skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don’t get is why they were even forced to stop selling the desks which were already being sold in the stores. It can’t be a logistic problem. And I was quite baffled by how useless the staff was. They had no clue why they were forced to return my money instead of handing over the desk they had in stock. It can’t get any worse once they are all replaced by robots, that’s for sure.
There is a fantastic AOC monitor. 28 inch, 4k, shows up as one monitor, 60hz, about ~550. I don't have the model number on hand, but I adore mine, one of the best purchases I've made. I run it at 100%dpi.
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We're using Clojure in production at Datacraft (http://www.datacraft.sg).

Main usage is on the server side: for web applications, APIs and data analytics back ends.
A quest to discover what makes games fun and addictive
Market caps aren't fake money, a significant (majority?) portion is actually real money that has been exchanged in their name. It represents wealth.

My experience with family life is that happiness, health, and interpersonal relationships are generally much harder to sustain without some wealth. Not impossible, but harder.
Show HN: Bloop: Information-theoretically secure, expiring messages
Will they all fail?

Not all of them, no, but a lot will.
My younger self would have said the same thing, that you have a moral obligation once you make a commitment. But having been around quite a while now, I have seen companies retract offers between when it was accepted and when the person was supposed to start, because they "changed their mind", or had a change in circumstances. So I take the opinion now that as long as you are up front and honest it is just a business transaction and the karma balances out by being up front.
Silverline Mobile (http://silverline.mobi/) uses Clojure in production - managing data from sensors installed in the homes of senior citizens in Singapore.
“I think we're on the right track. #money2020”
If it truly is a better job and you are clear and honest with company X they will be disappointed but shouldn't begrudge you for taking the other offer.

But I wouldn't make a habit of declining offers after accepting. The US tech community is smaller than you think and you wouldn't want get a reputation of not being true to your word.

If it is just a better offer in terms of money or shares, you can tell company X the details of company Y's deal. Company X might not be aware of current going rate and may be willing to match company Y's offer.
Their point is entirely valid though, and it all boils down to: there is no such thing as a secure backdoor.
A nice read -

Just a minor nit: s/peaked/piqued/

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SEEKING WORK - Taipei | Remote

Hi, my name is Ray. http://about.me/rmundo

I've been developing iOS apps for the past four years:
- Previously wrote satellite flight software for the Taiwanese space agency, jumped into mobile apps and haven't looked back since.
- Was iOS lead for one of the top navigation apps in Taiwan:
https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/le-ke-dao-hang-wangn3-pro/id...
- Did almost all of the development work for a local EV charge station info app:
https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/yes-chong-dian-zan/id6311870...
- Also scratched a few itches of my own:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/face-tie/id570542131?mt=8
- There are also others which I'm not at liberty to disclose.
- Also have done work in Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), Python, HTML/CSS, but prefer iOS work for now.

Why you should work with me:
- I keep up with most of the latest framework updates, was in SF for WWDC/altConf this year. (Although prefer not to work in Swift for now, personal projects only)
- I stay current with design trends and industry news. Core Intuition, DF, objc.io, all that good stuff. I know my shxt.
- Clear English communication. No worries about whether your point got across or not. This is crucial in remote work settings, I think.

We'd work together with great results if you're pretty clear what it is you want done and what the scope of the project is. Handwavey functionality requirements are hard to implement right in the best situations, in remote work it will probably result in surprises and hurt feelings on both sides. Small/medium projects where the goal is clearly defined tend to work best.

Rate: 300 USD/day (straightforward projects using established frameworks). Yes, it's relatively low, but decent for living in Taipei. I don't expect it to stay that way forever, though. I track time in half-day increments.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raytsaihong
Twitter: @rmundo
Contact: ray.tsaihong@gmail.com
Naw, steampunk confabulations are mere mechanics' electrolysis eroding permutations, dust to dust. I'm going with encoding human DNA. Humans are persistant and I'd wager they make it through the next arbitrary melleniums.
Specifically what do you dislike about it?
As I move my startup forward I work as an Uber driver and have for the last 13 months. Very simply, fair prices have dropped substantially and it is much harder to make the same amount of money as before, although operating costs are the same or higher. Not to mention the constant risk of catastrophic damage / injury .

Uber can massage numbers all they want but a driver can only take - on average - the same number of fares per hour, so drivers work longer and harder. In that way it is exactly like any taxi job on earth - long, hard hours for low pay with zero equity value accruing. But that is ok, because that is the nature of such a job. Uberx is a tremendous (r)evolution for the consumer but for the driver... not so much. Driving for Uber is a blessing for me because it allows me to control how many low-paying, high-risk hours I need to fulfill to make my entrepreneurial nut per week - and it works for now. But for the the mainstream driver - hey, the new boss looks a lot like the old boss in all the ways that really count. Uber on!
Car Talk brought me joy and laughter for 25+ years. R.I.P. Tom.

