skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you know the pain of the people who do numerics. C99 should use 8 bytes for partial results at least the real ones (not the constants computable by the compiler). You should see that in the debugger too. C++ is unfortunately fully another topic. I also admit that I don't know if clang implemented numerics properly, I've never used it. This looks suspicious and at least conceptually wrong: it loses the precision "just because."

After something like:

fld dword ptr a
fdiv dword ptr b

there is a full 64-bit result in the FPU waiting to be stored even if the recent compiler implementers think "32-bits should be enough for everybody." That's that "bridges-can-fall-once dangerous" thing I've mentioned.

I've also learned something: "auto" seems to be more dangerous than I expected! Wow.
We use consultants who bill by the hour. They don't charge us for lunch, but other than that, they are considered on the clock. We don't micromanage, so we are charged for any screwing around. . .unless we micromanage and they really overdo the screwing around and as long as they are meeting their milestones, we rarely - if ever - know if/when they are screwing around. It's not worth it to us - financially or mentally - you to micromanage to that level. Ditto for bathroom breaks.
The World Food Program has several nutrition foods. The problem tends not to be cost (which is already very low) but distribution and awareness.

One of the problems of Soylent is the need for water. About one billion people don't have access to clean drinking water. Problems with water cause very many infant deaths.

It's exciting seeing this get some awareness in tech culture. Maybe people can design and develop easier cheaper better methods of water purification or desalination; or cooking; or whatever.

You can imagine that the cost of the product from this huge NGO is going to have been driven down as far as possible.

https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/how-wfp-fights-malnutrition

http://www.irinnews.org/report/83124/malawi-cheaper-recipe-f...

https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products

http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...

Here's the WFP in a Syrian camp for refuges http://youtu.be/Ej0vAUsn_o8

About 1 in 8 people are chronically hungry https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/world-food-day-wfp-say...

Here's some nice feel good photos of children getting school meals. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2013/j...
Alright, thanks for taking me seriously. I'm feeling a bit touchy today. I think the problem is that I'm using the words artist, job, rules, authority, and creativity in a very liberal way.

I guess my general point is that to be an artist, you have to be creative. To be creative, you have to do something new. To do something new, you have to depart from what exists in some way. Whatever exists can be called authority, tradition, or "the rules". And then something new is a challenge to that authority. If you build a skyscraper in a town with no skyscrapers, you are challenging authority, even if all the other towns have skyscrapers. When parents make a baby, it's a creative act, and the baby ends up challenging the authority of the parents; the baby breaks the existing rules of the family structure. It's the same with the work that an artist does. It doesn't have to be socially rebellious in nature. An expression of beauty that has not been seen before is breaking the rules about the limits of beauty.

Even more generally speaking, when an artist does manage to break the rules, they end up challenging our preconceptions of what can be - these preconceptions are the true "rules" - and it opens us up to a deeper experience of the world. As examples, anything that creates a feeling of awe, anything that touches on sublime beauty, is operating on this level. I think if you look closely, all of the artists you named are working in this way; it's not mere repetition of what came before.
Is Peter Thiel a Stanford professor stealing his own students away? How would Stanford, or any university, prevent Thiel from offering students money to drop out?
Were your previous applications under other HN usernames? I only found one rejection for this username.
Some of the arguments made are not very good.

> Tack on a few free lunches, and your employee costs about 10% more than you thought they did.

Only if you can't count. Over in parts of Europe direct employee cost (payroll tax) can be 20-30% on top of salary, and if you don't factor in that... well.

> rare for someone to show up every week across an entire year.

I would hope no one shows up every week. Again, if you don't factor in vacations/normal sick days...

> Your employees take an hour to sustain life through bathroom, water cooler, and other breaks

I would be surprised if a consultant manages to not charge for every unproductive break.

> Your employees spend an hour a day meeting with you or someone else, conducting pre-work planning

I would hope that consultants also plan their work (and charge for it). Otherwise -> mess. I know from first hand experience that consultants also do meetings.

> I can keep an employee busy indefinitely

Yeah. Where I'm working that's true. Or has been for the last several years.

But yes, when used correctly consultants can be a valuable asset. There's no need to try and make it look like they same hourly cost as an employee.
Are animated GIFs slowing down your web app?
It depends if they're full time or freelancers. If they were just freelancers on Odesk, then he's simply not using them in the future.
I enjoy the ideas that are thrown around in the article, and it seems to oscillate between pro and anti subculture. I definitely agree with the advantages of sticking to a subculture, but am also stuck with a horrible feeling of dispassion when I see people who are limited by their own subculture, and unable to interact outside their chosen subculture.

