skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to agree with the GP. Attitudes about money, negotiation and status are formed early in life and while you can outgrow them it's difficult to shake them off entirely.

I've been in the US nearly half my life (from Ireland originally) but I can't see myself getting used to that aspect of American business culture. My instinctive view is that if I'm you're employee and you're happy with my performance, it's your job to put your money where your mouth is, not mine to come to you asking for more. My compromise approach these days is that when someone solicits my help I ask them how much they've budgeted for the work they want done/ If the answer is not a positive sum, then I ask them what area they're willing to accept and equivalent loss of productivity.
Notch did not say "no" to the Money at all. He said "I don't want the responsibilities, but I'll take the money, thank you". Which is well in his right, don't make me say what I did not.
What's wrong with indexes? 1024 = 10 bits * 5 = 50bits then 4 bits * 5 = 70 bits total.

Or just a bit flag for active (500bits) then 4 bits * 5 for your count = 520 bits.

And if you really want to compress things start with a count so the 500 bit flag is only used if your count is over 50.

PS: in your case you also need an index of number if bits / bytes used.

Edit: If there is a reasonable chance your counts are greater than 1 just appending one bit per count vs using higher exponents saves space aka for 3 numbers append 100101 = first 1 then 3 then 2.
> You really don't want to use x86 hardware transcendental instructions

...unless you're doing size-optimised graphics intros, where tremendous accuracy is not essential and the stack-based nature of x87 makes for some extremely compact code:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53816

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35UuntQQF8

I think the main reason why this issue hasn't been so significant is that the majority of code that uses those instructions isn't dependent on extreme accuracy - code that does would likely use their own routines and/or even arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
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Wait, I thought that the reason I can't afford a Tesla is that I waste too much time on HN....
Amazing talks. Alex is the best in the world at this.
The board of the Nobel Foundation bestowing awards on those it deems worthy, or Sartre for not playing along with it all?
This essay has had quite a few lives: in Sweden, in France, in the USA; during the Cold War, after it; now oddly enough, I meet it on HN. It's so well written, in fact, that a more playful Swedish Academy might have awarded the prize to Sartre in a subsequent year, citing this essay itself...
http://www.pureengineering.com/projects/lepton
https://www.tindie.com/products/PureEngineering/flir-lepton-...
https://groupgets.com/campaigns/31-flir-lepton-thermal-image...
http://hackaday.com/2014/09/13/a-breakout-board-for-a-flir-l...
http://hackaday.io/project/3000-Flir-Lepton-Thermal-Camera-B...
Forcing mobile users to rotate their devices to landscape mode to see the site seems like a very lazy design decision.
In that case changing the headline is intentionally deceptive.
It seems to want me to rotate my monitor to view the site. Very poor design.
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So the only usefulness of this product is that it provides a feeling of nostalgia, and smug belonging? (Like you're cool now if you have a tilde.club page?) Thus we cannot invite lots of people to the tilde.club because... we're just too cool for them. I predict #Fail.
In regards to understanding voice input, I have been thoroughly impressed with Google's ability to do this ever since I started using their 1-800-GOOG-411 service. I didn't get my first smartphone with data until 2009 (Droid), so the service was really handy for me before that. I'm sure it also gave Google a ton of data to help them improve their capabilities (even mentions that in the Wikipedia article [1]).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
This is a great change.

But to clarify, functions which take 2 or more reference inputs won't benefit from this, since the compiler can't determine which lifetime parameter to use, right?

Edit: Never mind, I RTFM. Turns out it can't benefit.
Yes but it was a reference to his other ideas and so not really limited to the one character in one play.
2015 a mutant raccoon race with an opposing thumb paw gets an advantage with new garbage can design and spreads in Toronto.
2030 they routinely get into houses and hide to watch home owners to learn where they hide the key from the reinforced food storage vaults.
2035 all drones in the country are armed to shoot raccoons but they learn to steal human dress and so disguise themselves
2040 raccoons learn to read digits and open the codelocks.
2050 human race is fighting a survival war against raccoon armed with stolen arms and drones that got overzealous and confusing people for disguised raccoons.

Unfortunately I'm not Philip.K.Dick :-)
React Hacker News
Autopartage et covoiturage: une augmentation de 35 % par an d’ici 2020
Even after rotating, the text was too small to read (on an iPhone 5).
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Hmm, I wonder if I can make tea in it. (sip)
Yeah, I've heard that, too.

Fuck those guys. I remember Steven Yegge said "every time someone has tried to make me happy with money they've succeeded, usually on the first try."
I strongly agree with this. I'm being contrarian with my questions above (and may do so again in the future) becuase it seems to me that the big obstacles to a basic income are cultural and political, and I'm trying to figure out good solutions to that problem.

