skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No; there's no need to pay. There are a load of free dating/friendship sites. I got onto a couple about 10 years ago and made friends from dozens of countries. Learnt Spanish cause I liked the Latin Americans I met so much. (Still friends, now old friends, with a few of those original people from 10 years ago.) That just changed my life, never had so many awesome friends. Also later I joined a free language-exchange site, where you're matched with appropriate people and teach each other your native language—another very good way of making friends. Sure, it's not great for real hugs, but apart from that :-)
A place to kill time while I debate what I want in life.
Blockchain isn’t serverless either.

Invent a better name and let us know.
An intellectual soil with respect to business, technology, history, economics, and sociology.
> T-Mobile's stated policy is to get as many music streaming services as possible covered.

While that may be a stated policy, it is also obviously a lie.

Obviously, they only want specific kinds of services covered, or else they would just drop this crap in the first place, as that is the only and totally straightforward way to make sure that all services are covered.

If I run a bittorrent-based streaming service, they do not want to cover that. It's pure propaganda that they want to cover as many services as possible.
Aw, that reminds me of a story about the future Mars rover:

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/jon-rogers-a-martian-goes-hunt...
If the developer of asciinema is here, I just want to thank you for this amazing application. It is so useful and so easy to use. When I am learning something new in Linux, I research a lot and finally achieve something, only to forget how I did it a few months later. But with asciinema, I don't have this problem. I am able to record the stuff whenever I am doing anything new in Linux. Really glad to know about the 2.0 features especially that we don't lose the recording if it is interrupted.
If the raw fraction of women leaving is much higher than it is for Asian and white men, then the net effect is that a higher percentage of women are leaving because of unfair treatment than men are.

Also, it's certainly the case that unfair treatment is a problem worth solving regardless of gender.

(I don't think the design of that particular study was equipped to answer the question of what the raw fraction is / whether the numbers are in fact alarming, so people who are making that claim are not making it solely on the basis of information in that study.)
You wouldn't even need to mine it - https://github.com/HackerNews/API
I'm a drop out from school. All my technical skill are through asking stackoverflow.com. Not until I found hacker news, I got the best tools to use, have a community that supports the site. And overall, I never end the day without opening it.
The AlphaZero algorithm (monte carlo tree search with value estimator trained by reinforcement learning) works on any environment you can simulate during play time, single player or not.
Bitcoin will still dominate the crypto market
Ministry of Blockchain
Sharing Some interesting read up on ministryofblockchain.io

I think the technology behind blockchain and its possible application in different scenario is really revolutionary..
I got my first job out of college through HN at a YC startup. I am still in startups several years later and will be for a long time, hopefully. I am very grateful for the opportunities I've found and cultivated from it.
TL;DR: Cliff Notes of "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg, with a clickbaity title.
That's a fair question. After a bit of thought the best I could come up with are, depending on situation:

driven to professional exile

ridden out on a [digital] rail

digital skimmington

pilloried

[digitally/professionally] tarred and feathered
I interviewed with Gitlab for a business development position. I enjoyed writing the pre-screen essay questions, but received no feedback. The recruiter yawned through the interview and then provided no feedback as to why I was denied.

Perhaps this is par for the course in sales, but what I've learned from HN is that the value of my expected income from poker and stock gambling is higher than from interviewing with startups.

Thank you though for running a cool company
Petro Cryptocurrency – Risky Gamble or Golden Opportunity?
What about how settlements tend to start near fresh water and fertile soil? If a city grows, eventually all the best farmland gets covered in buildings that don't need to be built on fertile soil. I wonder if it would be better for non-agricultural populations to live somewhere with water but less fertile soil.
> Ocaml has both structural and referential equality tests automatically.

Yep, and Ocaml equality is a giant pain. As for ==, referential equality is almost never what you want, so it’s (IMO) unwise to expose it except as an unsafe primitive. As for =, OCaml’s “polymorphic”/“structural” equality is usually wrong for any non-trivial data structure, so all the comparison-based standard library are functorized over comparison anyway. Use of polymorphic ‘=‘ is basically banned in the codebase I work on.

Haskell’s Eq/Ord typeclasses are vastly easier to use and harder to mess up. I think this particular use case is a more or less unambiguous win for typeclasses.
Aside from all the other stuff, my interactions here have led to some great "real life" friendships.
> I don't care very much but there are a ton of people out there afraid of being damore'd.

Seriously, here is how it went down from what I remember:

Damore writes controversial internal only paper -> another googler takes the document meant for internal only viewing and shares it with the media -> someone removes most/all graphs and citations to make it look more like an opinion piece (most likely to flame up more media attention) -> journalist posts internal document without permission from company.

