skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hackers was very inspirational to me when I read it as a ~17 year old. I'd been programming off and on for a while, but just really getting into it at that point—and the attitudes of many of the folks in the book resonated strongly with me (especially the early MIT hackers).

I naively thought I'd find a group of people like this in college, and of course failed to. I moved around the country some looking for people, too (mostly in Berkeley, CA and Cambridge, MA)—but never had much luck. Definitely not saying they aren't out there, or that my searches in those places were exhaustive, but I did look and failed to turn anything up.

My current view is that it's difficult for at least a couple of reason:

1) It requires the group to have some some kind of unifying aim (even if it's very loose/general) and (ideally) a physical location members can return to regularly which fosters both serious work and the ability to relax/socialize/goof around. Seems like some makerspaces are pretty good with this, but from what I can tell typically don't have sufficient focus on software/CS to be of interest to me.

2) It's hard to search for these things because the results will overwhelmingly be filled with folks who don't actually feel much compelled by pure hacking but describe themselves as such for professional reasons. In my experience this is mostly what programming Meetups are about: making contacts to find jobs, or people trying to get themselves to learn some new tech, not because they are particularly curious but because it would improve their resume.

I think part of the problem may also be related to viewing the discovery/creation of such a group as something easier than it really is. I'd bet both the difficulty of finding it and the potential rewards of doing so are higher than people typically expect. Doing a few google searches and occasionally asking around town will not be sufficient.

That said—anyone else here in Tucson presently? :)
We use MongoDB for performance, as a kind of caching layer in front of our relational DB. Since it's pretty well normalized, joining all the tables together for a web page render takes forever, so we do that once and store it in Mongo, then just return that whenever a site needs data!
I wouldn't have been so annoyed if it was actually treated as the engineering concession that it is. From a user experience POV, the obvious thing to do with an OLED screen would have been to make the notch the same height as the status bar, and have the status bar white-on-black.

Instead, they chose to rub the user's face in it as a marketing ploy.
Sure, I agree.

My point is that just as with other design patterns, it's possible to overdo it and lose your audience. Enthusiasts can definitely go overboard here.
You could consider an electric bike to deal with hills.
True! And now I’m realizing, depending on position in the network, the server doen’t even need to exist, if one only needed to MITM the request traffic... Geeze.
Oooh, this looks really nice. Threads in Slack still feel like an afterthought, and this appears to do them right.
I see it around a fraction of 1%?

http://time.com/4064665/women-college-degree/
Yammer did a great job with this kind of sales long ago as well.
The article is excellent, but ..

> [SAAS..] spend less than 5~10% of their marginal revenue per customer on delivering

This is really, really not realistic.
Just billing through Stripe will cost you 2-3% commission.

I was involved with a financial SaaS and I couldn't believe how many sub-services they needed just to keep the product alive
The requested resource, however, could be blocked by a CSP.
But what if it's a few thousand $ cheaper? Like the $50 Kindle Fire tablet.
>the thermodynamic argument (calories in vs calories out) is only mostly true in broad strokes, as a trend.

It's not "mostly true". It's literally the only concrete truth in this whole field. If you consume X calories more than you burn you are _guaranteed_ to gain Y weight.
The problem with the “programmable semi-colon” metaphor is that you don't need a monad just to "glue together computations" (sequencing). That only requires an applicative functor. What sets a monad apart is that you can use the result of the first action to determine the second action.

Functor - If you have a value in a context (f a), you can apply a function (a -> b) to that value to obtain a new value in the same context (f b).

"Pointed" Functor - A Functor with a special unit value (a "point"). In Haskell this is part of the Applicative typeclass and the unit value is written as "pure ()" or (deprecated) "return ()". If starting from the unit value instead, "pure x = fmap (const x) unit".

Applicative Functor - If you have a function in a context (f (a -> b)), and a value in a context (f a), you can combine them to produce a new value in a new context (f b). Combining the contexts is where sequencing comes in, though there are other interpretations besides sequencing effects.

Monad - This can be expressed two ways:
1. The "join" version: If you have a value in a nested context (m (m b)), you can "flatten" the contexts to produce the same value in a new context (m b).
2. The "bind" version: If you have a value in a context (m a) and a function from that type of value to another value in a context (a -> m b), you can combine them to produce a value in a new context (m b).

These perspectives may appear rather different, but "bind" can be recreated from "join" by first mapping the function (a -> m b) over the value (m a) to obtain (m (m b)) and then collapsing the nested contexts to (m b) with "join". Similarly, "join" can be seen as a special case of "bind" with the value (m (m b)) and the identity function (m b -> m b).

