skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't really do anything better than the (many) alternatives. What do you do better than your competitors?

I'd argue it's worse - it's based off degrees, and only shows me three jobs at a time.

Don't want to sound harsh, just some honest feedback :)
Poll: For everyday writing use: monospaced font or variable-width font?
For everyday writing emails and notes (that's not code), would you prefer a monospaced font or variable-width font?
Variable-Width
A drone-powered sneakernet convoy could move data pretty fast on physical drives. Faster, probably, than all but the fastest links.
Price is also part of the buying decision making process, e.g. choice.
I like the idea. But no need for AJAX -- having it statically load as part of the frontpage would be good too.

The main reason you want something like this is to keep meritorious articles from languishing without any votes.
My claim is simply that much as force causes legal rights to exist, belief causes n/h rights to exist. Since you cannot take away my belief (except through brainwashing, but even then I can recover it), you cannot take away my n/h rights.

Or, might makes legally right, belief makes morally right.

It's interesting, because if you look back far enough you'll see I had the opposite argument with somebody else, where I was explaining that force was the only thing that caused legal rights to exist, and he was accusing me of immorality on that basis.
Thanks for that. It's more for SEO than anything else.
Did you read my comment? To do that they'd have to cut all the speeds drastically, but charge the same.
Fast forward 10-20 years, above your house is the constant whirr of hundreds of drones going back and forth above your property every single minute of every day.

One drone is fun, hundreds need more thinking through.
this only applies as long as humans are the only intelligent, abstract-thinking creaturse around- what happens when we encounter others, alien or artificial or otherwise?
Out Parameters, Move Semantics, and Stateful Algorithms
The categorizing is indeed irrelevant. However I find it useful as a way to explain to self-proclaimed geeks why I don't care about the things that they think geeks should care about.

If the programmers around me self-declared as nerds I would reverse the distinction. Because I don't care about the label at all. What I care about is concisely explaining why it is that you can find someone who is competent at programming who does not share a lot of the interests that they assume I should share.
Need pizza? hack a drone.
BTW great idea.
On Waking Up
Illustrator and related formats - EPS, AI - are considerably more featureful than SVG supports. They are able to mash their documents down to SVG, at the cost of losing data. Which nobody will do for raws.

And, as is so common with open-source attempts at graphics software, nobody takes Inkscape seriously. Sorry.
My cosmopolite was sustaining the pride and reputation of the Earth when the waiters closed in on both combatants with their famous flying wedge formation and bore them outside, still resisting.

I called McCarthy, one of the French garcons, and asked him the cause of the conflict.

"The man with the red tie" (that was my cosmopolite), said he, "got hot on account of things said about the bum sidewalks and water supply of the place he come from by the other guy."

"Why," said I, bewildered, "that man is a citizen of the world--a cosmopolite. He--"

"Originally from Mattawamkeag, Maine, he said," continued McCarthy, "and he wouldn't stand for no knockin' the place."

A Cosmopolite in a Cafe by O Henry
I agree the definition of "external" is pretty vague, as SublimeDash works just as well on a laptop screen. Monitor definitely refers to a screen with pixels.
There are childish assholes everywhere, and this guy seems to take a few Rubygems with names like "ass" (how sexist!) and claim that this is indicative of a general attitude of he-man woman-hating in the programming community. The entire thing is absolutely ridiculous.
Yes, definitely breaking into smaller paragraphs will make it far more readable.
Flipkart founders, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, get million dollar paychecks
> Quotation needed about mother's involvement.

"In 1980, she discussed with then-IBM Corp. Chairman John Opel, who was also on the United Way committee, the business IBM was doing with Microsoft. Opel, some accounts say, knew little about the venture, but mentioned Mary Gates to IBM executives who introduced Microsoft at a meeting of IBM's top-level management committee a few weeks later."

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-11/news/mn-2837_1_mary-g...

The episode is a textbook example of "social connections" at work.
Congress is not doing what it was 'designed' to do. The Hastert Rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule) was only introduced in the last 30 years or so, and has never been followed as dogmatically as Boehner is following it now.

By refusing to bring a bill to a vote unless a majority of his party openly supports it, Boehner is explicitly preventing compromise.
Or he might have already and found it entirely insufficient. I know I did.
"Functional" programming: It's time to get over it.
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Thanks! Didn't know there were other Bruins on HN! If SublimeDash had AWS integration and possibly more customization, would you consider switching (especially because it's free)?
No, thank you for the honest feedback! The idea is to show people the spectrum of roles available to their degree disciplines rather than 100 of the same roles.

There is still a lot of work to be done but we hope to become the destination where people see organisations and positions which they may not have considered.

