skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Maersk, based in Copenhagen, ordered 20 Triple-E’s from Daewoo of South Korea in 2011"

I got the rare opportunity to tour the DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering) yard in Okpo Bay, Geoje-Do South Korea a few years ago. I think it's the second largest shipyard in the world. It was really an unbelievable experience. Container ships are huge when they're in the water, but they're absolutely mind bogglingly immense in drydock, where individual sections dwarf most apartment buildings.

The range of ships they produce there is also rather mindblowing, in my tour I saw (in various stages of assembly) container ships, LPG transport vessels, crude oil ships, various navy ships and a handful of submarines among others.

The engineering going on is also fairly cutting edge. Problems like accurately predicting weld strength are still unsolved and they had a large computational modelling R&D programs I got a glimpse of while I was there.

If you squinted a bit, it almost felt like huge starships were being assembled there.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8706117,128.706339,6867m/dat...

Down the street (more or less), in Gohyeon, is another huge shipyard which I think Samsung Heavy Industries runs.
It is always a debate about picking from the choices available. Just like the equity portion, it's all baked into the decision even if it's discussing the specific equity offer.

Not sure why you feel so passionately about this.
You are not going to get anywhere near the amount of money invested in research if you go with a public supported funding model.
Article should be titled: "Why parents leave tech: It's the culture"

That "not because 'math is hard'" part is extremely trolly and click-baiting. Also kind of sexist (as the article itself is making that implication out of the blue). It is also never touched upon in the article (i.e. that isn't a real quote, just a fiction for the title's own sake).

I actually like the article, and agree with many of its points and conclusions. I dislike the title of the article very much.

I will say that many of the criticisms layed out in this article to tech's culture could equally be laid at the feed of almost every other non-child-related industry.

The lack of work-life-balance and or flexibility is a huge recurring problem for all parents with young children. I highly doubt tech' is the worst offender in this area, however it is fine to discuss it in the context of tech' as it remains a legitimate gripe (and frankly I can see tech' being a progressive enough industry to fix some of this).
It is not absurd. Generally, if humans can do it, it is a reasonable task for NLP to attempt.

Yes you can present edge cases where there is no definite answer, like the one you cite, but this doesn't mean that the task in general is impossible or useless.
What Writing Fiction Taught Me About Writing Software
Communication lessons. Not seeing each other = more communication, not less
That's a good answer, but I want to give you a little candid feedback.

I think you are doing a good job addressing the pain points of a company, but i'm not sure there is much value here for a developer.

You are basically offering the developer speed, which is meaningful.

In my opinion, there is a false assumption that makes your value statement less relevant. I'm not sure that the majority of developers would take an interview with a company based on the fact that they were "a perfect match" by a third party.

Most developers are not interested in interviewing for a company where they do not have a direct connection (which is what LinkedIn is trying to capitalize on)

Something to think on. Again, if I were a company I would be quite interested in your model.

Best of luck.
Wow, speech recognition in a Turing-complete language. Amazing.
It seems like using "most successful" companies as a rubrik for decision making doesn't make a lot of sense, given how unlikely it is that any company will make it to the "most successful" categorization.

There are some tangible benefits from working out of a coworking space (I'm not sure you are advocating an opinion one way or the other regarding them):

- easier access to networking events. Certainly you can make the trek from your office over to where the event is, but there is an extra level of convenience.

- Access to other people. I was the only technical founder on our team, and just being able to talk shop with other engineers had real value. For the business guys, they were able to talk with other business guys and swap ideas and information.

- Manufactured Serendipity. This one is a bit of a stretch, but if you are around other startups, there is a small chance that something lucky can happen. Is it going to move the needle? Dunno, certainly more likely to happen than if you were alone in a garage.

None of these things should take away from what I think is the important aspect of an office: allowing people to work productively. If that part isn't there, then no amount of perks and benefits will matter.
My 2014 thinkpad doesn't have any of those things... Im not sure they were even options.
I've never upgraded a unibody aluminum MBP. The ones I've worked on were from 2007.

It is nice that there was a temporary respite of upgradability before they decided to go to the furthest extreme possible and make it entirely non-upgradable.
If they go through the Straits of Hormuz, definitely.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/30/us-shipping-attack...
Jobless Rate in U.S. Falls Below 6% as Hiring Picks Up
Sassy Ampersands in SASS
Hm, I assumed it was an American chain or 3-5* hotel thing. I've stayed >100 nights in hotels in Europe and only seen paid bottles of water perhaps a handful of times. I guess we stay at different kind of hotels.

