skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For offline usage, has anyone used both Gravit and Inkscape for any significant period of time, and can comment on pros/cons?

This might be a dumb question if they don't really occupy the same space. But naively it seems to me like they overlap somewhat, and maybe I should move some of what I currently do in Inkscape to Gravit? (I'm not all that proficient in Inkscape, and at first usage Gravit seems simpler.)
Overall, neat idea. As a nontechnical but tech savvy person, I like how you provided the information in a succinct way although the format could have been more digestible. Downloading software is not efficient.

I think this platform could be a great way for teaching people about the Internet. I highly doubt people will learn about servers, IPs, and different forms of hacking software in school.
Personally, I think you can be suboptimal in all sorts of ways which cost you, yet nevertheless succeed.

Though one problem: people use a tiny percentage of successful companies to justify their mistakes. One ad company manager told me, "Well Doubleclick's UI was slow!" But the obvious retort, if I thought he'd listen: "You're not at Doubleclick, are you? No, your company's failing miserably.

Same with PHP: "Don't imagine you're Facebook. You'd be lucky to be Myspace." If your tradeoff analysis suggests PHP is the right choice, so be it. But comparing oneself to Facebook suggests commitment to irrationality and monkey-see-monkey-do.

It'd be more reasonable to evaluate PHP in terms of tool quality, but that's too much to ask for in the tech industry.
As I understand it, things like schizophrenia are primarily hereditary, and the trauma pushes you over the edge. So, people with a family history of schizophrenia or related conditions shouldn't do these drugs.
> "Even if found unconstitutional by a court down the road...once the treaty has been ratified, none of the obligations assumed by Canada can be modified unless China agrees," he said."

Is that assessment based on Canadian law?
Correlation in not a death sentence. No one is saying it can't be used, merely making a observation based on the gathered statistics.
Having a license pool incentives continued research into video compression and provides a less risky environment for all participants (this a problem that Google bought their way out of).

Overall the licensing structure and costs are reasonable IMO except that software decoders that are given away for free shouldn't incur licensing costs.
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You can use AngelList search to get some approximate relative counts of technologies at YC companies. For example, here are the counts for Java and Python:

Java: https://angel.co/companies?incubators[]=Y+Combinator&teches[... (15 companies)

Python: https://angel.co/companies?incubators[]=Y+Combinator&teches[... (31 companies)

I basically used this same technique for the CodingVC blog post that was mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
Google Fiber bait-and-switch: buyer beware
The main problem with his posts is that he's equating opiate addiction with psilocybin use. These are two different drugs, and the latter is being used as part of smoking addiction therapy.

There's some irony to the fact that his anecdotes are about a nurse, who is someone who probably administers opiates as part of a pain treatment therapy.
Maybe you're right about Apple, Nike, other gigantic corporations that sell products and set trends for the market.
Google And Facebook are different beasts. They shape culture in a way and with means that really were not possible before. The first does it by managing his role as the funneled entrance to the more vast base of freely accessible knowledge humanity has ever created; the second one achieves it by leveraging the once invisible web of relationships that tie us all together.
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The comparison needs perspective. The fact that night vision goggles amplify light levels by a factor of 1 * 10^4 to 5 * 10^4, isn't relevant to the issue of doubling night vision in an unaided eye. That would be like saying the existence of the Hubble space telescope means binoculars serve no purpose.

One might instead compare the cost of a night vision scope versus the cost of the described chlorophyll approach. Or compare the fields of view, or the required weight to be carried in the field.
There was a good study published recently documenting the ability for patients with eye surgery who could see into the UV spectrum.

The cornea blocks some UV light so if you have eye correction surgery your cornea is now modified/thinner and you can see slightly into the UV spectrum.

Probably has some downsides too.. Cataracts are probably more probable seeing as people tend to get them more frequently at higher altitude.

The Tibetan people apparently have a high rate of cataracts since there is higher UV light at the higher altitude.
We created a platform for finding mentors. You can find js mentor there: http://www.perunity.com/?src=hn2
You're being downvoted because you're hitting nerves (including mine). Same as if you were to say my uncle was beaten up by a gay person, so homosexuality should be banned. I realize this isn't a fair comparison, but it works as another example of a statement that would offend people by suggesting their basic human rights be revoked (as is the current state of drug prohibition). Why is it anyone's right to impose rules on other peoples' bodies?

