skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In fact, as a taxpayer and student I would be upset if my university unilaterally chose to pay more than the market would bear.

Why would you be upset that a public institution decided to behave humanely rather than exploitatively?
I thought the same thing about the design (and magazine) cover as a whole. Looks like the internet in 1995: needs more BLINK tags and "Under Construction" GIFs.
It may have to do that often actions on set top boxes are related to accessing content, for which the software has to check permissions; these are usually embedded in the stream (think mumultiplexed), and the decoder needs to receive the frames before being able to extract the content and display it. Cable network has very high latency (compared to fiber or adsl).

If some of the credential checks are stored in a separate device (dongle, smartcard ), then it could take even longer.
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While that is true it's not really the designers job to have a clue about conversion optimization. If they do more power to them, the same can be said about knowing about programming, copyright etc. but it's not what their skills are all about (and you wouldn't want it to be either)

I would claim that it's a matter of using designers the right way.

What they can do is to react to feedback and provide you with the opportunity to try out different directions.

If you are really into A/B testing etc. it's fairly easy to get the designer to try out different things.

Also a little trick which is actually what designers normally kobe with really well.

Set limitations that the need to adhere to. For instance:

- Page may not be bigger than 400kb
- Font has to be available from google fonts and so on.

That way you have set some expectations that the designer must adhere to and you are in a much better position to have a conversation with them.
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Thanks for the answer...

I guess my LISP Teacher ruined the syntax for me. Terrible terrible class.

Maybe you are right. I might give it a try again and see if my position still stand :D
Yes, but there are many ways to be obsessed with performance while keeping correctness.

As you might imagine by my post history I had a specific language in mind.

Funny that you mention FORTRAN, as it reminds me of a systems programming language used for writing several OS, about the same age as FORTRAN and Lisp, namely Algol and its variants.

When they questioned their customers if Algol compilers should support disabling bounds checking, they said no responsible engineer would ever need it. As described by Hoare on his Turing award.
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I did this my senior year of college, looking for software engineering jobs, although I used Google AdWords instead of Facebook ads. I knew I wanted to work for a startup in the Boston area, so I bought out search terms like "Greenhorn Connect," "YCombinator," etc. Whenever someone in Boston searched for something that a startup manager might search for -- I was there.

I got a ton of responses, and ultimately a couple of offers out of it. Unfortunately, I took a job at a consulting firm right out of college (hated it and left 6 months later) -- there's only so much you can do to solve problems of 21 year old stupidity.
It has to do with how abstract and parametric the code was. There may very well be only one valid type-checking program which exists (so long as you do a cursory check against infinite loops and error throwing).

So, it's a gamble---do there exist any other non-trivial programs at this type?

If not, then I know my code written is correct without testing.

If there are, then I'm risking that I found the right one.

This is why Haskellers get so excited about "parametricity". It's the core tool that exacts this property of "there are only a small number of programs which could ever exist at this type" which drives correctness.
Yeah, we have two standards now, auto cigarette sockets and USB, neither of which is optimal. And I agree, the window of opportunity here is narrow and I'd hate to see us miss it.

Oh, and to address the comment on wattage, I should have made clear I don't want to eliminate AC sockets where they are needed. I'm just looking at having DC in the wall as a convenience and efficiency thing and a way to reduce the number of power adaptors I need.
Sounds like he was flatly lied to.

His only mistake was not drilling down to "who will I report to and what is that group doing now?" And given that this was a bait and switch, at best he would have not gotten the job, which is mostly bad if he had other possibilities.

As other have noted, he is indeed getting an education in all sorts of other things. If he could move past the lies---not saying he should either forgive or forget---and make the best out of the current mess while finding a better job quickly, months not years, he shouldn't be too bad off.
Brilliant idioms that simply can’t be translated literally
You know, that's certainly correct. I feel like roconnor's post comes to mind for me because of it's audacity more than its primality. I'll make a note in my original comment if I can.

(Edit: I can't.)
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MeshTrip is the Airbnb alternative for only instantly bookable accommodations
You are welcome, to give you a bit more detail that fits closely to your experience is that I was in a situation where I didn't want to move and now I'm working for a great company and do it all remotely. I enjoy the company but even as a senior developer I'm not on the cool exciting new projects I'm down in the legacy code fixing stuff. Ultimately you are going to end up working on what makes the company the $$.

