skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone ends up using English even in comments. It's just easier. Everyone knows it. And it's where most resources are.

I don't know how they can be described as dangerously good hackers seeing as they forgot to strip off all the debug information when they compiled the code .. :]
Ask HN: How likely is it to get seed funding from US for a non-US company?
We are a team of two programmers who are graduating from a top 3 engineering university in US (PhD in CS) and we are working on a prototype for our AI startup (no product yet).

However, due to visa related issues we have to go back to our home country for 2 years (country is in Middle East).

We are investigating how likely is it to search for seed funding from US investors before we go back to our country.

We talked to one investor today, and he said our situation is pretty hopeless and it is very tough to get funding from US if we are going back to our country. Is it really the case? Should we give up and stop looking for fundings in US?

We were thinking that it shouldn't change anything from investors' perspective as long as we develop the product like we promise, and we can hire 5 good engineers in our country in the price of 1 engineer in US, so we were thinking that it might even be better for investors. But our dreams are a bit crushed today. We were planning to stay for a few months before returning back in order to search for funding, but right now we are just thinking to go back asap if we are kidding ourselves.

What do you think?
Roundabout sex ain't what it used to since I got hitched... Nor is her cooking.
I like to call it strategic laziness. Knowing what to do, and more importantly what not to do is key.
Its beyond even being a legal fiction in many situations. There is no option for most people when it comes to certain terms and conditions.

Take phones for instance. You cannot live in modern society without a phone. You will not be able to get a phone, without agreeing to one of these long terms and conditions. They come from landline providers, they come from cell phone providers, they come packaged in the box in the cell phone from prepaid phone sellers.

How is saying, you're cut off from society or you can agree to a contract designed in a way that you have no reasonable chance of actually understanding it, something we want for society?
> …it is common to say 'data type X is a monad'. This statement is completely nonsensical…

I think the reason for this is that in Haskell we model algebraic structures using typeclasses, which are dispatched by type. So we say “X is a monoid, with mempty and mappend defined as follows”:

instance Monoid X where
mempty = …
mappend = …

Instead of “X, emptyX, and appendX form a monoid”:

instance Monoid X emptyX appendX
emptyX = …
appendX = …

This leads to what I call the “newtype hack” for distinguishing different monoids (resp. monads, &c.) on the same underlying type.
Too bad you can’t have an antenna array on top the vehicle. You could use that to get a azimuth and elevation bearing on the signals, using that to compensate for single reflections.
When you go to any major metropolitan city in the United States, the downtown area will typically have several large skyscrapers. Take a look some time and note how many can be included in one of these 3 categories - banks, health "care", or financial services. Our priorities as a nation are fucked and the big banks are just a giant reminder to everyone. The fact that these companies are so huge and making so much money is ridiculous.
Charlize Theron Gained 50 Pounds for Her Latest Movie Role
What you're describing is just an adhesion contract, and it doesn't happen only with consumers. For instance, around here the supermarkets have a lot of bargaining power over their suppliers, and make use of rather lopsided adhesion contracts (e.g. the supermarket decides whether, how much, and for how long to discount the product and the supplier pays for the discount).
I take it you did not see yesterday's thread concerning the new open source social network: 'scuttlebutt' ?
God damn you people are sensitive. I see a guy (swrobel) venting about a bad API and using words like "infuriating", "REASONS", and several exclamation marks. he was confused about where he was skirting code of conduct because what he'd done was express disapproval of a design decision. he quotes the coc and then alludes to clauses that he believes would actually merit a warning - "slavery" and "indentured servitude" is language in the coc. note this isn't false dichotomy because the extreme end of the spectrum he's distinguished his comments from are explicitly forbidden by the coc. yes he used a smiley. God forbid. he also apologized and but somehow that's not being taken in into account by either you or indirect. then indirect responds with a positive prescription of the coc rather than a negative proscription (ie if it were a real contract it would be completely immaterial to the case since the rules cited don't forbid things only encourage). finally supposing we do take the rules cited by indirect as negative ("only this kind of language and behavior is allowed") there's not a shred of constructive feedback in indirect's initial response other than "don't do this" which just begs the question of whether he did anything to begin with. swrobel didn't show antipathy for anyone (he vented frustration about code). he didn't use exclusive language (he didn't say anything about any people at all), and he wasn't dismissive of any viewpoints because none were expressed by anyone.

so what really happened? indirect felt he was being criticized and used his small bit of power to silence the critic under the auspices of being just. lol.
What a terrible design on that page. Just a bunch of stuff moving around on mobile.
Meh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RqdZCo6vkI
It already has support although it is not complete: http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/usage/ide-support.html
What the History of Math Can Teach Us About the Future of AI
Could't bring yourself to say "Oath Auth", eh?
I guess they need to make them more discoverable.

in any case click You->Organize. Drag photos into batch area and pick Edit Photos->Delete
They're working on it, and have been for a while now. The main problem is its just a massive amount of work. They had to develop a fail safe system almost from scratch (Which also has to be interoperable between railroads). And then they have to implement it, and since it requires installing new hardware (antennas, different processors, etc), every couple of miles along the track it is a time consuming process. And then there's all the backoffice infrastructure to manage it, and the railroad-grade hardware to be installed in every locomotive. BNSF alone has 34,000 miles of track, UP a similar amount.

