skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen a lot of people who pointed out how wrong the OP had done and the OP should have done X, followed by Y, yadi yada. What I can't find is maybe a bit of sympathy, or encouragement.

Fine. It would be very useful if those smart people can share what and how they have applied the Lean Startup theory, and how successful their products/companies are. I will give most of them benefit of doubt for _reading_ that book, but applying it? I would say around 10% of them? Applying it and succeed? Even less, I just speculate it will be around the 1% mark. In other words, those who talk so loud about OP didn't get the MVP right etc etc, I will say they won't fare any better if their rubber hit the road. I am more than happy to be proven wrong.
That's pretty cool. I notice you have both a public and private option for users. We're sticking to making everything public for now for network effects, but will be keen to add a private option later on, demand pending.
I didn't know that it was a term of abuse. I won't use it, then.

I guess we need another emasculating/biting term for male managerial favorites. "Protege, in the Ancient Greek sense of the word" is a lot of words, but it's the best alternative I can come up with.
Sigh...you've completely missed my point.

> The work itself is what keeps people in the industry, and the work is genuinely more fun than other jobs I've had for a number of reasons.

Let me say once again:

My point was that you should consider the bias of perception on market dynamics when determining your occupation, rather than falling prey to the trap of perception, like a lot of people do.

If your job really is as fun as it is perceived to be, then everything I've said obviously doesn't apply to you.

Now, I don't know anything about the film industry first-hand, but I've heard plenty of stories from friends and acquaintances about how ridiculously difficult it is to get into (primarily on the acting side of things, though, so it may not apply to your particular occupation). There's definitely a reporting bias. For every person like you who is happily employed in the film industry, there are hundreds of people who journeyed to Hollywood with the hopes of making it big and then realized that things weren't so easy.
"I suppose its pointless to spend all those police resources fighting that?"

Huh? Are you replying to someone else who made a claim about resource allocation (bc I didn't)?
It happened just as I tried to submit a new issue on one of my repos...
Hope it wasn't my fault :p
How about in the case of:

1. "A Chinese vegetarian lawyer"

2. "A Vegetarian Chinese lawyer"

According to the referenced paper[1], #1 is considered awkward, but #1 follows your ordering logic, assuming that there are more Chinese than Vegetarians.

[1] http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/25/paper1473.pdf
Note: I've lived in the Valley since 1996.

One thing most people don't factor in is that everything is more expensive here and that to attract workers to skilled but not professional jobs the salaries are higher than elsewhere. My wife is a staffer (not a lawyer or in a position requiring certification) at a well-known law firm and I'd bet her salary is 40-60% higher than if the office were in, say, Portland or Austin.

And real estate, to put supporting buildings like train stations and repair yards, is similarly more expensive.

We do have some real doozies planning projects. For giggles look at the so-called high speed rail project being 'built' to link San Diego to San Francisco, with a price tag that has gone from $30 billion to north of $100 BILLION before a shovel's even gone in the ground. But only if you have an hour or so to roll around on the floor laughing.

On the plus side, Jerry Brown seems to have actually done some practical good since coming back into the governor's office. He's been very pragmatic and considering how much he's had to struggle against legislators, bureaucrats, unions and other entrenched interests, I think Brown has been the most effective governor CA's had since I got here in '96.
Reading the linked rules of adventure gaming, it is true that you can have arbitrarily hard puzzles without breaking any of them.

[spoiler for a two puzzles in Monkey Island 2 below]

The example for me is in MI2; there comes a point at which you are suspended over a boiling cauldron with a candle that is burning through the rope holding you up. If you are really clever, you will remember that earlier you got a drink that would thicken your spit (and you can't have not picked it up, since you needed it to solve a puzzle to get to this point). However, you can't spit at the candle, but you can spit at a shield on the wall, causing a ricochet to extinguish the candle.

I was stuck on this for months, finally got bored and played through the game again. The moment I got to the first time you need to spit I just slapped my self in the head.
An option much like washing your feet in boiling sulphuric acid is a way of getting sand out from between your toes.

When something makes PHP look like a bastion of sanity and competence, you really should run a million miles in the other direction.
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Typically a chest strap but yeah no disagreements here, it would be less convenient.
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Does anyone have experience using Xamarin, as opposed to standard Android development in Eclipse?

