skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So why are they so vilified?

Just look at them, you can already see they live on the results that others produce. It's just about cloning other company's business idea. It's also a philosophy such kind of people apply to their whole life.

E.g. to their employees they probably set nearly unachievable goals. Then they start a vacation, while the employees are left to resolve the mess.

Customers and business partners? Often hear promises, but day by day requests for updates are responded with suggestions that leave the partners in more complicated questioning situations, maybe even stuff they should do to clear things up, so that they don't realize that again they didn't receive any results.

I don't even know much about these guys but from life experience and that photo this is my guess. Let others confirm or deny how correct it is. The article seems to confirm it. (only read after typing my guess)

> "I very rarely do interviews -- almost never,"

public, written proof of promises nobody intends to hold are annoying, right?

> Oliver takes issue with the prevailing notion that he and his brothers are driven purely by money. "If I was motivated by money alone, I would have stopped a long time ago," he insists. Rather, he suggests that what galvanises them is winning: "To prove over and over again that we're the best," he explains.

Let me put another quote against that: "It is not sufficient that I succeed – all others must fail." I strongly believe this is really their drive. They would do the same even if it would make a lot less money.

> Christian [i.e. person in very important position] was one of 50 people to drive Rocket, so losing him has no impact

As a German I have to say they are a disgrace and I'm sorry for their existence. I can tell you this: This kind of thinking is Southern German thinking, Bavarian. However neither Bavarians nor Germans really consider them Germans. Germans really are straight-forward, hard-working people, not bullshitters. Sadly since roughly 1936 Germany is lead by Bavarian/Austrian people, because they have more money and where lucky+sneaky enough to end up on the winning side with each political change.

They seem to have government support though, since Mutti Merkel really wants to turn Berlin into a Silicon Valley.
I wonder how execs at Twitter feel when they read research like this from outside Twitter. It’s common knowledge that Twitter has a huge sockpuppet problem, and it’s an open secret that the “problem” is actually beneficial to the price of TWTR.

Ignoring that conflict of interest is easy, if the problem remains in the shadows and nobody has a solution to it. But there are dozens of research papers from the past year that could all be applied to wiping out the sockpuppet population on Twitter. Yet Twitter does nothing. How long can they sustain this strategy when research increasingly demonstrates Twitter is neglecting real options to address the problem?
I suspect that the single threaded processing will be slower than i3 as its missing the Turbo Boost spec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Boost
Thanks for summarizing it better than I did. I'll edit and make that a bit more clear.
This is an interesting article in the sense that it is impossible to comment on it without making the point of the article even stronger.
Just to clear, there are about 3500 or 4000 species of mosquitoes, and if we eradicated the tiny handful that carry malaria, Zika, etc. it would only have positive results. That would leave thousands to continue pollinating and serving as food for fish, frogs, and other wildlife.
Wondering what distinguishes project champions from their underperforming peers?
Springs are terrible when driven by biological "pistons". Applying a certain amount of force is much harder in some phases of the pedal stroke cycle than in others and springs would make it impossible to go easy when you want/need to.
This is absolutely on-point.

I used the Type Cover "3" and "4" (current) extensively; while they're impressive feats of engineering and some of the best keyboards for the weight/size/thickness, they're nowhere near a normal laptop keyboard, the attachment angle is wrong, and if you have large hands, outright uncomfortable.

I actually try to steer people interested in Microsoft's Surface line towards the Surface Laptop and Surface Book these days, in no small part because of the improved keyboard experience. I'd strongly recommend going to BestBuy/Microsoft Store and trying a Surface Pro with Type Cover for a long period before buying, then try the Surface Laptop/Book.
Something similar is happening in Holland, where it's possible to see where the historical fields were within current field divisions.

https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/nederland-zo-droog-dat-zelfs-hi...
Snap stock rises after report of Amazon-tied visual search feature
Clojure is for type B personalities (2015)
Gardens also degrade. That's why we invented gardening, checks and balances and reforms.
No. These are static screenshots. I am not planning to make them interactive for now.
He says "seeming irrationality". Meaning something that is judged irrational by our logical system, which has limited capacity thus limited information.

He says that, if you account for certain biases, the much higher capacity emotional system can be a useful input feature for the final decision.

In summary, don't trust the input of your instincts blindly, it is biased. However, flawed as it may be, it is probably based on much more information than your logical decision, so you should not discard it completely either. Try to account for biases, better yet, train your emotional system for less biased decisions.
Correction: in rich country academia.

Go check up on how many people credit being able to finish their studies due to SciHub being available to them when the institutions they are affiliated with did not have the funds to be able to stay current.

