skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As other commenters have said, ego is central to creativity and I tend to agree with them. Especially in context of hyper-ambitious ventures.

However, I'd say the first step to being creative is not being depressed. While history has numerous examples of tortured artists producing masterpieces, most people (myself included) are much more creative and productive when they're dreaming of their ideas on a whiteboard and not their grey matter.

How to mitigate depression is of course another topic entirely. It does however tie neatly into ego via way of self-esteem. Startups are a rough ride, so having a healthy reserve of ego, self-esteem, or whatever you want to call it does come in handy. That isn't to say you must be some egotistical prick, just that being self-delusional to some degree can be advantageous.

Personally I prefer belief in extreme conflicting dualities—regarding oneself as dirt while simultaneously believing in your capacity to execute the most crazy of ventures. Big thinking with extremely low expectation, in other words. The former keeps the spark alive, and the latter keeps you going when the ride gets bumpy.
I meant wall-clock time. You have a point that there are lots of recipes that don't need much hands-on time - I personally do that a lot.

However, since wall-clock time often does need to go up to an hour, you have to schedule it into your day. You can't put the chicken into the oven if you're not home. I think the allure of 15-30 minute recipes is that 30 minutes is sort of the upper threshold for spontaneity: "I'll just cook whenever I get home." The problem is that if your filter is "recipes that take less than 30 minutes of wall-clock time," you end up with a very restricted book of recipes to work with.
They rarely lie about straight facts, but the WashPo checker obviously slants their "half lie", "pants on fire" "mostly true" measures as politically convenient. Most people are too lazy to read the full details.
This is why the reason is only 1 in 10 will make you... (Can we guess?)...
I wish there was one for slow/pressure cookers that I could make stuff in bulk with that froze nicely.
So many fascinating inventions seem to be supposed to be used for search and rescue. We've had jetpacks, robot drones, this drone, robot walkers, crashable drones, even the Boston Dynamics Atlas walking robot is for search and rescue.

Is there actually a need for so many robots? Even if there is, is the market big enough to make economical sense? It seems like it's just an easy thing to imagine when you can't think of a real purpose for your robot.
I suppose this is an anti-example of using your "market dominance in one area to gain unfair competitive advantage"?
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I couldn't agree more. I had a few paragraphs on impostor syndrome that I edited down to "doubt" but I hope it was implied, you must ignore impostor syndrome. There are always going to be people doing Mount Olympus code and that is great! These are the people we can learn from. I get to build things people use and I love it.
I won't argue with you. I'm not quoting hard statistics, it's just a turn of phrase, given the context.
I too want this. Let me make something in bulk that freezes well or feeds lots of people.
This guy should have hired someone else to design the dining space. There entire experience is disjointed and not appetizing. The walls make me think that there is a plumbing problem from the tenant above, all of the furniture is geometric while the dinnerware is handcrafted and asymmetric. He spent a lot of money custom making chairs that belong in a 60's airport lounge, that all of his friends also dislike. For the amount of money spent, he could have had a beautiful restaurant.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Filters are on the ROADMAP.md - I am interested in allowing users to create different "views" of the firehose (e.g via presence / absence of keywords) that function in a similar way to Google Alerts.

I am aware of the bias that exists in many wire services & I appreciate the reminder. Some would say that there is a significant (western) bias in the services already that I have made available! I am still struggling to find a way to present a global perspective while still making people aware of these prejudices.

One of my favorite wire services I have encountered is the Non-Aligned Movement News Network (http://namnewsnetwork.org/v3/index.php), which was established to publish news that is not controlled by the interests of major world powers.
It's like saying "law is an important part of society." You don't need to qualify that statement by expressly disavowing laws that protected slavery, made homosexuality illegal, etc.

"Shame" is defined as "a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior." Teaching people to feel shame for conduct like lying, cheating, and stealing is an important tool societies use to enforce social norms in situations (such as with young people), where resort to legal action would be excessive and harmful.

It works at a macro level too. Consider this article: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-25947984 ("Child Labor: India's Hidden Shame"). The word succinctly captures the international community's disapproval of certain practices that are common in certain places, with the implication that continuation of those practices will meet with continued disapproval from international peers. Again, that's an important social tool at the international level.
Do you know how bitcoin miners use FPGAs? They're used for communication somehow. The Antminer S7 uses an SoC FPGA which allegedly was being used with ASICBoost.
I feel like you and I are not operating on the same definition of implication.

In the above comment when using the word implication my intent was "a conclusion that can be drawn despite not being explicitly stated".

