skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my opinion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8185142

In some cases LP won't provide a benefit over commenting. But the idea is that you step outside of the rules of the language (or more appropriately the interpreter/compiler) and write a story where the order is defined by the ease of explanation, not the order mandated by the machine.
Facebook (and probably many other companies) maintain an IC (individual contributor) track that doesn't entail becoming a manager or becoming some sort of architecture astronaut.

There are a few flavours of seniority for ICs - deep domain expertise, deep skill set, high productivity, high flexibility, able to design and communicate and drive large-scale changes, mentorship, and non-technical organisational leadership like running a training programme, improving hiring, and so forth.
Can you proxy the searches through something like tor?
Is ActiveSheets actually available somewhere? Probably my #1 complaint about CS papers in general is that they present something interesting and fancy that you usually can't get your hands on.

Did you investigate using LibreOffice Calc instead of Excel?
I hadn't heard of this project before. Thanks for the link and the heads up.
I have used Ionic in the past. It is terribly slow and glitchy on Android. (It was ok on iOS.)
This is one of the most remarkable companies I've ever heard of. And I read about all sorts of remarkable companies here on HN.

I don't know how legit they really are, but the article sure got my attention!
>If the company can prove that the shifts were assigned using an algorithm and not by a person, they have a good chance of winning their case

This is wrong. An action can be ruled discriminatory even if the intent wasn't such. Though if it is considered "vital" to the survival of the business there can be exceptions.

But honestly, companies with only white collar workers face downtime too, but the employees still get paid
theaigames.com has a risk-like game (with fog of war) and a poker competiton.
Become a professor at a university and research. You wont feel constraints and also share your knowledge with students who are about to start their career. Guide them and together make something meaningful.
If you already have an Android phone, I guess the RedPhone app is the most convenient and cheap way to make encrypted voice calls.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...
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I created an account but couldn't log in.
As I've had the same happen before, I tried using only the first 32 characters of my password when logging in. That worked.

Remember kids: Most software development isn't about puzzle solving and algorithms, it's about making stuff like forms work properly.

Of course the puzzles and algorithms are fun, which is why I'm signing up for PE again!
It will lead to feature parity with Mongodb.
But with more data, publicly visible, it is easier to put pressure on politicians and get things changed. There is no other way I know of.
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> Apple's customer support number from 20 years ago (which is now a phone-sex line),

no, 800-SOS-APPL is still Apple's old support line. You are dialing S-zero-S, which has always been a phone sex line.
I know that with the recent student protests here in the UK, there was a law firm providing legal assistance for the protesters whose number was quite widely advertised. It's not that naive.
It has been a while since I blogged. But if someone of your caliber asks ...
Studying another language, especially a radically disparate one, reveals nuances in your native tongue that are hard to come upon otherwise. If you accept even a weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, then it's desirable to be aware of these nuances, as they may color your understanding of the world.

As far as the sciences are concerned, seeing alternate ways to encode information into language is extremely useful for people working in knowledge representation, ontology building, etc.

EDIT: I would also say that ""it gives us different ways of thinking" is all the justification needed for language preservation. That sounds pretty valuable to me.
What you implied in your post was that this was something that happened regularly; it was not. Furthermore, read the name of the chapter of the Hadith you cited, the goal of citing this Hadith is to denote prayer times.

By the way, don't be surprised at the existence of green in Arabia. There is an authentic Hadith (in Muslim's collection) that states that the Hour shall not come until Arabia returns into being rivers and meadows.

Lastly, the Companions of the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) are called that, not "pals".

Edit: user nuhar linked to the Hadith I was recalling: http://sunnah.com/muslim/12/76
Your money is a microscopic magnetic domain of bits on a hard drive on a computer in a bank somewhere. If you acquire twice as much, you didn't even get a new bit, because you prolly already had at least 32 allocated, if not more, just one of them flipped its spin orientation to represent a "1". It's pretty stupid.

Money is an addiction, like a high score for the world's oldest, most fucked up MMO called "capitalism". This MMO has been patched so heavily that it's totally unmaintainable, incomprehensible spaghetti code. The gameplay is wretchedly paced, totally unbalanced, and unfair due to the ridiculously silly positive feedback loops strewn everywhere. It rewards people lavishly for bullshit work that doesn't really benefit our species much less the species we're busy exterminating through neglect. It really needs a total rewrite from the ground up, but that's called "revolution", and it's generally bloody and awful and no fun.

So the fix is to stop playing the game. Ween yourself off money. You don't need much of it to get by. The lower you get your burn rate, you'll find the happier you get. Bills put a lot of subconscious burden on you.