Outside of work I code the stuff I don't get a chance to do at work, get a cool idea and work on it in github/bit bucket etc. Once you've had the 6months plus at the company combined with some project work on a passionate personal project you'll find the programming world will offer you more opportunities than you thought possible! Chin up! :)
I have a propane generator that sits outside. I'm not sure why a battery couldn't aside from heat in the summer.
I'll second that. It makes CB Insights look good because it now is well-known that a slightly more unscrupulous competitor stole the otherwise brilliant design of CB Insights because they were unable to come up with something they could call their own (or do better than CB Insights).

It's the lazy way. The beautiful thing about it? Those who copy (blatantly) are doomed to fail. In most cases, they will lack the understanding and foundation of how you arrived at the designs in the first place which certainly consisted of iteration and changes based on interactions with & feedback from customers.
The user can use seedboxes, they're far from being as difficult to use as dedicated hardware. They sometimes have some free tier that I expect would be more than enough for a team like xda-developers (think 5GB). It's true that they wouldn't be able to earn money through this, though.
Almost certainly not, see the most recent post on this subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013669
The hooks are nice too. I'm using the Slack hook to push notifications. Works like a charm.
I understand better, so basically before doing anything you will first need to define what each "part" of the language "means" in term of "logical operation" (like what does the dot operator '.' means in PHP, which type it accepts and it transforms them etc) Right ?
Not quite. IIRC, corecursive programs (and the coinductive data-types they return) are straightforwardly nonterminating: they can loop infinitely. The difference is that each iteration is proven to terminate and to yield a well-specified result, and arbitrary theorems can be proven about the generator function yielding each iteration's result.

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/TypesSS05/Ex...
When a hotel signs a contract with an OTA (Online Travel Agency), it is (was) a common practice to include a 'price parity' clause, i.e. the hotelier cannot send different prices for the same offer to different websites, and the OTA agrees on not modifying the final price specified by the hotelier.

But the reality is that:
- Not all the hoteliers update all the rates simultaneously (through a channel manager, for example)
- Some the hoteliers are not selling the same rooms or rates (breakfast, cancellation options...) in all the OTAs.
- Certain OTAs that are just re-selling inventory from wholesalers and the commission applicable to an offer can be modified by the OTA at its will.

There are more 'shady' tricks that can lead to different prices for the same hotel, but it would be too long to write all of them in a post.
What is the advantage of this over the variety of headless browsers and acceptance testing frameworks that currently exist?
WebTorrent is a streaming torrent client for node.js and the browser.

https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

It can stream video torrents into a <video> tag (webm (vp8, vp9) or mp4 (h.264))
Turning that around, there was the Scheme-79 chip: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334

This takes Lisp as the machine language of a high-level machine (with READ as the assembler). You could do the same with C, but without a compiler stage it'd be absurd.
Ah, I meant that in the sense of, think of an algorithm you want to write, many of them are structurally recursive and they're straightforward to implement in Coq.
"Can you believe people actually used to program in C?"
Dice Data Blog: What does it mean to be a data scientist?
The title is grossly misleading. It should read "C++17 people choose Boost over std::rand() for their RNG needs" or something like that, a hardly surprising statement since C++17 people would choose Boost for pretty much anything else as well.

In particular, it has little to do with rand() (as in rand(3) from libc), which has its uses as well as well-known alternatives within C world.

As a side note, it's funny to see fresh new C++ code that boils down to srand(readintfrom("/dev/random")), except /dev/random is now given an "abstract standard name" random_device.

And that part about limited seeding options. Beats me Boost (the library) alone won't fit in the memory of a device with 16bit ints, so inability to seed the RNG will be among the least of their problems.
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I love it. The elephant in the room with electric cars has always been the power grid. It is simply not capable of sustaining the energy equal to the amount of gasoline distributed to gas stations. The last rough measure I've seen was the grid is about 1/4 what it needs to be to sustain electric cars.

Having batteries as energy cache spread out around the network is a great idea and will offset the need to build out more power lines.
So far, what I see is:

"Don't use Twitter."

And on the smaller side is "Don't upload shit to social media."
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Yeah, I wondered about that, but my electronics-fu is not up to analyzing it. Running low voltage DC from one end of a large house to the other might simply not be practical. I'd still like to see a low-voltage plug standard other than USB and cigarette sockets, even if the conversion was being done inside the electrical box in my wall. I see the huge number of wall warts I have as a source of needless duplication and waste. (They are also, I understand, a revenue source for vendors selling replacements at inflated prices, so there is an economic incentive for the status quo.)
>a fusion rocket is still nowhere near good enough to reach even the closest star system in a reasonable time

If by "reasonable time" you mean 40 years to get there at 10% of lightspeed. At those speeds the big limitation starts to be the ability to reject heat into space rather than the power source itself. The difference between fission and fusion is also only a factor of 2, so you could get there with fission in 80-100 years.

