skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excited, dive right in, run the tutorial, get to the first block, (optional - google try 1, google try 2) and yawnnnnn, next please...

This one has a reverse interest for most entrepreneurs, how do you get your product past the initial excitement and impending boredom of the customer?
Looking through my email now it looks like most of the lists I'm subscribed to are through meetups on meetup.com. I'm a member of a number of meetups that are related to technology I use (e.g. Ruby, Javascript), or topics I'm interested in (e.g. data journalism, I'm a member of Hacks & Hackers). I receive either the emails in real time or as a daily digest. I have only turned to those lists once looking for work and it was a big success.
You have correctly identified my position. Congratulations?

I assume there's a larger discussion about the challenge of disambiguating quora et al from neurological heuristics embedded in that observation.
Understanding Pointers, Ownership, and Lifetimes in Rust
The regular meetup.com mailing list for NYC.rb
"tech's shuttles are a godsend, eliminating 327,000 cars and 10,000 tons of carbon every year at no cost to the taxpayer"

I presume this means 327,000 car trips per year.
Especially scheme, because it's the language used in the original edition.
Technology Works: High-Tech Employment and  Wages in the United States
We have a few people working for us with similar deals -- e.g., people have kids and switch to reduced hours (this is a pretty good reason!).... We have one dev who is a theatre director for a few months every year; he lets us know well in advance when he's going to disappear for a while, and is available via email to offer advice on urgent issues.

I'd have imagined this would be more common with small & flexible companies; kudos to you for sorting out an alternative setup in a big one! I imagine HR in large companies normally pushes back against any situation that will go outside their normal flow.
Please report if you lose any coins ;)
Again, the point is precisely in having just one star.
If we follow your logic to its conclusion, San Francisco becomes a city of the uber rich, with the rest of the rabble scattering across the bay area.

So, what would that look like.. Some thoughts..

Good luck staffing jobs at the current SF minimum wage. You want baristas and servers and bar backs? And you want them to commute into the city? You'll get some (as you do now) but enough to run all of the cities establishments? We're talking a massive number of jobs. Sure, people will do it, for the right wage. So you're seeing wage inflation that will hurt small business owners a great deal.

Ethnic diversity would take a big hit. You'd see asian american and caucausions pushing out other groups that are on balance less affluent.

You can easily see NIMBY taken to an even further extreme that it currently is.

Commercial rents would presumably follow residential rents, further reducing low-margin businesses (like restaurants) in favor of high end retail and similar. (See: the Grove in Marina closing for this very reason).

I could go on, and certainly I am not listing the positive consequences of such a transformation. But I see strength through diversification and so I can't shake the feeling that this would be a weaker, less desirable San Francisco.

And if that were the case, if it truly did make it a less desirable place, well, now you have the positive feedback loop moving in the opposite direction, leading people OUT of the city until an equilibrium is found.
Whether or not free markets are the best way to allocate housing is another debate in of itself. I think they are, but the question for you is what specific method of allocating housing would be better? The beauty of free markets is that they are often, given time, self-correcting (not in all situations, which is one reason we have regulation in general). In any other market, rising housing prices would stimulate developers to build more housing; the problem is that in SF, local govt regulation stymies expansion, both vertical and horizontal.
> Please do note though that the docs you linked do not think it is a monad, just that it's easy to think of it as one.

Heh?
"Consciousness of the gaps", to summarize.
Those shiny shallow keyboards cause RSI.

http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2008/09/19/apple-aluminium-keyboar...

Rather than urging him to conform his body to the uncomfortable keyboard, how about recommending a keyboard designed to be comfortable to him?
From what I understand, Bart needs that 12-4 timeslot for track maintenance.

> Unlike some public transit systems with multiple sets of tracks on the same routes, BART doesn't have the duplication that would allow us to run trains on one set while performing maintenance on another. Third-rail power has to be shut down for maintenance crews to be able to operate safely and do the work that keeps the system safe and reliable. And the trains can’t run when the power is down.

- http://www.bart.gov/guide/latenight
Wow! You are really out of touch!
Exact rooting GC is now enabled on Firefox 29 desktop
Think of the millions who will succumb to akinetic mutism[1]. Oh the humanity.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7067573
the claim in the operations is that these sums have finite values.
Currently 90% of the comments here are meaningless guesses and opinions written by people who haven't read anything and/or know nothing about the mentioned theory, the new findings or the physics involved.

I wish there was somebody here who have actually read the mentioned papers, knows something about the relevant physics, is aware of the prior criticism of Orch-OR, and can say what, if anything, the new findings mean for Orch-OR and for its critics.
>> The patent exemplifies a growing trend among technology and consumer firms to anticipate consumers’ needs, even before consumers do.

