skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put the same fact in different words, if they had not invested on Airbnb and Dropbox, they would not be the leading incubator.
I was about to make this exact argument, but on inspection, the authors of the article are making a more subtle point. Their claim is that extensive use of even "white collar" contractors may cause long term harm to organisations, projects and staff.
> As CPUs are designed for one thing "few, large, complex cases" while FPGAs are perfect for many, parallel simple cases" even more than a GPU.

FPGAs are quite good at parallel simple cases, that is correct, but they would lose to GPUs in performance/watt in most cases.
Where FPGAs really shine is in parallel complex, non-uniform cases, especially cases that don’t map well to the classic CPU instructions, but can easily be performed with small latency on FPGAs.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Gate A-4
Xen hypervisor USB passthrough guide
We aren't this either. 2 cofounders 6 people. 1 with a kid, startup around for roughly 2.5 years before doing YC.

In a year since YC we've more than tripled the team to more than 30 people now, of which again: most have kids.
Ultimately for us, the network among other things has been the best part. I would definitely do it again.

That being said, my anecdotal opinion: A weak point for YC is enterprise. If you want additional customers, there are a few big YC companies, but not many. Even then, when we did it, we found some help and still got great advice.

If you sell to startups though, it's actually a great way to get customers.

Something that hasn't really been around long enough yet, but also potential is the new vertical accelerator.
Our batch was a bit too early for it, but they are trying to solve real problems these companies h ave.
We Want You to Test Next-Gen Onion Services  – Tor Blog
Just like async/await, LINQ (and even enumerators) are tied to special syntax in the C# language. HKTs allow Haskell to provide very general resuable syntax, such as do notation.

What I meant by "polymorphic programs" as an alternate to DI, is something like this:

doStuff :: HasLogger m => Input -> m Output

The effectful function "doStuff" above is polymorphic with respect to which logging implementation is used, it could even be one that uses IO. All made possible with HKTs.
Even the hallowed 'automatic sear' is just an arrangement of small metal shapes and springs. The annual volumes of Jane's Infantry Weapons used to have diagrams and detailed descriptions of the sears' operation. It's only penalties of law that prevents people making or distributing them, not complexity or wizardry.

On the other hand the majority of NATO training emphasises rapid single shots, with bursts only for initiating ambush or breaking contact ( and usually only when authorised by the NCO ). Being limited to single-shot isn't therefore too much of a restriction.
I believe Azure Cloud Functions will get you somewhat of the way where you want to go.

As far as I understand you invoke them just like you would run a docker container.
Apple’s Remote Desktop protocol is VNC with extra features, not RDP.
whatever half-baked monstrosity Azure has cooked up

I think you'll actually find Azure is well in the lead on this one, well ahead of where Amazon is anyway.
Generators and ImmutableJS
> "The researchers found, to their surprise, that half of H.M.'s hippocampus had survived the 1953 surgery..."
> Doug Vanderweide is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure and a Microsoft Certified Trainer who currently serves as an Azure course author and subject matter expert for Linux Academy and Cloud Assessments. Follow him on Twitter @dougvdotcom.

Sounds like the author of the article has a conflict of interest.
On application sizes and bloat in flatpak
Maybe I'm just bitter that there doesn't seem to be a good typesetter.

I used LaTeX for a while, but that randomly has tiny little issues that are seemingly impossible to solve. Try coloring the background of a table cell. It will cut off 1 pixel of the cell border on the top and left of the cell, regardless of the zoom level. If you zoom out enough, the border disappears. If you zoom in enough, its almost impossible to notice. It's infuriating. And the most commonly accepted answer online? Get rid of your cell borders, your table will look better.

Word is Word. Haven't used it seriously in so long I can't properly critique it.

Unfortunately there are some things you still have to print for (or at least convert to pdf). Most of the time, you can't turn in a google doc. For most companies, they don't want you emailing them a google doc. I don't need a ton of features, I just need consistent presentation of content.

The issue with the tabs is that the length of non-tab content changes a tiny bit when you change zoom levels. If that change goes past the start of a tab, suddenly a tiny change turns into an entire tab. Explicit tabs would probably fix that, but there's no point in trying, considering many tiny little issues like that there are.