There is a tendency to conflate 'I don't have this particular problem' to 'This particular problem does not exist'.
> Sometimes it's better to consider the emotional effects your decision has, rather than just the logical reasons to pick A or B. I learned that the company lives and dies with their employees so sometimes making the rational decision can cost you a lot, even though, most people would agree with you about it being the right decision.

You talk about eschewing "just the logical reasons", and then describe a perfectly logical decision making process. I'm confused.

Do you believe that logical decisions can only involve quantitative factors?
Does anyone think the CPU is decent enough for Windows 10?
I've noticed it after releasing the screencast. Maybe I'll consider renaming but looking at their license you cannot use a similar name only if you use their lib, and I don't
Sure, I'm just arguing that these should be seen more as strategic investments than as sign that these companies are about to roll out RISC-V chips right now, like GP implied.
Can I suggest that the whole "Lean startup" process is an example of dangerous hyper-reason?
You're A/Bing your test subjects, you're responding purely to data and a dogmatic following of the technique results in you never asking how your users/test subjects _feel_ but only how they behave. Thus we end up with software like Facebook that arguably makes a lot of people sad while being unable to stop using it.
It is a very hard spring, not something squishy like front fork suspension.

The biggest downside would be eventual wear of the driveshaft, the losses will be very low.

Note that almost every part of your bike acts as a spring in that sense, the frame flexes a bit when you pedal, as do the cranks and the shaft. Even the spokes in the rear wheel act as springs transmitting the force from the hub to the rim (which is one reason why they are oriented the way they are, that way they pull the rim along rather than that the spoke gets bent, the spoke is stronger in that direction).
You can get arbitrarily deep into parsing a pattern before you realize it's actually an expression!

C++ has a similar ambiguity with function definitions and object initialisers.

Thankfully, it's an easily solved problem --- recursive descent with branching handles it just fine. In your example, when it reaches STMT, it will start parsing both EXPR and PAT in parallel, and terminate the EXPR branch when "<-" is encountered. In general, the idea is to split whenever the current position is ambiguous, and proceed until one of the branches can't (or if both branches remain valid, choose one or report an error.) Then what is left must be the correct parse.
That's meta :p
OMG...me too!

Don't forget The Source as well...man did I ring up some outrageous bills back then ugh.
It's not particularly "tiny". Yes, it's slightly smaller than typical laptops are right now, but I had an Asus EEE back in the day when "netbooks" were a thing (over a decade ago) and that was much smaller. It's always a tradeoff between portability and size of keyboard/screen. For a while machines get smaller and then eventually people get frustrated and larger machines return.
Ask HN: Anyone looking to hire or contract a Golang developer?
What's going on guys! Anyone looking to hire or contract a Golang developer?
How can it take 3GHz to emulate a Super Nintendo? (2011)
Whoever sets the targets and is applauded in the media is not the same as the one that has to meet those targets. Retirement comes first, basking in glory for having helped save the world comes first, becoming an "ambassador" for a cause comes first. Actually doing it will have to be done by others, and since those others don't care so much as the papers would have you believe, most of the targets are not met. That's government and why one shouldn't put much hope in it to solve anything.
Things to learn for developing and researching ML
i love these kinds of articles, but i dont understand why put the first 2 lines in it, which kind of contradict eachother.

" A handbook for making programming languages.

This book contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language."

The title makes it look like you would write a compiler /assembler or some plugin for existing one. and then the first scentence dives down to the actual content.

This is obvious from the title here. it just bugs me these kind of words (programming language vs scripting language) are used like that.

Other than that, always interested to read about both topics :D
Does Hugo not have a built in theme/plugin system? How come the installation involves running a custom bash script?
The CPU is much better than the old Atoms other similar tablets are using, but the eMMC storage is a strict no-buy. 128GB SSD or bust.
> A nice man I met from SA noted that education in SA was still heavy on religion, and all his friends aspired to comfortable government jobs that are easy,

I can confirm this from a second-hand account as told by one of my best friends. He worked as a sub-contractor in Saudi Arabia for a couple of years for a big European air/defense firm and he told me that the technical education of his Saudi colleagues was sub-par, to put it mildly, mostly because they were still taught the Quran during engineering school.
What is Substrate? Parity’s Polkadot Relay Chain
Are you conflating "single server" and "desktop computer" here? It sounds a lot like you might be?

Because almost everyone already uses the model of co-locating the search index and query code on a single computer (both Wikipedia and Stackoverflow use Elastic Search which does this).

They use multiple physical servers because of the number of simultaneous requests they serve.

This has never been the use-case for Hadoop.

