skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for such a firm. Basically almost nobody gets to a Phase III which is the commercialization stage. If anyone does get to that stage, they are not usually set up to make a commercial product and generally require some kind of licensing or partnership to make commercialization possibile. This is typically because these businesses are set up to satisfy the bureaucracy of the SBIR award process and not to actually produce a product (in most cases). In another case I worked at a VC funded company that had some government contracts to try to help self fund R&D activities. These activities proved to be orthogonal to our main product focus and became paperwork exercises. I had to fill in a time sheet for years where I put zero hours on it.
In this day and age, more and more people are moving away from the 9 – 5 job model and are looking to start their own businesses. However, one of the many speed bumps that new business leaders encounter when starting their own companies is what niche the business is going to be a part of and what it is actually going to do. Well, out of question to you is are you looking for some good startup ideas? If yes, then have no fear, for this blog post is going to give you just that.
Read more: https://cabstartup.com/what-are-some-startup-ideas/
I think it might be a good place to plug my decentralized url shortener (based on ethereum blockchain) https://0x.now.sh
Glad it didn’t turn out badly, but from a sleep cycle perspective it’s normal. Kids usually have fairly early sleep cycles, and as they age it gradually gets later, peaking around late adolescence where it can be three or so hours later than an adult. After that, it shifts back to normal over the next decade or so. Aparantly this has been observed not just with humans but in various animal species as well.

But there are various disorders where people either have unusually late or early sleep cycles that can be up to several hours different from normal.
Isn't that most careers these days though? I work in the digitization department of a muniplicity in Denmark. We're LEAN-consultants, project-managers, service-designers and developers but most of what we do is about helping managers have less employees.

I don't think there is a single area we aren't covering. So that's everything from lawyers, hr-personal, various office workers to nurses, pedagogues, teachers and various social workers. Hell in the past 4 years, we've even said good bye to one person in my department and three in IT. No one has been fired though, so there hasn't really been a big focus on it. A lot of positions simply haven't been refilled. Basically we're in the process of quietly doing to every workplace what the assembly-line did to factories 100 years ago.

It's created new jobs of course, there wasn't a digitization department 20 years ago after all, but even my own field of software engineering is changing. 20 years ago you'd need a team and half a year to build what a single developer can get running in the cloud in a week today. Who knows what it'll look like when I'm 57.
Smart and educated is not enough. That's my point. Many of those geniuses had children who inherited genius genes, and yet have not became geniuses. Why?
My Plan

- Startup in FMCG(targeting rural area of India)

- Books - Vision 2020(By APJ Abdul Kalam), Changing India(By Manmohan Sigh)

- Investments
Process of Linguistic Testing |Professionalqa.com
It's cute you think a failing economy is any pressure to the sort of government I'm talking about.

Sincerely, a citizen of a country whose government literally actively bankrupts it.
Amazon, Flipkart Offer New Incentives to Disgruntled Sellers
In the past I'd loved zfs and I still love it's physical volume management ability and it's concept of pooled storage however after years I choose to ditch it.

A more informative post on that topic is this
https://blog.fosketts.net/2017/07/10/zfs-best-filesystem-now...
The volume of people making money, and the amount of money made by people doing artistic endeavors on the internet, when compared to decades past is troublingly lower.

I'm not sure what can be done, but I see an ever increasing number of people loosing benefits from, or loosing their careers entirely.

This isn't all caused by tech, but also by a change in the social contract between companies and and their employees. The idea of you working hard for a company your whole life, and even if your didn't make great pay, you were secure in the idea that you would be taken care of and have a place to work until you got your send off party and a gold watch.

When comparing what was to what is, from the perspective of security, safety, and prosperity of the worker, YouTube is barely on par with a freelance gig.

And I fear that if our country doesn't address these sort of issue very soon, we are going to see suffering in the elderly not known in our country for the last century.
> I think it’s the exact opposite. He’s speaking from the experience of being in the Eurogroup and negotiating directly with Germany.

The man is a fraud who believed that throwing veiled and not so veiled accusations of naziism at Germany in specific and the EU in general was a reasonable course of action. He is a delusional attention-seeker who had a self-destructive legacy in his stint as head of greece's finances who decided to quit immediately before the result of his actions blew up in Greece's face just to personally avoid being held accountable for his actions.
Ios app development
It would surely interest you that what are the sure-shot ways to achieve this goal of taking the lead? For this, you need to be aware of the market, what are the strategies being followed, what are the requirements being fulfilled, and what are the latest technology options available to aid you to automate and advance your business; so that you can formulate your business strategy according to the needs. Read more: https://cabstartup.com/business-trends-to-make-you-a-success...
Depends entirely on your company. The most important distinction I've come across is whether someone is from a Service-based company or a Product company. Unfortunately, the service industry leaves a lot to be desired in terms of quality.
I work for vwo.com (a Product company) and I can speak a bit about my workplace:

Programming Languages: We use heavy Javascript for our core libraries, VueJS and Angular for frontend (different projects), PHP/MySQL backend (legacy) with our own home-baked framework. We also have our own edge nodes with lots of OpenResty/Lua, and our data pipelines are in Python, Java and Scala.

