skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the first 2 letters of a proliant serial number indicate where they are manufactured. I've seen CN, US, MX, and SG serial number prefixes.
> Julia will lack enough libraries, especially on the unscientific part (GUI, databases, network, all the other stuff you need).

Yes, but this is rapidly improving. Julia has Gtk bindings that have seen a lot of improvement over the past two months. There are ODBC and SQLite interfaces, a MySQL interface is in progress, and probably others.

Julia has the advantage that you can write fast bindings in pure Julia, which alleviates the extra cognitive and tooling overhead of writing extensions in C.

Building a language ecosystem is a bit of a ponzi scheme - but it has real potential for a great payoff at the end!
Wikipedia has the e as mute in Venetian but not in Italian...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice
All Microsofts' interns got surface pros as gifts, I see them in all my CS classes.
No, I'm not kidding, I was simply pointing out that there are other incentives besides financial. I never said intellectual curiosity would pay the bills just that I felt claiming 0 incentive wasn't completely correct. Something along the line of no financial incentive, or greatly reduced financial incentive is better.
Sorry, should have been more explicit: For most of Planscope's history, I captured credit card upfront. Growth was decent, but I wanted to see what would happen if I dropped that requirement. So I did, and growth plummeted (very few signups were converting.) My gut reaction was "REVERT!" (which is where that blog post stemmed from), but after talking with a few people I figured that maybe it's not as simple as just changing how signing up works... maybe I need to tweak a lot of other stuff. So I did, and now that it's been in production for a few months growth has eclipsed the card upfront rate.
For once and for all, markets value companies based on future growth prospects rather than current results. Markets are betting that Google has a better growth prospect vs. Microsoft - which I do not doubt. Similarly is the reason why Twitter is valued at $30B with less than a billion dollar in annual revenue - there is a reason for that and the reason is future growth. You can argue that Twitter or Google may not grow as fast/much as what market is predicting - but that valuation is based on future earnings and NOT present earnings. So you comparing the current balance sheets/income statement to determine market caps is a futile exercise.
I wouldn't say they're common knowledge either. Sure, when ones traveling they may notice their abbreviation, but beyond a glance, it's not of much import to most.
>MSFT has been flat for so long that no one wants to buy it.

What? You call this flat? [1] The dividend payout has gone up, the price has been rising. If you call that a flat and that there is no interest in it, then I am sorry for the following remark: You have no idea about stocks and stock markets!

[1]http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&c...
Are you 'binge working'?
Cold calling can work if you are selling the right thing. But you still have to qualify people ahead of time. If you're selling a domain name, then finding companies that might be interested in buying (like the ones already bidding on the keyword) is a way of qualifying for selling domains.
Show HN: Extension Defender scans your extensions for adware or malicious apps.
Just curious: how would an economy work in you hypothetical world where intellectual property does not exist? Honest question.
Oh! Right. That totally slipped my mind, since I haven't used iOS for a few years now.
You can also use Julia on the Sage Math Cloud. https://cloud.sagemath.com/

They don't have IJulia (yet) though.
If you are doing linear algebra, I agree. Yet linear algebra is not the only thing I want to do with numbers. I think most of the time I do use the elementwise operation, such as:

x = linspace(0,10, 1000)
y = (x<5)*4.0
z = x**2 + y

Of course I can just use matrices and then I have the information at hand that I am doing linear algebra right now:

x = matrix([[3, 0],
[9, 5]])

Out[28]:
matrix([[ 9, 0],
[72, 25]])

x**2 + x

I think this is not too much boilerplate and gives nice semantic information within the sourcecode. However, if you want to perform this with a 2d array object, you can also use its dot method:

In [ 1]: a
Out[ 1]:
array([[ 9, 0],
[72, 25]])

In [ 2]: a.dot(a)
Out[ 2]:
array([[ 81, 0],
[2448, 625]])

In [ 3]: a * a
Out[ 3]:
array([[ 81, 0],
[5184, 625]])

The approach of the matrix object nicely takes into account that operands of a "normal" multiplication `*` commute, so the elementwise multiplication fits the picture here. Wheres matrix multiplication - which is non-associative for most matrices - is performed by a different method.
Do! The improvement over the past ~6 months has been staggering.
The thing is, are there really economical incentives for companies to find cheap and efficient cancer drug?
JRebel and I had a long-distance phone relationship too ... I stopped by their booth at JavaOne and explained in detail why I literally couldn't use their product and they stopped calling - why should they waste their own time. I did however explain that I understood their use-case and would call them back if I ever needed their product.
Finding the chemical is a very small part of the cost. Try setting up animal tests, phase I clinical trial, phase II clinical trial, phase III clinical trial, years of follow up, hiring people to put together documents to get regulatory approval, post market monitoring of the drug, getting information about your drug to physicians...