To be unambiguous, the explicit statement is that computers prior to a specific date should be considered to be compromised. The conclusion that can be drawn, based on the fact that the writer specified that date, is that later dates did not qualify for the same statement, because the conditions were not sufficient. That is to say, that they were not insecure enough for the writer to include in his comment. That is the implication, despite the writer not saying outright that computers after that date were "secure".

The conclusion assumes the credibility of the writer, and the intellectual honesty of their comment (i.e. they didn't put that date there just to be facetious) but I believe that's a fair assumption given the context of questioning the semantics.

I also note that the actual implication here is not that computers are secure after that date, or even that computers are insecure but not compromised. The implication is, in fact, that while computers might be compromised after that date, the writer doesn't believe it's worth advising people to ASSUME they are compromised.
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How would measuring the weight account for the plant growing in size and weight?

You can also use a peristaltic pump for accurate watering and adding in nutrients, or adjusting pH. Sparkfun even has a kit (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12915) for its automated bartender.
I don't know specifics on Ethereum. Basically, it has to be within the hardware constraints of FPGA's where CPU's, GPU's, and ASIC's don't convey an advantage.
I can verify it's legit (Sebastian Thrun sent this link to me a year or so ago).
> Any highly sophisticated application ( Postgres, LLVM, etc ) requires some advanced levels of domain knowledge but they aren't impenetrable fortresses of skill that no mere mortals can access.

Indeed. I think too many problems in our industry are seen as unapproachable. There's a lot of people working on postgres, me included, who did not have any sort of deep background in databases before. You start working on smaller things (I started making int -> text conversion faster), review other people's patches, start to develop new features, ... Gradually that gives you a more and more knowledge in database architecture. And you read a few good papers here and there.

Obviously that approach doesn't really lend itself to writing something like postgres from scratch - but realistically that's not something you're going to do on your own anyway. And if you do start a new project you don't set out to do something absolutely complete, but build it iteratively. With more domain knowledge, you're more likely to get the architecture halfway right initially, but in either case you're going to have to redesign and redesign and redesign.
In the absence of rent control, you're right. To stop a neighborhood from changing, you need both low density zoning (minimize incentive to tear down buildings) and ironclad rent control (make it impossible to dump existing tenants in favor of wealthier ones in existing buildings).

San Francisco has not managed the ironclad rent control part, and as you'd expect, landlords found various ways to get rid of low-rent tenants in favor of high-rent tenants. When you have the ability to drag your feet on repairs, the mechanism is obvious. When your tenants are poor and you're constantly forgiving them for being late/short with the rent, all you have to do is stop doing that.

Zoning by itself is just destructive. Zoning and rent control could theoretically work, though I'm not sure it ever has, because landlords are so much more clever about getting rid of tenants than cities are about designing rent control laws.
But for christ's sake, I hope these god damned engines can handle an amount of coin-sized pebbles or gravel swept up into the intake by fortuitous air currents.
Thank you for this!!

This is my new obsession for listening to while working.
Agreed. That ship has sailed. Meanwhile, I drive by this house (http://tinyurl.com/yblhpelz) every day. The property has been boarded up and abandoned for at least 2 years. It's within walking distance to the Caltrain, and biking distance to Google and dozens of other tech companies. Yet there it remains.
DatoCMS is really impressive, but the fact is developers usually only need a CMS for clients, and clients are going to raise holy hell if the commercial CMS you set up for them 2 years ago goes out of business.

So while all things being equal I'd prefer to choose the indie business, having been down this road before I am wary. Especially since the CMS is not a layer on top of git, so getting content out and ready for another solution will not be pretty.
it depends on what do we define as "hard problems"
Fascinating tidbit of local history. Thanks for sharing.
> for linux use: https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor/tree/master/data

This appears to be broken.
>I would absolutely complain about that. Remove road lanes instead. Why would you remove trees? Are they idiots?

Do you currently have a commute that involves Mountain View? Ever driven on Shoreline when there's both a concert and an accident on the 101? Ever gotten stuck on Rengstorff or Castro when there's a Caltrain incident?

Sure, let's remove a road lane. Then all the traffic will back up and clog the residential streets.
Wouldn't the tile for such an article be "what it costs to run a restaurant"?
It is absolutely feasible.
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This code is legit (see other comment; download the tar and try to forget you ever visited Sourceforce) and incredibly interesting. I browsed this repo a year ago and still come back to it every so often. The architecture decisions that the Stanford team made in 2005 and 2007 have stood the test of time (at least as evidenced by many of the decisions in the architecture of our Voyage car, but anecdotally in others too).

Learn more with this paper on Junior, which uses this codebase: http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/junior08.pdf
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Exactly. As long as "maybe" isn't part of the statement!
Netlify-cms seems alright, deff pretty rough around the edges though. It could use some polish and some more features 100%
It means a LOT actually. The 20$ a nice stranger gives won't even feed you for a day in some places.

