skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was marginally worth it for my company, albeit it was free and it was..seven years ago now.

I met at least two very important people while there, one of which ended up investing into our seed round and the other who ended up introducing us to the lead of said round.

My general advice is that the Alley is pretty much what it sounds like, and the attendant quality of other companies there with you will be low. It's on you to get out there and network; just standing by your kiosk will do absolutely nothing for you.
I wonder if this will relight the flames of the Kashmir struggle.
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But this would have been the case even without the crackdown. After this unilateral act of repression, it becomes a total propaganda victory for indipendentists.

It was a stupid approach from a very weak government.
There are reports of people voting 4 times, and of people from another region voting after presenting an id from another region. There were no election observers from neutral or "no" political forces. The "international" observers were secessionists from other regions of Spain. I don't believe the 40%. I don't believe anything. This vote was a joke from its inception. As much as it was horrible from the national government to beat people, it's as horrible to push people to go out and fight riot police for a sham of a referendum.
Going off things like this [1], I'm going to say yes. (See location tag)

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Just like he supports breaking up Russia? Did you read the 2nd link and look at the ranking of influencers on #catalonia?
suppressing the will of SOME people tbh, but yeah their handling of it was terrible and will only embolden the separatists.
I read that it is safer to lie down alongside the car rather than be in it or under it. This is because the car won't mash down to be less than a foot thick and will support debris off you, whereas it doesn't have to crush much to kill you inside or under it.
A cylinder is a circle and a line. The circle goes around and the line is the height.

A torus is a circle and a circle. One circle goes from the outside to the inside and back around, and the other goes around the outside, if we're talking about a donut. We can see that any point on the surface of the donut is some combination of "go around the outside" and "walk around towards the center". You can also imagine taking a cylinder and bending it around to make a torus -- this changes the 'height' line into a second circle.

We're talking about the product space, so what that means is you can describe the space by (two) coordinates, one drawn from each "shape" (actually, manifold). A "torus" then differs from a "plane" in that you can wrap around in the x-direction and wrap around in the y-direction, independently, since the x-direction on a torus is a circle instead of a line and the y-direction on a torus is a circle instead of a line. By contrast, a cylinder you can only wrap around one way, because you can only wrap in the direction that has a circle for its coordinate space.
Only mentioned in the byline, but there's a documentary out with Daryl:

http://accidentalcourtesy.com
An episode is a self-contained narrative unit and it chose permanent incarceration as it's point of closure. I don't think a child audience, left with that impression until next weeks episode, puts two and two together in such a way as to dissipate the previously established creepy atmosphere.

I'm reminded of Roger Ebert's brilliant review of Fight Club, where he pointed out that, given the visual medium, the images and themes you choose to put in front of a viewer (again, a child audience!) speak for themselves, and whatever the writer "thinks the message is, that's not what most audience members will get."
Considering the police was literally beating up voters, 42% is a miracle.
> Would the US allow the vote to proceed?

It'd be unconstitutional to interfere in California's referendum process. The referendum wouldn't have any legal force, so why bother interfering anyhow?
I don't know, it feels slower than the original, because when you click on comments, it first loads an empty page and the actual content loads 1-2 secs later, which looks very jarring.
Some additional news stories on the subject...

- CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/27/media/facebook-black-lives-m...

- Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-o...

- CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/25/russian-facebook-ads-targete...

- The Hill: http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/technology/352780-russian...
Did they? CNN says they did, because Facebook said they did. Had to click through to find out that basic information. Thanks, Guardian.
"we should at least also consider some of the polls were fabricated in a attempt to make HRC's victory look inevitable and depress R turnout"

That rings true to me. I would be curious if anyone would disagree with that?
Perhaps you are referring to some dictatorships, e.g. fascism in Italy, where people where expected to be cheerful and optimistic at all times and being gloomy or pessimistic was strongly discouraged by the government.
If you are taking a PhD, especially in the sciences, look away now. It may be stale news but I’ve just seen a graph from a 2010 Royal Society report suggesting that of every 200 people completing a PhD, only seven will get a permanent academic post. Only one will become a professor.

Stale, as in, 70+ years old.

I got my PhD in physics, in 1993. At that time, science students were talking about something that we referred to as the "birth control problem," which was that each professor only had to produce one professor in the next generation, and the rest of us belonged to what could have been referred to as a glut.

I mentioned this to my dad, who got his PhD in the 1950s. He listened to my lament, and said: "Yeah, we knew about that when we were grad students too."

