skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
The old joke is that because of the downturn in the airline industry, the largest employer of aeronautical engineers is McDonalds. These are 4 year college degree graduates, not aviation mechanics, which go to trade school.
How about one where the tone was "We over stepped" instead of "You read it wrong".

It's like 343 industries telling users that they didn't receive emails because they had invalid email addresses on their Xbox accounts (which is impossible)...
Sign to throw in the towel?
I have been mulling over an idea for an app for the past few months.
Obviously enough of an enthusiast to be an avid HN reader, but my eager attempt at learning to code turned to be a very, very humbling experience, fast.

My idea was to use augmented reality to virtually show DIY interior design and move around furnitures in your room.

I've been trying to network as much as possible and attend hackathons as sounding boards for my idea - is the idea even feasible? But the usual enthusiasm met in the beginning ends with lackluster non-commitals.

Low on cash, even lower on skills. Not much luck on elance, guru and sites of the like either. I've had responses by people who seem to be able to execute parts of the project but no one seems up to the challenge for the hard part.

Is me not being able to find a partner/team sign of bad idea? I've always been a biz dev/client relations person. If my team can build it, I know I can market it.

Your advice? Is this a telling sign to throw in the towel?
Awesome job with the page load times!
...to power the Infinite Improbability Drive.
> The problem is that the people willing to pay are exactly the people the advertisers most want to reach.

So charge more. Instagram et al are trying to make money, not serve advertisers. If privacy-conscious people are willing to pay more than advertisers that's great.
In the US that's a broad term. People go to a university to "pursue education" by throwing a leather ball to a guy dressed in tight spandex pants.

People who know the best technique of tossing a leather ball to another guy are currently the most valued education professionals in university system: http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/
>>I know this is HN, but the blatant disregard for how the humanities effect the enjoyability of your life is vulgar.

I am not disregarding humanities or history. But it makes more sense to read them when you have no other better work to do. Sorry for putting it bluntly, but you should have better work to do than studying philosophy and arcane trivia about the past.

>>Why should we not allow people to devote their life to historical studies?

Because they don't pay well. And sometimes don't pay at all. Nobody is going to pay you for just knowing 1000 things that happened some hundreds of years back. Such knowledge is not useful to solving any pressing problems that exist currently.

>>Society is creating enough wealth to ensure the pursuit of knowledge for those who wish to undertake it. And pursuit of knowledge is a more driving force for economic growth than any subsidy, any tariff.

Which knowledge, not all forms of knowledge are same. Are they?
Something that you want to keep in mind with 100TB is that they have pulled companies before, and left them in pretty dire straights.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/simplecdn-takedown-a-cautionary-tale...

I don't want to try to guess why they did that, but it's something that should never be forgotten.
Really nice to read an article like this that actually goes into detail and gives you some things you can take away and apply right away.

Thanks for sharing and great job on the website, loads super fast for me.
No, but looking for something accessible to anyone.
Props to the MaxCDN team.
Werner Vogels shares some recommended readings of 2012
Emscripten: mruby
You know, it's been about fifteen years.

I remember I had to convert this to C in a hurry because new features had to be added. Doing it in assembler was just about unthinkable. The entire project consists of nearly 100 assembler files and resulted in about 90 files once translated into C.

This was a marathon run and once the entire project was translated and working the focus was narrowly shifted in the direction of adding functionality rather than optimizing the code.

This code was running on an 8051-derivative. Performance was important. You are always counting clock cycles on these systems. I think that if you look at the resulting machine code with the relevant variables mapped to the data memory space the modulo statement doesn't really do any better than a spelled-out conditional statement. In fact, it could be a couple of clock cycles slower (just guessing).

Again, it's been a long time. I can totally see looking at the generated assembly and saying something like "That's as fast as it it going to get. Move on!".

We all make less-than-elegant code at one point or another. Hopefully not too many times. :-)

http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/is51/

https://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/C80...
I had the opposite thought: a PhD might be worthwhile if you really love research, but it's hard to imagine making up the opportunity cost.

