skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Real" projects also know what they want in a year and don't expect the engineer to double the lanes on the bridge because the bridge went viral on social media and now needs to handle twice the traffic.

I'm not going to get into a who has bigger stones pissing contest, but lets just say the expectations and requirements for skyscapers are different than software.

You'd do just as well to call engineers "traffic gardners" who don't know how to make a bridge scale.
It is obviously a bug since MSR was founded in...1991. Many researchers also insert papers into the system written in other labs or universities before joining MSR; these seem to be included as well even though these days we clearly get to distinguish between was written when at MSR and what wasn't. This behavior seems to only apply to older papers and not newer ones.
French guy living in the netherlands here!
The country is awesome. People are really open minded, and I found a job in a matter of days with no connections at all!

Hope you like it as much as me ;)
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A look at Miss Universe 2013 3rd Runner Up's Instagram and Twitter accounts
Task which use CPU a lot eats battery much faster.
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Could you please explain to me what you dislike about MongoDB?
As someone who's also trying to build out a blog network as well, I'm glad that investors are finally coming round to financing blogs. They may be commodity businesses, but all that means is that super strong execution will carry the day, albeit with lower valuations.

Re: Vox Media's execution,

I worry that Vox focuses too much on backend innovations and that isn't really necessary for blogs at this point. Blog tech has been commoditised and this should be turned into an advantage for any content company.

What they need is stronger advertising innovations, probably around sponsored content, rather than their current route, which is basically building a better banner mousetrap: http://www.voxmedia.com/media-kit/ad-products
Legalize and regulate prostitution, boom you've eliminated the market for sex slavery, and maybe you can provide a safe work environment for men and women who are going to be sex workers regardless of legality.
Thanks a ton for taking the time.
We're working on something revolutionary in the learning space and if our wording makes us sound like just another cloud platform then we clearly need to go back to the messaging drawing board.

But does the actual problem that we're addressing on the landing page make sense to you?
Thanks a lot for the messaging advice. As we iterate our design and messaging we will certainly take it to heart.
The majority of big data systems are written in GC enabled languages.

Using a GC just requires a different mindset when designing data structures.
Seed companies have been 'owning biological progeny' since the invention of hybrid seeds in the 1920s.
WindML 0.4 released. Machine Learning Framework for Renewable Energy
The windML framework provides an easy-to-use access to wind data sources within the Python world, building upon numpy, scipy, sklearn, and matplotlib. As a machine learning module, it provides versatile tools for various learning tasks like time-series prediction, classification, clustering, dimensionality reduction, and related tasks.
Now be honest, how many here wouldn't dance on the grave of their morality, just like Friedberg, for the sweet sum of $1 billion?

Be honest.
They apparently have a > 90% approval rating amongst US Farmers for what it's worth. They're generally seen to be a solid investment by most farmers. This is what I'm told from internal statistics, so if it's entirely possible it's a bald face lie.

If you have statistics to the contrary I'd love to bring it up our company meeting and get back to you, personally or here.

Disclosure: I'm a Climate Corp Employee.
> Those experienced in Go, do you miss generics?

Yes, that is one of the reasons I eventually moved to D.
Amazon is really trying to be the end all for online purchases - I bet in 10-20 years, when you need anything, you just Amazon it (you know, like Google it) :-)
Sharp tools, dull minds
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It's also really, really easy and cheap to set up an international business corporation (IBC) in well known offshore locations like the British Virgin Islands or Gibralter. It's just because of the payments issue that I suggested Ireland.
I'm not sure that works. Berry-picking is legal in scandinavia, but each summer people are still brought in by the truckload from eastern europe by scamsters and then forced to work off their debt.
Yes, we think if they go to an encyclopedia they're after encyclopedic content. It turns out Wikipedia isn't Ain't It Cool.
If that's the case, then why does sex trafficking happen so much in the Netherlands? [0]

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands...
"I remember working on a number of student groups at Stanford where we might have had meetings once a week for an hour or two where we’d talk about what needed to get done, and then actually did the work on our own..."

