skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And don't forget that you can still set the remote environment variables, use stderr output of the remote command, pipe it and so on:

$ ssh remotehost "arecord | gzip -c" | gunzip -c | aplay

records raw pcm stream an a remote machine, gzip's it and gunzip's and plays on the local machine.
But they can't prevent employees from resigning, can they? If yes, the 13th amendment is gone as well as the 4th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...
Isn't figuring out that 85 miles training is not good and optimizing it a part of the 10 000 hours thing?

Every 100 hours I devote to something, I look back and think "God, was I ever that bad/clueless?". The more time you spend on something, the more you realize that there is more to know.
IIRC, one of his examples at the beginning of Outliers was a group of Canadian boys who excelled at hockey - in part because they were among the oldest in their cohort, and thus had more opportunity for practice and growth relative to their peers. From that example at least, it wasn't clear to me that he meant to exclude athletics from his thesis, anymore than it's clear to me that sports aren't a complex task. Have you tried to hit a baseball lately? Or hit a three-point jump shot? They actually are complex tasks.
On my site I figured out abnormally high load time is caused by under powered mobile devices accessing the site.
The problem seems to be: if you could build a partially evacuated tunnel on top of pylons, you could build a light rail system on top of the same pylons with the same sized cars and it would weight less since the track weighs less than the tube and you could replace the car's 1500kg batters with drive motors and power them off a third rail/over head wire.

Of course, this would have rather poor capacity, but that's a problem with the hyperloop as well. It would also be slower at maybe 200 - 250 MPH, lowering capacity further.

But if someone claimed they could simply do a 250mph light rail at drastically lower cost, people would necessarily be skeptical. Adding a bunch of really interesting high speed tech on top, shouldn't change that claim much. About the one way I can see it should change the skepticism is if the increased speed increases capacity sufficiently. Which seems not to be the case.
So the compiler writers are bringing lazy evaluation to the unsuspecting masses?
But submitting a tweet on HN is way less cool than writing a blog article...
>> Ahh. Psychologists. Expectations calibrated.

> A, a positivist reductionist.

With respect to psychology, given its history, the burden isn't on me to avoid faulty generalizations, it's on psychology to overcome the weight of its past.

> Expectations on intellectual sophistication and ability to comprehend the world beyond simplistic models calibrated.

At a time when the director of the NIMH has decided to abandon the DSM on the ground that it's not scientific enough to take seriously?

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

Quote: "The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity ... Patients with mental disorders deserve better."

What appears to be a simplistic generalization is, in this case, the result of much reflection and analysis, and a reluctant but legitimate conclusion.
Correct.

An out-of-band key exchange, or OOB verification of messages, would work. You'd start with messages of low criticality.

In Snowden's case, he didn't even identify himself to Poitras until they'd been communicating for some months.
why do they always happen to always be inaccurate on the bad side these days?

I don't have time to find it right now, but I remember reading a study a few years ago that showed most projects to in fact come in on time and on budget. It's the few major projects that make the headlines that have schedule & budget problems, and (to no surprise) those tend to be the projects that have to deal with the most complexities. It's not different than large software projects.

On the other hand, they also had serious challenges that we don't meet

Sure, but they could work around those problems by (literally) throwing bodies at that project and dumping crap into rivers. And some of those things you indentifiy as problems ("very bad transportation network," "less educated workforce") aren't really problems - "less educated" means "cheap": the project just needed to train you to hold a rivet in place or swing a hammer, today's workforce needs to know how to manage complex diesel equipment. "very bad transportation network" means "more room to work": building the Hoover Dam in the boonies is in many respects much less difficult than building the 2nd Avenue subway under a crowded Manhattan or building the Big Dig under a busy Boston. In fact most of the high cost of CA HSR isn't from building the sections in the boonies (which is why they're starting construction there first), it's building the connections into the heavily populated metro areas like San Francisco and LA.

If you ever have the chance (and you're an American), go to a public meeting organized by a huge capital project. Listen to all of the comments (ranging from measured to angry, reasonable to crazy) and keep in mind that the project has to address all of those concerns. That will give you a sense of scale of the problem. In fact I spend this past weekend dealing with concerns that frankly defy the laws of thermodynamics, but the project has to address, which means I spend billing hours debunking it.

edit: enko makes a good point, you could go ulta-conservative with cost estimation, but then every highway widening project becomes a $100 billion undertaking and nothing would ever get done. Projects to set aside 5-15% for continengy and most of the time that's enough. Of course there are outliers, and those are what tend to get attention. You also have times were a project may also set a relatively low budget, but they get back bids from contractors and/or engineering firms that way exceed the budget, so the budget gets increased.
Big Data's Big Impact - Using Data for Social Good
I bought my first Android (Galaxy S4) a couple months back, before that I'd only owned iPhones. For me, Android has been a superior experience in almost every way. I could talk about a few dozen different aspects, but one that really sticks out... The browser experience.