What's the normal time to PhD? 5-7 years? Five years out of school, my base salary was barely below the range, and salary + bonus was just a bit above the top end of the range. Seven years out of school (without a PhD), my base salary is in the range, and my salary + bonus is substantially above the range. In the meantime, I've been making a six figure salary instead of a grad student stipend.

I sometimes regret not doing a PhD, but it's definitely not because of the money.
since you asked for my opinion, i think that ? : syntax is a failure. languages where everything is an expression (usually functional languages) have a much better implementation:

value = if (test) {some_value * multiple} else {false_value}
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From my personal perspective, readability comes from the "beauty" of the code. Humans instinctively go on their first impressions, so code that looks appealing at first glance is code that is desired to be worked on. The absolute readability difference between the ternary operator and an if statement is inconsequential outside of which better fits the design context, I think.

I always like to think the text editor is my canvas and the characters are my brush. My job is to make something functional, of course, but also something that looks beautiful.
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> we instituted a ruthlessly enforced $10/minute fine for being late to a meeting with an entrepreneur. So, you are on a really important call and will be 10 minutes late? No problem, just bring $100 to the meeting and pay your fine. When new employees come on, they find this shocking, which gives us a great opportunity to explain in detail why we respect entrepreneurs.

Except.. this doesn't actually work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/chapters/0515-1st-le...

> The economists decided to test their solution by conducting a study of ten day-care centers in Haifa, Israel. The study lasted twenty weeks, but the fine was not introduced immediately. For the first four weeks, the economists simply kept track of the number of parents who came late; there were, on average, eight late pickups per week per day-care center. In the fifth week, the fine was enacted. It was announced that any parent arriving more than ten minutes late would pay $3 per child for each incident. The fee would be added to the parents' monthly bill, which was roughly $380.

> After the fine was enacted, the number of late pickups promptly went ... up. Before long there were twenty late pickups per week, more than double the original average. The incentive had plainly backfired.
Two completely different responses to the reluctant taxpayer:

1) You don't want your fair share of government services. You really don't. You don't want to be in prison. You don't want remedial literacy training. You don't want drug rehab. You don't want your children taken into care. You don't want to live on unemployment. You want to pay for these things to exist in case you need them one day. Also, the fact that other people get them may also be to your advantage.

2) The value of the welfare I received as a youngster is more to me than the cash value plus interest. I grew up poor but now I'm comfortably middle class thanks to care and opportunity that was blind to my ability to pay.

I am happy to pay now for more than my share of the burden of education and health care for others, while having more money left over than I strictly need. I have benefitted from the education and the healthcare. Without it, I would not be financially comfortable, healthy, or have children. I did the work myself, but I would not have been able to do it without educational opportunity and occasional medical care.

If you grew up comfortably off, you might not feel the same way I do. You might resent paying for those less fortunate than yourselves. I don't, because I was one of them.
Instead of including hours in the equation, the team can a high level overview of action items and assign points based on their value to the team. Action items would include features, contacts, capital (funds and tools), and anything else that pops up at the meeting. Higher value items are automatically prioritized.

My concern would still be that the team is essentially guessing how valuable a given contribution is going to be beforehand. Even with industry experience it can be hard to know how much impact that new UI feature will have vs establishing the partnership with so-and-so.

I think some of the risk (of over incentivizing) could be mitigated by having only a set amount of equity distributed dynamically, and have a clear definition of the lock in point where the equity is no longer dynamic and is actually assigned. Also include your typical clauses for whether or not someone that left before lock-in point receives equity. This can be handled separately from what you get for bringing cash to the table.
> For the longest time, only a minority went to college. When few go to college, having a degree at all meant you could get a job, so there was this culture of "study what you're passionate about, it'll be alright". This is unfortunately not true anymore, but this is what the older generations are telling us young people, because they haven't realized that things have changed.

