skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Two Swedish Girls" are two women, who studied Industrial Design at University before moving into product development. If two males in their mid twenties were launching a product no one would refer to them as "boys".

"Hövding started out in 2005 as a master’s thesis by the two founders Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, who, at the time, were studying Industrial Design at the University of Lund."

The title of this post is condescending and clichéd. Yawn.
We should have been using very different dialects of BASIC, since I can't remember mine having algebraic data types, pattern matching, integrated testing, first class functions, high order functions and bignums.
The icons that should have been: "iOS 7 Icon Rework"
Omaha, Nebraska.

Our startup scene is flourishing and our cost of living is low. You can rent a very nice place for $1000 a month, most of the time for much less.

We also have an awesome music scene, lots of bars and attractions, and a healthy stock of young people to fill up your dating pool.

It's pretty awesome.
I don't agree about NYRB being parochial and restricted. If anything, it's one of the more expansive magazines in terms of subject matter covered. While I don't know the Times, I can't think of a literary magazine more dedicated to covering the entire world (geographically, politically, intellectually) as NYRB.

For example, NYRB has a lot of foreign reporting and analysis; this last year they have had a ton on Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Libya and a wealth of other countries. Many of the subjects covered — books, art, people — are not American.

And while their stable of writers certainly lean in a specific political direction, NYRB tends to favour just quietly reporting the facts, as opposed to bombastically trumpeting political opinions the way that, say, The Economist (which recently insisted that western leaders must bomb Syria) frequently does.

There are admittedly exceptions. NYRB has traditionally been critical of Israel, for example. But they are generally critical of war-mongering, persecution and nationalism, so it's hard to argue that they are being one-sided in that sense.
with what i understand, the idea here is to basically start from somewhere, tread a path and get 'lost' somewhere else or into something. It's fun to walk through i guess.

What i liked is - now, i tried the word "stylus" like you did, but misspelled it as 'stylis'. it gave auto-correct suggestion - did you mean 'stylus'. good for a small site, i think.
Last year 3.5x the US money supply was spent by consumers (not even counting b2b transactions, which I suspect are at least as high). So in your hypothetical example, holding $40k in bitcoins, you would need to spend _$150k_ in bitcoins yearly to match that level of liquidity.
Probably not. I only work with data that's more structured, like spreadsheet-like data with very many records and dimensions.
The negative comments in this thread seem representative of bad personal experiences and not the article.

He's saying that he wants a chance to work through a problem with the interviewee, not stump them. There is value to seeing what a candidate knows and has previously done, and I'm sure that by this point in the interview he has determined those.

But these questions are about how the candidate works, and it sounds to me like he has put a lot of effort into making sure this is not like a crappy puzzler, but a conversation that he will help them through.
I think the better option is to ask questions that don't have one correct answer? Those are the hardest ones anyway, and the most relevant to the real world.

You explore the options beforehand, and try to figure out benefits / drawbacks. Then when you ask the question, you see if people see those tradeoffs too. Even better, you pose the question slightly differently each time, such that a different option is more favored every time. This filters out people who think they have the "right" answer.

Who knows - one day a candidate could even surprise you with an answer you didn't think of!
Kids aren't going to converge on a platform their parents use. End of story. That's why FB was so 'in' when it first started. literally no one over 21.
No offense, but avoid a career in marketing.
You could maybe couple that with links found with wikipedia.org/wiki/*_(disambiguation) results
This is on the mark.

I know many academics who spent a lot of time throughout their school career writing code to get their research done.

They looked at this as a necessary evil, and as such learned the bare amount minimum to get by. They are smart people and were able to make the code help them solve their research problem. But they are busy thinking about their research so usually their algorithms are fairly simple + straightforward (lots of nested loops and n^2 sort of things).

The main problem, in my experience, is that many of the research problems are actually fairly simple (algorithmically) and most research departments have access to fairly powerful computing facilities. Coupled, this means you can brute force a lot of solutions-- there is no real push for understanding of the algorithmic complexity.

As well, most academics are on a much MUCH longer timeline than your average business or startup. Did your algorithm break 1 month into processing your simulation? Fine, fix it and run it for another month. Or just take what you had and publish it anyways.

Just as academics look down upon the technical side of things, we are just as much to blame for idolizing the academics. Science (even in math and engineering) is a lot more 'sloppy' then we like to imagine. There are oodles of papers out there that are just downright incorrect-- and not on purpose!

(* My creds: I have participated in academia as both a student, researcher and software developer )
Compensation is a huge issue. Unlike pure biologists, computational scientists have plenty of job opportunities outside of academia and pharma.