That is at least 2 people going out of there way (in a most likely illegal way too) essentially trying to start a witch hunt on this guy and ruin his life for writing 1 paper just because they do not agree with him.
I wonder if ITA software still use lisp.
How do regular people afford to buy?
So how does this compare to the techniques used by Energous to charge devices at a distance?
+1 for linode from me!
Can Twitter be a Truth protocol?
Controversial Wikipedia Zero Programme Shuts Down After Six Years
Ah thanks, yes it is, and extremely badly written. I couldn't stand the style for long.
I think other people do this as well. As I recall, windows encodes r/w/execute memory permission into a mask at the top of the pointer so that they avoid a table look up when they take a fault.
Khodorkovsky is a murderer, and anyone who denies this either doesn't know what he's talking about, or works for the same people that tout him in the media.

All the "everything I don't like about the world is Russia's fault" gorp is gish gallop. The two things you linked are literally a clownish witch hunter indicting Russian nationals for ... trolling people on twitter. I do not take this seriously. The fact that anyone is physiologically capable of meeting this with other than hysterical laughter at the bald faced absurdity of it will probably remain beyond my ken.
I meant more like the opposite, where you can do parallel computing in a cluster by using a simple serverless FaaS paradigm. The idea is to remove the headache of manually setting up an MPI cluster, worrying about MPI communications, etc.
Longer-term impacts of GiveDirectly transfers – first evidence
Indeed, but the US are our 'allies'.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-spies-at-sydney-unive...
I knew a 10xer and he just seemed to know everything inside and out so he made sensible design decisions. He also seemed to be always working at home. He was a nice guy, too.
So the AI is at fault then.
Instead of past opportunities, his Harvard degree gives him future opportunities. As in, something to fall back on when the startup fails. That gives him the advantage (risk tolerance) that other people don’t have (eg. single mom). So, agreeing with you but for different reasons. Harvard degree matters.

Not knocking his persistence and really like that his company helps people instead of doing facial recognition emojis.
I also spent about 10 minutes reading the relevant section of that review. Agree with your assessment. The measure is 'number of cookies eaten' broken down by whether or not the person was a randomly chosen leader and their gender. For men, the number of cookies eaten was about the same for leaders and non-leaders. For women, leaders ate about 1.35 cookies on average and non-leaders about 0.8 cookies. I don't much care for significance testing, but it would be nice to know the number of participants and the variance in the measure. The researcher characterizes this as 'in almost every instance' the leader ate the extra cookie to some publications, and as 2/3rds of the time the leader ate the extra cookie to NPR.
> Nothing but grief. I post my opinion here, and I get shadow banned. Every-time.

Your assertion is that it happens to you regularly. Have you considered that it's actually you, and maybe there is a way to express your opinion clearly without getting shadow banned?

> As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen.

As an intelligent person, one would think you might learn how to adapt your methods of expression.

I also know of occasions where people actually asked for advice on what they are doing wrong and got genuinely helpful responses. Perhaps you could consider that.

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Edit: To the people/person who downvoted - I don't care. I like HN, and I find the comments mostly valuable and the discussion mostly civil. After spending a lot of time on many forums over several decades I've come to the conclusion that this is mostly because of the strong moderation. If people are being shadow-banned here then there will be a reason underneath. They can complain as much as they like, but it's likely that if they don't change then the shadow-banning will continue. If they want to participate, and want not to be shadow-banned, then they need to change their behaviour, and seeking advice is often helpful.

So I stand by what I said, and in replying to the tone of the comment by Cytronex, I stand by how I've said it.
Does this service only apply to people with smart phones or computers with cameras?

Do people have to pay to have some huge cart with equipment next to them all the time in their home or near there bed?

Is this service only available to people in nursing homes?

There are so many unanswered questions in my opinion after looking at the website.

also, on the website it says, "at 15, she was working on an ambulance", umm what?
Thanks! That sounds a lot better than what was mentioned in the article.
Interesting content, but it really needs a proof-read. There's entire repeated sentences that have evidently been copy-pasted during a rewrite and never deleted from their original location :/.
Pretty shrewd "put up or shut up" offer by the nursing home owner. The healthcare industry is infested with rent-seekers and schemers angling to secure for themselves a thin slice of CMS or health system spending on the flimsiest of claims. A founder--with a strong background, even--who will live in a nursing home's conference room for weeks or months to prove his product's value is a world apart from 99.9% of the field.
Totally agree with the concerns of the article. When you have to write a class of comparison functions like this in many types, it's arguably a violation of the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle to implement comparison with unique, bespoke code in each type. Scenarios like this beg for a library or type system to make things easier.

In Java's case, a better solution is Guava's ComparisonChain:

public int compareTo(Foo that) {
return ComparisonChain.start()
.compare(this.aString, that.aString)
.compare(this.anInt, that.anInt)
.compare(this.anEnum, that.anEnum, Ordering.natural().nullsLast())
.result();
}

There are similar utility methods for computing the object hashCode() and toString() and so on. See: https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CommonObjectUtilitiesEx...