It seems I'm wrong about them dogfooding. Apparently they just don't give a shit about these issues.
Ah, I didn't know that. Although the post says that the timestamp of an id might also be the timestamp of the last message, since the clock can go backwards, so in the worst case a client might get some duplicate messages.
They'd probably have to pay taxes to repatriate that cash to buy those firms, however, and buying a firm has costs of its own (not just overheads, but you obviously need to pay more than the market cap usually). So this amount is well beyond reach (using only that 260B cash on hand, and wtf that's an unimaginable amount).
- https://xtermjs.org/

- https://github.com/billchurch/WebSSH2
Can you also suggest how much time one can expect to spend on a particular codebase (which are listed) to get any meaningful take-aways?

I am interested in exploring codebases now that I have sufficient experience and feel confident (and not initimidated). This will be useful because then I can start from the smaller (simpler) ones and move on to the complex ones later.

Any recommended path, please do suggest.
The Curious Case of the Longevity of C
While the made up graphs might help understanding his reasoning, I think it's way too abstract/philosophical. It's like walking into a dark room making assumptions and arguments based on your belief of what color the walls are.
Consider software. Free market capitalism has driven the price of it to literally zero! How amazing is that?
Dynamicland: incubating a humane dynamic medium dynamicland.org
Note that it’s not the joy the submissions but the comments as well that lead to submissions.

But I guess that would be even more difficult.
Ouch. Well, maybe I can help! Heheh.
Lambda's are simply not designed for use web-app folks - they are designed to to back-end dev-ops and IT tasks.

Absolutely. I see people trying to serve websites out of cloud functions. Reminds me of the mid 90s when people ran httpd from inetd!
The Ultimate Guide to Visual Search
I would have guessed more than 1% of people need to print and/or turn a document into a pdf without having it change the page a picture is on.
ycombinator application deadline?
I am so disappointed I didn't complete my application in time, oh well there is always next year
Involute spur gear generator and simulator
GP meant that doing so would force those involved to be forced to reconcile with themselves the illegality of their behavior.

Although ironically I think in this case your point actually still stands.
this is very interesting, how long can our youthful stem cells keep alive ? Is it that possible youthful stem cells get old, too, or malfunctioned ?
> And with anything Amazon, I'm worried
> about counterfeit goods.

They need to get on this; they've lost ~ a thousand dollars from me this year that I've spent in previous years where I'm worried about if I'll get the real thing or not.

However:

> Would I buy clothes from Amazon?

There's plenty of stuff I don't need to try on though. All undergarments and many shoes and pants where I know what I want already I get from Amazon.

> Would I buy perishable groceries
> from Amazon?

I used to buy everything from Ocado when I lived in London. I'd have rather bought it from Amazon, and when they can (and maybe that's now, I'm living in Asia right now) schedule deliveries like the other supermarkets, I'll switch.
"The issue was, and still is, how the hell do you get there? "

Hm, too me personally it's: Why would I want that? My computer is fast enough to for 99.9% of the stuff I want to run.. and for the last 0.1% it's not that hard to spin up a vm.

What am I missing?
And before Walmart there was Sears, the unstoppable behemoth of its day.

Few remember today the fear that people had of the unstoppable juggernaut that was IBM before 1990 or so.

Nobody remembers that before IBM there was RCA.
What's new here anyway? Intel bought Altera, and Altera have had development kits similar to this for a long time.

What is the price of the new FPGA add-on cards? That is what will make the difference here for a 'new push'.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem is Not an Obstacle to AI (1981)
It depends on the size and what you are trying to do.
For example, lately I 've spent maybe a week studying Lucene, and kept going back to it every other day, because I needed to understand pretty much everything about it, to get ideas for improving Trinity ( https://github.com/phaistos-networks/Trinity ).

Some other codebases are so vast it takes a lot, lot longer to understand them enough to feel 'comfortable' navigating them (e.g the Unreal Engine codebase).

Most codebases however are quite small, and within 1 hour, or a few, you 'll be able to understand where to go to find what you need, which are the primary data structures and functions, etc.
Beanmother 0.7.3 is released. Now it supports joda-time data type
In London street lamps are being converted into EV charge stations for kerbside charging:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/london-street-lamps...
I would add fun.