I finished my degree and went straight into industry. Just as my dad did.
Two scenarios: It's 2019, Trump is still president, California has had enough and wants to leave the US. Or, perhaps, it's 2020, Bernie just got elected a bunch southern and midwestern states want to leave the union. Would that be allowed? Would it be legal according to the US constitution? Would the police intervene if required to stop it? Maybe even the US army? How do you (presumably american) feel about whatever you think would happen?
While the local politicians are grandstanding opportunists who don't get how they are being played, it's another faultline to exploit and the Kremlin has been efficiently working it. https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/01/inenglish/1506854868_90...
Police was instructed by courts to prevent the (illegal) vote from taking place.
It's not a joke: it's the best you could get given the constraints.
Hey, so, uh... all you need to clone HN is Postgres and some HTML/CSS and a smidgen of JavaScript. Good God, must we pull in the entire JavaScript ecosystem for a simple forum now?
Lately, I have the feeling that all this growing nationalism in the world will take care of itself within a decade or so. The logical end to having pride in your (ethnic or geographical) subgroup isn't a few hundred happy nations living separately in harmony. It's war :(
It's actually $1995 if you actually pay for it: https://techcrunch.com/event-info/disrupt-sf-2017/startup-al...

They heavily discount it a month in advance and there is a number of way to get in for free. But one would have to hustle .
Those elections weren't ruled unconstitutional with the national government instructing people not to participate. Obviously people choosing to participate were going to be disproportionately those choosing to reject the authority of the national government - i.e. the separatists - even if there hadn't been heavy-handed policing.

A more relevant comparison would be the Scottish independence referendum which managed 85% turnout.

The last unsanctioned Catalan referendum got 80% voting for independence, and that was when opinion polls gave No a huge lead (they seem to be suggesting if a proper vote had been held this time round, Yes to independence could have won, but only narrowly)
When I was a grad student in the mid 80s, we got the same basic news on our first day. We were still there on day 2 too. I think the idea that we were duped into attending grad school by inflated expectations of academic employment is something we fabricate in our own minds much later. A lot of just enjoyed studying science.
For me there's a big difference between someone flashing their teeth in a big grin, and a photo that freezes the moment in time. The longer I look at such a motionless smile, the sillier it seems.

FWIW, I'm from Germany (way to the right on the graph) and probably somewhat of an outlier, since people kept asking me whether I was sad when I just made a neutral face. I ended up training myself to always curl my lips slightly to stop those questions.
What startup was it?
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> There are reports of people voting 4 times

Who is making this report, why should I trust them, and do they have evidence this is a statistically meaningful problem?
There were also part of the Crown of Aragon for quite a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_Aragon
This reminds me of something I have been wondering lately : what is the ideal size for a country? I mean, most borders nowadays are remnants of a very different world where kings were continuously fighting to maximize their territory, or at least not to let it shrink. Things are very different these days, since most countries are peaceful and democratic.

If we were to rationalize all this and draw lines peacefully, what would be the typical size of a country? Would we chose no country at all, in a world-government? Would we pick the "city-state" model, as often advocated by libertarians?
you're thinking of all boundaries mapping to a point.

in your interpretation, the red circle moving to the boundary would look like this https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2013/03/08/05/53/frame-91452_9...

Instead, look at how the arrow types match here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Projecti...

the side you choose to glue first matters (compare before/after) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Inside-o...

and the orientation of the arrows https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Klein_Bo... also matters https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Klein_bo...
> In San Francisco financial district it gets dark around 4pm in summer when sunset is around 9pm.

No it doesn't, the ambient light is sufficient to allow normal activities without requiring additional illumination until well past the summer solstice's dusk at 8:30pm.

Unless by 'dark' you mean "I couldn't see the sun when I left to get a MUNI".
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There was no yes campaign because the non-independentists were against the right to vote.

Nevertheless, turnout has been quite high.
Given the widespread images of riot police and blood spattered citizens for nothing more than trying to vote, I'd put it down as a strong political victory for the independence movement.
Early stopping is just fine if you are Bayesian. Not fine if you are doing null-hypothesis significance testing.

Multi-armed bandits beat the heck out of A/B testing because they dynamically balance making money now with taking risks that might mean you make more money later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit

I'd think they should be more popular among quantitative marketing types than they are.
Maybe I’m not quite understanding what you’re asking, but I think you can do this with client side service workers already.
Since the referendum was illegal according to the Spanish government, and involved violent clashes with police, it wouldn't be surprising if 90% of the people who actually showed up and voted anyway were separatists.
Well first let's tackle a simpler similar question that might inform our view - What's the ideal programming language?
I don't think that captures it.