Let me know how much all those things cost.
Transport infrastructure is one of the issues I'd think would be a no-brainer for support as far as public or even shared private projects go.

Providing transportation to your workers isn't a core function that you want to be working on yourself as a business; it's a problem you'd prefer to externalize or share. And the better the transportation infrastructure of a city functions, the more likely the city in general will be a desirable place for workers to settle.
> But there aren't other ways to fund drug research.

Yes there are; public money and normal sized salaries for scientists doing the public research for the public good. Granting monopolies to private corporations is hardly the only way to achieve things. Scientist's aren't in science for the money, science generally pays shit anyway; they're in it for other reasons.
What BS. There's no such thing as affordable housing - there's only housing you can afford. If you want to live in the Valley and can't afford it - then you can't afford it.
He doesn’t want to sell in that market at the price that the government would fix. If they can charge the same price than in USA then he will be happy to do business there.
Hey! So excited to see what you're doing. I'd appreciate a little more clarity about this point:

> 100% of lender funds go directly to the entrepreneur that you fund ... and borrowers also pay a 5% service fee

Are 'borrowers' not the same as the 'entrepreneurs' that are funding? Is this 5% not paid until after the loan is repent, aka "interest"?
Academia has a spotty track record when it comes to drug development. They don't have the money to put into lots of potential drugs, so they aren't able to test the breadth of targets that a Bayer would be able to. For all of the problems that Pharma has, they have been able to bring a lot of new drugs to market pretty efficiently.
Look, I'll be the first person to express my dismay at tech people throwing money around and essentially saying "fuck you I'm rich" to the rest of the city. However, expecting them to do charity work, give free daycare and fight for civic changes that are almost diametrically opposite to their own needs is completely insane. Why does it have to be the people who work at startups? Why not the bankers? Why not the actual CEO's of these money making startups? How on earth did we decide that the people we should target are the workers at a company that is rich, why not the stockholders or executives? I mean go throw rocks at buildings on Sand Hill Road, not at the people who are just working their first job out of college.
That only recently changed. Pretty sure Google had a lower market cap for many years, like 2008-2011, when the stock price was around $500. (If someone can figure out how to graph the market caps that would be nice)

The market is evaluating future potential. When Google's stock price was around $500, the P/E was pretty darn low, so people didn't think Google had much future potential.

Now due to some forays into new businesses like cell phones and hardware, and PR about stuff like Glass and self-driving cars, the market thinks Google has potential again.

Likewise Apple's P/E dropped below 10 last year, so the market obviously thought they had very little growth potential.
I think you forgot to finish that sentence with "currently in any wider use".

The current system has become a few spots, take a look at the debate about cherry-picking clinical trials to get new drugs approved, requirements for pre-registration and the non-functional oversight of the same ...

Perhaps trying new ways to fund drug research can be a part of revitalizing the system?
How to install FFmpeg on FreeBSD
I have a friend software enginneer in France, came out of the same school as me.

I make 7400$ / month, he makes 2600 euros.

But he has health care paid for, 5 weeks vacations, 35 hour work weeks.
Statistically speaking, yes, you are the only one.
You can't feed a family on good-will and happy thoughts.

Edit: the parent was originally a snarky one-liner "Yes there are"
If you want the actual report, that's here:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/00011931251401...
A suitably joking response for a "study" that didn't need to be taken too seriously (and wasn't taken very seriously by most media outlets, including the one that led a story with it). As we discussed yesterday here on Hacker News[1], the study methodology was not sufficiently validated to convince most people that Facebook will massively lose users, even if all the data were correct. More likely, the study's model was just flat wrong.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7104904
This generation, the xbox one hardware is being sold for profit. I think the ps4 as well, although with much slimmer margins.
I did just that. Although I bought a pre-owned console.
Whenever a woman is criticized in a remotely harsh tone, you will find men who instinctively rush to her aid. Men who will pat her on the head, compliment her, and apologize on behalf of everyone.

Don't blame women for this phenomenon (and I'm not saying you are); blame those men who view women as fragile children in need of protection.
May be it's only me but back when I used to work in Seattle, if I found someone with a windows mobile/surface the first thing I brought up to start a conversation was, How are things at Microsoft ? Like it up there and I was only wrong one instead of ~ 15-20 times I brought this up.

But the strong sales numbers almost every quarter seems to suggest otherwise. Good going MS.
The War on Terror is an irrational response. The attacks presented an existential threat to the country only so far as we overreacted to the threats. Even if we assume that invasions of countries were a justified and rational response, we still invaded the wrong countries. The fear of terrorism was itself irrational, 4k people is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things, but humans are awful at evaluating risk.
Based on your comments of Cowboys, you have obviously never rode hard put up wet.
NASA: 2 places on Mars could have been habitable
Do you mind elaborating a bit more in-depth on Android vs. WP?
1. I'm not sure that the premise is true and that people "hate" techies. Outside of a few, small media precincts, does any of this actually exist?

