skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this paper a while ago and have it on my list of things to model: http://arep.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Chen99.pdf.

Ultimately, we could have a full gene-expression-as-a-dynamical-system model which we could perturb and use to study the dynamical features of genetic networks.

Anyone interested in this stuff?
It is. TOTC is an essential feature of resource rich environments with an excess of tool using creatures.
> Is it?

Yes - photos of the face will have been used as texture and bump maps.
Now we're talking ... so what sort of web dev do you do? For a business, in an agency, for your own clients? It's all about solving problems. What problems have you solved for them or yourself that you can automate?
There S&P 500 is selected by a committee so there is no #501.
I know that this depends on the workplace culture, but I've gone the other way on stuff like this because apologizing makes certain people smell vulnerability and never let it go.

I'm happy to explain what happened, and I'm happy to suggest improvements for avoiding a similar accident in the future. If you think I screwed up, chew my ass or write me up. Past that, it is what it is, and if you hold it over my head like a nagging parent, I'm going to use my outdoor voice.
No, it's a post saturated market. It's been tried again and again and failed every time.
The whole value proposition of "code is law" is that the letter of the law theoretically obviates the spirit of the law.
>I can't say everything I've heard for NDA reasons but I've been under the impression its use is in future resource-constrained IoT devices.

I highly doubt that.

"Magenta targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of ram with arbitrary peripherals doing open ended computation"

Magenta is the name of the Fuchsia kernel.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/HEAD/docs/mg_and_...
Agreed. I don't believe you are implying this, but neither Saul nor I intend to state their reactions are unreasonable. Merely to indicate how divergent reactions can be in different populations and how this can be utilized.
Yeah, "modern JS" is meant to be the catch-all term for ES6/ES7/ES2015/ES2016/ES2017. In this case, you need ES2016 to run code produced by decaffeinate, but anything in the latest language version or at stage 4 is fair game and might be added in the future.

Producing readable code is certainly the intent! Realistically, you need to clean some things up by hand to make it pass lint and look nice, but I think overall it does a pretty good job, certainly much better than the CoffeeScript compiler. You can always play around with it by typing/pasting code into the online repl:
http://decaffeinate-project.org/repl/
> that said, much like with alcohol use, you are intentionally poisoning yourself in order to alter your perception of shared reality.. accelerated entropy should be expected

This is an odd statement. Weed isn't exactly toxic like alcohol is. It's nearly impossible to overdose, any acute harm will be purely psychological (even though this thread is debating whether long-term harm can enter the physical realm).

Also, we do all sorts of stuff all the time to alter our perception of reality, mostly not involving substances...
How does this compare to something like VeraCrypt?
I am a fan of this "small (and focused) is beautiful" approach, like yo-yo [0], hyperHTML [1], and numerous others.

The thing that sold me on Preact is its compatibility layer with React, which provides a kind of de facto standard API for components. One day I just replaced React with Preact, with the only difference being a happily reduced app size -
and have been using it since. I don't plan to keep up with React's latest developments - I'm satisfied with the rendering performance of Preact, and want to stick to a stable API which lets me focus on actually building things with it.

I feel the same about client-side routers, the build process with Webpack, etc. - I'm fatigued of keeping up with breaking changes, and have started transitioning to smaller, individual libraries that just do their modular jobs, with minimum API surfaces that are reliable over long-term.

[0] https://github.com/maxogden/yo-yo
[1] https://github.com/WebReflection/hyperHTML
The OS is going to prevent you from running a userspace telnet daemon? Sounds unlikely.
good luck, there are like 10 clones out there already
This used to happen in the US as well. Remember Arthur Andersen? They provided auditing as well as consultancy - and the scandals (not sure if it was Enron) broke them. Memory fails me at the moment to recollect if a law was passed to keep those functions separate.
> you have to be aware of big-O, or you're going to hit a lot of walls.

Of course you do, along with many other things - many other things that you won't know you need to be aware of because you haven't come across them yet or because they haven't been invented yet. What I said is that it's important to know how to figure these things out, not be able to recite them from memory.

> What exactly were you trying to say here?

You said "Some of us are bootstrapped in a cut-throat market and can't afford to plan employee retention 10 years into the future" To me this is a defeatist attitude. Our jobs are fundamentally about solving problems, and this, like my example, has a solution.

> Then you would lose this wager.

You can't have it both ways. You seemed to say that your preferred interview style selects the best of the brightest, but now it selects people who just want to clock in and out?
how is this different than running the compiled CS output through lebab [1]?