As a parallel, consider immigration. From an economic point of view, open borders make a lot of sense because the supply of labor can easily adjust to the demand, so I've wondered for a long time why there shouldn't be free movement of labor as well as capital. Indeed, many people agree with this; I can't imagine you'd find anyone in the US that wanted to adopt China's houkou system, and require people from one state to get a work permit before moving to or taking a job in another state. Given the demographic situation in the US with waves of baby boomers retiring but also living longer the resultant worsening retiree:worker ratio, immigration also makes a great deal of sense as a way to keep a lid on payroll taxes and so forth, and this is coincidentally the last opportunity the US is likely to have to exploit a nearby foreign labor surplus just when it needs one (due to falling overseas birthrates and wage equalization eroding the US demand-side advantages).

Pretty much every economist agrees that more immigration with fewer restrictions would be a good thing for the US. But obviously a sizable contingent of the population just cannot stand that idea and any time such proposals are made in DC the objectors melt the congressional switchboard as quickly as possible to express their displeasure.

So I've given up hope that proposals for a basic income would succeed on the grounds of rationality alone.
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If only the press and twitter got as worked up about the multi year wage fixing lawsuit that may or may not go to trial rather than these little gaffes and gotcha moments
Tesla: Introducing Autopilot and Dual Motor All Wheel Drive
You can get one for €3/yr http://lowendspirit.com/
The plot against public education
Apple's Jony Ive on the Lessons He Learned from Steve Jobs
I think it's interesting how he never explicitly says that he forked Gosling Emacs (I think that's what he did, but if not please correct me!).

"Therefore, when I wrote my second implementation of Emacs, I followed the same kind of design...Now, this [GNU Emacs] was not the first Emacs that was written in C and ran on Unix. The first was written by James Gosling, ... I discovered that Gosling's Emacs did not have a real Lisp. It had a programming language that was known as ‘mocklisp’, which looks syntactically like Lisp, but didn't have the data structures of Lisp... I concluded I couldn't use it [it here means mocklisp, but can be confused to mean Gosling Emacs] and had to replace it all, the first step of which was to write an actual Lisp interpreter. I gradually adapted every part of the editor based on real Lisp data structures, rather than ad hoc data structures, making the data structures of the internals of the editor exposable and manipulable by the user's Lisp programs...This second Emacs program was ‘free software’ in the modern sense of the term"

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it.
I love going through HN apps people have made, so here's what I think of it after using the free version a little bit.

- Comments could use some work. I feel like the comments are a bit too small. Maybe have it so you could swipe a parent comment and it'll fold the children? The layout in general looks a bit awkward when there is a long chain of comments, but I'm not sure how that could be approached differently.

- It'd be awesome to have it so swiping back from the comments page / link would take you to the main screen. It'd make browsing feel more smooth.

- Some sort of difference between read posts and unread posts would be a good idea, too.

- A night theme is pretty much a dealbreaker for me since I use my tablet most at night. That's just me being picky, though.

All in all, it feels pretty smooth, but feels more phone-oriented than tablet oriented due to everything being so small (comments, headers, etc.). Comments could use some work, but for an initial release it feels pretty solid. Great work!
Um. https://twitter.com/gestureKit/with_replies
One that I wrote, written in Ruby: http://magickly.afeld.me/ Powers http://mustachify.me :3)
A Nokia Lumia 1020 powers this automated 3D-printed telescope
I love that background color! (I posses no design skills what so ever)
Sounds like he Ship of Theseus'd it.
Redis Cluster appears to be similar to using memcached with Facebook's mcrouter [1].

[1] https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter
The takeaway I got from this article is that some women in tech find the very idea of male allies condescending:
http://readwrite.com/2014/10/09/technology-sexism-male-allie...

What do you think?
The Hacker News API
I just had to write an image server for work and found it incredibly hard. What's your on-the-fly image processing setup look like?
Have you tried talking to Linode guys. This is a good amount, I think something can be arranged.
BTSync is a radical improvement in the network protocols but I still can't get the btsync web ui to change my password. You could say that their priorities are in the right place for an open source project, which they are not.
Don't get me wrong, I love the concept and most of the implementation of btsync. But they are holding themselves back, leaving an opportunity for projects like Pulse.
That said, Pulse is dead in the water without peer-discovery. How do I connect to a peer with Pulse if there is no central server?
Hacker News API Wrapper for Node
Sartre, for writing with such unnecessary length.
Just started whipping this up. Would love if people wanted to help contribute to make it awesome. Thanks!
Nice! I did something similar a while back: http://int3.github.io/metajs/
Ah, they must have changed it recently. I have multiple friends with domains connected to free plans on Weebly at present.
Maybe. Now that I know how to program, I'm quite comfortable with iOS and Obj-C. What was difficult was mostly the concept of OOP, I think.
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Notch, for better or worse, was an idealistic symbol of anti-establishmentarianism, most famously when he declared that Mojang wouldn't be developing Minecraft for Facebook after oculus sold out to them, even though the financial incentives were obviously greatly enhanced by such an acquisition, which was going to accelerate development of VR as a platform, particularly with Minecraft sitting right in the nexus of Social/Gaming. He stood on principals, rather than align him self conceptually or monetarily with (what he perceived) to be Oculus selling out.