I've built Hadoop based infrastructure for redundantly storing multiple PB of unstructured data with Spark on top for analysis. This is completely different to search.

That's very different to the Wall St analyst running desktop analysis in Matlab, or the oil/gas exploration team doing the same thing.
What to include in your SEO reports?
Alternative “Reddit Like” Social Networking Sites for the Minimalists
Calling the world cup goals 5 seconds before they happen on TV
It's got remittance basis taxation which is very easy going on rich foreigners compared to say Paris or New York, and it's low crime so they don't get kidnaped and the like. And there's a large community of Indian, Russians and many other nationalities unlike say Monaco. Good for flights too.
3 Startups Win at the Demo Africa Lagos Pitch Event
I presume you are talking about Budish style batch auctions?

I think it is an interesting paper but it ignores the reality of the market place, which is that there is no such thing as 'the market'. There are a collection of exchanges, spanning the globe, under many different jurisdictions offering either directly fungible symbols or things that are very tightly correlated.

Even if every exchange in the world agreed to the same schedule and time interval there would be arbitrage opportunities available to 'mechanical' HFT at the time scales mentioned in that paper due to the nature of physics and global communication latencies. You'd need to increase their interval value considerably even in that highly unlikely scenario. If they did that, I'd presume that in the short term spreads would go up as the current market makers reduced their risk exposure as they figured out the new system. In the long term either the existing players would figure out their tolerances or new players would come around and things would largely settle back to where they are now. My intuition is that the games they would end up playing in that world would be largely more goofy than the fairly straight forward latency arbitrage they do now (I think it would look more like dark pools than like our current exchanges).

But thats not even realistic. In any realistic scenario a batch auction exchange would exist in an eco system with other non-auction exchanges. It would still have latency based arbitrage opportunities and would largely be a non-event to the markets. HFT firms would continue to do the yeomans work of making sure the prices on it match the prices on the other exchanges. My bet is that the pricing on that exchange would largely be worse for everyone and that most customers would not care enough to make that exchange more than a curiosity. IEX had one of the best marketing plans of all time and haven't changed the market in any significant way with their goofy speed bump concept.

All of that to fix something that I don't view as broken. HFT is one of the most purely Darwinian capitalist systems in the world. Margins are razor thin. I'm happy to have them invest all that money and pay for my order flow so that I can get free trading and near instant execution. Most of the major commercial players like Vanguard agree with me. That a couple of hedge fund whales don't like it doesn't bother me much.
If nobody is taking risks in bold original ideas,
there is no longer any meaningful progress, rent-seeking becomes rampant

Seems backward, it's IP protection by law that is rent-seeking
This is the kind of tool I've always needed without realizing it. I didn't even know git could use specific editors for rebasing.

I rebase every day and although I enjoy practicing my vim strokes, the rebase editor is the last place I want to make a mistake. So this looks really useful. I'm going to install it. Thanks!
I've been using Spark for many years going back to 1.0.

It is the foundation technology of almost every data science team around the world. And your misguided post (which for some weird reason only focuses on graph algorithms) doesn't change that. And not sure why you think it's inefficient. We run 30 node, autoscaling clusters which stay close to 100% for most of the time.
I run vs code on my old 2011 11" MBA and it never misses a beat. MS has done a really good job dealing with performance issues.
Well, the Compaq Concerto pioneered it in 1993. And Microsoft claims rightly to have been in the driver's seat with Windows for Pen [1] being one of the big features of the Compaq...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing
Use http => https redirects and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security headers to make sure browsers always go to the https version.
So, you're dreaming about a cloud solution then?
شركة شحن ونقل عفش من جدة الى الاردن
Regarding financing, perhaps you should consider collaboration with the Tor Project.

Many Tor users disable Javascript, because Javascript sometimes has anonymizing vulnerabilities. But disabling Javascript cripples many websites.

But I can type html.brow.sh/https://example.com via my Tor browser and get a non crippled website, even with Javascript disabled. This is a very practical use case and I think many will want to pay you to make it work better.
Sitting on an idea indefinitely is not a good prospect either. Original developers knew that IP would expire and still produced original design. There're always risks, originality has some protection but so is availability and freedom of innovating at manufacturing, freedom to compete at costs. Original things can't be plenty if you can't base your work on something that someone made before. These synthesisers are based on complex previous developments, and those were an IP once.
And surely those devs wouldn't end up on the street, that's ridiculous.
Yeah, a 25 line debugging question and a 25 line react .setState() question are far from hazing. See my other comment for a good example of hazing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17495049

In any case, unfortunately it's something I have to do. And these are the 10% of people that pass a phone screen. We have too many unqualified candidates coming in. As I mentioned in another question -- I have no control over the pool of candidates we get. I'm sure it does screen out people who don't do well under pressure, but oh well, as long as the people who make it through can work on the team I'd say it works.