And do something deeply satisfying. Cloud computing infrastructure isn't that for you anymore. Move onto something that resonates deeply. Get into the import/export business and take what you've learned to an entirely new field. Which field to pick? Try something you dreamed of doing as a kid. You were more honest with yourself as a kid.
"It remained unsaid, of course, that this “paper” had often been purchased for as little as one penny on the dollar, and there was no mention of the fact that many of the debts that Wilson specialized in were too old to appear on a credit report or to be sued for in court. Most negative information disappears from credit reports after seven years and, depending on state law, debts may be unrecoverable through a lawsuit after as little as three years."
A bank also has a lot more law enforcement to through at this problem.
Tucson is really nice in a lot of ways, it doesn't have walkability though which is one of the main components used in the analysis. If it's just a proxy for a certain type of city culturally (as I suspect it is) then in some ways Tuscon could fit the bill reasonable well with much better weather. SF has pretty great weather if you're comparing it to the East Coast, too bad the affordability data is clearly stale.
Technology could be used to solve the problems that it's causing. E.g. better utilization of existing resources (self-driving cars), alternative sources of energy, and perhaps even space colonization.
Sorry but businesses getting to vote based on the number of workers they have sounds insane and totally undemocratic.

There is a tendency on the internet to downplay the significance of democratic principles and to consider them as quaint, liberal or at odds with libertarianism. Worrying imo.
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Would you like to become an Angel Investor? I have been working on my startup for about six months. There is a chance I may need a little more runway next month. It is a PaaS built around Docker containers. You can email me at ithkuil@gmail.com.
This is a very nice idea. Thank you! I am currently using spaced repetition to improve my German vocabulary. Using this to remember APIs and technical documentation is a great idea!

While there are a number of comments questioning the utility of doing so and comparing it to having notes in a file, the fact that this is stored in my memory reduces latency when thinking or writing code. I no longer have to look things up which really improves my flow. I see the difference whenever I work with an API I already know and one I'm relatively new to.

I find that when I have more information in my local storage (memory), I can make more creative associations among the data and come up with better solutions to problems.
Well beyond awesome. Thanks for sharing!
When I was in similar situation my solution was: 1) travel, 2) opensource, 3) meditation.

So I would suggest you to leave your zone of comfort, learn how your mind and body works and use them properly and give more attention to details of your life, turn off autopilot mode.
جزاكم الله خيراً
You can make a website and then an app which is just a wrapper around the website.
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You can get publicly funded counsel only if you are poor enough and unable to afford own lawyer. And public defenders tend to be overworked and underfunded, so it is not like they will give you too much personal attention.
The hidden danger of HTML frameworks
ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT
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There is enormous energy "embodied" in uranium, too. If (when?) the time comes that we can no longer sustain our economies on fossil fuels, we will increasingly turn to nuclear power, which should last us for several more generations.

I'm not promoting this; I'm just predicting it. The sustainability of fossil fuels will be reflected in prices. More demand, political restrictions, and fewer new discoveries: prices go up; conservation, carbon sequestration/removal tech, and growing efficiencies supplemented by new sources such as fracked gas: prices relax. At some point (you say "very near", I say no one knows), hydrocarbon prices will go so high that the developed world will either have to voluntarily undevelop (not going to happen politically) or pay what it costs to solve some nuke problems and live with others, and we will continue to grow our use of energy.

The spread of robotics will proceed apace.
Title feels like a pretty obvious attempt to suggest that Basecamp is insecure. Along with this clear attempt at scaremongering:

Can't overestimate this stuff in times like these...

And I'm sure that GoSi -- created within an hour of your post -- is nothing more than just a big fan of your work who had actually been planning to join HN for a while now:

after trying a million PM tools, it's the only one my company uses besides Basecamp (which I personally hate).
Eo: Yet another C object model
Ask HN: Review my startup – standupmail.com
We're passionate about building great software products and never really found a good strategy to eliminate information asymmetry within the product team which leads to misunderstandings, inefficiencies and bad decisions. To fix this problem, we came up with the concept of StandupMail - a tool which continuously keeps our team up-to-date while pushing for discipline in using it.

The concept is pretty simple: Every night we send your team a reminder email asking to reflect on the current day's accomplishments. All team members reply to this email by listing tasks done, upcoming tasks and bottlenecks. We automatically compile the replies into an email digest which we sent around to the team the next morning, so everyone starts the day with a complete wrap-up of the project's current status. Some more benefits you find on the landing page: http://standupmail.com

We had some good feedback on a HN thread yesterday which moved away too fast. So, we hope to get the discussion started again by asking you directly.

We'd love to hear your feedback on the concept and to which extend you're sharing the problem we're trying to solve.
> are not connected to the original debtor in any way, who did not receive and will not receive a red cent

that explains why many years ago some collector hung up on me when I kept on explaining to them that I had lost the bills and if they could resend... they couldn't do that.
Sweet! I've been using it to see photos of food at different restaurants.

