skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really interesting to hear you say that. I'm in sales and have to make decisions like this all the time. On our side we're constantly making calculations about which accounts to invest our resources in. It's really hard! There are so many variables. We're acting on imperfect information. We're considering the other accounts we're working on, and doing a cost benefit analysis.

Bigger companies like MSFT and Oracle are usually better at this because a) they've been doing it longer, b) they have more resources to burn. If they throw 10 people on a large deal and it doesn't go through the company itself typically isn't hurt that much (the reps, that's a different story).

The decision to put that many resources on an account that may or may not bring in revenue in the short-term is an enormous decision for a company like Twilio. This is the hard part that they have to go through. Trying to place the right bets on the right accounts. Sounds like they may have gotten your account wrong, unfortunately.
Schloss Colditz apparently now has a museum. Be neat to see that.
Somebody has done it in Australia, although it seems it was frowned upon by the body that issues the cards.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/sydney-bio-hacker-h...
I think ligatures can be a great feature, but they should not be decided by the font, but by the editor. So you can can destinguish between 'input >> var' and 'vector<vector<int>>' and render the literature in one case but not the other. This and more creative text decorations can be really helpful to read code. Other examples are rendering css colors inline, rendering of tables and formulas in emacs, ...
> we know that the availability of decent jobs is going down

Do we know that? Are we sure it isn't just that people are being created faster than jobs?
> The problem is that ligature substitution is “dumb” in the sense that it only considers whether certain characters appear in a certain order. It doesn’t have any awareness of the semantic context.

True, which is why Iosevka has language-specific ligatures that a sufficiently smart editor (I think the "JS types", like Atom/VSCode, have CSS for this) can use to ligate (?) intelligently.
>her monolingual English teacher has told us that she is far ahead of the rest of her class language wise //

How do you know what her ability in English would be if she'd not had the other 2 languages. Like I've of the languages could have buoyed it up but the other overloaded her and reduced her overall vocabulary. Or many other possibilities.

Surely the truth is you hypothesise it had no effect but without re-running her life you can't know one way or the other?

What do you mean with your last sentence, it's entirely incoherent to me?
It was a built-in feature for manu Firefox releases (called Panorama), but then it was removed, and ended up in extensions.
No, what is unfortunate is that we are living in a world where you can be persecuted for handling your own body and mind as you, and not some bureaucrat, see fit. What is unfortunate is that people are put daily in jail for actions where there is no victim. What is unfortunate is that people who create safe environment for drug users to buy clean hihq quality drugs from rated sellers, are serving double life or committing suicides. What is unfortunate is that majority of society thinks like you do.
Each time I'm sad we're not exploring galaxy star trek style yet and the space conquest made a flop, I remember how many commercial satellites are around here.

It really has this regular taste of things you think just died after being hyped (the moon landing) and which you suddenly realize has got slowly, steadily, discretely omnipresent since then without anybody noticing much (granted, satellites are not as cool as visiting other celestial bodies, but that's still growth, and going the right direction).

I would love to see a graph of the amount of satellites in activity over time.
a Ph.D. in Statistics to create a linear regression model in Excel

Linear regression, logistic regression and k-means clustering, if you can get a project into actual real-money production on one of those, you are already well ahead of 90% of data scientists. And these techniques are decades old!
> failed experiment [..] one true silver bullet

Well, let's unpack this a bit. No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering[1] was written in 1986 by Turing Award winner and author of The Mythical Man Month Fred Brooks.

His thesis was that there was no single technology or technique which by itself promises even one order of magnitude of improvement within a decade.

However, he did write this of OOP:

"Object-oriented programming. Many students of the art hold out more hope for object oriented programming than for any of the other technical fads of the day. I am among them" [2]

In addition to OOP, the biggy he identified was reuse, mostly in COTS.

"A disciplined, consistent effort to develop, propagate, and exploit these innovations should indeed yield an order-of-magnitude improvement. There is no royal road, but there is a road."

