skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To address that, as the article mentions - Bar raisers interview in another part of the company. They can't bar raise for their own team.

And in a 110k employee company, to think one extra hire will obsolete you is extreme paranoia. You would rather hire smart folks and increase the company value.
That's a very good way of putting it!
No, but the more sounds you use, the more precise everything has to be. Just think of a machine that recognizes blue, red, and yellow as compared to a machine that recognizes all 24-bit colors. Aside from everything else, how on earth would you calibrate the sensor?
Unschedule is a reverse psychology trick - a schedule where you fill in the play, not work. Being in the gap between periods of play motivates you to start working. Also, google it.

I have not actually tried Unschedule so I cannot really recommend it but I have read "The Now Habit" and it is the most high-level anti-procrastination book. It goes straight to the root causes of procrastination, IMHO.
Hackers use Amazon cloud to scrape mass number of LinkedIn member profiles
Same here, have a part of an app that I'd like a separate account for so this matches up perfectly.
I have a question about the SAFE.

SAFE holders don't seem to have the right to veto dividends. Shouldn't they have that right? What stops a company from issuing SAFEs, making a big dividend, and letting the company's shell fold?
I felt that if the science hipster existed, thats what she would write. Disclaimer: I'm in no position to judge any of this.
Two in fact.
http://www.muoptics.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mu-Optics/274122436049948

I've spoken to these guys and they are just taking longer than expected. I don't think it's vaporware. They could probably do better on the communication department on that note.
Wouldn't it being "opt-in" make it functionally the same as now? Where you can opt-in to including an email address in your profile? And for those worried about anonymity, it takes about 4 minutes to set up an anonymous email account and set it to forward to your primary inbox. I'd guess that most on HN have either an email that they are comfortable revealing publicly or an anonymous one.
I wonder, if there was a video available of this, how closely your memory would match the actual event.
Why is this a problem with JS and not, say, Clojure?
One of my favorite red flags. If you put it on the resume and I ask about it, and you've never used it, gong time. Personally I redact my resume every year from stuff I've done long ago. If you're not proficient, don't advertise it.
Ask HN: Thoughts or Resources on Monetizing Open Source?
I am nearly done reading "Free as in Freedom." I am curious to hear feedback, examples or case studies and reading recommendations concerning monetizing open source software.

Thanks.
> >Wasn't America's founding principles on shaking things up?

> No, it wasn't.

Yeah, this is part of the myth that comes from the misnamed American "Revolution". The revolt of the American colonies against Britain was largely the opposite of being about shaking these up -- the anger was largely over the arbitrary deprivation of rights the upper classes expected to have respected as British subjects. The founding principle was more about securing what were already viewed as traditional protections than about shaking anything up.
I hate joins in the where clause because it is semantically wrong and confuses the building the set part with the filtering the result part.

It is not "semantically wrong": conceptually, you can compute a join by taking the Cartesian product and then applying the join predicates to the result, which is actually what the implicit join syntax suggests. Semantically, there is no difference between applying an (inner) join predicate and applying any other predicate. There is also no actual division between "building the set" and "filtering the result": different predicates might be applied in different orders, before or after different relations in the query have been accessed.
What, no love for SPARC or MIPS?

Further, no love for Transmeta?

Poor show.
Cool. First of all, just let me say, that arguing about consciousness today has been very exciting and fun. Thanks for participating :D

My position is not the norm, for sure. I used to think along the lines you're describing (some sort of Churchland connectionism or dynamic system), and was driven to find a way of reducing consciousness to something that could be reproduced in a computer. But the more I learned the more I saw the gap between neurons and experience. I don't know for sure if it couldn't eventually be explained with some future advanced physical/chemical/biological theory, but right now there seems to be a big gap.

If we could look at all the pieces leading up to experience under a microscope, I still don't think there would be a way of seeing someone's experience or subject it to proper scientific scrutiny short of actually being that someone. That is, I don't believe that any set of facts would ever allow me to know what it's like to be someone else.

I think the monism Nagel describes in the book I linked to is an interesting idea of how things like consciousness, cognition, value, and intentionality can be compatible with materialist realism while still being something different without necessarily deriving from divine intervention or subjective idealism.
I think it'd be the experience of that rather than the actual feature. Like how many non technical people are going to straight out of the box know what export to csv is then be able to run filters on it? People are much more familiar with my proposed way. It's note just the UI, it's the way it's done. Paraphrasing Steve Jobs, the design isn't the UI, it's the way it works.

Mint is great, but it's very much read only. A read and write setup, if you get the anaology, would surely be much more powerful.
13 years-old as you say in other comments seems very late to me.

