skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response. Will keep an eye out for that functionality. Fyi, would be willing to pay $100-150/month to give my sales team the ability to run scenarios.
These are not paid advertisements. These are ads for YC companies.

Perhaps the small mention of job advert posts in the faq should be expanded? It's not particularly clar at the moment.
Decide what you do best, and what you love the most. TO me it sounds like you love doing larger/medium scale projects and are getting bored with these smaller projects.

I am in a similar industry (in business for 5 years) and have had a lot of success, with some similar challenges.

this post helped me so much (originally found it here)
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...

One thing I had to decide was do I want to put more money in my pocket or grow my business.

I realized I didn't want to take bigger deals. The deals I was bringing in allowed an amount of profit for every deal. I just wanted more deals of that size. The challenge was how to scale that up.
Same here. Have lived in Ypsi for many years and learned of this study and book a few years back. Absolutley fascinating though very unethical study.

Btw, the site was bought by Toyota years ago and the hospital is long demolished.
PG is my all time favorite guitar player.
I think competition is the main villain here. Zero-sum games, prisoner's dilemmas, arms races and tragedies of the commons stole the four-hour workday from us, and many other good things besides. A nice toy example is "20% time" at companies like Google, which tends to evaporate as soon as your performance evaluation compared to your peers becomes tied to your performance at your main project.

The only solution to competition is centrally enforced precommitment. First, the government should actually enforce the eight-hour workday. Then it should reduce the workday, for all employers at once, so no one can get ahead by cheating. I don't see any other solution.
you equated "for-profit" education with "private schools". The two are not the same. Most of the category that you think of as "private schools" are non-profit, but religious or otherwise not government-sponsored.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189968 for another UNIX trap for the unwary.
Twitter tells tale of LinkedIn outage
Your username is offensive. I'd like to take what you say seriously, and perhaps even engage in further conversation about the topic at hand, but ... you know ... you look stupid. Grow up. You should be embarrassed.
looking at lists of RGB color names (e.g. http://cloford.com/resources/colours/500col.htm, http://www.keller.com/html-quickref/4a.html, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names) I notice that everything called 'orange' has a blue component of zero.

So, this claim would imply that the average color in nature doesn't have a blue component.

I guess the conclusion must be a) the sky is blue, and b) the majority of photos on the internet does not show sky.
Thanks, It works on mobile without any problems.
It is still a mystery
The detection is very sensitive to the harmonic definition of a song more than anything else. On some songs it will do a great job and on other miserably fail. That's why it's also an editor, nothing beats the human ear.
A lot of engineering effort to watch Balrog jab and Blanka duck forever.

Fish are bad at playing Street Fighter II. I already intuitively knew this.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTm1tJYr5_M
But you can go shopping only once a week if you have storage place at home. That's a pretty good amortised cost compared to your estimate of eating at Chipotle.
For profit education is good at delivering education for those that can afford it; in the case of university education that means providing an excellent degree programme and qualification which saddles graduates with cripplingly high loan repayments they will take over a decade to pay off.

What they add in prestige, they subtract by making continuous employment a full-time professional job the only practical option for the average graduate. I'd hesitate to call that a "disaster", but it is a huge factor in the phenomenon the article (edit: and particularly the Economist link posted by spindrift http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989...)
describes: educated professionals in the US actually [necessarily] working more hours than the average person.
I'm uncertain that I've ever checked for errors after calling fork.

Thanks for providing an impetus to do so.
Since I have no plan to have anything to do with systemd, just hope that systemd will not become mandatory for linux system over time. Wish me luck.
I was thinking something similar but along a different line of thought using English alone. Possessive modifiers behave differently than other "pure" adjectives and whether it's anaphors.