My favorite crazy credit was the short-lived:

Sexual Harassment Intervention Councilor, Pat McCann
Indeed, that is a very good article. I highly recommend it. TDOP is the combination of recursive descent and Floyd's operator precedence grammars, the latter of which is the technique I used (I find it sufficient for my needs).
Space Tourism Isn’t Frivolous, or Impossible
https://github.com/voltrb/volt is a new ruby framework that does exactly what you described
The author does discuss surge pricing.
Comments like this really annoy me.

What exactly is trivial about building a complicated multisource streaming video service with sophisticated recommendations (plus all the other "little" stuff like payments)?

Google is "trivial." It's just a box for doing text search on a graph database. Apple is "trivial." They just make pretty skins for commodity hardware & software. Etc.

When you consider 99% of everything in your field trivial, maybe you should consider refining your definition of trivial.
Yes, it is that much better IMHO.

Lockscreen actions & swipe-down notification actions = holy grail for email triage. Only the built-in mail client has it.
Great to see that Ember core is not suffering from the Not Invented Here syndrome and is inspired by good things from React. Kudo's and love for Ember.
I would characterize these fluid dynamics experiments as "very cute", but nothing more.

One of the sad things about physics these days is that it has become more like religion in a bad way. I first heard about Bohmenian mechanics, which this article is about, 8 years ago. I never believed in it, and always thought it was silly. I say "believe" because at this point it really is a question of faith.

It was amusing to me to read this article, it makes all the same points I used to argue against but in a very clever and well written way. What the Bohmeanian mechanics people used to say was the only reason they couldn't respond to this or that problem with the theory was "not enough people were working on it".

From the article:

"Some researchers said that [Bohmean Mechanics] has trouble dealing with identical particles, and that it becomes unwieldy when describing multiparticle interactions. They also claimed that it combines less elegantly with special relativity. But other specialists in quantum mechanics disagreed or said the approach is simply under-researched."
The reason why I ask is because I was surprised to see tradecraft/methods posted here. I've personally sat through many iterations of this training, and have also taught this course a few times to beginner analysts as well. If you're interested in learning more I can point you to more (unclassified) resources that might help your analysis.
Netflix currently has 94 open engineering open reqs, plus another 22 data/analytics open reqs. Perusing through the list should give you a sense of how complicated their products are: http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.php
My guess is, anecdotally, that there is very high turnover, but still net positive population growth. I participated in YC but really had no desire to be in SV and thus moved back to Boston where I feel life/culture/people are much more balanced. Being in SV for work, I felt like I was in a perpetual startup/tech bubble.

I think the parent commenter paints a gloomy but somewhat realistic picture - it 'works' because there's a high volume of people looking for success, but it can be very stifling for some (such as myself).
They haven't invested heavily into the optimizing the compiler. They're waiting until the entire compiler is rewritten from C to Go before they do the the work. Java's jvm has been heavily optimized and it's quite impressive.
Visual Studio is busted for VB.NET - Snippets are unusable. There goes a quarter of your productivity.

It's death by a thousand cuts with VB.Net - You can have namespaces, but oh - VS won't put them in your code automatically like it does for C#. VB.NET also has a mismatch with the .NET framework compared to C# which has "static class" instead of "Module". When forced to use a Module in VB.NET, every function is hoisted into the global scope (and all you wanted to do was make some extension methods).
Google's App Aesthetic
Bingo! They didn't test the back end system, but what happens is the conversion is done to local currency and seeing that it's greater than the limit, it's denied. A non-story.
As a software developer not-in-SV, life is great. I don't make a shit-ton (~90) but my spouse also works (~50), (and we are both young) we have no debt, our insurance is fantastic, our commute is about 15 minutes each, our house is 1/5th the cost of SV, and we are in a very good neighborhood (meaning public school district is better than any private school unless you're going for ivy prep), and shopping for practically anything is about 5 minutes away. Oh and neither of us work more than 40 hours a week.

So... yeah. There is actual life outside of SV.
Not all parsers need to be complex. If you're up for the challenge, read a bit on top-down parser and try to write it for your language!
A Stunning View of Sunlit Seas on Titan
It is very impressive and nicely designed app. To make app capitalize, you can do following:

1. contact few bloggers who are prominent in healthcare area.

2. Does this app also contain locations for other pharmacy including Walgreen's? If not then contact other pharmacy chains such as Rite Aid, CVS etc.
3. Try to take part in different hackathon or contest related to healthcare and talk to people in the field.

