skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I told my CEO, "always have a 14 year old in the room".

One of our proposed logotypes had a two color scheme: first half all blue, second half yellow.

The middle letter of our log was "p".

The p was the transition letter. The top half was yellow.

Eventually I had to point out to the room of marketers, executives, and agency folk that the "p" was peeing on the a that follow.

Sigh.
>I have to say, despite the article trying to put the most favorable light on the Luddites as the author could, the really do sound exactly like how the phrase is normally used. You can put as much nuance as you can on it, they destroyed technology because they were afraid of what it might bring

That's a very valid reason to destroy technology, and the very logic behind e.g. nuclear disarmament agreements.

Technological products are not gods or inevitable forces -- it's just stuff we make, and that we should be totally free to break or stop making if we don't like the effect they have on our lives.

It should be us and our desires and needs that shape our societies -- and technology should just be a secondary concern that provides the tools to help us do what we want, not an end goal in itself to force us to accept consequences or ways of living we don't appreciate.

Besides, the Luddites weren't merely "afraid of what it might bring". They were actively disenfranchised and left to starve but what it brought to their communities. It's easy for privileged $100K/year SV devs to talk about people re-inventing themselves and investing in new skills, and so on.

But whether its hand-to-mouth paid workers with few other options in the 18th century, or the people in dying ex-factory towns and communities, it's usually others that benefit from any "new development", and they just get the short end of the stick: unemployment, starvation, fall from middle/working class (and things that come with those: broken marriages, alcoholism, etc).

>calling the 1800s Luddites on the wrong side of history.

It's easy to gloat and be "on the right side of history" when you're benefitting from a change. Less so when you're destroyed by it.
Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M
https://www.gamedev.net or itch.io (for indie stuff)
This doesn't appear to be only with the 10^x function - the x^y function exhibits the same behaviour (both for x=10 and at the least x=9; I haven't tried many others)
The arguing about what genre these movies fit in sounds like metal or electronica fans arguing about which band is in which sub-sub-genre. I personally think of genres as tags rather than exclusive silos. The best stuff often doesn't fit neatly into a single genre.

As for "Intelligent Horror" demeaning "normal" horror—I'm not sure I've ever heard people complaining about IDM[1] vs EDM[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music
> But without it, you have no guarantee that the function is going to return a new object, it could return anything it wants.

It can still return anything it wants when you use `new`.
Good to see that 3D now works in Safari too.
Yaktor.io – Conversation Architecture
Here in Alabama that would be Deep Fried Nose Nuggets. Most people around here just eat them raw, though.
Yes, you are cynical.

Republicans simply have a different utility function. They consider deregulation, and ease of running a business more important than enforcing fairness via legislation.

They believe the market will do a better job than they can do. Democrats don't trust the market to do that, and feel they can do a better job.
Jaws was the original blockbuster.
Yeah -- mine is more for speaking and blogging instead of looking for jobs. Though, I do get approached by companies all the time because of my portfolio. Definitely not necessary, but it can be really helpful as well.
This is really cool, I especially like how commodity most of the parts are.

The 8-bit micro era, for me, was where personal computing really began. Suddenly the market gave people access to computers at an affordable price that empowered them to create their own tools[0] with BASIC, which they often booted directly into. They were simple systems that didn't try to manage your life for you, or act like you didn't really own them, or give you the safety scissors version of computing. That sort of experience is sadly quite lacking today.

And this thing is significantly more powerful than most of those systems, but still acts like one of them. I think it's great.

[0] And play games. Don't discount the value of that, many a child convinced their parent to buy them a computer so they could play games and ended up teaching themselves to program because it was empowering and they could create their own games.
> Software you run is software you have to maintain; until you can burn it in the fires of Mordor. If there's a public solution that is a good fit for your problem, and was built along the same lines you would build it, then that's great; but if it's a great fit for the problem and also pulls in 70 dependencies and updates three times a week, that's probably not worth the integration mess.

I’ve gotten flak for rolling my own library. Basically, I was trying to get the base clock rate of a server for benchmarking purposes. Instead of using an external library, I simply wrote some inline assembly to read from the timestamp counter.

I was told this will create a maintainence headache, but zero fucks given on my end. I got to write some inline assembly today. :)
Is there any obvious reason why all entities that have a wikipedia article associated with them don't appear as entities in this output?
I would only really consider the first Alien to fit squarely within the horror genre.
I like the other advice here a lot and echo it, but I want to add one thing: don't panic! If you panic, it will actually slow you down and reduce your ability to concentrate. Just relax and accept that it may take time, and by just relaxing and not worrying about it, you will go faster :)
A task should be something that can be done independently by one person. Sometimes you have a big chunk of work that's tightly coupled and can take months to implement, how do you best track that?

