skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have been introduced to a new meaning of the term.

I don't think it's especially unfair to argue that engineering to prevent chance interactions should be discouraged, and invoking privacy in this context is a bugaboo - access to privacy really isn't the same thing as making sure that you never have to greet or talk to anyone in a way that isn't planned.

I know a lot of people who don't really have that sort of unplanned interaction with anyone, and they tend to be the same people who think I must be uncommonly brave to use my city's public transit system, which they erroneously fancy to be peopled primarily by dangerous characters. By preserving their ignorance of their fellow people, they free their imaginations to assume the worst, and in a democratic society where such imaginings can quite easily translate into wrongheaded and harmful public policy, I don't think it is at all hard to argue that such ignorance, and such fancy, grows questionable - even dangerous - to the same extent to which it is indulged.
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everything by Reg “raganwald” Braithwaite is fantastic
I can understand how an illustrator could be bothered by something like this. It is your job to be accurate yet you see so many examples where others do not meet your own standards.

Slightly off topic (and related to moths not butterflies), but this sites includes wonderful detail on how moths are prepared high resolution scans:
http://ottawa.moths.ca/technical.html
If we scale time to one-trillion-quadrillion years into the future, isn't is possible that all mass in the universe eventually coalesces into a massive universal super black hole? Or, does the expansion of the universe outstrip that?
To be fair, Tesla was already at EA-level human mismanagement.

In fact, they probably surpassed EA when employees dropped on the floor at work due to too much work.
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We're growing really fast, based in San Francisco, and backed by some of the best investors including Thrive Capital, YC, Khosla, Marc Benioff, and Alexis Ohanian. The company was founded by myself (Eric Koslow) and our CEO Jack Altman. The engineering team only has four full time employees, so there's a tremendous opportunity to grow your career and have a big impact on a growing startup.

We use React on the frontend, NodeJS on the backend, and communicate over a GraphQL API. If you enjoying working with cutting edge technologies this is the place. We're looking for individuals that are product minded and enjoying owning problems from ideation to deployment. We have a very collaborative work environment and engineers work on all parts of the stack and across many domains.

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To respond to grabcocque's suggestion that “Christopher Tolkien calls himself an ‘editor’ but I’m not sure he understands what the word means.”

Christopher Tolkien knows what the word means. He studied English at Oxford and later became a lecturer and tutor in English Language there. He published Saga of King Heidrek the Wise, which he translated from Icelandic. He was given the Bodley Medal by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. According to Wikipedia, the medal is awarded to individuals who have made “outstanding contributions...to the worlds of communications and literature” and who have helped the library achieve “the vision of its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, to be a library not just to Oxford University but also to the world”.

That is to say, he’s extremely literate. If he didn’t understand what the word “editor” means he would have looked it up in a dictionary. I’m almost positive he has one.
Does it really make financial sense though? If there are two founders, some outside equity and a few employees I'm not sure $20 million is better than working in a big company and the risk is surely larger. It might be a lot more fun though, and you will learn a lot so if they payoff is comparable I would say go for the startup if you can afford it.
Just look at it as a special projection method that has been applied to an image of a living butterfly :)
BTW: lance-gg is now visible even with default filter
Prince. That shit killed Prince.
Trello Exposes Passwords Through Google Searches
People seem way too optimistic about web assembly.

The elephant in the room is download size. A wasm photoshop, even if it works and performs well, is still a multi-gigabyte "web page". The browser is in no way set up to handle that.

Even simple things will be huge compared to javascript webpage. Let's say you write your todo app in Python with Qt bindings. Sure, wasm lets you run it on the web. You'll just have to ship Qt, the python interpreter, low-level graphics rendering code, shims for system calls in the standard library ... overall you'll end up way, way heavier than the javascript + DOM version. Probably 100MB or something.

wasm as it's implemented is going to have a very narrow band of usefulness. Basically, isolated computational modules (e.g. a physics simulation), and games. The games won't be, like, "Call of Duty on the web", they'll be little flash-type games with not too many assets. Creators will have to put a lot of effort into asset loading and compression to get around browser limitations.
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It's always good content
For the past couple months the media has pointed out China's successes in tech in Shenzhen, how they have a much better stance on climate change than Trump, and how they have the most prudent position (that doesn't involve all-out war) on North Korea. That's pretty positive if you ask me.
That's actually a great breakdown of a current trend identified by several large retailers. For example Sephora's "Cast Members", Best Buy's "Geek Squad", Apple's "Geniuses" etc.