Much more exciting have been the freebies (zero status/independent hotels): chocolates, biscuits, wine, platters of local delicacies, fruit baskets, free non-alcoholic mini-bar replenished daily... :-)
The media in this article is frustrating. The lead of this story is the incredible size of these container ships, but no photos, and no parts of the video, show the ship side-by-side anything which gives us a sense of scale.

It's all very well showing a diagram of the Empire State Building stood on its side, but I would have loved to see even a single photo or 1 second of video where it was moving slowly past a landmark. Or even a long-shot of the harbor as it came out of port. Nope. All artistic "through the porthole" or other strange angles which never capture the whole ship.

Anyone got a resource which actually shows the ship in a setting which gives it some sense of scale, instead of, like this article, leaving all of that to the imagination?
Hazmat leakage that needs tending to?
> Thats tricky - firstly I can't jeopardize a big contract by complaining about a trivial gift (!). Secondly the company in question is "truly" innocent / oblivious here. They get a marketing catalog and pick 100 of item X. Not sure how one would reach such a marketing company - but they are the culprits here.

I understand. It would be awesome if the word reached that company that the item they picked from catalog is both evil and moderately annoying to users. They actually might take it into account (people often do care if they know; I've personally made a SEO spammer lose business like that). But it's completely understandable you might not be in position to deliver such a message. On the other hand yes, that marketing company should be one to get the blame.
It doesn't seem that ironic to me - it doesn't really follow that a more expensive hotel would be more affordable when you arrive. The bar, restaurant, etc. are all more expensive, too.
Then perhaps you need only read my comment. I typed the exact words "It's not a fact that no one helps". I have no interest in providing scientifically rigorous studies for you, I was only helping you see where the GP was probably coming from.
Yahoo Nears Investment in Snapchat
Right, it's all done on the client, so it is server agnostic.
Neither, I keep it in a handy, hidden location, where if I'm not at it, is close to my path to the door. It is however traditional in this area to keep one or more guns by your door.

I'd like to think the risk of killing an innocent is negligible. I'm neither morally or legally allowed to use lethal force unless I (technically a "reasonable person" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person) believe I'm being threatened with lethal force and that's the best option.

My above testimony should be ample evidence that I realize the terrible responsibilities and consequences of using lethal force; I am therefore necessarily hesitant to do so, specifically my threshold is set high to avoid ambiguity. In my case, not having any dependents, and living with someone who's also capable of defending himself, I'm willing to take a certain degree of risk to avoid using lethal force on an innocent.

In this vague hypothetical, I might instead retreat into my house, perhaps warning the possible assailant that I'm armed and don't want to have to shoot him. Someone who (continues to) advance in the face of that (not to mention entering a dwelling with a strong anti-invitation) could be judged a threat.

Although not necessarily a lethal one, but if someone continues to advance on a visibly armed man, the man can at some point presume the one advancing intends to take the gun away, thereby posing a lethal threat. And all this leaves out whatever that person is saying, all part of his demeanor which one uses in judging his intent.
Okay, I'll be more explicit.

You told people they are incapable of boredom while 'really exercising'. You were not talking about whether you were bored. You were telling people what they feel. You were making a factual statement.

It was insulting for you to call people wrong on a factual matter where they have experience and you don't. Then you compounded the problem by arguing about it.

You can't just call something an opinion to deflect criticism.
Show me these hordes of people who do basic research who become rich because of their patents. Because obviously the population of these must be rather sizeable for this to be a real alternative to, say, Wall Street.

I suspect your argument is pointless. I suspect you are focusing on lottery winners.
I think the equivalent of replicators are still far-off. We'll have drone ships loading and unloading themselves far sooner than we'll have people getting whatever their hearts desire from a little machine in their home from pure carbon pellets.

That said, "Tea, earl gray, hot."....someday.
Accessing the network is just one aspect of being in TechStars.

The mentor selection, who attends demo day, who holds office hours, all differ by location.
> Whether using Sublime, Visual Studio, or Vim with Nerd Tree, a lot of time is spent scrolling through the directory tree.

There might be a lot of reasons to use dir-by-feature or dir-by-function but if the above is a problem you should probably get a better editor.

EDIT: or use yours better.
GitHub requests its users not to use GitHub as a hosting for large binaries. You should probably use Amazon S3 for distributing these files or you can upload them to a Sound Hosting service like SoundCloud.

Here is GitHub's policy : https://help.github.com/articles/distributing-large-binaries...
I don't know if the 3+ billion in military aid to Israel sould really be in the same bucket as say fighting Ebola. Then again the pharmaceutical R&D numbers are also vastly inflated.
I'd like tabs to go around the browser - not just the top edge.
I was responding to the idea that disruption would occur by means of drones and 3D printing. (I agree that for small amounts of materials, this might someday be the case, but currently, this is obviously not a "ripe," disruptive alternative.) You simply cannot beat the efficiency of this mode of transport for large amounts of material.