Anyway, I think the article is looking at this backward. The power of (pure) functional programming lies not in providing the most powerful abstractions all the time, but rather in deliberately using the least powerful abstractions that will get the job done. Knowing when you need—or more to the point, don't need—a Monad is a key part of making your program easier to reason about. A traditional imperative language offers the power of IO and Monad everywhere, transparently, whether you need it or not, which makes reasoning about the program very difficult—any part of the program could potentially depend on and/or affect anything in the program's runtime environment. Perhaps a certain function only needs the ability to sequence effects which don't depend on their results (Applicative). Or perhaps it only needs the ability to transform a value (Functor). Or perhaps it doesn't need a context at all (pure code). The less power you demand from the abstraction, the more you can statically prove about the code's runtime behavior, which is good not only for correctness but also for reusability.
> Really? 2% seems awful. If a company signs up for your trial, they must have a problem they're trying to solve. If you don't solve 98% of peoples' problems, it seems like you have a problem getting people engaged with your product.

Also think about how many of those signups are for "products" that never get delivered. Some side project that is thinking about charging and the dev never bothers implementing, some startup is thinking of switching from per-client contracts to a self-service model and either doesn't make the switch or dies/gets acquired before they manage it. None of those situations are Stripe not meeting someone's needs, and a single developer can create an arbitrary number of those trials throughout a year.
Math papers on the other hand assume that the reader has recursively traversed and read all of the citations and knows most of the notation.
Still illegal in Germany.
We could call those “patches too. Supporting a free market always requires maintaining an environment that allows it to justify it’s means. It seems there are probably many paths to this end. This is the only proven one as far as I know. In other words, I am not aware of any healthy economies which lack healthy safety nets.
I wonder if it would be possible to approach a potential outsource that is growing, with your own team, and have them re-badged to the outsourcer with them dedicated to your project for its duration? Then the outsourcer can re-deploy those resources internally as needed later on.

This is kind of what happened at a company I used to work for -- they wanted to outsource IT, but keep their workers employed. So they found a company expanding in the area, re-badged us, and those of us that didn't stay dedicated to the original company after the transition were deployed to other contracts. The outsourcer then got an increase in pre-vetted high quality staff without the whole onboarding expense.
Isn't this a pirated copy of this book?
>> the manufacturer's network connection

> is that actually a thing for cars without a subscription?

Subarus have them. As far as I could tell, all of their cars came with a modem, and all you had to do to enable it was call the dealer and subscribe to their "connected car" service. No installation or shop appointment required, that means the modem's there and always in communication to something.

It's also pretty well known that all Tesla's have a cellular modem which they used to pull updates (and probably send back telemetry), and I don't think there's an associated subscription fee.
It is these days. Check out China Miéville for starters. And Michael Chabon won a Hugo award.
To your first question, that was done on PhD work in human cell lines and plants. What you observe is the production of the active metabolite (E.g. thiamine converted into thiamine pyrophosphate) or breakdown of the metabolite.

We are looking into that research right now with our advisors. This is definitely an ongoing research topic especially related to inflammatory diseases and cancer. We aren't making any of those claims yet since it's still hard to interpret these studies in human cell lines and small population in some of the clinical trials (E.g. the study that saw increased efficacy of a cancer drug with vitmin c). We are conducting further investigation and research with PIs that are doing this type of work. But for now, we do not have a consumer product that can measure epigenetic changes dynamically.
If you didn’t notice a lot of people on HN are heavily evangelising bitcoin.
Probably as you say they have made millions on the shoulders of other people.
Flagging anything that may deflate just a bit the bubble is part of their modus operandi.
I've seen a lot of people in less tech savvy communities ask why a non-Google URL points to Google.

They don't know what AMP is but they've encountered the URL problem.
Please do, or point to some illuminating resources. Thanks!
So, the only verified facts are that US troops were securing the materials and defending against Bolshevik attackers.
I'm not saying that a significant portion of the world population hates AMP. I'm saying: take the extremely tiny portion of people who have heard of AMP, and then estimate how many of them like AMP or dislike AMP.

AMP's detractors are few in number, but they overwhelm AMP's supporters, who are even fewer in number.
>With specific commit hashes you can verify the the version you are building with in production is the exact same code as the one your security team audited prior to release (assuming git has fixed its hash collision vulnerability)

Can we take a moment and point out that the hash collision vulnerability is still at large with no ETA? This is after years of it being considered insecure

I feel like this point continues to be glossed over with versioning systems that depend on git commit hashes.

Bruce Schneier warned in February 2005 that SHA needed to be replaced. (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis...) Git development didn't start until April 2005. So before git was even developed, SHA was identified as needing to be deprecated.

So now, 13 years later, this is still an issue.
Hi treis, we're working with one of the world's experts on Vitamin D and using clinical research based on studies conducted on populations over four decades. See one of his publications specifically looking at breast-feeding women and safe <4000 IU figures. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/09/...