I'm looking at the website and as a daily C# developer, this looks enticing. But I'm wondering what the limitations are as it seems somewhat too-good-to-be-true.
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Since you're sort of competing against the vibrancy of photos, why not consider allowing typography choices?
That's not what it says. It says you are presumed to be in possession of drugs if you have the keys to somewhere containing the drugs. Is that a misread, or do you know of a law that states having drugs in your house is considered evidence of trafficking?
I have no less respect for Ron than I did back in the 90s, but I think that sometimes the veterans lose sight of what made their old games great (and this of course, is just my opinion). He wants keep the retro aesthetic, which is good, but then wants to include things like DOF and glows...which can technically be done with a palette, but I don't think this is what he is getting at, and could potentially destroy the rigid palettization that makes pixel art what it is. He wants to use speech instead of text, which is one of the things that I think ruined Monkey Island 3. There are many ways to improve on the old formula while keeping the superficial aspects that fuel our nostalgia - it seems like most remakes these days jump on the very generic looking engines like Unity (yes you can tweak Unity to look any way, but if you use the default shaders, cameras, etc it will look like any other game).
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I already successfully use this method between my work laptop (Windows 7) and my home laptop (Ubuntu 11.04) and haven't run into any problems yet!
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But these kinds of languages do exist and it's reasonable to think about writing compilers for them and/or subsets.
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I'm actually thinking Adapteva has a lot of future in present areas of growth.

1) On the mobile side, you can have Epiphany, their compute fabric, as a unit directly on the mobile SoC. You can do codec offload, like WebP, WebM, SILK/Opus. You can do basic computer vision for augmented reality applications, or image recognition. Or perhaps physics, integrate gyro output, position the device in absolute three space. I dunno, the point is the compute is open, there for exploitation. It's not like OpenCL where I have to beg the drivers to be available, correct, or performant. Nor is it like Qualcomm's Hexagon, where who knows if I can use it, and I sure as hell won't without signing an NDA.

2) As far as cloud and heterogenous compute goes, again I see an embedded Epiphany being useful. Everybody whines about various things, like for example missing double-precision. Firstly, it's not like the architecture can't be extended in future. But more importantly they miss little details. Each node in Epiphany can branch and do integer. You can see it doing wire-speed protobuff de/coding and other parallel data shuffling of long-living data, that could be compressed, or interleaved somehow.

I'm more of a low-power, cloud kind of guy. So that's what I'll be playing with the most when I get my hands on the kit. That and maybe some parallel graph rewriting. Who knows, the sky's the limit.
The choice of cumulative distribution vs. time-dependent response times depends a lot on what you're trying to measure. The cumulative distribution is useful for showing the likely response time and its variation, but assumes a constant state. Your new plot style is useful for seeing how changes in loads affect the response time distribution (if you see double the hits, do you get longer response times and/or more variation in times?).
Why does it matter how many users there are if you aren't allowed to make money off of them?

Twitter is far worse than FB in this regard. Unless you can figure out a way to generate revenue by putting content into the stream (eg content publishers), Twitter is not a good place to build a business.
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Thanks for writing this, there is no guarantee of safety in a free society.
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We actually started this project at a Hackathon at Facebook HQ. We came up with the name via a quick domain search. I agree with you that quotes aren't necessarily the best term to use - maybe text snippets would be more accurate? We want to be a collection of all the interesting things people read on the Internet.
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"I've never seen untested code that wasn't crap"

That's the statement I was replying to - and yes, code with tests is going to be better. But to call all code without tests crap is directly saying that the Linux code is crap, that the BSD code is crap, tcp/ip code is crap, etc. I disagree completely - the code is awesome and has built billion dollar industries and has made most peoples lives better. Could it be improved with more tests? Sure. Everything can be improved. Calling it 'crap' however is insane.

I, personally, would be more than happy to have produced the 'crap' BSD code that has propelled Apple into one of the most valuable companies today.
I can think of two: documentation and simplicity.
Comparing Parallella with GPUs only in performance is missing the point. The board is open and quite understandable for non-experts like me. It's a platform for learning and experimenting, like a Raspberry Pi but more geeky. You will probably have an easier time tinkering with this and getting it to do useful things, that's the point.
I feel, like the parent commenter, quite excited about this.
Tell that to the person commenting about Lojban in this thread...
Perhaps a re-contextualisation of the phrase "Teacher's Pet" could be sufficiently infantilising?
Exactly. I'm very excited to get my board and break into it. It really is intended to be a testbed for multiprocessing and hacking.

One thing that I'd like to see is what other people do with this product. I think that really will be the best part of this board. I'd equate it to minecraft (if I may be so bold). They didn't create a computer in minecraft, they created the possibility to create a computer and that was enough. That's how I see this board.
You could also use a VHF/UHF handheld with an 18" whip antenna and access the FM repeater on the SO-50 satellites when it's passing by. The RF window for a pass is only about 10 minutes, but then you get some height behind your transmission.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/so50.p...
"Our first customer, a Canadian social services department, was led by a Deputy Minister with a fondness for a wall chart showing the logic models under his charge."

