skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is the equivalent of the scammers claiming they are from Nigeria even if they are not. That's how scammers filter out automatically all those who are smart enough to see through the bullshit and only get the suckers to respond. These companies filter out those who see through the bullshit and only get the suckers, too?

Startup marketing is not necessarily geared for customers (end-users). They are just as much geared towards VCs who are courted and who are expected to bankroll the company. Some non-negligible number of startup founders jumped on the bandwagon with the goal not necessarily make a product, get customers, but really just to be CEOs and play "startup". That can be done by fooling a few angels. Depending on who these prospective VCs are the message and marketing can be adjusted to appeal to them. Just because someone has a lot of money doesn't mean they can't be fooled or taken advantage of. They probably hear and see all this startup activity, unicorns left and right so they are eager to play the game. And so they are matched up with just as eager "founders" who also want to play the startup game.

The last paragraph was from experience. The person fooled some older wealthy guys to invest in their silly idea. They burnt though millions in a few years renting an office in SV, hiring lots of workers, going to conferences, rewriting their thing with the latest frameworks. And yes eventually it all failed, because they had 0 paying customers. But it also didn't fail, because now they speak at conferences and put ex-SV CEO and founder on their title and so on.

The idea is, if you just dig a bit deeper, it is easy to see things a bit more clear.
Ive been on both sides and used most google ad products. For a solid 1.5 years we had to use Opera to function in DBM due to Angular memory leaks. I live in DFP now and have to reboot my machine after 3-4 hours in their interface using Chrome and Safari. Maybe they are just a really, really unfathomably big company that always see as users do across every team.
This inspired me to redo the landing page for my side project: https://formapi.io/

Would appreciate some feedback. Is the purpose clear enough? I know it won't make sense unless you're a developer, but it's a tool for developers.

It's just a rough draft, so it probably won't be that sparse when I launch. I need to add a proper pricing page, and a tab bar at the top. I'm also planning to add a demo API request that you can run, similar to mailgun.com.
HP/UX is dead too because HP despite apparently having an x86 port won't be porting it off itanium. Random link about it (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/08/hp_ux_on_x86_project...). Whether they do a 180 and port it to x86, the fact remains its probably to late, the damage has been done.

That leaves AIX, which at least has decent hardware to run on. But its got the OS/2 problem too, you can write your app for linux, and use the AIX toolbox for linux apps, and port your app. Although with power8 the move to LE linux, makes moving applications/data between linux on POWER and AIX on POWER more difficult.
Amazing how a dash can change the meaning of things.
That's why I was wondering. For companies that need to scale, a high false negative rate is inherently costly. But, if you only need to hire a small number of people that may be a cost you're willing to eat.
NASA Creates Free Posters in Honor of Voyager's 40th Anniversary
Modules are now enabled by default in Chrome 60. Hopefully this will be a good first step in making things better.
Well I happen to agree with your sentiments. I've been meaning to make a fork of homebrew that doesn't have these problems.
You should checkout out tigerbrew.
> there are a bunch of amateur traders who think it's a good idea to buy when the price is rising and sell when it's falling.

professional traders and asset managers do this exact same thing.
> To use it here, Elon Musk, Putin, and Mark Zuckerberg all have something in common: none of them are AI specialists or researchers

They are the ones that can use or be hit by "AI" as a weapon. Their position is even more important than the researchers. It is like Einstein vs Truman.
Thinking Fast and Slow was really good, I've listened to it a couple of times. As a framework for thinking about working and learning it really clicked with me. I think I've been gently influenced by this book in many ways, including how I set my expectations about other people, and what "system" they might be employing at any moment. This has helped reduce my overall stress levels and increased my patience with myself and others. Even if the science isn't 100% perfect (is it ever?), these are usable models that approximate behavior and can be practical when taken with a grain of salt.
How would you go about adding magnesium, potassium and sodium?
I agree with you in general but I agree with parent about the use of the word pivot and its synonyms in this case. By using that word in an interview, you are signaling inexperience which the OP is trying to avoid.
This is counteracted by the fact that employees now have the option of walking away from their jobs, and thus employers would have to raise wages to draw them in. Wages might rise in the type of jobs that nobody actually wants to do (eg. janitor), though wages may very well decrease in the jobs that everybody wants.

UBI and government job programs aren't mutually exclusive. I do think the government should create more jobs for the public good, especially in scientific research and development. But either way, I think a UBI is necessary so that people have the option of working for themselves rather than being forced to answer to someone else. UBI is like the libertarian approach, while government jobs are the more authoritarian approach. I think both should coexist.

