skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not worked at the scale discussed by Joseph Wilk, but I am pleased so far with my ability to build out micro-services with Clojure. The eco-system around Clojure seems to get stronger every day. I'll mention a few of the libraries that I'm using.

For building out a RESTful API, I found Liberator to be very clever and original:

http://clojure-liberator.github.io/liberator/

For handling internal queues, I use Lamina:

https://github.com/ztellman/lamina

For instance, when saving something to the database, I usually put the data in a closure, put the closure in a Lamina "channel" and let some workers execute the closure when the thread-pool and IO constraints allow.

I just started experimenting with the Ribol conditional restart system, for error handling:

http://docs.caudate.me/ribol/

For the integration of frontend with backend (MongoDB) we were originally going to use DerbyJS, but I talked the team into trying Sente instead:

https://github.com/ptaoussanis/sente

We are not done, so the jury is still out, but I am very impressed, so far, with Sente.

For dealing with MongoDB, we use Monger, a library that just keeps getting better and better:

http://clojuremongodb.info/

In terms of my personal development, I have struggled to find a workflow that allows me to be efficient at the REPL. I am just now starting to use Daniel Szmulewicz "system" which I am hopeful about:

https://github.com/danielsz/system
yeah exactly MS gave up in silverlight however they will continue to provide security fixes for it probably for the next decade
So, the big news here is that pharmaceutical researchers (researching small molecule drugs like THC) are largely funded by companies who earn their money from a large number of small molecule drugs. Vice doesn't actually compare pro-legalizing and anti-legalizing scientists.

I'll also get on the record that I would not recommend using THC containing products for pain relief without medical supervision or advice.

Don't get me wrong: funding bias is a problem, but it gets overstated. The scientific process has to deal with much worse problems, like personal egos, evil publishing, malstructured career mechanics and outright fraud. Still, "paying for the right results" is a lot harder than it is often taken to be.
Microsoft Targets New Demographic (2014)
They don't contradict each other. It's "correlation does not imply causation" framed differently.
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I'm thinking of putting together a small class, maybe two nights a week that will teach the basics of HTML, CSS, Javascript for beginners.

I don't have much more info then this just yet. I am just trying to scope out if there is any interest. Please leave a comment with your email if you are interested.

Thanks!
1. That some things are possible 1.x.x that aren't possible in 2+.x.x is a fact that nobody would deny, and is consistent with semantic versioning. The point is to clarify the vague terms of "compatibility" and "breaking" by tying them to semantics of the library, as described above. Ultimately, this is a determination made by the developer. Any responsible operator is going to test before deploying, and that's how it should be regardless of versioning scheme.

2. In combination with automated testing, it can go a long way.

3. The first part doesn't make any sense to me. As to the second part, semantic versioning and a changelog are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the practice of maintaining semantic versions typically leads to much higher quality changelogs.

4. Yes, the question is: If not semantic versioning, then what?
At this point... what is Bitcoin?

I'm not asking for the definition of cryptocurrency, but what does it mean for people?
yeah, funding isn't a problem. It's not like it's effectively illegal to study benefits of THC in the country. Sure.

Do you even believe your own nonsense?
Samsung's stacked die modules enable 64GB per channel. i.e. 256GB per processor.

http://techreport.com/news/26985/samsung-ddr4-modules-for-se...

I'm not sure why you wouldn't get a Xeon version if you wanted to work with so much RAM?
(not original with me): "The fastest way to travel to the nearest star is to wait 100 years and then go."

That's kind of depressing. But it's a lo-o-o-ng way to Alpha Centauri . . .
Lyft Says Uber’s Recruitment Efforts Are Hurting Drivers
Instagram has ads - not sure if they are profitable. Service should not be too expensive to run - images are on smaller size so traffic and storage should be cheap.

http://blog.business.instagram.com/post/95314562151/business...
bullshit. we got a YC interview for summer 2014. We had almost 200k in revenue and outpaced it (2 months later) almost 400k. I am black spanish guy and cofounder female latin. Only people in our interview who look like us (or in the whole place). Not being angry at all just saying this is a publicity in my opinion. Our model didn't fit into what they were investing on at the time. We didn't need money but wanted to be part of YC. But i will tell you no one looked like us.
Or perhaps the fault lies with the people who update their dependencies blindly and then don't run tests. Not locking your dependencies down is a recipe for breakage.
Design all the things – what does it mean to be a great designer?
I guess it all depends in your genetic makeup. I just feel generally happier and find that my coding and math abilities are slightly enhanced.
It isn't produced in a commercial tobacco cultivar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana_benthamiana

I expect that they used it because it is a fairly robust species as much as anything else. I guess the nicotine doesn't really factor into the choice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharming_%28genetics%29#Pharmin...
Y Combinator = Racist
This link (http://www.jongleberry.com/semver-has-failed-us.html) was also posted on HN a while ago.