1) Jim's red barn
1a) My red barn
2) Red Jim's barn (Not awkward like in the headline example, but the meaning has changed completely)
2b) * Red my barn (invalid, period. even if my -> mine - I can do this word order in Korean or Japanese easily due to more explicit case marking)

We have to start using some syntactic movement to make the construct syntactically acceptable and semantically natural and equivalent, but doing so makes it possible to be free with word order:

3) Jim's barn that is red
3a) My barn that is red
4) Red barn that is Jim's
4a) Red barn that is mine (my -> mine)
5) Barn that is red and Jim's
5a) Barn that is red and mine
6) Barn that is Jim's and red
6a) Barn that is mine and red

The preferences aren't as clear-cut to me as in the headline clause, but we'd rather keep the possessive separate from the pure adjective (3-4 > 5-6, higher is more natural). Using only "pure" adjectives, it looks like the semantic binding preference still sticks though:

7) Big red barn =>
7a) Red barn that is big
7b) Big barn that is red
7c) Barn that is red and big
7d) Barn that is big and red

Naturalness: 7b > 7a and 7d > 7c. And since 7d > 7b, we have 7d > 7c >= 7b 7a. I'm thinking 7b > 7c but wasn't quite sure because both sound awkward and comparing two mildly awkward clauses is probably not valid here.

But hopefully other native speakers roughly agree on the precedence of awkwardness with me and understand why this article is just the tip of the iceberg.
This is pretty much what I was coming here to say.

Don't forget that we live under a yellow sun, too. There is a hell of a lot of warm light in our world, natural and artificial.
The only way you're going to make it is to go super niche at first. You're trying to compete with the big boys on their own turf, no way to get traction that way.
This is a personal question, since my values are going to differ from yours that will differ from the rest of the world.

I welcome games that treat gender as a non-issue. What I do mind are games that treat gender as some sort of precondition on body image or societal roles.

In this day and age there's enough choice and content out there that I can manufacture a gender balance for my kids that I feel comfortable with. Sometimes there are gotchas - games (or movies/TV) that seem ok but have small portions I don't agree with, but these are bumps that I can smooth out myself. It's just that sometimes I'd rather it not occur at all.

Again, I think this is deeply personal. I may think a certain game is perfectly fine for my kids, and another parent may recoil in horror at the suggestion (and vice versa).

At the end of the day, I enjoy playing video games, and if there are more games that I think are appropriate for my kids, the easier it is for me to enjoy my hobby with them.
True, but DC isn't a traditional metro area. The entire regulatory structure changes once you leave the borders of DC, because you've moved into a new state (Virginia or Maryland). Uber's coverage area for this service takes a hard stop at the DC borders to keep them from running into a new set of state laws and taxes they'd have to deal with.
Quietly goes to check the last piece of C I wrote containing a fork():

if (daemon && !test_mode) {
int pid = fork();
if (pid == -1) {
fatal_error("Failed to fork");
}
if (pid != 0) {
write_pid(pid_file, pid, !test_mode);
exit(0);
}
} else {
write_pid(pid_file, getpid(), !test_mode);
}

Phew!
Dear BBC: Two zones in Washington DC != USA
so many people wanting stuff combined with far too many wanting someone else to pay for it.
Their definition of "non-trivial" includes using computed member expressions, so the following program is not supported:

var greetings = {world: "Hello World"};
var subject = 'world';
console.log(greetings[subject]);

This is zealotry in action, who do they think is going to use this?
This reminds me of one of the most epic bugs I've ever run into:

mkdir("/foo", 0700);
chdir("/foo");
recursively_delete_everything_in_current_directory();

Running as root, this usually worked fine: It would create a directory, move into it, and clean out any garbage left behind by a previous run before doing anything new.

Running as non-root, the mkdir failed, the chdir failed, and it started eating my home directory.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...
Gotta wonder about Dropbox and HN both being YC projects... Think that helps Rice be a non-issue?
Easy to test out to. In C:

#include <unistd.h>

int main(void)
{
while(1) {
fork();
}
}
That's what I thought of too. It could be tested by averaging a pool of images lit by fluorescent bulbs, LEDs, or LCD monitor glow.
I thought I was going to see Phil Fish fight himself, somehow.
That's understandable, but please don't feed the trolls.