Chrome and Firefox alone were enough to make the switch worth it for me. Firefox extensions are just as rich as on the desktop, private browsing is quick and seamless, I also really enjoy the tab sharing between devices in Chrome. Tabs stay open all day and don't refresh every time I switch an app, files I download manifest themselves onto a file system I can easily consume with a USB cable. It just feels like a real browser experience, whereas iOS feels like a joke in comparison.
The article includes a bunch of references to placebo effect research by neuroscientists.
I'd personally like more local storage depos. And keep freight off of the road during the day. Night time would also be a good time to shift freight. The last mile could be done with a small electric vehicle, or over pneumatic tubes.

What makes buses and trains so attractive is that they take up far less space (if filled) compared with say a car carrying one passenger.

It might be too late in the UK to get cargo and freight back on the canals. Also our local post offices are being closed down, which would be the natural choice for a local pickup point. I for one wouldn't mind a text to say I have a parcel to go and collect. I'd probably be happy collecting my mail once a week (bar the spam.)

Side tracking further, I heard some old dears the other day, lamenting that they could no longer afford to send xmas cards. It now costs about a dollar to send mail by first class.
> There appear to be intimate connections between the mind and the body, in both directions.

That may be true, but only one of those can be studied scientifically.
Could somebody please make that lower-case "mercury"?
We looked at this as well. Here's a research brief appropriately titled "Chicago is not going to be the next Silicon Valley". If you like graphs and data, the brief illustrates why -- http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/chicago-venture-capita...
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I caught the Hobbes reference, I just can't see any sane reason for applying it to the GPL.
> They produce their max torque at 0 rpm and it decreases from there.

That's true in an unregulated motor, but Nissan electronically regulates the motor so the torque isn't ridiculous at 0rpm. The torque curve ends up being flat over most of the range, and it seems to start falling off around 50mph. I haven't seen a plot, so that's just my impression. I can see how the wording is incorrect, so I modified it to refer specifically to the Leaf's motor.

> No documentation I have found states it has a CVT.

You're right. Fixed.
Depending on how you want to do your counts or piping, you could run that after the xargs / parallel execution, which would be much more efficient (fewer processes and execs) anyhow.
Re: EPA regulations. I think Elon's familiar with the curveballs of meeting regulations :)

https://twitter.com/TalulahRiley/status/320421724644573184
https://twitter.com/TalulahRiley/status/320422298618302464

Just to toss in an entertaining data point.
And the the giant library.
>Not long after obtaining his doctorate, he received an inheritance from his grandfather

>“How could it be the case that this person is cofounder and CEO since 2005 and the company still exists?” The answer dates back to Karp’s decades-long friendship with Peter Thiel,

>Thiel had cofounded PayPal and sold it to eBay in October 2002 for $1.5 billion.

>Enter Karp, whose Krameresque brown curls, European wealth connections and Ph.D. masked his business inexperience.

And thus we enter the Establishment's presentation of hippie-cum-suit stories, presenting data miners for the Man as rock stars [1]. Sound familiar? It's the same story that worked on the baby boomer generation. "First I was a hippie, then I was a stock broker, now I am a hippie again."

[1] Let's see them give the token opposing community activist on page 4 the same photography treatment instead of photographing him on the margins of the frame so he looks even more obese and distended.
This was a good read. I don't have a degree and my wife stays home too. Enjoy and save up while it lasts, most are not so fortunate.

I think some blame for economic decline has to go toward world overcrowding and fewer resources per capita, but I also agree that no profession stays on top forever - although bankers sure give it a good run.

I'm wondering if the social/mobile/videogaming crazes are ever gonna burst. It's hard for me to even visualize all the sectors that utilize programming. Health Care, NSA spying, autonomous drones, genomics, ...
Sure. I just edited my message above.
Are Tech Jobs Good for Everyone?
Leaving comments for yourself in zshell
Elliott from WePay here - don't mean to turn these comments into a corporate stick-measuring contest, but our API has been able to support this use case since August of 2011.
Cisco tries to create some buzz, as a company that most of the time you don't hear about...
He did talk about physical sports, referencing hockey and the fact that players who are born in January are the oldest and therefore have the upper hand at an early age; the theory is that those kids get more practice by being on tournament teams etc, and that's what drives them to continue to be the most skilled - hence why the NHL over-indexes on people born in Jan/Feb/Mar.
__EXTREME__ PC behavior and absolutely no references to dongles.
For anyone interested, there's a really great documentary that I believe is still on Netflix called "Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037".

The process really is amazing.
Actually once the Government severely limits crypto-currencies for the protection of the American people we might find the next tech haven to be outside the USA.

