skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, how do these problems appear in the core sciences, if at all? Since that is almost entirely government funded.

The results are mostly free and open once published. It's incredibly nichey; many scientists dedicate their lives to a very narrow area of study. Nobody, DARPA and the NSF included, is great at predicating what is going to bear fruit years down the line.

And yet science happens.

It's not subject to a crippling "free rider problem", even though the whole world benefits. It's not massively corrupted by bribery.

Are these just what industry folks say when they want to be subsidized by taxpayers? It's ok for core R&D to be publicly funded, but all these problems will emerge suddenly if they bring it to market, so that last mile has to be left to us.. and the profits too?
hey, this is a good idea. hope it gains ground.
Right. Siesta on working days? I don't think I've ever meet anyone whose job allows it, except teachers.
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> But let's be honest : they're ugly. Youtube, for example looks like an ancient file manager, at best.

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say, but it seems fairly obvious you don't agree with the OP's crazy pronouncement that websites should just be text and a few images. We may be in one of those "violent agreement" situations, so I'm just going to call this argument done. :)
Another stellar example of the promise of this community.

Very proud of this group.
Here is a histogram, pretty uniform with the exception of ~$20k. Used the spark [1] utility to generate this, if anyone was interested.

█▅▇▆▄▄▅▁
| | |
| | +- $120-$150k
| +- $50k-$80k
+- $20k

[1] https://github.com/holman/spark
Be careful with that analogy: a lot of simple sites need zero code, or at least zero code that you need to ever see.
Not sure why a book needs crowdfunding: what costs need to be covered that prevent an author from just writing it?
I'm pretty sure that "America" was being used to refer to the United States, not the entire New World or even the particular portion that the United States happens to sit on.
That would then depend on your server. If nothing really changes your server could plan the first run and re-use that plan each time. I know I can do that with Postgres, your server may be different. To figure out what the actual percentage is postgres has the ability to tell you how long it takes to plan a query so I would say try that. I wouldn't hazard a guess since its going to depend on too many factors and its so easy to just find out from the planner.
This is not about red vs. blue, Republican vs. Democrat, liberal vs. conservative, or anything else like it.

Everyone tries to get their patent cases heard in this particular district in Texas the same way that everyone incorporates in Delaware. It's one particular legal venue that just happens to be friendly to certain vested interests. The reason to seek out this venue is because of nothing more than apolitical favoritism towards patent holders. That's all. Don't make this into something it's not.
> Do you blog about your experiences?

No, not about patent litigation. It's been a long time since I've done that kind of work, and I never was one of the star litigators in any case. But thanks for asking!
I share your sentiment that it could drive away candidates and from time to time we reevaluate the costs and benefits of switching to a mainstream framework.

Concerning maintainability I am really happy with our codebase. Strict rules and tooling help us keeping a clean state. You can write non maintainable code with any mainstream framework or even confuse a new developer when writing idiomatic code for this framework is not well defined.
Thanks for clearing that up. It makes what was said before make more sense now.
Write code. Write code. Write code.

Then write some more code.

That's how you learn to program.

Don't waste your time debating the "best" resource. Pick up OReilly book and learn everything in it. Follow an on-line tutorial. Complete treehouse projects.

DO something. Anything. Starting now, for 8 hours a day.

Anything else is just procrastination.
My strategic advice would be to research the shape of a graph of all states; is there anything peculiar about Texas?

It might be possible to change the locale without changing the outcome.

A similar analogy would be declaring poverty to be the bottom quartile of financial resources, then being surprised that as long as more than 5 people exist we'll always have a bottom quartile therefore always poverty.

What I'm getting at is there may be nothing special about TX at all, there always will be an 81st percentile of course. For example if we sell TX back to .mx, perhaps in exchange for oil or something, then obviously TX would cease to be the 81st percentile but some place else would become the 81st percentile, probably with no real change in the situation other than where the bizjets fly to.

Or maybe TX is corrupt as heck but no one knows it... why TX? Everyone knows Chicago is super corrupt, NYC is super corrupt, N.O. is somewhat corrupt, the whole state of Louisiana is corrupt, the whole state of Alaska is corrupt, the whole state of Illinois is corrupt... so why bypass those probably more fertile grounds for ... Texas of all places? On the big list of cities and states with proven documented corruption problems, east texas never seems to make it very high on the list. IF I were a crook who wanted to hang out with crooks, I see no reason to go to rural TX if I could simply go to Chicago with likely better results, for example.