Language: English predominantly, but discussions and meetings can be a mix of English and Hindi (we're based out of North India). I switch to English exclusively if there's a teammate who doesn't understand Hindi very well.

"Is Agile used": I think the question is broadly about engineering practices and yes, we do use Agile/Jira, doing 2-week or more Sprints in cross functional teams. It's not perfect and everyone has their own complaints with this model, but oh well. We do heavy code reviews and have a dedicated QA team - for both automated and manual testing, extensively E2E.

Culturally, we're pretty open and transparent. Everyone /broadly/ knows what everyone else is working on. It's not startup culture, but as far as mid-sized companies go, it's pretty good. Not a whole lot of politics, a "get the job done" attitude. We occasionally open source some projects via Github. Work from home/Vacation policies are decent. I'm currently on Christmas holidays actually ^_^
You need to also download "winpty-agent.exe" from the releases page.
See this for more context: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1818
Hosting Multiple Websites with Containers and HAProxy
With Greece the problem was German/French banks would go under if Greece defaulted on its debts. That's why the pressure on Greece was so high. Basically EU taxpayers sending money to Greece which just sends money right back to the banks so they don't have to write off their loans and bonds.
"Other countries"? The person you're responding to is Chinese.
This is very uplifting news! This makes me feel very hopeful about the future, too.

I personally have 2 rare autoimmune neurological diseases that affect my peripheral nervous system. One of them is very rare, and there is only case reports and cohorts of it, at best, in the medical literature.

There will likely never be an FDA-approved treatment for what I have, and this is why precision medicine needs to exist formally, with proper regulation via government. Unfortunately, the United States government has not been adapting, in a progressive way, to the changing times, with respect to emerging technologies, in general.

This sounds strange, but the lack of a reforming/progressive government is the greatest threat to my well being with rare neurological diseases and being disabled.

I hope that therapies and cures can come sooner than later for everyone. I also hope these therapies are not prohibitively expensive or inaccessible.
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It would be useful for measuring the angular velocity decay rate though.
Magento Security Patches Installation – The Complete Guide
IMO in today's community (too big and less and less acculturated in any sense than the past) we need personal websites that collect peoples public ideas and a discussion platform like usenet. On usenet there is a continuous stream of contents, valuable one may then end-up in some personal sites and being cited in future posts so newcomers can still discover it when needed/desired while not much valuable one slowly or quickly be forgotten in ngs history's...

Gamification while have some "attraction" for many does not really guarantee that valuable contents remain available and tend to push far more extreme/non valuable contents fading into oblivion most interest stuff that might be "elitist" by nature... This, of course, while NOT counting all possible abuse in both "artificial downvote" and pushing extra contents to "censor by oblivion" unwanted contents.

Splitting platforms like StackExchange or HN vs Facebook might help and might reduce abuses but IMO it's certainly not an answer...
I got one too, but syncs to ipfs/ipld and uses gpg for encryption. https://github.com/peerparty/fs2ipld/blob/master/fs2ipld.sh
> So far I think the trick is to live a poorer lifestyle than your income suggests you ought to

Yes. At times it's a bit frustrating when everyone else drives a nicer car, but on the other hand not having to worry about money at all is pretty sweet.
So you want to work remotely, huh?
fun trivia: gnu tar predates the GNU project. What?

It started out as an implementation of tar written by John Gilmore whose uname is 'gnu'. gnu has written a lot of free software as well, but the fact that his name and the GNU project's name are the same is a complete coincidence.
The probably more commonly used term is Bulkhead.
Well, yes. But also they had to be very stringent to justify the bailout to their constituencies. Just try to imagine being Angela Merkel and having to sell the idea of German taxpayer money being sent to bail out Greece which got into problems because of their irresponsible and exorbitant spending (instead of spending that money in Germany on healthcare, infrastructure, education etc). Really difficult to sell that to regular German voters. The only way to politically survive that was to be super tough and in exchange for German taxpayer money demand very strict rules of how they will behave after receiving the money.
> The Italy of postcards and travel videos is a far cry from the Italy most Italians live

I recommend the 2011 documentary Italy: Love It or Leave It. It's about two guys who drive through Italy in an old Fiat 500 to decide if they should stay or move away. In the process they talk about modern Italy.

Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnnv3XS4Nj0
The release notes page of Visual Studio Code is always so well detailed and nicely done.
Very likely true however zip has somehow become a de-facto go-to standard for this stuff. From Java (JAR files) to Microsoft (.docx et al) and numerous open formats including ODF and EPUB.
Yes, telcos are particularly tightly regulated.
And I was using lossy compression to abstract up a level to where objects in the same category share attributes. Is that clear to you?
How many days in a row do you need to take it to fix your rhythm?
There is no mouse support for Windows. So if you need that, you need to wait or add it yourself.
This is a written summary (like all High Scalability articles) of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg5onp8TU6Q
BRITAIN: UK proposes SIX-YEAR prison sentence for Brits who criticize Islam
+1. Merry Christmas!!
Vi - always there
I second the AirPods sentiment. I feel naked without them. I still have a 6S and the thought of plugging in seems barbaric. Such a great product!
On learning Music:

> music training may hone self-control, including focused attention and memorization.

And then later in the article:

> Raising IQ may require the kind of sustained involvement that comes with attending school, with all the practice and challenges it entails. “It’s not like you just go in for an hour of treatment a week. It’s a real lifestyle change,” he says.

Well... are the qualities you develop via learning an instrument not the same qualities that are going to help in other areas of life?!

The other thing, is if you do a study on IQ and learning music, you shouldn’t look only at taking lessons... you should look into the type of practice people do, for how long they practice etc. Basically garbage in, garbage out.

For all the fancy math equations and language people use to put into these studies, sometimes I think they sure are pretty dumb and short sighted.
I just bought a new iPad Pro and realized it doesn’t have a headphone port. And it doesn’t have thunderbolt either so I am now in a situation where I need three different adapters to listen to music on my iPhone, MacBook and iPad. It’s just silly. I have AirPods too, and switching between devices is as seamless as could be expected but still sucks compared to just plugging in headphones.

I might return it and stick with my first gen iPad.
I have only experienced this when connecting to non-Apple audio sources. At which point it’s just the usual Bluetooth BS experience.
Regression to the mean.

You only get 50% of the genes from each parent. It's not likely both parents are geniuses.

And genetics only accounts for half the variance. The other half being non-shared environmental differences. The kids and their parents have completely unique experiences.
I think when the parent said 'does not feel like a work of a genius', he was saying that it's 'non-human, god-like (typo?)'. The parent likely meant it's above genius which can only be human.
Not understanding this. Why, for example, doesn't a clarinetist just play a C? I'm on mobile so I can't explain my question well, but: why isn't the transposed version just the default interpretation of the score? If clarinetists are playing bflat when the score says c, why not just play c? Is the implied point that the same 440 hz is interpreted differently because of quality, secondary frequencies etc?
> amusing-but-not-damaging

Some people got fired because they used this library in sites and this happened.
It's not actually bladeless, just using four high-power ducted fans buried inside carbon fiber tubing. But the idea is to have no exposed blades, to improve safety.
You don't handle depression. That's where everyone fails.

You come up with- and handle anything else - ideas, work, gym - whatever.

The moment you "handle depression" or "fight depression" - you feed it.

You kill it by lack of attention to "depression".
You kill it by focusing attention to anything else.

Most effective is helping other people with whatever they need. That's because it de-focuses attention from your own needs and when "you are depressed" - that would be your depression.

Go, find someone who needs help and save someone's day. Or life. It could be person, place, animal or good cause.
Ten years ago, I was a software engineer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory [0]. We used the Very Long Baseline Array telescope to calibrate the rate at which the Earth's surface moves, relative to distant pulsars.

Atomic "clocks" are more like CPU "clock speed". Atomic clocks give a very precise measure of a time interval.

But they don't tell you what time it is. The time of day needs to express both the idea of the rate of time, and also the position of the Sun and stars, relative to the position of the Earth.

Like, we use "number of seconds since midnight, 1 January 1970" and expect that number to map to a time like "2018-12-25 20:37:44 UTC", and we expect that value to map onto a time about four days after the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice.

Pulsar surveys make sure that those two concepts line up. Most of the time.

[0]: https://nrao.edu
The most I’ve needed is four days after London to SF. Oddly, even Hong Kong to SF wasn’t that bad.

Occasionally, we’ll have a couple of late nights hanging out and then I have to fix it again. Holiday season like now will probably need work. Then it’s just two days.
Node.js along with ReactJS/Angular seems to quite popular at least in Mumbai. I've been working on Node.js since I graduated in 2016. I could also find a few companies that have their backends written in Django. I also interviewed with one company that uses Erlang for their Chat apps.

At my current company, which is in Navi Mumbai(a suburb), we program in Typescript.

> Is code written in a mix of the local language and English (for the keywords)?

No. Code(including comments, keywords, and variables) is completely in English.

> Is Agile used?

