skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely love Elm, and think it's great because it's a totally new approach for the frontend. That said, new approaches take much longer to build the critical mass for adoption than incremental ones (like Typescript). In a lot of ways, Elm reminds me of this Onion article from the early 2000's.

"Ghost Of Christmas Future Taunts Children With Visions Of PlayStation 5"

http://www.theonion.com/article/ghost-of-christmas-future-ta...

There's a project on my plate right now that when I saw the requirements and specs, I immediately thought, wow, Elm in a year from now would be absolutely perfect for this.

But it's just not there yet, so I'm exploring things like Typescript that have the advantage of the Javascript ecosystem beneath it. But I really cannot wait for Elm to be production-ready across the board and not just for specific use cases.
Oh and he referenced his penis size at a startup event: https://twitter.com/founderofstick/status/880977488494469122

Sarah Kunst, the woman quoted in the NYT, mentions that other women have reached out to her about McClure. Like Caldwell, also all women of color: https://twitter.com/sarahkunst/status/881004317674577920
Maybe so, but it doesn't answer the question on why some people make the right choices and some doesn't. It also doesn't address the interesting fact that making the right choice is strongly correlated with factor that are outside of one control (Socio-economical position, phyisical attractiveness race ) etc...
I think this overestimates our ability to establish a solid "rule" when it comes to a complex social phenomenon.

It's so reductionist to think that complex systems can be boiled down to simple, all-encompassing explanations. This has failed over and over, from nutrition to economics. And yet people of all political persuasions still want to argue that "the REAL problem is Y" and claim smug superiority over anyone who disagrees.
Even assuming your assumptions are correct, none of these things are entirely within a person's control. Whether or not you graduate high school can depend as much on you as on your family, school, neighborhood, etc. Unemployment exists, and is not due merely to a lack of will on the part of the potentially employed, so that doesn't make sense either. And there are ways to become a single parent which don't involve intentionally having children out of wedlock. So it looks like you're 0 for 3 there.
Why do you post a question and replace it with a dot when it does not gain traction??
If these VCs are constantly using their power and privilege over women in their industry, I have to wonder if it actually ever works?

And if it does work and the person on the receiving end doesn't view it as harassment, should we? Should we start publicly admonishing the people who chose to sleep with a VC for money?

Part of me wonders if we should be equally aghast at the founder who does sleep with a VC for money/influence and has no qualms about it. It must be happening if VCs keep harassing at this rate, otherwise these VCs wouldn't keep trying. Im not trying to victim blame here, I'm just trying to point out that there may be a very strange culture underlying all of this sexual harassment.
There's your problem, Fish Bulb. You need to understand that while Insurance and Finance might look like data-oriented issues, they're relationship oriented. That's why the little black book follows the holder.

Think long and hard about your last sentence. Insurance Brokers aren't fucking cab drivers yo. Eat your own goddamn dog food and then write an essay.

Then, once you're done, do a second version about how you're going to take on nation-state funds like Qatar Re, China Re, FM Global, and Chubb. Not once did you mention how the studies of Chubb found a chink in the armor. I might have high standards, but I don't have the bankroll of the Swiss. I just had to get those lazy fuckers to sign their I&Ls within a calendar year.

If you can show me a way to automate getting contracts in on time because of the human element, I'll be the first to call you a genius. If you talk big and have nothing more than "We can make a better Insurance, and it'll be FANTASTIC, much better than your Insurance now" a la platitudes and "Free Ice Cream for everyone" you'll win over a skeptic and probably have merit.

Not trying to be a bastard, but just letting you know that 2 years of outside study don't mean shit compared to 5 years in the fucking trenches. And, as a matter of principle based on my handle, no, you can't afford me. There is no amount of money as a Mercenary that would prompt me to open up what I know.

Sucks donut.
Yes, you can never be sure that you have successfully made yourself clear unless the other person explicitly acknowledges it. (E.g. by saying "I feel like you are trying to tell me something, but don't think it's quite appropriate. Go right ahead, I think I can handle whatever it is.")