So true. We're currently suffering badly a similar effect in Poland. My generation and current graduates were raised in the belief that you got to have a diploma to find yourself in the market. That led to a crisis of vocationale schools and an overflow of private colleges offering the wackiest fields to graduate in. Now we have waitresses and mcdonalds cashiers with degrees, and employees facing hiring problems because of unskilled labor. Of course all those "educated" youngsters are frustrated, they were told if they study they'll get a career other than salting fries. Only recently our education system started slowly recovering from this madness.
If you do any freelance work or own your own business you could do an Independent 401k which lets you stuff more money away than a normal 401k. Good idea for some of the freelancers on HN.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/independent_401k.asp
That definition is but one of many supposed formal definitions. And it isn't a particularly good one, because then "Big Data" becomes a definition that can only be quantified on a person-level of granularity. According to the guy with the Marketing degree from Ho-Hum College, anything bigger than can fit in an Excel spreadsheet is "Big Data". Switch to Doug Cutting, and "Big Data" is in the hundreds of Petabytes.

I don't buy the out-of-core definition either. I work using a Data Warehouse with petabytes of information...it certainly doesn't fit in memory. I don't use Hive, Pig, Cascading, etc...(okay, sometimes I use Cascalog, but not as a strategy for dealing with large amounts of data). I use SQL. And it works perfectly fine. But if you ask any of the people out there talking about "Big Data", an SQL database doesn't fit into the definition. Hell, I have done processing on a 200GB CSV file using nothing more than GAWK. Nobody is calling GAWK a big data tool.

Face it. "Big Data" is a buzzword for CIOs that read magazines for CIOs but still need to find an engineer to set up their email on their iPad.
If I did my calculations right then at 17,000 mph it would take 474,568.57 years to get there.
This smells like automatically generated procedure names based on dataflow analysis.
This is actually one of the things that's driving Mike's research. When the latest programming paradigm comes out, usually people argue it's better based on the code being shorter or prettier. Judging programming styles based on beauty is inherently subjective, so Mike is trying to find some quantitative basis for comparing programming systems.
Would it be possible for you to open source the eye tracking piece of this ? I'm interested in doing this for photographs or paintings ...
> Surely you can answer my question why the wages went up and then down.

You wouldn't even understand an answer I'd give you, because it'd be in Marxist terminology.

Maybe Oscilliscope will be willing to explain their comment, I don't care to at this time.

> Thanks for the references, I will keep them in mind for the future.

No problem. Glad to be of help. I think that understanding Marx is really important, but I don't think that he has correct answers for today, exactly.

> all I intended was rough percentiles.

Right, this is fundamentally wrong. The only thing that matters is your relationship to the means of production: 'middle class' people are proletariat just like 'lower class' people are. It has absolutely nothing to do with your positioning in the table of income.

This is an example of the terminology issue. It's common to most philosophers.
"One of the things that stood out to me in watching the video was how much my mind seems to work like a computer."

A more accurate way of thinking about this is: how much the computer works like our mind. Not surprising considering that people build things based on how we understand everything else. Whether it was done consciously or subconsciously.
...technically (or better said evolutionary) speaking, our biological pattern recognition engines are optimized to identify women by things more obvious than the looks of genitalia, and then to identify patterns indicative of fertility, one of the few patterns of this set surviving in our modern ideal of "frail and skinny beauty" being the "big boobs pattern".

though I think you're right with something being wrong with their ...brand: "badger" is a brit slang alternative for "beaver", as I've just been told (#4 @ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=badger), and combined with the superficial resemblance of the logo (which I'll admit it may exist), makes me think the whole thing is quite on purpose :)
As someone with an older sibling who meets 4 of the 5 aforementioned criteria I can confirm that no it is not always that easy. Giving him a place on my floor wouldn't really do anything to improve his circumstances or outcome. What makes me the saddest is the realization that more than likely I will end up burying him in less than 5 to 10 years time. That sounds like a rather callous thing to say, but after watching my parents spend upwards of $100k on treatment program after treatment program it seems like there isn't any other choice but let him figure it out on his own. He's pissed away every opportunity he's had his entire life and it's time for him to take ownership of his own life. Not expect someone to always come running with an open checkbook.
'anigbrowl isn't anonymous or even pseudonymous. He just uses a nick. His name is Edward On-Robinson. It's linked from his profile; all you had to do was click on his name to find that out. Similarly, my name isn't "t".

