skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was that YC partner. The beer was very good. 21st Amendment Stout.
Understanding SOLID Principles: Open Closed Principle
Yeah, definitely a bit click-baity. Wasn't a dangerous situation or anything like that. Does illustrate the type of edge case that needs to be solved to get from 90% to 100 though. Also posted because I wasn't aware there were fully autonomous vehicles carrying passengers already, outside of the Uber tests.
Well, he wouldn’t go there if Intel wouldn’t give him what he wanted, whatever that might be.
Aquabyte (www.aquabyte.ai) | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA

Aquabyte is seeking a Software Engineer to lead product and algorithm development for our underwater camera algorithms. We work on stereoscopic 3D video, object detection and segmentation, and other problems in the underwater domain. This role is flexible and is based out of our SF offices. Role involves occasional travel to Norway.

Job Responsibilities:

- Build entire application production pipelines from ingest to visualization

- Build new products from the ground up

- Work at the cutting-edge of the latest underwater video research

Qualifications:

- Technical degree (CS, math) from a top research university

- Expert developer with experience building production-scale data pipelines and web applications in Node.js, Python, JavaScript, and Lua

- Excellent with React.js / web development

- Previous startup and product experience

- Ability to work independently and efficiently on projects

Bonus Qualifications:

- Experience with Caffe, Torch, or Tensorflow and knowledge of how to optimize these models

- Experience working with underwater video data

- Previous startup founder

Aquabyte is a venture-backed startup that uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms to optimize fish farms. We are invested and advised by NEA and Princeton University.
Show HN: CodeTree is an ES6/TS library that helps transform code easily
are you blocking javascript? hn is very good about not needing it for the site to function basically, but i think collapsing comments is one of few things it needs it for.
Constructive criticism: Your site looks like crap on a small display. Please anchor the info bars to the top and bottom of the page, not the screen.

https://i.imgur.com/AKiIIL0.jpg
Literally yesterday I did an install of 1.8.2 after seeing 2.x still in beta. Time to upgrade.

Congrats to the Prometheus team.
Open source iconic font and css toolkit (fontisto)
I don't think it's a strictly necessary attitude for success. Buffett seems like a good example of someone who manages to have a clear and rational mindset, yet with no trouble succeeding.
> Apple, and perhaps other manufacturers, insist it not be there.

I have an off-topic question about that statement. I fail to grammatically parse the construct "A and B insist C no be there". Doesn't it need to be "A and B insist C is not there"?
Well from the article:

> Adopting an asset-light model, Mehta first built an app that let customers shop from established retailers--charging a delivery fee and, at least initially, a slight markup. Instacart kept a cut for itself and paid the shopper.

> Four years later those partnerships make up a significant percentage of revenue. More than 80% of orders are placed with partners, up from less than 20% three years ago.
All this talk of justice is driving the country straight into the ground!
Soundness means that if the type system says that a variable has a particular type, then it definitely has that type at runtime. A sound type system is always correct, and an unsound type system might be incorrect in some cases.

Here's an example of unsoundness in TypeScript:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html#src=function%...

TypeScript incorrectly (but conveniently) says that Array<string> can be assigned to Array<string | number>, and you can exploit that to create an "s" variable that TypeScript thinks is a string but is actually a number.

You can try the same code in Flow and it gives a type error:

https://flow.org/try/#0GYVwdgxgLglg9mABAWwKYGd0FUAOAVAC1QEEA...
If they are playing this smart, there should be a bench of people, nearly as experienced, and willing to bust their ass twice as hard for half as much.
[pdf] Hacker powered security report 2017
The way art transforms over time is fascinating and can completely alter our perception of entire classes of art and culture. Check out ancient Roman and Greek statuary and architecture:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-1788...
I much prefer leaders who let their anxiety known to me than those that project absolute confidence that whatever problems can be overcome. I can trust the former, I can’t trust the latter at all, and it’s super easy to tell.
Yeah, I totally should’ve phrased that bit more carefully

The clearer, fuller argument would would be: if something terrible was to happen to Earth it would be objectively better (though obviously still a tragic and nightmarish event) if we only lost 95% of living humans vs losing 100%.

Also though it might also be worth a teensy bit more risk of near-complete wipeout to gain a backup. (e.g. the risk of migration to Mars causing economic or political issues back here that cause a terrible war or something). It’d be crazy hard to do the maths on that though.

You would also kind of assume though that as long as a tiny percentage lived, they would turn a lot more people than are currently alive over a few 1000s of years? So even if the worst happened the ethics would eventually balance out.