When you see a comment that is truly bad for HN, it's best to flag it. You can do this by clicking on "link" to go to the item page for the comment, then "flag". We monitor those flags and take action based on them.
Just as a reminder:
"So, malloc on Linux only fails if there isn’t enough memory for its control structures. It does not fail if there isn’t enough memory to fulfill the request." - http://scvalex.net/posts/6/
The spiral in healthcare was also caused by the government taking over the industry in the late 1960s.

I'm guessing that you're referring to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, which is hardly "taking over the industry".
Shouldn't take long

user:	emo_tards_on_hn
created:	48 minutes ago
karma:	-20
Indeed.

Just to kind of give you some insight. Everybody says no at first. Everybody... Unless you called up the salesguy and said "Hey I wanna buy..." then you're almost certainly going to say no up front. The real salesman deftly dodges that objection and starts selling.

The salesman (even if it's just the owner) is one of the most important roles in a company, without a sale you may have a great product but you will have no income.
You're saying that compliance with university radiation safety protocols was difficult -- for a machine that has been installed around the county and used to expose millions of passengers? I think that's a big part of the story.
Another good test case for things like this is "Take 5", or any other song with a non-4/4 signature. The chords seem ok, but the beats are just off.

On the other hand, Cake's "Sad Songs and Waltzes", with a very distinct 3/4 signature, analyzes well.
> So if you find x living microbes at 200km from Earth, given thermal dispersion, shouldn't there be some y number of molecules from Earth on the Moon?

I doubt it - even if the "uplifting air currents" hypothesis were proven true, there's a massive difference between low earth orbit and the moon. Around 8 km/s of delta-V to be exact.[1] This means that, to make it to the moon, the molecule not only has to reach LEO, it has to be moving at 8 km/s (a pretty insane speed) by the time it gets there. I can't imagine any earthly air current moving that fast, in fact it's likely impossible because the speed of sound is only 0.35 km/s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#Earth-Moon_spac...
Haha too cruel. I remember in one of my early college CS classes the professor told us about fork bombs and wasn't sure if they still worked on the Sun Fire servers we were using. About 5 minutes later someone piped up and confirmed that yep they still worked at bringing the server down. :)
IME, successful people are smart enough, take career risks, and are lucky.
Who needs type safety when we got integers.
Sun is actually white... which is why you see a all the colors in a rainbow. I know Superman lied to you. :)
Another:

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-uni...

Both of these organizations are British.
Not unless the weirdnesses of ethics panels is part of the story.
Except in the days before the "heightened burden of SEC regulation" IPO shares were largely only available to wealthy clients of the banks that underwrote the IPOs. The rest of us were just as left out.
Once I called AT&T for a support issue and they showed me how I could save money on my bill and get more data by switching to a new family plan, that was nice :)
That's a macro vs micro problem. On a macro level it doesn't matter how many greenbacks or grams of gold or seashells or BTC are in play, the median dude is going to, almost by definition, live in the median house, and his extractable wealth by definition will become the median price.

The median of whatever China decides to ship to us, will by definition, be the median quality TV and be sold at the median price. Either sell at that price or throw away profit or stuff warehouse with unsold merchandise.

Its the same effect as .gov donating money for day care or housing or schooling has no direct effect on rates... all it does is make the item more expensive.

I guess one way of putting it is you can't expect people to be richer if you do give all of them more money (aka inflation).
Works very nicely even with difficult program material (I listen to a lot of weird electronic stuff), but wit would be nice if it had export-to-MIDI or suchlike.
Ask HN: Is college/degree in CS really worth?
Time ago I left college and my studings in Computer Science for pursuing a startup I was working on. Unfortunately it didn't work out well and now I have the choice of going back to college and finish it, or to start working on something else.

I am quite confident that at the moment I have tons of experience and more knowledge of most of people that just graduated.