How can the next Silicon Valley be in the USA when one of the major new paradigms in the tech world will soon be entirely banned?
Grasshopper 100m Lateral Divert Test
I would still go 50/50 because at that point, after one year of the prototype who generated revenue, you could go the "solo founder" let's hire employee route.

The thing is.. look at the stats, most startups fail. Having an equility split really make both co-founders committed and started in the right direction, which goes a long way about making the startup succeed. How would you feel about starting a startup where you don't have equal split with the person who'll spend all your days with?

If you ask that question, I think it's because you haven't found the right co-founder. I.e. Let's say you have a selling book website for a year with some revenue, and then you can have Stephen King joins you as co-founder. Would you hesitate to give him 50 if he fits the role? Now, obviously you don't have a book business and this is not Stephen King.. but still, the idea applies. If you think it's not worth 50, it probably isn't and you should try to find someone else. Otherwise both party will be unhappy. Your co-founder won't feel equal and you'll find that you gave too much.

That's my 2c (and to explain a bit the lesson from OP)
Yeah that isn't a good thing, because by the time your code is reviewed it would no longer compiler as others have made changes in the code too.
Some additional ideas:

* Call up past employers, explain what you're doing, and if they need any help (especially with systems you are familiar with).

* Call up anyone you know and ask if they need help. Network!

* Attend software/business conferences. Talk to people. Don't pitch yourself, but get a feel for what they do, where the pain points might be. Then ask about software to solve problems.

* Read this great series of blog posts: http://planscope.io/blog/how-to-build-relationships-when-net...

* Surf craigslist for projects, make a mockup or proof of concept for promising projects, and send it off. (This may be scraping the bottom of the barrel, but you can do it immediately)
Fascinating. What's annoying about computer/video based sign instructions is the lack of feedback. "Did I get this sign right or do I just think I have it right?"

If MotionSavvy can notify me when I get it wrong, very nice!
This would fit better as a comment for the original submission
They post quite a bit to GitHub: https://github.com/google/
Do you think the issue for most regions outside of Northern California is merely a lack of VC money? New York makes sense, as there is just tankloads of money that you won't find anywhere else on earth.
What is your genetic sex? There's your answer.
The difference here is that I don't need a mechanic at all to get what I need from Windows because Windows is not missing many very basic features. Five years ago, if we wanted file creation timestamps in Linux, we'd have to use an alpha or beta filesystem and hire a "mechanic" to fix or even install it. That's why everybody is using Windows and that's why you hear that argument a lot.

Furthermore, if you're not using Microsoft tools to develop for Windows then you're using the wrong tools. If I go try and use Visual Studio on Linux - it won't work. Go figure.
Jeff Dean on how neural networks are improving everything Google does
More than 80 percent of the United States' population lives in urban areas, and the urban population grew by 12.1 percent between 2000 and 2010. (1) The fact that some towns are underpopulated doesn't mitigate overcrowding in cities because we can't assume that urban families are willing or able to relocate to rural areas.

You wrote that "housing stock, food output and economic activity" have risen, but evidence suggests that have not risen at a rate proportional to the population growth in America's largest cities. National Geographic wrote a nice general article about the economic & environmental problems caused by overpopulation, using Fresno, CA, as an example.(2)

Some specific examples:

New York City's public schools were 200 percent over capacity as of 2008 (3).

A 2012 study showed that 21 major American cities had experienced an increase in hunger and homelessness. (4)

(1) http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census

(2) : http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habita...

(3) http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/new-york-city-...

(4) http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/20/us-usa-economy-hun...
Will China over take India as the world consumer of gold
HackerWeb - A simply readable Hacker News web app for FirefoxOS
I think that Epstein is getting at a point that there are other factors at play (genetic makeup, etc). And that it's not just a matter of getting 10,000 hours, then you're a superstar.

Having read Outliers, I'm not sure that Gladwell was so prescriptive that he thought that 10,000 hours was the only thing that mattered, I think he was just making the case that it was a prerequisite for getting there. There are a lot of musicians who have played 10,000 hours and aren't as good as The Beatles, or a lot of people who have coded for 10,000 hours and aren't Bill Gates. Talent does matter.
Eh, I don't really think that's a fair conclusion. Or, at least, you've managed to phrase it in an insulting way. Yes, if I have more discretionary income, I'm probably more likely to purchase more apps. This isn't a bad thing, necessarily: It's just how it works. As an app developer, I'd much prefer to target people who can afford my product.
Generally in theoretical cryptography the adversary is a probabilistic Turing machine that can take K steps to break your encryption, where K is asymptotically bounded by a polynomial function of the length of the input it is trying to break.