Given the amount of really really bad stuff that could happen to humans on Eart (disease, asteroids, super volcanos, sea level change, nuclear war, etc) having 5% safe somewhere else sounds like a great situation to be in. Doubt we’ll get there though.
I use Safari all the time. I hate it not showing the full address so I went into Preferences and checked the box to show the full address.
I assume he’s subtracting the “work” time spent on long lunches, web browsing, and general BS.
>Q: Should I write clever or obvious code?
A: Always be obvious!

I love this. I feel like so much JavaScript code I've seen over the past few years fails on this account.
I didn't "work my way up" from prescription drugs. I have debilitating depression, to the point where I can't get out of bed most days. I can't say I have much to live for, honestly. I am just functional enough to realize that I am deeply unsatisfied with my life.

I've tried many different antidepressants. My psychiatrist told me that if the next few medications didn't work, he mentioned that I might want to consider electroshock therapy.

I tried heroin with my brother a few years ago, and I got high of course (so my opinion is admittedly skewed,) but it just gave me a couple precious hours of what I imagine it life could be. I work in fintech, so I have to take drug tests, but I've used it off and on since.

I don't want to be high. I just want a life where I actually want to live, an "aspiration" I've had for years.

Maybe my desires are even more skewed due to having gotten high, and knowing that I will forever have a "high bar" for however good it made me feel, but in general it just feels like the quote says, "It gives you a taste of heaven and drags you down to hell." But I was in hell already.
To be fair, guys: find yourself in the right position in life and any act to try and enrich the thing you're calling life, enlighten yourself, and improve your lot will be considered irrational by somebody.

Best take a few steps back. He's brazen, and maybe a bit dumb. I'd probably get along with calling him too proud, mostly.

Now to reduce myself to platitudes: at least he did something. That's living. Who deserves in this life to try and come up with something new? I hope not only the few special people who were ever so lucky to be born into the right place, or have the right amount of money, or the timely and rational roadmap laid out before them like some kind of gospel whispered in their ear as if from above.

For all your favourite painters, scientists, theorists, philosophers, chefs, writers, musicians, actors, even just general stop-gap-role human beings (as the preceding rhetoric might lead me to classify them—after all what kind of animal would admire a labourer[/s]), remember: there are millions who died in obscurity, having lived more or less than this goofball, or you, and most of them didn't offer up (or didn't have the chance to offer up) any insight so that you might avoid the same mistakes. It's not that you're necessarily wrong in what you're saying outright, but maybe something else.

The unfortunate thing about social matters, is that social science is kind of trite—seemingly because it can't really be treated like science—the rules' changes depend on too many variables. I think that's the beauty of it.

You're not assessing a matter that is purely business or financial or scientific. You're reading it from the wrong perspective. Put his shoes on and just listen and learn from the experience. I think that's all there is to it. This is why we share experiences. I mean, unless you know everything and have done it all already—then I'd love to hear more from you!

On another note: if that's the response of an engineer, and their treatment of clients with a similar critique, let me know—I'll choose another bridge but those that such an engineer designed to cross any divide.

I think the right response is to ask a question.
There's some scrollbar jank on the homepage; the rendering of the page drops to just above 50fps rather than the buttery smooth 60 scrolling all the way down.

It's not going to lose you customers but it's the first thing I tested for.
Good catch. Hope you are using an iPad or iPhone. Will get it fixed! Thanks again!
The XOR problem is famously solvable by adding a layer to a single layer perceptron assuming a unit step function. This is a very basic exercise taught in many intro courses.

I agree with every second sentence:
Given that every perceptron layer does a linear transformation of the input.<- True
There is no linear function that separates XOR, and that also means there is no sequence of linear functions that separates XOR. <- False
That means there is no 1-layer perceptron that can learn XOR, <- True
and there is no multilayer perceptron that can learn XOR.<-False

Please look it up. Here are a few links:

http://toritris.weebly.com/perceptron-5-xor-how--why-neurons...

The graph in slide 3 of this link helps explain it:
http://www.di.unito.it/~cancelli/retineu11_12/FNN.pdf

http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/artificial_neural_net/x...
I get that reference.
Is this not the food halls popping up in a lot of cities?
Thank you so much for the kind words!
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csetzer/articles/wheel.pdf is a good pdf that is used as a reference in the article
One thing that's interesting is that there's a factor a lot of people don't consider.

The more appealing a lifestyle seems, the more hard work probably has to go into it, because there's so much more competition.

For instance, in the story, he had a fantasy about having a hunting rifle next to the stove and going hunting whenever he damn felt like it. Who the heck doesn't want that?