I mean, haven't the last three governors of Illinois gone to prison on corruption charges? It would appear if you're looking for crooks you'd go to IL not TX, but the trolls don't, which is weird.
It's not so much corrupt judges as the local economy has found a niche with patent lawsuits. All these lawsuits bring in lots of big-spending lawyers and various support staff. Patent lawsuit litigation brings a major influx of money here- everyone knows it and no one wants to rock the boat.
ArgGIS, for pirates who need good maps and layers mate. Avast the coupon expired 9/19.
I don't think that's a healthy attitude, especially when we're talking about the possibility of corruption. If we all take that "pragmatic" view, what will actually prevent corruption?
I was thinking almost the same... "starter templates" for... for what... for something called "bootstrap"...

I don't know too much about recursion, but finally I like what I did see after follow the link :-)
I find it fascinating that this invention is still not understood and when then only through layers of tech. BTC allows transactions in a network without a central party. that is it. the real question is why we haven't seen any real major new use case, but for instance the new micropayment protocol points in that direction. I believe there is a sort of tail end of this development which will come much later. BTC is a kind of hackers utopia, because the whole economy could be reshaped with code.
Yes, but Mars low orbit is closer to Jupiter than LEO and the moon. Building space elevators for Mars is going to be a lot cheaper, so economics is still going to favor industry controlled by Mars, at least until the difference becomes insignificant between Mars and Earth for building space elevators/some form of access to low orbit. (At which point cultural and human capital (sentience capital?) of Earth might make it dominant in the Solar System once again.)
The link pretty much answers my question! Thanks.
Yes, it happens once a month
Maybe so for a Irish native, but for an expat (which I was one, shifted to Germany from Australia), it is very much a "Grass is greener on the other side" point of view. I worked in Australia for at least 15 years, and it felt very stale, almost dying. With the move to Germany, everything starts to look exciting - new work environment, new challenges and new colleagues. After 5 years in Germany, the grass is still green.
a) You only have been able to do it in the way they want you to: by clicking the File menu and saving as a different type.

b) Just because there's an "open" specification, it does not mean their implementation follows it, which is exactly the case for OOXML formats: there are a number of features which Microsoft Office treats differently from what the standard suggests/says, making interoperability/getting things to show up in Office hard as hell.

This is coming from someone who has to use the OOXML SDK daily.
You missed an important viral driver. You can't play beyond level X without friend recommendations or paying for the privilege.

That feature annoyed the hell out of me but its certainly been beneficial for the popularity of the game. I stopped playing it at that point
Redshift is a SQL relational database for large structured data volumes, whereas Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is for non-structured data. The Redshift FAQ has more details on this topic: http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/#0120

Other than the marketing buzz from SAP, I have not seen any reputable (neutral) comparison between Hana and Redshift that includes price. I also have never met anyone that uses/run Hana that was not already an SAP ERP client, albeit the fact that SAP keeps saying Hana is the fastest-growing product in the company's history.
Are you saying (reminder, newbie here :-)) that it is possible to have a column come before in HTML and still appear right on the screen? Else, this means it is not possible to change the order in which the columns stack beyond what can be achieved using a nested grid.

The link above does suggest why the navigation bars collapse too soon sometimes (and sometimes too late). The collapse event is tied to the horizontal resolutions at 768, 992 and 1200 px, and does not depend on how much width the navigation bar actually needs (such that it is collapsed only when space available for it is too small).

I wonder why things are built this way though.
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I guess you did not pay attention in law school--a judge is a public figure. That means a much higher standard for libel/slander. Almost impossible to prove.
Accurate.. except step 10 is 5 signups, not 200. And step 11 is 1 support email, not 200.
Oh come on. I just did a search. Considering the amount of times you've been around such threads on HN alone, is this really the first time you've seen the "solar-system wide resource" rationale?

I find your pose of victimhood incongruous here.
certainly unethical.

though if he's asked the university or whatever and they don't care, it's their money to piss away.
Reminds me of my first job, when my paycheck bounced [after which the owner kept paying me from his wife's checking account]. Only reason I kept working (as the last programmer standing) was a feeling of some responsiblilty to the client, and a need to finish the job. I believe he ended up with about a million dollar overdraft from City Bank (this was back in the late '60s, so I'm not quite sure what the name of the entity that has metastasized into Citigroup was back then).
I think the situation needs to be evaluated objectively.

Are there any team members that are supportive of her? Does she enjoy the work in general, how many instances are there where she has been discredited/ignored etc? Is it escalating?

