skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but wonder.

They've been posting this job for several months in monthly "Who's hiring" thread (here's one from 227 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628215)

I can't imagine that they're hiring 100s of people.

I also assume that people do apply because it's YC.

And yet, the position goes unfilled for months.

Either they have extremely unrealistic standards (a dna-spliced cross-breed of Carmack and Torvalds with business acumen of Steve Jobs) or there's something extremely unappealing about this job (after all it does seem like building CRUD apps in rails; you get to rub shoulders with Greatness Of Other People but there's curious absence of "competitive salary", or any salary, in the job description).
Convox is in similar space.
I have no doubt that was your experience. I also know that it's a good idea to consider whether your personal experience is in fact universally applicable before “actually”-ing someone making that assertion.
Thank you for the explanation. I learned something today. (To be fair the site is not clear.)
If I understand you correctly you're suggesting treating the ocean like an elevated lake, and putting a pipe to a lower place so the water pressure could generate electricity.

The two things that come to mind for me are:

1. It's hard to find land lower than the ocean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_on_land_with_el...)

2. Piping salty ocean water inland will make a lot of people unhappy. It would totally change the environment that was already there.

But interesting idea. Death Valley might be a valid place for it, since it's already a salty waste land.
I've also heard whispers of Azure credits being handed out in huge quantity provided large enterprises buy enough Office365 licenses. I'd not be at all surprised by that, but I'm likewise unaware of any companies who have an Azure presence without at least something also running in AWS.
SketchRNN model released in Magenta
Also, delimited continuations are no less general than the regular ones. Regular continuations are also delimited, because they cannot capture control beyond the program's startup function.

If we place a prompt at the top of the main function of the program and use that for making delimited continuations, we basically get regular continuations: continuations that can potentially return all the way to the top, just as far as regular continuations.

(We can even set it up so that if any such a delimited continuation does actually get that far, the process will exit.)

Delimiting is actually an extra bit of expressive power, not a constraint.

We can compare the delimited continuation to a boomerang or yo-yo: we know that it will only go so far, and then return. That's why it can be used as a function. When resumed, it will get no farther than the delimiting prompt, and then whatever value pops out of that contour bounces back to us, who resumed the continuation.

The continuation won't keep going and then bail the program.

Regular continuations can simulate delimited ones: there is some jig put in place (with macros or whatever) which catches when the continuation has bubbled up to the faked-out prompt, and redirects the control---by invoking some other continuation that represents the boomerang return. Or something like that.

There are tricks for implementing the delimited ones, though, that don't involve such a thing. Like pushing the delimited continuation onto the stack, so that the return out of the prompt is just an actual return. I.e. entire "future computation" of the delimited continuation is just "installed" into the stack at the current top. The activation frames are hooked up, and then there is a new topmost frame: that of the restarted continuation, to which the procedure context is restored.
Sure, we could flood the Death Valley and Salton Sea in California, the Dead Sea and most of the Jordan Valley, the Afar Depression, the Caspian Sea, and large parts of the Netherlands.

The problem of course is that most of these lands are inhabited. You're just trading one parcel of land for another, one group of displaced people with another, one group of endangered species with another.

There's also the question of what you're going to do with all the salt water. You can't use it for agriculture or industry, you can't drink it, and desalination is extremely energy-intensive.
Let alone type them wrong on a tired night.
Would you elaborate why you think so?
Link to Dataset: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data

Link to Blog Post announcement of Sketch-RNN code: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/sketch_rnn

Link to Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03477

Link to GitHub Repo of Sketch-RNN code: https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/blob/master/magenta/mo...

Link to previous Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14114706
Is-a-kind relationship. Hotdog is a specific kind of a sandwich with a whole sausage (or sausage-like object, heh, vegan hotdogs) in it.
The Firebase API is the way to go. I built a small app to do exactly as you described [0] and wrote a blog post about it [1]. Drop me a line if you need any more info.

UPDATE: Using the Firebase feed means you don't have to do periodic scraping. You can simply set a listener for the FB change() event and the API will basically tell you when there is fresh information from the front page etc.

[0] - https://tophn.info

[1] - https://hackernoon.com/tophn-a-fun-side-project-built-with-v...
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Why value it at other than $0? It's a private company and we have no idea what encumbrances there are on the shares.

Hell, I work for a publicly traded company and have an "ok" RSU grant for which I value the unvested shares at $0.
If this last week's episode does one good thing it will be to convince programmers that it's not that hard to get started doing ML stuff. Not to say that it's all trivial or straightforward, if you look at the linked image below you can see that a simple NN will miss lots of stuff. In this example the image is being examined for hotdogness as a whole, not being segmented or searching for a bounding box of hotdogness.

http://i.imgur.com/LxgowXI.jpg
Sufficient amounts of "constructive" analysis by uninvolved and under-informed third parties can be a net negative.
> I wouldn't be surprised if that year represents the nadir of horsepower in American cars.

