skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we already have evil socialist government regulation, which is the only way that incumbents in any industry can restrict competition and thereby charge extortionate pricing. Unfortunately, for true believers in the one try faith of government intervention, the solution to problems caused by government regulation is always more government regulation.
"Without the labor movement we would probably still work 12 hours six days a week."

Unfortunately, many in the technology field still do, and worse. Many on this very forum advocate working much longer hours in their attempts to get rich quick through the startup lottery.

At the same time, they rabidly belittle unions, membership in which would probably be the only thing short of becoming an independent consultant that could allow them to work relatively sane hours.
Actually, you do get (limited) dependency management through insserv, which was standardized by LSB and its set of initscript headers. Most dpkg and RPM-based distros used them.

Automatic respawning is a job for a process supervisor, not a process manager or initd. It's a separate duty altogether. So is resource limiting, which is probably better serviced through separate tools that wrap around syscalls.
I think the title should be the paper's title, What Geometric Visual Hallucinations Tell Us about the Visual Cortex. I don't see anything about illusions.
I love articles like this for neatly summarizing the way I've always viewed the world.
Flesky's website just goes over and over about how it's "the best in the world", but doesn't actually describe the product.
Could you tell us a bit about what makes it different?
Not backroom dealing, you reward people who help you (access, parties, gifts, special privileges) and punish those who harm you (freeze outs).
Intel Putting 3D Scanners in Consumer Tablets Next Year, Phones to Follow
Quite. That point cannot be iterated frequently enough.
Those sample photograph questions sure weren't rudimentary. I think I got two of those questions right across both photos.
That's correct, I accidentally copied my initial (and wrong) Google query into the title. I can't change the title now, however, even though it's only 40 minutes ago that I submitted it. I think the admins locked the title after they've changed the year/pdf tag.
"I also like to give some evening homework to the new employees. To the extent she starts problem solving on your behalf and working as part of your team she will feel more commitment to you, more excitement about the new role and, again, a stronger emotional bond to not backing out."

Requiring a person to do work for you before they're actually on your payroll would seem to be a violation of federal and/or state minimum wage laws - since you're paying them nothing for their time. (Remember that the article is talking about a person who has accepted a job offer but is still presumably working for their previous employer, to whom they've just given notice that they're going to leave in some number of weeks.)

If I were in that employee's position, being asked to work for free in the evening would be a big red warning flag that would make me more likely to accept a counteroffer from my current employer or a competing offer. And I'd also refuse the "homework assignment". Accepting it would send a clear message that I'm open to being manipulated and exploited.
I really don't understand the audience for whom this is written. If it is aimed at Scala programmers, why are half the examples in Haskell? If it not aimed at Scala programmers, why is it on the Typelevel blog?

In addition to the Scala / Haskell issue none of the sections nor the introduction do a good job of stating the main point up-front. Use signposts! Write in inverted pyramid style! Etc.

E.g. Section "Higher kinded Leibniz" I would rather start with something like

"Can we use Leibniz on higher kinded types? For example, can we establish an equality between List[_] and some type A[_]? It turns out we can..."

Say up front what the section is about. Motivate it with an example. Then get into the details.

Hopefully this will be taken as constructive criticism.
I'm not using their API
> OpenGL 4.5 addresses some of concurrency bottlenecks.

How so? It adds DSA which is just a different way to access global state. The global state is still the cornerstone of the 4.5. The only way it addresses performance issues is through "bindless" extension, which pretty much tosses away the entire OpenGL pipeline and leaves just a draw_indirect_multi call call with everything pushed into shaders. It's too extreme for many developers even it's been available on non-NVidia hardware.

> My point was not to say that OpenGL is perfect as is.

Never mind me then. I only replied to your claim it's not the OpenGL fault it's slow on consoles.
Tour this apartment with Oculus Rift, buy it with Bitcoin
Neither 280daily or Penzu can get even close to the clean, fast, beautiful and simple interface of Ohlife. Specially It's large readable clean fonts.
Right now offline Secretpad seems like a viable alternative. or just the our old beloved notepad.
Where I work at Catalyze, we offer a starting package beginning at $500/mo that includes one database container and one server. Or, if your application only required a secure backend, prices start as cheap as $100/month. We have a calculator here to compare prices: https://catalyze.io/platform-as-a-service/

We've been building applications with both startups and large healthcare organizations like the VA. I'd love to talk with you more to see what your needs are. Feel free to hit me with an email (mark@catalyze.io) with any questions.

Good luck!
So, your "point", in everything that I have read from you thus far, is that, if the world only worked the way you think it should work, then OpenGL would reign supreme as king. We can just ignore the many ways in which it sucks because, hey, you're talking hypotheticals!