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154933
DMSO isn't controversial in normal use. It's only controversial in the alternative medicine context, where it does nothing. Despite the fact that it does nothing for any disease by itself, it's claimed to cure everything from lymphoma to emphysema.

DMSO is still used commonly in medicine. There's no stigma attached to actual uses.

Edit: Spelling errors.
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> Charge money and keep more of it than you spend. What could be so hard about that?

I may not be a fancypants entrepreneur, but this principle has guided me well in my freelancing career. I have a system set up that sends me a graph of my financial state every couple of days.

If graph is going up, good. If graph is going down, bad. Act accordingly.

Works surprisingly well and has really changed my behaviour ever since I started using the system.

Same principle for weight loss/gain (I do both depending on mood). Use a tracker, myFitnessPal works great, weigh self every once in a while. If graph is going the right way, keep doing what you're doing, if not, adjust parameters.
I've wondered about that, and how the break even point would be calculated. The soonest date that someone could get to Alpha Centauri wouldn't be on the same trip for the soonest date someone could leave for Alpha Centauri (and get there successfully).
I'm black ,what is this ? affirmative action pt2 ? you dont need to "recruit more black entrepreneurs" , you need to recruit entrepreneurs wether they are black,yellow,brown,man,woman,trans without prejudice,based only on their skills. Or if "Y Combinator to recruit more black entrepreneurs" means they were discriminated against before, we want a few good negros to look good, just like a few women here and there ,and build "girls who code" clubs for PR,so the tech world is not labelled as racist or sexist ?

The tech world is racist,and sexist. The VC world is way beyond racist or sexist ,it's a culture of nepotism.You cant change that.It's like electing a black president,you may look good abroad but at home noone is dumb enough to think anything has changed. It's even worse to consider minorities as "people that need help".We dont need help we need equality at first place,there is none.
Ironic that science is a subset of philosophy.
So, accept the traps of the language as a fact of life, and just avoid them? No, that doesn't fly with me. Programming languages aren't Forces of Nature, they are human artefacts. They can be corrected.

Of course you should never rely on `"foo" == "foo"` and other such things. Still, one would expect literal strings in the language to be of the preferred string type. C++ is the only language I know of that breaks this expectation. It does not follow the principle of least astonishment. That, is not a cultural issue.

That said, I'm willing to accept that C++ do have cultural issues. Could you tell me what they are?
> A good example of this this technique is to model Internet AS paths; give every AS number a unique prime number (there are only about 100k of them) and model AS path as the composite of its component ASes; using vectorized DIV/MOD instructions it is incredibly fast to large graph operations.

AS paths are ordered; what interesting graph algorithms could be performed on paths in which order has been lost?
DARPA's implants hook into your nervous system, treat diseases with no meds
Ecuador will circulate its own digital currency later this year
Thanks for posting this! I like hearing about internal tooling. Is there more on the query tagging? How do you guys bubble query annotations through the stack?

I don't know if you're at liberty to discuss further, but how has it been scaling a giant Rails app? Have there been any pushes to break it up into smaller components? Ie. fast moving stuff stays Rails, core infra moves to something statically typed?
FreeBSD Foundation Announces IPsec Enhancement Project
Interesting there is no mention to EmDrive or Q-Trusters.
It is probably mostly the same crew, but the point is that they did the rebranding because they wanted to distance themselves from the Penny Arcade site and comic:

“[…] You’ll notice that it is no longer the Penny Arcade Expo. It’s outgrown us and it belongs to the gaming community at large now not just PA fans. Someday I expect to attend a PAX and not even be recognized. […]”¹

Therefore, I believe it is incorrect to say that Intel revealed this product at “Penny Arcade Expo”.

1) http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/01/01/resolutions
Me too but then if you think about it you can lay a cable around the biggest part of the earth the equator that's about 40,000km. If you have a geostationary satellite that's about 35,000km. Pretty close but latency is a tiny bit worse for the satellite T=D/V

Equator at 40,075km / 209,855km/s=0.19s (saw a Stack Exchange question about speed of light in optical fibre slows light 30%).

And for satellites 35,000km / 299,792km/s=0.12s but I'm sure air, humidity, big balls of floating water aka clouds, solar radiation just weather in general must make it far worse I've seen mentions of typical latency of 0.25s.

But most cables are not 40,000km long I don't know what the longest cable is of the typical length probably 20,000km max that would give 0.09s latency and for 10,000km 0.05s.
And that will probably remain true at least until we have a functioning jump drive.
For me, the answer would be conscious upgrades of dependencies with a thoughtful view of the changelog.

