skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest issue that I see with publishing this work in a physics journal is that although time travel is certainly a concept in physics, the research involved here is not physics research.

To clarify, physics papers about time travel are published from time to time. There was a group at the University of South Carolina that had a hobby of doing this.
If the majority of intelligent, educated people make the wrong choice and you want to blame those people:

A) You believe you are smarter than 60% of people with degrees and are accurately capable of predicting supply/demand.

B) You believe an external factor is at fault.

Even I, who have met many people I think are idiots with college degrees, would not presume A.

From your comment, I think you are really trying to sell A. I'm not buying. Particularly:
> People need to be realistic about the implications of their field of study.

If I misunderstood, please explain.
Like some sort of evil plot of misadvertising hobbies as jobs to young people.
"It turns out to be really good for a company to have a board -- it focuses the company if everyone knows they have to present the key metrics to outsiders once a month. ... If I could ask VCs for only one thing in this new world, it’d be to keep showing up for board meetings."

This is very interesting. If ownership percentages at Series A are trending down, and investor time & emotional investment per company is trending down as a result, but having outside accountability predicts success, then I wonder how the best companies will replicate outside accountability.

Put another way: How could you hack a replacement for a board meeting?

I'm a funded entrepreneur without a board. I've tried nominating advisors and/or very-helpful angels as our "pseudo-board" and meeting monthly. This didn't help very much: There's something about having a lot of skin in the game that makes board members really prepare, take it seriously, and summon courage to have hard conversations with CEOs when things aren't working.

The one thing that worked pretty well was bolting a whiteboard over the desk area with this month's single goal (a revenue number, natch) and value so far. I don't have any board experience to compare it to, but it certainly keeps us focused.

Anyone else have ideas that have worked, or might work?
That's fine. I do this full time. Despite it being new, I'm coming at it from a stand point of providing a platform for newer users and apps around it. You would be surprised the demand for industry.

You're right about this which is why I started a company around it.

I've already talked with andrew ng and yoshua bengio. My incentives are different from there's, however, I do have their blessings to continue doing this.

I walked in to this expecting skeptics. That being said, I love deep learning as a field and will be implementing every possible neural net I can. Since my incentives are different, I can explore the different use cases with customers and help further the field in different directions that might not make sense for say baidu, facebook ,or google.

[1] http://www.skymind.io/
He refers to a french "cafiot" coffee ?? I googled it but couldn't find anything. Anyone knows what it is ?
Yes; thanks.
I can't help you on the captioning but in case that doesn't get turned on you might get some value from the notes I took.

http://personalopz.com/blog/startup-school-2014-notes/
It seems like this need would naturally lead to very small camera drones specifically for this purpose. Probably pocket-size and, eventually, inexpensive.

I know that lifting a camera and battery requires a sufficient amount of thrust, but if flight was limited to one minute then it could probably be very small. Wind might be an issue, but flying insects have been around for a while. Engineers will figure it out.

Hopefully the long term regulations would permit such small personal drones with a very limited flight time.
Comparing this "need" with the potential disruption to wildlife makes me lean towards wildlife until we get more legal structure around drone policy ironed out in the non-preserve areas.
I remember seeing some statistical evidence that women in particular are more responsive to ads to 'learn to code' than 'learn to program'[1], which would ring true with my personal experience where I notice I often describe myself as 'learning to code' rather than to program.

[1] But I can't remember where I saw it and googling hasn't helped me to find it... :/
Let's keep the size of the transistor in perspective. The human synapse is on the order of 20 to 40nm in diameter. I have to wonder if we will be able to do that much better than what Nature has already come up with.
The key point is "consciously and happily". Different people have different situations going on in their life. If you're a 23-year old single employee, you might decide that you are willing to work 60 hours a week because you really like your work. If you're a 38-year old married employee with kids, you might decide that you're only willing to work 40 hours a week because you value time with your family. Having a company that realizes that there's a difference between people, and not everybody has the flexibility or willingness to put in 60-hour weeks, that's the key.
That seems ridiculous. They were having us do things like reader rabbit 15 years ago in elementary school. By middle school I was already typing at 80 wpm which unfortunately was faster than the fastest speeds for most of the typing games they were having us do at the times.

Granted I'd imagine this could be a problem with funding for computers in certain areas, but I'd at least expect them to have typing classes early on if they are also expecting you to work with computers in other classes. This is one of those skills that is very beneficial to start on early.

My father types nearly every day and can barely do 20 wpm.
Elsewhere in this thread I've addressed this. I'm not convinced that a mismatch in supply of majors and demand for recent grads of those majors can account for much of the boomerang phenomena. It's far too prevalent among under-30 to be reduced to this.