I guess there's no guarantee that UBI would be a living wage. Regardless, I think we need a UBI. Money is one's claim on society's resources, and since we're all shareholders in this economy, we should receive a citizen's dividend, even if that amount isn't that much (eg. Alaska's Permanent Fund)
"Write you a Haskell": http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/
Side topic: In the USA, what is the legal precedent for business competitors having a very similar name?

If I name my social network for race car drivers "Racebook, Inc.", and my logo is a blue square with a white "r" on it,

am i opening myself up to legal trouble?
Reddit is already (mostly) open-source, I think: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
> . Choose your hardware for your software, not the other way around.

Oh, look at Mr "I don't need to use what's laying around" over here.
> ...passionate about the tech stack and frameworks they are using or plan on using...

I usually lean towards the pro- side in arguments about passion for one's career but even I would have to say that's a rather dubious viewpoint. Tech-stacks/frameworks are the among the least important parts of a software engineering career; they're the means to accomplish the craft, not the craft itself. (And that's even if frameworks didn't go into and out of style almost as fast as the fashions in the clothing industry.) It would be like asking master chefs to be passionate about spatulas and whisks instead about creating great food.
> Do you really think that China is capable of an easy and bloodless transition to a democratic system?

I suppose that really depends on the Communist party...
One can easily imagine reading an article like this published on a Russian site, with 'Kaspersky' replaced with 'Symantec' and 'FSB' with 'NSA'.
Apple is in a niche market? You mean Starbucks clients?
it was announced a couple days ago that that is going away.
When you say "choose your hardware for your software", you are assuming the software has already been chosen by the time the hardware is selected. That's not necessarily the case. I already have the hardware, it's been bought years ago, and it works with the software I use. Now if for instance I wanted to evaluate OpenSolaris, but it didn't run on the hardware I have, I would probably pass it up. I wouldn't invest hours and hours coding support for it to run on my hardware, before I were sure I would have a use for it. And that's assuming I could; I do happen to know how to write a low-level driver, but many people who would otherwise be interested on the software might not have that knowledge and/or ability.

Of course, once you already use the software, the situation inverts itself. I do choose only hardware which is known to work well with Linux, since that's the operating system I use, and I have even ported a device driver when that wasn't the case. But that can only happen because, many years ago when I first tried Linux, it worked perfectly with the hardware I had.
Dropping his hourly rate will likely get him more of the kinds of clients that he does not want. Your advice goes very much against the grain of what others who are very experienced in this field would say (which is to raise your rates).

What is your basis for suggesting he lower his rates?
CIA. (Source: Larry Ellison, as quoted in Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-made-larry-ellison-a-...)

Which is why the villain in Charlie Stross's _The Jennifer Morgue_ is "Ellis Billington".
TWSBI is Taiwanese (or perhaps Chinese), and have a certain reputation for structural failures particularly involving the section. Of course, I have a Vac700 because, hey, vacuum filler.

It's hard to beat a Pilot Metropolitan at ~$15 (which is a Japanese pen), although many higher-end pens are prettier (and I tend to prefer lighter pens). But the Parker Vacuumatic is the best looking pen ever made.
They recently announced that this is going to be archived and no longer receive updates.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...
At the end of the day, Sun/Oracle has to be able to make revenue from Solaris for them to keep paying those peoples' salaries.

Is your startup / company deploying on Solaris? Nope of course you aren't - who is?! Pretty much nobody nowadays - w3techs.com shows Solaris at 0.0005% for webservers for example. Everyone talks about how great it is(to be sure there are some small bits that are pretty dang amazing) - yet for some reason nearly no one actually DOES use it! Perhaps there is a reason for that. Lord knows I have many battle scars from the many real world rough edges that never seemed to get less fundamentally shitty(for starters: path_to_inst and smf I'm looking right at you!)

I definitely respect the amazing work of some of the engineers on the Solaris team back in the day. ZFS and DTrace being two that have made the tech world by in large a better place either directly or thru inspiration. And Linux and the BSDs are definitely better for those selective code gifts! But nonetheless, the world voted with their feet, and Solaris didn't make the cut.
You kinda took that out of context. "That" is "the amount of energy the sun radiates to the Earth's surface". That amount of energy 100% dwarfs anything the human race could ever hope to use
It'll be Lawyers at 100 paces.

whoever has the baddest lawyer wins. (or the largest number of baddest lawyers)
> They are not clamoring for democracy.