20 years after the original essay, there was a retrospective at OOPSLA. Here is what Brooks had to say[3]:

"Of the candidates enumerated in 'NSB', object-oriented programming has made the biggest change, and it is a real attack on the inherent complexity itself. The most promising attack continues to be re-use, and re-use of COTS programs in particular. "

And of course he is absolutely right. OOP has delivered massive increases in productivity, we are successfully tackling problems of far bigger complexity than we did back then. Just as a small example, the WWW was invented by a single person in a couple of months in his spare time! On NeXTStep a highly OO platform. Replicating that with lesser tech took a team a year, and they had to leave out editing, which was in the original.

And of course we reuse OO libraries/frameworks all the time, and really don't take notice of this anymore. Write an application on iOS or Android, and you are reusing vast amounts of OO code.

So the idea that OO is a failed "silver bullet" is nothing short of ridiculous. It has succeeded, and in succeeding has pushed us against new frontiers of our ignorance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

[2] http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

[3] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1297973
Ask HN: Help me come up with a pricing model
Hey guys!

I want to launch that site https://www.candlapp.com/ (which is a personal tracker for book readers), but I still can't figure out the pricing model.

Some of the questions I ask myself are:

1) Should there be a free layer?
2) Should I provide several plans (for different set of features), or just one "subscription" fee for everything.
3) I kinda feel, that $2.99 is a reasonable price, but I also feel that $9 would be more realistic in terms of enough revenue to keep afloat. How do I estimate it?
Consider giving Ubuntu MATE even more love. It's the Ubuntu as it should be with a proper shell, not this Gnome3 UI-mess but with great Gnome2 alike UI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_MATE
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Like trying to land a rocket upright back on its launchpad. Lunacy.
..you also need to consider that we still have no proven way of handling high level waste, and that nuclear accidents can render huge areas completely unusable for decades, and that clean up of nuclear sites can consume utterly huge amounts of money. The same is not true of fossil fuels. Also don't discount the utterly huge amounts of energy required to construct, operate, and decommission nuclear plants. Nuclear industry apologists often conveniently exclude these from their analyses.

I don't see that you have refuted my point - you just have to look at the record (thousands of nuclear incidents worldwide over decades) to see that humanity apparently is not capable of safely using nuclear, and I'm sceptical that the benefits in terms of reduced exigencies are as great as is often claimed. And personally I'd far rather have the damage spread out over a wide area if it means we don't have to every now and then throw away all the milk in Wales for years and distribute iodine tablets to thousands..
I can run my laptop with 0 cables just fine.
oh, it just wraps the web tab and captures the notifications. No better than pinned tabs for me I think.
Taken from the article:

> But before we throw out the low-carb approach to weight loss and load up on a bowl of linguini, let’s be clear: This study had some important limitations, leading some researchers to react more cautiously. It lacked a control for comparison, and while the baseline diet was designed to keep participants at about the same levels of energy burn they experienced outside of the study, the participants started to lose weight on that diet too. So they were already slimming down by the time they started their low-carb month.

Essentially the study took obese participants and placed them in a controlled environment, forcing a change in their real baseline diet, and decided to define the newly enforced diet as the baseline. Yet, apparently researchers failed to account for the fact that enforcing the baseline diet was already leading the subjects to lose weight, and thus decided to register the initial weight loss as the baseline.

So, in the end they compared the weight loss caused by the low carb diet with what researchers decided to consider the baseline result (the transition period to the new diet which was already causing weight loss in subjects). Then, as the weight loss observed during the low carb diet hadn't accelerated that much when compared with the weight loss observed during the diet transition period, they somehow concluded that low carb diet isn't that effective.
I would say that it would be dangerous to not want to get married to a cofounder. The company will bind the couple together, at least until acquisition.

A romantic/sexual fling can end very, very poorly, and such problems can carry over into the startup. Would someone be happy if he felt she used her and then dumped him for the next guy? If a cofounder marries some other guy later, would her husband be happy that she still sees her ex every day at the office?

At least with office romances, someone can change jobs if it gets too awkward.
That doesn't seem necessary. Picking a value of p just selects how much you prefer short hope to shorter total distance.
Then why did you just write a whole paragraph about how internal fixation for broken bones is bullshit?
I'm optimistic. They added tons of features yes and ended a bit in a (ui) mess. But they will cleanup I'm quite sure. Let them experiment, it's a (good) sign for me that they are courageous and didn't become totally enterprise-y. So far I think they have been quite able to tame the features.
Danish (and Swedish) used to have three grammatical genders, but the feminine and masculine merged at some point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Danish_and_Swedish
Ah, see that idea makes sense to me - that a context allows the languages to be differentiated.