[1] https://github.com/lebab/lebab
Yep, the CoffeeScript folks are working on CoffeeScript 2 (I think JA is participating in some discussions but not actively working on it himself). It's not released officially, but there's a beta, and lots of discussions here: https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss
I'm being paranoid here, but would allowing an Apache license let vendors put custom spyware and DRM into the kernel that they wouldn't have to release the source for?
Typescript is amazing to work with daily. It catches so much and like the author said, by going to definition you can often find tons of hints about usage related to the object you're using. Often times, you receive and send objects in functions, and its so helpful if you know exactly what those object properties are instead of just remembering. Typescript makes me love and respect Microsoft just by itself.
Smiley's People (the movie), despite being of much lower production value, is every bit as good as Tinker Tailor for those of you looking for more.
You kept it real. HN appreciates keepin' it real.
I think it is psychotic breaks you could be referring to.

Schizophrenia is its own thing.
Silicon Valley is blowing its chance to connect with Middle America
You gain the knowledge that a device running Fuchsia is running code that's publicly available.
Ask HN: Isn't this what Arthur Andersen was doing?
Sure, features slip, but value types are coming in java 10 until they aren't.
The 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: a new visual guide
Convert PowerPoint to Video in 3 Ways
Wow, that's impressive - thanks for sharing. One question though, what do you mean by Adwords site?
Git integration is nice because:

- You never ever lose anything. Updated the wrong password? No problem, just `git reset`

- Having everything in it's own file let's you merge changes made on different machines (I use this all the time, I'm not keeping every machine always up-to-date). If everything's in a single file, any change would result in a hard to resolve merge conflict.

- All the other git goodness, including file history (e.g. when was the last time I changed this password), mutliple users (e.g. a shared family store), and more

While some of these are debatable and git isn't really made for binary data, I still think it's a very good fit.
Most people need to concentrate on their take, especially the ones you mentioned. Code reviewing is difficult as you have to look at what the other person is doing, and on the fly try to understand it, unlike the code you've been writing on for sometime
Unit tests sighs have your undivided attention to make sure you are making the test directly and that you aren't missing anything.
It might be easy for you, but not for others
I cannot speak for yakult, but be careful with generalizations like:

> If you overhear a conversation and even understand what it is about you clearly aren't focused on your(!) work. So you are in an unproductive state.

I find it extremely difficult to work alone in an office. When I was still agency-side, before we moved to open workspaces I would often go to coffee shops to work because I found it very difficult to focus unless there was a certain level of conversational white noise. Once we finally did make the move it was great to be able to jump into a conversation on a project I wasn't a direct stakeholder in just because I had something to add (or vice versa). There are any number of day to day things that aren't covered in stand-ups that simply pop up organically.

> There is also no question about whether disturbances are good or bad: They lower productivity and induce stress. This things were shown many times by different scientific studies. This point isn't for debate.

Of course there is a question and of course it's open for debate. We know this because we're not all robots - different people are different. Now, that being said, I absolutely agree that open offices aren't for everyone, which is why in my opinion the magic formula isn't to stick everyone alone in a room and say "talk more", but it's to offer a combination of both open spaces and solitary offices to fit the needs of the individual.

Just one line dev's two cents.
Mathematics of girih tilings
I'm not sure what that has to do with it. Apple didn't invent OSX/MacOS either, they bought it from NeXT and then used that base to build iOS. Google bought Android in 2005 so they had plenty of time to switch out kernels if licensing concerns were really a factor for them.
VeraCrypt is similar to the disk utility created volume. It uses AES-XTS at block level and the size of a container is fixed at creation time.
In the UK, Eve, a rival maker also just (around a month ago) IPO'd here in the UK. Their figures are scary at the moment, with a CPA hovering around £250-£300 and returns of 15% on the mattresses with the 100-night trial. All that with an average order value was only £450, on a product people buy every 10 years! They lost £11.3m last year on earnings of £12m, so no wonder their shares have been on the decline since IPO.

The mattress market may be big, but there are so many clones - surely only one or two can win out.
You lose a lot of information going from CS -> ES5 -> ES6, so decaffeinate has an inherent advantage since it knows your original code. With decaffeinate, it converts classes to classes, destructures to destructures, array spread to array spread, etc. Also, the CS output destroys all inline comments and all formatting.
When you quit did you retain ownership and receive any income from the business so it was truly hands off?
Thank you for mentioning IP! I haven't double checked that for a while so it's now on the front of my radar. Thankfully though IP capital isn't something I'm banking on... as far as I know.

In RE VC: Unfortunately not. I've met one person who owns a full scale dispensary + retail outlet and seemed cool but we didn't have that kind of introduction. It did seem like he'd be a business contact in the future, though.
It seems like too many involved with Babylon 5 are dying far too young.

When Richard Biggs died, I was sad, but I thought a revival could still be possible and be enjoyable. When Andreas Katsulas died, I knew any revival would suffer without his presence.

Now at some point with Jerry Doyle, Jeff Conway and now Stephen Furst have passed beyond the veil and I've come to realize that I don't want any more Babylon 5 -- except for a TOS/TNG-like remastering with new CGI -- I'd pay a lot for that.