That's understandable, given that's against the law and would probably be a prison sentence.
Yeah, this seems like a probable trademark violation as it's likely to cause confusion in the marketplace. I expect they'll have to change it.
Don't know what half of these are? Here's some quick and dirty Javascript to make each formula clickable to a detail page:

document.querySelectorAll("td > code").forEach(code => code.innerHTML = `<a target="_blank" href="http://brewformulas.org/${encodeURIComponent(code.innerText)}">${code.innerText}</a>`)

Cut and paste that in your Javascript Console (`View/Developer/Javascript Console` on Chrome) when you're on https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/.
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The NY daily news is worth nothing
The communities already there appear to be as toxic as reddit, so good job. I guess.
Do tell! What were the magic words?
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Within this century, an average middle-class person may be able to afford a machine that could print things at home that they would want to wear or use. Today that person could make a crappy shoe in low-cost FDM machine and put shoelaces in it, but a pair of uncomfortable sandals is not the same as a nice pair of running shoes. To print consumer goods like that, you would need not only the automation and technology that could fit in a small spot in the home, but you would need raw materials that the machine could use, and probably there would need to be advances in chemistry, etc. Baking is different, though. Affordable 3D printing in a home kitchen should be much sooner, as that tech is already here.

So, if the immediate future is not having printers in the home to make any product, where would those be?

UPS moved boldly recently and got into 3D printing: https://www.theupsstore.com/print/3d-printing

I like what they are trying to do, but it doesn't work like that. The typical customer doesn't have the experience or resources available to design a part to be printed correctly, and then after that for the part to be finished as it should be to meet the specifications they've defined.

The immediate future is really all about the manufacturing companies that know 3D/additive and have the money and experience to blend those technologies with other manufacturing technologies in different niches. One company won't be able to produce cakes, shoes, and rocket parts anytime soon. But one company could produce satellite parts along with the parts for the printers and other factory equipment to make the cakes and shoes; another might just print the cake, another might print the shoe, but not all the parts of the shoe. That all happens today. Later, maybe a manufacturing company could print a whole satellite, a whole shoe, and print a cake and ship it without any human intervention.
The moral of the story is not whether I sold at the low or when the low was, or whether there was time to get back in, or when I did get back in. The moral of the story is that one nation's policy is not sufficient to derail bitcoin.
How could one not? See https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-are-the-costs-...

Reverse mortgages don't happen for free. The interest and all those fees go to the banking & other industries. By making reverse mortgages a considerably more frequent scenario, those industries clearly benefit.
That reminds me of a line from Apple's response to an ITC complaint from HTC:

> Apple denies that its correct name is Apple, Inc. The correct name of Respondent is Apple Inc.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/11/apple-to-htc-dont-you-cal...
It didn't take long before your site was taken over by political extremists
The Declining Relevance of Labor Unions
That's a far easier problem than producing a "nanorobot".
Children of Men/Fish
Hmm. This might be kind of blasphemous, but I think I'd recommend against the dragon book? As I remember, the emphasis in that book is on syntax-directed translation. I might argue that the less you're thinking about syntax and lexing/parsing crap the better. (For that reason: ignore other answers that tell you to learn about a particular parser generator (e.g. ANTLR). That's just fluff.)

Really, if you're coming to programming language design with the thought "I'm going to make an imperative, object oriented language" (with parallelism as an afterthought), you're doing it wrong. The world has enough of those already and you're going to invent something worse than what's already there.

Probably, instead of inventing a new language (say Matlab for matrix operations or Prolog for logical reasoning), you'd be better off implementing a library that handles the same concepts and embeds into another language (which is really what happened with Tensorflow or MapReduce to think of two examples).

(Grune's book "Parsing Techniques" is a great reference on parsing crap, but the secret is that if you design your grammar to be LL(1) you can parse your language using recursive descent: you only need a fancy parser if you designed a more complicated grammar (why'd you do that?))

Recommended book: The Reasoned Schemer. It's a cute (maybe too cute) book that shows how to implement a logic programming language (~datalog) using scheme as a base language. The Wizard book (structure and interpretation of computer languages) also has really cool examples that I think 60% of programmers I've worked with in industry don't fully appreciate.
Inevitably other people and OP will not care about off-topic things
You could say the same thing about most other art and decorative object, if you don't find them attractive. I would tend to value Warhols and Pollocks in terms of their kindling ability, myself.
This not only signals inexperience, it also invites questions on why did you decide to pivot (did you fail? any other negativity there?). This is not necessarily bad, you can theoretically use those questions to your advantage.

However, interview gives one a very limited time to impress. Better use it to discuss your strength and the future, not invite archeological queries.
> They mentioned (from what I remember) that they now use BitFunnel as they core of the complete Bing search engine not just the fresh parts.

I find it hard to believe this. Their main index is certainly not all-RAM (there must be some flash and maybe even disk), and the throughput would just not be enough for something like BitFunnel.

> When I read the paper and looking at the code, it looks like their index doesn't include frequency information whereas your PEF code does. It is unclear what was counted in the experiments.

In PEF the frequencies are not interleaved with the postings, so if you don't read them you don't pay any computational overhead (they mention this in the paper). However, it's not clear whether they included them when measuring the space.