In my experience what happens is one of three things:

(a) You try and bring multiple people into that feature and it turns into a clusterfuck of awful merge conflicts and hours upon hours wasted on co-ordination instead of building

(b) You track it as a lot of tasks (~30-50), and whoever is working on it spends half their day fielding questions like "Can I pick up that task for you?" or "why are all the highest priority tasks assigned to the same person?"

(c) You track it as one or a small number of tasks (~2-5), and whoever is working on it has the problem GP mentioned with stand-ups, where they don't have anything granular enough to report and end up looking like an incompetent tool.

I've experienced all 3 and they all suck. I'm not convinced that option (c) isn't the furthest down the right track. Option (a) can be a horror show and probably one of the quickest ways to lose a good dev, option (b) can work but it's dependent on a manager that understands the work and isn't going to lambast the dev for blocking up the backlog with self-assigned tasks. Option (c) just relies on adjusting or removing stand-ups to not focus so heavy on day-to-day progress.
Great article, classic comment section:

Half of people arguing about the plane analogy

Other half arguing about jQuery
> FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected this argument, saying that startups are unnecessarily delayed when they have to wait for incumbent ISPs before hanging wires.

I thought I was supposed to not like this guy.
Ah weird -- it's working for me. It was definitely an hour and a half long "I'm using a queue data structure in real life" experiment. Thanks for the heads up!
In comparison, Windows 7:

powten(43429) -> Overflow
powten(43430) -> Invalid input
powten(4.3429) -> 22024.192788839535553954884105294
powten(4.3430) -> 22029.264630534561834283309977748
powten(4.3431) -> 22034.337640198758473587650545525

In Windows 10, 4.3431 results in "Invalid input" but 4.3429 does not. (Nor does 4.3430, but obviously so.)

What's the significance of 43430?
AI-powered newsletter (BETA) – Strip news from all sides to just the facts
Most of my career has actually been on the backend! Just keep the site simple!
There's probably some way to incentivize good behavior. I would do it for my neighbors within reason. That being said Amazon is still leading the way, maybe Walmart can do USPS for the last mile as well.
Inside the amazing company that invented the iPhone–two decades too early
I don't think you understand what a false dichotomy is. Yes. Training more doctors would mean having more doctors. But for any number of doctors trained, why not prefer to train people more likely to put their skills to good use for society?
Apple Is Worth $1 Trillion; 21 Years Ago It Was on the Brink of Bankruptcy
How long did that take you? Seems like it take at least a week.
I guess I just assumed the stock data would all be per-ticker-symbol, that is, market cap on a given symbol would simply be the number of shares on that symbol times the price. But Google itself does report identical market caps, now that I look closer, and that seems unlikely.
If Prometheus and Alien Covenant aren't horror movies, there are other movies that are indisputably horror movies that are, uh, disputable.
Unfortunately, you have been taught and are executing Agile in the completely wrong fashion. My first guess would be, you are actually working in Waterfall, but your managers have labeled it Agile and cherry-picked the parts they liked.
I wish more devs understood what you said instead of taking it as being micro managed. In short, what good managers distrust is the ability to communicate. We are all pretty bad at it. These meetings just give us an opportunity to continually refine what it is we are actually working towards. Agile to me doesn't mean daily standups. It does mean sharing with each other what we've learned about the problem which almost always means reprioritizing. If that communication isn't happening at least a few times a week, there's something off or unusual.
I feel like this is the most likely answer, and stood out immediately when I read the sentence the first time.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day (unless it's a digital clock then it's wrong all the time since it's not showing anything, but I digress).
This is actually illegal. You can request time warner to come in if you want.
I teach software engineering to about 120 undergraduates a year, and require them to build a professional portfolio during the first week of class. I used to have them use WordPress, but the results were very uneven. To enable them to focus on content until their skills were sufficient to create a non-embarrassing custom design, I created the open source project TechFolios:

http://techfolios.github.io/

I've just finished a MVP of a desktop app in Electron for creating TechFolios called TechFolio Designer:

http://techfolios.github.io/designer.html

I would be interested to know of similar sites/approaches.
Bones found at Stonehenge belonged to people from Wales
A Tour of General Magic Prototype Devices
It's the ordering! I would put Blog first, and change this to a two-row layout. The first row with internal links, the second row with icons of your social sites.
Unfortunately we have no alternatives to choose candidates from that understand neither extremes will work, and that you actually need a mixture of legislation/regulation in the right places, and no legistlation/regulation in others.
Great - now they're hiring overt racists?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/2/sarah-jeongs...
My personal site is https://jonathanstreet.com/

It's in need of some help so I've been looking around for inspiration. I'll be taking a look at everything posted. Some I've found previously I like:

http://blog.echen.me/
https://www.liyaoxiang.com/
http://www.randalolson.com/
https://jvns.ca/
http://www.nowozin.net/sebastian/
http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/
http://danielnee.com/
http://daynebatten.com/
https://thomaslarock.com/
http://treycausey.com/
http://mvjantzen.com/
Er, straight from the wikipedia page you linked:

> The term "intelligent dance music" has been widely criticised and rejected by artists associated with the style, including Aphex Twin and µ-Ziq, as elitist and derogatory towards other genres. [...] In 2014, music critic Sasha Frere-Jones observed that the term "is widely reviled but still commonly used".