Wrong. The patent exemplifies a growing trend among technology and consumer firms to think their business processes ought to be protected by patents when in fact, no such need exists. Certainly there is no wider (public, society, industry) good from allowing rich companies to patent something many others may have easily figured out independently.
The biggest reason why I avoided buying a restaurant in SF is because there is no answer to the problem you outline, yet. Hiring and keeping employees was a clusterfuck. A lot of them lived in East Bay or Daly City, and this was a problem I saw something like 2-3 years ago. It's probably worse now.

I have a restaurant in East Bay and I have employees on the same side of the bay that will walk 15 more minutes to save 35 cents on BART fares. I pay them more than minimum wage plus overtime and meals, and I offer to pay the 70 cent difference every day since I don't want any of them walking alone too late at night. They just pocket the 70 cents and keep on walking. Compared to my day job and my fiancé's day job and how we'll uber instead of walking 15 minutes...

It's not just improving BART service, it's also about improving public transit in general I think - including to the point that fares drop. My cousin from Seoul completely flipped out on me shortly after coming to the US. He realized that he was spending ~$10 and a couple of hours every day to get to his school in downtown SF from Alameda. Incredibly rude awakening if you're used to one of the busiest and best subway systems in the world, I guess.
It doesn't apply so well. It's not just about the kids you raise. It's about the fact that people's parents and grandparents and uncles and cousins live nearby. It's about friendships built over years. It's about community. What you're saying is this:

Fuck those people - they don't deserve community nor the benefits of it they worked for, because they can't afford the prices you are willing to pay to kick them out (despite most of them being decent citizens with jobs and everything).

It's kinda messed up. Not saying I have a solution, just pointing out a real problem.
That would be an example of science in action, and I'm certainly not denying that more evidence would make these theories more tenable. Considering that virtually every spare differential at every scale is taken advantage of by the body to conduct its work, it's not surprising at all to find quantum effects put to work all over the brain.

That's in the general, but we're talking about a specific theory. Your story is also about survivorship bias of scientific theories used as justification for a failure of imagination. Just because while looking for a place to seat consciousness they posited a phenomenon that turned out to take place does not imply that seating. Staking out a claim and adjusting it as information arrives is part of doing good science, but it does not follow that the initial or altered claim is then a good or likely scientific theory.

Penrose's theories are especially problematic in this area (as opposed to your analogy) because consciousness as a phenomenon is so poorly defined and because of the (many) changes that have been made wrt the physical structures proposed as the mechanisms of his version of consciousness over the years. Fortunately the "objective reduction" is a very specific requirement for consciousness Penrose has laid out, and I see no evidence here that suggests we're seeing it in action, nor the additional needed evidence that it itself is necessary for "consciousness". Implying otherwise is my objection.

> P.S. Re the "according to the article's narrative" snipe, uhh, some of us have been following this issue since the 90s when the idea was proposed. "You guys are crazy" is an accurate description of the majority consensus.

I was not denying that there were people saying "You guys are crazy", I was saying that I have my doubts that there was ever consensus around calling crazy a statement like "there is quantum activity in the microtubules". See dnautics's comment above. "Theory pilloried by scientific community turns out to be true" is a nice narrative, but again: survivorship bias. Most theories turn out to be wrong (and, more crucially, less usefully wrong than accepted theories).
Can't upload photos it just loops for ever
No matter how many words people spend on writing about consciousness, not once have I ever seen anyone say anything revealing about consciousness. (And yes, I have read all the usual suspects.)
"... in your garden/on your balcony, while you're away at work."
I think I've been on trains in Japan (albeit not in Tokyo) where the first two cars didn't fit on the platform, and passengers were alerted to switch cars if getting off at that station.

Not sure how well it'd work given commuter congestion, but it warrants some consideration.
Simulating a quantum system in a classical mechanical system may be possible in a limited sense, for trivial problems, but certainly not at speed. It's straight up P v NP. You will boil an ocean to watch any nontrivial simulation crawl frame by frame.

But you wander off that point and return to the 'wet-and-noisy' argument he addresses explicitly in the abstract. Let's call it the Argument from Noise, or AfM.

Again, if you read the abstract, you'll see K explains how this new discovery makes moot the AfM (but not rebut it, as a rebuttal or refutation requires an argument; making moot merely requires a contradicting observation. E.g. if the cops have a watertight argument for how, why when and where X murdered Y, it's moot if 100 reliable witnesses report X was playing acoustic folk-rock at a nearby cafe at the time.)
> no tactile travel to absorb the shock from your fingers,

To each their own, I guess. I can't use long-travel keyboards anymore since it's too fatiguing for me.
How is it not one of the better questions on SO? It's educational, it's on-topic, it's more cerebral than the usual questions about jQuery, it has high quality answers, the question itself is as clear as day, it's interesting, and it's very popular in terms of views and upvotes.