Compare it with a more rural area where you could survive on it for a week. In terrible conditions but not starving.
What I'm getting at is how it handles type safety at the browser API boundary. e.g. how does it handle a situation like:

`eventTgt.addEventListener('whatever', fn, true)`

vs

`eventTgt.addEventListener('whatever', fn, { passive: true })`

Does it just allow 'Any' for the type of the third param and thus somewhat punt on type safety at the browser API boundary or is there some attempt at defining an algebraic type for that param?

Or as another example, how would it handle the object passed to `fn` above, presumably some sort of event type, having different properties in different browsers?
They couldn't buy them a home in California. Utah didn't slash homelessness, they slashed chronic homelessness. They still have about 14000 homeless as of 2015.
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...

https://jobs.utah.gov/housing/scso/documents/homelessness201...

The 2016 Utah report doesn't have the same graph showing the homeless population in state over the decade (it did not show a slashing of the homeless population in 2015 just a slight downward trend) but it does show the cost for housing a homeless person across the country - it's roughly 40,000-50,000 per year almost everywhere they surveyed.

https://jobs.utah.gov/housing/scso/documents/homelessness201...
If the goal is continued growth and to make yourself more valuable to your employer the key improvement in this step is underatanding the business extremely well and helping the VP and CTO to guide the work of the engineering team in a way that is beneficial to the business as a whole. That seems uninteresting to many but it's these people who turn their employers into successful businesses.
In the sense that a paradox is self-contradicting, what I wrote is definitely a paradox. Trust me. I always tell the truth, so to speak.
1) it is free
2) no ones provided enough source to develop and patch components and successfully build new DLLs, EXEs, etc
"Lizarraga hand-poured the rose gold resin that drips down the main room walls, a technique she has never used with this medium before."

Presumably she will never use that technique with the medium again.

A couple golden quotes about the same subject:

“I was very excited when the chairs came and then everyone I showed them to hated them. Like everyone. They either hated the color of leather, or they hated the design, or both,”

“A lot of people are going to hate the design. It’s not for everyone, and I understand that. But the feeling of the restaurant is so important to me and I wanted to be 100 percent involved in every aspect,”

It's not a flattering article... laid bare, it seems to depict a man who obsessed over decisions outside his competency, and paid out the nose for self-indulgent decoration.
That's all great sounding in theory, but how exactly would someone in Venezuela go about acquiring bitcoin?
That link should be fixed now. Thanks.
Google Now suggests interesting news on my Android phone. After a bit of training it I now find 40-50% of suggested articles worth reading (which is a rather high ratio). Google News had a different selection algorithm that is not so "trainable" and therefore less efficient (despite being linked to the same account). It would be great if besides the new UI for the News they also started using the selection algorithm from Google Now.
Correct. There multiple floors of multiple buildings in Redmond dedicated to this
I expected something local, like airdrop, but cross platform. (someone, please)
Yes, it's wrong to (try to) stop an influx of citizens to a location.

It feels weird to invoke patriotism here, but if there's an influx of citizens to a location, the individuals within it are doing the most American thing you possibly can: chasing opportunity.

To lock the doors, to hoard the opportunity for yourself because you were born in the right place or got there first, is the most deeply un-American thing you can possibly do.

We should be celebrating, encouraging, and facilitating the largest possible influxes we can get to our ascendant cities.
What? I know lots of couples, gay and straight, that watch porn together.

"I'm guessing most watching porn would also prefer sex with someone." That is also a bizarre assumption to make. Sure, perhaps in theory, but a lot of married people watch porn who like to fantasize but have no desire to cheat, lots of people watch porn who definitely don't want to have to deal with all the unfortunate risks (STDs, unwanted pregnancies, crazy exes) of actual sex.
I'm an American, an SAR member and don't support this xenophobic, regressive isolationism. What made America great was a fairly liberal policy of accepting most immigrants. Turning people off silently loses potential talent, entrepreneurs, investors and tourist money that will go elsewhere. This situation is unacceptable and un-American.
What are you suggesting? Building atop Unix or building a custom OS?

