skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Absolutely
2) Teaching is ideal. Except...
3) Too many people today don't care about anything but the answer. They are lazy and/or uninterested in learning and growing. Take for example one of my In-Laws and their dishwasher, they a) never knew about rinse aid and b) stack the dishes too full and/or on the wrong rack resulting in half the dishes coming out still dirty. They think they are saving time and "winning". They can't be bothered nor have they ever considered reading the owners manual that came with the thing. If more people would RTFM that people have taken time to compile... It only takes 5 or 10 minutes.
> I think your feelings are hurt because philosophy isn't in this group.

Not really. I'm not a philosopher. Nor do I particularly need or desire the respect of physicists.

Now, if you're going to criticize work within the philosophy of science, it's impossible for me to respond unless you point to something specific. Instead of doing that you've just, again, dismissed an entire field which you know very little about. See what I mean about that superiority complex? Perhaps you can point me to an example of a philosopher of science who (a) dismisses all of physics and (b) has never studied any physics.

As far as who is "100 years behind", I'd say it's the other way round. Most modern scientists routinely characterize the scientific method using philosophical ideas from the first half of the 20th century.
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I agree that there will still be something worth seeing, but at the cost of a naturally beautiful place being made less. Personally, I am glad that some places exist in this world that I cannot get to without significant effort, and I don't want to change that. Humans don't need easy access to every corner of the earth.
I should have been more clear with the centering issue: I'm looking at something like GSS [0] as a model of what would be incredibly useful.

As for IDEs, I've always used a text editor for web dev, but there's something incredibly fun about being able to draw components and move them around on your screen as opposed to having to mess around with something like the Canvas API. I built fairly complicated little apps with Flash when I was 10 that would take me 10x longer (at least) to implement in HTML5.

0: http://gridstylesheets.org/
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OMG NO.

3% would be a bad deal even for a regular employee considering they don't have money to pay you. If you really want to do it you should ask for 15%+. But please, don't.

Do you even trust these people? Unless we're missing some important information they sound either ignorant or shady.
Growth can be relative. The overall numbers in a niche may be small/medium, but your growth rate within that niche can be big/fast.
Optical discs are generally using the smallest light they can manage, can colors even help?

Plus they're focusing on a single point, so I don't think chromatic aberration would be much of a problem in the first place.

If they can play fancy tricks to get a smaller focal point relative to wavelength, that would be a powerful improvement. But still probably monochrome discs.
Had the same thoughts lately. There is way too much high level generic advice passed around.

Like 'you need to find product market fit'...well how the hell do you do that?

So I started a little blog series where I attempt to go a little deeper: https://medium.com/@matthiaswagner/you-can-t-be-the-muhammad...

Let me know what you think
It's never quite that extreme. I've yet to see a respected publisher devolve into GIF-delivered content out of financial constraints.

That said, there are plenty of free publications with quality writing. Paying for an article hardly correlates with its excellence.
Honestly, startup advice articles are lead collection tools for ycombinator and other accelerators targeting "fresh" audiences. You may see similar advice articles from VCs too; blogging makes them more visible and help attract entrepreneurs.
Seems to be a lot of self-righteous moral crusaders on Twitter, and some on HN too, who won't be satisfied until they see Lenovo employees hanging from lamp posts...
I wish more companies would be transparent about salary ranges in job postings (e.g. more like CyberCoders - http://www.cybercoders.com/search/?searchterms=php&searchloc...). It is a waste of time going through the process of applying and interviewing only to find out we are in different zip codes on compensation. There are a few job search sites that have thankfully addressed this issue, and working with a recruiter also helps.
The banker actually creates brand new money to give to whoever is approved for a loan - he/she doesn't use your money for that purpose.
You don't have to upvote it, but if you ever want to chat about this kind of stuff, shoot me an email. I'm happy to answer questions and offer advice.
DON'T WORK WITH PEOPLE YOU HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT: I can not stress how dogmatically this should be adhered to enough.
People often underestimate the bitterness that these experiences create in smart people. It's not a petty thing, either - it's life changing in many situations.