Alcohol leads to plenty of crimes, but look how prohibition worked out? Also, in the case of your friend who had schizophrenia triggered, does your friend know that the drug they were taking was what they believed it to be? Likely not. Another side effect of drug prohibition is that it leaves no place for quality control in the underground drugs market.
I don't know whether the limit for economical fusion power is 1GW or 1TW or 1PW either. But if it turns out to be the higher side of that, then I'd be leaning against it. Sure, we could use the power, but right now, our power needs are low enough that we might build only one or two of them to run whole countries or even continents off of. I don't really like the idea of having One Huge Power Plant for most of a continent Seems too vulnerable to all sorts of failure modes to me. Imagine if some important part deep in the machine breaks because of some mistake somewhere, or even sabotage. The whole continent's power could be down, and it might take weeks or months or longer to make a new widget and get it installed, given that there's so little demand for them with only a couple of plants.
(I'm the author of the CodingVC post.)

I fully agree with you. Facebook is also a heavy PHP user, and that's the biggest startup IPO of the last decade. PHP can definitely be used at a great company -- the data simply showed that the better the company, the less likely it was to be using PHP.
I'm guessing the oxide is not a problem, it'll just float and you scoop it up. What I'd like to know is if more oxidation is taking place while the aluminum is being heated and when it is in liquid state. Heat should accelerate the process, right? And we need a shielding gas to keep the oxygen away while welding aluminum.

> Twenty minutes later I have melted enough sprues and ingots that the
> crucible is almost completely full. I take the lid off, skim the dross — the
> bits of aluminum oxide and impurities that float — off the top and put it
> in the ingot tray to cool; this will be trash. (Trying to recover aluminum
> from aluminum oxide is not really worth it when aluminum is so plentiful.)
On Languages: Perspectives on Programming Language Choice
Yup. Time to have a think.
they should continue the practice and publicly shame any politicians who tries to stop them.

Good luck running for an election again when you're destroying the environment with more cars.

This is California!
Given a release announcement and an article citing multiple independent sources, I'd guess the article is more likely to give a balanced view of reality…
People adjusting has been disproved in sleep studies. I don't have links at hand, but air force studies suggested that humans have the minimum brain recovery duration is wired down fairly deeply in the brain. In other words: There's humans who could sleep for 20 minutes and they are refreshed and active, and there's people like me, who can nap for 30 minutes and I'm off worse afterwards, because my brain just got started processing things and it got interrupted in there. As far as I know, neither NASA nor the air force found a way around this.

Beyond that, I'm not sure if I can take anything serious that argues with times. My body might have a biological clock somewhere, but melatonin or lack thereof (and thus sunlight, and lack thereof) should play a much bigger role than our arbitrary 'midnight'. After all, our body and brain is just a complex chemical reaction with external influences.
Hi Ixiaus, amenod, lepht and jvagner,

MARKET

Good point. We have a strong competition in this area and are facing a marketing challenge in the US with the hugely successful launch of Slack (I think that Hipchat and Campfire are still bigger atm).

We are currently reworking the landing page, but this concept video might explain a little bit better what we are after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJBadyrTmI&list=UUaBvfEGLT1...

We make all company data available right as you type. The time you are switching back and forth between browser tabs to search for issues or appointments is a huge waste of time and - more relevant the bigger your team gets - of money.

SECURITY

> Not just OTR and encrypted chat but stuff not even YOU can read

We are currently working on an encrypted solution for OTR-Conversations that - thanks to WebRTC - uses p2p-connections and uses your wifi, if you are in the same office. This allows you to communicate internally with us only providing the client. This isn't as secure as an on-premise solution (we are working on it, but this will def. take a little more time), but it's a good way of giving customers the advantages of cloud software with an optional switch for an on-premise-like behavior.

MARKETING STATEMENT

> makes your communication twice as fast

Yeah, a blunt marketing statement like this needs to be backed up, or the bs-markers are over 9000.
During the planning phase we tested with a couple of businesses what happens, when we integrate their most commonly used data into a facebook-like autocomplete.
The results were, that the initial time they spend using the prototype was reduced to 52% (notable: They were still sharing the same amount of information).
I think the reasons for this was a reduction of back-and-forths, misunderstandings and that they generally kept their conversations shorter.

Maybe we should make a short clip, explaining the research that led to the assertion.

By the way, thank you guys for racing your concerns. This sounds cliché but I rather have somebody tell me what he doesn't get/like about ChatGrape than having somebody dismiss our product without us knowing, how to improve.
Interesting question from the interviewer, who must have neither friends nor family ;)

One source of salary information, probably relevant to you, being a non-US type, might be the H1-B database: http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm (select Performance Data tab, download latest PERM spreadsheet)

See, for example, this blog post: http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=107
I think HEVC, or H.265 is moving to much better terms in licensing. Instead of requiring license fees for Software decoder, They are collecting a small fees for Hardware decoder / encoder. Since every Mobile devices will be getting it and devices are going to ship units in billions in the life time of the codec. It is going to get back all the investment. Meanwhile a free ( in price ) software decoder can be included in Browsers / Software.

Correct me if I am wrong on the licensing issue.
And BTW VP9 / 10 isn't patents free, Google is just paying for it and you get to use it for free.