But, there comes a point, when everyone says, "You know what - pay me enough money and you can do anything you want with my greatest creation."

Would Sartre have been willing use his voice, his writing, and his intellectual heft to support various bourgeois position for $2B, knowing that he could have used that money to support the "concrete" freedoms for so many people in so many places? He was tortured by turning down 250,000 crowns (around $2mm in current dollars?)

Of course, the contrary position to this is that what Sartre did not want to sacrifice was his freedom to not be associated with any one political body, so that his writing would in no way be restrained by anything other than his intellect; and Notch, in selling Mojang to Microsoft, gave up none of his independence, and in no way became associated with Microsoft (indeed, he immediately left the company upon acquisition). Watch Notch did was the intellectual equivalent of Sartre selling the copyrights of one his books to someone wanting to buy them, nothing more.
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The manual frothers usually say that they work best with non-fat milk. Yuck.
Exactly, he is thinking as CEO here and the last thing they want is everyone asking for a raise every 6-12 months. He was also led into it a bit when asked about why women haven't asked for a raise that are successful.

I think he should have said when I think the best time to ask for a raise is, just after a major delivery or few. After proving substantive worth via projects/ship is the best time to ask for an uptick. It is more about the timing than anything. I think he was trying to say it this way but failed.
Wait this isn't the same as the celery task system? Yeah I was super confused as well. Probably not good to name something the same thing that has basically the same target market.
This is called Godel numbering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godel_numbering).
I have never seen a tea-maker that required or used high pressure, while espresso machines always use high pressure.
Speaking of which, aren't the predictions related to global climate change based on computational models?
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I have read more article's in the last month that feature Anita Sarkeesian in them than I previously thought I would have in my entire life.
cool. and its free including on-device testing
Deep learning for detecting robot grasps
That's true, I should rephrase it as "Ethernet is not designed to carry any significant current. On any pins. At all. So don't connect your twisted-pair to your two-prong."
Jacobin Magazine always good for a laugh!
Machine learning is the new algorithms
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I guess, he knew why he made one person say that.
Data science is mainly a human science
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Trype Keyboard: iOS keyboard that translates while you type
She is but one point in the broad corpus of data this article brings up. That's part of the point: the problems are rampant.
Thanks for this lesson! As much as I love using Redis, this learning will help me way more than Redis has done.
> As Hess herself put it, “Policing misogyny is fabulous in theory. In practice, it’s a bitch.”

It's interesting, but this seems to be very true. Creating rules to behaviour seem to have the primary effect of spurring people to find ways to circumvent the rules. Any attempt at enforcing the spirit of the rules and not the letter leads to long diatribes on the nature of free speech coupled with some incredible persecution complex.

The interesting part is that the culture of a community is so incredibly fragile. They do not require a majority of bad actors, because beyond a very small number, these bad actors will quickly cause the original members of the community to leave and soon the ratio becomes more and more unbalanced spiraling until the community is no longer what it started out as.

Despite my aversion to overlords in real life, I find that online communities are most effective when strongly policed with unproductive dissent silenced outright. Not all dissent, just that which is unproductive.

My personal hypothesis is that while we see public places as public, and private places as private in real life, these distinctions are less clear online. Couple that with the problem where you don't know if a person is undesirable until after you've let him in and things quickly become hard to control.

I don't know if there is a solution.
It's really unfortunate that all open source discussions don't go like the discussion I just read between the two of you. It sure would be nice if that were the case.
A friend's nephew, some acquitances' son... at that time, ten to twenty years ago, domestic tragedies didn't appear in the media.

Edit: I live in Spain. I don't know how it is in your country. Now here these accidents are increasingly in tv.
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This is a great talk, but I can't help but think this is tailored to bigger companies than YC-application stage start-ups. Alex spends lots of time talking about the distinction between power users and marginal users, which is incredibly valuable advice for the AirBnBs, Dropboxes, Facebooks, etc but a different problem set than the 'normal' start-up.