Also, my use of across the board was probably inappropriate. I agree. I should have said in general instead. There are some fields, primarily STEM and the service industry with high wages and/or good job outlook, but for the other sectors, this is not the case at all.
> Gender and race representation is simply of less concern for less aspirational, lower-paid professions that do not require extensive education or access to technical resources.

This comes off as classist, to me. I have had the impression that promoting equality and diversity in certain professions is partly motivated by a want to make more people feel welcome in the profession. That is, for minorities and such that already work in the profession to have a good work environment.
Driving a bus is not a middle class job. Also politics is not automatable in the nearest future, so could be a wise choice if you have an aptitude.
Flagged by users because it was a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7922183. Thanks!
Opinionated View Of Swift From An iOS Ruby JavaScript Developer
> I actually stopped at the part where you practice numbers (and regret it to this day).

We learned that in typing class, but I never did "get" the number row. Bane of my existence to this day. I mean, mostly hit what I want but it's not thoughtless tapping like the rest of the keyboard. Don't know if it's my dainty little fingers or what the deal is.

> Same blinding snow storm that day!

Nah, probably not the same storm. Blinding snow storms were so common back then, it just seemed like it we shared the same weather pattern. Not like the constantly pleasant weather these kids today grow up with.
Or it might just do the opposite: "Questionable use of wearable cams is causing a surge in accidents" http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/cameras/The-Danger...
I have the opposite problem. I hover around 60 WPM when transcribing or copying, but I often pause mid-sentence or mid-paragraph to gather my thoughts for what to say next (probably more like how to word it correctly) when writing original content.

Maybe it's a lack of discipline or practice and I'd be able to form thoughts more quickly if I were required to, or maybe I can form thoughts quickly but my typing doesn't keep up and I lose track. That said, I do the stop-to-gather-thoughts thing when I speak as well so maybe I'm hopeless.
I agree, I'm a python/django developer in my day job and a ObjC/iOS at home. Both are just a easy to monkey patch as ruby but it's much less used. It's one of the reasons I prefer python to ruby.
> "I can't create a job in the area I am trained/passionate about."

A) Demand

B) Access to Capital

If you can't find an employer, there is likely insufficient demand.

As someone who "created his job" initially, I was badly underpaid for the first 18 months and got sick of dealing with it even once my income grew to a "normal rate".

I think you are looking at this from the perspective of someone who is going to be in the top 50% of a large field and be successful, no matter the economic situation. I think most people aren't in that top 50%.
Could you explain what you mean? Maybe speech recognition has features I don't understand.

Decent text editors can delete and move sentences and paragraphs almost instantly. How is speech recognition different?
Just a concept
The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window
aside from the example in the original article, what sort of questions are these tool used to answer?
I know a few people living with parents to help the parents out in non-financial ways, because the parents' relatively poor health makes it easier for them if someone is around. But that should be a relatively constant factor, so can't really explain a trend.
So much potential in this - a few years ago myself and a bunch of friends were obsessed with ROM hacks for Super Mario World for the SNES; some of them were just really well-designed levels, and some of them were absolute hell, basically requiring the use of an emulator to save states and rewind. It created a completely different feel of game, and the simple and consistent physics of a Mario game was the perfect limitation for weird and strange things to happen.

Here's a video of one of one of the difficult levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teAqRZX4hbY
I think there have been two times in the past 15 years that it's happened. Once in 2000ish after the first tech crash and once again starting in 2008 as the general recession took hold. We haven't recovered from the recession yet, and although corporations are making more money now than [in some cases] ever before, there isn't adequate profit sharing via increased salaries and broader hiring to affect worker sentiment in a meaningfully positive way.

I graduated in 1999 and, after shifting from physics to history mid-way through, I got a temp-to-hire job doing web dev as the bubble was popping. while everything worked out for me, things are not working out for people who've graduated in the past few years. I only paid $2500/semester tuition and, with a 15-25hr/wk side job was able to live happily and graduate with barely any debt, which I repaid in the first year of employment. Many public universities now charge upwards of $15k/yr tuition for in state students -- this is just untenable for the majority of matriculating high school grads given the current job market. When I went to college, my engineer father said "study anything that interests you. You're smart and if you work hard you won't have any trouble finding good work." He was right. Now, when my son is planning and preparing for college, I will very strongly encourage him to pursue an engineering degree with a minor in math, statistics, or economics... unless he's set on a physical science, in which case I'll encourage at least a minor in CS. I don't want my kids to be forced into unskilled work while carrying boatloads of debt, and the way things are going, the only pretty reliable way around that is to have the skills and knowledge to create things (and communicate clearly verbally & in writing).

Like rayiner, I'm pessimistic. Living/working through this and experiencing wage stagnation and utter apathy from employers & government only reinforces it.
From reading his biography it sounded like he experimented with lots of different diets. And it didn't seem like he chose them for any reason other than health.
How can those limited contexts be hardwired without allowing general overloading? What if I want to write a new numeric type?