There's still an opportunity to make mistakes like typos here, but due to the visual consistency it's less likely. Actual logic errors in the comparison are also less likely.

A more powerful language than Java could potentially automate the entire implementation of methods like these (rather than just some of it), by reflecting over the set of fields in a class. Apache Lombok's annotations can kind of do this for a number of common boilerplate methods, though it looks like not yet for compareTo(): https://projectlombok.org/features/Data

C# properties are an example of an improvement over Java, for example, but C# class implementors are still responsible for dealing with implementing Equals(), GetHashCode(), and ToString() just like Java, as far as I know.

I would be interested to hear if there are any current programming languages that handle this use-case particularly well. Any Haskell, F#, or Scala folks out there who can comment?
Pure CGI applications (before the mod_x / long-running workers strategy took over) are "stateless" / "function as a service" insofar as the application's internal state can only live for one request lifecycle. However, they generally ran with the external state (ex. local filesystem) preserved between requests, so the approach was still often a bit different than it is for modern FaaS applications, where state can only live off-server (ex. in a remote datastore or another service).
Thanks for your comment. We get over 1000 applications a month and we want to make sure everyone has a good experience. I'm sorry to hear yours wasn't. I've asked the peopleops function to comment. We monitor what score people that applied give us, it has improved from a low 3 to a 4.3 out of 5 in January.
There are plenty of people who have inside sales jobs that are commission only. Most sales reps at recruiting firms with split desks would laugh at the notion that 100 calls a week is soul crushing. Most of them are placing 120+ cold calls a day.
I don’t disagree with you, buts it’s also possible it was modeled/extracted from something non-public.
Through HN (and PG's) essays:

- Insight to plan 1 year sabbatical (financially and technically)

- Shipped a 3D game from ground up in that sabbatical, learn 3D graphics was the objective of that

- Got a scientific developer job as a result of that game, part of which was to contribute to OSS Libraries

- Now working as a freelance 3D graphics engineer

- Introduced me to Lisp which I have used ever since to learn hard topics

- Wrote a 3D asset kit for iOS, which is open source.

NONE of the above would have been possible at all without HN (and PG's) essays. Thanks a million!!!
I'm very curious as to whether there are any other communities on the web that are as generally "high quality" as HN (bonus points if those communities are tech-focused or tech-adjacent). Anybody got any links?

To date HN has the highest (consistent) quality of any online community I've encountered
I see the 10x thing happen with math. I spend a long time figuring out an algorithmic way of getting a pretty close approximation for some mathematical result, but it only works for small numbers and takes a long time. Then someone gives me the closed form solution and it takes one line of code, is arbitrarily close to the answer, and has constant runtime for any size number I care about. That is more like infinity-X programming, and makes math appear like a magical incantation that controls this mysterious world. It can almost convert a man to Platonism.
There's a better discussion of this with the author on Fresh Aire.
Most "FaaS" apps also access a remote datastore as well. The fundamental value of most web software applications revolves around state transformation in some way or another. FaaS just "cleans up" the application state insofar as it forces the state boundary to a comparatively slow edge and doesn't let you, for example, store things in in-memory shared datastores.
By studying posts, I inferred that a majority of AI research was conducted on Nvidia cards, due to software infrastructure, network effects, and switching costs. This stiffened my resolve to hold on to NVDA.
I would guess there is a lot of home schooling, since they believe that public schools either (1) provide low quality education [ironically due to lack of funding], or (2) brainwash their kids with liberal socialist values.
yeah that was my take too. I have zero clue what's involved with the hosting of this and as it's an open source serverless product that's the most important bit. How easy or hard it is to use is irrelevant if i don't know _where_ to point things or what to do to make there be something to point things at.
Food for my curiosity.
No, I haven't.
What is Trump doing against blacks?
So I will never know the answer to this question- but I would love to know if his parents knew the admin staff or two degrees away (or if he, himself, did).

I don't find is coincidental that it ended up being close to his folks.

I would imagine a backstory something along the lines of "I've got this solid idea for fixing a big problem, let me reach out and find some partners" and of course he tells his parents. As things progress on (and perhaps tend to fizzle) he or his parents push a little harder on "coming back home" and working local. Don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong, bad, etc etc here, I just bet something like this is how we got here.

As for sleeping in the conference room... well he's building tech to be used onsite- and I would expect a not insignificant amount of the types of medical issues he's working on providing this service for happen through the midnight hours and whether he chose to be on-site it shows real dedication to what he's trying to do, for sure.

As for the degree- you're not entirely wrong- it's pure conjecture without knowing more- but I don't think we can assume having a top name education doesn't help with funding, YC or not.