I have some "memories" that have definitely been created by looking at pictures later. I actually remember one particular case where it was a photo of me as an infant in my mother's arms and I told my siblings that I remembered that and that I was sucking on a biscuit (which you couldn't see on that photo). It turned out that there was another photo of the same time where you could see that I was indeed sucking on a biscuit. That "memory" had been created.

However I do have plenty of memories from childhood that were not created later by other means. The earliest being for sure around age 3, when I had eye surgery. I remember a few things very clearly of that period. (because it was different and somewhat traumatic for a 3yo) For the most part these were not reactivated later by pictures or recounted as stories. (because people around probably didn't even remember them themselves for being insignificant to them)

E.g. I remember being pushed by a girl behind me in line in kindergarten, my glasses fell on the ground and one lens popped out and I blamed her for it. I was likely around 4 or 5.

I have recently started therapy and we're doing what's called "lifespan integration" (http://www.lifespanintegration.com/) where we go through life events year after a year and where I try to picture each particular moment to feel like I'm there. One interesting effect is that more memories besides the initial ones written down have come back over time or some come back with more details. I would think that or other techniques (e.g. hypnosis) could help you remember more things.
Interesting, Im in Australia and I have had this feature in Stripe for a few days already from when I signed up. The only issue I have had is that I cant find where to delete accounts. Otherwise, congrats to the Stripe team!
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If something this powerful was reasonable to do in javascript, it would be mainstream knowledge by now.

Clojurescript's core.async is a macro approach which is not quite the same but very similar to what I describe.

You could probably do it in sweet.js (marcos for javascript that are expanded at compile time) but as far as I know, nobody is actually doing it so there are probably showstoppers.

A monadic approach requires all of your code to be pure-functional, which is unreasonable because you'd have to rewrite all of your dependencies to be pure.
Hi, I made macros.coffee, and I'd like to say that this guy is right. It's non-hygenic (on purpose) and it's a hack.

And purely a labor of love!
Slides: http://mrluc.github.io/hammy/12-7-rum-macros/deck.html#1
Code: http://mrluc.github.io/macros.coffee/docs/macros.html

I wanted to see how easily I could add (non-hygenic) macros to CoffeeScript, and if I could do it as an npm-installable module instead of a fork of the language.

It was also an experiment in making macros very clear to myself. Non-hygenic (CL-style) macros are very simple conceptually.

But the basic hack that made it possible to get true CL-style macros also makes the whole thing incredibly dependent on the structure of the CoffeeScript AST. Which makes it fragile.

I'm excited by BlackCoffee, actually. This is the first I've heard of it. Thanks a lot for giving me a nod in the github PR, and of course let's mention Oran Looney as well, who wrote the best deepcopy ever for Javascript (I wrapped this up as owl-deepcopy and made an npm module for it).
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The article cited Panasonic as an organization interested in Firefox OS. To whom is Panasonic marketing its TVs? Gearheads like us who might care about the OS, or the mass market?

If the mass market, they aren't going to say "Not Android! Not iOS!" because many will ask "Why not? Those work pretty well, this won't work with my phone, ARGH!"

Instead, they will focus on capabilities, features, things that set them apart, and will not discuss the OS. Though they will have very carefully crafted messages about how their TVs do support interacting with your favourite smartphone.

As to the gearhead market, speaking as a recovering gearhead myself (:->), well, that's who Linux appeals to, right?

So it devolves into "Ubuntu Vs Firefox OS" for phones aimed at neckbeards.

No offense intended in any way. All tongue partially in cheek.

But the OS is irrelevant to the mass market and the market of people who care about the OS is relatively small. Good enough to support a few laptop suppliers here and there, maybe niche phone makers, but nothing big.

Broadly speaking, there are at least two communities on Hacker News: 1) People who want to grow big successful businesses based on tech, 2) hackers of all ilks and stripes who don't fall into #1.

My guess is that most of the people in Group#1 don't care what OS they use, what tools they use, as long as they deliver the capabilities and support the vision they require.

So my original comment was really about the hyperbolic statement that "we want Firefox OS to win". My bet is that many in Group#1 don't even care. Some do. More in Group#2 might. But to assert that everyone here does? Not so much.

(I love the Internet. I could care less what it runs on. Cisco Vs whomever is just so not interesting to most of us - unless we're "Group#2 networking gearheads".)
Although the end results are very weird, isn't anyone concerned about the ethical treatment of ants? I mean, all that smoke coming out of the anthill as they pour in the molten metal - that's got to be Ant Souls, right?
The way I work around this is launching a separate chrome for each account.