It sounds like the weekly meetings were in person, which makes sense. When you figure out what to do, and maybe how to do it, face-to-face is very valuable. In software development, there is a lot of this kind of decision-making. Actually implementing what you have decided doesn't require collaboration as much, so then remote is fine.
> "Delivery on a Sunday would be very compelling for consumers. There are certainly people who decide not to make an order on a Friday because it won't get there until Monday,"

I am definitely one of those people. It seems like I always end up remembering to order something late Thursday night or Friday. When using my Prime membership's 2 day shipping on a friday, the package does not arrive until Tuesday. Is this ever going to change?

What exactly is the reason these shipping companies seem to go into a kind of hibernation over the weekend? Surely there are people out there who would be willing to work weekends (if the pay was right)? How much more would it cost them?
There is more complexity to the GMO / Monsanto issue than Food, Inc (and sadly the HN demographic) give credit. If you'd like to dig deeper there has been very balanced, good faith reporting from Nathanael Johnson on the topic: http://grist.org/author/nathanael-johnson/
You're saying this stuff all over the place. Do you live n a conspiracy theory? This "will be died" stuff is kind of odd ...
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Using that logic, how could you possibly take the book itself seriously, since the publisher isn't just giving it away for free?
I'm pretty sure a large percentage of the hacker news crowd are developers in the 'content' business, and Vox is a pretty exciting company in the space to watch right now.

Helpful link: http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/15/voxs-new-mega-round-puts-a-...
Not helping is the lack of good educational material - unlike software, there aren't all that many books around dealing with hardware, and more importantly, there aren't any people teaching others how to do stuff (via writing, videos, etc.). The grizzled veterans do their thing without bothering to share the knowledge...
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I recommend jail instead ...
No, its fundamentally impossible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
You're right. I read too fast and I thought "I have roughly 6 months of runway funds" means "I have seed funding for 6 months." Thanks for the correction.
It will be unsurprising if some dirt on McCain mysteriously appears in the near future.
With hybrid seeds you don't need arbitrary patent ownership to necessitate a producer, you naturally need companies operating in a near-perfect-competition situation to produce the seed as successive generations become genetically erratic and no longer cleanly express the 'hybrid vigor' if you attempt to reuse the seed.

In fact much of these kinds of researches and developments originated in public/land grant universities and were part of a the ROI of public research and were successfully spread and marketed without single entity IP ownership (specialized hybridizing just isn't patentable).

So your comment and claim is pretty much completely false.
I did precisely the same thing last month. I had a great job, challenging and meaningful work, but there was something missing. Here's my experience six weeks in.

I found enough freelance work pretty much immediately to pay my bills, and didn't have to drop my rates. That said, my wife has a successful small business, and I have over a year's runway, so there's much less pressure.

It forced me to become more 'social', and attend meetups (including HN London) and other events. Although I'm getting some work through meetups, the major benefit is in staving off the loneliness you may get from working remotely/at home/from a coffee shop. Coming from working in a great team, my experience is this hits you hard.

Meeting lots of new clients and potential clients has been seriously fun. I wasn't expecting that. I even dipped my toe in Elance, which has been a surprisingly positive experience so far.

I've never been busier or more motivated. I wake at 5.30am but now walk the dog, make time for my wife and take time out to explicitly learn new things when I like, not when a schedule dictates. That alone was worth quitting. My advice, for whatever it's worth, is to be rigid about dedicating 'off' time. (No mobile!) Even just half a day a week has safeguarded my mental health so far, and it's very, very easy to skip it.

I've been able to work on my startup[0] a good three days a week, as well as launching a couple of other smaller side projects already. If possible, I strongly recommend having a big project so you feel like you've got an anchor, and can make forward progress whenever you're at a loose end and you might otherwise be checking HN.

Quitting full-time work has been the best decision I've ever made.