For emerging product-market fit companies, your power users are your lifeblood. Cultivation super-users early is the make or break for seed companies. These super users are testers, referrals, product-definers, everything. 50M+ user problems are just so limited.

In any case, great talk, but definitely targets growth marketers more than start-up folks. Especially liked the idea of tying 'magic numbers' to logical reasoning, not done enough in the growth world.

Edit: Much better in the tactical section going through marketing tactics.
After reading this article, I read up on the history of Lisp Machines, and the conflict between Richard Greenblatt and Russell Noftsker. Interestingly, Noftsker was himself forced out of Symbolics after a battle with their CEO. Karma, I guess.
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He said he chose "literate" because he wanted those who didn't like it to be advocating "illiterate programming".

The common use of the term these days (source interspersed with documentation, serving as both) leaves out one significant aspect of WEB, where you could do quite a bit of rearranging the file layout (with slightly-buffed-up C style macros, basically) so that the communicative structure dominated. Reading through the papers on it was interesting; I've not actually put together a project in it.
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It just makes me think IBM will never get the consumer the way other companies like Apple and Google do. There is nothing immediately actionable about how I can start using this from the get go. What the hell is bluemix ? Is that an internal thing I am supposed to know about ? How can I start being productive in 5 minutes vs. trying to solve a puzzle by piecing different pieces together ? It all seems very enterprise-y and indirect - an immediate turn off in this day and age of immediate usability and short attention spans.
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"As Hess herself put it, 'Policing misogyny is fabulous in theory. In practice, it’s a bitch.'"

This woman's word choice is particularly revealing of the pervasiveness of misogyny in (our) human culture.
jcheng - The problem of gender equality cannot be solved by women alone if that's what the author is insinuating. Of course men can't truly empathize, they aren't women. It's about awareness. Most senior board positions in the corporate world are held by men - they don't think it's a problem at all and the thought doesn't cross their mind. Not all of them need to "get it right" right away but getting them to talk is a good next step. My school recently did a student body survey on this topic: 34% of my male colleagues think American companies have policies in place to help men & women succeed vs 17%(!) women. http://whartonjournal.com/2014/09/29/wharton-women-in-busine...
Briggs saw the worst of this during suicide crises on the bridge when drivers passing by would yell out, "Go ahead and jump."

Despicable.
There are 5700 words in this article. Exactly 72 of those words refer - directly or indirectly - to Sarkeesian.

Before even mentioning Sarkeesian the article reports on the threats and abuse suffered by 4 other women. Directly after mentioning Sarkeesian it details stories of 5 more women who have been harassed, violently attacked, or threatened.

So... Sarkeesian is the part that you latch onto here?
Yoav Goldberg's comments - and those of the anonymous reviewers - were indeed very useful in encouraging us to do a better job at the evaluation in the paper. These were comments on the submission version, and so the improvements were included in the camera-ready version following the usual procedure.

To say that there were troublesome concerns about the evaluation is a bit too strong. Yoav's experiment showed that for the one data setup he ran, training both models on the same data, GloVe out-performed word2vec by less than in our results where we compared against the publicly released word2vec vectors. But it still outperformed word2vec. And Yoav's comparison isn't the last word: In his experiments, he ran GloVe for only 15 iterations, but, as we already knew and were taking advantage of, GloVe's performance continues to improve for many more iterations. This is now much more clearly documented in the final version of the paper (see fig. 4).

But at the end of the day, these numeric differences were never the point of the paper. The contribution of the paper is to show how the kind of good results word2vec gets with online learning on a token stream can be achieved also by working from a global co-occurrence count matrix, more in the style of the traditional SVD, but changing the loss function and frequency scaling, and that you could expect working in this way to be somewhat more statistically efficient. Yoav has actually been involved in some very interesting work along the same lines himself: https://levyomer.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/neural-word-emb...

@jo_9: We don't use word2vec for training, only for experimental comparison, and the style of training is fairly different.
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Or on various Seattle roads, like I-5 where the speed limit is variable not just by time of day and congestion, but even which lane you're in. (Not to mention that the signs over each lane don't show the standard white rectangle with black text.)
Here's a quick demo of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7quu551ehc0
We'll wax nostalgic to our grandchildren about the days when we could look up and see a clear sky.
Wow. It's incredible how far we've come with technology.
Ugh, the post you linked is baffling. "You’re in it more for yourself than your company." Obviously! It's called rational self-interest. It's the company's responsibility to treat their employees well enough that it's in their best interest to work there. If you've spent a lifetime honing your skills, why would you want to work for someone who doesn't understand this or doesn't care?