When you speak different languages to your children do you use the exact same accent?

Do you just mix the words up within a sentence, use grammar structures from one language in the other, etc? How, in your estimation, do the kids know which language a word belongs to at the point they hear it first, or so they learn that later - do they ever mix speech accidentally (can you tell if they do this if you're doing things syncretically)?
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As a legal immigrant myself I'm baffled at how little typical American knows about immigration. Everybody's usually very surprised when you tell them that even the in the best case scenario a highly-educated specialist with a degree, 5+ years or experience, and a job offer needs to eat a ton a shit, pay a lot of money, go through nine circles of bureaucratic hell, and wait a few years to fully immigrate and gain a permanent residency status. How many people get visa rejections with no explanation. How many people can't enter their country even temporary as a tourist.

In a world where low skilled workers get replaced by automation more and more, where even local citizens are having troubles finding or keeping a job, where the most common source of income for non-educated people is freaking driving professionally, sure, let's let in 160m+ folks escaping poverty and running from countries with no education, oppressive regimes and weird religions. Surely it'll turn out just fine. Surely they all will find decent jobs real quick, learn the language, integrate and bring huge benefits. Uh-huh.
But some companies really just want a statistician

In what way is what statisticians do not "scientific"? Setting up and rejecting (or not) the null hypothesis is the very definition of the scientific process...
Perhaps everyone has simply decided to not work on Half-Life 3, you mean?
"A self-published eBook that acknowledges a lack of funding on the main page?" is kind of a low blow.

He's doing something really interesting with the funding model of practicaltypography, that I believe should be praised.
>> Wages don't naturally rise just because rent is higher, if anything the converse is true.

I'll offer a lay-person first-person view in contradiction to this theory: rents set a solid bottom salary level acceptable to people. A typical Bay Area rent can consume 100% of your salary once you have a family involved.

As countless HN threads discuss, i'll pre-answer the typical nay-sayers. Yes, i realize I can raise my entire family of four in a studio apartment. I choose not to. Most people I know choose not to. Yes, i realize I can raise my entire family on ramen noodles, i choose not to. Yes, perhaps i'm picky. Yes, I realize I can drive 5hrs a day and live in a nice house -- I choose not to (mostly because my workday is already 10+hrs.). Yes, I can have roommates live with my family (seriously, someone suggested this on another HN thread. This is down-right creepy. I dont want a roommate living in the same house as my 1yo daughter.)

Call me prissy, but I just figured that Ivy League educations, CS degrees from top-5 institutions, 15yrs of experience and two decades of hard work would afford me more than a studio apartment.

Where does this all put me? It means I have a hard-hard bottom on what salary is acceptable in the Bay Area. Practically speaking, it has meant that I stay in NYC where live is more affordable (yes, i've done the math 10x and can demonstrate it.). I have a great live in NYC on a good tech salary. I'd give up half my quality of live to live in SF, which means that I need a much, much higher salary in SF to make it worth moving there.
That's a hard one to get right; for a long time, C++ compilers would tokenize 'vector<vector<int>>' incorrectly and throw a syntax error -- the final two angle brackets had to be separated by a space for the code to compile.
This is absurd and false. This person is an analyst of some sort.

And what is a data scientist then, if their work does not involve analysing data and presenting their analysis?

99.9% of "data science" is exactly what people used to do in tools like Excel, MATLAB, even SQL, just in Jupyter instead. On a Mac while sipping a latte.
Yes I have to agree with this also.

Of course, it can in some situations be applied to both adults and kids. My wife speaks Tagalog and English, which combined is the official language of Taglish. Sometimes she does not know the actual word for something in Tagalog so she substitutes it with English. This can fir example involve words for colours. More often though, the substitution is purely to emphasize.

For me, as we only speak Swedish in Sweden, I do not have this habit of mixing and substition. That being said, my English is of curse much worse then my Swedish...

I'm hoping that our kids can speak all three languages natively, and I'm sure they will naturally mix it in between them self. And that in other settings, that they uses the current locale with out thinking about it.