For example, I have a work-trello and a personal-trello command in ~/bin, but you can use shortcuts in Windows or whatever the equivalent is in OS X.

chromium-browser --app=https://trello.com --user-data-dir=/home/jewel/.profiles/personal-trello

They can run concurrently and are completely isolated. I don't think this is possible with firefox yet. I use app mode since I don't need the normal navigation when using it this way.
Droplr not longer with a free plan
You could do something like keep the frequency offset between keys constant for all keyboards, but add some way of shifting the frequency of all of the keys by the same amount. It seems feasible to me, but I have no expertise in the area. The difficulty could prohibit an infinite set of configurations, but it could easily allow for a small set of configurations for cases when a few keyboards are in close proximity.
I disagree that it's distasteful. It's only distasteful if it's dishonest or coercive. I think it's actually a great way to fund a Free Software project. It's like github. You pay nothing, and everything is public. You pay for privacy. With the GPL and selling exceptions, it's very similar in spirit. You pay nothing, and you must give back. You pay something, and you may restrict your users.

If someone contributes code and licenses their copyright to LightTable, knowing full well that the product they support and invested time in may acquire some funds because of it, gosh, I just don't see how that's a bad thing. And if they believe that their patch is significant enough to demand reimbursement, that they would like to charge LightTable for a copyright license, they are free to negotiate such a trade. And if LightTable actually makes money from relicensing, they'll probably be happy to pay for such things.

I do, however, hope that they ask for copyright licenses rather than copyright assignment. Copyright assignment turns the author into a person powerless to use their own work. See harmonyagreements.org.
As a current owner of a Panasonic "smart" TV, replacing the current OS with literally ANYTHING would be an improvement.

When it's not being annoyingly convoluted to operate, it's being horribly slow to operate. The Youtube app looks like what happens when management signs off on the design as static mockups - it's gorgeous on screen, but scrolling is a laggy mess. Using the search function (complete with a "keyboard" that is 1D) is so clunky that even the app encourages you to pair your smartphone to avoid it.
It benefits both the workers and the manager/lead to be in the same space. Having your manager float in once a day or so and then take time out of your work to get them up to speed on what they would know if they were just in the room is silly. It also makes the manager more cognizant of issues faster and forces them to keep production moving forward.

Nobody said it can't be fun, the occasional break is fine. But I've seen team rooms degenerate into multi-hour wrestling nerf gun matches that costs thousands of dollars.
With both "free" and "permissive" licenses, everyone who gets code from the original author can use the code for pretty much whatever they want—boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew—but for code under a "permissive" licence, downstream recipients do not necessarily have the same rights. For example, Microsoft used some of the BSD sockets implementation in NT's network stack, but Windows users do not have the same rights of modification and redistribution for that code that Microsoft enjoyed, even if they separately obtain a permissive licence to that code by downloading a fresh copy of the code from the original authors.

Thus, "permissive" licenses tend to split a community into at least two groups: developers who can make use of the original code directly and enjoy the liberties the "permissive" licence allows, and users who are only allowed to use the things the developers create for them, and have none of the liberties granted by the original licence. By contrast, a "Free" licence (in the FSF sense) guarantees that everybody who obtains some piece of code, no matter how far removed from the original developer, has exactly the same rights to it. Thus, it does not split the community in the same way, and that's why some people regard "Free" licences as more community-friendly and useful than "permissive" licences.
Well, it's a very well targeted group, and easy to reach. What's not to like?
I also have memories from ~3 (possibly younger, I have some toilet-training memories). Framing when the memories are from is helped by the fact we moved when I was ~4 years old.

It probably helps that a lot of these older memories are associated (in my mind) with the previous house, so when I remember a couple of memories from that house, it causes me to start thinking about other memories associated with that house. Just accessing these memories makes them more likely to stick around (but also increases the chance of distortion, as we rewrite the memories that we access).
And here in Norway, where it's cold most of the year so we have indoor heating, the power used from computers is saved from heating.
I like this application--would be handy for anybody doing repairs.
I have distinct memories of when I was 2-3 y.o. that have astounded my parents. I was raised in Korea till I was about 3, then we all flew to Hawaii to immigrate to the U.S. I remember the flight, I remember my life in Korea, I remember going to the public spa's with my dad, I remember feeling ashamed of my nudity in front of many older folks around me. I told all of this to my parents later in life, and they were amazed. I even distinctly remember the time when I thought I was lost, being scared, walking through a tunnel only to emerge to find a statue of some Korean soldiers. My parents found me and took a picture of me pointing at that statue. I asked my mom about that time, and I said, "How did I get lost? I was scared." My mom said that they were following me from afar, making sure I didn't see them, and they wanted to see how I would explore the world.

I've told people about this many times. And, people just can't or won't believe me. A history professor told me that this is impossible, because children can't remember anything before the age of 3. He was adamant about it, and completely dismissive of my claims. I think these kinds of pseudo-scientific research (you know, taking polls and applying statistics) should be taken with a grain of salt. One should NOT draw definitive conclusions from them.
The more interesting question might be the percentile where the auto-driver makes driving safer for everybody (by weeding out the worst drivers).