Needless to say, getting to that point would be very difficult without accidentally putting them under pressure, which is what you should avoid in the first place. Better to not even try.
Please reread.
Those other experts are apparently Fourier analyzing processed data to "remove the signal". Whether they are doing it correctly or not, any real check will require looking at the underlying data, which is what the non-LIGO associated scientist said. Misquoting someone is not a good way to start an argument.
Founder Home Assistant here. Besides Hassbian we'll soon launch Hass.io: an OS for RPi + Intel NUC that runs Home Assistant and other apps inside Docker. All management of OS/containers is done from inside Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

YouTube video showing a user installing Homebridge in 30 seconds on Hass.io https://youtu.be/A_LmQ5OlofY?t=61
Dave McClure? No way! Who is next?
Dude, you need a vacation, haha
One anecdote that appears occasionally is about an email that Travis sent to the company in 2013, when the company had a few hundred employees:

"Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic ‘YES! I will have sex with you’ AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command. Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip,"

Its nature is interpreted as evidence Travis is sexist by some HN commenters.
This is different from unums which it says so in the second line of the Abstract.
Do they propose a mechanism for how there could be simultaneous correlations between the two detectors that aren't gravitational waves? There's few enough forces that can act through kilometers of solid earth that I'd be willing to take it as a given that they're uncorrelated, absent a signal... but then, I'm not a physicist.

Even more I'm-not-a-physicist-y speculation; could the additional correlation be some secondary gravitational wave effect hidden under the main signal, pointing to another aspect of the phenomenon?
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/New-York-Police-Department-...
Think of it as a matched filter tuned to the impulse response of a gravity wave. If that filter matches the observed signal then it's a detection, if it doesn't then it's not. The debate is over the significance of the inevitable remainder after subtracting the model of the signal. Is it an expected amount of remainder or an unexpectedly large amount of remainder.
I mean yeah there's probably lots of instrument telemetry in the data, but let's give LIGO the benefit of the doubt and say that the instrumentation has consistent performance through null control regions of the timeseries and the "interesting" regions of the timeseries (bloop #1, in this case, but apparently now bloops #2, and #3 which were not analyzed by the person doing the criticism).

the 'truckloads' of data are basically all the uninteresting parts of the timeseries. Of course there is statistically going to be random events where the noises correlate at the level seen by the critique, and maybe the truckloads of data show that those are frequent enough that say 1/3 of the bloops should have that correlated noise superimposed on the 'actual signal'; and maybe that bloops 2 and 3 do not have the correlated noise if you apply the same analysis to it.

How much more 'raw data' do you need to reach a conclusions that refutes the criticism?
> Did you know that on an analog machine, you can do sort in O(n)?

Can it sort names or addresses?

Otherwise for integers you don't have buy spaghetti and just use a computer to do a radix sort which is O(nw).

Another thing with analog computers is to think how they scale. I can sort 1M items on my laptop. What is the practical application of buying 1M strands of spaghetti.
There are quite a few. I know some Facebook projects are.

From the top of my mind https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components.
I don't think writing a browser based, professional, CAD application is out of the question. Especially with WASM gaining support in modern browsers and WebGL2.

I think this was done a few years ago, but it still amazes me.

http://www.meshlabjs.net/
Lol. Sure, a good UI is important, but what's even more important is the backend data analytics and that's were palantir is the lacking
It certainly raises some interesting quid-pro-quo questions. Every sexual harassment training I've attended has mentioned this as very dangerous territory, but not explicitly sexual harassment.
My boss has 5,400 emails in the Inbox and I have 42.
Per the wise words of a certain british poet and philosopher "You can't always get what you waaaaant."
I agree. That's a choice, but regardless of whether he decides to put on an oxygen mask or not, he has a huge emotional baggage he has to carry.

That example is only used illustrate the difference with an immigrant who has no money but doesn't have to carry the emotional baggage. The immigrant in the same situation who chooses to support the family back home financially might very well be better off compared to the American one. That is because the cost of living in the home country was so low, so he can both support the family, be OK financially, feel good about it emotionally, and doesn't have to deal with the annoyance every day.
If you want to be taken seriously and you value your career more than attracting men, cut your hair short, no makeup, and wear a suit. if you come to my meeting dolled up, you either aren't serious or you're using it as an advantage. I don't hit on women I do business with. But I take them much more seriously when they come to me on the merits of their business. Only. This is business deal. Not a mixer. Like I said, I don't hit on women I do business with. But if you don't like guys who do, dress to signal that this is about money, not looking pretty.
I found it curious the author didn't like that google was quoting webpages. I actually liked that Google was not taking credit for the info and Google was informing where the info was coming from so I can decide if I want to trust that info or not.