2. To the extent that any of this actually is true, it seems like a failure of voters and public policies to a) allow enough housing to built (http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francis... or Matt Yglesias's The Rent Is Too Damn High) and b) to build better public transportation, which is related to a). To the extent that tech company buses mean anything, they mean that the current system works so poorly that people are routing around it.
Big data: 0. Smart analysis: 1. Snark: 100. :-)
I wish they'd buy:

* Xamarin and polish the debugging, VS integration and Mono in general (maybe replace a lot of it with MS' .NET implementation? I can dream)

* MvvmCross and polish it and put it into the .NET BCL

* JetBrains (or just ReSharper) and give it a once over (performance- and code analysis-wise) and ship it with VS.

* Maybe Digia for Qt to replace MFC (this one's kind of selfish since Qt is used in places Microsoft probably doesn't care for - maybe they could sponsor the Windows side).

> Cheaper than innovating weak product.

Aside from MFC I think Microsoft has fairly solid solutions to a lot of problems (Azure, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, Office, .NET).
I'd imagine it's something like: Don't put complex logic in React Components, put it somewhere else and test it there.
Maybe that's the point. The people protesting have the same preexisting disdain.. so why would they be anymore convinced than schraual?
Tried this, you have to turn your entire Node deal into Backbone. Yuck.
The employees who ride the buses could put up simple signs at the stops: "[X] out of the 300 people who ride this shuttle each day have pledged to volunteer once a month at a city shelter or facility...

This is kind've offensive from the outset, and curiously enough, the paragraph doesn't actually suggest those shuttle riders actually volunteering, or how does an employer entice its employees to volunteer for unrelated stuff in their free time.

Not to mention that it doesn't matter how many of the 300 realistically volunteer, it will always be seen as 'not enough'. 10 out of 300? Embarrassing stat to put up. 260 out of 300? What's wrong with the other 40?

Also, I can't speak for SF, but here in Melbourne I had a friend rejected for volunteer work from several charities because she wasn't skilled. Volunteer work they have in spades for monkeywork. What they needed was management and organisational talents, to organise the volunteers and events, make orders etc
So why does it bother you that there are modes which you don't use? They aren't loaded as default anyway.
Compaq does not exist anymore.
How much drug research is done now? Can you quantify it in dollars or drugs produced?
I come from an Ember.js background and its router / nested layout management is the best I have used. I like react, and have been diving into OM as well in my free time, but I'm not sure of the best way to approach routing / page transitions.

When I start an app, I do not think from the bottom up, which is the react way. I want to start with the login page and redirects, or get the major page transitions down. I'll be interested in seeing how you approach that.
I bought a Surface Pro 2 last week and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. It's a jack of all trades, master of none, but it's already my go-to device for everything.
Hi Jeremy. The articles on your blog are great. I wandered across this one while trying to figure out the best practice for isolating a core to reduce variability when benchmarking CPU intensive tasks. Your tickless explanation helped a lot. Hope you stick around HN. Thanks!
GUI editor? MacVim! GVim!

I find that MacVim is rather nice. It integreates really nicely with the graphical environment.
Went digging through for past articles. This has been a long-running situation. For context, Nexavar was patented in India in 2008 (it's first FDA approval, for advanced liver cancer was granted in 2007, a process started in 2004). According to this article [1] from last year, Bayer was running a program that gave ~70% of Nexavar users a 90% discount from their in India market rate ($5500 USD monthly). The generic maker sells at $176 monthly, and per licensing fees, pays Bayer 6% of net sales.

Also, about the nature of the drug. It's basically a treatment of last resort. The initial study that granted it FDA approval for in advanced liver cancer showed a 3-4 month increase in median survival time compared to placebo (remember, this is with cases that have exhausted other options). Further studies show some greater synergistic effects combined with other treatments. Also, in a study with a smaller population, and slightly different subtype of liver cancer showed an overall median survival time of 26 months (it's unclear to me from reading the abstracts how the baseline conditions of the two trial's patients compare, so it's difficult to directly compare their results).

[1] http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/bayer-to-appea...
> Developing a new drug can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

When R&D budgets are no longer superseded by advertising budgets at pharmaceutical firms[1], I will start to find this line of argument compelling.