Once he gets a taste of what it's like to peel several dozen potatoes, he doesn't take it to heart. He writes it off as an outlier. Anything cool takes a lot of effort, because so many other people want to do it also. But he still thought he could pull it off, because he "loved cooking". Does not matter. If you can't do the 1001 other things required to run a business, you're hosed.
> Hope you are using an iPad or iPhone

Why would you hope that? Most mere working folk are struggling to get by. Keep your audience in mind. Make it small, tight, and fast.
> until he decided to close for a week

And it was the week before 'the slow season'? They came back to the start of a slow period. It's almost comical how little thought/planning he managed to put in to things, and after getting a 4 star review, and things picking up, he decides to close things down "for a week"? Closing down during a known 'slow period' - that makes sense. I know seasonal/tourist places that do that. This was just... yet another misstep that, as you said, could easily have been avoided.

It became painful reading this. And it makes me think... this whole notion of '80% of restaurants fail' stuff is partially due to just really poor planning or non-critical thinking ability by people up front. Of course, more planning and analysis up front may just stop people from opening in the first place, which may bring the % rate of failures down, but the overall numbers would be lower too. It's hard not to read this and think "I'd be smarter than that - I wouldn't make those mistakes" (having worked in restaurants, I wouldn't make those mistakes - I'd likely make other ones!)
It's GMV (Gross merchandise volume or GMV is a term used in online retailing to indicate a total sales dollar value for merchandise sold through a particular marketplace over a certain time frame. - wikipedia) not revenue (fulfilling the order through their service). Companies use it to inflate the topline (revenue) figures.
Fairness and opportunity != justice.
Yes, and because of the above mentioned, I am sceptical about the consequences. I don't consider it likely that the new GPU will work without proprietary firmware nor that the documentation will be better than AMDs now.
Just as an example, this program type checks in TypeScript but crashes at runtime:

class Dog {
}

class Greyhound extends Dog {
doGreyhoundThing(): void {
console.log("I am a greyhound!");
}
}

class Poodle extends Dog {
doPoodleThing(): void {
console.log("I am a poodle!");
}
}

function f(g:(Dog) => void) : void {
let hound: Greyhound = new Greyhound();
g(hound);
}

function h(p: Poodle): void {
p.doPoodleThing();
}

f(h);

`f(h);` would be a type error if function types were contravariant in their argument types. TypeScript made the unsound choice to let function types be bivariant in their argument types, which the authors claim is justified for practical reasons. More info here: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/FAQ#why-are-fun...
Why can't I upvote this comment?
Now people are used to "WhatsApp" or messaging kind of UI than a normal form filling experience. The reason is those experiences provides by WhatsApp and FB messenger are more engaging. If we engage the survey takers, the completion rate will improve, that the whole funda behind a conversational experience
I think it's a bit like being an artist or athlete. The pool of people who enjoy it is enormous compared to the demand. I personally know many people who enjoy cooking, playing music, and playing sport but nobody who would pay those people for their work. It's everyone's hobby so the competition is fierce. The odds that you are better than everyone else in that huge rabble are slim.
Sure will get it right! Thanks again
I mean, I've worked for several companies and left months before they actually launched. Any contractor who works with startups have been through similar situations.

Can't speak for OP's situation though.
I just want to point out your user name: Stanfordkid... Ironic? I'll let the readers decide...

I agree with you that "complaining" by itself is unproductive and a waste of time. However, it would be super presumptuous to say that the complainant is not doing "something" about it in meatspace. Not that there is a lot to do, which is to say: Realistically, a few people control the overwhelming majority of monetary resources in the present world.

Should we contemplate that?

I don't. I am content with my status. I can, however, understand others are not. From an objective POV, it is super ridiculous that so few control so much. Does it affect me on a daily basis? Not that I am aware of, so I press on...
What reasons are there for expecting life to be fair? Where would this hypothetical "fairness" come from?
Huh, I thought this was going to be about how old dyes sometimes used insects as a base, like Carmine.

Nope, it is about a dead grasshopper. In a Van Gogh painting.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine)
> At the appointed time, I take my phone, passport, birth certificate, SSN card, driver's license and recent electric bill with my address on it to the local SSA office.

Say I'm homeless and I literally do not have any of those things. How do I prove my identity? (To be fair, I'm not sure how I'd prove my identity under the current system.)

Regardless of this... I can't have a credit card or any kind of loan without owning a smartphone? What if I can only afford a feature phone? What if I simply don't want to own a phone? What if own a Windows Phone, and the software only runs on Android and iOS? What if I'm a developer who wants to start a new phone OS (new huge barrier to entry)?

I suppose I wouldn't be opposed to the option of having this stored on my phone, but what's wrong with just having a smart card with this information on it? If I lose it, it can still be easily revoked and replaced.
Thanks for listening. :)
Sorry to hear your team is going through a rough patch but hang in there! :)

Here is my 2c: Work on something new! This will keep your team excited and push them to learn new things! Maybe play with AR or even Ethereum DApps or coreML for iOS.

