skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine why such a standup guy would tell his acquaintances he was "laid off" haha
Typically not.
Ask HN: In what areas should one contribute to Swift on non-Apple platforms?
In what areas outside of the Apple ecosystem would Swift provide the most value to the most people over alternatives?
> I'd guess 99% are looking for peace with a very small minority in favour of violent action.

This so called 99% never oppose and stay silent at the best case or sympathize openly at the worst case and this sucks for everyone including muslims and non-muslims. Its impossible to have peace without muslim co-existence with other communities without koran going another version like the new bible. The problem is because koran asks for the state to be controlled by sharia law and sharia law just is not good.
it expired >100 days ago. Im guessing people are supposed to go here:
https://www.godaddy.com/help
They mention inter-satellite optical links, but an operational space-to-ground optical system might be tolerable.
Something I find quite strange is how South American countries pervasively discourage people from flushing used toilet paper (instead preferring to have a little wastebasket to collect it and later throw it away in the trash). The usual account of the reason for this is that the plumbing can't handle it -- which you also hear about some old buildings in the U.S.

OK, but this norm persists even in buildings that were constructed within the last decade, like some super-recent hotels and airport terminals. Surely the plumbing there should be able to handle toilet paper, right?
But by a model made for the other 364 days per year.
And backup solutions too:

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/storage/data-protection-solutions....
You'd presumably get the nukes to the asteroid with conventional chemical rockets, although I suppose some sort of Project Orion propulsion system is not out of the question. That's what you'd want to do once you got there; you'd basically be counting on nuclear weapons as an incredibly energy-dense form of rocket fuel.

There's nothing that comes close to the MJ/kg of a modern thermonuclear weapon.
If you got poop on your arm, you wouldn't smear it around with a dry piece of paper.
There's a little-known link between Informix and DB2.

Back in '86, DB2 lacked a mechanism to run ad hoc SQL from a file. They had SPUFI for terminal use but apparently nothing you could just wrap in JCL and fire off.

Informix developed a product called Batch/SPUFI to do exactly that, along with porting their Ace report writer to use on DB2.

We got it working, but the company abandoned the entire mainframe product line soon thereafter.
> Humans are very good at getting the correct sense from text with typos, but not so much with arbitrary replacements.

That assumes that you leave the typos in place rather than fixing them. If your goal is to type error-free text, then which one leads to the correct text faster? Autocorrect and then fixing the occasional word it gets wrong, or trying to edit away typos on a tiny screen?
Thank you, I only realised what the other conversation was about as I hadn't been taking any notice of the responder's moniker. Point taken and again thank you.
Well, yea. But ignoring the existence of the recipes that you do need just because you want a custom one for something else is silly.
The pool's estimated isn't drained, but its "objective entropy" is reduced; ie. the amount of state leaked to the outside goes up. Of course, practically you can't recover that information within a usable timespan, so it's academic.

Actually, now I sort of wonder what would happen if you encrypted a quantum superposition so that to determine which branch was taken would require reversing an operation using, at the lower bound, more computation than is available in the universe. Would it hold, or collapse/decohere?
I've worked at places that imported 1000s of college grads per year. In environments like this, there's no way to avoid office romance. The best you can do is put "No dating subordinates" in the company plan, and avoid serving excess amounts of alcohol at company events. (At one of the place I worked, the reason they stopped hard alcohol had to do with a DUI rather than harassment)
I've always been extremely impressed with Drudge's design.

It's quick, easy to maintain, and has been completely mobile optimized since the flip-phone days.

It is built around showing you information, instead of information being an excuse to show you ads. Matt understands what he is providing and that insemination of information is more valuable than any extreme monetization strategies.

It doesn't have a confusing landscape of sections, icon fonts, ad videos and promotional content that prevent newcomers from understanding the flow. It takes but a few clicks before you are intimate with the interface.

It is the quintessential "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

I just wish there were more publications of this style that weren't hyper-conservative and biased.

For another example of a beautifully designed site that puts information first, look at Cryptome.

https://cryptome.org/
That plumbing eventually connects to infrastructure constructed decades ago which presumably cannot handle the paper.
> Without nukes - the US and USSR would have likely started a bunch of scuffles here and there.

They did.
Strive to work smart, add the "hard" part as you see fit. Not the other way around: working hard but dumb won't leave you time to find smarter ways.
Two of IBM/Informix's top engineering guys started at Informix itself in the 1980s and are still there now with IBM; one even left Google to return. I worked with both for years.
"The question is, if toilet paper becomes a luxury item, can Americans live without it?"

The article itself appears to be part of the marketing machine. I don't at all consider toilet paper a luxury, in fact using water seems far more satisfactory and hygienic.