Is this an issue that is inherent in culture of this specific workplace. Would moving to a new place of work solve this issue or do you feel that developing strategies in general would help her to deal with these kind of issues at whatever workplace she moves to.

If she intends to work in this industry long term then for her own peace of mind she needs to define a way of working through these issues that sits well with her and doesn't allow these individual instances to build into long term unhappiness.

Some things in the workplace are just general friction, adversity, we all have things to overcome associated with age, race, gender, background. We often only see our own struggles, or our eyes get opened to those faced by people close to us.

Although some issues can start small and escalate into big conflicts with a specific person or management style.

It's important that we identify these small instances, note them objectively (emotion removed) and then move on.

In the past I've dealt with similar issues by switching to presenting project ideas solely in document form, or passing them on to supportive team members to deliver. If those ideas get adopted at a later stage, then that's great, what matters most for team progress is that the best ideas get implemented regardless of who they come from.

If what matters to your wife is that her contribution is recognised then she needs to put strategies in place that will enable her to record her own contributions. It's unfortunate that she can't rely on her team to do that fairly, however she shouldn't let it ruin her enjoyment of her role entirely.

I think as a partner, you can act as a sounding board for her frustrations - possibly what she needs to say that she can't say in the workplace. Remind her though that she isn't the only one experiencing this and that it's not unique to her i.e to not take it personally.
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Sounds like they all learned a bunch. Mission accomplished.
Whoops, thanks for catching that. I didn't actually have a space there, but it did get interpreted that way.
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Nope. Made a tonne selling mining devices though. Paid my rent for a few months.
Thanks for the response. What possibilities do you see with this?
I started iOS development 2 years ago with a good understanding of programming but no objective c experience. After picking up a copy of IOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide I was able to get my first app into the App Store within 3 months.

If you are looking for video courses I've done the Lynda.com iOS development course and highly recommend it.
"appears to be a highly accurate insulin pump"

The article was a little vague on how well the control loop is closed, but it provided the impression that there was a feedback loop, as though a real engineer told the journalist there was a feedback loop and the article is the result of the liberal arts interpretive dance of the artists impersonation of the concept of a feedback loop trying to play to the masses who don't know what "feedback" is or Bode stability plots or whatever.

The creation of a feedback loop would make it much more of an "artificial pancreas" than a mere free-running pump or traditional injection.
Microsoft -> Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO) -> Intellectual Venture (founder) -> Lodsys -> Threatening Apple Developer

Hmmm.
Why can't we just fix one letter in the DNA and make diabetes not happen? Diabetes is stupid. All internal organ illnesses are stupid.

Still that's the best we can do atm. Still all those anti-GM people actively hurt our chances to get real treatments soon.
I know that everybody has different motivations, but a common one I am seeing is to go for the glory. However, that's only enough reason to go to Mars, not enough to move there. Glory won't sustain a long-term commitment. I worry that a lot of these volunteers will get tired of it after a short period. Day-to-day life never has much glory.

And frankly, people who are motivated by glory rarely have the introspection needed to really understand their own motivations and sustain commitment. The people who do great things over long periods of time are self-motivated and do it for the love of the thing, not for a dream of glory from others.

Furthermore, I really do think that glory is the most important motivation for moving there. If these people are really highly motivated by "meeting new challenges, pushing limits," well, they can try setting up self-sustaining colonies in deserts or Antarctica today. But no volunteers I know of for that.
Has anyone successfully implemented a "rocketback" RTLS maneuver on a production booster? A partial success looks pretty good on something that's been totally theoretical to date.
If the column comes before in HTML then it will appear before as well according to the Bootstrap conventions laid out. However you are more than welcome to throw that all out and have the column to appear left, right, top, bottom wherever you want with simple CSS.

In terms of navigation, it is tied to resolution because it's easier to change code than to change devices owned by your users :)
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Well, isn't that to be expected? It's a big company and seems NASA-y

I'm not a fan of Orbital either - thanks for sharing your insight though! - I think SpaceX's approach is far superior. But nonetheless, it's nice to hear about the competition occasionally, too.
Should this not be behind SSL? Looks good though.
Respecting a widely acknowledged property right is a political stance when widely acknowledged exceptions to that right are left aside. There's also the controversial subtopic of draconian policing of violations of those rights in recent years.

Copyright is not a topic for small children. Adults are barely grown up enough to discuss it.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the also controversial subtopic of expiration and lack thereof.
The best advice I ever received was over 2 years ago whilst on holiday in Canada. A dude there said that he'd spent $6000 CAD on mining equipment (GPUs) and had made a cool $15000 - but he said that he would have made more if he'd of just bought the coins.