I would guess it is more like 15 or 20 than it is like 50 (but of course I'm guessing).
Yep.

An inefficient thief.
Definitely in no way a unique idea. Also that article is awesome.
JPM reported Madoff to the SEC in the 90's. They also reported him to the British banking authorities much more recently.

Also: the actions for which JPM was recently fined concern primarily the years 2007 and 2008. JPM may have acted differently in the 1990s, but that's practically irrelevant to what happened ten years later -- especially given the extent to which the size, and the number of unsophisticated investors lured into Madoff's scheme (with JPM's help) increased geometrically.

Similarly, whether they reported him to British banking authorities is also of little relevance. U.S. laws concern JPM's obligations to report suspicious activities to the SEC and other domestic agencies -- not the Brits.
As a counterpoint, I work on my own now, having worked in open plan offices for years, and I find it hard to concentrate because I feel lonely. My ideal office size would be somewhere between 5 and 10 people in a room all working on the same project. You just need a rule that you must leave the room to make phone calls that last longer than a couple of minutes, especially if you have an annoying voice or telephone manner or there is some emotional content to the call. With this setup there should not be to much background noise and you can ask a colleague a question when it suits you as long as you are respectful and don't disturb them if they are 'in the zone'. There is research that supports the 5-10 people sharing a office theory, I think done in the Netherlands in the 70's but I can't find it now. I can't help but think that there is a good reason related to camaraderie and teamwork that around 8 people just so happens to be the smallest organisational unit in the army, a principal the Romans discovered 2000 years ago.
I think it's unavoidable to have a partner bank (at least for now) but considering they wouldn't get as much, that would surely be better? I completely get what you mean, and agree in many ways, but is there any other way?
You don't sound like a team player.
Interesting, I have access to a university cluster (in the top 100 of the top500) and I had played with the idea of using it in a similar way. I didn't actually implement it because I need to maintain good terms with the IT dept for my research (and everything else really). Does anyone know how this would scale or at what point (in terms of number of cores/memory) it would be a worthwhile?
You are thinking of the Washington Post
I have to say that not only do you have a very good product/service, but I am constantly impressed by your engagement in it and apparent commitment to your customer base.
Reading articles like this makes me think of a distributed computing system we had at my college. Dunno if anyone's heard of condor, but basically, you'd submit an executable and some metadata to the central machine, and it would optimize and execute the job in parallel on all of the machines -- and every machine on the entire campus was hooked up to this system. That's a ton of computers, plus the school had its own massive data center. No need to hack anything, just log in and run a command.

It was supposed to be mostly for academic stuff, and one undergrad class where we learned about parallel programming. I wonder, though, how impressive it would be to run a bitcoin miner on something like that. Obviously unethical, and even if it wasn't, I've graduated and don't have access anymore. Still interesting to think about.
You must be better at multitasking than me. Those types of interruptions take me out of the zone.
Hang out, idle, chat, whatever. :)
At some point, yes, but the Ubuntu marks are still spread throughout dozens of different packages.
There is all this talk about safety but isn't drifting your car inherently dangerous? It's not like you're drifting your car around turns on your way to work. And if you are, you're a jackass and putting everyone else at risk.
I like the idea of cloud IDE, but I just don't know if they are as flexible as I want them to be, like with adding tools and packages or connecting to staging databases via VPN.
Have you seen the book "City of Darkness"? (http://www.amazon.com/City-Darkness-Life-Kowloon-Walled/dp/1...). It's the best photoessay I know on a place that doesn't exist anymore. One of the more interesting parts of that Wikipedia article is that William Gibson visited the Kowloon Walled City for inspiration.
The site is down, here is a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Amonof...
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Driving cars for most people is only fun in ads, where people always enjoy empty streets, wide roads across beautiful wilderness, and the joy of utter freedom. Truth is that almost all of real life driving is a terrible chore, and "having fun" on the road generally means taking irresponsible risks for you and others.
That I am familiar with. I guess I just misunderstood sinewave. That will happen with a one liner reply I guess.
> But my thought was: worst case-scenario I will have to give “back” the money made from the mining.

At my Uni there are rules for how the computers should be used. Installing this kind of software on a multitude of computers would be a breach of those rules. It would probably get you kicked out of the computer systems for some time, meaning you have no way to hand in your deliverables, use lab equipment etc. You would probably end up having to redo the semester.

Edit: I saw his edit to the post now. Looks like his Uni would treat it as a criminal offense.

> Future violations will be reported to campus police and treated as criminal trespass.
There are always outliers. You should feel blessed!
It's a field of heavy-hitters. The 4004, 8088, and Opteron 240 each ushered in a new age in microprocessors.
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