You will see this called a 'PPT' in the literature, where PPT = Probabilistic Polynomial Time.
Yeah, but in all fairness, he did have some traffic to the site in those 8 hours.
And if IIRC, that was explained because of the boys' physical size relative to their cohort, and that coaches fed into the loop by granting more attention to the children who appeared to "have natural talent," (when really, their natural talent was that they were born earlier).

The book isn't an explanation for the thesis of the 10,000 hours rule. It's an explanation for why outliers exist. In the case of sports, it appears to be a conjunction of physical size + willingness of coaches to round out the edges of their ability. With complex tasks, it appears to be myriad practice.
Perhaps more relevantly is it's fairly obvious how a lot of sports can run into physical limits. For certain genetics, all the practice in the world isn't going to make you Olympic-competitive in a fair number of sports.
Fair enough. That's why sometimes the best cofounders are old colleagues at university or company (or hackatons!). They've already worked together and know they can get shit done quickly.
Foundation 4, definitely. SASS is unreal once you get used to it. I feel like Foundation is a lot more robust while also being a lot less intrusive and zealous about its appearance or configuration.

Bootstrap made a big leap with changing the box-sizing though. It was unusable prior to that.
> why do they always happen to always be inaccurate on the bad side these days?

Well, an obvious factor is that there is a huge incentive to under-estimate for anyone with an interest in the project's green light. The cheaper a project looks on that initial paper, the more likely it will be approved, and if/when it goes over budget, what are they going to do? Cancel it with the tunnel half dug?

It's a political/societal problem of poor economic ideologies, lowest-bidder pricing and misaligned incentives, coupled with a low aversion to - or even understanding of - economic crime.

And it's by no means limited to these mega-projects. I know a certain software company who specialises in winning contracts by low-balling the price, expecting to argue it up later when all sorts of "unexpected" issues arise - those same issues the losing bids allowed for. Pretty much the same game.
Because every corporation these days want in house innovation and they can do it cheaply by incubating startups that they will eat once they are on something.
This exactly echoes Marco Arment's "Google Blindness" post. I'm sure a lot of people read "Android is Better" and "Google Blindness" and perceived a direct thesis-antithesis relationship, but that wasn't the case. He actually proposed a compromise view in the middle that (surprise) different people like different things.

Different strokes for different folks and all that.

I'm also disappointed by everyone succumbing to the usual flame war-ish ideologies surrounding iOS and Android. One does not need to be better than the other. You can develop for both. Developing on either one has strategic advantages and disadvantages, and you can always port to the other later (okay, almost always).

It's so annoying that people attempt to crunch all the arguments for and against each operating system into a binary response to using either one. It's childish and uninformed.
Goat: A simple, json-based dependency/sandboxer for go
Philosophy? Entirely different!?

Philosophy blends in well with CS [1][2][3]

[1]: http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/courses...

[2]: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/csph.html

[3]: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/undergraduate/ug-courses/bsc-cs-phi...
>presenting data miners for the Man as rock stars [1]

these jobs and these companies are cool. You want to work for them. You want to be cool.
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I watched that a couple of years ago. I have never been able to look at a Steinway the same way since. The skill those workers have developed is impressive and inspiring.
I'd say that Toronto has a good chance of stepping up but the cost of living here is also too high.
From Commodity to Advantage: Use Cases for Addressing Big Data in Real-Time
> So according to the Asperger contingent, focusing on a few activities, or just one, is a mental illness.

You chose to ignore the requirement of "significant difficulties in social interaction". These are also not the only diagnostic criteria.

When you make comments like this, it becomes very hard to take your other criticisms of psychology seriously, as it raises the question as to what else you're ignoring/leaving out or unaware of.

The entire point of a syndrome is that it is a grouping based on the presence of a certain set of required symptoms combined by some threshold of additional symptoms, rather than a clearly identifiable underlying cause.

Many individual symptoms of a syndrome can be perfectly normal on their own or even strong desirable at certain degrees, but become substantial problems for the individuals involved when combined together, or when the trait is too intense. There's in other words no contradiction between the positive treatment of grit vs. the description of Asperger syndrome as a disorder.
10 Steps To Becoming A Brogrammer
Raspberry IO open sourced
At the same token, having frontend JS devs that don't have much experience in writing backends can leave you with a mess to clean up or completely re-write in the future.

I think this "benefit" of using the same language for front and backend is pretty over-hyped, as well. In theory, I can agree that it sounds good. In practice, use the best tool for the job on both ends to fit your team's abilities and strengths.

The other neat thing is that if your frontend and UI are cleanly separated, you can swap them out individually without the other even noticing. If our backend gets to be too sluggish, I can replace it with something lower level gradually over time (Go?) without leaving a bunch of deprecated backend JS cruft to clean out.
MSVC, barely supports C99 but has time to have devs make posts about the obvious nature of optimization. Sigh.