Seems like you're just talking about operators, not overloading. If << doesn't have a distinct meaning then it shouldn't be used. If it's OK to use << it should be OK to use it both for built-in types and custom types.
Consider that people may go to national parks to experience the quiet majesty of nature[1], an experience that would be disturbed by a quadcopter hovering a few feet away taking a glorified selfie.

Also consider that there are wild animals nearby who are not used to drones. Areas of Yosemite are closed to climbing annually for raptor nesting, for instance.

[1] Yes I recognize that Yosemite Valley might not be the best example of this...
If you're gonna do it, there's no reason not to go big any more. If you get on a debt repayment plan and work for either a nonprofit or the government you only pay 15% of you disposable income toward your debt for ten years. Then it's gone.
Because of:

* documentation hard to dig through for a newcommer

* little tutorials and articles

* small adoption (which is a circular reason, small adoption leads to small adoption)

* difficulty to find programmers to carry on the project if Erlang was chosen (caused by small adoption)

* lack of established universal build tool (rebar is often said to be too Basho-specific)

* lack of package manager/market (think of CPAN, PyPI or rubygems)
Nature really has produced some amazing things, but they are generally not optimal, just good enough.
A portable high-resolution timestamp in C++
Yes! This would open a huge number of possibilities. Simple things like a colour picker, to transitions based on the content of the window would be made possible. I would love to see this happen.
Moved fast and broke the quotation.
>> If a sequence of conventional mathematical operations isn't patentable, then no software should enjoy patent protection.

I agree with the general idea of this piece, and I don't believe that software be patentable (or at least, software should be protected in a very narrow range of cases), but this argument doesn't hold up for me. For a person implementing a complex payroll system or a complicated user interface, the universal underlying mathematics are meaningless. Of all the time spent developing software, algorithm development is a tiny portion, much of which occurs in non-commercial environments anyway. It's comparable to the difference between the laws of physics and mechanical devices that operate as a consequence of those laws.
And if the battery runs out? The drone falls onto some rock climber 1,000 feet below.
Perhaps, but I could take these arguments more seriously if western countries weren't so excited about issuing more visas for tech workers. It's also possible that we have a tech bubble that people are wisely avoiding.
I don't think it's a very scientific approach to recommend that we focus on "drive" and "gumption" or something, rather than systemic analysis, when we want to understand economic behavior. Even sports have more or less given up their previously obsessive focus on "gut" and "clutch" and "will", in the face of sabermetrics.
Try turning your device to portrait mode.
Congrats on the launch. Always like seeing more API tools!
You could have been a perfect hire for early Google :).
Thanks mods for the title change. I wasn't sure how to provide context to a pretty bare-titled page. Anyway, this is exciting stuff.
The problem is that you're interrupting the view and the serenity for others while you take that photo. It doesn't take too many people doing that and all of a sudden, the airspace of the park would be full of drones, spoiling it for everyone, a classic case of a tragedy of the commons.

How frustrating would it be if you couldn't get that nice photo without someone elses drone in it from your flying drone?

I live near the Banff National Park in Canada, and it's a continuous game of tug-of-war for the wardens trying to decide what activities to allow in the park. With no restrictions, the place would quickly be overrun. When the point is to experience the wilderness, you have to be very aware that some activities can very quickly, and with very few people, destroy that experience for everyone.
I bought a Wii U because I have a then-6 year old son and I wanted him to enjoy playing games with me that didn't involve shooting other people full of holes.

My fondest memories of my childhood aren't playing Contra or Street Fighter, but games like Chip N' Dale and Duck Tales.

The Wii U's game category has been much slower than others, but I feel like every single game Nintendo proper releases is pure gold, and there's plenty of 3rd-party games that have seen hundreds of hours of family gameplay (Rayman Legends).

Anyways, I hope this release brings about a new generation of Really Hard Mario levels!
I recently took a trip to Asia where capital is hard to come by and startup valuations are much lower. It seems that if VCs are having trouble finding return, they might be well served by investing in global expertise.

Are the consumer markets so much better in America that it's worth paying 4x valuation and competing with lots of other VCs for deals? The answer may be "yes", but it doesn't seem obvious to me.
In Chrome (for me, on 64bit Linux) it consumes 176MB of RAM -- for all of WebKit + Cairo + FreeType/HarfBuzz/etc -- it's most of an OS right there.

GMail, a webapp email reader, is currently taking 368MB of RAM. Insane!
First and probably most importantly, they may not be able to pursue their career or hobby of choice while living with their parents. As someone who grew up in a small town, I basically had no choice but to leave if I wanted to do something that I'd enjoy with my life. My parents, on the other hand, have careers that allow them to live very comfortably in more rural areas but wouldn't be paid commensurately in a big city, so it just wouldn't make economic sense for them to try to come along with me.