I'm also hoping the knowledge of many languages makes them more susceptible to even more languages and cultures. :)
On the other hand, the vast majority of activities can result in suffering. The difference is between "can" and "will", and the intentions - someone who performs an activity with the intention of something going wrong and causing suffering to them might be ill.
Thanks a lot for this helpful article! I also tend towards a good name because of the "memorability" and "searchability" just like you said.
> suddenly they don't have to bring their families here

How can you claim this? Why not bring your family over and let them enjoy the good life.
Here gitlab runs on a separate Qemu/KVM instance on a ~small Hetzner server. Performance is no topic.

(Though can't tell about the last two versions - we skip versions if not impressed and/or when we wait until something is finished (like e.g. the new ui now). We never update to x.x.0 as there is always an improved x.x.3 or so version worth waiting to).
I used to be a big OneTab user, but Session Buddy really is a lot better for reviewing, saving, loading, and editing your windows and sessions. If you've never used it, I'd recommend giving it a try.
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Ask HN: Embedded web rendering engine in your app – alternatives to Electron?
Mozilla's web engine is called Gecko and can supposedly be embedded. I say supposedly because, Mozilla rarely ever promote this feature and their Gecko documentation warns readers the documentation is out of date:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/Gecko_Embedding_Basics

Given the growing popularity of Electron, despite its memory-heavy and bloated file size, should Mozilla promote embedding Gecko more prominently (assuming it can beat Electron on file size and memory usage)?

What other options are there for embedding a web rendering engine in your app? Are there any lightweight solutions?
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I am still honestly consolidating it, so here's a random unfiltered list.

I learned the western media is only a fraction of the truth, and often for various degrees of "truth". There are hundreds of millions of people being impacted by how I choose to live in the western world. Those people want the same things I want. Those people are extremely kind, friendly and generous - about a million times more than people in the western world (yes, West Africans make Canadians look unfriendly)

Self-sufficiency is a great thing. People friendly gets you a long way, even with guys with guns. Being polite is the best way to get ahead. The entire world is severely corrupt, many developed countries just have a different word for it, like lobbying.
Many international corporations are evil and severely fuing up the planet and millions of people who live in it. A massive number of foreigners in West Africa are making it worse, not better.

I'll write a book about my trip, which will not be random, and I will flesh out many more points in detail.

http://theroadchoseme.com
> Apparently deep-learning and algae are the same thing.

That's perhaps the most annoying thing about "machine learning" in general and heuristic algorithms in particular.

These researchers hack together some rules to put together an algorithm, and only after that does the real work start: to come up with a metaphor to explain their model based on some clever story on why they decided to generate random sample points or filter training points.

In the end, the whole field starts to look like a bullshitter's ball, where everyone tries to one-up each other with the biggest bullshit metaphor to sell their an algorithm which is actually only a very minor tweak on an established age-old concept.

"We use particle swarms to generate new solutions, which are then genetically modified and subjected to a darwinian-inspired differential-evolution filter, who are then analised based on the behavior manifested by wolfpacks to search and hunt for their prey, and whose sub-optimal solutions are eliminated by following nature's resource-exhaustion megakill phenomena."

Bullshit all around, but it sells.
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Any one know if math / programming languages count?
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Am I the only one thinking that "www" using Fira Code is unreadable?
Can you not use it to pay for things? thats the whole reason I want to get one like an upgrade from apple pay
It's also possible for you to kill someone in your house. Should we be preemptively worried about it?
This article is a complete waste of time.

The title should be instead "how I've spent $2k on an AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB GPU, and an extra $1k putting together an AMD RYZEN 7 1700 system."

Because putting together a basic medium/high-end gaming system is somehow noteworthy, and using it for machine learning applications makes it a "50 Teraflops deep learning box".
There are plenty of uses. Braces for teeth straightening. Cochlea implant for assisted hearing. Bionic eye to improve sight. Insulin pump to regulate blood glucose levels. Pace maker to supplement failing pacemaker cells.

Never understood why people associated "biohack implants" with sticking a magnet or NFC chip in your finger.
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So are you, judging from the second part of this post :)
Why 'computational' and not 'numerical'?
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