Did you code it in Swift? I am curious how did you learn to code and what are the sources of learning materials.
I was looking for someone to make a comment like this. I also felt that it simply meant that the last few digits were less meaningful for applications such as sync, but it definitely doesn't mean that that's the case for all the digits.
SF Standup comedians are going to disrupt tech scene with jokes and laughter
Only briefly in a footnote, and without updating the math to reflect that.
I say "believe" because at this point it really is a question of faith.

Science. We're doing it wrong.
The difficulty with these semi-classical interpretations of quantum phenomena is that they tend to work nicely for a few very simple cases and fall to bits when things get more complex. Bohm's quantum potential works almost perfectly for single electron atoms, in which the quantum potential simply holds the electron still, but falls apart for multi-electron atoms, which require a higher dimensional space for the quantum potential to live.

Although Bell did defend pilot wave theory--which is taught in every introductory QM course and covered in every introductory QM text--he himself did not see it as anything more than an inspiration for a more complete interpretation, which would necessarily be non-local in accordance with the theorem that bears his name.

My own belief is that pilot waves cannot account for quantum statistics, and therefore cannot account for the heat capacity of solids: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=470 There is a claim that pilot wave theory somehow deals with this, but the argument is focused on the decay of radioactive particles rather than thermodynamics, which seems to be odd, because the thermodynamic argument is the fundamental one: the heat capacity of solids is an unequivocal way of counting available states, and if hidden variables (such as the "true" positions and momenta of the piloted particles) exist then they break the symmetry under exchange that gives rise to the statistics we observe, and create additional states that would... hmmm...

OK, having thought about it for a bit I'm no longer entirely convinced it's impossible that pilot waves might preserve the symmetry while also preserving identity. It would require that exchanging the labels on the pilot waves precisely compensate for the labels on the particles. Would that be enough? I'm going to have to think more about this before forming a more firmly held opinion on it.
What's odd to me is trying to discuss Uber in NYC by comparing to yellow cabs. We have a thing in NY called "car services" which basically everyone uses, and which are much more comparable to Uber than taxis are. You call a car, they come to your house, they pick you up, and they take you where you want to go for a predetermined price.

In general, the car services I take are cheaper than Uber or metered taxis. But not always. And they can be a little more annoying to deal with than just using an app on your phone. Certainly Uber would be far less intimidating for tourists.

Plus Uber was able to pick me up in the rain on Halloween, because of surge pricing. And they only charged me triple!

But seriously: if you are talking about Uber in New York and not mentioning Arecibo car service, which has several hundred of cars all over the city at all times of the day and night, and is one of many such services in operation, you are missing a huge part of the equation.
but isn't O(phi^n) < O(2^n)? Exponential regardless.
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I think Tom must be looking down from heaven and said: "Don't tell them, you .....!".

I do wish I can live the life of Tom and Ray and have greatest laughs everyday.
Which is fine if you're using Haskell. I'm not sure I see the case for something like this if you're not using Haskell. Adding another package management system (cabal) into the mix seems like a lot of work.

Of course I don't think language-agnostic build systems in general make a whole lot of sense unless you have a huge enough project to have a team dedicated to the build system.
This is great. Always appreciate different approaches to NN and ML. I'm amazed that a Stanford PhD candidate has the time to put this together (I won't tell your advisor :-), but still, thank you!
Regular Expression DoS and Node.js
A network of clocks in space might be used to detect gravitational waves from black holes and exploding stars.

We need to fund this!
You're not trusting Satoshi, you're trusting the blockchain. Everything is open source. Satoshi is no longer associated with Bitcoin.
Aww- my 5 year old twin boys had picked up their "Don't drive like my brother" from listening to their show and the Cars movie- and use it often. So sad they won't get to enjoy them. RIP Tom
It's hard to think about this given that the Copenhagen school has had decades of effort lavished on it, while De Broglie's concepts seem to have had very little development. I've always been a little interested in them because I like underdogs, but have assumed as a lay person that the Copenhagen approach was correct. The oil drop experiment is certainly thought-provoking.
"it turns out that surge pricing amounts to no more than a 12.5% fare premium. Not nothing, but not explanatory either."
Nope, he does not. If he'd studied the blog post he's linked to, it is clear that surge rates can go a few multiples at busy periods, which would make an outsized contribution to total fares even at 10-15% occurrence.

If you look at the service area on the ubernyc page, it goes way beyond the city limits (even a fixed price to the hamptons). Again, even if the percentage of these rides are low, it isn't hard to see how average trip length or average fare would be moved up significantly.