Though we're talking about long times, keep in mind that there is a vast swath of unexplored space in the Kuiper belt and beyond, where we may find many interesting icy worlds. Beyond 750au or so it's also possible to use the Sun as a gravitational lens, a good spot to send telescopes of all shapes.
Well, he already had PayPal...
Your friend spent years studying. He also had the sense to pick one of the most hospitable and temperate locales in North America. And even in a friendly environment, he acknowledges that he needs more supplies than he could easily carry. I bet he also had multiple plans for bailing out if events went really sour. Just from what little you've said, he sounds responsible, level-headed and practical. He could probably accomplish anything he sets his mind to, and I look forward to buying his book.

But other than living outdoors, your friend has little in common with McCandless.

(Nothing says you can't consider someone to be both clueless and an inspiration. I consider all of history to be an inspiration to do better, including the less-clueful half of the past.)
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I have to wonder at the claim of no added latency then? By the time the peer fails, and the CDN is queried and responds, the replay stream would have passed the point where it needed that frame. Unless the reassembly/replay engine is running substantially behind realtime.
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No. The Yo-Yo problem was one of the primary themes of ECOOP 89, the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming from 26 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo_problem
The origins of Expedia

"And Bill said, ‘No let’s start it inside Microsoft. And if it wants to be free we’ll consider it.’"

http://www.wired.com/2013/06/rich-barton-empowers-people-and...
Argument lists are in brackets rather than parens, which helps slightly with the visuals.
I would say that it's more accurate to say that they're shutting down all access except for a few extremely narrow use cases.

With this change, essentially the only thing you can do with the LinkedIn API is post updates, and retrieve information about the logged in user. Easily 95% of the utility of the API has been removed with this change.
My understanding was that the greater losses in today's tech tend to lie at the VDC->VAC conversion panel-side.

Also, I agree that the USB Power Delivery spec is a very good candidate for modern homes/vehicles.
0h h1 seems more fun to me.
How is she is victim here? How is Twitter bad here?

She made two racist comments in 1 tweet on her own will. That is not something that should be taken lightly, no matter what the platform.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not commenting on whether firing her was fair or not, but rather how her completely intentional tweets makes Twitter the bad guy.
The author [necessarily] glazed over the more interesting features of the building:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Building#Sus...
I think I would prefer it if progress in hardware efficiency just stopped when Moore's Law finally becomes invalid. Then hardware wouldn't become obsolete so quickly. That would surely be good for the environment, and for the poor.
Grafana is not a time series store or metric fetching agent. It s dashboard and graph composer that currently support Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB (and KariosDB via plugin).

So if you have metrics in one of those time series stores then Grafana is a really awesome tool for visualizing those metrics.
Defaults are important, and what's optimized for one use case isn't optimized for another. An opinionated site that just provides the simplest possible interface for uploading and downloading files is a valuable thing.

(Plus I suspect that if a lot of people started hosting multi-megabyte binaries on github, their policies would change pretty quickly)
Sending 12V around a 22' boat leads to voltage drops that are beyond the tolerances of many of the devices that consume 5 and 12 volt DC. Sending it around a whole house would require stupidly thick wires to stay within ATX spec (5%).
From the link, it seems that you can only retrieve company details if you're an administrator of that company.
You missed the bigger point, then: Mob justice is a barbaric and ugly thing; stop patting yourself on the back and thinking you're a good person for being a part of it.
Maxwell's equations in the usual Heaviside form aren't even the most elegant way to write them: http://www.av8n.com/physics/maxwell-ga.htm

I'm curious how people might carry that through the analogy.
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Styling AEM forms and their error messages
I do like the progress bar at the top, at least it was informative as I really could not tell how much more article I had to read was left.
Exactly. And not even just in hobbyist space. There is a long-established history of running homes off of solar power using lead-acid batteries in professional installations. And not even just in homes; many, many businesses have invested in it. The only barrier is financing... and companies are even forming California to amortize the financing of solar to the home, so home owners can get started with ~$200/month instead of a $20k installation.

There, the possibility that a "Tesla" battery could do anything the same or better is not new, redundant and this article is just marketing hype: It's a report of an investor call, for crying out loud, not researched journalism. There is no reason to expect a lithium battery in the home would be cheaper than traditional, established lead-acid batteries.