Right. Of course, the real world works nothing like the world that you have described, but ok, good luck with that.
Having seen large-scale preparation of Carnitas, I can attest to the amount of fat and grease produced in the process. It gets over _everything_.
Is Wearable Tech Changing Behavior?
Fix Vertical Videos on YouTube with This Bookmarklet
I love deep learning and I am sympathetic to the concern that too much of it will end up patented. However, these garbage popsci tech journalist articles need to slow down. I can't imagine anyone who doesn't already love it not starting to hate deep learning after all the garbage articles about it.
Given the subject matter, I was surprised that the first three authors were in mathematics departments; then I found out why. This is some serious brain hacking here.
It depends on where you're coming from though, yeah? Like, PC->PS3, (good) OpenGL/Cg to GLES/Cg wasn't a big step (I use Cg with OpenGL today). Nobody really used it anyway, though, because libgcm was just so vastly superior.
Why is this surprising? The Secret Service is notoriously difficult to get into -- its acceptance rate is 1% compared to Harvard's 6% -- but the majority of the requirements are not assessed by a written test.

It's somewhat like trying to ascertain anything about MIT based on its swim test requirement.
If you take the question abstractly enough, with zero a priori knowledge, then the example becomes valid again. There may not even be any US government employees at all, anywhere.
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"I'm very much for solar and wind energy-- I just think there's a long hard R&D slog between now and dirt cheap gigawatt-hour-scale energy storage."

You might be interested in reading "Solar is Ready Now"[1] ("now" being 2011)

[1] - http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/06/09/241120/solar-is-...
Agreed. Anyone that you choose for HIPAA-compliant hosting should be able to outline their policies. Where I work at Catalyze, ours are here:

https://catalyze.io/hipaa/
https://catalyze.io/policy/

And we've gone through a HITRUST audit to validate these claims:

https://catalyze.io/compliance/
If there are no US government employees, then the statement "some US employees have property X" is false for all values of X.
Solar is Ready Now (2011)
There's a lot of Linux-on-the-desktop-style wishcasting in this thread.
Cool! I had not heard of dnanexus before. Looking forward to checking it out.
Yes, I'm trying to say that being an entrepreneur is stressful but it is just so glorified in our circles. This is one of the biggest reasons I wanted to leave the ivory tower of academia because I was so tired of the incestuous little circles of grad students and professors telling each other how much smarter than everyone else they were.

I have 15 years of experience working with drug addicts and alcoholics and the stresses that I hear people trying to get sober have dealt with are often rape, abuse suffered as a child, molestation suffered as a child, loss of a parent when they were very young or just growing up in an alcoholic home. You must be able to admit that these stresses dwarf "being an entrepreneur." In comparison, most people handle starting their own business without it wrecking them but very few people can handle getting raped, or abused as a child without some really serious psychological consequences.

And there are always outliers and exceptions but if that is all this guy is, then it seems pretty disingenuous to use him in an article like this.
Self-modifying code is a classic way to observe differences among various implementations.

As a random example of an emulator that needed this that I found, https://github.com/kstenerud/Musashi/tree/master says:

- M68K_EMULATE_PREFETCH emulates the 4-word instruction prefetch that
is part of the 68000/68010 (needed for Amiga emulation).

Or, http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=12313 mentions:

Instruction Cache
Self modifying code loops wont work on the 68010+ because
it's (sic) instruction cache has no writeback stage. You must
replace all examples of SMC or switch off the I cache.
Good resource here if you need some recommendations:

http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/headphones/
The plan to let anyone become European – digitally
Thanks for this.

Are you in the US? If so, how much did the ordeal cost?
He is extremely rigid.

The strangest things here to me are RMS's allergy to data abstraction (insisting on using bare Lisp objects for things like events) and his excessive parsimony in design (unifying keymaps and menubars, when the only thing they have in common is that they're both trees). Neither of these reflects the software engineering practices that were taught to most of us at MIT. Perhaps he picked it up from hanging around some of the older hackers who were used to working with extremely limited machine resources.

Certainly in its early days, GNU Emacs was criticized for excessive resource consumption by people who were trying to run it on relatively small machines ("Eight Megabytes And Constant Swapping" was one joke I recall). Perhaps RMS was influenced by these criticisms; and probably, the Lucid developers did not feel quite so constrained, given their market. In any case, it's been a very long time since 8MB was a lot. It's funny to me now, when I occasionally use one of the fancy IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, to see how XEmacs is now the lightweight, fast choice by comparison. (And it loads in a 500MB log file in a couple of seconds -- try that with your IDE.)
Opening lede:
"In the near future, those from outside the country will have an opportunity to apply for an Estonian e-resident ID card — which means that they can use Estonian online services, open bank accounts, and start companies without ever having to physically visit Estonia"
> you maybe removed or debarred from Federal Service (5 C.F.R. part 731)