If you want to disrupt this industry, a completely different mode of transport would have to be invented. Good luck building your teleporters or your ocean-length, frictionless rail lines, everyone!
In the case of manufacturing physical objects, there are also good reasons why the specialized factory can produce higher-quality products than a 3D printer can. For one, in an ocean of materials with various relative strengths and weaknesses 3D printers only work with a handful of polymers.

I think it'll work out like on-demand printing. That laser printer in your office is fine for printing out a one-off contract. But when the time comes to restock your company's collection of brochures, it's probably best to send out to have them printed on high-volume equipment that can do a better job of it.
European Commission Approves Acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook
With today's commodity-scale solar panels, is there enough non-container surface area on a Triple-E to reduce the fuel usage by 1% with a solar electric drive that assists the fuel-based engines?
Challenge - Upload a photo of the print, see it in frame.

Extra credit - Take some photos of your frames in natural room settings. Inside the frame, place a color calibration sheet. Find the transformation of the color calibration sheet (EG - how the room affects color, glare, and shadows), and then apply it to the user-uploaded images. Perhaps this could sell the difference between normal and anti glare.
> [Don't] Personally fix bugs and ship features. You have to write code to remain an effective tiebreaker, but that’s where your coding responsibilities end.

How do you write code without fixing bugs and shipping features? What do you mean by tiebreaker?
This is where OCD really kicks my ass. I want to understand everything that I'm typing, and it's a major hurdle to have to accept that, no, I just can't have all the answers.
Right, this argument is bullshit. The only people getting rich off of patents are giant corporation CEOs and lawyers.
Installing Apple CarPlay and Taking It for a Spin
http://online.wsj.com/articles/will-stores-warm-up-to-apple-...
Sourcery (YC W13) Raises $2.5M to Connect Kitchens and Local Food Suppliers
The Manic Side of Entrepreneurship
Ah, yes. Those lost, noble days when we all walked around gasping in religious ecstasy whenever our eyes fell on someone's cooking fire or someone burning his trash in the street.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Good_old_days
My chrome browser thinks your site isn't "trusted". Gogle's not a fan?
There are tangible costs to working in a coworking space:

* It's significantly more expensive.

* It's distracting.

* It creates an endless font of excuses to "network" and "talk shop" instead of powering through the schleps.

* It colocates serious companies alongside fundamentally unserious ones, leaving the serious ones to filter requests, drama, networking, &c.

For me, cost is dispositive. Put burning cash up against abstract benefits like "serendipity" and "talking shop" and I don't have a hard time making that decision. Last company, we wanted to talk shop too. We started a meetup. It worked fantastic. Do that!

Erin and I are signing a lease on the office for NewCo today. The space is depressing. We're in Oak Park to begin with, a 35 minute walk from my house, and you'd have to look to find an office with a window staring out onto a brick wall. We have two of those. It's perfect.

There's a time for spending some cash to make your work space pleasant. But not in the early days. Unfortunately, that's what coworking spaces optimize for.
It is against the HN guidelines to editorialize titles like this. Please don't.
What I do is keep a notepad next to me. When I start something, I first write what my goal is. This guides me as to how deep I am willing to go. If my goal is just to learn things, I start out with a tutorial and write notes about what I don't understand as things that I can follow-up on later.

It helps that I've spent some time explicitly trying to learn things on multiple levels. If you like doing that, look at MIT's class 6.004 and it will give you a deeper understanding of computer architecture.
Gentoo is for people who want their bash fixes in minutes/hours not weeks.
It just means that the waterways are currently too narrow or too shallow for such increasingly massive ships, either naturally or because the deepening simply hasn't caught up to the increasing size of cargo vessels. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is involved with many port dredging projects to make the navigable waterways deeper and wider.[1] There has always been an iterative relationship between size/draft of ships and width/depth of waterways -- in fact, the size of many ships the world over is constrained for practical purposes by the size of the Panama Canal.[2]

The US government has been improving ports since its early days. In fact, the expenditure of federal funds on "internal improvements" such as port improvements was quite the contentious issue in the early republic.[3] But most of the world's trade moves by sea, and the US is and always has been a maritime nation.[4] The ROI for port improvements is laughably high, so it has always been a no-brainer.