As a staff programmer at a prestigious institution, I was making about $50k. I left for a large company and a few short years on I'm at around $200k.
It was amazing to see the blowback for these simple suggestions. A good many lawyers think that it's much safer for them to walk around with backup drives with all of their data in their briefcases than to use the cloud.
Change direction using this product as a base. Instagram was a pivot, original release was not what it is known for today. Twitter was sort of a pivot.
A better way to get answers
Good start but a little shallow. Try 'Tolkien' or 'Lord of the Rings'...
I enjoyed reading your post. I also struggle to get up to listen to a professor go over material at a very slow pace. I'm taking a class now and I only show up on the day before the exam and on the exam. There are 2-3 weeks of lectures before an exam.. Usually 5-7 hours of studying is enough to get me a B+.

I'm not saying everyone should do that. But I'm running my startup and my CS degree isn't getting me anywhere closer to being a success story. The things I've learned by "doing" are probably the equivalent of getting CS and MBA degrees.
Just think, when you get paid your taxes will fund those people re-inventing wheels.
Randy Nelson (pixar) on Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age
"overhead", i.e. administration. I told someone that I was a postdoc, he estimated my salary at first six figures. Then I told him down. He said 75k. When I told him 45k, his eyes bugged out and he said 'there's something wrong here'.

I mean, I come from an excellent pedigree, too, top 10 undergraduate, top 10 grad school, and I currently work at a place where my boss is a nobel laureate. (He makes at least 250k, according to the place's 990 forms)

However, my going price gets diluted by the idiots running around with rubber-stamped PhDs. Maybe there needs to be a 'brain drain', if we can drain those people selectively somehow.
Britain is far worse than the USA -- your health care system just flushed $18 billion down the loo on a massively failed IT system.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
A Look at the Bitcoin Economy (Part 1)
Interesting visualization -- perhaps having a link to the wikipedia page for each item or using an iframe to display the wikipedia page would make it a bit more useful.
I was thinking exactly the same thing after I read that :)
The artists listed in the webpage are also active redditors (in what else? /r/colorizedhistory). This set of photos were recently posted in a pretty high trending /r/pics post. The top comments and responses have a bunch of extra information about the process.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1q34jl/colorized_histo...
Track Europe's falling, 2,000-pound satellite in real-time
You were in the right place at the wrong time.
Counterexample to Betteridge!
not only is azio_m an arrogant person but also, apparently, a coward. he deleted his posts.
That $40 floor exists once the market starts trading and there's external confirmation and safety in numbers.

The IPO process is more or less bankers emailing clients asking "Hey, want to buy this brand new company at $26? How about $32?" You essentially have to make a decision without information on how other buyers behave, which forces conservative behavior.
So you're majoring in hubris then?
in clojure:

(with-test
(defn my-function [x y]
(+ x y))
(is (= 4 (my-function 2 2)))
(is (= 7 (my-function 3 4))))
In the long term, eventually, yes; in the short terms it's devastating to the people who it displaces.
I personally have been using Facebook more because of the ways I've structured my feed, i.e, I no longer follow friends, but instead follow thought leaders, specific companies/brands and other information sources. For me, Facebook would be even more valuable if it did a better job of understand who I am, what I want to see and when I want to see it. This would then be further impressive if Facebook did a better job of showing me new information based on my expressed interests.
A map of 887,738 scientific papers from the arXiv
Missoula, MT.

Recently started up a non-standard publishing company there, and the culture is stellar, it's a college town (full of culture and young people doing fun stuff), very low cost of living (rented a massive house with a bar/cafe in the basement for about $1400/month), and zero sales tax.

Quality of life is best I've found anywhere in the US (and I've been to all contiguous 48 states several times, looking for places to set up offices and live when I'm not overseas). It's incredibly walkable, has a nice downtown, very active, athletics residents, and folks care about their health (which is manifested in both their activities and the local produce/restaurant/food culture).

Happy to answer any other questions anyone might have about the area, and to introduce you around if you end up moving thereabouts :)
free trade has proven to be not good for the bulk of the public. Most HN commenters, having been immersed in right-wing economics, have the belief that it is somehow scientifically proven that free trade is beneficial for all, but that's not actually what the science says. The results of decades of "free trade" agreements have been to overrule local decision-making; they are profoundly anti-democratic. They've resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from the bulk of the population to a very few, very wealthy individuals. Free trade agreements are a substantial cause for the fact that most workers in the United States are making less money now than they were 30 years ago, even though their productivity has gone up massively in the meantime.

I am not taking a position, but I think the not-altogether-ridiculous evidence they have for is the fact that global poverty has been declining steadily[1]. This is tied to the idea that efficiency increases provided by globalization are always a plus. Inequality may have deepened, but the argument is that that is irrelevant if the lowest standard of living rises. Not my argument, just saying.