There's a degree of opinion in most answers anyway especially as there's often multiple ways to do the same thing and every answerer will have a preference of some kind. I don't necessarily see this one as a particularly subjective discussion anyway, or why you think I'm trying to make SO be something it's not. In any event, why are marginally subjective discussions are a horrible thing anyway in a Q&A site?
The Google Shuttle Effect on San Francisco
Yes, Chromium would be the technically correct usage, I used Chrome as it is the more familiar term.
Your concerns are really unfounded. Manhattan is basically already the way you hypothesize (with lower-income people commuting in from the other boroughs), and it works just fine.
Oh great, a car analogy.
Libraries like STL (which Chromium code uses extensively) and boost are lower-level. Chromium has much higher level abstracts.
I wouldn't go there. If I needed high level HTTP access I'd go with libcurl [0]. If I wanted a HTTP parser I'd consider Joyents http-parser library from nodejs (no dependencies at all) [1]. If I wanted a SPDY library, I'd consider spdylay (used by aria2 I think) [2].

All of these libraries are MIT licensed, well documented, and designed to be very focused libraries with very little feature-creep.

For TLS: PolarSSL has worked for me, but its GPL and tends to break ABI quite a bit [3]

[0] http://curl.haxx.se/

[1] https://github.com/joyent/http-parser

[2] http://tatsuhiro-t.github.io/spdylay/

[3] https://polarssl.org/
M-/ in Emacs will autocomplete it without enumeration/selecting/whatever
No 'Cohabitation' For Alabama State's First Female President
Haha, you are certifiably insane. When I do a job, I expect not to pay much attention to my setup. I want to spend max 2 days to setup my environment then never touch it again.
Oculus Best Practices
Aren't those cool? (the STM discovery boards) I got one of the original butterfly boards ($15 from Digikey) and then one of the DISCO boards (the one with the LCD) at ARM TechCon. I then started a Google+ "community" (Cortex M Developers) and started using (and trying to improve in small ways) libopencm3 (see it on Github http://github.com/libopencm3/libopencm3). Lots of folks are using these boards, they are pretty awesome.
Things that don't work: rent control, historical preservation restrictions, burdensome light air and view restrictions.

Things that do work: letting rich people move in, letting developers build what they want, and using that massive tax base to build high-quality public transit.
I'll see if they will let me set one up there.
Why vesting is important for founder equity
> Those shiny shallow keyboards cause RSI.

[citation needed]

Linked post is quite weak on evidence and is mostly filled with "I think so"-s.
> greater social mobility for low income families (expensive areas also tend to have good schools)

This is an argument for subsidizing housing out in Santa Clara county. None of the public schools in San Francisco are particularly great.
I find it impossible to find freelance work when everyone thinks that it's like building a chair, except the chair sometimes turn into tables and it's still called a chair, and refuse to pay for a table because it's still a chair in their mind.

Few options remain for folks like me except to build our own SaaS products or software and hope it pays rent.
Predicting the existence of a giant rock wouldn't be sufficient. The theory would also have to predict the tides based on the assumption of a giant rock.

In the article's case, only the rock is being predicted but the link to the tides is not established (except that the former somehow causes the latter).
Everpix failed to achieve basic unit economics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678135

It's a nice story and all to say that they failed even though they were successful. But that's not the truth. They failed as a business, and thus their business wasn't funded further.

When you can't cover your COGS as an Internet company, your business model is what sucks, not the funding environment.
This just in: young PR guy for for business lobby group thinks business is awesome.
When I lived in Barcelona there were some low-traffic platforms shorter than the trains that went through them. I think the cars at the end of the train had big warning signs that they wouldn't open at station [X].
I have a Lenovo T420 the last of laptops whose keyboard was fair and free erm where was I yes? so the last laptop with a decent keyboard. However, someone reports http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=104797#p7197... a T410 transplant into a T430 I wonder whether such a feat is possible into the T440p...
I was just interviewed for a front end position with a guy who didn't even graduate high school. He was tattooed like a felon but works at one of the top startup in the 'area'. He's a really smart guy with a few really high rated github repos. He's probably pulling 120k which is worth 140k out here compared to SF. So, I would say that he is doing pretty damn good considering he doesn't have any 30k+ loans to pay back.
What's Inside This House On Wade Avenue?
The brain can process images seen for just 13 milliseconds
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought Netflix already did this with their DVDs. They would see that certain DVDs were near the top of the queue in certain areas and move the DVDs closer. Works especially well with more rare items.
What he said is true. Heck, it might have even prevented people from (re-)electing Obama if more people realized this. I have no idea what your problem is.
No he hasn't, you are completely misrepresenting his argument.