[0] http://databasify.com
As a "young" FPGA guy, I love his posts. Anyway any idea who the other group was? Cyrix?
Ask HN: Developer laptop under $2000?
Ask HN: Developer laptop under $2000?

Hardware Requirements: Intel 4th Gen core i7, 128/256 SSD, at least 8 gb of ram with an option to upgrade to 16, Min Resolution 1920 x 1080, Screen size 14-16 inch, Touchscreen preferably no, OS Linux(Ubuntu), laptop should be almost as sleek as Mac Book Pro.

The latest Ask HN post on developer laptops is dated now[0]. As of now the haswell processor coupled with Intel HD 5000+ looks like the way to go.

Options I have looked at

1. Samsung 9 series 15" (some model) - price is too high (and some models have <2 Ghz processor)

2. ASUS 15" Zenbook UX51z - everything awesome except looks shit expensive and ASUS is not that big a brand, so, I am uncertain about this [4]

3. Razor Blade - expensive and 14" [3]

4. System76 Gazelle Pro: Tried it but did not like the build quality and battery life (everything else including customer care was superb)[1]

5. Lenovo S531: Release date unknown (for months now)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090406

[1] https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/gazp9

[2] http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/s-series/s531/#techspecs

[3] http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-blade-pro

[4] http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-zenbook-15-6-laptop-8gb-memory-256gb-solid-state-drive-256gb-solid-state-drive-aluminum-silver-gray/9559966.p
Commodities: Destination Africa
Probably because they have a strong safety net and there's not enough Dutch men and women willing to engage in sex work to meet demand.

I would also imagine the demand is much higher since it is illegal in surrounding areas and most of the world. If that weren't they case I'm guessing demand would be much lower. It's a problem that can't be solved in isolation.
How is it any weirder than forcing people to purchase financial services that pay for medical treatments, something that most countries do? Once you make people's health a collective responsibility, it hardly seems unreasonable to demand that people maintain fitness.

I just wish they didn't do situps. Situps are terrible for your back. There are so many better options - just make people hold a plank for a minute.
This is not good. Almost everything, if not everything, in this document is either specific nitpicking or uselessly vague.

> Transparent: We communicate in an honest and genuine way. Any information or process that can be made open, will be made open.

That's meaningless if a way of determining what can and can't be made open isn't included. Here's one of the "concrete tools" that's supposed to help the company be transparent.

> Corporate transparency - any information or process that can be made open, should be made open.

This is not helpful.

> The Company should make it as fun as possible to work for the Company.

Companies don't strive to make working less fun. This doesn't help.

> 2000 Euro hardware allowance at start of position (for laptop, desktop etc).

> 1000 Euro/year hardware allowance for everyone that requires new hardware to be be able to do their work.

The hardware allowances are just fixed numbers that don't take into account different currencies, job positions, or how the price of parts may change over time and differ by location. This is brittle.

> The Company should budget for at least 3 traveling meetings for every employee to ensure that people can work efficiently and get to know each other. One of the meetings should be an all company meeting.

It's possible that all employees don't require travel budgets. It's possible that no employees require travel budgets.
Hey, Kool-Aid has a 90% approval rating among Kool-Aid drinkers...

When water problems start becoming more widespread, problems with much of the current system will be more obvious, so to be fair this is an amazing hedge for Monsanto.

I'm also conflating to some extent high-yield strains with GM strains, but the overlap is pretty huge so consider it minor.
There are a couple of submissions a day. For a language as young as Rust I wouldn't call that "low volume".
And what's the legality of employing migrant workers?
Except for food (and some clothes) I already "Amazon" anything I need. Once your credit card is in there, it's too damn easy to buy stuff.
Nice and Interesting! Thanks for your time.
I expected it, which is why it took me a while to actually click it. To quote the author

> Did you think I was actually going to recreate Tetris in CSS? Sorry, no. Nobody needs to do that.