It'll be really neat when its done, and its in operation on some subdivisions, its only a matter of time.

Source: Worked on PTC for BNSF.
So where the hell does the $46k/year tuition go?
I was considering taking a trip from NYC, since I like railway journeys. The NYC-Montreal (10.5 hours) and NYC-Toronto (12.5 hours) trips would be perfect... but they only have the café cars, which means microwaved, pre-made airline food.

Apparently Amtrak considers these to be "short-distance" journeys, which don't have dining cars. I don't know if these ever had dining cars, but the idea of spending an entire day with just frozen pizza on the menu is just out of the question.

And then there are the couch seats. Who wants to be in a couch seat overnight for 12+ hours? Sleeper cars were $1,500 (!) for the dates I checked. Coming from Europe, where trains are modern and super cheap, this was extremely depressing to me.

I just checked the Empire Builder for a random date in May, and they charge $2,000 for a sleeper car. It's a 45-hour journey!
Stories like this always remind me of how much we as a society love the story of unexpected loners figuring out the secret. There's nothing wrong with that, but there also some wonderful breakthroughs being made by groups of people working together.

I'd love to see a film about someone like Terrence Tao, a man best known for all the breakthroughs coming from collaborations.
Building an Iris classifier with eager execution
> The most productive programmers are orders of magnitude more productive than average programmers. But salaries usually fall within a fairly small range in any company. Even across the entire profession, salaries don’t vary that much. If some programmers are 10x more productive than others, why aren’t they paid 10x as much?

Because the 10x Programmer is a pernicious myth.

Even if you believe the original study from the '60s, it found that the best programmers were 10 times better than than the worst programmers, and only 2-3x better than the average.
The crux of the issue isn't mentioned until the very last paragraphs of the article:

"One particular concern is cryptocurrency mining—a processor and electricity-intensive computing process for generating currencies such as bitcoin. The process accounts for about 90% of Iceland’s data center industry in terms of electricity consumed"

If these data centers where actually being utilised for something useful then people would be happier about this. But no, it is just some speculators mining for crypto.
Team psychologist? It's a role that managers end up assuming, often for the worst. Unless you're the rock metal band Metallica, who actually use a team therapist, problems aren't usually sorted out other than by turning over staff, which Metallica can't do without destroying the cash cow.

It's good, but rare, to be irreplaceable.
If it was any other consulting firm other than the upstanding professionals of PricewaterhouseCoopers, then I might suspect haberdashery.
In my view this highlights an issue, which is identifying the 10x programmers, versus the -10x programmers.
Magnifying setting?
Bitcoin Is the Religion, but Ripple Would Pack Higher Return
No matter how plain the language is, it cannot benefit someone who doesn’t read it. You may argue that the lack of plain language in T&C causes the lack of reading. But there’s a natural experiment here in the form of those same U.K. financial services terms you mentioned. Do you honestly believe that a large fraction of U.K. financial services consumers are informed about the terms of financial services they are consuming? I have no data here, but the concept beggars belief. Even if they are ten times as informed as American consumers of internet services, that would mean order 1% of consumers had read the terms, as opposed to 0.1% if people reading web T&Cs.

Even that strikes me as very unlikely, just examining my internal estimates how likely I’d be to read terms and conditions if they were in plain language. I don’t think the impenetrability of the language is the main barrier to reading T&Cs. The main barrier is that there is little on the line, and, moreover, I can already guess approximately what the T&Cs are going to say.

This is just a gut reaction. If you have some data to show that U.K. consumers are significantly more informed based on these plain language requirements, I’m happy to recant.
I recently read that if you live in puerto rico full time for a tax year, you don't have to pay federal income tax, or something like that.

Apparently a lot of bitcoin people are considering the move. Move there for a year, sell your bitcoin, move back or something like that?
Purposefully misunderstanding what people write in an effort to be a smartass is a sure-fire way of creating security issues.