I know "fun" is highly subjective but still important none the less.
No website yet, and the github is closed but the video on the tweets and retweets are facinating.
I wish there was a journalist outlet that would not care about story. Just facts. Preferably in bullet points (narratives are misleading). I'd be a paying subscriber to that.
Dropbox please add a goddamn delete button
Don't get scared by peoples labels. There is nothing you SHOULD. There are choices and consequences. If you make a good living and enjoy what you do, then why suddenly question it.
Mainstream developers forget just how much time they invest in learning the latest fad frameworks with new ad-hoc concepts and terminology. I guess "Hardcore FP developers" are fed up with this state of affairs and are looking towards mathematics to provide guidance and common patterns/names.
At least any knowledge of mathematics will not become outdated!
From the description in the README file:

"GoCaml is subset of OCaml in Go based on MinCaml using LLVM. GoCaml adds many features to original MinCaml. MinCaml is a minimal subset of OCaml for educational purpose. It is statically-typed and compiled into a binary."

What do they mean with "GoCaml is subset of OCaml in Go"? Do they mean the compiler is written in Go?
A New Bitcoin Exchange Launches in Nigeria
I never heard, actually. I believe Palmer Luckey ended up in somewhat more legal and/or financial trouble than John Carmack, but the magnitudes involved are probably under appeal.
I used to be super excited about YC from a values standpoint for years.

I applied to work for a bunch of YC startups about 4 years ago. What I was generally told was that they never heard of my college or the companies I worked for so I was a no go.

That doesn't seem to be fostering diversity, or making the world a better place, or completely separate from the type of bullshit practiced by big companies.

(I still like to lurk here because its a good tech news filter, but when YC posts self horn tooting posts its kind of irritating)
Similar experience. Bought a used Leaf and the simplicity and convenience makes me resent using my petrol banger. My commute is only about three miles, so it only needs charging once or twice a week.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
Who gave it such a ridiculous name? Trust Fowler to take something that's been around for thirty years and give it a name that doesn't invoke any sense of what it actually is.

This has been around since at least the 90s, but back then it was called port knocking. I remember seeing an implementation in the 90s that required different ICMP echo packet sizes (say 56, 64, 64, then 56 bytes) sent in order for the system to unfirewall a particular service port for that incoming IP.
My layman understanding is that investors think Amazon still has enormous room to grow because Amazon's current market share of the entire US retail industry (online + offline retail) is about 7%.

The one thing that will make online shopping appealing to far more consumers is same-day and eventually 1-hr deliveries, irrespective of your location in the continental US and the only way to do this reliably is when fulfilment is automated end-to-end.

For fulfilment to be fully automated, self-driving cars and trucks need to be a reality as that is the only way to cap shipping costs in order to guarantee Amazon's promise of low prices.

In order words, investors think Amazon's market share will grow even more as distribution costs start to fall when the shift from human to self-driving trucks becomes economically and technologically feasible.

Self-driving cars are still at least decade out, IMHO. Add another decade for regulations (e.g. which party is directly liable in X types of accidents?) and infrastructure (e.g. cooperative signalling, standardized charging stations etc) to catch up. This is why Jeff Bezos likes to stress that it is still Day 1 at Amazon.
This appears to have been a prototype for Dynamicland https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15390813
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I can see how people might think the timing is clever. But in reality, the four founders are no longer full-time so they just decided to put this together. It's a good reminder of what YC has been and should always be about and what they wouldn't want us to deviate from. In general, writing this down is a good idea for any company. It helps get everyone on the same page.
YC has also made ethically-questionable investments in the cannabis industry.
I guess passing parameters down manually through all the constructors gets too painful. The language is not expressive enough for a Reader monad! :)

Java's static initialiser blocks are too dangerous whenever one has threads.
Maybe I've misinterpreted the discussion, but there's not always a perfect abstraction [1].

1. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
So Tesla is selling 100K cars per year, which according to http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/tesla/ would translate to about 0.5% market share.

Looks like they have a long way to go before they will be a threat to the big car companies..
In the 80's, people said IBM was unstoppable, this time it's different and IBM would take over the world. In the 90's IBM faded, and people said Microsoft was unstoppable, this time it's different, and Microsoft would take over the world. In the 00's, people say Amazon is unstoppable, this time it's different, etc.