Edit: fixed complete miswording on my intention
You are committing so obvious fallacies it's just not really believable that you aren't aware.

> They assume "If Spotify is free, they must be baking the cost into non-Spotify data". Which is not true.

So, how is that data paid for then? Or are you saying that there are no costs associated with providing that service? Does it not cost anything to operate the cell towers that transmit the spotify data?

> Zero rating lets ISPs allow usages that would otherwise turn people away from data completely,

So, let's compare two scenarios that only differ in whether there is zero rating involved:

1. The customer has a data cap of 100 GB for n $/month.

2. The customer has a data cap of 10 GB plus an average (across customers, not enforced for individual customers) 90 GB of bandwidth that is limited to specific services for n $/month.

What advantages/additional usages does the limitation to specific services in the latter case allow that the former does not?
1.
Indexes start at 1.

It's not my opinion. In any area other than programming, the term index has a specific meaning and indexes start at one. The term used in C for arrays should be called an offset, not an index. It's the wrong word. We called 2^10 a kilobyte too, even though kilo means 10^3.
I like HN because despite the liberal bias (IMO) responses to my conservative views are often decently thought out. Of course I get the down-votes too, but it helps me maintain my martyr complex. Best of both worlds.
Also you could resolve hashing in the same way: i.e. making sure that hashing is consistent with equality. Two objects of the same type are equal if f(a) == f(b), and have hashcode hash(type, f(a)).
It's mostly a joke. I've worked on a few things that "needed" to be PDFs with links inside them, because the clients couldn't decide whether they wanted a print version or a digital version, and went with "both". I won't write off the idea that it can be done usefully, I've just never seen it result in anything but a bad user experience for both use cases.

I'd agree your use case is a good one for LaTeX.
I appreciate the explanation, but you misunderstand me.

I get "serverless". I totally get lambda and some of the other open source clones of it. What i don't get about "Whisk" is if this is something that builds on top of existing serverless infrastructure that makes it better, or if it's it's own serverless infrastructure that you have to install on your own servers, or ... what. they're completely opaque about the actual server side infrastructure of this "serverless" platform.
I would add Radim (Gensim, Data Science)

I was pretty excited when he responded to my comment one time
A taxonomy of ways books change your worldview
It's eerily amazing that you just described me. Trying to keep the spark alive at 33. Hopefully one day.
An introduction to a community that just so happens to be centered around technology.

As far as my career goes, it has given me a wealth of perspective on the different tools people are using to solve their problems.
It looks like OpenWhisk right now deploys onto JVM application servers you provision yourself, using runc+Docker and Akka clustering under the hood to orchestrate everything. I think they have plans to target Kubernetes as well. FaaS/"serverless" (a terrible name) is just a layer over an orchestration/deployment system (like Kube) that spins up instances in response to triggers / events and handles routing and scheduling of the instances in a way that's supposed to be transparent to the end-user. https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/do...
Yeah, well, exactly 0 would probably have contacted him if he didn't have the degree. He's not that much of a stud, most founders would die for an opportunity like that.

Also, mass emailing a list of 2000 isn't exactly cold calling. Odds are good he actually called this one and did the full press because his parents DID live nearby.

That all being said, the moral of the story is still very sound.
Were they actually saying "inferior" or "less interested"?Those are completely different things. One is supported by evidence and the other isn't, as far as I know. Even if it isn't, what's wrong with discussing an article about it? Not everything on HN is textbook-level confirmed facts.
Sorry, I meant analyze. I actually am writing a blog post right now on this (this thread was very inspiring). Should be up in a day or two at https://applecrazy.github.io/blog
Is there a link to the video presentation, that anyone can share?
A similar story with me and AppCodes.

I wasn't struggling, since my mobile app business was already giving ramen profitability (which is around ~1k/month in Poland). I wrote a post onto HN, outlining new features of our service ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693151 ), it got to the front page, and was picked up by TC shortly afterwards.

6 years later, I moved to other projects, but still maintain the site, and the site still brings profits, and has happy users :)
Excerpts from 'The Clean Coder'
Thanks, great links! I bought the 'Fixing My Gaze' audiobook and I am researching vision therapy as a potential surgery alternative.
Until I saw this title, this wasn't really something I was worried about.

But now I'm worried.

On a more serious note the moon will stop drifting away once it's orbital period matches the length of an earth day.

It's like a kind of "friction" where the daily rotation of the Earth tries to speed up the monthly rotation of the moon.
Markdown is fine for small snippets, READMEs, Github comments etc., but I don't think it's suitable for a longer document such as software documentation. After thinking about that problem and exploring options for a while I have come to believe that some lightweight markup that can be converted to DocBook may be the way to go. I have blogged about such a pipeline here: https://nablux.net/tgp/weblog/2017/04/02/lightweight-semanti...