A great use might be checking out an event to see what's going on before you go.
...who defines what...

Exactly. That's the whole problem with the sweeping statements here. It's good we have different cities with different styles and sensibilities. And it's usually silly to say one is "best."
The analogy is itself a fallacy. The jobs that were displaced were not those of horses, but of horse breeders, trainers, keepers and drivers. The horses in this story were not the laborers but the tools. Those people, unlike horses, could retrain to do a different kind of job which was in-demand. Horse traders could become car salesmen. Horse drivers could become car drivers. The replacement of horses by cars led to an increase in jobs, not a decrease.
Frankly, I think what it'll take is more riots.
There are some very serious privacy concerns that need to be addressed with this plugin
Let's fund em.
Even if you calculated as embodied energy instead of just looking at the energy spent directly on a task? Because a large part of the "inefficiency" of living creatures is physical maintenance of the body. If that is included for machines as well, I'm not so sure if they're better off. For now, of course - as soon as we realise energy is a real constraint, we'll surely start optimising for it.

The third link I posted references Geoffrey West who has an interesting high-level physics approach to this issue, but it doesn't really do justice to his points. But I figured posting this 40 minute one, which is much more comprehensive, would be a bit much to ask:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc

(also has a lot more phycisist's arrogance in the form of cursing, which I find entertaining myself)

Actually, given that city energy spending also grows sublinearly, robot and AI networks probably would as well. So that argument likely won't hold against it.
Rivers and Tides, a documentary on the amazing Andy Goldsworthy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQiHfgFnY_A
I have never tried the sabbatical but would advice for the same kind of approach. Big breaks lets you rest and think without noise, that let's you step back, and see the big picture of what you want your life to be.

I would also recommend this avoiding of network communication, they are far from essential and the source of a non negligible stress.
Good points - and note that I wasn't saying robotics and AIs were not going to happen, just that it will have some added plot twists - but I would argue that this is not true:

> (you say "very near", I say no one knows)

Given that our energy spending grows exponentially, it's certainly going be sooner than later.
Had he been doing that, he'd probably have had a more defendable case. In reality, it's patently clear that he sprayed them with roundup to find the roundup resistant wheat that he strongly suspected was present in his field to avoid having to purchase the product.
>I doubt it.

Well what else are we going to do with the millions of people that will literally become unemployable due to automation?
Unsurprisingly, it tells me Vancouver, WA is pretty good for me. I'm still not sure where exactly in WA is best (Seattle/Bellevue/etc. would be the default choice, Vancouver is appealing, and there is some interest due to other non-tech activities in central WA), but WA seems pretty ideal overall.
Yes, "robot" isn't the point. "Non-human" is the point. Non-humans replacing humans probably began with animal domestication technology and has accelerated dramatically since then. Once a non-human replaces a human, the switch tends to be permanent, so all human jobs will eventually be replaced unless technology stops progressing (only if there's a global holocaust) or if humans can forever invent new jobs (that humans do better than non-humans) at a rate that matches the takeover of old jobs by non-humans.

Since the takeover is apparently accelerating, humans aren't significantly improving, and non-humans are, it's going to be a difficult race.
Telling from the number of recent implementations, Literate Programming enjoys a bigger following than I had expected. Here is my implementation of a similar tool in OCaml: https://github.com/lindig/lipsum. I have some projects using it on GitHub like https://github.com/lindig/ocaml-hyphenate, which implements Knuth's algorithm for hyphenation. The README is basically the literate program of the project.

Question for the author: Are the spaces around `<<`, `>>`, and `>>=` mandatory?
There is a non-about:config process to choose the PDF viewing method. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-...
I concur. I was in a similar situation at the beginning of the year. Started a new company with a couple friends, and it's rekindled my passion for programming and forced me to grow not only as a developer, but in numerous other areas as well.

The challenges associated with starting a new company will be varied and entertaining, drag you outside of your comfort zone and demand the most of you.

Build something cool. Build value for yourself and others. Find other people that believe in you and want to work with you. Very little is more exciting or rewarding.
Completely disagree. More data is needed about police abuse. If every single person in US starts believing strongly that police abuse has gone out of control, and if politicians can't pretend it doesn't exist anymore, then something will be done about it.

Otherwise, everyone will keep pretending there are just "some bad apples" here and there, and it's not actually a systemic problem.
Well, it's a single place where recruiters can go to find all the relevant information about me, I direct them there from my website etc. I also participate in a few relevant industry groups which has garnered some attention to my work.

I suppose because everything I do on linkedin is connected in the way that social networks connect everything together it has helped raise my web profile higher than just having my website would.

It also means I can use my website as a sales pitch, funnelling interested parties off to LinkedIn if they require more details about my professional history.