Yes. But I've met very few people who strictly adhere to it.
Of course it does. There's no such restriction in git, you can track binary files just fine.
Not really, Amazon having crushed many brick-andmortar stores...
We all miss the headphone jack. I begrudgingly upgraded to the iPhone 8 Which I’ll try to keep for the next 3-5 years. I waited so long to upgrade from the five because of the headphone jack.
So he can't be American because he is Chinese? Think for a sec what you are actually saying. You are confusing ethnicity with country. Those two don't equate.
Thanks for that summary,
personally I regularly say that "productive Asia" and India gets, unfortunately not only for them but for the entire humanity, the worse of UK/USA business model and push it to the extreme, than someone always reply that I'm racist and do not understand when I counter-reply that I do talk about business models and imposed culture, not people and that's interchangeable with ANY damn nation and population...

If we look at the history India (as a whole subcontinents) produce one of the most advanced math in the world, China probably discover more thing in navigation century before Europe and now... We are all, easter and western in a race toward a new middle age...
No case against the government/council? It was the fucking lack of regulation.
I'm always struck about how many people complain about trash, but seemingly so few actually do anything about it in their neighborhoods.

While preventing littering is a laudable goal, the solution is achievable by all of us. Just pick up a few pieces and ay and throw it away. If everyone who complained about littering did that, the problem would be solved.

Sure, there would still be litterers, but at least the neighborhood would be clean. I'd posit fewer people would litter if there wasn't already trash everywhere.
Isn't there some presumed universal convention for how to index things, present in the most popular programming languages, that avoid all of these issues that would have really easy to code?

I feel like I'm spending my time doing the wrong things ... I should have been arguing for sensibility during the standards writing. These modern css things are only here to make things easier, not more wonky and strange - we already have that. If they're just dedicated to inventing new bizarreness to replace the older wackiness, where have we actually come?
> Would you consider them trusthworthy in court, where lives are at stake?

Probably. Human intelligence is extremely fallible - based on the statistics the only reason we trust humans to do half the stuff they do is because there is literally no choice.

If we held humans to a high objective engineering standard We wouldn't:

* Let them drive

* Let them present their memories as evidence in a court case

* Entrust them with monitoring jobs

* Allow them to perform surgical operations

Humans are the best we have at those things, but from a "did we secure the best result with the information we had" perspective they are not very reliable. A testable and consistently performing AI with known failure modes might even be able to outperform a human with a higher failure rate (eg, we can reconfigure our road systems if there is just one scenario an AI driver can't handle).

Basically, you might be dead on the money that they are not 'trustworthy enough', but lets not lose sight of the fact that even being an order of magnitude from human performance might be enough after costs and engineering benefits get factored in. The weakest link is the stupidest human, and that is quite a low bar.
Trottiscliffe (/ˈtrɒzli/ TROZ-lee)
Classic regression is only intelligible because there were only a few parameters and people could use ANOVA to try and interpret them. IMO ANOVA is alchemy as well and most people trained to use it, don’t fully understand it. Should we leave decisions to those kinds of models?

Not to mention that part of what makes NN such a step forward is precisely the high nonlinearity. When you have millions of parameters, the contribution of each is unimportant and so any kind of analog to ANOVA would be barking up the wrong tree. In a NN all those parameters work in concert to learn a decision boundary to separate data. It’s not intelligible at the minute level but at least we know what it’s doing in the end. The problem of course lies with the outliers and that’s not so much a problem with NN being a black box as it is a problem with the nature of large datasets and our own inability to rationalize each and every datapoint.

I’m going to defend NN as the natural evolution of regression. It’s precisely their high nonlinearity which makes them better. The problem is not that they “are” alchemy but that we treat them “as” magic. Society as no place leaving important decisions to algorithms unintended, NN or not. If major insurance companies left their decisions to logistic regression (which was and is still the case), then would we be making the same arguments? Probably not because someone paid by the insurance company will pull out that other kind of alchemy called ANOVA ...
ROOT: analyzing, storing and visualizing big data
They're not systematizable ever. We're talking about experiences unique to each individual.

If you get 30 kids sitting in a classroom they share the room they're in and the words the teacher is saying. They don't share how much attention each one is paying, they don't share the same comprehension or interpretation of the content, they don't share the way they feel about the content, they don't share the thoughts they have about the content and they don't share the new connections made in their brain as the lesson progresses.

You can't systematize that. It's random.
As a night owl I like that day shift. I love having the most productive hours for myself
Here’s a fact: Taiwan is a sovereign independent nation. Try saying that as a professor and not getting attacked by China’s expat thought goons.
I'm a fan.

Currently using it in a simple setup. But I'm considering using it with an auth backend to provide per user access to databases with the added advantage of no VPN or local software (other than a browser) needed.