I agree that the larger culture suffers as people retreat from it, and no more is that more evident that the city. A large city like Los Angeles feels much more healthy culturally than a small city like San Francisco, and I think it's because people don't feel the need to retreat into their own subcultures, and not give anything back to the larger community. What makes Los Angeles great is the ability for many of the people to communicate between subcultures, and that would be my argument for what gives a place a "healthy" culture.

However, the American culture as a whole has always been fragmented, and perhaps it isn't possible to reconcile the separate parts. I certainly tried to cross between Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco cultures, and found that it is almost impossible to understand the deep cultural assumptions of people who identify with one city, given experience with another.
Seems like an awfully fine line. What if the negative information is unfair or even false?
That varies from consultant to consultant. I work full-time on one client site as a consultant and I include time where the client is having casual conversation with me, time in the restroom, etc., in the time that is billed. But I am also expected to be there 40 hours a week. Part-time consultants may differ in policy.
I'm not sure that there is any system in place to ensure that your edits are seen. So don't submit a bad application assuming that you can just edit it later. Make sure it's in a state such that you wouldn't be embarrassed if pg saw it.
I think that's the worrying thing about Soylent. I really wish they'd kept it experimental, or pushed it as suitable for daily use but not all meals, or some such.
I work at a small company as the only software engineer (indeed sofware is not the core business here). My annual salary is around 40K euro.
3 years ago we started a huge project and hired extra manpower (4 persons x 3 month). 1 person of that team is still with us today.
We are on the moment busy starting up another big project whereby we hire 5 persons extra for a couple of months.

Without these extra software engineers we could have never reached our deadline.

However: an external consultant costs us 10K a month. Thus 3 x 3 x 10 = 90K. And for the new project; 5 x 3 x 10 = 150K.
Nothing special but my point is the 1 person that still hangs around from the first project. That was (almost exactly) 3 years ago.
So 3 x 12 x 10 = 360K euro. (total hiring amount > 600K). My salary in these 3 years would be 120K.
I think it would have been cheaper to have had an extra employee. In fact you could have 3 until this moment.

So, based on that; hire consultants to have extra manpower in your project.
However, hire them 'too long' and it was smarter to have an extra employee.
As I wrote on my blog's comments:

"True, but I've found that Amazon trade-in's prices are usually very conservative. For such an old handset I'd have sent it to Amazon's warehouse myself. For newer stuff that's falling in value, even though eBay's fees amount to about 12% in the end for electronics (last time I checked)... you can usually get the most for it there if you need it to sell by a given date for the maximum return.

Also, I do want to point out that Amazon is essentially just doing what you'd be doing here ... offering it for sale as a used item. You can do that yourself and make more of a profit if you're setup this way."
I personally would love to see both of those changes, as they'd force people to place some value on such distractions.

- a confessed twitter addict
Not all weight loss on a bike is bad.

Sure most road bikes are pretty much light enough. Thus one should prefer an efficient bike over a light one.

But there nothing wrong with having light wheels for keeping the rotational and sprung mass as low as possible on a full suspension mountain bike.
yep....people don't understand TM law......if I was him i'd start by searching

"Federal court (9th circuit) - Toyota Motor Sales,
U.S.A., Inc. v. Tabari, 610 F.3d 1171 (9th Cir. 2010)"

...and send a reply letter saying "I don't think people are going to confuse us but just in case in rder to settle this suit i'm now placing a message at the base of each page saying "This page/app is not endorsed by or owned by Facebook inc"

Will buy you time....as well us run up their legal bills as they will float your response up a level before deciding the next move.
I've recently started testing something along those lines in order to fund patients on watsi.org. It's like Goodwill and Gazelle.com having a baby - you send us your used electronics and get a tax write off, we sell them and give the money to the nonprofit of your choosing.

If anyone is interested, http://blog.give3.org has a few of the items I've sold so far.
And Control.Lens introduces around 20 more symbols like this. It does at times feel like reading perl without 'use English;'
How can you learn something new almost every day? Can you give a couple examples?
I have never interpreted multitasking in the workplace to mean doing two or more things at once. I've always interpreted it to mean doing many things over the course of a workday, week, etc. In other words, to me, multitasking means the ability to switch between tasks that may require different skill sets (coding, customer support, technical writing, etc.). I think this piece takes multitasking a bit too literally.
While I definitely agree with you on the whole, there are some specifics that are ignored by your comment.

The French Minitel system allowed for semi-free market activities, by allowing companies to use the system.

The German Bildschirmtext failed because it apparently kept too much control: the decoder boxes were expensive and only able to be purchased at one location, and I don't think they allowed for others to use the service.
I run a YC-backed startup that is comprised of me (a random non-technical dude) and some 15 contractors scattered around the world. It works amazingly, and I don't understand why people have employees and co-founders.
If statistics didn't work, casinos wouldn't work.

How do you know this? Oh right, from statistics.