No, "ALL" code is not untrusted. There's varying degrees of trust. I'd encourage you to stop trying to win the argument through platitudes and do some research instead, but I'm not sure you're interested.
But....but..we got Martin Shkreli in jail! /s
Air France! Yea I forgot that one. That was very good! Iirc they had warm hand towels before each meal that were real towels instead of packaged towelettes.
PBS logo is so great, so memorable. How many logos could most people draw from memory? How many are Rand’s? I’d guess a non-trivial percentage.
Most of the popular frameworks generate a single JavaScript bundle that comprises an entire application. Some people break these bundles into multiple parts manually in a process called 'code-splitting' in order to do a really chunky kind of lazy load.
I've told my boss: You can get two junior technicians for what you're paying me, if hours of "productivity" is what you're measuring.
I always liked the OS/2 logo, didn’t know why until now.
I wonder how similar our current situation is to the 1890's, specifically yellow journalism with Pulitzer and Hearst.
Maybe they'll return the Flickr logins to users?
Because the designer isn’t Paul Rand. You earn the privilege through having tremendous success. Most designers simply can’t do that.
Dependency management isn't a concept in C++. C++ is an ISO standard language with numerous implementations; it's not a software package. A C++ compiler from Microchip for your PIC microcontroller has nothing to do with Microsoft Visual C++ has nothing to do with GNU C++ on your Linux box, etc.
Thts cool, yea ANA seems to get it. I also appreciated the bidets on the plane toilets :)
Think they'll keep the free 1TB per user? It's what I use to backup and share photos from my phone.
I hate making these types of trashy low class reddit-esque quips, but did everyone see the guest appearance by Napoleon Dynamite towards the end of the clip?
Brilliantly captured here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
There are a lot of subsidies, but they tend to be individually small.

Essential Air Service subsidies Airlines serving rural communities which significantly increases overall ridership. Air Transportation Safety and Stabilization Act as just one example was 10 billion in loan subsidies after 9/11. Another example most Airports are heavily subsidies at least during construction, but so is some airline infrastructure like Indianapolis handing over $300 million for a United Repair shop. The military intentionally creates a huge stream of trained pilots without costing the Airlines a dime.

All of this is intentional so no one subsidy seem all that large, and adding up a thousand little pieces take enough effort that nobody complains.

PS: "Per passenger EAS subsidy in the 48 contiguous states plus Puerto Rico ranged from $10 to more than $977 per passenger in 2014" but it's only ~300 million per year so no big deal right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service
This reminds me of the following by General Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord:

> "I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.

> Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous."
Paying for interesting articles is a real bummer in the age of Facebook when everyone loves being the product instead. /s
Grady booch was working on https://handbookofsoftwarearchitecture.com/ which looked to be a really good resource, but I'm not sure it's getting worked on anymore
I really like this, it's a bit buried in their "sibling projects" but there is a live rendering version as well:

https://mermaidjs.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/

Very cool project.
Just having read Gore Vidal's 'Burr', I get the impression that Jefferson was acting against Burr(Writing to Congress
that Burr was a traitor, before the trial had begun), with personal vendetta.The trial was almost a disaster for Jefferson with the chief witness for the prosecution Gen Wilkinson only averting indictment for treason only by a very thin margin, and by Wilkinson's tampering of the letters of Burr gave the impression that the government was trying to frame Burr.
Great news. Happy to become a paying Flickr customer again. There still isn’t a good place to store and share photos where it doesn’t feel like someone else owns them. Good integration with mobile and reasonably priced storage would be at the top of my list. And I agree with the overall tenor that then community is what made Flickr amazing. Happy to contribute to the efforts of bringing that back. Lots of challenges ahead, but this feels like a good thing for the internet.
Whatsapp also was born around that period. They were ridiculously faster than SMS delivery too with images and other media.

There’s a reason it got bought for 22 billion. The telcos were digging their own walled garden grave.
I am happy to hear of the new era of Flickr!

Some questions:
1. Are you going to keep the 1TB free space for everyone?

2. Do you think you'll have a desktop uploader available for non-paying users?

3. What about open-source integration (digiKam, etc)? Last time I tried, I couldn't get it to work with Yahoo authentication.

Thanks, and looking forward to the new life :)
In he UK there are actually a number of new startup banks (I believe precipitated by a change in regulation which eases the requirements for small banks).

My bank starling almost has this feature. It allows you to create "pots" which partition the money. However it is slightly more limited in that you only have one card and can only spend money that is not in a pot. You can however move money between pots instantly using the app (as well as many other useful features such as viewing/changing your PIN, and temporarily blocking/unblocking the card (useful if you lose it, but think you might find it again))
Personally I hate the NeXT logo. I've always thought about just how awful I think it looks every time I see it. This is the first time I've got the sense that people genuinely love the logo. Very interesting!
I still have an account. If there was a reasonably priced, full featured Flickr I would resubscribe.