We need smart people to take control of schools.
I don't buy this at all : "Despite its deceptive simplicity, some of the world’s brightest minds -- MIT professors, renowned mathematicians, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellows -- have had trouble grasping its answer."

The intuition is simple. Each time you initially pick a door with a goat, you win the car by switching. This clearly happens 2/3 of the time.
But the article has examples that are clearly different from contractions:

> ...the word fine would be pronounced less distinctly in a sentence like “You’re going to > be just fine” than “The last word in this sentence is fine.”

This is again, just semantics, but I suppose you can say it's something akin to "concatenating" or "slurring," although the latter has its own connotations.
There will be no support for any alternative here,it's over. Vendors will never agree on what would be the right solution.

Furthermore. There is already a solution: bypassing the dom and using canvas/webgl for the UI, and whatever language you want for the rest.If you want to use Python or Java, i'm sure you'll find an implementation that compiles to Js. The future imho is clearly C/C++ and EMSCRIPTEM with canvas/Webgl which would allow gpu acceleration for the UI and asmjs optimisation for the code. Which is totally ironic I must say. Using a low level language on a "high level" plateform.
Kamagasaki has been a place name since 1922. An accurate count of occupants has never been produced, even in the national census, due to the large population of day laborers who lack permanent addresses. It has the largest day laborer concentration in the country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius in this area, part of which has been in slum-like conditions until as recently as 2012, containing run-down housing structures and untidy streets.

The area surrounding Kamagasaki is upscale, clean and attracts tourists with popular sightseeing spots including the Tsutenkaku, Shinsekai, and Nipponbashi. However, in Kamagasaki, homeless people can often be seen sleeping in the streets throughout the day.

Many Bōryokudan offices are located in Kamagasaki, and drug and weapons trafficking is thought to occur daily. Illegal gambling stores are often in business in broad daylight. A seemingly endless line of illegally parked cars extends along the national highway just across from the Nishinari police station. The police do not bother issuing tickets knowing that the fines will never be paid.

The city government of Osaka does not allow the name "Kamagasaki" to appear on official maps and discourages the use of the name in the media. A film set in the neighborhood by director Shingo Ota which was partially financed by the city, called "Fragile", was pulled from the 2013-2014 Osaka Asian Film Festival after Ota refused to cut scenes from the film that identified the location of the community and referenced certain aspects of its culture.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamagasaki
"Simply put, girls have better educational outcomes when taught by women, and boys are better off when taught by men"

http://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ednext20064_68....

Pay teachers better and aim for 50% male teachers and consider going back to all boys schools and all girls schools with plenty of rules to ensure that both are treated fairly.
I'm almost certain they originally wanted Cherry Reds for this project but couldn't get their order qty filled by Cherry either due to lack of availability (they're very popular right now) or there being a high MOQ (Cherry's MOQs are super-duper high).

If they were really serious about ultra-low activation force, Topre has 30g switches available (not that they could have negotiated that contract), but that's unusably low, IMO.

The project may be "open" but they've gone with a key type that's only still supported by one manufacturer...
Probably the main audience is current/future/potential Y Combinator startups and the HN crowd. Just because you're "procrastinating" right now doesn't mean it won't be interesting or useful later, right?
I can understand the growth--citizens of the US could travel into Canada with minimal identification in the old days. And I can understand it not being higher. The US is a very big place, with much to see for one thing. And some of the habits formed in the days of cheap gasoline and expensive airfares persist among people who could fly abroad for cost of a long road trip. (Well, the airlines have the whip hand again on pricing, but still...)
"Be a relentless execution machine." I wish it was as easy as it sounds. thanks for the one pager on tips .
Just as a side note if you have already clicked the link the google trick does not work.

Or at least that was the case for me.
My takeaway: I had no idea the ‽ character was a thing. Hooray!
There are lots of reasons.

First of all, any organization that has men working with young children will eventually face accusations of pedophilia regardless of the reality. Also men seem less interested in day care and early childhood education so children see nothing but women teachers until high school.