He has been arguing for strong AI, but against it being a UTM, on the claim of there being problems that humans can solve that are provably non-computable.

He may be wrong, but not because he thinks conciousness is magic. I have read a fair amount of his work and he explicitly disavows such a view.
No. The reason is that 340 was revenue, and COGS was higher than 340.

A 340k per year profit machine is easily worth a few million.

Revenue != profit.
The basic idea is pretty simple. If Σa_i is conditionally convergent — that is, Σa_i converges but Σ|a_i| does not — then there are an infinite number of both positive and negative a_i. See [1] below for a hint on how to prove this; it's straightforward.

Given that, let's say we want to rearrange the a_i in Σa_i to converge to some arbitrary real number M. Take all the positive a_i in order and call that set A_+ and take all the negative a_i in order and call that set A_-. From [1] we know that both A_+ and A_- have an infinite number of elements.

You then construct a new series like so. Take the fewest elements from A_+ (in the order they appear in the original series) such that their sum is greater than M. Next, add to that sum the fewest number of elements from A_- (also in order) such that this new sum is smaller than M. Go back to taking elements from A_+ until you're just larger M and then back to taking elements from A_- until you're just under M. Repeat this ping-pong maneuver ad infinitum to construct a new series.

You can prove that this new series converges (conditionally) to M.

[1]: Here's a hint. What can we say about Σ|a_i| if we know that Σa_i converges but has only a finite number of negative terms?
"So Amazon says it may box and ship products it expects customers in a specific area will want – based on previous orders and other factors — but haven’t yet ordered. According to the patent, the packages could wait at the shippers’ hubs or on trucks until an order arrives."

Here's an idea. Pre-ship merchandise to local independent retail locations, waive the shipping fee but let the retailer mark it up a bit, and offer in-store pickup.

It's a proven business model, since that's how people bought stuff before catalogs and the internet.
So if you ship something you thought I was going to buy but don't, do I still have to pay for it when it arrives? Because I'm fucking keeping it.
My question is, in 2016, will the bar be even higher? Maybe angel investors will expect a working product, reasonable traction, and product/market fit all before they put in the first $1M?

Try 2013/14.

Just as an example using our company, we have a well rounded team with experience in the industry, working beta (nothing scalable), letters of intent from large industry players and several beta users. Every Angel I have talked to says they can't invest (even low 6 figures) without significant traction, on the order of thousands of monthly paying customers.

By that time I won't need their money.

The problem is, for leading edge technology and people with families working part time its that extra layer of difficult to move quickly with iterations and improvements, so that slows our entire dev cycle down SIGNIFICANTLY.

I have spoken to others in our region (D.C.) who say the same thing, so its not unique.
I'm curious how Brooklyn dealt/deals with the issue of crime and public safety. I lived in West Oakland for while, and this seems to be the general region where a 'Brooklyn' type of spot is trying to emerge. BART station is right there, and it's close to the bridge for all-night bus lines and bikers too. But it's just such a friggin dangerous place to be (at any hour of the day or night) that I wonder if it's even possible.
Sorry, I should have elaborated. Flammability popped into my mind because of the need to list the flammability ratings of the materials in a design when going through regulatory testing and certification (UL, CE, etc).
Heck yes, I've been looking for something exactly like this. I hate the Qt client, and the others I've played with aren't much better, but this is perfect :)

EDIT: Dumb question, running Mint 16 here, installed the nodejs package through apt, but termcoin looks for "node", not "nodejs". I copied the symlink as "node" and am just installing the npm modules now, but whats up with that?
I've tried out a little development on a Nitrous box using Vim myself. It seems like it would be possible to be pretty productive in it, if you were really good with Vim and all of the command-line tools. I managed to get some things done, but working with Vim just seemed to put so much friction into things. I try to keep working with Vim enough to get more comfortable/productive in just that, but it seems like a pretty long road.

I tried it out on a VM chromeOS when I was thinking about getting a Chromebook Pixel, but I ended up going with a Macbook instead - seems like more features for the same amount of money.
I say spend some time trying to re-create it. Maybe some activity within Spotify itself triggered the email.
I found the following page in the Concatenative wiki particularly interesting: http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Exotic%20Data%20Structure... (Note that the page itself is not related to the concatenative languages.)
Deciding Whether to Leave Google/Apple/Facebook? Question to Ask to Yourself