And yet, a graph in the article shows more than 25% drop in horsepower from '76 to '83. Are you claiming that was entirely due to an increase in Japanese car models dragging down the average even as American models bounced back?
WebHacks: One of the First Online Hackathons
Not sure. Beanstalk is a very clumsy product and lacks the Elegance of heroku.
In my vernacular, a hotdog sandwich is a bit different preparation than a regular hotdog.

You slice the hotdog meat lengthwise so it will sit flat, then in half so that you have 4 pieces that fit onto regular sliced bread.

https://i.imgur.com/5XbzXOr_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f...

Note that is usually done not because it's a better idea. Driven by either lack of funds, or the idiotic practice where buns come in packs of 8, but hotdogs come in packs of 10.
The comment you are replying to is using the pigeonhole principle to cast doubt on your data by saying that there are more Americans with income over the 1% threshold you cite than can fit into 1% of the world's population.

I dug into the data behind your claim, briefly, and I think I ended at a self-reported survey. So, that data is probably wrong.
Marketing My Day To-Do Part 3 – Bing search engine ad campaign
Not first-class, no. They all depend on using macros to turn your code into CPS. You'd need some sort of special form that CL doesn't have in order to do better than that.
It's North Carolina, the rural dominated legislature punishes the urban areas continuously by passing rules that eliminate urban/municipal choices made democratically by imposing statewide majority rule when urban policies offend rural voters. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/north-c...
The same thing happened in Texas after Houston attempted and failed to pass an equal rights policy (so the state keeps trying to pass bathroom bills) and Austin forced Uber and Lyft to stop operating (so the state legislature overrode local jurisdiction).
It's not difficult to fit classical liberalism into the US Constitution. Both are children of the Enlightenment, and have the same philosophical underpinnings.
Is there much interaction with YC portfolio companies on the technical side? Also, have there previously been folk on the Software Team who have joined (or founded) YC companies?
Exceptional might be the wrong term but I think there's a plateau effect: MP3 was the first mainstream codec to reach the level where most people didn't perceive any drawbacks and there's a huge inertial benefit.

I don't regret ripping my entire collection as AAC / lossless but I also acknowledge that the space savings are basically a waste of time for anyone not using good speakers / headphones in a very quiet environment, and outside of a handful of pieces susceptible to pre-echo lossless was a hedge against double-encoding in the somewhat unlikely event that the future codec landscape changes dramatically.
A large portion of Netherlands is this way
>Circular and somewhat nonsensical reasoning. Yes, we live in a world where most people cooperate and some don't. I never made claims otherwise. Just because some people act irrationally doesn't invalidate the claim that the Golden Rule is logical.

You seem to have missed the point. I was responding to your objection that if everyone killed we would all be in trouble so we shouldnt kill ourselves.

My response was that we dont live in a world where everyone lies cheats and kills and there is no reasonable risk of others following my example if do lie cheat and kill. The mere fact that I kill someone wont create a world where everyone kills so your point about not wanting to live in such a world is moot.
Just use 'value'.

Only you can be sure of shortened words even if it looks obvious. Not good in a team.

I never understood people who shorten words to make the program look cryptic. Maybe it was someone who taught you how to program had it that way or somehow it makes you feel your program looks cooler if it looks more cryptic.
As usual, XKCD is ahead of us:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/
Work for an architecture firm. The lead partner specifically bought a new office just for this. All 100+ of us on the same floor vs our 7-8 person rooms we're currently in.

Also, new office building was expensive so raises were only given to adjust for inflation across the board.
I think your link proves that the NN is smarter than you give it credit for. The image is of a laptop screen, so NOT HOTDOG ;)
None. However I have used 'value' for iteration when I couldn't think of anything better.
Async/await does not allow you to suspend a computation and then resume it, and it is not easy to chain.
The linked module defines a "monad transformer" that can wrap other monads with a continuation-capturing layer. This means, among other things (Haskell's solution is awesomely general) that you can indeed use it with state, if you compose it with the state monad, or even the IO monad.

(The bottom of the documentation page has a contrived example of this.)
I wonder if YC partners and lawyers and other staff (https://www.ycombinator.com/people/) work for free or below market rates.

Did they ask how much the job pays before signing on the dotted line or did they took the job, damn the ability to pay rent.

Or is it faux pas only if it's a lowly coding monkey dares to ask to be properly compensated by a successful (I assume) corporation (Y Combinator, LLC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator_(company)) ?
Troubling ISP Privacy Repeal: The Data Will Be Breached
How to find most frequent item of an array?
>IceFrog (real name: Abdul Ismail).

Wait, what??? Is this confirmed?