Science can't prove your epistemiology correct.
It's fairly easy if you can find that product in amazon db, or have a barcode
Depends on what your goal is. Consumer VPNs have been used for an assortment of reasons. Some of these you would need a VPN server that is close-by, while others should be far away:

0) Remote access to small business office
1) Connect to home router to access home network
2) To avoid ISP throttling of YouTube, etc
3) Download torrents, usenet
4) Commit crimes (routed through unallied nations)
5) To watch Netflix or Hulu from Europe
...
On a more specific level, it's possible to test formalized versions of cost-benefit analysis as a planning methodology. In some setting (company? education? research?) have the experimental groups make decisions according to strict guidelines for how to quantify costs and benefits and weigh the two, and the control groups make decisions based on traditional "holistic management" where subject-matter experts have wide latitude to make recommendations, after perusing data, but not according to a strictly quantified methodology. See how their performance compares over some suitable period.

What I think this would mainly be testing is not really the philosophical question of whether we ought to weigh costs and benefits, but whether the erroneously-captured and un-captured information in quantification is a bigger or smaller problem, from the perspective of decision-making, than the potential bias and unrepeatability of a subject-matter expert's case-by-case judgment. Some of my skepticism of quantitative cost-benefit analysis is that it's basically GIGO: many quantifications are so inaccurate as to actually make quantitative cost-benefit analysis worse than "expert judgment" at decision-making, which is one reason we can't just replace all decision-makers with computers applying mechanical decision-theoretic rules yet, except in specific areas (like some kinds of medical diagnosis) where we actually do have very good data. But it's not impossible to test in a particular setting whether that's true.

And here we are discussing on Y Combinator's website, who are in a perfect position to run such an experiment! They could choose some companies to fund via the traditional method, "Paul Graham & friends' expert judgment on how to allocate money, based on their history and experience", and another portion of the pool on a more quantitative basis. Then see which pool is more successful.
The inside story of Bombardier’s $4-billion gamble on a super quiet jet
Here you go: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-the-s...
But then it really would be, as you critique, not new.
If the books have a barcode/ISBN, you don't even need to label them. Obvious items can just be sent through, but the labeling is an extra charge.

If you have duplicate items or nondescript items (like various wires), you should label them.
In combatting world hunger, are you thinking of a factor other than price, like transportability, perishability, predictability, controlability, preparationability?

Given that the cheapest DIY soylent appear to be primarily based traditional staples like rice, oats, peas, soy, and flax seeds, it doesn't seem very likely to be cheaper. The initial price for the official one is $9/day, while the cost of the cheapest DIY based on traditional foods is $2/day.
Add Sustagen to that list, who make meal replacement shakes, including a medically certified "hospital formula" used by hospitals and health services as a full time long term meal replacement. Very popular here in Australia and available in all supermarkets.
Is it normal to get 20 vacation days and 8.5 sick days on top of that? That's nearly 30 days off, not including holidays. Seems really abnormally high to me, so I'm curious if I'm missing out on something here.
I guess it depends on the consulting/contracting model, you use, but we get to interview our consultants, so it's easier for us to determine if they have the expertise we need - or we think/hope we need.
> The anticipated base purchase price for the Transition® is $279,000. You can reserve a place in production with a $10,000 refundable deposit here.

Just for anyone who was wondering. Seems pretty reasonable for a light aircraft, that is also a car. This is really cool, I must admit, but I wonder who the target market is? The two people I know that have private planes seem to have no problem renting cars at the airport.
Almost all of his points are not accurate of FTEs and employees where I live (Minneapolis). I've been on both sides too.

For instance,
1) Unless I'm a government employee I would work 8 hours + lunch.
2) Companies usually provide equipment to consultants (unless it's a small company) because you need to be on their network.
3) I still need leads and project managers for consultants.

Also, if my employees are only doing 4 hours of work a day I would fire them.
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The Growth Designer: Interview with Yammer's former Creative Director
I have never worked with any consultants like that. The ones I have worked with count hours almost the same way as normal employees.
The weather service reports the temperature in Kelvin.
Fair enough, I guess people pick some specific points the author makes and respond to them, but if that's not your cup of tea, no questions :)
Nintendo Shuts Down Wii
John Carmack explains Nvidia's variable refresh rate tech (G-Sync)
Yes, they were usually submitted under one-off accounts. I think that one was 'itemshoppe'.
Google’s Maps Engine Pro Aims To Help Small Businesses Visualize Location Data
Most Famous Book Set In Every US State
when we will have the videos?
A lot of aspects of programming seem very very difficult until they click. Recursion and pointers are the canonical examples for basic programming. Although I'm still on the same side of learning Haskell as you, I think these things can be grokked by non-geniuses given enough practice and determination.
Oh there's no problem paying somebody to do a job. But somehow you'll need to be able to check that the job is done. Or at least read the opinion of somebody who has no stake in the matter to attest to the job being done.