And aside of patents issues, VP10 doesn't stand against HEVC in quality. VP9 quality never got close to H.264 AVC best encoder. And even VP10 will come close or exceed it, HEVC is here already. VPx ( The one after VP10, For some reason they dont call it VP11 ) will hopefully rival HEVC.
Ask HN: Do you trust php startups?
I work extensively in php, but I'm wondering if there are people out there that wouldn't sign up for a startup if they know it was made with php :)
> Interestingly there is some evidence that culture and language might affect our perception of color.

The evidence for effects of language on color perception is very weak, or it indicates that the effects are themselves very weak.

The big paper in this field is this: http://www.languagescience.umd.edu/~ellenlau/courses/ling440...

They find that Russian speakers, who have separate words for two shades of blue, can discriminate between those shades of blue something like 50 ms faster than they can discriminate between two shades of blue that fall into the same color word category.

First thing to note, that's a very small difference.

Second thing: the effect goes away under verbal interference (like when you have the subjects repeat a word over and over again while doing the color discrimination task). So I guess there's an effect of language on color perception, but not while you're talking? It definitely doesn't seem to me that the colors I am perceiving change when I am talking vs. when I am not.

Third, there's a huge overall reaction time difference between the Russian and English speakers in the paper, which calls into question how well the experiment was really run.

So it's not clear that there really are effects of culture/language on color perception; and if they do exist they are very small. (At least that's the conclusion I would draw from this paper, which is widely cited in that field. I'd be interested to hear of different results if they're out there.)
I look forward to checking it out when it's live! Have you thought about including designers? It might make your audience larger. Designers are usually part of the dev process so I think it would still make sense with your name.
Unless Uber/Lyft have management that is blind to reality, they'll be using autonomous vehicles.

They have no long-term obligation to the drivers, and they have no business need for actual human drivers. What makes you think they won't be early adopters for autonomous vehicles?
Built-in Browser Support for Responsive Images
> the real value of bitcoin might not be in the coins but in the blockchain itself.

Absolutely. Blockchains are much more general and useful than a Bitcoin-centric view assumes them to be. See http://namecoin.info, https://ethereum.org, http://bitshares.org, and http://proofofexistence.com for examples.
Cutting edge would be something on node most likely. Bleeding edge might be something like meteor.
ChatGrape - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvQFtlNQ-M
Of course you're right, most blogging systems do have a timestamp by default, which is why it's even more infuriating that people who are putting serious thought into their writing are purposefully hiding the date or don't even think about its importance when they choose a theme that doesn't include it.
>Well he decided to take mushrooms one day due to peer pressure

Well, that was definitely mistake #1; psychedelics require the right set & setting. That with the possibility of him not knowing he had a mental illness is probably what did it. Also, there is a possibility that he was given a different kind of mushrooms, like amanita.

Drugs, food, anything for that matter, when taken to excess can be damaging, like what happened with your friend.

Personal anecdote, which you've been relying on so far.. LSD helped my depression and allowed me to quit adderall and weed. With shrooms, my anxiety got better and I quit my fap/porn addiction. I will be going to Peru in 2 weeks to do Ayahuasca (DMT) to help me get over my childhood sexual trauma. You can't lump all drugs into one category; psychedelics might as well be called "medicine".
>Nobody really claims any of Go's features are new in any way.

Nobody from the Go team, that is true.

My point was about some Go newbies and their respective blog posts advocating the language.
Such a retarded question. Do you trust food delivered in Ford?
That would be expensive. The goal is to generate asymmetric costs.
Not if that particular instance of hellbanning was unjustified.

That said, coherentpony may just be against hellbanning as a whole. I find it a tasteless tool myself.
Pathogen doesn't manage your plugins. You have to `git clone` (or submodule) and update them yourself.
> Calculating E does nothing useful by itself. But calculating the DCT of a series of numbers representing an image, arranging it in a matrix, traversing it in a zigzag pattern and applying run-length encoding does do something undeniably useful: it allows compression, which can conserve bandwidth and disk-space.

All math is useful for something. How is calculating 'E' not useful? I need to know how many turbines to build.

> Mathematics cannot be copyrighted. Yet software can be. If you can resolve this conflict, you may find a hint to explain how software can also be patented.

There are multiple equivalent encodings to represent any mathematical operation. Since the encodings are equivalent, choosing one is a creative act having no mathematical consequences. Copyrighting that work of authorship provides no monopoly over the math because the same math remains available to anyone else using any of the infinitely many other possible equivalent encodings. Even in the unlikely event that someone else independently comes up with exactly the same encoding (more likely for extremely simple algorithms), independent creation means no copyright infringement. By contrast, a patent would cover all of the equivalents and make no exception for independent creation, which would make it a patent on the math itself rather than any particular encoding.
... and a lot more fun to be had over here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_colors
My main complaint is that services such as yours are not extending XMPP! By god, it's begging for it! Imagine if every e-mail service was a walled garden. Differentiate on features and user experience and otherwise embrace interoperability and you'll be better than the vast majority of chat startups out there.
Whereas what Joel said is debatable, this snark comment is wrong on so many leves it's funny...