How much a degree in CS is really worth in our field? I personally don't feel the need for it, but how much could it make the difference during job interviews / the future?
Watching them for a bit, I would say they're ~=> my mom playing Street Fighter - the occasional times she would play video games with me, the results of her play often looked like this.

Fish > My mom at video games? Perhaps.
> Dart compiles to JavaScript

Not all language features can be represented in JavaScript.

Besides, all the languages that compile to JavaScript just add complexity layers to the already complex model of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

And I bet there is a VbScript to JavaScript somewhere out there.

> Dart is ratified as ECMA 408. VBScript is not open source, Dart is.

Standards by themselves don't foster adoption.

Eiffel, Ada, Modula-2, Extended Pascal, Common Lisp, Smalltalk, ... have ISO/ANSI standards.

In the 60 - 90's being open source wasn't a requirement for multiple implementations for programming languages.
Rubik's Cube in CSS
When you see chdir, or any notion of the current working directory being used for anything: run as fast as you can. (or refactor if it's not too late). Things I've seen because of software relying on it.. Sometimes it's just directories/files it creates popping up all over the place, sometimes it's 'just' crashing, but yes sometimes it starts to erase and all hell really breaks loose.
Waitin years for such a feature!
Would ideally need to have some kind of open source FPGA catch on (and be manifactured with competitive performance). Companies like Xilinx and Altera are not at all keen on open sourcing their technology and tools. IMO, through their actions, they're shooting themselves in the foot, keeping FPGAs from becoming what GPGPU is right now (or something even better, in fact).
So. You mean you actually DON'T like to take what he said seriously.

His username is offensive, but you just also gave it credibility.
Amazon Starts Testing Its Delivery Drones in India
I usually use switch with fork:

if (daemon && !test_mode) {
int pid;
switch (pid = fork()) {
case -1: /* Error */
fatal_error("Failed to fork");
case 0: /* In child */
break;
default: /* In parent */
write_pid(pid_file, pid, !test_mode);
exit(0);
}
} else {
write_pid(pid_file, getpid(), !test_mode);
}
I can see several ways that you could implement storage and processing using that, thank you.

For anyone else thinking about the problem, there are two processes that could be used by item sorting to do processing:

1. You can use the stream of items through a pipeline (if deterministic enough) to encode a bit of strings. You can do this without enchanting, because you only need two item types.

2. You initialize an instruction decoder and have it sort the item based on type, which then triggers a command block to decode the instruction further.
Yes. That's rather nice. Although I'm not a fan of the (pid = fork()) inline assignment and condition. But that's a matter of taste, not technology.
He needs to randomize the 1P/2P assignment because Aquarius seems to prefer being on the right side of the tank and gets an unfair advantage as 1P.
The next part, linked now at the end, is also informative: http://briankoberlein.com/2014/08/20/already-know-quite-bit/

Especially for the graph taken from
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1320
Just noticed that in Perl the behavior is slightly different: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html unsuccessful fork() returns undef, effectively stopping you from kill-ing what you don't want to kill.
Bill Gates said something interesting a few years ago vis a vis the greatest change in the world since he grew up -- that in the middle of the last century, it was better to be born a person of average intelligence in a place like Buffalo, NY than it was to be born a genius in Calcutta. Today, this is no longer true.

A poor child of high intelligence, born in the U.S. (or indeed almost anywhere in the top 80% of the world) has greater access to knowledge and the tools of self-improvement than ever before.

Nowhere does this article mention difference in ability or intelligence. Search the article -- the words "ability" and "intelligence" do not appear. You cannot address the subject of income or social mobility in an intellectually honest way without engaging this subject or controlling for or studying these variables either on an individual level or across groups or populations you wish to study.
In this particular case, I didn't see the chdir until after the fact. This wasn't my code...
Same here. I'm considering flying to Japan in November just to see Mr. Big perform at the Budokan.
I just created a Terminal.com snapshot with DataStringer ready to use. You may want to give a try at https://terminal.com/tiny/eFW4xKrxZJ
Here's one done by Jiao Tong University in Shanghai:

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2014.html

The exact ranking varies, of course, but the trend is clear. The top U.S. universities (and the top U.K. universities) outrank everyone else.