Their strategy is lift the burden of closing sales for their employees thanks to seamless payment (or even better, Amazon Go technology) and have them focus on adding value through conversation and recommendations.
Markdown is supported through editor extensions: https://standardnotes.org/extensions
For me, $30 to buy 20 hours entertainment doesn't strike me as clearly out of whack. It's fairly consistent with the rates to purchase movies for example.

I'd prefer to be able to rent for a single view at a lower price, yes. But it seems reasonable for something that I really want to watch.
TL;DR:

He is happy.

Better toolchain (environment manager, package manager, etc)

Macros are easier to do with Rust (than in Scala).

IDE: happy with MS Visual Studio Code

Syntax is not too different.

Type system: He likes it.

Calls C code with a similar syntax than doing it with Scala

Rust allows you more control on how to use your memory allocation. (Or forces you to take control).

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My own take on Rust (haven't used the language yet, only looked at specs) is that it appears to be a more "sane", state-of-the-art version of C++, streamlined, without all the cruft and all the legacy. And with a much better object oriented system based on Traits.
> Not to mention a lot of the good mods are still on like 1.6 or something because obviously no one is going to diligently update their mod over the course of ten years or however long Mojang wants to keep this up.

I've never seen most of Minecraft's newer stuff for this exact reason. I played enough to get pretty deep into FTB and the other large mod packs, and pretty quickly realized modders put out both content and bugfixes faster than Mojang itself. At that point, you might as well just consider the 'real' game a particularly shoddy branch of mods.
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=37172...
Windows on ARM64 is very flexible actually...
The Chinese Communist Party watched what happened in the Soviet Union when Gorbachev tried to save his idea of socialism with 'perestroika'--more political freedom contributed to the USSR coming apart at the seams. So China took the opposite tack--more economic reforms, maintain tight political control. So the CP is still in power, even though the 'C' is diminished.
but still, the heavy vc money only comes if they smell a chance at forming a monopoly with your idea - either thanks to patents, user lock in or having a plan that includes high barriers to entry after one gets the market
As far as I can make out these regex engines are very close to Perl5.
Where would you suggest?
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Its because the west cannot do this in current circumstances. I can make a bet that when China GDP per capita comes close to the developed nations, their censorship has to be seriously downgraded.

And what do you say about Russia. Internet censorship is not all for hiding, there are many different ways to hide information, some of which the western countries are actively practicing, and I feel the situation is getting worse and not better over time.
I think you're missing the point. It's a piece of history that has been buried. The tankman isn't the only thing that happened. The calm protest before the gunfire is rare to see and the more images of policemen joining the protest mean so, so much.

For the younger people they can't just search "tank man" on youtube in china and find out what happened, because either A: they have no idea what tankman even is or B: the video is censored. These images, just like the ones my fiance found years after she moved to the states will circulate and hopefully find more minds to make sure we don't forget this horrible event.
…is the answer 'the downvotes module'?
Using LLVM Santitizers with Nim
They've never been very good for movies on streaming. And, unfortunately, their DVD back catalog is being allowed to degrade as well.
Part I

Beating linear programming as in C-PLEX on
networks? In some cases, that's easy: On
a lot of networks, the simplex algorithm
specializes in an amazing way: A basic
solution corresponds to a spanning tree.
To consider adding a variable to the
basis, just add an arc to the tree, get a
circuit, run one unit of flow around the
circuit and see if can save money, and if
so run the flow around until hit a flow
capacity constraint on one of the arcs in
the circuit, remove that arc from the
basis, and, presto, have a simplex pivot.
If use the W. Cunningham (one of my profs)
modification of strongly feasible bases,
then are guaranteed won't cycle. It's
easy to program and just blindingly fast
-- e.g., the arithmetic is all just
addition and subtraction. It's still the
simplex algorithm so that C-PLEX could
have been used, but for a big network
problem will likely run ballpark thousands
of times faster than C-PLEX.

For more particular cases, maybe more can
be done.

Bertsekas has a polynomial algorithm for
that problem. It may get applied to that
wacko in Ping Pong Yang.