My response is as germane to this thread as your comment was.
While Jekyll is cool to run a blog, it could be a PITA if you want to run a marketing site or something less blog-like with it. This made me to create Punch (http://laktek.github.com/punch), which can be easily customized to run many different kinds of sites.

If you already have a blog based on Jekyll, but feels it takes forever to build. Consider switching it to Punch with this boilerplate (https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog). Basically, you only need to move the files from Jekyll's `_posts` directory to Punch's `posts` directory. Also, you would love the ease in template customizations (and ability to use partial layouts).
Nicely done! Flickr's API is a big reason why despite lacking growth in other departments, I'm still a happy paying customer of theirs. When I heard about the Instagram hubbub, I figured something like this would appear within a day or two, given how easy their API is to work with. That's not to downplay the work done here - great, simple, effective implementation
Looked it up some more; most of the difficulty of speech-to-text engines are text normalization and converting words into sounds. Since you only have dictionary words, you might be able to use a phonetic dictionary.

Wikipedia and discussions with another techie friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges
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Would you say the same of an education that did not come from a western university? What if instead of studying the arts in a school in Kansas, it is my burning life desire to hitchhike around southeast asia for five years. Should I not be "penalized" (read: not be in demand) for making that decision?

This isn't a silly exaggerated hypothetical either. It is exactly what I would have done if I had not valued career prospects so highly nearing the end of highschool.
It looked like a commercial eye tracker to me, so we wouldn't be able to open source it. However, a quick Google search revealed some things that might be promising.
> I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. It sounds like something you'd hear at a bad self-help seminar.

The locus of control is a psychology term[0]: "referring to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them."

I've had many peers growing up who had an entirely different attitude from me regarding what was within an individual's control and what was not. Many people hide behind the circumstances that they have been dealt without acknowledging that it is possible to change them. They simply give up and choose to see no path forward.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
You are correct. I didn't realize PMF was such a consistent dividend that far back. On top of the 6% average, it is also tax free since it is Municipal so true return could get up to 8ish which is pretty incredible considering the last 10 years.
I spent three years studying whatever at community college, fulltime, while figuring out what I wanted to do. That's one of the best things about community college - you don't pay through the nose, you can learn for 'cheap' while you figure out what you really want to do. Then you can choose a university and go from there.
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Sorry but communism is badly flawed in its very design. It discourages hard working people and encourages lazy people by its very core philosophy. Nobody who is hard working will ever have an incentive when told he and the guy sitting next to him will get the same reward. And no lazy guy will ever work if he is told, regardless he will get the same as the guy who works hard.

People in capitalists countries by and large are over a degree of measure living in better conditions than those living in communist countries.

And people messing up their financial lives by reckless borrowing, debt and bad decisions[like taking loans to study humanities] is not the fault of capitalism.
I really hope this Instragram black-eye (even if they fix it) triggers a rebirth of interest in Flickr. Flickr was a great site once and remains a great idea.
Indeed, and it was still on their agenda in 1998. Microsoft saw Linux as their worst enemy and developed business strategies to eradicate it (by means of 'de-commoditizing'). Then, the 'Halloween Documents' leaked. ESR writes:

"In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memorandum on Redmond's strategy against Linux and Open Source software was leaked to me by a source who shall remain nameless." This document can be read at http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html

Read more at http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/
That's the strawmanning I expect from this place!

('communism' explicitly does not 'give everyone the same reward.' Read more, try again please.)
The internet is just a tool, nothing more. People are going to use it to do great things. Others are going to use it for stupidity.

You can go to a library and read Aristotle or Tolstoy, or you can read the latest romance novel or surf porn on one of the library computers.

Some use the internet to do amazing things, to come together and create, invent, and help society progress. Others play Farmville all day.

Like anything else, what you put in is what you get out.
> There's just something about C++ that makes a lot of
> people obsess over performance to a degree that doesn't
> even affect the mindset of most C hackers.

Interesting observation. My first guess is that it is a lot easier in C++ to hide a stupid bottleneck, for example an object in a function call (which will call a copy constructor). So in the experience of a C++ dev, there are low hanging fruits. On the other hand in pure C it is a lot harder to hide this type of complexity and therefore C optimizations tend to be a lot more subtle.