1) Joel was talking on the context of a software business -- if you have working code it can be detrimental to business to do a rewrite from scratch, it will take you years, you will leave stuff off, piss off your customers, lose ground to the competition etc. It's not like Gravit.io has that kind of "business reasons" at this moment (this is their initial version offering), so his reasons do not apply to it.

2) Gravit.io is a port of a project to another language. This is not a rewrite -- much less a "rewrite from scratch". Again, Joel's reasons do not apply to the situation.
Just one thing, last time I calculated: from 150K gross salary, you get 90-100K net after taxes. Also consider housing prices in SV and that 150K doesn't sound that good anymore ;)

That said, you should aim for 150K+ base salary, plus a lot of bonuses and stocks on top of it, so in the end, 250K+ should be achievable. This probably rules out most of startups for you, unless you're for the equity.

48K EUR - sounds like Berlin, right? ;)
But I think you can negotiate up to 65-70K EUR if you really try.
I think this is the first time I've ever flagged a post. A site's technology stack shouldn't be a factor in deciding how trustworthy they are.
But voice recognition is something we take many years to learn, even when are brains are highly plastic. I find it hard to understand people when they speak often. We disambiguate heavily based on context and expectation, very complex issues.
s/racing/raising/

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Thank you. The pure SQL is a cool twist, because you can instantly start getting fancy, e.g. doing JOINs between different services.

In terms of value to the end-developer, there are a handful of value-add services we'll be rolling out that are a pain for people to implement:

- Authentication

- Federated search

- ETL / caching

- Record matching / fuzzy inference of foreign-key relationships

- Entity de-duplication

We also feel that Empire API will be exciting for pure client-side apps and apps that don't want to run a backend, e.g. the sort of apps that would build on Parse or Firebase.
The frequency sensitivity curve of rods is different from reach of the cone types, too. If some rods contribute to daylight vision, then everyone is tetrachromatic to some extent.
how about this?

http://neilb.org/2013/08/07/adoptme.html

http://neilb.org/adoption/
End of the day, what makes a startup successful is customers. What customers care about is whether you solve their problem and bring value.

One of the ways that startups like to attract dev talent is by saying how cool they are - the latest fad, the latest stack and free snacks. But that's not what people care about. So, focus on solving their problems and not what your platform is.
Sorry I only trust startups made in brainfuck, every other language is invigilated by NSA.
> Another edit: work in a psych ward. 95% of people in there are violent addicts of various substances. This is not a coincidence.

Do you realise how stigmatising this sounds?

You're making links between mental ill health and violence (people with a MH illness are more likely to be the victim than perpetrator of violence); and you're saying all mental illness is drug related when it obviously is not. You're not correcting for people who had mental illness before they started taking drugs and are self-medicating.

The fact that your ward if full of people in terrible states shows how pisspoor treatment is for peope with mental illness in England.
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Perhaps you have been sleeping under a rock for the last 10+ years. Unless most multi-billion web services, from Gmail to Facebook are not "major software".

Plus, from his cv: "I've been doing JavaScript since it was invented.".
Mr. Google's Guidebook (2008)
It's infuriating that this blog post doesn't have an easy to find date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312867
Just found that some sh*theads cloned my site, less then two weeks since I
>Why is that everyone's first question? I get this constantly when I demo my stuff at meetups and hackathons. None. The answer is none.

Are you the creator of Gravit.io? If not, then your response is useless, because nobody asked YOU that.
That range is about right for someone with no professional experience. At a medium-sized company in SV you should be offered a minimum of 100-110k base salary, 10-15% yearly bonus, plus stock options.
And the empty versions/identities of those operations
Why is this not being reported by any of our national news outlets! Instead I'm fed the latest drivel on rob ford.
Correct; the oxide is not a problem. There's not much of it, it melts at a much higher temperature than the pure metal, and it floats, so you just scoop it off before you pour.

Whether oxidation or reduction is taking place during the melting process is determined by the amount of oxygen arriving via the air blast; too much oxygen and you get a hot oxidizing atmosphere, which oxidizes both my iron crucible and the top of the melt. Too little oxygen and you can actually get a reducing atmosphere, the furnace runs a bit colder, less heat escapes through the flue. So it's a tricky balance to strike and I'm still fine-tuning it.

I add potassium chloride and sodium carbonate to flux the melt and remove dissolved hydrogen; the KCl helps keep more aluminum oxide from forming apparently, though some home foundry sites report that they don't see a difference if they skip that step. Both chemicals are cheap, so I'm not too concerned.