Of course, I suppose one could argue that poverty would have reduced even more had globalization not happened, but I wouldn't know where to begin to do that. I would welcome someone who can.

[1] http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/04/17/re...

Edit: Now that I am reading how they define "poverty" (<$1.25/day), and considering the fact more can be lost or gained than just money, I am getting suspicious...
Distance to major airport? How long to get shipments from someplace like Amazon?
> the granddaddy of all social networks—Facebook

Have people seriously forgotten what socialising on the internet was like before Facebook? There were social networks way before Facebook, and there will be other social networks after Facebook.

They might not be called "social networks" though, because just like the services themselves, the words we use to describe them change constantly as well. Culture changes constanty, after all.
Yes, except that I wasn't talking at cross-purposes and nor about countries.

I was talking about inequality between individuals globally, because I think it's fundamentally a more important measure - and there is now far less global poverty.
Phone screen with FizzBuzz. Admit that it's not complicated, but that you get so many unqualified people that it does serve to filter, but make them do it anyways. It's 5 minutes at most and saves them the effort of traveling to your office AND saves you the effort of interviewing seriously.
This limit is set by miners and the reference client (and the various clients that copy the reference client's limit).

I'm not sure of the exact minimums necessary to change the limit, but roughly speaking if you could convince more than half of active bitcoin users and enough miners to control more than half of the network hash rate, you could change the limit.

However even this wouldn't necessarily change the limit in the way you expect. It would create a hard fork where you would have two versions of bitcoin. All coins made before the fork would exist in both versions, but coins made after would only exist in their respective version. So you'd have A-bitcoins with a limit of say, 1 billion, and B-bitcoins with the old limit of 21 million. Whether anyone would still use B-bitcoins depends on how many clients/miners decide to stay on the B-bitcoin branch.
>hire a contracts person away from one of the big contractors

Do you understand how much of a capital investment that takes?
Ah, but this isn't just a problem with coding. A mechanical or electrical engineer would have been horrified by my vacuum system or electronic circuitry. ;-) When I was in grad school, the mantra was: It only has to work long enough and well enough to produce a result. My experiment was declared a success when I got the MTBF up from a few seconds to a few minutes.
So I'm not experienced with Prolog, but the thing that scared me off is that it doesn't appear to have any computational complexity guarantees. It seems like will scale very poorly as your data gets bigger. It's just a notation for exhaustive search as far as I know, and you have to add ad hoc cuts outside the declarative model to get reasonable performance.

I have experience with other abstractions which are supposed to be "declarative", but you really have to peek under the hood at the implementation to get them to work in production settings, and I don't like that.
I'd also like to point out these articles:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_letters_used_in_mathemat...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathemat...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_number

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematical_notati...
That was not a deliberate choice it was just the first hit on Google for AF#75, there is an edited compilation in print but you can't link to it.
The "contracts person" is one link in the chain. The far more important and relevant links--the ones with the connections and personal relationships with people in the government who award these contracts. One of the reasons government contracting is the wasteful, corrupt mess it is is because it's an extension of the rest of politics in Washington: a machine designed to move taxpayer money into the hands of the connected and already-wealthy.

Having a "contracts person" may slightly increase one's chances of getting smaller contracts. Having the right pedigree is the almost the only thing that matters with contracts as big as the web of HealthCare.gov contracts, and no startup is going to be able to offer a level of financial or intangibles compensation to pull those with the right pedigree away.
My favorite part about all this is the fear of a "Polywater Gap."

Mandrake, how does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.

MR. PRESIDENT?! I WILL NOT ALLOW A MINESHAFT GAP!!!

...and then all the parallels with the Cat's Cradle novel, by Kurt Vonnegut, heaped on top.

It's like everyone in national security sits around watching movies and reading novels, and then goes out into the world the very next day, and tries to act them out as part of some warped vision of what they think reality should be, given their advantage for shaping world events.

There's something seriously bizarre and disturbing about that.
It's probably more in reference to the layer the work is completed in. I haven't used matlab in years but you can probably sum an array by iterating or you can call a faster more efficient library. You get much greater gains when doing this in higher dimensions. If you can do your operations at a matrix level you get a magnitude improvement in speed in most languages.
Agreed. At first, I was excited because I thought the author contributed to open source projects for 177 days straight.

However, after learning that many of the commits were to his personal website, my enthusiasm quickly faded.