Rewind to just over a year ago and I place a (pre)order for 5 ASIC miners (from Butterfly labs) for a total of $3250. When the things arrived, a year later, I was lucky that they were still profitable at the time (mid August) as the price of BTC had risen but decided to sell them on eBay for ~$3000 each because not only were they ridiculously loud and I had no where to put them but the difficulty was ~60 million and increasing (and it's now 148).

I was lucky enough to pay off my credit card and still have some left over with the money I made from selling the miners. Although I made a decent profit, I would have made a lot more if I'd of just bought the coins for the same value (as they've increased ten fold in the same period).

Now I've invested around half of my profits back into buying coins and so have finally taken the original advice onboard. This and the current market conditions make even the best mining options from Cointerra seem like a risky investment at this stage.
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> If we all take that "pragmatic" view, what will actually prevent corruption?

Journalists. They know that you avoid libel by stating facts supported by evidence. Truth is a defense to a libel charge (at least in the U.S.). And as mentioned above, when the libel plaintiff is a "public figure," a higher standard applies, precisely because of the public interest in ferreting out corruption and the like.
supposing it takes you N hours to write it and you value your time K dollars/hour than the cost is N*K that you may have spent doing something else be it consulting, writing technical articles for a magazine or spending time with your family.

Given the goal (3K$) I'd be inclined to consider this a "if I pre-sell this much, it's worth my time, otherwise I'll do something else".
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Do you also submit your links at the same time of the day each day (when the same part of the globe is awake, the rate of new stories is similar, etc.) or do you vary the time? There have been several examinations of HN story performance vs. timing (e.g., http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...).
I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for this launch. I worked on the Cassiope payload about 5 years ago, and it's so awesome to know that it's finally made it to orbit.

And it got to ride on a Falcon 9! Originally, it was meant to be strapped to an old Soviet rocket in Kazakstan. This is so much cooler!
Having uncommon words doesn't make a password hard to crack, they're in the dictionary just the same.
What projects have you worked on during your freelancing? Is there some tool out there that you made? Have you fixed a bug somewhere? People usually don't just want to hear "I can do xyz" they want to see stuff. Remember Feross Aboukhadijeh who created youtube instant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Instant , he was offered a job by youtube CEO not long after.
Its a pity you got downvoted; discussion of the social issues relating to technology is one good definition of hard science fiction, which the world certainly has a lack of. Soft sci fi is that boring "search and replace" dreck applied to existing generes.

Another societal issue is militarized cops and the like beating people and ripping away their electronics, which we've been conditioned to feel is "normal", but its kinda queasy/gross to imagine cops physically ripping needles and stuff out of peoples bodies when they give a good ole american beatdown for jaywalking or driving while black or other similar criminal activities.
Because that's not how diabetes works
That should be Gb in the title, not GB.
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It should be enough to compare.
These technologies aren't useful just for storing data. Yes, you can do that on your MacBook. These are useful for when you need answers quickly or need to perform complex analysis. For example, spark (the engine behind shark) allows you to run things like logistic regressions at scale in just a few seconds. As far as I know, you can't load 150GB of data into memory in R on your MacBook and then run a logistic regression a few seconds later.
There's no sense in using these templates when you can make a template as per your requirement using template builder like http://www.layoutit.com/build which lets you build your template using drag and drop.
Everyone knows you are allowed to be bigoted when it's white southerners or Christians. duh!
You are very right - I fully understand why people would want to stay behind! I'm very passionate about this, though, and I tend to get grouchy when people argue against doing it at all. If they don't want to go, that's fine, but when they start arguing that no one should do it, I see them as actively trying to hold back human progress for no good reason.
I notice the author of this article is ceo of a company that sells personal and group productivity products and services. http://timebackmanagement.com/

org-mode works for me.
Any particular reason why they couldn't become as agile as IDF ISNU?

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/tr/contents/articles/busines...
You probably don't have time for blogging.
US Expat living in Dublin... Here's an article that just came out about some cool startups in Ireland.

http://www.geektime.com/2013/09/29/10-hot-irish-startups-to-...
Sometimes when am stuck, I get clues in a dream about the problem.
The irony hurts.
Ask HN: RV living in SF as a developer?
The rent in SF is beyond ridiculous. Is it cheaper to rent a RV and park it in a RV park next to BART/Caltrain station? Any success stories?