Several years ago, a friend and I started a non-profit that tried to work closely with a Canadian social services department. Consequently, when I read this sentence, I cringed. Turns out that big Canadian government departments have these massive tomes called 'procedure manuals'. These procedure manuals spell out every single activity that the department could possibly perform, seemingly in the name of getting rid of ambiguity, judgement and any sort of innovation. Consequently, trying to innovate alongside a government department is, more often than not, an extremely frustrating experience that results in a pissed off client and a stymied startup.

Long story short, just because someone comes at you with money, it doesn't mean that your demand is validated. Rather, sometimes the wrong kind of customer is worse than having no customer at all!
"I agree with everything after your unsupported first sentence."

What about my first sentence bugs you? The brain is certainly wired for language, but not for a specific language. English, for example, is not instinctive. A newborn baby will not spontaneously develop English; he will need to pick it up by being around others who are speaking it. Same goes for French, or Mandarin, or Russian, etc. I'm not going to spend all morning looking up and linking research papers on this topic, so I'll just need you to take a flyer on this. Either you're going to agree with me or disagree with me, and that's cool either way.

"I think we have differing interpretations of "required"

Perhaps, though it's probably not a semantic rabbit hole worth a deep dive. But sure, learning the rules of a language isn't technically "required" in order to attain basic fluency with the language. But conscious study of the rules is certainly required to break through plateaus in one's facility. I guess this ultimately boils down to what one's desired goals and outcome with a language are.

Either way, the statement "no conscious understanding of the rules is required" is overly reductive and sweeping.
For now. If it became popular enough, there would be ads..
Have you seen http://git-annex.branchable.com/?
Someone who doesn't sell on eBay would be completely ignorant of the (apparently large) consequences of negative feedback.

She gave negative feedback because her experience didn't match her expectations. It's a reasonable thing to do.

It doesn't seem reasonable for the company to lose large amounts of transactions due to one negative feedback. But that isn't the buyer's fault, it is how eBay is organized.
I couldn't get it to install properly when I tried it long ago.

They've changed licensing models fairly recently; you can deploy to the app store for free with a limit on app size (complexity). They also have a 30-day money-back guarantee -- seem to be really reaching out for mind share.

Obviously the important question is if it's worth the time to learn the abstraction layer!

Edit: I'm sure they'll be swinging by once they are not so busy; check out the livestream of the conference going on right now: http://blog.xamarin.com/live-streaming-xamarin-evolve-2013/
Are you saying that you are happy to type in an entire sonnet when prompted for a password?

Being realistic, to expect someone to type in such a long password regardless of if they can remember it or not is clearly unreasonable.
I really like this. I can't imagine that the cognitive process humans use to order adjectives in everyday speech involves categorizing each adjective and memorizing an arbitrary ordering on those categories.

On the other hand, the category-ordering approach does have the advantage that it's an O(log n) operation, whereas solving the restrictive effect maximization problem is harder: a heuristic greedy search in the solution space might be O(n), and a true solution might be O(n!).
Perhaps you could enlighten us about these security issues or how any language "plays big data and science". I'm genuinely curious about what you mean by security issues, even though the rest of your comment is bizzarely bitter.
is there a way to access from my laptop those kindle snippets to put them on the site?
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I believe https://clipboard.com/ has been doing this for a while, too. It'll be interesting to see if there's a market for these services along with Evernote and similar.
I like that! Any typefaces you would propose in particular? Not sure if you noticed, but we've used two typefaces on the current version of the site: Adobe Caslon Pro and Proxima Nova.
I don't know for sure that this is possible yet, but I believe that the processor would be able to estimate the amount of work required to evaluate an expression. Using this ability, it would be able to automatically parallelize the evaluation of an expression by splitting it up into pieces of approximately equal size and then distributing them to sub processors.

This, and things like this, are much more difficult for untyped terms.
So has https://findings.com/
And, most of those gems have been written after Rails became prominent (somewhere around 2006/7). Denominator should be 6 or 7.
It's pretty necessary if you aren't moving between colocated boxes. "less than a couple hundred GB of data" is still a lot of data to be moving around, even on a 100Mb/s link, which almost no one in America has residentially, and isn't even a guarantee for colo'd machines.