I read the article - even though it's written well, it makes a lot of hypotheticals based on hazy assumptions that seem to lead well to a result that the author probably wanted to put forward. Not the best article if you want an objective analysis on the issue.
Good grief. That's a pretty good argument for metering. I guess people just don't get that it's not the same as TV. Why should they, when it's billed at a flat rate?
Southwest also has a deal with Dish network, where you get free access to Dish programming through an onboard IPTV portal .
How to Win a Nobel Prize: Notes from Richard Hamming on Doing Great Research
Melissa needs to write the eulogy in the back of twenty dollars bill and send them to:

Car Talk Plaza
Box 3500 Harvard Square
Cambridge , MA 02238
If you're already charging batteries for a hybrid electric drivetrain, perhaps the electric supercharger makes more sense? After all, the electric motor itself is used for extra torque when the gasoline engine is incapable. The energy to drive the supercharger could be recovered during regenerative braking...
How big are these differences? Do you have estimates of some kind? How does that change the bottom line on the math he's done? Without putting numbers to your assertion I'm not sure how valuable it is.
dammit. best buy here i come.
No one cares if he will make $100M from this or not. $100M is less than %10 of the total value of all the bitcoins currently in the market and we can just think of that %10 as the one-time tax "humanity" paid to get the bitcoin system developed.
I always thought the fastest was the closed form formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...

Unless looping and counting is that much faster than doing some floating point math?
Absolutely Amazing. I wish I could be taught more math in terms of programming. Hope some more people make "Hacker's Guide to _"
Does your phone company track you?
Well yeah because they've been subsidizing wages. Just recently Uber's tried to lower the amount paid out to drivers (saying the previous rate was "promotional") and there was a huge amount of discontent

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-new-york-city-office-pro... <-- some protest at New York office, same sorts of protests elsewhere
Yeah I think they are, but people also value being able to control how long they work for and the exact hours they work. Plus it can be just an additional stream of income.
The best thing about this is being able to play with the entire mechanism right on jsfiddle. Thanks for this work and want to read the writeup!
dock stations were never bought by cost conscious consumers. it is corporate spending, exclusively.
"I have seen companies retract offers between when it was accepted and when the person was supposed to start..."

I've also seen companies hire people and then turn around and fire them after a couple of weeks because they "weren't working out" or because "the funding for the job disappeared" or because they had layoffs due to financial difficulties (which they probably could have seen coming at the time they hired the person).

"At-will" employment goes both ways. If the company has the right to fire an employee because it's convenient for them (or just because they feel like it), an employee shouldn't feel bad about firing a company for the same reason.
NYC Taxis have a flat fare to JFK. This does not apply to LGA.

That being said I have no fucking clue how you're spending $80 or more on that fare. Even if you're coming from the far west wide and sitting in traffic forever you shouldn't be cracking $50.
There's a series of books called "Thinking ..." that aims for exactly this.

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/
http://www.greenteapress.com/index.html
McDonalds is the antithesis of Chpiotle. They don't cook anything. It all comes prepacked, waiting to be warmed up in a microwave.

You're not wrong, it tastes like cardboard.
I'm not entirely sure it would be legal for a friend who is not a licensed lawyer to take your money to (choose, fill out, and) send in forms for you.
I really like working with C#, .NET and the Microsoft platform in general because I don't have to cobble together my applications and workflows from dozens of questionable open-source tools and components (unless I'm building the front-end for an ASP.NET app!) I also wish building a rich, robust, high-quality web app were as easy as working in WinForms.

It is too limiting though. For now, the web (and native mobile) looks like the future. Although, I don't want the web to be the future because I think that HTML/JS/CSS is a horrible way to build an app. Hopefully a better "web" will come along with some kind of universal runtime. I could totally specialize as an iOS/Android dev and escape the current web, but I'm not a big mobile user - I'm surrounded by huge screens all day and I really don't use my phone much.
What is the probability your vote will make a difference? (2012) [pdf]
"For trips between (to and from) Manhattan and JFK International Airport, the flat fare is $52.00"

TO AND FROM

I know reading is hard.
Any sufficiently complex system that has a sufficiently large number of known/unknown parameters whose interactions are unknown/partially known/not measurable appears random.

For example, while the path of a piece of paper as it drops to the ground can be modeled exactly based on several parameters such as gravity, air currents (and its parameters), etc. the number of parameters are so large and their interactions so complex, that the only useful approach is to model it statistically. The same goes for the weather. Or the economy. Or the stock market.

It appears that the current quantum mechanical view of the world is simply an acknowledgement of this complexity and the associated unknowns. While it presents a statistical "model" that works for our purposes, it must be acknowledged as a model and not confused with reality. The push for figuring out what drives the statistics needs to continue beyond the building of a model.
Your counter argument is correct, in my opinion.