I mean that stuff is usually pretty awesome, but we've had more than enough playful experiements and this was far more valuable and the title is imo a disservice to this.
From the WSJ (paywall):

The acquisition offers a new sign of consolidation in the market for digital
content, where niche Web publishers are expanding their audiences by
merging with rivals and buying providers of other genres. Alloy Digital and
Break Media, both of which focus on young male audiences, last month
said they would combine to become Defy Media.

[ ... ]

Both [Vox & Curbed] generate most of their revenue by creating customized
advertisements for brands, rather than relying on traditional display ads.
SB Nation, for example, could run highlights and commentary on
professional sports, presented on behalf of a corporate sponsor and
including its logo.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230486840...
Here's a CoffeeScript fixed-point combinator I wrote some time ago:

y = ((y)->y y) (y) -> (f) -> (n) -> (f (y y) f) n

Its a little different than the common implementation of y combinator, but looks cooler imo :)

edit: also, a question - a comment on stackoverflow says that fixed-point combinators are used to prove the turing-completeness of lambda calculus. Can't it be proved with something simpler, such as that?

y = (f) -> (n) -> (f f) n
fact = y (f) -> (n) -> if n is 0 then 1 else n * (f f) n-1
It is amazing how obvious it is that customer satisfaction is at the core of every new initiative Amazon launches.
October 2013: seven Cisco vulnerabilities
This is how much money people with your personality make
They don't create products that save money, they create products that improve yields in the short term and thus increase revenues in the short term, which is quite different. Though I suppose there are likely some labor savings also.
When I first heard about the absurd benefits-prepayment scheme, I could swear I read that even USPS employees were against it because they knew what repercussions it would have. I don't have a citation for that unfortunately.
I'd hazard a guess that that was a large proportion of the 25%.
This is what the factorial function looks like in (almost) pure lambda calculus:

((λ (f) ((λ (g) (g g)) (λ (h) (λ (x) ((f (h h)) x))))) ; <-- The Y combinator
(λ (f)
(λ (n)
(if ((λ (p a b) (p a b)) ((λ (n) (n (λ (x) (λ (x y) y)) (λ (x y) x))) n) t nil)
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x)))) (λ (f x) x))
((λ (m n) (m ((λ (m n) (λ (f x) (m f (n f x)))) n) (λ (f x) x)))
n (f ((λ (n) (λ (f x) (n (λ (g h) (h (g f))) (λ (u) x) (λ (u) u)))) n)))))))

You can actually run this code with an appropriate definition of λ:

? (((λ (f) ((λ (g) (g g)) (λ (h) (λ (x) ((f (h h)) x)))))
(λ (f)
(λ (n)
(if ((λ (p a b) (p a b)) ((λ (n) (n (λ (x) (λ (x y) y)) (λ (x y) x))) n) t nil)
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x)))) (λ (f x) x))
((λ (m n) (m ((λ (m n) (λ (f x) (m f (n f x)))) n) (λ (f x) x)))
n (f ((λ (n) (λ (f x) (n (λ (g h) (h (g f))) (λ (u) x) (λ (u) u)))) n)))))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x)))) ; <-- This is the number 6 expressed as a Church numeral
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
((λ (n) (λ (f x) (f (n f x))))
(λ (f x) x))))))))
#<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x30200214436F>
? (funcall * '1+ 0)
720

Writing the code for λ is left as an exercise :-)
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Do you see Friedberg as a visionary leader? Do you believe the work you are doing is changing the world for the better?
I might not be following you, but it sounded like you were worried about farmers losing the right to save seeds due to Monsanto patents. Seed saving largely ended with hybrid seeds in the 20s. Is there something else you were trying to say?
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Non-American here. Why at the start of the article does it say "...with an unlikely partner"?

(to be honest I immediately though of Owls! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBfxOatX0tU)

So any idea why Amazon-Post partnership was considered as "unlikely"?
Is this an open source framework?
Here's the thing, I used to write very polite comments on YouTube that could be divided in either opinions that added to the discussion or questions to the uploader but now this goggle+ bs is so annoying and inconvenient that from now on I'm not making any comments anymore.