The advantage of lithium in a car is obvious (weight, if you haven't had your coffee). In the home, weight is not a factor. Lithium would save space, but at the expense of lifetime and cost. Since cost is the only factor holding back installation now, I don't expect many people to pay even more for the privilege of a lithium home battery bank.

BTW, in reference to your expectation, a motors expert I work with says that 50% of all electricity consumed is consumed by motors. The refrigerator's compressor motor is generally the heaviest electricity consumer in the home.
> In fact, that is one of the interesting features of math: you can often get the right answer even when the math is completely unjustified!

As a mild nitpick, I would say that this is a feature of mathematical physics. A mathematician on his or her own would not be satisfied with getting the 'right' answer by wrong methods—in fact, would have no way to judge what is 'right' except by appealing to right methods (there being no outside arbiter who can decide the matter independently, as is the universe itself in mathematical physics).
Exactly. You get to pay for your very stupid mistakes, especially those that affect other people (like this lady's tweet did).
Yep, I think the trick is here : thinking about using Facebook's Custom Audiences with @facebook.com addresses to get even more accurate targets.

I did the same a few years ago too with Adwords, but capitalizing on people's ego : to target "influencers" I wanted to invite for a startup party, I created special landing pages for each of them and bought their names as keywords on Google AdWords. They fortunately googled themselves (and if they didn't, I gave them a shout on Twitter). But now AdBlock attracts more people this strategy is a bit more complicated.

Maybe the right strategy for today is to do it Charles Saatchi-like : buy a billboard on times square saying "I want a job".
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I'm not at all talking about minor A/B experiments after the design is built. I'm not talking about a process at all. Instead I'm talking about a goal.

I'm talking about, from the start, building with the goal of maximum conversions (or whatever primary end-metric the business uses) versus building with the goal of maximum portfolio beauty.

Design often massively affects conversion rates, as I'm sure you know. Saying that one's job isn't to do what's best for the company, and you can totally disregard what the company's overall goal is? I'm sure whoever's running the business will find that perspective interesting, no matter what industry you're working in.

I've never worked as a designer though, so I'm interested to learn more about this.
This is something an IDE does for you...
"Can you believe all our systems are still built on top of C?"
> such a DIY vehicle can't be safe.

Goes without saying; he worked at a weapons factory.
Articles like this lend credence to the occasionally heard wisdom "Don't post anything personal on the internet, ever." I tell people I think that society is moving beyond digging into people's lives for little infractions, since with so much social media, everyone is guilty, but apparently that's not true. Or at least, not true yet.
As VLM explains a bit better, I was talking about only one of the two electrodes. The other one, the anode, would of course be made from zinc (or some other metal) and end up breaking down to provide that energy. I was just explaining why the battery might not need two electrodes breaking down.
1. Has the NYT dev team started moving more towards Go? Or towards JS/Node. Or Python? Or is there no consensus (nor any need for one)?

2. What's Maureen Dowd's opinion on CoffeeScript vs JavaScript?
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Relevant: looks like they will strike http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2015/02/12/u-of...
That is pretty awesome. And wow that is crazy cheap electricity!
Aren't all these Twitter sh*tstorms over within a few days, or in the worst case, weeks? People should just sit them out and not panic / call their lives ruined. Seems to work even for politicians.
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For whatever reason, the following snippet prompted me to see who the author was:

Amid the hundreds of congratulatory messages I received,
one stuck out: “Were you a bully at school?”

As it turns out, the author is Jon Ronson. He's well worth checking out. I've particularly enjoyed The Men Who Stare at Goats (the book), The Secret Rulers of the World, and The Psychopath Test.
This is not about justice, it's about a bad human being getting what she deserved. When you're an open racist you are a bad human being.
It looked like a harmless joke to me. wtf is wrong with ppl.
I think the fundamental economics for a cryptocurrency approach don't lean towards preserving obscure things that don't interest many people. Storage cost is always going to be proportional to the amount of data being stored, but income is always going to be proportional to the number of people who want the data.
As dislikable as the tweet's content is, it's truly frightening how quickly an incredibly large pitchforks-and-torches mob can come to life via the internet.
> YC promotes launching fast and copying / plagiarism facilitates that.

You don't copy someone's unique look, when they don't want you to copy them. There are so many inexpensive ($12 - $49) CSS templates that look good enough or even cool, that what happened is both inexcusable and just stupid. Most of them are already built to use either bootstrap or foundation as well, so it makes the launching fast part trivial.
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