Use this as an opportunity to learn and build new awesome things. Your clients would appreciate that I'm sure!

Good luck out there!
deepsheep learning (or dipshit learning)
I didn't see OP as whining, just illustrating the reality of the situation.

If you're middle class you should still make that one throw you can afford, and if you're poor you should be taking all the damn fluffy animals and candy you can stuff in your pocket when you finish work without being caught.
Dang, I liked the orange. Blue icon is way too close to the powershell icon.
I get what you're saying, but I feel like he's more like trying to start a software business after writing a few SQL queries and Excel formulas.

How can you hire people or evaluate their work if you don't understand what they do?
Excellent, where can I trade in my ducky for this upgraded version?
Interestingly enough, those do exist, sort of. I toyed, long long ago, with starting a food business, and looked into commercial kitchens you could rent for a few hours a week; they do exist!

They're a great service for people who can go in and cook up a batch of, say, baked goods that they then individually wrap and take to coffee shops, or whatever.

The guy in the story did just about everything wrong, though, in kind of an amazingly thorough fashion.
Very cool story. I found it humorous that your first office was a tiny 100sf (for apparently 2 people), and now you have 9 people and a 400sf office. Truly an admirable startup workspace :)
I have similar experience with mental illness (bipolar 2) and that's what I thought for the first couple years. a literal wonder drug! I could be social, I had energy to get up and work, I got a boyfriend. But gradually it loses the magic - or you have to keep increasing dose and eventually if you run out of money you're fucked. I'm guessing that if you're here, like me, you're probably fairly well off.

Have you tried tramadol? Or some SNRIs+low dose opiate or tramadol? Ask your psych for a tramadol script I've found my therapist to be receptive to that as med. I find that effexor helps with withdrawals and tramadol and effexor both helped a lot more than SSRIs for me - the problem is with bipolar it causes cycling
I'm intrigued as to what your comment was in relation to though
I am in a minority of skeptics in this case. I still believe that the "imminent" arrival of autonomous cars on scale is a pie in the sky and it will take many more decades to really make this leap.

I believe we are in the same time period as AI was during 50s, 60s, 70s when huge promises of great things it would achieve were made but it took many more decades before AI started to really take off (meaning just recently).

I believe Waymo and others are still in very early stage and it will take decades to get reliable enough product which can be rolled out en masse.
Don't think you can block JavaScript with Firefox Focus (which is a different browser from Firefox).

At least, I can't do it on the Android version. The iOS version might be different...
Eh, in some sense, I am an entrepreneur. I am simultaneously quite poor and insanely successful.

Life is complicated.
Unfortunately, reality contains a lot of victims, and they deserve more help than they get. A realistic mindset is a mindset that is cognizant of victims. And it is untrue that this process -- of becoming aware of our advantages, and the needs of others -- is unproductive. C.f. the ACA, social security, medicare, medicaid, and surely more backstops like these in the future.
As a grad student, I currently do. Losing two paychecks, though, would make my life really unbearable.

Why am I deferring the ability to save money for retirement?

I'm not taking lecture classes, but my research still requires tuition.
I work in lab at least 6 days a week. I teach labs for 150 students a semester for my department, and stay up until midnight writing/reviewing papers or grading. I get two weeks of vacation year, which I take over Christmas, but never the whole period because I need to get work done before teaching starts up again.

Nobody would take out students loans to do this. Our take-home is typically enough to escape financial worry, but not much beyond it. If the bill passes, you'll see a lot of students drop out with masters, and schools will be left unable to offer science courses to most students.
So ex-bankers are starting your local bakeries and notaries and hair salons? 10s of millions of small businesses and most of them are started by rich guys? It clearly says "in silicon valley" at the end so yes it's limited to the typical example of VCs and exits.

The rich do get richer (up to a point anyway) but what I'm saying is that you don't need to be rich at all to be an entrepreneur, and some of those who start with nothing do go on to become rich as well.
Pizza Delivery Water Boat Simulator
Welcome to the new adventure game where you become a pizza delivery boy with super-fast Jet Ski driving simulator in this Pizza Delivery Water Boat Simulator. We introduce you new pizza delivery game in water city with cool realistic water boat
There are commissary style kitchens around. I know a pizza place in Seattle that started up by making pizzas out one, and allowing people to pick up in the alley across the parking lot.
That's a fascinating fact as an Irish descendant in America of emigrants who left because of the famine, but I have to wonder if it's cherry picked. Is the same true of any number smaller than 100?

If I don't get an answer, I'll try to find some demographics numbers and figure it out tomorrow.
It's not what you know, it's who you know. No matter how much money are spend on the median education, spending [much] more relative to the median buys the right pedigree and the right circle of friends.
Not blocking javascript.