Network flows is a an old, big, deep field
e.g.,

Ravindra K.\ Ahuja, Thomas L.\ Magnanti,
James B.\ Orlin {\it Network Flows:
Theory, Algorithms, and Applications,\/}
ISBN 0-13-617549-X, Prentice Hall, New
Jersey, 1993.\ \

Mokhtar S.\ Bazaraa and John J.\ Jarvis,
{\it Linear Programming and Network
Flows,\/} ISBN 0-471-06015-1, John Wiley
and Sons, New York, 1977.\ \

For analysis of variance, there is, e.g.,

George W.\ Snedecor and William G.\
Cochran, {\it Statistical Methods, Sixth
Edition,\/} ISBN 0-8138-1560-6, The Iowa
State University Press, Ames, Iowa, 1971.\
\

No joke it's from Iowa since it's long
been important in agriculture research and
testing and in experimental design and
analysis much more generally. E.g.,
people who propose new ways to do K-12
education commonly use these techniques to
good advantage.

Sure, first cut, it's regression analysis
again, but with its special discreteness
really it's quite different.

It's powerful stuff.

For the Gaussian assumptions in
regression, don't get too concerned: The
normal equations remain and don't need a
Gaussian assumption -- there's still a
projection and still get the Pythagorean
theorem --

total sum of squares = regression sum of
squares + error sum of squares.

The Gaussian assumption yields F ratio and
t-tests, and ballpark in practice those
remain robust mostly ignoring the
Gaussian assumption. In some wild, edge
cases, might want to check the robust
claim, but otherwise do get some good
information about the fit.
It seems like a tough sell to say that increased transaction costs categorically don't affect the frequency of IPOs. In 1986, Adobe raised $6M at their IPO. Whatever other factors have contributed to a decline in IPOs, it's hard to deny that Adobe-sized offerings don't really happen anymore.
Want to work on AirSim [1] as contractor at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA? Does AI, Aerial robotics and drones excites you? You will need to have demonstrable great C++ coding chops, passion for tinkering, ability to get in to unknown areas fast and great CS algorithms design skills. Any experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, Physics engines, robotics, drones, deep learning etc would be big plus as well. Send resumes at shitals@micro####.com.

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How do you get Firefox on devices? If OEMs want to use the Google Play store on any single of their devices, they have to make Chrome the default browser on all of them.
Not when you store it in stone, as the article alludes to. I know that emissions from a local geothermal plant are being captured and stored permanently in basalt layers in Hellisheiði, Iceland.
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TheMednet (YC W17 – StackOverflow for Cancer) Is Hiring a CTO
Show HN: Outperform the worlds greatest angel investor
I'm not going to sell this as a great idea or anything, but just some numbers because I calculated them for myself..

Buy $500 worth of bitcoin in april 2010 - worth roughly $360 million

As a comparable - $500 worth of uber in 2009, which you cant buy because of SEC regulations, restrictions, you not being a cool angel, not being in SV etc.:

Buys you .25% of their Seed round which was probably worth 20% (industry standard?): .0025.2$70B = $35 Million. Thats just 1/10th and excludes any dilution, of which there must have been a lot. And you still cant liquidate this at all. The company may not even be worth what it says its worth.

Ethereum: In the initial sale, 2000 ETH were worth 1 BTC which was worth roughly $600 at the time. 1 Eth is now worth ~$200. $200*2000 = $400k.

For a comp, lets go with Robinhood. Its difficult to find "famous" startups that are only 2 years old. Robinhood had a $3M seed in dec 2013. $500 out of a 20% seed buys you .0033% of the company. Which you cant get because you cant invest etc.

Robinhood has recently raised a C at a $1.3B valuation. Your stake is now worth $43k. Pre-dilution. And you cant sell for another 10 years.

I'm not going to do this for every coin, but im pretty sure that we could find a really hot startup that is easily beaten by litecoin, dogecoin, ripple etc.

I'm going to put $500 worth of BTC into every ICO from now on. If the outliers pay for the duds in startups, theres no reason that it shouldnt be working in crypto.
I agree with you re: the "Nature is Good" dogma. In spirit, it was meant to convey respect for the cycle of life, diversity of the biosphere, etc. Gets seriously problematic if extended to, I dunno, the Polio virus and asteroid impacts. In any case, that particular dogma dates to the the 1960s, when nuance wasn't exactly the flavor of the decade. And arguing about stuff is good, too!