Of course, I think I would also prefer less of a web of dependencies between so many different things now. It is almost comical. A few years ago, the complaint was that something like Java's JButton would have upwards of 160+ methods from the web of interfaces and superclasses it came from. Seems that today, that web "you can't possibly comprehend it" lies more in the dependencies of a product than in the individual classes.

And this only gets worse as some dependencies grow to encompass more and more.
Which is why I don't get people staying at their current job if the company simply match the offer, especially for a company that never gives raise otherwise.

Looking for jobs, going to interviews, negotiating, it takes time and energy.
In Chicago the Divvy bike redistribution is horrible. It's not even a hard problem. Need to move bikes into the Loop at 5PM? Give people a free day pass in the future for moving a bike to a high-demand area.
Future scenario 1 could occur and the result could very well be a significant improvement on the current system.
I'd rather Y Combinator make an effort to recruit more black entrepreneurs than make an effort to not recruit more black entrepreneurs.
Ah.. I see what you mean. I think the main point of the original poster was more that this is at a gaming convention, though.

That is, I doubt many of us make a huge distinction between PAX pre and post the direct affiliation with PA.

Edit: Also, thanks for that link. Really nice essay by Gabe that I'm glad to have read now.
That is where I get lost. What is wrong with that?
I use xmonad when I'm on linux. Now that I'm required to use windows, I use python-windows-tiler[0]. The one thing I sorely miss about xmonad is its multi-monitor support. You get nine workspaces. Each of these is monitor independent. It is trivial to put ws1 on m1 and ws2 on m2, then switch m2 to have ws7. The tiling window managers I've found for ms Windows simply don't have any concept of having workspaces independent of monitors. Every workspace always take up all of your monitors.

On linux I'll usually have a browser workspace, an ide workspace, an email/chat workspace, a console workspace, etc. And I'm able to rapidly put any combination of workspaces on my set of monitors.

[0]: https://github.com/Tzbob/python-windows-tiler
I would love to see more than 32 GB RAM in regular desktops and 16 GB in laptops while we are at it too!
Linkedin Security Challenges Google Security for Ice Bucket Challenge
> damn that's evil but so smart of them...

But this kind of thing can often backfire if there's a public outcry and then it won't have been so smart.
Liberation from a financial system designed to exploit everyone but those who administrate it.

Which does mean option one is diametrically opposed to my definition of bitcoin, if private enterprise uses proprietary additions to lock in consumers to their platforms and strattle the flow and generation of capital the way they do now.

Like others say, it is a huge improvement over the status quo, but not the kind of resource I want as my store of value.
It is refreshing to see people having some skepticism about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I suspect that all us have a very limited perspective on what the potential and future of bitcoin and Crypto is. I think we can all agree that cryptocurrecy is a disruptive technology.

Just like the Internet cryptocurrency will bring great weatlth and inovations(google, wikipidea, VOIP, Skype, facebook, etc) and great failures(Internet bubble,lost of privacy, etc).
No overclocking support though which is a huge deal if you're interested in top end performance right now for cheap. If it's anything like the 6 cores from the previous generation it can go up to 4.5 ghz reliably and possibly higher. Having only 3.4ghz turbo also leaves you with pretty poor single threaded performance in general.
Let's get concrete; do you have examples? Particularly painting. I went to the Pinakothek der Moderne a few months ago and was really struck that, whereas in most "modern art" galleries I can find paintings I like, in one that restricts itself to post-1920 there was really nothing thought-provoking, nothing beautiful, nothing that even seemed like an expression of skill. There were interesting works in other media, but it really seems like painting has fallen by the wayside.
About 5% faster than a E5 v2.
I've known compsci majors who produced beautiful art as a hobby/sideline. Though not the reverse.
Fascinating topic. But flagging for HuffPo's persistent social icon bar on mobile.

Lose that shit.
James Murphy Turns U.S. Open Matches into Music
The server version is called Xeon and it's the same chip with ECC uncrippled.

One Haswell core is equivalent to two AMD cores. But yeah, AMD is dramatically cheaper than Intel for equivalent performance.
Browsers aren't a great example as things like that really need to be A: Update to date and B: Can't break, i.e. no web browser is probably going to be able to remove the <FONT> HTML tag even though it should be out of use by what... a decade already?

So all you need to see is if there is a newer version than your current one. v3.4.31 or v3.6.2 isn't really helping tell me anything.

If I really care I have to read the patch notes either way.
Predictive learning vs. representation learning
The Workstation Xeon parts are almost identical, and allow much more ram, and don't cost a whole more.
I think it's a variant of bikeshed syndrome. It is (or seems) easier to understand the pros and cons of a military operation than a trip to mars, so it's easier to approve. Something weird will tend to get ignored to death. The cost figure doesn't even enter in, and is so huge to be out of the realm of reckoning for most people. This happens for earth-bound weird projects, too.
Well, I'm glad this got to frontpage. I don't know if the purpose was shaming someone (it didn't even cross my mind) but it made me reflect on how my versioning affects others.