Second, moving out gives you an opportunity to see more of the world. Visiting a place is not the same as living there and will never give you the same depth of appreciation.

It's also a hell of a lot easier to socialize with your own age group and demographic in London or any other major city than it is in a more remote or suburban neighborhood city.

What I personally think should be more common might be the reverse of what you're proposing. If I could afford it, I'd get a bigger house and let my parents move in with me when they retire (if they wanted). This means they'd also be able to sell their current home and pocket the profit (or invest it), easing their retirement.
Who needs a board when you've got a whiteboard!
Obviously the most important is how well one writes, not the speed.

But 12 wpm is basically a real handicap -- it is below reasonable speed. Consider that a short essay is maybe 10 pages, and needs a minimum of three drafts... that's 25 pages or so. 8-12 hours of just typing for 10 pages?

I'd say 30 wpm is a reasonable low-bar average.
I don't think it makes a difference whether or not you want to be a troll when you're writing troll comments.
Seems to be 1 Gb/s. At least, I am able to reach 90~100 MB/s from my home connection to my $20 droplet in AMS2 regardless of the time of day.
Stephen Colbert on 'Yo' app
If your Mac Spotlight won't work
Type this

killall -KILL Dock
Verizon probably thinks it's a good idea. Their banner ad dominates the layout.
We decided not to pursue subsequent rounds of funding beyond a seed. I'm also hearing about deals with quite cheap capital (high valuations, favorable terms) flowing to companies near us.

For SaaS it seems you can get deals with valuations at 10x revenue and YC Companies in SaaS are getting a premium even on that.

Cheap money can help you weather a storm and smooth over mistakes, but it also increases your risks as a business and reduces the "successful" outcomes you can have.

At the end of the day if your goal is to build a sustainable business, cheap money can't guarantee that.
Pretty fun game!

I had one issue though. I managed to type 129wpm in one round (I normally type around 105-110, this particular paragraph was easy). It told me to be allowed to use this score I had to prove I could type 117wpm on an obfuscated (think captcha) document. I was not able to do that. It's a good idea, in theory. Maybe if I'd tried a few more times I could have gotten it up there.
Deploying OpenStack to just two machines
put a string on it and call it a kite.

now if the unmanned air craft were silent and didn't spook wildlife I could see not have a restriction
Why must you do that? And why you don't have to do that for environments of modern llanguags?
Very nice game.

One problem for me is that by default the comments from other users are shown, sometimes with the solution for the level.
Missing word

We’re more and more A rounds happen with less than 20%
ownership going to the investors, and fewer and fewer
requirements about investor control over the company.

-> We're seeing more and more
This response makes me think we should bar helicopters rather than allow drones.
A coincidence that sama has published this the same week that a single-feature app like Yo! announced that it raised $1m...?
Thanks. Also worth noting that it contains essays on wine and tobacco.
> I would find it incredibly hard to believe that sexual maturity has anything to do with an interest in STEM.

When you put it like that it sounds kind of strenuous, sure. Just like it sounds weird in isolation to say that being sexually maturing is often connected with irritability and rebellion and defiance against parental and authority figures, if it were not for the fact that this is an incredibly common phenomenon. Kids tend to change a lot as they approach their teen years - their body, behaviour and personality, not just their sexuality.

It doesn't have to be purely or directly about puberty - maybe it has to do with the teenage tendency of seeking acceptance and approval with certain groups, and I don't imagine that programming has enough mind-share with teenage girls to give much "cred" compared to other activities.
Arrested Development reference -- 07734 => hello => Annyong
How much of this is pseudo science?
this is pretty cool but network requests and javascript support would make it even more crazier.

I viewed the html source for this page and pasted it. I was quite impressed. It looks like this is supposed to be a browser engine written in Javascript?

So essentially we would have a sandbox browser within a browser? That would be awesome.
You might also be interested in these efforts to get video playing on the Sega Genesis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPe452cegU) and the TI-84 graphing calculator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAeWf3NPNU)
Keyword: transfer

I'm disagreeing about their being a transfer of power at this stage. There is no power transfer.

The basic power blocks already existed in their current form, were the primary source of money for politicians, etc. since the 1980s [at the latest].

Transfer implies they are taking power away from people. They aren't. They are merely utilizing the power they already have to tighten their hold on it to make it harder to transfer power away from them.

I don't think this is even truly a new phenomena. It is just with Globalization, Internet, etc. the power blocks are so large that they span the entire world rather than just a single country.
I was about to post the same thing. for a site focused on design they did a pretty crappy job on the mobile end.