Regarding the 1,000,000 Vitamin D response: typically our human customers are not 50,000lbs (a blue whale is typically 40,000lbs). However, it's probably not that unforeseeable if a blue whale has higher requirements for Vitamin D than an average human that's 195lbs. To your point though, we are careful that we do not go grossly over Recommended Daily Allowances, and our formulations reflect clinical research.
I just bought the Thunderbolt 3 Drobo, and realize it's completely pointless without SSDs. It advertises 40 Gbit speeds when using an active Thunderbolt 3 cable, but only gets about 200 MB/s with normal drives. I could probably get close to that with the USB drobo.
That's probably a good strategy. Either it doesn't work that way, and you can go happily about your life, or it does work that way, and you're happier not knowing because knowing only allows for the possibility of negatives. Ignorance is literally bliss.
With laughable accuracy: http://fox61.com/2013/05/22/fox-ct-investigation-is-costly-g...

Part of the problem is multipath due to reflections caused by buildings, hills, trees, etc. Anytime you listen to thunder or fireworks the rumble persists due to reflections off of such things. It's incredibly difficult to algorithmically remove multipath from terrestrial sources.
Leapfrogging with Blockchain: How Crypto will help emerging markets innovate
One of my favorite podcasts, Twenty Thousand Hertz, did a whole episode on this:

https://www.20k.org/episodes/mystery
I don't buy it at all. The article takes a very strangely sympathetic tone toward the whole situation.

The noise has been narrowed down to one island that has "a few blasting operations". So stop the operations and see if the hum goes away. Then have each one restart one at a time. Or bo binary search, whatever. It doesn't matter.

The obvious takeaway here is that the city/state/province does not care. They are too deep in the pockets of those industries to make any waves at all.

Government has so little power to do anything. They are just the paid legitimizers of the corporations.
A Housing Crisis Case Study: The 26th Balboa Reservoir Project Hearing
Seismologists now have some tricks for locating hum sources. Standard earthquakes have an impulsive start. So with four or more seismograms you can triangulate for the unknowns x, y, z and t0. Hum noises dont have an definitive starting time. But a version of seismology called inferometry can find the origin. You basically cross correlate all pairs of seismograms with signals. The peak lags define a hyperbolic wavefront you can invert for the origin.
This method has been used to find submarines. To look volcanic tremors which have now clear start. And Earth hum which often seems associated with large oceanic storms.

A seismologist would probably deploy seismomters in a wide distribution near the hum area. Then record continuously for about a week. And finally use inferometry to locate the source(s).
>If you could manage to consume 2,000 kcal of lettuce in a day, you will almost certainly gain less weight (or lose more weight) than if you consumed only 1,500 kcal of modern processed American bread.

No you wouldn't. That's not how energy works.

If you take two people with identical amounts of energy expenditure, then feed one 2000 kcal of lettuce and the other 2000 kcal of wonderbread, they would gain/lose weight at an identical pace. Energy is energy and all the hand waving in the world can't change that.

Of course both would eventually die of malnutrition and they could certainly have different levels of satiation... but if we're just talking about "weight loss", like the article says, a calorie is a calorie, period.
Disabling Docker ICC still allows raw ethernet communication between containers
This is a pretty small amount for them to be squabbling. Something is afoot
Commodity-backed coins are great, but why oil of all things? It's dirty, low-tech, actively polluting the air, and running out. It looks like someone just looked at a list of chief exports and thought "yeah I can make a new currency for that"
The Globe and Mail also has a great comparison of rent vs buy using numbers from Toronto (includes closing costs, taxes, maintenance, inflation, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR_vMTLfIk

(buying comes out slightly ahead assuming you don't move for 25 years, and the renter averages 7.5%/year returns on their investments, and, and, and etc.)

TL;DR buying is probably better if you don't move very often, but there are so many variables that you can't know beforehand -- that you need to be able calculate whether renting vs buying is more profitable -- that it's probably not worth worrying about.

EDIT: The NYT also has a nice visual calculator for this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal... You need to know about 21 variables (that can change over time during the lifetime of your mortgage).
That's because of the Baby Boomers. Among people in college now, nearly 60% of students/graduates are women.

If nothing is done to increase male enrollment, the statistic you quoted (% of population with college degrees) will change to match this inequality fairly quickly.
$15 / month.

Kind of not even worth thinking about when you're a developer and should be internally billing yourself for $100/hour+.
DDG is useful if you're american. I'm canadian and the results are mostly crap.
Wool works great for me as well. The old synthetic stuff (say, ten years ago) used to just get smellier and smellier until it would gross you out straight out of the washer. Newer synthetics aren't as bad, but they're still stinkier than wool.
At first thought why didn't they dump the memory, print it out and find it, after all they did write everything "raw". But then I realized by the time they could dump-print-find, it would have moved on.