Out of interest, if we're targeting Uni/College graduates why do you feel it's not ideal to search by degree type?
Agreed. If there were something catastrophic that were to happen, there would be a whole lot of levels between the skills needed to camp out and the skills needed to stand up a large server farm or wafer fab that would be challenging to traverse. Some of the intermediate levels are still in living memory or are well-documented, but some of them would need to be reverse engineered through trial and error and may not even be apparent at this point.
Of course - maybe they will :) and maybe they won't. Which is way less certain than saying "they [the shoemakers] NEED to source a local supplier", as you wrote.

The key thing here is that if I buy boots cheaper by 1/4 (thanks to partial outsourcing), I will spend the 1/4 I saved by going to a barber. Or a local restaurant. Or by buying doughnuts at a local bakery. So - speaking of economy to which there's more than meets the eye - these are local suppliers too, indirectly benefiting from the fact that local shoemaker imported nails.
New York has low crime for an American city its size.

Tokyo, Seoul, Paris, London, Hong Kong, and the like have much lower violent crime rates than New York.

New York does have less crime than Los Angeles, São Paulo, Chicago, and such.
I just discovered this app https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitrousio/efdcneee...
Except Bender's serial number is very clearly stated in "The Lesser of Two Evils" as 2716057. Don't know why the author says otherwise.

See http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Bender (and I just checked the episode myself and confirmed it.)
I always kept noticing this word Banksy in the internet. Some random punk with a can, oh wow, he gets wayyyyy too much attention. :))
This is the idea behind a site I've always wanted to create:

The A.R.K. Project (Apocalypse Reboot Kit)

The basic idea is to categorize different apocalyptic scenarios (zombies, ww3, comet, biohazard wipe-out, etc) and develop 'kits' to bring back civilization. Some kits could be quite small, maybe a collection of books on how to get power stations back up and running, etc (for scenarios where basically only people got wiped out)to full on room sized kits which may have to go back to the very basics, - teaching people how to read, how to extract ore from the ground and so on.

I thought it could make for an interesting forum based site, with discussions about what would go into each kit, finding old books like the one mentioned in the fine article all the way up to philosophical discussions regarding would you want to reintroduce religion to a primitive society, if not, how would you deal with man's instinct to inquire to the unknown?

I may still try to get it up and running one day...
Edit: Downvote it all you want. The article is already on the second page :)
That 'cartographic' parallax is seriously cool. They even increase scale indicator accordingly.
The fact that you had to basically hack your phone with Cyanogenmod shows what a fraud Android has turned out to be. Instead of freeing us from the tyranny of proprietary OSes dribbled out by carriers and hobbled by their shitware, it is in fact a clinic on this exact practice.

Google failed to establish a proper abstraction layer and reference platform that would allow users to update their OS on the day of release without breaking compatibility with drivers or whatever other encumbrances are required for each phone. The fact that users wait weeks or months (or forever) for updates is pathetic and absolutely antithetical to what this "open-source" OS was supposed to represent.
You don't avoid the paradox of choice problem by allowing other people to arbitrarily pick things for you

Exactly.
Is SaaS business true economy of scale?
"Students who are financially disadvantaged get help, both from the universities and the government."

... As long as your parents are rich enough to hire a lawyer to handle the paperwork. I am an Ivy alum, of middle-class parents, and this "help" required me to submit literally hundreds of pages of paperwork. (I counted.) And any mistake, no matter how small, automatically disqualifies you from all help. So every year, there would inevitably be some minor mistake and I would have to lawyer up and threaten to sue the school. I was lucky enough to know one who helped me pro bono. What about everyone else?

Half of Yale's class is from the top 2%. This is not a coincidence.

"There are plenty of great state schools where you can get education basically for free."

... As long as you win the birth lottery, and your parents live in someplace like California. Only a handful of public universities even make the top 100. And even public schools are hardly "free", often costing >$10K/year just for tuition.

"You might completely miss a lot of beauty in the world around you."

Yale, according to their 1099, has a 45% profit margin. 45%. That's higher than Microsoft, Google, and Goldman Sachs. And every year they, and the other Ivies, call up all their alumni and beg for donations to their bulging bank accounts. It's disgusting.
Do fellow programmers tend to back away slowly? :)

I have definitely left some in utter disbelief.

Among unpopular and awkward technical types, I stand out as being both awkward, and exceptionally extroverted. It is an interesting combination, though best observed from a distance. Kind of like a train wreck.

But you have to work with what you've got. And somehow it does seem to work out for me in real life.
Clojure is slower than Java.
There's a really interesting book series called "The Cross Time Engineer". It puts a modern day engineer back into the middle ages and follows his path to rebooting an industrial society from just the knowledge in his skull.