And so it goes :-)
Only some of the benefits are excluded from income, food and health insurance being the most popular. The rest have their value added to income and taxed accordingly.
When I looked at the authors list I got the impression that it was mostly sociologists, public health researchers etc, but not very many well known statisticians, or people from the traditional physical and biological sciences. It seems like it would have been better to have more authors from the latter groups to make such a broad suggestion; their absence suggests that the proposal doesn't have much support among those fields.
Great idea. I hate the name. Name should have something obviously incommon with the feature/purpose.
Thanks for the link.
The English Translation is at http://vit.free.fr/TRM/en_US/

It seems to me all the attempts at currency suffer either from the Tyranny of the Gatekeeper (centralization) or the Tyranny of the Majority (de-centralization). Except gold(which is actively being de-emphasized), is there no substitute for an individual who wants to partake in the economy/marketplace and yet not suffer any of the above tyrannies ?
pcANYWHERE for Windows had this all figured out in the late 80’s. They hooked GDI and transported the API calls wherever possible. It worked awesomely over a 56k modem. Then the guys involved sold to Symantec, and they let it go fallow, EOLing it in 2014 after 7 years of no updates.
Tesla Model 3 Production Is 84% Lower Than What Elon Musk Promised
They call this 'serverless' and yet it's all about running thing on ... Servers.

I think it's safe to say that if any individual or company uses the word 'serverless' they are either stupid or have been taken over by marketing and can safely be ignored and ridiculed
A few years ago (2003, time flies) I wrote a piece table with a twist, instead of using a linked list I used a tree. I put a description of the whole algorithm here:

http://e98cuenc.free.fr/wordprocessor/piecetable.html

A years later it was integrated in AbiWord.

There was a major mistake in the profiling. The dots in the graphs were the best of 3 measuraments. At the time I thought that was the fairest to prevent outliers due to concurrent process. It also warms the data in the cache making the best measurement super fast.
Hi, I am interested in the internship positions. Can I check if you guys hire internationally and do visa sponsorships?
Most of the giants today actually thrived without the competitors and were stunted only because of it. Who were the legit competitors to Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tesla? They grew into monsters without that competition, which is why they try to keep each other in check. Google made a social media platform and Microsoft made search engines.
It's not how law works -- currently, in some countries. But it is how suspicion works, and governments in the US and UK, for example, seem highly suspicious of their populous.
But none as impressive as the seven world wonders.
The Ozone Hole Was Exaggerated as a Problem (2014)
Upgrading to LEDE worked flawlessly. Thanks guys!
I think you still have 20 hours. It's 8 PM Pacific on Oct 3, which is today (Tuesday).
> your position is the same as I stated but you have rationale behind it. I get that.

But it is not. Which I just explained why. The difference is that the things I complain about is specific examples with data to back it up. The author and other people similar just throw out random shit that is as provable as a religious experience.

> it's speaking to others like me who already know our work environment sucks

Great attitude there buddy.

> think these are claims that need evidence

I provided evidence for the examples I brought up, the rest is just as the authors anecdotal with no evidence. This is my whole point.

> I can only assume you're somehow threatened but I struggle to see how. men feeling threatened by women talking about their spaces is very strange

Why do people always resort to this jargon? I am not "threatened" I just do not like discrimination based on gender and I believe that is happening more towards men than women in tech today. It is happening in the name of diversity and equality.
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We're looking for another Data/Visual journalist to join RFE's English-language digital team, which is based within the company's Central Newsroom.

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Nice to have, but not required

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* Fluency in another language from RFE/RL’s broadcast region.

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What is your motivation behind that activity?
Comparison Between RNA and DNA
Turn your old scooter into new with the cheap scooter parts
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UX-Writer: A New Term, a Big Need
Your Friendly Neighborhood Code Mentor
Brain is an FPGA (of sorts).
Thanks for the feedback. Interesting nonetheless, thanks for the link
Wordpress is 14 years old.

It's probably a good reference project, when talking about maintenance (nightmares).
Elm in production: 25k lines later
I'd like to see your 'militia' handle a rain of bullets from above you fucking mall ninja.
> I should not need to be best of the best to be accepted/treated equally

I agree and I think that is exactly how it is for the absolute majority.
The Big Tech Platforms Still Suck During Breaking News
Craigslist (classifieds). Google (search). eBay (auctions). Apple etc (phones). PayPal etc (payment systems). Spotify/Apple etc (music). All businesses Amazon attempted and mostly failed at.

Bezos - Amazon - has been beaten quite a few times.