ETH Zurich does pretty well, but doesn't make the top ten on any list.
A Worfklow: TDD, RDD and DDD
Wave was a great idea that was completely misunderstood. Unfortunately, it also seemed to have been misunderstood by the people who designed it.

Wave was supposed to be a collaborative replacement for email built on the then-exciting XMPP protocol. It was marketed poorly, misunderstood, and eventually shitcanned because Google had no idea what to do with it.
If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing fingers, for if thou thinkest "it cannot happen to me", the gods shall surely punish thee for thy arrogance. [0]

[0]: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html
If I could upvote you 10 times for the most ridiculously useless (but cool) thing I've seen on HN, I would. You win HN for today sir.
Looks promising! I love anything that helps you focus on what you're good at, which for most startup founders isn't non-technical operations and forecasting.
There's an error in the section on literals. Literals used outside of classes do not have to be const. Not sure where that notion came from, but this is totally valid:

var l = [];

Also, the example of looping over characters in a String using substring is very odd and expensive. Generally, if you want to iterate over a list of single-character Strings, you'd use String.split():

for (var c in str.split('')) {}

split('') is necessary to be unicode safe. There's also String.codeUnits and String.runes (an iterable of code-points).
Water Crisis: Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained
Nice, but I think it is not real, just marketing for the new Planet of the Apes movies.
How Your Boss Will Run Your Life in a Few Years
It's poignant how he inadvertently mentions four gods, then realizes that he was the fourth.
A list of awesome designers willing to work on Open Source projects
Context: I'm using Dart for app development for two years now.

> Not all language features can be represented in JavaScript.

I could not name one (except the dart:io stuff, which is not supported in the JS world). Could you please elaborate?

> Besides, all the languages that compile to JavaScript just add complexity layers to the already complex model of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

I've found the same, but Dart is a surprising exception. If you are not using any fancy framework (e.g. Angular.Dart), you will be just fine with the close-to-the-browser approach of the language and APIs.
Maybe this just means engineers shouldn't name things! :)

Then again marketing people would have made choices like RadPython, RubyGrunge, and CFlowerPower...
Why do you think private healthcare isn't working? Free market is typically inefficient if 1) there's not enough competition or 2) customers don't make optimal market decisions. Which one is it in private healthcare?
The Waterslide of Weirdness – Is some tech just too freaky?
I want to write a book, and work on 3 medium to large scale software projects (not all at once, of course). 'A couple hours in the evenings' hasn't proven enough time to focus on this. In fact, getting up at 3 AM and working on these before work has also not proven to be sustainable.
Sure, you could have pid = fork(); switch (pid) if you prefer. I find that the inline assignment-and-condition style is clearer since it reads to me as "switch on the result of fork, and cache that value somewhere" whereas the separate statements read to me as "call fork" and "switch on the process ID".
> The only solution to competition is centrally enforced precommitment. First, the government should actually enforce the eight-hour workday. Then it should reduce the workday, for all employers at once, so no one can get ahead by cheating. I don't see any other solution.

This would not really be a solution. All it would result in is more people taking work home, because job evaluations would still be based on how much progress one made on the primary project. To get ahead and get that next promotion, many people would still feel compelled to work extra (unreported) hours. I suspect a madate such as what you propose would simply push the long work-days into being unreported.

This is basically what happens in graduate school (in the US, at least). I just finished a PhD program; as part of our contrats students agreed to only work 20 hours per week. There is no way one could finish a dissertation working on 20 hours per week, so everyone worked longer hours. Sure, you could complain about how many hours you worked (and some people did), but that did not change the fact that only 10–20% of Astronomy PhDs get faculty jobs, so if you want that faculty job, you need to put in the hours to do great research, regardless of the mandated 20 hour limit.