Number of commits is a vanity metric.
I use this in clojure where I am interacting with the code from the repl. run-tests will execute tests for function defns wrapped with the with-test macro.
This is fast and no external file or namespace needs to load just type run-tests;
http://richhickey.github.io/clojure/clojure.test-api.html
To say they have completely replaced healthcare.gov would be stupid, but have the developers said that? I went and had a look at thehealthsherpa vs healthcare.gov. The people how made thehealthsherpa don't seem stupid to me - in fact they've identified the main pain point with the healthcare.gov website for the user, and tried to do something about it. The experience was as follows:

http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/

Enter your zip

Look at a list of plans with filters for my info.

Click one of the plans for info and get a phone no

I didn't have to fill in some long forms, I got straight to the info which counts without giving out any identifiable info.

https://www.healthcare.gov

Click on see plans now - this leads to a page of info with no plans information - great! Hit back.

Go back to home and click 'apply online'

Choose a state - read some info on the problems with this state

Click another apply online button

Click 'get started' to really get started this time!

Am confronted with a form asking for all my personal details, I stopped here.

Now of course that doesn't mean they have replaced healthcare.gov, or done in two weeks what all those developers working for the gov took $400m, but I'd say they've delivered something which is more valuable because it delivers what people actually want - a quick set of choices about healthcare for their specific area, and contact details for the same. It's a good summary of a complicated situation, presumably based on lots of the hard work done for healthcare.gov (assume they scraped the data).

You're not going to sign up for a plan without verifying costs anyway (by phone or on the providers website), so providing a quick summary with contact info is really all they need. I'm not convinced the apply online side of obamacare is actually helpful...

In the UK and quite a few other countries, this monthly insurance cost comes out of taxes and we don't choose an insurer, I think I prefer that single-payer solution.
in those Indira Gandhi days Govt assumed everyone under reported the income so tax slab had to be high, also agriculture was not taxed.

from 1991 lot of headway has been made, but still Interests rates are significantly higher than international rates.

real estate prices, rentals are very high, infrastructure is poor(you need to own a generator)

employee attrition rates, salary hike expectations are significantly higher.

if work visa's were easier more people would be migrating

it is tough to be a successful and profitable entrepreneur in India
alt+click is going to the wikipedia page
Alas, it does increasingly seem that the biggest difference between the two parties is which corporations they favor. Neither gives a rip about the 99% of the non-billionaire population. One side occasionally gives a nod to the fact that even the rich need non-toxic air and water, but that's about as far as it goes.
A closer reading reveals that 11 billion (I assume that's thousand million) pounds was the projected cost at the time for completion of the system. "Only" 2.7 billion, or 4.3 billion USD, has been spent, although I don't know if there are contract terminations of serious size to be paid.

Still, it's an epic failure, said to be the greatest single one in government IT contracting.

(E.g. I'll bet the FAA's eternal quest to upgrade from their 1940's (sic) technique and '60s or so architecture has cost more over time, but not any single failed effort.)
i came to the conclusion that functions === closures.

closure/functions close the parents scoped variables in an own scope
You are right. I was a little too annoyed.
Missoula technically has an international airport, but that's only because it flies up to Canada :)

Closest airport that I would consider 'major' is Seattle, which is a solid day's drive (about 7 hours). You can get anywhere from Missoula's airport, but you'll have to stop through Minnesota, Seattle, Denver, or some other major hub. Adds a little cost, which is a bummer, but still possible, and even for someone who travels all the time like I do, it's not a deal-breaker-level inconvenience.

Amazon-wise, it's just as fast as anywhere else I've ever lived. I have a Prime account, and often receive my packages the next day.

I'll also add that the internet is some of the fastest and cheapest I've found outside of areas that already have gigabit up and running.
Moving Past Digital Schizophrenia
Thats great how you managed to not answer facebook concerns.
thank you, will read through the notes.

PS: can we say that functions === closures?
Not sure if it explains everything though. The comparison may not be fair, but the tax rates in US ~ the 50s and 60s were fairly high too, and yet it led to post-WW2 boom:

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Marginal Tax Rate on Regular Income over $400,000: 92% - 91%

Maximum Tax Rate on Long-Term Capital Gains: 25%

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eisenhower-obama-wealthiest-americans-...
very often in those species the alpha is the male that is doing most of the mating (although almost never exclusively) so that analysis may not be that meaningful.
Mirror: http://pastebin.com/dmgGbRhM
Then it would be much easier to "cheat" the streak thingy, just make private repo and a script to make and push a XXX number of commits, each one with different timestamp and random data inside.
Original site: http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=34602

The ( ion-driven :) )satellite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Field_and_Steady-State_...

Current altitude: 159.30
How about the "not dead grandparent of all social networks"? Maybe Friendster and Six Degrees are the deceased great-grandparents, only seen in faded daguerreotypes.
FEC draft to allow political contributions in Bitcoin