But the racist idiot posting the most vile and offensive stuff you have ever read is going to sick around because he enjoys doing that.
Why does logic dictate that? You make claims about logic but you are just falsely equivocating words in a semantic game.
Perhaps because USPS is a pseudo-goverment organization, and the US government (and its many appendages) usually doesn't strike this sort of cooperative deal with private companies.
Relatively often there's a drought with no submissions for a couple of days too, though.
There is no reason this won't work for a band. Your use case is actually pretty exactly what most startups use it for. If you fill this form out someone will get in touch with you on Monday. https://fairtradework.wufoo.com/forms/thanks-for-contacting-...
Perfectly valid concern that will be had by many until the processes become extremely standardized. I see this as in it's alpha stage even if the company is beginning to sell kits.

The kits need to become guaranteed through whatever safety certifications vehicles in my area have to be beholden to before I think of purchasing one. I think we'll see future shock and controversy surrounding it before this happens.
How about this?

1. Setup a company in the country you're from.
2. Outsource the work from your US company to company from point #1
3. Profit!

If that's not allowed, then build the product on your own (personal expense), then "grant" it to your US company, then keep the company running until it's making enough profit to legally hire you to work in the company.

How about that? (Looking for feedback, I'm in similar boat)
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Leadgenius is not designed to replace your sales person. You can outsource everything via leadgenius except the final deal making. We will get the client on phone with you and after that it's your gig.
Psh. I needed those twelve bags of sour fizzy soda bottle gummie candies.
I really don't get why this article starts off with a rant about less and sass. What do pre-processors have to do with anything demonstrated? Do they make these things harder somehow?
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I don't think I would drive that with any other cars on the road. Hopefully there is a safety package.
Are you all so naive as to believe all our "friends" whether from France, Germany, Israel, or even Russia don't conduct operations on the US?
I've been told that a lot of their work on drought resistance is having good preliminary impacts on reducing water consumption. They've also purchased us at least in part because of the work we're doing on Climate Pro which is a tool to provide agricultural management for things like irrigation.

But again, give me studies and specific questions and I'll have answers from either the CEO or COO by Friday.
The difference is that people who work with us are actually contractors who pick their own hours and work from home. They can come and go as they please but we still ensure quality using our technology and processes.
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I met a girl the same week I started at my job in 2007. We were in San Antonio, TX and she was my upstairs neighbor and we started dating a month or two later, then got engaged after about a year and a half. This girl (now my wife) is a Captain in the US Army. When her time at this duty station was up, the Army moved us to Colorado. I told my employer (a big cloud hosting provider based in Texas) that I would be moving but that I wished to keep working remote somehow, if it were possible. As it happened, my team was short-handed and so my boss worked out a way for me to stay on as a contractor. A few months later, the company decided that they wanted to keep me so they converted me back to a full-time employee and I became the first (or maybe the second?) remote employee at my company. I recently left to work remotely for a SFO-based startup but I can tell you that my old employer has hundreds of remote workers now.
I did not meant it in a negative way, just to illustrate differences in language. Kotlin is an industrial language designed to interact with and enhance large java code-bases.

Scala is more like ecosystem on its own.
Ukraine. 5 years, Java. 9 month remote now. Been with a company for a year, fell in love and decided to move to another location:) Offered to switch to remote.

Advice:
* Transparency(what you're doing, when it will be ready, when you're online, etc)
* Discipline(isolate yourself from interruptions and keep commitments from the above)
Few people see the USPS as a serious shipping competitor to FedEx and UPS and others. They're for letter mail.
I am not sure if I want to be harsh and ask why would anyone object to a coding style. If you were coding for your own project, do you not have a specific preference on how the code is written? I think I do.
atleast its not a country built by invading weaker countries and stealing their resources every now and then.
Better: I have a script that reposts previous comments where relevant.