I feel almost cruel pointing it out because they were limited print runs and you can't really buy them (no digital copies exist as far as I know, and the print copies are costly) but there exists an amazing set of books (http://www.cafepress.com/b5books).
Each volume has copies of a few scripts from the show, but the real magic is a series of stories written by JMS for every book and each episode of B5. They go into detail about the production of the show and production of television shows in general and just how ground-breaking Babylon 5 was in general. The show was just as revolutionary behind the scenes as it was on screen. The books go into great detail to explain what happened to season 5 and -- at the risk of a BuzzFeed-style headline -- it's not what you think.

As a consolation prize for those who cannot read those books, I suggest Claudia Christians Memoir (Babylon Confidential https://www.amazon.com/Babylon-Confidential-Memoir-Love-Addi...). It's quite good -- even and especially the non-Babylon 5 parts.

Each of these deaths from Babylon 5 leaves me profoundly sad because I highly doubt I will ever see another show that I enjoy as much as I enjoyed Babylon 5. I'm not sure that anyone will make another show with such depth and intricacy, though I will be watching the final two seasons of Game of Thrones with deep anticipation.
I'm guessing that you think it's a bad thing but I don't quite understand your position.

Is it a new standard that if company develops code, they are morally required to seek "approval of the Linux open source community" ?

Are we applying this standard only to Google, or all companies?

If writing and open-sourcing code under permissive license is bad if it's done without "approval of Linux open source community", then how bad, in comparison, is what e.g. Apple or Microsoft do (not open sourcing iOS or Windows)?
It's going to be very interesting to see if Atom decides to fully make the move to JavaScript / ES6+
For some reason, I could never get the hang of Rails. But when I found Sinatra, it all made perfect sense to me.

Now I exclusively use Padrino [0] as the framework to build all my web apps. It is a framework on top of Sinatra that gives you a lot of the Rails goodness, but allows you to be really agnostic in terms of ORMs, Testing/Mock frameworks, rendering platform etc.

[0] - http://padrinorb.com
Does that not prove the market?
As for QNX, one of its founders, Dan Dodge, is now at Apple.
Do you though? Google, as the liscenser is free to keep portions of fuschia under lock and key, so that's not really the case.
> Are you suggesting these are bad things?

As a local; yes it is a bad thing. I want cheap energy. Cheap access to energy is literally one of two things separating us from animals. The other thing is higher intelligence.

There is room for an ideological debate on the meaning of good, but this is an outcome of regulation that the government didn't push for and that the votes would not choose if they had to tick a box.
I wanted to practice a little more more with nodejs. To me it's pointless to learning a programming language without a project. Eventually, I will convert it from PHP (codeigniter) to angular 4 so that I can learn angular 4.

I also was banned from adsense, for machine generated content. Regardless, I really like amazon and my product you can't really use adblock, so I put together a website that monitors amazon daily prices.

I get most of my hits on facebook feed.

Regardless I don't make as much money as I would like, but it gives me something to do when my job is annoying me.

Http://www.bestoftheinternets.com/Deals

I might be looking for a growth hacker...
How to Measure the Killer Microsecond [pdf]
Performance Isolation Anomalies in RDMA [pdf]
It is obvious. Why would he show the winning door? If he shows the winning door then the game is over and there is no reason to switch.
Selecting Optimized Datacenter for Recourse Allocation in Geo-Distributed Clouds [pdf]
Any owners here care to share what Casper's "killer app" is?
Anyone else think this is kind of a dubious news source?
Flash Drive Lifespan* Is* a Problem [pdf]
That's why I want a $5 and $20 coin.
Serverless Computing: Current Trends and Open Problems
Some perspective from someone who is definitely concerned about climate change: antarctica as a whole is losing 100 cubic kilometers of ice per year [1] of its 30,000,000 cubic kilometers[2]. So at current burn rates it will be another 300,000 years before antarctica has melted. Short of radical acceleration, we aren't losing antarctica any time soon.

[1]https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antar...

[2]https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/antarctic_ice_sheet.htm
Some perspective from someone who is definitely concerned about climate change: antarctica as a whole is losing 100 cubic kilometer of ice per year [1], of its 30,000,000 cubic kilometers[2]. So at current burn rates it will be another 300,000 years before antarctica has melted. Short of radical acceleration, we aren't losing antartica any time soon.

[1]https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antar...

[2]https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/antarctic_ice_sheet.htm
Took a brief look at Hanami. Is it optimised for deployment to Heroku only? Or does it support AWS Elastic Beanstalk also?
Previously posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405404

A neat thing: the author used machine learning to help find appropriate synonyms. And also created this related tool:

http://73.172.60.168:8080/rhyme
The Latest Flying Car Concept Seems–Dare We Say It–Serious
Fascinating.. Looking at the visualization of "highly connective words", my mind automatically tried to find some pattern or sense in those particular words - why are they the most connective? Does it mean that there are the most number of definitions that contain (and are related to) these words? I wonder if that signifies something about the "culture" of the English language, what people most often think/talk about when using it (edit: cats apparently! :).