I have also had several interviews with companies and a job offer because of LinkedIn, although none of the opportunities were actually quite right for me.

So same answer as bastijn really, I think it offers some benefit, because its there and everyone seems to be on it.
Vallejo is commute-to-SF, although fairly extreme, and pretty horrible for commute-to-Peninsula.

In my experience, there isn't a whole lot in town itself; it's gone through a period of bankruptcy and sketciness, although not as dangerous as some other towns like Richmond, CA.
Throwing in my personal goto reference on gradient descent : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake-papers/painless-conjugate-gradi... "An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain" - Jonathan Richard Shewchuk.
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I switched from programming, where I didn't care about the domain (business), to bioinformatics, which has an inherently interesting domain to me (biology research). I have a deeper sense of purpose now.

Find a domain that interests you, is a greater goal of mankind (maybe your malaise is not being part of a 'greater good') and needs people good at solving problems with computers.

Try and build the better world you want to see when you're an old man. Want to see less people die on the roads? Maybe work on self driving cars. Or clean energy, or robots to do dangerous jobs. Or analyze data to improve aid efficiency, or health services, etc etc.

Find a big problem that is interesting and going to grow.

Learn in your own time. Grow your skills.

Step sideways into a slightly different role as the field expands and your skills are needed.
Hi, Ben.

I think this is an interesting concept, if executed well. It would be nice to see a sample of one of the summary e-mails that gets sent out the next day (without that, a lot is left to the imagination).

What I'd like to imagine is a system where you reply to the "wrap-up request" e-mail with one event per line, and a dead simple format for processing (server-side) what those events mean. For example, a line starting with a '+' is an item being worked on, one starting with a '-' is a completed item, a '?' is an issue or question for the team, and a '#' is a comment.

Then, on the server side, you categorize all of these events and automatically plug them into a calendar with times and a link to an auto-generated profile for the event poster (the one who replied to the e-mail) showing their entire event history.

The summary e-mail that gets sent out the following day, then, would be broken up into the four aforementioned categories (Questions/Issues, Comments, Completions, and New Work).

Anything in that general area would make for a swell product, I believe :)

Also, a couple minor points: You should increase the lightness of the grey foreground elements on your website (they'll be difficult for some people to see as is, due to low contrast). Also, if you lose the drop shadows on the foreground elements that have them (e.g., the cursor), you'll have a cleaner looking design.

Hope this helps!
One of the reasons why this talk is so impressive is that the interviewer is also 'supernaturally smart' - every question is on point, and one can see how much the interviewer's understanding of Bitcoin evolves during the course of an hour. Superb interview.
Also I would recommend amazing post http://spikejapan.wordpress.com/spike-hokkaido-2/yubari-from...
Paranoia. Otherwise I can't explain paying $19,000,000,000 for a messaging app either.
And that bunch of connections will still care about you (if they ever did) when you lived far away for years?
A counter-argument: if you already love your blogging platform, you're probably not in OP's target market anyway.

However, if you agree with the headline, you're definitely in the market for what Blot provides.
Very cool - I'm working on a related project: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g...

I'll put up a blog post soon on this!
Yes, but they get child care, schools, university, healthcare, social security that actually works and a few other things for those taxes.

Also, New Yorkers making >$400k are paying 52% (39% federal + 13% state), and those making just $100K are already paying over 40%. Californians are in a similar positions, although some states are cheaper to live in.

Yes, Europeans pay more in taxes, but they get more in taxes. If anyone is fleeced, it's actually the americans - the government is going into larger and larger debt, and at some point, the people will have to pay one way or another.
All great feedback! Thanks for taking the time!
Here's my formula for D/M/Y where Y=YYYY=CCFS

(CC=century digits F=First S=Second digit of the last two digits in year)

Note:Only for Gregorian calendar.

Formula=
{D
+Table(M) -1 IF month=1or2&leap_year
+Table(CCmod4)
+Table(F)
+Table(S +2 IF F is odd)
} mod7

Tables are:

Month {033614625035} or Jan=0 Feb=3 Mar=3 Apr=6 etc.

Century {6420} or 16xx=6 17xx=4 18xx=2 19xx=0 20xx=6 etc.

TableFirst memorize {0340145025} or {00,13,24,30,41,54,65,71,82,95}

TableSecond memorize {012356013456} or {00,11,22,33,45,56,60,71,83,94,105,116}

FormulaResultTable:1=Monday...6=Saturday 0=Sunday

Example: 16 August 2014 = (16+2+6+3+0)mod7=6=Saturday

In this method,I find slight advantage over "odd+11 method" because
my method does not involve two digit arithmetric (and memorizing running total if you're not calculating FS first),although learning tables take some time.
No, I'm pretty sure it's the language. Coming from Python, Go's tiny and sparse standard library is one of the things I don't like about it :P