[1] http://dqm.usace.army.mil/Education/Index.aspx

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_improvements

[4] http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-p...
Maersk actually has a pretty solid instagram account where they post those kinds of pictures.

http://instagram.com/maerskline
Lots of gems here, in my opinion. This should be very helpful for anyone moving into management.
For non-subscribers: https://www.google.com/search?q=Yahoo+Nears+Investment+in+Sn...
I know a lot of malware checks google.com to see if they are connected to the internet, as it is usually a site that is up and not blocked. Haven't looked into it yet to see if this is the case as well
That analogy breaks because the bars and restaurants are also much nicer, while the wifi at expensive hotels is no better. The better analogy is with basic toiletries, cots, and similar items of fixed quality where they really are more likely to be comped at a more expensive hotel.
My only advice would be to try to be more effective with your points. While you seem to have a lot of knowledge, giving the reader so much at once makes it feels like nothing is important.

I would remove a lot of the redundant or obvious points and try to consolidate others. I like the idea I just think asking someone to read 44 points and remember any significant portion is too much.

I enjoyed the article, I just don't know how much I would remember if asked about it tommorow. I imagine it would be a very valuable tool for newly hired managers inside and outside of engineering though.
This sounds really cool, and I live at one of the endpoints so all the better.

Any thoughts on the basic logistics of it - sleeper cars, showers, food, preventing people from stinking up the whole joint, etc?
Based purely on the syntax they are showing, it seems like in the worst case scenario it should just be the equivalent of having a couple extra where clauses for each potentially matched row, so the impact should be nominal. The real question is whether the optimizer can actually make the queries faster than they would have been before if there are a huge number of rows, but only a small number that the user has permission to access. E.g. can it create an indexed column on the permissions.
Labor unions have an explicit antitrust exemption.
Man, its worth $10bn but doesn't make any money, that's pretty amazing. Another solid investment by Yahoo.
A good in-depth list that clarifies the finer points of the job. These points could fit into the more broad container of "treat people with love and respect as if they were mature adults."
I switched to MacDown [1] months ago. It has more features, seems to be maintained and it is open source.

[1]: http://macdown.uranusjr.com/
More specifically agriculture is 77% and residential is 13% according to this UCLA report from 2009 (though there data looks like it is from 2005).

http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article4870.html

http://www.environment.ucla.edu/media/images/water-fig1-lrg....
Anyone knows if people are studying things like elon musk's hyperloop to revolutionnize goods transport ?
Ah yes, Yahoo investing in another company with no hope of actualizing it's valuation by actual revenue (as opposed to investors bloating it until an IPO).

I'm sure it'll look great next Tumblr...
also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406714
Come on, IMO the guy had the right to assume this lectures are made by cool people who won't mind. And if they do, he'll take it down.

He created some value for a few people. Probably wrote a 5-lines-long bash script to download the youtube video, pull the audio out of it, add the mp3 to a repo, commit and push. He's done something nice, so that others won't have to.

You're asking him to ask a few dozen people for permission. Suddenly this becomes a project. And what if one person doesn't see the e-mail, forgets to reply, or it ends up in spam folder? The repo becomes incomplete and far less useful.

I won't use it myself, but I can see why somebody would. When I listen to something on Youtube on my phone and hit the power button to turn off the screen, it pauses the video. It doesn't pause the audio in pretty much any music player app.
No, speech recognition systems are not necessarily good at that. You need a speaker recognition system for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_recognition
Please note that private networking on DigitalOcean doesn't limit this network interface to your own instances. All other customers on the same datacenter can connect to services exposed there. I don't have any experience with RethinkDB, so I might be wrong here, but you probably opened up your cluster to all other customers.
This martial arts hack can reduce violence while being socially entertaining
For the past 2 years I've rode Acela weekly between NY Penn and Washington Union Station and it's a breeze...show up 10 minutes before the train leaves no problem. Definitely beats flying or driving if you're going to/coming from within either city...at least until they add airport-style TSA.

Amtrak is slowly clawing back on their advantages (such as the new policy of forfeiting fares for no-shows), but are heads and shoulders above airlines in terms of comfort, free-wifi, etc.

Finally, it's almost always on-time or early, which compared to flying between DC and NYC would be insane to think of (Northeast Regional Trains are less so).

Last rant about flying -- it's funny to think that you probably spend less time in the air flying 250mi from DC to NYC than you do going 15mi in your cab after you land.
But the workforce participation rate also fell.

"Notably, part of the decline in the unemployment rate was because workers left the labor force. The share of the population with jobs or hunting for one fell to 62.7 percent, its lowest level since 1978."

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/unemployment-rate-dr...

Another article I read earlier today also said that the average wage fell by 1 cent.