One does not want to mess with organizations that have "part 731" of anything.
What is the best non-essential $10-$20 you spend every month?: AskReddit
Detroit fears of losing carmaking to Silicon Valley
Very interested. Are there any courses already out there that can teach basic design?
Which statically-typed languages are you using?
In some cases. In other cases engine developers support multiple back ends and for actual game developers this is simplified by using that engine. But in any case if the game wants to be inclusive rather than exclusive the burden of supporting multiple APIs will show up. Either for studio developers themselves or as expense to hire contractors who do the porting or this will fall to engine developers.
The Solar System’s Weirdest Moon, Explained
Seriously, I worked at a startup for a year, I didn't like the direction it was going nor my roll there. I got a new job which was a step up from where I was before the startup. Honestly, in todays economy in the United States, I see very little risk for me joining a startup. I work for one of the top 5 largest software companies in the world but I'd certainly go work for another startup. It's not like they aren't giving me full benefits and a 401k. In fact, the perks are sometimes better at new startups!
The Plan to Save RadioShack
I think treating it as something of value is a meaningful type of support. If they seized something like a broken DVD player they'd probably just dispose of it, and if they seized illicit drugs they'd destroy them. Auctioning them says that it's a legal store of value.
Bored with your career? Try something new with this ‘Couchsurfing for jobs’
Are there any startups working on technologies to aid prognosis in a non-trivial way?
One thing I like about the register view is the highlighting on register change.

This is great when an instruction changes a register beyond a basic MOV/ADD/SUB.

Using register view ended up being the "lightbulb" moment which helped me understand how stack frames are built.
Sorry, I didn't have time to finish the usage page but the following readme should be comprehensive https://github.com/peter-murach/tty
Honestly, the consequences of the failing Barbershop are probably worse. He will probably lose a good amount of personal capital (unless he somehow got investors?) and his employment prospects will be to cut hair at someone else's barbershop.
How to Write Short
Hollywood itself moved far out to the west to escape Edison's patents, so possibly. That said, it's quite an impressive project to find in a magazine given the time.

I wonder what the purpose of that offer was? To locate technicians skilled enough to make or repair TVs, perhaps? To sell magazines? Or perhaps even to sell the parts they have on offer?
If you find any issues, or have suggestions then please write up on the https://github.com/peter-murach/tty/issues tracker.
This is my question as well. I'm not only afraid of something like this happening but that I'd be ruined financially if it did (and it really doesn't have to be something this big. Simply going to the emergency room would cost me thousands).
Or rather Apple-style lock-in cheerleading.
Pretty coherent, cool idea you wrote here.

I'd like to see you explore the implications of the idea that personhood is socialized into we 'blank slate' human animals with regards to people with Aspergers. Bet you get into trouble :)
Although different in nature (less interactive, more articles), HackDesign course is worth mentioning. I learned a lot there: https://hackdesign.org/lessons
Physicists Make Big Leap in Quantum Teleportation
Summary: The article says 12.5 million determined by serial number. But I don't think he counted 64c model.
How do you tell the difference between a few billionaires hanging out together and "backroom dealing"?. Once you reach certain levels of wealth it probably becomes awkward to hang out with regular people.
Not sure about strokes, but it used to be believed that a person with a concussion must be kept awake, but it turns out not to make a difference. It's still a fairly common trope in movies and on tv, though.

One source on that: http://www.uamshealth.com/?id=10724
Don't forget Microsoft. We are way ahead on using DNNs in speech and training those with GPUs.
> How so?

I mean new flush control support.
Thanks for the links, I will take a look. The future goal, idea is to create separate repositories dealing with specifics of command line apps. So for instance, in future I'd extract the prompt inquirer to be a separate gem called 'tty-inquirer' or similar.
I like the idea behind homebrew, but the implementation, particularly its desire to own /usr/local, leaves a bit to be desired.

I already use /usr/local for packages I install by hand. Homebrew doesn't play nicely with others. If it could be configured to use /opt/homebrew, for example, I'd give it another try.
Ever taken an IQ test? One reason for phrasing the questions in terms like "All gribs are freebles, and some freebles are blorts" is to avoid that kind of problem.

Obviously, the intent with all test questions of this nature is for you to treat all nouns as abstractions.
This book is pretty good
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Bea...

Also, the other day I came across this pretty exhaustive blog post
https://medium.com/@karenxcheng/how-to-get-a-job-as-a-design...
Much of the Chinese market is closed, which will artificially prevent convergence to a global model.
I think that its important to note that as a culture - we have more access to art than any time in history. Music, movies, literature is at our reach with unprecedented ease.