Japanese style washlets and european bidets are the luxury, um, end, of the market. If anything, plain toilet paper is set to be discarded as a rather unhygienic relic.
No, "semantics" suggests that the behaviour is approximately the same. Spellcheck highlights possible errors and awaits user action, while autocorrect silently changes things. They may use the same dictionaries, but they are only distantly related otherwise.
Shit shower shave.

The trick is in the timing.
I have a form of insomnia where I just can't convince myself that I should just go to sleep and stop checking YouTube, hackernews, Wikipedia, various interesting articles.

At it's core, solution presented in the article -- apart from methods for dealing with anxiousness -- is to deprive oneself of sleep, but making sure to always wake up at the same time.

My issue is that I don't have any major problems when getting little sleep and I don't have anxiety. I just want to do more than there are hours of the day.

Several days of too little sleep do end up being detrimental, however, so I would really like to break this habit.

I would love to hear if anyone here knows of a way to deal with not wanting to go asleep, because there are other more interesting things to do. How do you convince yourself that you want to go to bed most of all, and not do anything else?
If the signs say don't flush anything down, they usually mean anything other than toilet paper and bodily excretions. Flushing tampons, pads, condoms, whatever the hell else is in your pocket is common and that is what those signs are discouraging. Toilet paper is designed to basically disintegrate once it gets wet, so it is not causing any problems in plumbing
Stanford continues to own the land—I think they almost exclusively lease it (even if it is long-term).
The 401k isn’t expensive. Especially with newer startups offering payroll and 401k. Matching. That’s expensive.
Toilet paper use is a sign of an uncivilized society. Civilized societies uses bidets in their various forms, with the Japanese ahead of everyone else.
Which are often not flushable. [1] [2]

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/flushable-wipes-clogging-canad...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/nyregion/the-wet-wipes-bo...

Edit: And, just in case you wanted to know more: they cause serious damage. [3]

[3] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/putrid-130-ton-mass-...
And restrooms in stores along the U.S. border where people cross from Mexico often have to have signs in Spanish telling people to please flush their toilet paper and not throw it on the floor beside the toilet or go out into other parts of the store and drag trash cans into the restrooms to dispose of it in.

(This is not intended as a criticism of Mexicans, merely a comment on the fact that just across the border such practices still remain very active. Unfortunately due to the clash of expected practices, their belief that it's necessary to avoid clogging plumbing, and the U.S. lack of such a practice meaning there isn't a wastebasket beside each toilet, it often leads to rather unhygienic restrooms. In some cases, stores compromise and put wastebaskets in as well so everyone is satisfied.)
Fortress made a fortune in the MBS market. They aren't experts in biotech, but they are very deep in asset backed loans. This isn't "Let's fund a unicorn" situation, it's "Let's get an above market return on a loan where we can claim assets in excess of principal if it goes belly up" situation. The real question is "What are those assets?" but the investment wouldn't be made if they weren't there.
Always worth mentioning on these threads: http://www.sfyimby.org/ - these people are doing real work and getting stuff done. In San Francisco, Sonja Trauss is running for supervisor: http://www.sonja2018.org/ - well worth a donation if you care about housing in that area.
People on craigslist will happily accept your deposit and write you a lease whether or not they have any legitimate authority over the property.
Perhaps, but often the expectation is extra work with no extra pay, and your other deadlines don't shift.
In many Central and South American countries, flushing toilet paper is explicitly discouraged.
My 20yo cousin works at UPS only during holiday times. They certainly scale during holidays already... just maybe not enough.
Numerical computation is just one part of scientific code. Linear Algebra, data analysis, modelling, and visualization, are equally important.
Why not just find another remote job...?
In Cuba, we were told in no uncertain terms not to flush toilet paper (or anything else, of course).
A preview of the U.S. without pensions
Experiment. A Volca is a really cheap way to start, a minibrute is not much more but considerably more flexible. For ~$400 you could pick up and old Virus A, which is DSP-based but has a great sound all the same, especially in unison mode, and is such a well-specified and designed synth that you'll learn a ton of things that could take you several years to pick up on a piecemeal basis.

Of course software solutions abound but there is no substitute for knob twiddling, and doing it in software makes it too easy to look without really listening.

As far as reading material goes, this is the best course available: https://web.archive.org/web/20160403115835/http://www.soundo...
Mg is one of the best supplements out there. For sleep and general stress. You can literally feel more chill the next day.
The answer is imprecise, erroneous humans.
this question seems strange to me. are you looking for help understanding what you should learn? how to learn some specific thing? how to get a job doing something other than mobile apps? if you really want to understand how things work not only are there vast resources but innumerable neckbeards who would be happy to spend days talking about something like memory allocation.

if you want to learn something, learn it. the resources at your disposal already are extremely broad and deep.
Wait, really? That’s shocking to me - I would have assumed the entire link was encrypted E2E. Are there technical limitations that make this infeasible?
A fairly common special case of printing integers is printing all integers from 0 to N. In that case you can use a trick: Keep a string representation of the current number and increment the string representation.
Satellites are a poor choice for this particular problem (i.e. when you think an adversary may cripple your communication capabilities), because they can be disrupted, especially if your adversary is one of the premier states in spaceflight and weaponry.