Just like blacks who have nothing but white teachers conclude that education is a "white thing", boys will conclude it is a girl thing.

When I coached Kindergarten soccer (which is a lot of fun; I'll leave large-field soccer to the Europeans, but the game on a small field is exciting) I shaved my beard because I learned that it would scare some kids because they'd never seen anybody with a beard.

There's also the problem that people mistake an obedient child for a "good child". There was this book

http://www.amazon.com/Snapping-Americas-Epidemic-Personality...

which seemed so puzzled that people would "change" quickly when they fall into cults but the real thing is parents thought these kids had it together because they would do what they are told and when you put them in a new environment they do what L. Ron Hubbard tells them to do (i.e. no "change" at all)

My son isn't in the habit of obedient and if somebody isn't pushing on him somewhat he will do nothing at all in a classroom with 20 kids. I talked with my superintendent about this at a PTA meeting and he told me I should sit back and let the experts deal with this. (Just before this he told the mother of a "special" child that he welcomes her as a partner in his education; that's because the state can set a fire under his ass)

That's why my son is homeschooled.
>no differences (or they are extremely small)

...other than dramatically altered patterns of gene expression, alternative slicing, epigenetic marks, and irreversible differences in phenotype. Genetics is a small part of the picture and muscle cells don't have much in common with sperm or lymphocytes.

>so it doesn't matter who has the offspring

It matters quite a bit! Controlling who reproduces at what rate and to what homeostatic set-point is a pretty big preoccupation of the body's order. You wants billions of reproducing T-cells that recognize your recently acquired flu but don't want the same level of reproduction among T-cells that react with your gut bacteria. You also don't want uncontrolled proliferation of normally stable populations because then you get horrifying diseases like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progr...
Whoa, what makes you think Amazon retail runs on AWS? That's a core founding myth...
short answer: I wouldn't do it.

1. I would ask for my unpaid consulting fees

2. Ask if they want me to join without the 100k down and take less % on shares

The rationale here is:

- Low monthly revenue for a long time

- Not paying contractors is bad

- How many other people have this 'offer' on the table?

If I were to put 100k of my money somewhere, it would be on a 1-year sabbatical and start my own thing.
They're certainly making you a better offer than the $2m/10% individual. That person is effectively paying $200K/1%, as opposed to your $100K/3% deal.

I would say consider this two separate deals, don't conflate them(!):

1) The investment: You're out $100K and have a fairly risky investment in this company that could be worth $0 one day (and no set payback date). $20m valuation is meaningless, it just helps you vaguely judge risk, but not much (also who did the valuation? How confident are you in them? Who is the 2m investor? Do they even exist?).

2) The full time employment: A full time employment offer, when or if, that happens should be considered on its own merit (although that alone sounds almost like a further investment as I imagine they're going to "under" pay you since you're now a stakeholder, or worse expect free work)

The ultimately question you should be asking is: Can you afford to lose 100K outright? Because that is on the table. Could you put that 100k on black on the roulette wheel, and risk a 50/50 shot of losing it? Or worse on a 1/16 or 1/32 shot. Because that is the reality.

To be honest I'd consider taking a 3%/100K if I could afford to lose (completely) 100K (and the company had good prospects). But I wouldn't work for them below market rates, because then the risk has risen too much, and it sounds like you do pretty well anyway on your consulting.

So if I did the investment I would then go and make money elsewhere, so that even if this company burns to the ground, my maximum liability at that stage is "only" 100K, not a penny more.

Working for them for 50% of normal or worse not getting paid reliably (as now) is just more and more investment and before you know it you might be throwing another 100k or 200K after your initial investment just from lost wages alone. Essentially trapping you into more and more risk.

So look at risking it on the company but curtail the level of risk. You shouldn't be in as deeply as a founder, your potential compensation isn't high enough.
>If it's rainy or cold out, kids should be able to go to their school's gym for an extra PE class
Nothing wrong with a bit of cold or wet. It's character building :) Send em outside
Check out your hormone levels - I burned out HAAAARD trying to write actuarial exams while working 10 hours and applying for YC (didn't get in ;) - had to take 2 weeks off.