You're basically arguing the angriest electorate will win. Obama won on Hope.

I think what won the election this time was that people were a bit sick and tired of pols who promised all kinds of things but never delivered. Hillary promised all kinds of things and I would venture she never intended on delivering on many. Personally, I voted third party.

I mean, if we look at her political history, it's always been opportunistic -by that I mean changing political position if it favored her. From the Super predator stuff to opposition to gay marriage to many things in between. I think people were tired of that and thought Trump offered an alternative which even if it didn't match up in all counts, they could at least believe he had the US interest in mind (as opposed to globalists who might have other priorities.)

I think it's interesting that at one time the left campaigned against the mainstream left's globalist interventionist agenda but now they are proponents of globalism and interventionism and open borders. It's an interesting dynamic to witness.
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I'd say it's not so much about how often people talk about wine, but how they approach wine in general.

For example, there's a group of wine selections that I've found to be pretty tasty (and often pretty affordable, with many in the $15-$25 range). I went into a busy wine store in an affluent neighborhood and asked the people in the wine department if they had any wines of that select, and they looked at me as if I was from the moon. They told me that's not the way wine is organized - they wanted me to give them a price point and tell them if it's red or white. That's how a lot of people approach wine: "I want to spend N dollars on a X color wine."

(I went to a smaller wine shop near a college, and they knew just who I was talking about)

People have said it's like talking about Vim vs Emacs, and it is somewhat, but it's like hearing people who have never used Vim or Emacs talk about Vim vs Emacs. Have you ever come across those conversations? Everyone is just repeating things they read and saying what they believe the common consensus is, and no one is thinking for themselves.
The slightly higher upfront cost is only incurred once.
The "no" campaign was mostly the Spanish government arresting people and seizing ballot boxes. They weren't interested in convincing people to say "no", they were working to make sure they couldn't say "yes".
I think this is really nicely done. It's probably a little over-engineered for a project of this size, but it shows the power of using all of these libraries together, and I'm sure it was a great learning experience.

Does anyone know what tool was used to generate the system architecture diagram? It's really clean and clear - https://github.com/clintonwoo/hackernews-react-graphql#archi...
The bigger the better. Like it or not, we are operating in a global economy and bigger gets massive economies of scale in production and consumption, and leverage in trade with the other blocs. (This is the reason Europe and the US are being destabilised by outside forces.)
lol, good point.
If they really felt that way, they wouldn't have sent all those cops to bust heads.
the war?
The spanish government could have chosen to let all voters participate, by creating the right framework for a once-in-forty-years popular poll.
California probably will have a succession vote, along with several other West-Coast states, after the Rs gain control of 37 legislatures and pass a series of bigoted Constitutional amendments. I hope that such votes are not violently suppressed, and I'm glad we're seeing object lessons in how awful that tactic is. This isn't the 1860s; we don't have a Lincoln.
if that's the evidence that Russia instigated black activism in the U.S. , where's the evidence that the U.S. government didn't plant a falsely geo-tagged photo and then bring attention to it in every news outlet that it can influence in order to instigate U.S. hatred towards Russia?

I don't care either way, but I don't really think that either possibility is far from probable -- and the barrier to entry for this kind of trickery is just obscenely low as far as nation-state bickering goes.
Yup and those pentium 4s will get to 10ghz inside of 3 years. wait..
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I finished a Ph.D and became a tenured professor (top of the greasy pole) and I have no regrets despite not being part of academia anymore. The experience of doing a Ph.D changed me for the better and gave me the confidence to take the risk to start my company.

We don't train too many Ph.Ds, we just undervalue them outside of academia. One thing I think would help is to not allowing someone to start a Ph.D until they had a few years work experience outside of academia. Too many students end up on the Ph.D railroad without experiencing anything outside of school.
I think you're mistaken. Torii come from non-rectangular regions, too, though they'll always be parallelograms. Spheres cannot arise like this from any shape.

Mathematically, you'd say that a sphere is simply connected and hence is its own universal cover and hence is not the quotient of a plane. Meanwhile, the universal cover of a torus is a plane and the fundamental domain of that covering can always be taken to be a parallelogram. The study of all possible such parallelograms is the standard example of a Teichmuller space [1] which is well-known recently due to both the use of the idea in "inter-universal Teichmuller theory" developed for the famous ABC conjecture work in 2012 as well as for being the subject of study of a winner of the most recent Fields medal [2] who is especially notable for being the first female recipient and was in the news again recently sadly for having died of cancer at a young age.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichm%C3%BCller_space
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
I agree. Is that a reference to a quote?