A more resilient choice is troposcatter [1], which has evolved since the 50s [2][3]. A nice property of troposcatter is that it's difficult to intercept and difficult to disrupt between the origin and the destination.

Of course, such a system still lacks the bandwidth for day-to-day commercial usage, by orders of magnitude.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_scatter [2] http://www.comtechsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Tro... [3] http://www.mwrf.com/systems/troposcatter-system-maintains-50...
Also, I found this article on flushable wipes really interesting! [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/are-wet-...
First, huge respect for bootstrapping. My co-founder and I ran a bootstrapped company together for over a decade. Skipped our own paychecks three times to ensure we made payroll for our team. But I’m sure you have your own stories just like that. Again, HUGE respect to you and everyone that operates without a backstop.

We went just over two years in our venture-backed company before hiring anyone. Built the business to nearly $200k ARR. Everyone we told was amazed. But if 2 people can’t operate a business with only $200k top line, you don’t need a complex financial model to know that your economics aren’t where they need to be.

So, yes, you need to have revenues and cash before you can hire and pay salaries. 401k is only a little further out than that.
koniku.io

Some biotech company who makes computer out of living biological neurons.

But so far they only show odor sensing technology. Not even demo of a neuron computer able to do MNIST image classification.
We're distributed in 8 timezones and 10 countries. My cofounder and I started in SF, but I moved to Japan partially for this reason. I force remote first (and we've been like that since the start) the horror stories in this thread all sound like horrible mismanagement from companies trying to "add it on" rather than have it be a first class policy.

We spread our decision makers across 4 countries and ensure that there are multiple points of contact, otherwise you end up with exactly what you're describing. It's a real shame when this happens. Remote is harder and you definitely need to account for it.
Non paywall anywhere?
Having used bidets in India and Japan I can never go back to toilet papers if I've a choice.
US Citizenship by birth is a right granted by the US Constitution and has very little to do with the State of California.
I like to try to understand what someone is hoping to get out of their job. People have any number of reasons for working, from 'putting food on the table' to 'changing the world.' There are a lot of intermediate motivations as well.

I try to understand that because I have a fairly good idea what the job can offer and the extent to which the job can be tailored to help align it with the employee's goals.

I try not to generalize. I start with the thesis that someone who loves their job and that job is meeting all of their current personal goals, will stay working on it until one of those two things changes. In my experience that sort of change generally takes years not months.

When people go job to job to job, it can be simple like they are trying to ratchet their salary up faster than the typical 'annual' raise cycle. It can be complex like they are taking jobs that meet some requirement they have imposed on themselves but they don't actually like those sorts of jobs. Or it can be something else entirely. I'd like to understand what it is so that I can gauge whether or not the person is likely to stick around long enough to have an impact or not.
> If some of the plaintext bits are known, in theory the unpredictability should decrease. For an extreme example: if all 128 bits of plaintext are known, and all 128 bits of ciphertext are also known, there should be a single 128 bit AES key that maps that input to that output, so the entropy left in the key would be zero.

This is correct if either:

1. the planet held enough energy to perform a brute-force attack on a 128-bit key (it doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle ) and such an attack could be performed while the protected information was still relevant. Or:

2. You have an algorithmic break on AES that allows the attack to be carried massively more efficiently, enough to make it practical.

Cryptographers refer to this situation as 'winning'.
It's basically a three stage thing...

1) I lecture / we talk about what a board does

2) Class brainstorming of what characteristics you would like in board members of a company you founded & what advice you would like from your board

3) We use the really rough evaluative framework from part 2 to analyze a couple of real boards (I've used Theranos, a startup I used to work for that shows up as a lot of examples in class, and some third one that is in the news)

Key point is basically: gravitas, technical competence, business savvy, market insight, and engagement are important but none of them are solely useful. Your board is an asset...and if it isn't you should look at why. Your board helps you make decisions they aren't just for enabling.
I assumed it was mocking the tech industry's infamous tendency to assume that anyone 30+ is past their prime, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15974603
Sorry, do the links below the miner not work?