So "the job" here involving making a browser not do things, which you can't see. How often pray tell do you pay somebody to perform a job you can't verify the outcome of, but take him by his word that he did it?
The verify function causes the bot to leave a confirmation reply which has a help button, so people who want to find out often can. I know some subreddits understandably dislike that practice though.
That's what it is at my company, it's not very strictly enforced though. I don think that the average is lower for most jobs however.
So it sounds like the problem isn't actually storage, but cataloguing and retrieval? This might make more sense as an in-house service somehow, rather than something that involves shipping and the associated costs.
> If you quote William Gibson's
analysis of Japanese society as
authoritative or insightful, you already
lose. Gibson's social commentary
has always had a strong element of
pseudointellectual profundity
masquerading as depth.

Could you point out some specific flaws in this or other Gibson's essays?
Video of the entire panel discussion between Carmack, Sweeney, and Johan (lead on EA's Frostbite engine) is up here:

http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/b/471263848?t=2h27m
Bluetooth can help local traffic flow
Some of the clearest articulation on the matter I have ever read. I'm proud to see Bruce in such a high-profile magazine.

"Third, this assertion leads to absurd conclusions. Mandatory cameras in bedrooms could become okay, as long as there were rules governing when the government could look at the recordings."
While a lot of crappy, and especially non-professional, entry level jobs offer less time, it is not atypical for a professional job to offer 4 weeks paid vacation and 10-12 sick days a year.
Internet Archive Launches “NSA-Issues TV News Clip Library”
This is exactly how Lamborghini got started.
> I think single-value changes won't make a big difference (as you've proven yourself)

But it can still help. A local optima is still higher than not being in the local optima.

I haven't looked at Readability a lot. For a while, it wasn't displaying gwern.net pages at all... and it's still messing up a lot. Apparently the Readability view starts halfway down the page! /hits the report-bug button yet again.
Kind of a bad name choice with NVIDIA Shield being a popular topic in tech and gaming circles right now.
One of the cool things about your car and plane being the same is when weather gets shady you can always land and drive. This makes it easier to make the safe choice - not flying through bad weather.
Why do you think this is about the hardware at all? Most of the savings are down to software (try Windows or Linux on the Macbook Air). It requires lots of hard work to change the kernel to make better use of sleep state and to reduce CPU utilisation in apps.

The reality is that Apple cares about battery life, because they know users do, they work constantly on this. Numerous Apple announcements talk up battery life improvements, they are clearly very aware of this issue.

I've never got the impression that that Microsoft does care very much about this issue, in fact their kernel doesn't even sound like it gets much development in the core functions (it's all about fixing bugs and adding features).
It could still make sense to ship an ad blocking plugin with the browser distribution.
anyway to pull issues directly from github?
Except MacOS X ships fat binaries for multiple CPU architectures and uses a kernel originally designed in the 1980's for an m68k machine.
ISPs that deploy solutions from Arbor Networks are typically very solid. ♥ Peakflow TMS
And to confuse people even more, there is also a altcoin tip bot: http://www.reddit.com/r/ALTcointip/wiki/index
If People Buy On Emotion, Why Do We Sell On Logic?
Netflix earnings jump; service surpasses HBO in U.S. subscribers
What is the difference between Consultant and Freelancer? Coming from the UK I'd call myself a Freelancer. I work on-site, paid by the hour, but I do invoice for toilet breaks, lunch, and so on. A Consultant in my mind is someone who comes in and advises on projects, and a Freelancer is someone who sits at a desk and performs skill-based tasks.
Thanks for correcting this misconception. I expect that Stanford, like MIT (where I was), has policies in place explicitly prohibiting graduate students to work in any way for companies owned by their advisers or supervisors while working for them as students.

It was annoying while I was in grad school, but it makes a ton of sense for preventing the appearance that a faculty member might abuse their authority to get a student to work on something that provides them with financial incentives.

This is standard conflict-of-interest mitigation stuff, I'd be amazed if Stanford didn't have it in place as well. I think at MIT they can't even offer you a job until you're no longer enrolled to prevent sub-par graduate research getting through because an adviser wants a student to work for them. (i.e. "If you accept this job, I'll sign off on your thesis.")
Depends on where you live and who you work for. At my current company I have 30 vacation days + 10 days of sick days and that's because I work for a British instead of a local company.

If I worked for local, then those sick days would be whatever my doctor would say is needed and I couldn't be fired for having too many.
I put ansiweather in the AUR[1] for Archlinux users.

[1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ansiweather-git/
What about the video? I'm under the impression that while a good video won't get you into YC, a bad one can keep you out.