid use of the fundamental laws, and should not forbid use of fundamental mathematical or algorithmic processes.

If you can violate a patent in your mind, it shouldn't be granted.
Hello World. You used Hello World as an example for anything.
The word explore is actually great in a data analysis context. The notions of exploratory vs confirmatory analysis are widely used, and exploratory means exactly what your students think it means. Just make sure they don't explore all of the data at once, otherwise they will have to go collect more so that they can confirm what they found when they were exploring.
Gotta be honest if that's what Fyre was attempting to solve, they've made a great case for the middlemen.

I do agree that surely something must explain why all these high-profile celebrities went along with this. Did they actually think nobody would notice the end result somehow, or were they duped too?
When you can reproduce any mechanical device from its wave function, we'll talk.
Adult mortality was still quite a lot higher than it is today.

There have been some attempts to study hunter gatherers that existed in recent times:

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/life_history/aging_evolu...

The group there isn't necessarily going to be representative, but mortality for young adults was ~2% per year. In the US it is something like 0.1%.