Yes, it is another miner, but the idea was to flip the idea on its head. Instead of being a site that annoyingly is also using your CPU cycles without your permission, this site is just a miner and that's all. Similar to the Million Dollar Homepage from the 2000s.
Given that it's 2017 and a huge fraction of the traffic is HTTPS anyway, is there any practical benefit to this?
See the comment above, and on my website. Yes- this is an experiment akin to and inspired by The Million Dollar Homepage. I don't know if it will work, but it's an idea.
Any ideas for very large prints? Tried to make a mask 3 years ago that spanned 12 sheets of cardboard (eventually had planned to do it in fiberglass resin). Predictably the seams of the paper made the mask too weak.
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
Will someone who is looking for a objective reason to not trust the WSJ on the environment care why it is wrong/alarmist? This is perfect for confirmation bias.
Would it lead to fewer cases of mistaken pharmaceutical identity to exclude medication names from the autocorrect dictionary, or to include them?
Isn't it kind of weird when a package arrives freakishly early? It's easy to imagine how a package could arrive late. Early? Harder to imagine how that happens.

I ordered a chess set from "Chess & Bridge" in the UK. I'm the United States, in the general vicinity of Seattle, so it had to not only cross the Atlantic to the US, it then had to cross the whole continental US.

I paid for no special shipping, defaulting to some kind of international mail with an estimated 30 days to delivery.

The mail woman brought it to me 4 or 5 days later, completely surprising me.
where do folks in the burbs often work? the city (Manhattan's daytime population is 6m - it's residential population is 1.6m or so)

how do they get around in the city? public transportation

there's no us and them here
Autocorrect is a huge feature for most users, myself included. I have bad typing, and it's often much faster than looking something up in the dictionary. For every miscorrect it get's dozens right.
Agreed, toilet paper falls short in nearly every regard compared to a bidet or a "bum gun". Using water is faster, cleaner, and more environmentally friendly.
Actually, this is the case in some Asian countries as well including parts of Japan and Indonesia.
The problem is you have to notice the autocorrect error quickly to be sure of that working. When you miss one and notice it later, you may have forgotten what word you intended. It's also more of a problem when you don't notice it, as it may change your meaning or render it incomprehensible to a message recipient.

I notice this kind of problem a lot with dictation, where it can completely transform the look of a word, and I sometimes have to say it out loud to try and figure out what I might have meant that sounds similar.
Patrick,

How do you view and approach "productization" of consulting services that are primarily information/education-based (vs. coding something)? Specifically with a mind towards scaling beyond the limits of your available time?
But it doesn't in this case. It aggravates me as well, the indisputable facts are more than convincing on their own, but when someone starts stretching the truth, I get very suspicious and critical.
I wonder how well 4QAM or something similar does in those situations. 2Ghz is a pretty fast rate, 8gbs + FEC is probably still not that large of a link though.
Sure. These days the point isn't to eavesdrop, but to insinuate that you could credibly disrupt communications.
Yup, pretty much any modern game is going to have a scripting/rapid prototype layer at the top. Unity's just happens to be C#.
A blockchain system will still work if a minority of the players are down or disconnected. When they come back, they resync to the majority view. That's a useful robustness feature.
Holy shit! A hand-spray is any day better (than of course a hand and mug to the rear)!

- India
Author here. The goat was about 10 sheets of A3 cardboard.

Solved the seam issue with paper tape. The larger the tape area, the better.

To give cardboard more rigidity, you can paint it with vinyl glue
Show HN: Joiner – Spin up a data warehouse in 5 minutes
Should take a look at flatbuffers. It’s an evolution of protobuf that’s super optimized for querying sunsets of data. Basically lookup of offsets and mmap all the way.
In Korea there are buildings that still insist you don't flush toilet paper. They usually say specifically toilet paper. My position is that it would not be dangerous to ignore this, firstly, because like you stated toilet paper is very weak when wet, and secondly, the impression that I got was that it was mostly an old-fashioned idea.
Most companies were started because someone needed something fairly mundane done.

Even most inspirational companies were started more or less along these lines.

Extremely few companies were started with a highly aspirational 'world changing' premise. Even the most aspirational brands we recognized, early on - they had no idea they would be as big as it they are.
Well, why not? Ideally it should detect the language(s) you're using and use an appropriate word list, and surely subject context would be just as useful?

Of course, not everyone actually wants autocorrect. For me it's about 50% helpful and 50% a hindrance.
This is quite interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193353

and not too long ago a big portion of Internet were rerouted to Russia (BGP). One must wonder what they are up to.

Perhaps the Russian is mapping the world’s Internet, particularly on identifying critical infrastructure which without them would paralyze the world.

My theory is based on North Korea. Imagine NK owns its own cable (I believe they just have its own country interent, but still rely on the global cables) or is successful to hijack while severing communication of the rest of the world, NK can strike its adversaries without worries. Apply this to Russian. We are so dependent on the Interent (think dns and ntp), we are doomed if we can’t communicate (let alone getting emergency alert).

Btw, I can’t help but have to leave a note about the last part of your username... :)
Not India.