> I'm nor sure if it is "fair" to compare a system developed by 10+ engineers over many years to a "phd student" code base developed over short period of time.

I'm not trying to compare the code :) On the contrary, I'm mostly concerned about the behavior as the collection size grows. Gov2, especially if split into 5 pieces, is relatively small.

> So while URL-sorting helps PEF, it will most likely make BitFunnel worse.

That's possible, but I don't see why they could not use different docid orderings for BitFunnel and PEF. If they use the one that is better for BitFunnel, that's not fair to PEF.
That's a rather simplistic characterization of the Chinese political situation. Or at least, it seems so to me, to the extent that I know enough to have an opinion.
Note that Hacker News which we are now using is written in Arc, which was written in (a now older version of) Racket.
Wow.

With my admittedly limited knowledge, it appears to me that this is one of the best efforts in our industry, changing the world for the better and directly making a dramatic difference in the lives of the most vulnerable.

Watsi, and the people behind it, give me hope for our species, despite the state of politics (both in where I live, the US, and in the world in general) or whatever other cynical reason one could come up with.

When we come together, we really can do great things... don't give up hope.

Of course, many thanks to the Watsi team. I hope that I will have the opportunity to join you someday.
If only it weren't so variable. Averaging over a large area won't help. 4 to 1 daily variation in total wind generation for big grids (CAISO and PJM) is normal.

We're going to need huge battery farms. Huge. Tesla is building the largest battery farm in the world, in Australia, and it will only hold about 100 MWH. The Helms Pumped Storage Plant near Fresno is at least an order of magnitude bigger.
See trademark dilution
Village Roadshow's plan for suing pirates
I've said it before but there is not an algorithm that can make algorithms. The best argument against that I have heard is "Of course not, but someday maybe!"
> "I wonder what an "iEnergyHarvester", y'know .. the cool new disruptive kind .. would look like?"

What do you mean by this? Are you simply talking about solar panels/wind turbine/etc?
Long-rumored midsized black hole may be hiding out in the Milky Way
That would be fun. Now you have me wondering if I still have those Solaris 7 disks in a drawer somewhere...
wrong for general inquiries, I agree for specific ones. I responded to him as a general wish to learn, not a special one like coding or math
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>The fundamental point of being a country is to serve the common good, and to protect the life and liberty of your citizens.

Important to recognize that this is your worldview, and one I agree with, but it is not the only view available! There are other motivations for government to maintain the existence of the state which they govern.

For example, for some governments the motivation is to maintain the current lifestyle of them and those around them, at the expense of the populace.
Attempting to climb the status ladder with a Nakaya or Namiki Maki-e (http://www.pilot-namiki.com/en/) would probably be counter productive. It generally helps if the people you are trying to impress recognize what you're carrying.
Even with all the resources in the world, opportunity cost plays into every decision. To remove that context would be missing my point.

And as always, resources dedicated to a project are finite. The “X billion dollar company can’t do trivial Y thing” isn’t as straightforward as it seems and the argument rarely holds up to scrutiny in my opinion.

We’re missing a ton of internal context here, and to have a real discussion we’d need that context. Otherwise there are tons of valid reasons why the opportunity cost calculation might not have worked out.
Prolonged exposure to sound delivered through earbuds could affect hearing. How do you listen to audiobooks without damaging your hearing?
Agreed. However, being a researcher in an Italian university, I fully understand their difficulty in finding this sum…
There's no fundamental difference. Currently there are implementation differences but those will go away. Eventually Ether will be ERC20 compliant.
> I'm not entirely clear why the author felt it was a productive use of his time to write several thousand words on this. HSBC aren't likely to be swayed by such an article. They've been fined billions, they're probably not worried about being "called out".

Well you were certainly wrong there.
I always hear this, but I've never been hired through networking, nor have I ever seen someone hired through networking.

I suspect that to be more the case in very large companies. Luckily I have never worked in one.
Moving to web should be easier than data. When you do mobile development you do a little of front end and back end (I was Android developer before). Learning a high demanded framework would help in your case. Data will take more time but you can do it if you start as a data engineer developing the data pipeline. But in this case you probably should aim to bigger companies and be hired would be more difficult without experience. For web a small startup will be fine.
I remember playing around on a old Sun sparc. It was my first exposure to unix and curiosity got the better of me. I picked up a copy of freebsd and started to tinker with that and read more and more about the unix philosophy.

To this day I still think Solaris was really well thought out. It had a certain rock solidness to it that I can't really describe. Compare to even openbsd or freebsd I always thought or felt it was more stable (regardless of that was actually the case).

I'm sad that so much work went into such a great OS and now it is basically gone to die. These days if you're thinking about creating a piece of software and want it to last open source is probably the only option.
Strangely toxic comment.
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