While it's surely not wholly accurate, everything related to the material science and technology level is at least plausible.

http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-...
Охуительная рационализация.
Well metered connection - the problem is the pricing. 10USD per month for contentedness + $1 per terabyte seems like a good deal. And even if my nephew decided to download all the porn of the internet he will run out of space before I run out of money.
Any life form that can (a) divorce its intelligence from its physical substrate, and (b) forge a sustainable energy relationship with one or more stars, has the capacity to be very, very long-lived. I think if there exist aliens that we are capable of finding, they will be in the form of slow-moving, slow-spreading "Space Ents", beings who are perfectly content to send SYN/ACK messages with 500,000 year ping times. Play out natural selection in the ginormous sandbox that is Universe, and I think that's the only inevitable outcome (barring FTL).
A netbook (eee pc or the like). You're not going to get a great laptop display at the low end, so I recommend an external monitor.
I don't think the youtube videos add enough to justify the clutter. I'd rather have more text details/stats on the initial job descriptions.
How about a large QR tag :) With the data: DROP-ZONE-house-number-5a :)
Thanks for posting this. I love reading about the telephone networks and how they've grown over time into the mess of VoIP we all interact with every day.
The capitol of California is Sacramento.
Thanks Moya. What types of detail and stats would you like to see?

Appreciate the feedback and keep it coming!
Is BART down?
Is that per serving? Some brands may have fudged their numbers to appear better, but the amount of EPA/DHA per softgel could be much lower.
Blackwater on the High Seas.
"fast growing user base" != how to scale from a technical aspect, but rather how to acquire a lot of users quickly.
A legal, safer and cheaper alternative to maintain and operate already exists: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm and there is an RFC for use with IP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers.
There will be people here who will chastise government for undertaking such an ambitious activity when there are many other problems the country is facing.

To all of them: your logic is flawed.
Thanks gpsarakis. Appreciate the feedback.
Maps with nice urls for the mission
Qualcomm reveals Neural Network progress using biologically inspired NPUs
1729 is actually his chassis number.
Bender gets an xmas card from the machine who made him that says "merry xmas son 1729" It's not his serial number but is sort of close to a serial number in a way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
Please point me to a backdoor-free option.
Stanford is the most affordable school in the country. Pretty much bar none. If your family earns under $100k / year, you go for free. Many families with incomes in excess of $200k still get some form of financial aid.

They do have a business going, to be sure, but it's not built on gorging people on tuition. Many (most?) don't pay that number. And even it is extremely reasonable if you think about what the market clearing price would be.
No. That's a pathetic, played-out canard.

If you're building a knock-off phone in a Chinese sweatshop, are you going to hire a team of engineers to spend man-decades developing an OS, or are you going to use the FREE one?

Yeah, that's why the whole Android "market share" charade is a bunch of bullshit.
Good point, I forgot about this.

I should know this actually, I built OS X Live DVDs back in the day...
I must admit I read the article (wired, not the paper), but I don't get the point at all. The relevance to my life appears (hopefully) to be zero.
There's a problem with Android/Linux? Starting from a false premise
doesn't make for a good argument...

Assuming all Android devices would, could or should have the same
interface is like wishing all BSD-derived system were the same. Clearly
there's room for NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD as well as OS X and a
multitude of embedded systems?

If there weren't any differences between an LG phone and a Samsung phone
or a HTC product -- how would they compete? There is no Android
without (some) fragmentation.

Does this complexity cost (money, effort, q&a and developer time
etc...)? Certainly.

But to me the price is well worth it with the likes of the Cyanogen
project -- that allows all kinds of freedoms. For me personally it's
good -- but if I were in charge of developing some kind of system (say
handing out internal devices at a company) -- it's be much more
valuable. I'd be in control of upgrades and features. I could maybe
patch some minor issues myself. I could hold off on unimportand updates,
and rush those that affected my users. I can't see how you could both have
this, and at the same time avoid having a somewhat heterogeneous system.
I know Amazon agrees (look at the latest kindle tablet).
> The U.S. Navy patrols the world's seas and so protects global marine trade routes.

One of the most active navies in anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa is.. the People's Liberation Army Navy. They have had a presence on-station since December 2008.
"You're posting too fast"

You know what HN? FUCK YOU. I'm not going to sit around twiddling my thumbs for the PRIVILEGE of contributing free content to your shitty site.

The gall of you assholes.
For relatively simple data, like small structs, you can use memoization to achieve immutability.

Programming in Lua has a section on it.

http://www.lua.org/pil/17.1.html
Here's Why Radeon Graphics Are Faster On Linux 3.12
You have to click an icon to activate voice... I'm sure you can write a quick Python script to compare new audio input, stored in a watched directory, to a base audio dictionary that fires an API based on normalized matches to "terms" in that dictionary. If you say "search" the script compares/approximates to existing waveforms.

We should have a Speech-Computer Interface API, rather than boring ourselves with the standard "Search for...", that makes a canonical set of speech patterns which computers should respond to habitually.