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...
I respectfully disagree with the idea that we should simply ignore unpleasantness in the community. A healthy ecosystem is determined by a lot more than mere factual correctness.
One of the top comments on that page is that they loved the tone of article. Personally I hate sarcastic responses (no matter how correct you are), which sound very unprofessional. I hope to see less of these types of responses in the future.
I don't understand the meaning of "Anytime a product completely novel and innovative enters this space, it is extremely difficult to obtain early adopter"

Are they saying they can't get access to patients for clinical trials? Sick people probably wouldn't like being called "early adopters".
Despite many hardcore techies (like us) dismissing the Surface, it's actually quite appealing for certain segments of the casual marketplace. That and the Xbox are probably the main (hardware) sellers.
Also the same company that sued the European Commission over a ban on pesticides that are killing bees.
Animals recognize possession and dispossession, which are simpler than ownership and theft. The basic difference is that ownership is a possessory interest backed by society's willingness to enforce that interest on the owner's behalf, using violence if necessary. This kind of arrangement does not exist in nature. Society creates the distinction between possession and ownership. It does also codify it, but codification isn't the heart of what's different.
Yeah this argument just kills me. I used to live in a $2k apartment across the street from Google SF. My rent got raised to $4300 because they knew Google employees would pay it. Did I go throw rocks at Google buses? No. Did I move to a place I could afford? Yes. The idea that me, as a startup employee making a decent wage can't afford to live there, yet thousands of people who are things like "artists and poets" are upset they can't afford it is absolute madness. The reason housing is expensive is because lots of people desire it, the idea that we should make sure to reserve places for people who can't afford to live there makes no sense at all.
Have you used OneLeap?
> I think you have a very, very optimistic view of humanity.

Indeed, very much so! Having once lost my faith in progressivism, I found myself no longer wedded to the peculiar species of pessimism, regarding humanity and human affairs, which is part and parcel of that strain of political belief, and I further found myself capable for once of considering the possibility that for someone's politics to disagree with mine, however fundamentally, did not necessarily make that person a horrible human being. This discovery came as no small relief to me, in that it brought to swift and successful conclusion what had theretofore been a decade-long and losing battle against an increasingly black and pervasive depression.

> I'm also not sure how you could consume any sort of news for any period of time and still hold on to this belief.

Granted, and that's precisely why for the most part I don't. News that's local enough or big enough to matter in my life, I will hear about soon enough, and that's the only sort of news with which I choose to concern myself; as far as I'm concerned, everything else can go and whistle. What, after all, is the point in flagellating myself with a litany of trumped-up disaster stories regarding matters over which I have no power or influence in any case? Such obsessive behavior does no one any good.

> with all the terrible things that happen every day

Oh? This seems to me a rather lopsided view. What of all the terrible things that don't?
It's not exactly novel.
Opa (http://opalang.org) has been doing this for a few years...
Google Trends Extrapolation: The Nostradamus of our times.
"They can be included in any project that can honour the GPL."

So, no and not a lie. Why should any license dictate what happens to code that was not written by the authors of that code? Why should I pay more honor to GPL code than any other? So, no, much like a relative that drinks all the beer when visiting, the GPL cannot be included except in limited circumstances.
Drug development is not mutually exclusive. If nonprofits and universities could develop drugs so much cheaper why are they not already doing so?
Guessing this is USA? This did not happen for UK based interns , only full time employees received surfaces as gifts over here.
What seems silly? 3% annually in dividents is below inflation level.
Some people on the Wall Street did take it up a bit seriously perhaps going by the price movement today.
Merge lines 9 and 10, so that

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Internet community helps crack grandma's code
Ok. You do realize that each stage of the drug development process is very expensive right? You'll need money for lab mice, clinical trials etc.

How do you suggest intellectual curiosity be fulfilled with no money?

Drug development is fundamentally different from software. There is just no way to do it (either by public or private institutions) without a lot of money.
The potential for a Python 2.8
You don't need a private monopoly on medicine to feed a family, just a good wage from a publicly funded research institute.
Certainly the situation today isn't similar to World War II. But that's not the only sort of situation in which covert intelligence is of value; how better, after all, to know what overt action to take?
Like it or not, their services are pervasive in the enterprise. Office 365 is the future for so many Fortune 500 companies and Sharepoint 2013 is a huge push too.

As much as I wish there was more Unix/Linux at my company, all eggs are in the MS basket for sure.
The solution is to implement everything as SAAS and charge whatever you like.
For me personally it was a book about William Pasteur and his development of the rabies vaccine. That book lit a fire in my mind for molecular biology (though that was not a well known "thing" at the time). To this day I can vividly recall the pictures of the "invisible army" marching through a sick kid's blood vessels. They were drawn as soldiers with bayonets and they stabbed the amorphous black blobby germs. A few years ago I located the book on Amazon. Interesting to see I'm not the only one whose career was influenced by this book: http://amzn.com/0916392066
I've been thinking about that, especially as my son keeps trying to do things that the game doesn't support out of the box.

He set up an "honor system" store where people were expected to asynchronously trade (by dropping) some commodity for some other commodity and got upset at people "stealing".

Either this generation of kids will be the best citizens the world has ever seen, or the worst.