It is glorious.
Venezuela's Cryptocurrency backed by Oil – the Petro – has arrived
It sounds horrendous, but I suspect that the reality is... it will be essentially fake. There’s no way this went past a legal department if it is as advertised, but as the usual “reality” bullshit? Sure.
There needs to be regulations in place so that we do not build another free market tech Stasi. Stasi was the secret policy in east germany that spyed on every move of its citizens. In other words that we do not have devices that spy on us all the time and that data is sold for profit.

Examples
Geo location based ads where you have been driving.
Real estate ads where you have been driving.
Increased health insure if you eat junk food.
Marketing from online brands when you stop by your local store.
Automatic speed tickets if you exceed the speed limit
Higher auto insurance if you speed.
More expensive car insurance if you drive reckless or honk too often.
Gym card ads if you do not exercise or eat a lot of junk food

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
While we’re kidding around, once I have your gun, all I need to do is trade a $1 bullet to get my ring back!

Given the fanaticism of the gun debate, if laws don’t prohibit the medium of exchange, you can bet that anything from scrap copper plumbing and wire, to lumber, to livestock would be accepted in some circles, in order to breathe life into a market with enough demand.
It's ridiculous. My university tried to switch the CS program from C/C++ ( OS, networking, etc ) and Scheme ( functional, programming languages, etc ) to java and there was a mass movement against it and we kept the "traditional" languages. I don't know why there is such a movement in academia to dumb down everything.
The issue at hand has nothing to do with the Presidential election, but rather Congressional representation. Even the new map would (likely) not have influenced the Presidential election in any meaningful way, but it would have impacted Pennsylvanians' ability to have their interests represented fairly in their state legislature and in Congress.
Doh, I was totally confused by the photo.
Long time hipchat user here (both DC and Cloud), the rollout of Stride rubbed me all kinds of wrong ways. They 'replaced' HipChat w/ Strie but didn't keep many of the same features/integrations and then FORCED you to switch by a deadline. I get upgrades and progress, but how about rolling upgrade, swap out the client, move everyone over automatically and not pain your users? For my team, we said screw it and 'migrated' to Slack. Give us a chance to switch, we switched.
Google's Waze does exactly that. Ads at a stoplight.

Get ready to pay the premium for no-ads. However likely very hefty!
I agree that the blunt blade of crime -> prison time is probably not the most efficient or effective deterrent or rehabilitation in every case. However, we (in the States) have constitutional protection against "cruel and unusual punishment", which is what prevents judges from getting much more creative than varying lengths of incarceration. The first judge to start blazing this trail would probably just get shot down on appeal.
I'd advise against single machine container deployment. You'll hit big problems the day you need to horizontally scale.

If you're going to dockerize, at least spread things over a two node swarm so you find these issues early.
It's true that bare thermodynamics is not great practical lifestyle advice, but it's also true that a lot of people really, truly, do not know the basics of what calories are and what they mean for weight.

I agree that no one should use thermodynamics as an excuse to be judgmental or dismissive toward people who are having trouble managing their weight.

But I also think that when people directly ask about calories (as the GP zoul did), it's worth being clear and unambiguous about the basic science.
That might be less of an issue for a car, though, given they have useful lives far beyond their warranties.

I'm not even sure how the warranty for the rest of the car would be affected if you replaced the head unit with a 3rd party one or clipped an LTE antenna.
Yea, he wished suffering on his friends, to forge them into beings worthy of respect. Etc. He did have an aggressive and elitist perspective. Ayn Rand's views are a decent comparison.
From the bottom of the document that you cite:

> We note that the bearing from Array 1 to the most probable source of the Hum points well to the South of Zug Island. The bulk of our observations from both stations do not support the hypothesis that the source of the Hum emanates from Zug Island.

Even if it is from Zug Island, "unknown origin" is still appropriate until they know WHAT is causing it.
I can't wait for the car to drive you to the store posting the ad, whether you want to go or not. Spend a mandatory 60 seconds in the parking lot.

Somehow we have to stop the madness. If only we had the guts.
I think that you should consult with an AI engineer to give you an insight that your idea is technically feasible. I suggest finding an AI researcher that will believe in your idea and join you as a partner, someone who can see the potential in your data.

I have some experience in AI, maybe I can help you.
Feel free to contact me.
They each get to put a giant back button on the top of your site that takes you back to the search results instead of deeper into your site. If Google is going to steamroll over independent websites, then the others want in on the action too. If they don't jump in, links to "your website" will all point to google.com rather than the other companies' domains.
In the post crypto currency world, your bug bounty needs to be larger than the profits from simply exploiting the vulnerability and mining on your hardware without your permission.
Must brew cofee and cook toast too:-)

How many kilowatts?