Things like "I'm thinking..." (fires off search, feeling lucky, wikipedia, etc. mashup results pages), "I'm hungry..." (fires off search, geolocation information, personal biometric data, etc...), "Who is..." (wiki? pipl? facebook?), "What is..." (wiki?), "When is..." (shows a calendar)...
Glad you enjoyed reading it :) . That's the point, though; the phone network predominantly doesn't run on an IP network now, and I feel we'd really be better off keeping it that way.
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What nations and what period of US history are you referring to ?
I agree with the point if not the article itself. The corollary to the dean's statement is the people who are starving in third world countries deserve it.
I like this, but instead of saying they don't deserve to be there, I would add that having made it into Stanford is actually "nothing". It could be like this:

Stanford will probably be the most intensive and formative period in your life. However, Stanford can only prepare for the big things that are about to come. The real test comes, once you have your degree in their hands. What will you do with you life after Stanford, will they want to be a pure engineer, work at Facebook or Google, will you try to found the next billion dollar startup, will you cure cancer or become an astronaout?

Stanford might seem big and overwhelming now, however it is still just a nursery and a stepping stone to the challenges to come after Stanford. So don't be overwhelmed, stay humble, stay foolish.
That's not to mention the day traders and bankers who make huge amounts of profits and contribute nothing of value to society.

I just noticed this last sentence, and it's a valid point. I agree that profit does not always correlate with providing real value, and in fact day traders and investment banks provide a good example of how to spot when it doesn't. The key thing about the profits made by day traders and investment banks is that it comes from zero-sum trades: whatever they gain, someone else must lose.

That's not true of a profit-making activity like Ovishinsky's company; it made products that were of real value to people, and it got back some of that value as profits. In other words, the transaction was positive sum--both parties (the company and the customer) were better off as a result. (And of course the same is true of the Red Cross: the overall process of people donating to the Red Cross and the Red Cross using that money to help people is positive sum.)
Well I've seen your comments such as "Men are raped too" in reference to women being raped, which says to me you're goal is to marginalize women's issues, which seems pretty sexist to me. If you'd like to defend pointing out that men are raped too in reference to women being raped I'd be happy to point the sexist and misogynistic aspects of your opinions, which sadly, should be blindingly obvious.
The poor don't deserve to be poor. And they don't deserve to not be poor. The whole concept, applied at a global level, is nothing more than yet another example of our need to wrap everything we see in pretty stories.

I wish we had a more equal world, but I don't see why should I believe this to be anything more than a personal preference.
Nothing new and does not really show how bad things are. Places like he visited are among relatively polished ones. And well, using a wood stove an not having indoor plumbing is simply the traditional way of life, most of those people are subsistence farmers and that obviously doesn't give good quality of life. Problem is that in many regions, there is nothing reasonable people could except subsistence farming + receiving relative's pensions and drinking them away, because there are no jobs and no economy per se. That in turn, happens because the regions are populated sparsely enough due to cities sucking out population, and smart and initiative people who could start a business find that they have so few customers that they are better off just getting a full time job in Moscow, so they leave. And this filtration goes on and on, and we get the population that is rotten itself.

That is a natural process, and will result in rural Russia being completely abandoned (probably with no permanent population at all) in couple generations. In the region where i am from, rural population (settelements under 100,000 population) declined by a factor of 5 in 80 years (while total population declined by just 25%). There is not much left and what's left cannot sustain itself, too few people to even maintain infrastructure, which in turn pushes remaining people out.

Soviets somewhat contained this trend with restrictions on movement (propiska), which were a gross violation of human rights and Soviet constitution itself, and these limitations were lifted immediately after Soviet Union collapse. That only accelerated in the process.

Probably in countries where there are no real reasons for people to live (except resource-rich regions), some kind of non-democratic control is needed to simply make them survive.

When leaving becomes very easy, it is true even in not-so-bad countries. Why so many people left Baltic states and they turned from most prosperous Soviet republic to the holes they are now? Answer is simple: because they CAN leave. Nobody is going to live in Vilnius if we can just catch a train, find a job and stay in Berlin with no paperwork at all. And it doesn't even require Vilnius to be very terrible. You just can't make it like Berlin, no way.

I know i will be downvoted for this, and of course i'd hate to be in the shoes of those poor chaps locked up in their countries/regions, but it's extremely sad to see places decline, depopulate, and turn into forests for no real reason at all except that the people who lived there initially did so because they've been forced to, and now they are no longer.
Is that, like, Russia Today channel on Hacker News?
This is really weird, because the article quotes a mathematician/writer for show: "For example, I chose Bender's serial number to be 1,729." The article talks about how 1729 is special because 1729 = 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³ (and is apparently the smallest number that is the sum of two different sets of cubes or something like that), but the wikia article says 2716057 = 952³ + (-951)³. It's like they are similar ideas but the numbers are actually different. I guess the writer was misquoted, or forgot which sum of cubes he chose...