Half the page is discussing the backlash against the term on the exact same grounds.
Interesting. I suppose it's only a matter of time until someone forks it and changes or lowers those incentives?

But they will have to re-build the user base and since handshake.org is literally giving away $10m to build it's user base, it might be difficult.
> Very few thieves ever proceeded to made some political statement (e.g. the Bonnot gang).

How do you view acts such as statue toppling/removal/theft[0][1][2]?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdos_Square_statue_destructi...

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-now-charged-in-toppling-of-du...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/controversial-statu...
I created a library for multiprocessing, which is loosely based on actor model.

The interesting bit is that you'll never have to do the wiring yourself, zproc does it all in the background.

https://github.com/pycampers/zproc
JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars
I like it -- I would make the font a little bit bigger so it's easier to read. I just did a few tweaks on it https://imgur.com/a/OfFruwF and I think its a little easier to read -- just changed font to "sans-serif" increased line height and font size to 1.25rem.
This does seem very 180 degree different than his stance on net neutrality. The tin foil hat wearing side of me says that Google's donations must have been larger than Comcast's. The real world side of me can't figure out how somebody can logically justify these two opposing views.
> 10^(31415/10000) = (10^31415 / 10^10000)

If n^(a/b) = (n^a)/(n^b) then 2^(1/2) = (2^1)/(2^2) = 2/4 = 0.5 but 2^(1/2) = sqrt(2) = 1.4...
You got a Sony? Search for "OpenMemories-Tweak" and you will be helped... (worked for my A7S2 just fine, though no guarantees etc)
There are some pretty good lynda.com tutorials that I've watched. I've found an advantage to those is that I also learned a few things about statistics too, which is useful outside Excel.
You can still dislike him because of his personality (a regulator with a trollish personality). That doesn't mean you will never agree with his policy prescriptions.

Also, I realize your comment was probably some combination of jest or sarcasm.
Are you saying the buyers and sellers don't cooperate?

Are we expected to believe that high-value buyers wouldn't authenticate the art they buy?
Ask HN: How did you get your first customers?
How did you get your first paying customers, and how long did it take you to go from idea to your first sale?

Please elaborate on:

- Sales/marketing efforts that you thought would work, but didn't pay off.

- Something you wish you would have known sooner.

- The most effective way to get customers that you discovered, and how you discovered it/got it to work (for example trial and error, domain expertise, advice from a mentor, etc.)
I have it mostly for speaking and blogging purposes; however, I get a pretty decent stream of people reaching out to me over it which would be really cool if I were looking for a job! I think it also really helps candidates stand out.
Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016)
Waiting for someone to state that last point. Lidar is still not cheap enough.
Do women leave for other professions or do they leave the labor market altogether?
In most of the USA outside of San Francisco, authoritarianism is frowned upon. In China and SF, the government is more free to tell people how to speak and live. It's a cultural difference.
What kind of output did you mean? Wikipedia2Vec learns embeddings of entities which have links from other articles more than min-entity-count times.
> The tin foil hat wearing side of me says that Google's donations must have been larger than Comcast's

I'm curious: donations to whom?

The FCC doesn't have campaigns, so any "donations" aren't campaign contributions.
Relevant essay I’ve written:

http://www.tlalexander.com/wealth/
Foxconn is building in Wisconsin, but I don’t know if those will be touchscreens.
You could do two tabs, I have the tab for speaking and the tab for projects -- you could do a design tab and a code tab!
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I think your team is too big then. Don't have company wide standups, have a standup per team and possibly role. If you're working on a web stack have a standup where the backend devs talk, one for the DBAs (if that's a thing you have) one for the front-end people... If there's someone in a product manager role they might want to attend all the meetings but likely not.

This would be better solved by hosting specific IRC channels for those roles and having occasional role-specific meets/lunches to introduce new people.
The free market has democratic power the government lacks.
Thanks! I (at the time I wrote it) didn't focus on making it Safari compatible, but I really should go back to that!
Oh hey Dr. Johnson, fancy seeing you here!

Here is an example of TechFolios in the wild [1] which I built while I was in his class. https://spyhi.github.io/

(I’ve let it fall a bit out of date since the class, but this thread is good inspiration!)
“Who are your friends? Let me know and I’ll donate to them if....”
Bitfi hacked?
Wasn't a bunch of stuff declassified during their lawsuit with Uber?
Github pages is awesome, I would only do Jekyll if you want to host a blog though, otherwise its overkill.
Of course, if you want to run off the grid, the first thing is to minimize your electrical appliance. Get a laptop, the laptop will serve as your TV, computer, radio, etc.