Of course if I ask for a fact like "How many inches in a meter" I just want the answer. But, if I ask "what's the weather going to be tomorrow" I might prefer an answer like "badweather.com says it's going to rain tomorrow" so I can then think (ugh, badweather.com is always wrong) and ask "What does goodweather.com say about tomorrow's weather". Ideally I could ask the assistant to use a particular site by default. This is specially true for me because Siri's default doesn't seem very accurate to me being that I live on the other side of the world from the offices of the company they use for weather info.
I've been using TS since it's .8 days, and love it - but I think it's stretching things to say that it's an excellent language. It's a pragmatic language that makes JavaScript (which is an awful language) tolerable.
This sarcasm is very close to sounding earnest. I'm not even sure it's sarcasm.
It's not silly to want to use tech stacks that are commonly used instead of learning a stack that won't transfer elsewhere, I.e epic
no. LIGO released the non-processed data, and the other scientists processed it separately without using (presumably high-bandpass) filters that the LIGO scientists used.

page 3:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.04191.pdf
So, does your keyboard only have five characters or do you have something of interest to respond with other than that? I mean, three people have been shot in road rage incidents in Arlington Texas in 4 days because of people being rude and just cutting another person off and thinking it would be fine. If you're going to get in my lane, then show why you felt you deserve it. Seriously.

Like it's so fucking foreign a woman can be an abuser.
Not @dhh --- the guy tweets to prove he is right about everything and that the rest of SV is wrong. I bought into it for a little while but then he got all buddy buddy with that Gary V dude. the last straw was him celebrating the outing of Uber's CEO for a whole week.
Facebook listening to conservations?
Today in our office my colleague was telling me how his dream would be to work in the maritime industry designing boats (he is a mechanical engineer). I have never searched for maritime related technology and have no interest in it. Tonight I have this suggested post from Facebook: http://www.bluewaterrigging.com/team/andrew-macdonald/
it's pretty unambiguous what he said. Unless he pulls a Clinton (be skeptical about the definition of "is") there is no way for this to "get interpreted as something its not".
For what it's worth, I've given that incident a bit of thought. He was speaking to a group of 400 people. Unless we're of the opinion that under no circumstances is it ok for one coworker to have sex with another, establishing clear guidelines seems appropriate. The comment about himself seems more tongue in cheek given the overall tone of the rest of the email: https://pastebin.com/RZJkzQd6

In general, it seems more productive to reserve outrage for those who take advantage of employees or founders by using their position of power.
You are saying there is a chance a bad actor might abuse a social dynamic in which you are the less powerful participant?
That's precisely one of the innovations in the new Filecoin paper :) -- we call it Proof-of-Replication. Papers coming soon.
Thanks Craig and YC. Ton of fun.
Indeed. Anyone who was old enough to understand the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment investigation can recall how much Anita Hill was dragged through the mud, despite having a compelling case.

I think the fact that Susan was not currently suing Uber was the primary reason why her story was believed by the general public. The critics who would howl "she's just trying to make false accusations for a payday" had no ammunition. Either that or things have dramatically changed for the better since the 90s.
It's a quandary. Beginner-friendliness does make a language somewhat easier to learn -- someone just trying to wrap their heads around the very idea of a program as a sequence of operations isn't going to appreciate being told that an integer is fundamentally different from a numeric string for reasons they don't yet understand (just to take one example).

Yet once someone has learned a language, they tend to keep using it. Their very inexperience prevents them from understanding that they should switch to something more industrial-strength once they start to write something larger and more complex. Plus, they don't even know when they start to write a program how big it is likely to get.

I don't know what to do about this except to continue to bang on the point you're making.
> These people are rarely evil and predatory.

But then there's the argument of the banality of evil. We spend a lot of time thinking about the black swans of evilness, but I'd argue a lot more damage is done on aggregate by mundane shittiness.
> Can it sort names or addresses?

Why couldn't it? Ideally they can represent real numbers with infinite precision which are identical to strings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computation

But even in non-real computation this shouldn't be a problem, the same way you can sort strings even though you have only 32/64 bits of memory at a time if that's what you are hinting at.

> Another thing with analog computers is to think how they scale.

I don't think that scale has ever been a problem for analog computers.
If a CEO asked a much younger employee out and it made her so uncomfortable that she quit would you still say that it wasn't sexual harassment? Once is still too much. And for all we know Melinda might have felt compelled to say yes to avoid retaliation and only later accepted it.
> BUT It also has very large syntax and high number of features

What realistic alternative playing in the same space doesn't have this problem?
I didn't know that. Thanks!