Edit: court documents confirm it indeed. Cool.
at your service
You would assume that it was kept quiet to protect the other coins out there using cryptonote.
This is pretty much normal for any tech company.

In fact, Uber has very little data on their users (it is limited to trips taken on their platform) -- a company with more digital services like Google, Facebook, Apple etc have humongous amounts of data on their users. Even small companies which are in the ads industry have lots of info on users using third-party cookies.
hckrnews.com ?
Semi-related, one of my favorite topics ever is Atlantropa, a plan to put a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar and drain the Mediterranean Sea.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Atlantropa
I didn't look very deep beyond the main graphic at the top, basically did a quick 5 second test on it. Personally, even though I'm a typical person who avoids phone calls most of the time, I can't imagine texting some stranger for career advice. Some sort of network tool to match with a mentor for a long-term relationship sounds like something I might become interested in once in the shit storm as a founder. Ideally, the match would lead to phone and/or in-person conversations and advice.
I have it mapped to escape on a tap and ctrl on a long press. Vim and emacs :)
Although sometimes the money you pay is actually for a caching proxy space within the ISP's control for a set of services.

Very rarely a low latency link. (like VoIP/real time specialized services)
Thanks.

I took continuation to include cases where you respond to asynchronous call backs while the program is still executing, in which case suspension isn't needed.
Because unlike small scale we traffic, test runs and hard and heavy, and there's benefit in getting results out asap. I find it very useful - would never pay for big dynos for my app at this scale, but $0.05 per month for super fast test results is pretty cool.
It's the problem here in LA. Designed for cars, lots of permit parking in some areas (usually more well-off ones with pull) and metered places. We're trying to catch up public transit with demand but unfortunately it still makes sense to have a car to get everywhere you need to go. Buses are stuck in the same traffic (no designated lanes) as you are, cycling can be done but is extremely dangerous, and the metro's current hub-and-spoke is useful if you're going downtown but the amount of stations is less than ideal (some stops more than a mile or so apart).
I worked at an Indie Film Theater, and we had the Gaspar Noe film "Irreversible" - it was Unrated. As in, the Distribution company didn't even bother submitting it to the MPAA, knowing it would get the dreaded X Rating in the US. So we got a copy and it was Unrated.

We had at least 3 signs posted in the window at the box office with the same text on all of them: Unrated is not "open for all ages" - we will not sell tickets to this film to anyone under age of 18. Unrated is because the material is extremely disturbing by even artistic standards. No refunds.

I watched "Irreversible" in the theater, and it completely ranks up with "Stevie" as one of the most visceral and deep and dark things I've ever seen in a cinema. So I was completely equipped to tell people "Do not buy tickets to this movie. You will not like it."

One couple was on a date. Late-20s, white, good mood. No other films were showing / starting in a time they liked, so they picked "Irreversible" and I warned them. Then warned them again. They got defensive, telling me off basically that they were adults and would watch whatever they wanted.

When they came back to the box office about 30 minutes later, I knew which scene they'd just witnessed, and they were scarred for life, but like zombies, came back to try and get a refund. I let my manager take care of it.

Point being, sometimes adults think they're mature, but it's a lot more complicated than that. I'm not advocating showing a 5 year old "Saving Private Ryan" intro on a loop for a weekend, but some of these "protections" have mission creep of responsibility - who is really accountable in family development when it comes to Art (rationally speaking), Free Individuals or Federal Regulations?
Good luck with the wedding! :)
C# – good career choice or not?
I have two ride hailing apps installed on my phone (iOS) - Ola Cabs and Uber.

In "Privacy > Location Services" I see "Always" location request from Uber but "While Using" for Ola Cabs. So my only option for Uber is to set location services to "Never" and then either manually enter the address or give the permission and then revert it to "Never" after booking.

I googled aound and I see it's clear that they had a choice:

[self.locationManager requestWhenInUseAuthorization]
[self.locationManager requestAlwaysAuthorization]

I really feel unconfortable when apps ask such blanket permissons for Contact, Location, SMS (on Android; I'm very new on iOS), files, microphone etc.

Facebook on the other, at least on Android again, had every permission request listed in their app (uninstalled and never installed again in last 4-5 years).
The look?
Two female scientists and an environmentalist join Macron’s new government
From the actual job listing (http://bit.ly/1Od0T2l):

> We [...] don't hire people who want to work remotely.

Boo. Hiss.
Yes, it was a reference to that. My comment is currently sitting at -2. I'm still getting the hang of Hacker News' sense of humor. On Slashdot, I would be at +5. Ho hum.