No TV, no Washer/Dryer (you will hand wash), No regular fridge, get a small 12v fridge. No microwave, use stove to heat up food. No A/C, design the space to not get hot, high windows, under the shade, facing away from the sun. Maybe a small fan. The biggest optimization begins with your appliances.
This project is really exciting.

If I could make a suggestion to the maintainers - I think it would be helpful to put the "project paper" in an additional format besides just the text file.

The handksahake.org site is really easy on the eyes but I found reading through a text file of this length quite a slog.
The current code is written specifically for Wikipedia. However, its algorithm is portable for knowledge bases that contains articles and their entity annotations.
Looking at the benchmark results, it’s really not very fast. Over 3 seconds for fib(35)??
My comment is snarky, but it doesn't criticize a weaker interpretation of what they said, it points out a problem with the phrasing. The "I'm being silly" is an acknowledgement that the snark isn't really addressing the substance, the strongest plausible interpretation of "I'm being silly" is that I understood their meaning well enough.
Disagree. The SR-71 represented a pinacle of engineering, not because it did everything right but because it made appropriate tradeoffs. Leaking fuel on the ground was an appropriate tradeoffs for dealing with the constraints of materials science. It traded efficiency for speed. It traded nearly all else for speed because that's what the mission profile called for, and it did it dang well.
My networking lab class (at a top5 school) used AWS, with the reasons that it's more widely used and better documented than GCP or Azure.

Tip: You get more free credit (by like 50% iirc) if you sign up for AWS Educate via the github student developer pack than if you sign up directly
Tell that to the asian students suing harvard.
As far as I can tell room temp SC would be more beneficial to power transmission than anything. The energy could be zipped along from wherever it is generated most efficiently with little loss.

Successful room temp SC wouldn't be able to produce heatless CPUs because the transistor mechanism has to work by essentially a changing resistance level. So the billions of transistors themselves would still give off heat, but not the wires connecting them. I'm not sure what percentage heat comes from the transistors vs conduits between those transistors. Significant boost in efficiency / reduction in heat, but not heatless.
GiveCampus (YC S15) seeks engineers who care about education
GiveCampus builds software that schools raise money and engage their constituents. Our mission is to ensure schools advance the quality, affordability, and accessibility of education. We’re backed by some of the world’s top investors, including Y Combinator, and we’ve achieved 10X+ growth over the last two years. 1-2 new schools join our community every day, and we’re expanding our team to support their efforts and continue innovating. (You can read more about what we do, and how we do it, in The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...)

We are looking for proven engineers who are comfortable owning the process from ideation to deployment. We are currently still a small engineering team of 8, and you will get the opportunity to ship code that impacts hundreds of schools, and millions of donors.

Key things we'll be looking for:

* Proven track record of leading and growing an engineering team. * A track record of balancing fast-and-dirty and long-term code maintainability.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails and React, so experience in both would be a big plus. Send an email to careers@givecampus.com with a bit about why you care about education, and anything you're particularly proud of having created.

Please also take a look at https://www.givecampus.com/careers to see other opening positions.

Please no recruiters of dev shops.
You can probably refinance at that point, though.
> Before sending this file to a printer, consider that the book is almost 250 pages long.

My immediate reaction is how can someone with a programming background write 250 pages about a topic as simple as dieting?!

So I skimmed it a bit and it’s quite a fun read! It’s reads as if the author is speaking directly to you, with both pure facts and colorful analogies. Looking forward to going through the rest.
being a CS major in India, I can't help but call bullshit.

Knowledge, maybe. But when you put them in front of a computer, they can't write code. (Your mileage may vary though)

I'm in my 2nd year, and it's incredible how these teachers teach computer science without computers. The ironic thing is that they have projectors in classes. They even have laptops. Most of my peers have laptops, I think. And still they teach with a blackboard.

Just yesterday, my shell programming teacher wrote out the output of `ls -l` manually, by hand. She literally had it memorized. And said that we have to memorize it too, because of course, computer science is a written exam :)

I never expected to see this kind of response on HN. Some of these people don't know how to turn on a computer, and keyboard typing is a long stretch. You really don't know what you're dealing with here!

The admission process is fully exam based (physics/chem/math). I wasn't asked once, in the entire admission process whether I had ever used a computer in my life. Most parents don't let their kids use computers because they think it will spoil their childhood. I was fortunate enough to have good access to Internet and computers in my home. I admit that I spent a lot of time playing games, but I totally have a better understanding of how computers work. At least I'll be a cs major who actually knows how to code...