Also:

Second, thermal radiation, as usually defined, also disappears.
There is no longer any air for the blast wave to heat and much
higher frequency radiation is emitted from the weapon itself.

So more of the energy of the bomb remains in the x-ray or gamma portion of the spectrum---penetrating radiation, hard to shield against---in addition to the longer effective range.
bfp uses C++ classes which store the format hyperparameters as fields. If you'd rather a C/C++ library memory layout which reflects the bitwidth of the particular posit:

https://github.com/Etaphase/FastSigmoids.jl

contains both a julia library and a C/C++ library. Posits are implemented as a C type and a C++ class where the type and class sizes correspond to the bitwidth.
Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
Out of curiosity, can you clarify how Filecoin is different than Sia or will I need to wait for your new whitepaper?
I am not an expert.

The issue that quantum computers have is not so much that individual qubits get errors, but rather that quibits become entangled with the rest of the universe, erasing our ability to take advantage of any quantom effect. To prevent this, you need to very carefully contain the quibits to prevent them from interacting with anything apart from highly controlled manipulations. The more quibits you have, the harder this becomes. If you can replace this with quidits that have more states, you can do the same computation, while needing fewer particles, making containment easier.
The regular generator use (return a lazily-evaluated iterator) still exists.
Is algebra necessary to obtain a college degree?
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AFRICA’S PATIENCE WITH FALSE INFORMATION ON AIDS AND EBOLA IS OVER
Is that enough? If I put caddy in front of my existing infrastructure am I now secure and doing TLS correctly? That's what I did but I have no idea if some expert wouldn't look and say "no, this is not done correctly, here's all the parts you missed"
Apparently she initiated.

Bezos and MacKennzie met while working together at the New York City hedge fund D.E. Shaw.

In a Vogue interview, MacKenzie said Bezos was the first person she interviewed with at Shaw. She asked him out to lunch one day and they were engaged three months later. She was only 23 years old when they married.

“My office was next door to his, and all day long I listened to that fabulous laugh,” she told Vogue. “How could you not fall in love with that laugh?”

http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/jeff-bezos-wife-mackenzie-writ...
How many markets are served by, say, United and only United? Other than their Micronesia operation, I can't think of any where you wouldn't be able to drive to an alternate airport within an hour or so drive (really just EAS airports).
So, If the USA spy infected my computer with malicious Linux kernel module which use GPL protected kernel APIs, Can I demand the source code?
> They are harming the world because of 100's of shitty employees that only want money.

Can you explain this more? I don't work at Palantir, but I do insist I get paid for working every two weeks.

How are they harming the world? I mean, aside from converting oxygen to carbon dioxide.
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That's fair, but I suspect that the insurance industry as we know it would be reduced to a microscopic fraction of itself without enabling regulations. Likewise for business in general without liability limitation and other corporate regulations.
He, himself, admits that this sort of behavior was a pattern. I don't think he has been or will be raked over the coals, because he seems to exhibit genuine remorse.

I respect him, but my sympathy isn't with him.

I'm sure it's deeply uncomfortable to be under this level of scrutiny and lumped in with people who have been caught doing things that seem skeezier. But you know what's worse? Not being a billionaire and trying to make a living in a world where people you need are more interested in having sex with you than your business value, or at the very least, are more than willing to tie one to the other.
Perhaps because techies are seen as holier than you types? Sexual harassment stories in churches are way juicer stories than about other organisations.
Nobody under 40 knows how to use it, or WANTS to use it? Doesn't take much experience to dink through a few tutorials on yet another GUI paradigm.
It's absurd to compare MUMPS with Java. Java is very much used by modern companies on the backend and for desktop applications.

You can still make your SV rockstar programmer salary writing code in Java. Don't they still use it at Google?
I'd like to think that I know how to recognize, avoid, and, if needed, placate those bad actors now. I'm not sure why you're trying to frame my concern as if it were directly applied to me, i.e. I'm worried that I'm going to be a target or victim.
Replying to #1, I think you are likely to see this dynamic in any industry where there are huge power imbalances, especially in an industry with tons of aspirants and very few successes (no one wants to jeopardize their potential "big break"). For example, Hollywood is pretty famous for this type of behavior.

People are talking about "sexism in tech", but this case much more about "sexual harassment by the powerful."