If you have a better way I can implement within a 30-45 minute in person interview, I'm all ears.
Have labs ever been started when funds were not tight?
The author wrote some blog posts (in French) about running his paid-for service:
https://linuxfr.org/news/un-an-apres-faisons-le-point-sur-wa... (after a year)
https://nicolas.loeuillet.org/billets/service-wallabag-it (launch)
https://nicolas.loeuillet.org/billets/comment-je-vais-tenter... (after three months)
https://nicolas.loeuillet.org/billets/retours-mise-ligne-wal...
I did an internship at an engineering company during highschool and they gave me various tasks with pretty minimal guidance.

The one that stuck out the most was downgrading their desktops from Vista to XP. Most of the drivers on the XP disc didn't work on the newer hardware so i was pretty stuck. One of the engineers told me to research slipstreaming drivers, which led me on a 3 day journey to creating custom boot discs & successfully installing XP

Give them work that will challenge them & also serve a business purpose if possible
There are probably very few original ideas anyway. Google wasn't new, search engines already existed. Yahoo! wasn't new, web directories already existed. If you trace it hard enough, you could get to filling cabinets and folders. Over the years, I have realized that the idea of 'idea' is itself problematic. It implies that you can describe something very complex with a simple phrase (in hindsight, of course). What was iPhone? A smartphone done right? To get to iPhone, Apple had to solve thousands of tiny problems and it's rather simplistic to say that other companies missed the wave because of complacence. You don't decide to make a better smartphone, and declare your victory.

The same problem is with the word 'talent.' To quote lines from one of my favorite research papers:

> What we call talent is no more than a projected reification of particular things done: hands placed correctly in the water, turns crisply executed, a head held high rather than low in the water. Through the notion of talent, we transform particular actions that a human being does into an object possessed, held in trust for the day when it will be revealed for all to see.

I think better way to think about all this is in terms of problems and their solutions. If you know a your customers face certain problem and it has already been solved, go ahead and copy it. Customers don't care where the idea came from when you do what they want/need.
Vue Developer Roadmap 2018
The company that created PenPoint OS was founded in the late 80's and shipped product in the early 90's. Their lead architect had previously worked at Xerox PARC on the Alto.

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/PenPoint_OS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFUJ-pxG3E

Microsoft started down the path towards Surface by adding rudimentary pen support in Windows 3.1 as a response to what these guys were doing.
By your logic, I can personally consider myself invited to any party, as long as a random person (even one who has no connection to the party) on Twitter invites me to said party.

That tweet might have motivated me to join the party, and I might even contribute to and be very welcome at that party, but to claim that I was invited to the party because some external force prompted me to go there is not common sense.
> western

I didn't realized we're blessed with enormous science and education budgets outside of western world!

Seriously, it's the same old problem: when you hear about how bad things are in some first world country, please don't forget that it's still the best point in human history and one of the best places on Earth at the current moment.
This article seems to advance a lot of free market arguments (innovate, differentiate yourself, scarcity, problem solving...)
Reading this article, the bar for something to be truly innovative is super high.

Using that logic we can argue that warp drive will be just 20% innovation because things already travelled to other planets prior, we just made it faster.

Also market is talked about as something constant, but it always changes based on zillion of events.

Some person wants to build huge ass wall. Well demand for anything to do with wall building goes up.

Recreational drugs getting legalized. Anything to do with that will go up.

It is always easy to look at something which succeeded and find reasons why. It is way harder to actually succeed irrelevant of innovation percentage.

If one succeeds it will be just enough. If one fails, it will be too little or too much.
Ah I see, thanks for the explanation.

Privacy in Germany seems to be complicated, in one way some things are much more private, but you can't have a website without a mailing address.
I can't help but downvote your comment: it really seems as if you only read the headline and not the article itself.
cryptocurrency seems to me like a group of computer scientists learning Econ 101 from first principles but vehemently denying the conclusions.
Though thats only from 50 years ago.

What is nice is that the article mentions the rain shortage, which is a nice way to compare.
But for them to carry around.

Effectively they want an universal docking-station for smartphones, I guess.
> A stock Dura Ace drivetrain returned about 97-percent efficiency.

Does anybody know the numbers of efficiency in fixie and single speed bicycles? I reckon they should be better given the absence of a derailler? I tried to search for it, but couldn't find numbers.
Oh, that's right, thanks!
No problem!

Git does a fair bit as files under the covers, so it makes tools such as this very possible.