I have a smugmug account. Is there going to be a way to marry the two??? I have 11 years of photos on Flickr and would hate to have to move them (your sys people would hate it too I’m sure).
Has the quality of Lenovo laptops really improved that much, or perhaps the quality of the competition has degraded so much that Lenovo is now king of the hill (according to the author)? Thinkpads were great under IBM, but deteriorated in quality quite a bit once Lenovo spun off.. Granted it has been 3 years since I've used one that was new (and it was crap), I've not heard of their quality improving that much since then.
How to Lose Your Best Employees
> I've always disliked the "BIG TEXT CHOPPED-OUT BUT YOU'LL READ IT BELOW AGAIN IN JUST A SECOND" paradigm in magazines and newspapers.

Just came here to say you're not alone; I've always hated this too, and I really wish it hadn't gotten adopted on the web
I didn’t see anything in that doc about limiting instructions executed, or throwing an error if some limit is reached. Did you mean to say that capability is included? Can you share a specific reference?
Segment (YC S11) Is Hiring a Back End Engineer for Personas Product
Takeaways:
1. The IBM logo was iterated on. IBM clearly didn't love the first one and it was ugly.
2. The OS2 and NEXT logos are very similar. The clients wouldn't be happy if they saw them side by side like they're displayed on that page.
Big fan of SmugMug, and I’ve been thrilled to see the iOS app get better and better over time. I’ve loved the laser-like focus of the site too.

Here’s hoping SmugMug doesn’t languish or get bloated while they take on Flickr!
LOL, that Enron logo was pretty sweet!
I would be very surprised if what they did wasn’t common sense. Their track record has been fantastic.
In the UK we actually have free instant inter-bank transfers. I send money using the app from one bank to the other bank and get the push notification from the second bank confirming I have recieved the money before the UI in the app from the first bank has even confirmed the money has sent.
Its also been interpreted by the courts to mean that you cannot grow crops you consume yourself, because you would have purchased the crops otherwise and are affecting interstate commerce.

Whether or not you agree with that interpretation, it would take some willful ignorance to say that the plain text reading of regulating interstate commerce means you can regulate all commerce because you might have bought something from someone otherwise
PBS logo was done by Tom Geismar, not Paul Rand, though Tom studied under Paul.
It's a beautiful idea, it really is...except that I doubt it will ever work in my lifetime. I can't even convince my students at the University to complete assigned readings in preparation for classroom discussions. I can't imagine trying to invert a HS or middle school class (and I've taught those, too).
I’m paying $100 flat rate for 3 lines. About $33/line for unlimited calls, text and data.

T-mobile doesn’t even charge for roaming on a whole bunch of countries. In my Australia vacation I didn’t even need to buy a new SIM card. Whatsapp and google maps all the way.

Their speeds also beat Sprint and AT&T. It’s the only carrier I have faith that screws it’s consumers the least.

AT&T has my blood on its hands by charging me $500 for roaming in Canada when I didn’t even cross the border.

T-mobile is a night and day difference.
For practical purposes, you can’t secure a dwelling without signing a long, complicated contract (be it a lease or a mortgage note). Yet dwelling is a necessity, even more so than a phone. And, in these contracts, so much more is on the line. According to your argument, you should not have to be bound by the terms of these agreements. You may indeed believe that, but I hope you can see how much of our society is based on the assumption that these agreements have force, and how far we are from moving to a state where they do not. You may wish it were otherwise, but there is essentially no chance of that change being enacted in the foreseeable future.
Yeah, I can't claim that it would be a profitable company. Just that I wish it existed!
For $1615 you could easily build a mini-ITX system with an i7-8700 and a Vega Frontier Edition GPU. I'm assembling one now, but with a RX 580, which ultimately cost me $1k (paid too much for the RX 580 because of the damn shitcoin craze driving up GPU prices)
You'd probably be surprised how fast a hand saw can cut through a board.

Buy a handsaw at the big box store when you buy your wood, cut it in the parking lot before loading it into a cab/uber/rental car. Only do rough cuts (e.g. a little longer than you need) unless you have 100% certain dimensions. Buy sandpaper and sand your way to perfect fit at home, if needed.

The 4 36" dowel rods should be purchase-able in that size. You could ask the big box store to cut larger boards, they do this in the lumber area for plywood.

If this is too much to take on - hire a handyman to do the prop for the AC and ask for them to get the other supplies.
Am I the only one who believe that the "10x programmer" might actually be someone who is just as good as the others, but actually work constantly and is self sufficient ?
Everyone is paid based on supply/demand or rather how much leverage they have.

It would take a team of scientists and analysts to properly measure how much value each employee creates (and even then, probably wouldn’t be 100% accurate).

If you can’t even measure how much each employee’s contributions are “worth” to the final product, how the hell are you supposed to pay people based on those metrics?

The answer is, you don’t.

So if you want to get paid more, don’t worry about creating more value, worry about increasing your leverage. Form a union or guild, learn a skill very few people have, form close relationships with your customers, etc.