Microsoft essentially does develop a custom version of Windows for mission critical state-backed infrastructure, which is most certainly not the "off the shelf" version.
I agree that for rapid learning, focus and repetition are essential. I don't think you have to quit your job in order to change careers into coding, but for me it took a very full year of effort.
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the first to be laid off usually are local maxima - senior engineers who pull way more than their own weight but appear "expensive" due to seniority.

the first round of layoffs so often cripples a company because they make cuts on the wrong end of the performance spectrum.
Having worked deep in the OS space in a past life, I could probably list 100 top people in the space. Of the first 20 that come to mind, I can't imagine a single one of them wanting to build for the military (at least as a permanent employer)
The word "blockchain" can be used anarthrously [1] (without an article) as this piece does, or with an article. I find that those who don't use the article are marketing types and are less technical. Those who use an article ("the Ethereum blockchain") are typically technical, and are referring to a specific blockchain. These 'arthrous' techies are less likely to be either overboard with positive or overboard with negative comments about blockchain technology. They recognize the technical flaws in particular blockchains and the tech in general.

tldr; my inclination was to disregard Korman's post as soon as I saw "Blockchain" without an article.

[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/anarthrous
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You can always ask, but many programmers aren't going to be able to/don't have the desire to communicate with non-programmers in useful ways.

I wrote about the problems open source projects often face getting design (and other non-technical) help they can use: http://opendesign.foundation/articles/import-designers/
Having a fantasy doesn't necessarily mean you want to experience it in real life.
How does that apply to what I wrote? The discussion wasn't about low ownership rates but outrageously high home ownership rates and some amorphous optimum ownership rate.
Ask HN: How Writing code daily has helped you?
Did you make a schedule for it ? What did you write code for programming challenges or a side project?
You might want to try Gobble. Their "10 minute" claim is, uh, marketing, but I find most of them are in the 20 - 30 minute range for me (not an experienced chef). They're pretty good about doing most of the prep work for you, and the food has generally been delicious. (Indeed, I'm about to cut back on it, because I've gained too much weight!)
> Just goes to show there's nothing remotely like organic molecules for energy density.

GTFY (generalized that for you). ;)

It's all about the energy in that carbon-hydrogen bond. Lipids have a similar energy density, which is why migrating birds have a similar nonstop range as fossil fueled airplanes (11,000 km vs 14,000 km for the 747 long range variant).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2864269/
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What I mean by age is age of connection to older cultures. Almost all western countries have wealth, either literal or cultural from Greek and Roman civilizations. Asias subcultures have roots in Chinese culture. African American culture was fully severed from the mother culture in Africa so it's age is much younger compared to the thousands of years other cultures have evolved over. One example of a cultural strength, appreciation for education, is often taken for granted. Racism is the idea the blacks have an innate disdain for education but it's actually an ubiquitous cultural strength common to all cultures EXCEPT slave/severed cultures. Affirmative action is unfair from the lens of the present, but it is basically compensation from the lens of history, speeding up development of this basic cultural strength. Affirmative action that doesn't heal this rift annoys me as the compensation is not going to the victims. The vanity metric of black skin is often achieved by pulling from Africa where the ancestral culture links had stayed intact.
What it costs to open a fancy restaurant with top quality finishes including walls dripped with rose gold resin.
At 31 I took my savings for my house, quit my robotic customer service job and started a startup. I worked on my 1st startup for three years and along the way taught myself front end development and design. Which I now do for a living.

I say startup and if it fails like 80 to 90% due you gained an in-demand skill that you can use to make a nice living.
I've been concerned about my need intake being too biased and started using a app called "read across the aisle". It has news sources categorized by political position and tracks how balanced your news diet is. Maybe that can help you not being negatively impacted by certain agendas since you are more likely to get a balanced view?
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How much money does R make? Are the main R contributors working as processional academics, do they have corporate jobs that pay them to work part-time on R, or are they funded full time by donations/grants, or is R just a hobby side project for them?

I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with Octave, or R, or GIMP, or ..., only that it’s difficult to make money on it.

This is especially true for Octave though, because someone who wants to do exploratory numerical computing and doesn’t have a specific need for Matlab’s library ecosystem is likely to use Python or Julia or R or ...
Soon you will love pointers and structs and everything Go. Keep going (pun intended). Your colleagues are worried about their own work and your manager has made a long-term investment in you, not about the first few months. :)

I couldn't agree more that it is tough going when you realize a challenge is more than you expected. That plus impostor syndrome is what caused me to quit on my first try.

We are moving a lot of things from Python to Go at the moment and it has been great.
Maybe my sense of humor is broken, but none of this is real and I was disappointed by that - I had expected a genuine performance review. It also spends a lot of time talking about his published papers and none at all about what he did at the patent office. His boss at the patent office wouldn't have given two hoots if he had co-authors on his papers.
>Building affordable housing isn't a priority, though, apparently.

Man, this is infuriating. San Francisco isn't under a magic spell that makes affordable and market-rate housing distinct. They can be the same, like they are in the rest of the country, with enough housing.

But people spouting this line will never let that happen, because the proposed projects aren't immediately cheap.