In most cases, compression at the raw block level will result in HUGE size savings, especially since a lot of that may be free space. It might even make this transfer tenable.
I haven't tried it out, but give this a shot it was linked on the original research paper's site[1]:

http://videoscope.qrclab.com/

[1]http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
Very cool. I have a better domain for you: tacked.com

Shoot me an email if you want to use it, I'm sure we can work something out :)
There are more large, recognized businesses coming online soon. I'm talking to a start-up right now that is fairly well-known among HNers that is working on setting up Bitcoin payment options (and have asked them if I can share their plans -- waiting for a response).
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I'd recommend reporting your card likely stolen and getting a new number. The slight inconvenience is worth the peace of mind.
I always find it interesting when a methodology XYZ is critiqued its adherents invariably claim "that's not really XYZ."
A guy sold me an HP calculator, advertised as "in perfect condition" while in fact keys on it were broken, it was badly warped, and cigarette ashes were falling out of it.

I gave him negative feedback and he went ballistic, saying "You should have sent me a message privately, rather than give me bad feedback! I've been on eBay for ten years with no bad feedback. I would have made it up to you."

I explained that his kind of behavior was exactly what bad feedback was for.

eBay feedback is badly broken if people aren't supposed to actually use it.
It only sounds that way because the original proposition is ridiculous. You become a traitor to your country for monetary gain and expect the invading force to change the peoples' sentiment? That has never worked, as far as I can tell.

Instead, these people take the money and use it to relocate to a nicer place. If the country is still falling apart after the invasion, even more so.
Perhaps, instead of bringing someone in to crunch their numbers and look for interesting correlations--they might rather be willing to license their data out to some think-tank or newspaper/magazine or something, who would do that analysis for its own (readership's) sake?
Can anyone really afford to develop for Glass?
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Check out caolan's async module. It changes how you think about writing nontrivial js.
I was pushing an important commit, why life is so miserable?
Living up to his name, and yet I still want him to TAKE MY MONEY NOW
Organizationally, non-profits are a special beast, requiring very different handling than corporate IT buyers. I don't think the Fat Startuppers grok'd their customers at all.

Honestly, I don't think they learned very much - their "four fundamentals" are just platitudes. There must be more to this story - I wish they could unearth it within themselves.
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It took a long time for GPU's to get double precision floating point and plenty of GPGPU work was done with them prior to that, so it's not a deal breaker

Not sure if world first or AMD's first, but it was around this timeframe, 2007:
"AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology"
http://phys.org/news113757140.html
git push was hanging for me. Got the 500 as well.

http://status.bitbucket.org/
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APK size takes a small hit, and there's extra work to bring in Java libraries. That's all I've found. I've actually been using their guides when working on ordinary Java-based Android code; their docs are well-written and their SDK maps nearly 1:1 to Google's (helps here that Java and C# are fairly similar to a degree).
I have for about a year now done all my work out of Dropbox (via a symlink from ~/src) it works great for multiple machines and has added advantages, eg. I never worry about deleting files that aren't staged anymore, as I can undo the delete from Dropbox’s website.

Git is for long-term version control, working out of Dropbox is like having a script running that stashes and unstashes every change you make so that its in the git-reflog.
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You are considered in possession if you have the keys to a property that contains a drug.

You are considered to be trafficking if you possess a certain quantity of that drug.

There is a mandatory death sentence if the quantity of the drug that you "possess" for trafficking is over a certain amount. In the case of cannabis it's over 500 g.

Singapore == scary laws.

People go to prison in some countries for grains of cannabis resin stuck to the sole of their shoe even if they have no trace of cannabis in their system.
You're approaching the question from a different angle. The key word is SoC. Think embedded performance, rather than desktop performance.

Just to give you a few examples... OpenCV for robotics platforms, cheap low-power SDR capable of transmission, SIP encryption and compression. One might argue you could stick a GPU in a robot, I'd personally want something better suited to the task (lower power).
I like the idea. I'll be honest, half the emails in my inbox are from myself, either with links or quotes or ideas, whatever.

Now, does EverNote offer something like this, or do they do full webpages only?

Integration is definitely key. I really like how you have the option to Tweet a saved quote on your app.
The evaluator is the interesting part, of course. How do you stop it from getting stuck evaluating functions like this?

def f():
f()

If you can do general recursion, you can do infinite loops. If you can't do general recursion, I'm not sure the language will be very useful.
So the answer really doesn't answer the question.

(It appears the answer is no, but given they haven't been forthright in the actual details of the hack, possibly not)
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Current behavior takes me to the top of the page. For longer threads, it's a pain to find the comment I replied to so that I can continue reading.
I have used Mockingbird (https://gomockingbird.com/) and Balsamiq (http://www.balsamiq.com/) in the past. Currently I like to use Omnigraffle pro (http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/).
Use a similar approach, except with Mercurial. It works. :)
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