I knew this was going to happen when NPM went from default ~ in dependencies (update only patches) to ^ (update minor versions). In fact, I changed my default back to ~ out of fear this would happen.
The Xeon isn't overclockable, which is a big part of the niche this processor sits in.

If you read my post again, I'm not saying that 64gb is too little right now. It's probably the right match for the processor for most workloads, today. 32gb would seem weak with 8c/16t (I have that much in my 4770 system), and 128gb could be excessive.

But in two years, swapping in 128gb would be the no-brainer upgrade to this thing. That this is being ruled out ahead of time is not a good thing.

(Barring an Intel microcode revision, as is being speculated by the sibling commenters. But I'm not holding my breath, as Intel Ark is pretty definitive.)
Economic term is regulatory capture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

relevant Onion from this week:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/elderly-lobbyist-always-dro...
You Can't Quit Cold Turkey
Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring JavaScript Engineers
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I've had a vishera 8 core for several months and am happy with its performance in some ml tasks I'm doing for fun.
Well I'm suprised to see these responses. Even studies show opiate treated patients have better cognitive performance (due to pain reduction, presumably). The head of Germany's air force was a morphine addict. Plenty of addicts are outed and go on to admit their "problem", yet they were functioning fine.

Apart from people getting nauseous or passing out from opiates, I've never heard people complaining about not being able to think. (Sample size ~30). In fact, I've heard the opposite, that opiate treatment improves their ability to think. Whereas with pot, it seems most people are seeking a mental state that doesn't encourage detailed concentration.

Try looking at people's pupils as you go about your day. Doctors, lawyers, executives... I've seen plenty of people with pinned pupils but no obvious signs of cognitive impairment.
Glad that I could offer my perspective, I'm hoping I am successful enough of an entrepreneur to get into YCombinator in the future, but I'm excited to see the diversity in new companies that get into Ycombinator.
States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths
Predictive First – A New Era of Software Apps
I don't follow your logic. If cryonics works then you will be awoken from death as certainly as people who are currently awoken from death via CPR and defibrillators. The people awoken under those circumstances still eventually die and either go to heaven he'll or nowhere but in the meantime they are great full to be alive because of modern medicine. ..why would cryonics be any different? And what criteria do you use to show that the chances are so slim ?
Read Charlie Stross's "High Frontier Redux". It's simply not that easy (and a. cent. is the wrong target).

And no, it's not a simple matter after budget priorities either. Physics, bitch.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
Sounds like they knew what would happen:

States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8245373
WTF? Bypass Mac password with two taps
The Convergence of Modern C++ on the Lisp Programming Style – Part II
The arguments seem to only consider Bitcoin in the US, yet it's clearly global.
I know an artist. My favorite statement he repeated was, "It isn't art until it's sold, until then it's a storage problem".

Highbrow modern art has a very very very tiny niche market of people who mainly invest in art of large sums of money for complex and personal reasons that normally boil down to looking for the next Pollock, Warhol, etc. There's an entire ecosystem of galleries, showings, parties, and auction houses devoted to these highly wealthy patrons. It's a pretty insular and self-involved world.

An artists biggest skill in this market has little to do with their technical skill. Technical skill is easy and can be purchased on Fiverr if you need.

Art schools are part of this market.

Most people on the other hand don't go to galleries. They buy prints, hallmark cards, download wallpapers from DeviantArt, etc. Illustrators and graphic designers are thriving in this market, but are totally ignored by the high brow market (unless you get big enough).

Basically, it's just artists following market demands.
Is there not some kind of clever code or progress score to be derived from the churn of a projects test cover? Might be a cool way to encourage rolling source control and writing tests into a core way of judging quality.
Accepting that we all have implicit bias but saying that it doesn't play a significant role in who YC accepts seems to suggest that the YC application review process is able to overcome implicit bias. This may be true to some degree because of the number of steps and people involved in reviewing applications. However, I'm skeptical that it's so effective that it makes bias play an insignificant role.
Lots of people will feel like they perform all sorts of things better while intoxicated under various substances when in reality they are performing suboptimal. You need an outside party to verify these types of claims.
> Load your starship with 300,000 nuclear bombs, detonate one every three seconds, and ride the blast waves.

Ooops! I cannot find the words "stop", "brake", "decelerate", or "slow down" in the article. I guess it is to be understood that you carry 300,000 more nuclear bombs with you and blast them in front so that you don't blow right by Alpha Centauri when you reach it.