The more popular anti-establishment rhetoric becomes, the more that rhetoric will be adopted by those who wish to use it toward their own ends. Be wary of what you assume to be true.

I'm thinking of the dual parties purpetrating this specifically, but no blind eye should be turned to /any/ outside influences.
I was disappointed that he couldn't even come up with a solution for odd or even. I get it for some low-ranked schools, but if for example someone from UC Berkeley can't do any decent programming (I don't expect everyone write a transcompiler because I have no idea how to myself) I'd be very surprised.
Yeah, but that’s still an improvement over the current situation (at least as I understand it).
That’s on first load – all future loads are significantly faster on this clone.
without commenting on the dependencies specifically, and simply evaluating the result sent to the client:

- 1.1 MB of assets (pretty much all of it scripts).

- 300ms of JS execution (on fast desktop in Chrome 63)

- document.querySelectorAll("*").length = 742

in terms of perf, i'm sorry, but this is nothing to be proud of. even a fast vdom lib without SSR can do this in 10% the payload (or less) and 20% the scripting time (or less). why people are amazed at the speed of this impl is rather odd to me. i suppose it works well to demonstrate a large stack, but what you end up paying for that stack is plainly evident here.
I find you need different tools for different jobs.

I personally build 80% of my apps using Rails or Django, with vanilla coffeescript or javascript + a few libraries for graphs. That works for most business applications, and pretty much any information app (which IMO are usually the most valuable by dollars)

Rails is easier for most people to develop in (even if they are framiliar with JS or Django) within a week of starting. Usually after a 5 minute discussion I can show them why it's amazing and everyone switches over.

However, at a point, react and the like becomes easier when you want a prettier customer facing application, or when you want only part of the web page to update in real time (Personally, I can do this in Rails, but many find react easier). Point being, in those cases a framework that's literally built for that might be easier, and that's when it should be used.

Honestly, I think this whole JS craze is annoying, and I try to run no javascript. Because of that, I might be more sensitive than most and I design websites accordingly (only using JS as necessary)
This is why the JS community is so fucked. They take what should be a simple website and needlessly complicate it by (poorly) reimplementing what web browsers can already do.
> Furthermore, the result is impossible to believe given previous results in open elections.

A natural or man-made disaster during a vote filters out the less "passionate" portion of the electorate; if you don't care that much about an election's outcome, a thunderstorm or the threat of riot police cracking open your skull would probably convince you to stay home rather than visit your polling place.

I would imagine the bulk of the "passion" on this topic would reside with the separatists, so it stands to reason the police action ironically resulted in suppressing the "remain" vote.
I wouldn't start with Chisel as there's a lack of good documentation online. When I used it for a Berkeley class, sometimes you would feel like you hit a wall. Verilog or SystemVerilog will have much more in the way of stack overflow type of documentation.
> That's an awfully incorrect analogy.

I would say "not entirely accurate", rather than "incorrect". Are you familiar with what happens in PhD research and the skills you can acquire during a PhD?

> [.،.] so that in about 4 years he is able to produce some scientific findings and defend a thesis in front of a jury.

And that's exactly what having a PhD proves: that you can start from a cursory understanding of a topic and end up contributing something novel to the field.

Given that industrial research requires you to do practically the same thing -- albeit in a more applied fashion -- a PhD is usually a good indicator when hiring for such positions. Again, there may be more suitable people for the position who don't have PhDs, but that is once again an exception to the rule.
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That may be true, or even possibly a significant issue.

However, the exact same thing would be reported if it did not happen making it somewhat meaningless observation.

PS: I really don't trust the 90% yes either. But, vote suppression IMO is a sign the people in power expect the vote to go counter to their desires.
I studied an MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering, and really enjoyed the courses in IC design.

However, I couldn't find a chip-design job in a country other than the US or UK that wasn't related to military applications.

Now I work in Taiwan, and I see the chips being made! But my work is related to control systems for the testing equipment, which is software instead of hardware design.

I got a Virtex-II FPGA board from a recycling bin, and I wanted to find a good personal project for it. Even now, I'm at a loss for ideas. I can do everything I need with a Raspberry Pi already.

Please can someone suggest some good projects I could only do with an FPGA?
"Illegal vote" is quite an interesting idea. The government that is supposedly democratic must give permission to the people to hold a vote, or else out come the batons and riot gear. It's a beautifully ironic snapshot of the nature of the state and "democracy."
> "...a series of bigoted Constitutional amendments."

Any specific amendments you'd care to share? I haven't heard of any such plans.