And yep, Wilson was the real deal. His work had also been a huge influence on me at the time that I met him. I still evangelize Quantum Psychology to anyone who I think can handle it.
Add me to the TJ fan club :) His code is just so phenomenally good. I feel the entire node.js community owes him a virtual billion dollars. Anyone know how well he is doing in the Go world?
This may be a useful adjunct to insulin therapy, but there is no possibility whatsoever that it will be a replacement for it.

Insulin is the molecule that signals to cells that it is okay to take in and use sugar that's in the blood. This is a molecule that buffers sugar; if there's a high sugar concentration in the blood it binds it together and if there's a low sugar concentration it releases it. This would normally be one of the functions of the liver, but the latter part (absorbing excess sugar for storage) won't happen without insulin signaling. If you give this to a type 1 diabetic without also giving insulin, all that will happen is that it'll absorb sugar until it reaches capacity; the cells that should be using sugar for energy still won't be able to.
Maybe it's a bit of her bias seeping in a bit, but I can certainly agree it's getting better
I think this question needs to be expanded upon before an adequate answer can really be given.

Are you looking to learn code via JS?

Are you proficient in another language that has similar constructs to JS and just need to understand the nuances?

Are you somebody who has understood JQuery on a low level but never understood what the code was actually doing?

I am sure there are a few more questions along similar veins and I think each one of these questions could be interpreted from the OP and I think all of these have potentially different answers.
Ballmer: We should have turned Microsoft into a “world-class hardware company”
Baizuo don't care, just like what happened in Syria right now, they still want to help the rebellion to against the gov even ISIS is threaten the whole world
Postgres Internals
IMHO The real meaning of the question "Does the market support a $10Bn company?"

If an idea is very niche like "Maserati custom accessories sold online" then that isn't likely to grow to $10Bn+ company or have any major impact.
These waves are extremely small, and we've just managed to build instruments sensitive enough to detect the very biggest ones.

Earth bound instruments will no doubt get better, but to get a real jump in quality, you need instruments in the stillness of space: http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/eLISA
Why pick out women? I know men who are hypersensitive about this stuff.

I'm trying just to be argumentative, but try not to turn this into a men Vs women argument, that is a lot of the problem.
Like searching based on filename when metadata isn't available, or showing long filenames in search results. These are considered to be stupid last time I bothered checking and I've since given up. It's a bizarre culture.
jQuery is tiny. https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.js is 268KB; the minified version at https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js is 86KB, 30KB after gzip compression.

For asm.js/webassembly we're talking about source code sizes in the multiple megabytes range after gzip compression.
>> So you may be technically correct but the claim is so weak as to be nearly meaningless.
My claim was referring to the following: many "science" people have a hard time developing their spiritual side, because of what they learn about the scientific models of the universe. Lacking proper guidance to place those models in proper places in their mind, they often end up believing (even subconsciously) that believing in "science" collides with with having a spiritual experience. I was pointing out that there are very good ways to combine the two.
But yes you have a point and I get it.

>> What's wrong with keeping them separate? Science is falsifiable and religion is not. One sometimes advances the knowledge of humanity and one sometimes allows us be happier humans.
There is nothing wrong with anything ;).
But seriously, I think that reconciling some parts of those just leads to a deeper and more profound understanding of life. Not only being able to see either a particle or a wave, but even the deeper underlying phenomena combining the both.
That email address bounces
Funny story - just the other day my 4 year old daughter was wondering if the hearts in our bodies looked like the shape she knew as a "heart" because it didn't look that way in the Magic Schoolbus episode she'd just watched about Ms Frizzle's vascular system (where the heart was depicted in a more-or-less anatomically correct manner). It was an adorable moment.
Scaling Culture with Jason Kilar, Former Hulu CEO
Great insights, better said than most, but nothing new here. Definitely not unique insights from investing in 200+ startups vs 20 or 2.
Ask HN: Good Go codebases to read?
I'm a Python programmer and I just started learning Go. What are some good Go codebases to read? I feel it helps me learn better if I look at some existing high quality open source code.

There was a similar post about Python a couple of years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369) and it helped me tremendously. I'm looking for something similar with Go.

Thanks!
It's only easy to control because of electronic gyros and control. Without those a quad would be more unflyable than a hell.

I'm not sure why the automatic control systems haven't made their way to regular helis
Another Baltimorean on Hacker News! And one with a geek code, yet - I didn't know those were still a thing. If you ever find yourself around Hampden, maybe we'll grab a beer some time.
This Genetically-Modified Cyborg Dragonfly Is the Tiniest Drone