This article is not talking about art as a whole, but "The Arts". I'll be playing a tiny violin for them.
I played the kerning game. It's true they don't give you any instruction on what good kerning is, so if you've never been exposed to the concept you have to discover it by failing through it.
Six-Figure Incomes – And Facing Financial Ruin
Bone paste could provide treatment for ostoeporosis
Show HN: Peer-to-peer support network, gamification based iPhone app
> A restaurant on a warm day whose air conditioning breaks down will see a sharp decline in sales (yes, someone did a study).

Ugh, then link to the fucking study! I've spent a few minutes in Google/Google Scholar trying to find said study, to no avail. Would love to see it if someone finds it.
One of the first popular Moog songs -- the original Gershon Kingsley "Popcorn": http://youtube.com/watch?v=OSRCemf2JHc
ANSI gem does a lot of this already http://rubyworks.github.com/ansi.
I'm always a bit leery of all-in-one libraries. If libraries have good SOC then it's nice to be able to mix and match.
Absolutely. I felt the part about the guy becoming an alcoholic because he became an entrepreneur to be really over-the-top.
Not all, but many, yes, probably even most.
Though she says her speech wasn't slurred, you can tell from the story she had speech and comprehension difficulties. Regarding face drooping and arm drift, it could be that she just doesn't remember/didn't notice, again she says herself her memory was failing. I'm sure a doctor would have recognised the symptoms immediately.
It is not the concurrency issues I meant. It's about accumulating commands in the userland and transferring them to the kernel mode driver. The concurrency that affects performance the most is inter-draw call concurrency, as I said above. Flush control is about GPU-CPU concurrency, which, btw, still has long ways to go to reach the level of the control available in native APIs on consoles.
I actually did some fighting and getting punched in the face really is the best learning experience when the goal is to learn how to protect yourself. If we didn't throw real punches than we would never learn how to handle real punches. And sometimes you got hit...in the face.
It seems there is a cross compiler for Go https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs
There are also bindings for WebGL https://github.com/gopherjs/webgl
This shouldn't happen. Can you help us fix it by sending what shows up in the console?
Right. It's reasonable to question a claim if someone has a vested interest in the outcome, but Baidu's future is looking pretty secure no matter what interface people prefer for their searches. Researchers definitely have biases, but I would much rather hear an educated opinion from a researcher who has chosen to dedicate time and thought into a subject than almost anybody else.
Not sure, but maybe at a preventative level? E.g. if your heart rate behaves a certain way after exercise or during sleep, maybe it indicates a stronger likelihood of having a blood clot.

Well I don't know, I'm not a doctor- that's why I'm asking the question, hoping that someone knowledgeable will answer with a concrete reasoning.

Your comment in its present form is quite pointless.
Stages of Accepting Your Design Sucks
Ask HN: Bay area companies employing FRP and/or Native-JS bridge in their apps
Hi, my name is Tamas, I'm a developer at Prezi ( http://prezi.com ) and I'm going to spend a month in SF participating in a so-called fellowship program, in which we are given the chance to visit other top-notch or aspiring tech companies, meet with the counterparts in our field, and exchange thoughts and experiences.

My main area of interest is Mac/iOS development but that's just too vague so I narrowed it down to two specific topics that might come up in my daily work in the future: Functional/Reactive Programming and native-JS hybrid apps.

I'm looking for companies in the Bay area that have got their feet wet in either of these. If you are working for such a company and willing to meet for an informal talk one shiny day in October, I'll appreciate if you drop me a line at tamas dot lustyik at prezi dot com. I'd also be grateful for other 3rd party suggestions, especially if accompanied with contact information.

Thanks in advance and see you soon at the meetups!
Mechanism and agents of infection weren't understood at the time of the Black Death. We know what causes Ebola, and how it is transmitted. We know how to selectively allow what we need for survival (water, food, other commodities) to transit between infected and noninfected zones.

No, not every individual knows or understands this, particularly in primitive areas. But the global system as a whole does.

As for the Black Death, there are instances of specific villages or households (or castle-holds) who sealed themselves off and had sufficient stores to see themselves through the plague.
The Rust language provides the tools required for people to write a system call interface (which can be in the standard distribution or outside it, both have the same power), I don't think building such a thing into the language (rather than in a library) is at all sensible.

As others have pointed out people have written linux kernel modules, kernels and all sorts of other low-level things in Rust.

(Rust's inline assembly interface is essentially "write in ASM"... If you're truly needing to go that far down yourself, then knowing assembly seems very reasonable. However, this shouldn't be needed much, just use libraries that do it internally.)
People tend to be irrational towards ants too. They see one march across their kitchen floor and lose it. So to clear up common misperceptions, I wrote "Take a humane stance with ants". http://allsprawldown.com/animal-ethics/taking-an-ethical-sta...
s/Secret Service Special Agents/American hijackers/

s/U.S. government employees/Americans/

We therefore conclude that "Some Americans are American hijackers." The logic's airtight; it comes from a secret service test designed to evaluate logic ability.

Suddenly the TSA makes sense.