As a side note, something that struck me when I first visited treegle.xyz, was that the definition of "quarrel" included the word "etc." in it:

quarrel - a small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square

The use of this "etc." bugs me for some reason: it seems to assume that the reader knows how a window tracery is built, and the word adds no value to the definition - and makes me wonder what components other than "cusps" they meant.

Anyway, wonderful experiment (and project name too).
Computing at scale: From laptop to cloud and HPC
Did not know that, thank you. Do you know happen to know how it is done? When I pull the debian tarball for nginx (which has a -dbg package with symbol files) I see:

> dh_strip --dbg-package=nginx-$(*)-dbg

Which is the exact same command I use in my rules file. But instead of giving me a -dbg package with symbol files debuild gives me a -dbg package with the unstripped binary. Not sure what I am missing. I am following the DebugPackage guide on the Debian Wiki[1].

1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage
I don't completely agree....

Passive Income the easy way: Invest money in an S&P 500 Index fund. Routine dividends are easily count as passive income. You need a lot invested for this to be a significant amount, though.

The reason this may be easier for a web developer than, say, a retail cashier is that the web developer most likely has a higher salary.

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Owning a company, whether services company or SaaS is also another way to get passive income. However, unless you have huge capitol to hire folks to do the work, or put a lot a time in to build the company [and then replace yourself] it may not be practical; and it definitely isn't immediate.

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I've done the writing route, writing, and self-publishing, technical programming books. It is a great way for passive income. Once it is published you get residual income each month.

Much to my surprise, I've found that programming books have a much longer tail than I would have expected.
Let's start by reframing your thinking: which business problems can you reliably solve for companies that value time more than money by leveraging web development?

If you already have a full time job, you might be disallowed from side income derived from services (i.e. consulting). If you don't have such a provision, you can start by selling your services for web development to companies that need them. Search through patio11 and tptacek's comments to read more about this route.

In my opinion consulting is easier than productized software (even if it's less straightforward sometimes). But you can more easily scale up a software product and reduce your time commitment for it. So if that appeals to you, then you should start by looking at what domain knowledge you have.
This is a whole field full of multiple PhDs and ongoing research. It's called systems biology.
We launched https://emailoctopus.com around 3 years ago as a side project. The most difficult thing with launching a SaaS is the early days, where you've spent hours upon hours building the app and are only bringing in £400 a month.

We stuck with it though and today have a full-time team of 5 working on the app, are paying ourselves a similar wage to what we were earning in our full-time jobs and most importantly have almost complete ownership of our work-life balance.

I'd really recommend a SaaS business if you are after recurring, side revenue and as mentioned before https://www.oppslist.com/ is a great place to get some initial ideas. Your marketing skills will improve too - just stick with it for a year or so if you do go that route!
Stencil Computations for Multi-Core Architectures Based on Machine Learning
He definitely has commented on Sarkeesian, and critiques some elements of feminism, a few of whom richly deserve it. That's not an area I'm particularly interested in, and I've not followed his videos there.

His critiques of poorly-conceived technological concepts, in particular the "Solar Freakin' Roadways" scam, and Hyperloop, strike me as largely on-mark (if repetitious and self-rightous).

I'm not familiar with any Nazi or other associations, though that would be most unfortunate.

RationalWiki addresses some of this:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thunderf00t

It has no bearing on the technical criticisms addressed above, however.
When undifferentiated foam gets this valuation, we are at the top.
When my first child was born, we were in a hospital in the UK. Peeling paint on the walls, flickering fluoros, harried staff.

He had trouble extricating himself, his heart beat started fluctuating, and so the staff rushed out to get the Ventouse (think a plumber's plunger, used to extract the baby with a suction to the head).

They yanked it out of a cupboard and blimey - it was broken.

The doctor yelled and ranted, people ran hither and thither, and eventually they managed the job using forceps instead.

That was all stressful enough. But what really astonished me was that they chucked the broken Ventouse machine back into the cupboard - and no doubt the same scene played out again later on, for some other unlucky people.

Its the same deal as people who try the whiteboard markers, find that they're not working, then put them right back on the board for the next person.
I work full-time but want to start something on the side. I've built couple projects in the past but nothing that major that generates income.
Because moving in any direction down the dome requires epsilon momentum from an application of epsilon force, which is not present in the assumed setup.
Their products are more affordable than much of their competition, they are very comfortable and easy to assemble. They only have online retail presence, no physical retail locations. The only thing I dislike about my Casper mattress is that sitting on the edge of the bed is a bit uncomfortable.