Anyway, just to make my intentions clear, I love Postgres, have used it for over a decade, and have yet to use MongoDB or any other NoSQL database.
Copied from wikipedia because I'm lazy, and you could've googled this easily:

> The separation of commercial and investment banking prevented securities firms and investment banks from taking deposits, and commercial Federal Reserve member banks from:

* dealing in non-governmental securities for customers
* investing in non-investment grade securities for themselves
* underwriting or distributing non-governmental securities
* affiliating (or sharing employees) with companies involved in such activities

It prevented mergers and acquisitions which allowed the banks to become too big to fail.
Via long hops, just like the rest of the Internet.

Either fibre, satellite or old radio relay.
200mm Crisis: Demand is up, capacity is flat
Are we reading the same blog post, Tesla is saying that the allegations about their work conditions are not accurate but rather an effort by the UAW to spread negative publicity about their work environment in a push for unionization.

Now this may be true or false, but it isnt spin.
This is a possible first step of a water-splitting reaction that does not produce oxygen.
If you implement your own awaiter with INotifyCompletion [1], you get the continuation as an Action that you can invoke as you will. TBH I haven't done it, but I believe you could use that to implement something akin to call/cc.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.comp...
Billionaire Gives Away His Fortune to Help Save the Ocean
It is quite a bit easier to hold back a liquid than a gas. Different minimum pore size and you get hydrophobic chemistry and surface tension on your side.

Especially at such big pipe diameters as required.

You can use cheap materials like modified concrete to patch a hole in an underwater tunnel, not so in a vacuum tube - that needs something much better and more expensive.
Show HN: The first keyboard with haptic feedback for iOS (iPhone 7)
I agree completely but IMO the topic is still too triggery for HN to discuss it without losing it, and a title change may not be enough. We can send the submitter a repost invite, though, with a different title, and see if starting from scratch would help.
Variants of chess are common everywhere, I'd hazard a guess to say that people who play chess all the time are more likely to start mixing it up to add a bit of spice to the game.

Chess 960 is a good example of the backline swapping around.
As incredible as this technology is, the last thing modern art students need is more of is anti-social origin worship. This is a step back from media into medium, and a wholly worthless one in the context of contemporary art education. This is useful for historians alone. An utter distraction for someone looking to understand art.
I think The C++ thread library is overdesigned so it lost some function. What's more, on Linux it's chicken ribs. So I encapsulate POSIX Threads using C++, to take advantage of RAII.
A few weeks ago? It says a temporary fix was done by February 10.
In general, strive for substantive and constructive comments on HN. If you've got that, a little humor added in can be appreciated. Comments that are submitted only for humor value (which you knew yours was, given your parenthetical addendum) are likely to be less appreciated on HN than on other sites.

Here's a recent thread where this has been discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13760333

There are likely others that describe it better, but I don't have them at hand.

Edit to add: Of course there are. Here's some comments by 'dang on the topic:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20humor&sort=byPop...
If you get down to the root of it, those labels are there so Parents don't actually have to watch / listen to / referee the material before allowing their children to see it. Or, they don't watch / listen to the material with their children to be there to provide context and guidance like an Adult.

They're a way to shift responsibility. "Oh this should be okay, it's PG!" is what happened with "Gremlins" and then it scared the shit out of kids. Now we have PG-13 because of that movie. True story.
> If you think this covers 99% percent of applications (or even 50%!) then you may only be thinking of a very small subset of software development.

This statement was true in the '90s. Nowadays, the amount of high-level software written as a ratio of total programmer-hours is probably upwards of 90%.

Out of the hundreds of thousands of programmers out there, very few of them write kernels or drivers. Even fewer write window managers—there are maybe a dozen of them in active use, and most of them have either zero or one maintainers. Four software companies, out of thousands and thousands, write Web browser engines; two of them share most of their engines' code. With few exceptions, all of the codebases I mentioned date back to the '80s or '90s, when most of the code was written.

People seem to think that the software stack on a typical desktop OS is constantly under heavy development. It's not. Most of it is in maintenance mode or effectively unmaintained.

Don't take my word for it—look at the "who is hiring" threads on HN lately. There's some C++ in there, sure, but nowhere near the figure you quoted.
Actually, it's rather clear that Y Combinator has no plans for an exit event.

To quote Paul Graham himself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13784):

"Ordinarily a startup should be a C corp. It's cheaper to be an LLC, but if you plan to succeed, you may as well do things right from the start.

With an LLC profits don't get taxed twice like in a regular corporation. So it makes sense to be an LLC if you expect to have substantial profits, but don't expect to grant options, sell shares, or get bought. Consulting firms and law partnerships are often LLCs. YC is an LLC."

So the shares in YC are worth $0.
Yep, I have a 6-speed Brompton; I have to make a conscious effort not to pop a wheelie at every light change. Having a 3-speed hub shifter means I'm always sure to be in one of the two lowest gears at a light.

I do appreciate being able to stay ahead of cars for half of each block.