A persistent lack of sleep can cause your body to shut-off non-essential processes e.g. hormone regulation. My testosterone (I'm a guy) was abnormally low (<5th percentile) and it was largely due to lack of sleep, poor eating and 0 exercise. Also I took a testosterone cream supplement for a couple months and literally within weeks of this + gym + healthy food, I put on 10% my weight of muscle and magically had twice the energy I had before. I literally feel like life was a dream before changing my daily routines to keep my testosterone up (cold shower, heavy weights 4x per week, eat protein rich big meals with veg, etc. ) and keep myself sane (20min mindfulness meditation first thing in the morning). That's the other thing: your body functions best while the sun was up (we have had electricity for ~0.001% of man's complete lifetime so our bodies didn't evolve to function at night and we've only had lights for like 100 years. Before that you made a fire and had to chill in one spot!

TLDR: no sleep + poor diet = messed up hormones = low energy ... get your blood tested at your GP!
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, France...?

Only thing I know is that it was in beta around some countries.
Would you agree that it's simultaneously simple and horribly challenging to start a company? It's more about consistency and determination, than it is strokes of brilliance. In that way, I think this advice is obvious but it's much easier said than done to run your own business.
Having grown up near Portland, I too was surprised about the historic levels of racism. Though in retrospect it is believable, considering the percentages of minorities is (or at least seems) so much lower than anywhere I've lived since.

My recollection growing up was that seeing a minority was a noteworthy occurrence, because of it's rareness. That changed when I moved into Portland proper, but I never really noticed racism there.
Flexbox: "The specification describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout model, the children of a flex container can be laid out in any direction, and can “flex” their sizes, either growing to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the parent. Both horizontal and vertical alignment of the children can be easily manipulated. Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside horizontal) can be used to build layouts in two dimensions."

They just re-invented HTML tables.

The replacement of HTML tables for layout with "float" and "clear" was a disaster. It replaced a 2D model with a 1D model. There were years of Javascript hacks to deal with that. Now, the 2D model of tables is back, but with a new name, because the cool kids won't use tables.
I agree 100% with blkhp19
Why the downvotes? This comment is of a similar intellectual caliber as its parent.
Great list. I finally watched all of the YC Startup Class lectures this week, and I was hoping that someone would compile something like this.
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Ran it on my MBP. It crashed:

panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff80201b61ad): "NO ENTRY TO DELETE"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.20.26/osfmk/vm/vm_map_store_rb.c:118
It depends who's asking, whose budget it hits, what the capex forecast looks like (if it's capex at all), whether the street is currently favorable toward opex (typically reported as "SG&A cost" or "administrative overhead") at the corporation, and how badly the company needs what you're selling. Internal politics weighs heavily, especially in prioritizing spend. Some things that are really important get ignored just because the stakeholder can't sell it to their exec sponsor. Some things that are complete wastes of money are bought because of the opposite. Sales is freaking hard and the only consistently successful way to work with large companies is to bend over backwards to get to know them as well as they know themselves... almost to the point that you're consulting for them.
I think you're taking an overly pessimistic view on a number of things. Both volatility and bid-ask spreads are down considerably since the growth of high-frequency trading.

Buybacks in general are bad for everyone involved because they're often done when valuations are high, however, they can be beneficial to shareholders when valuations are low.

Shorting helps facilitate price discovery and options are used to protect against large downside risks.

> Hedge funds, as a class, underperform the market, partly because of their excessive fees.

You're thinking of mutual funds. Hedge funds as a class do outperform the market, even after fees.
Well, sure. But it's also way uglier than a Rolex, and it needs to be charged nightly.

I don't regard "OMG it needs to be charged nightly" as a big problem ordinarily, but if your point is that the smartwatch degrades gracefully into a normal watch, then it's relevant the ways that it's inferior to a normal watch.

More to the point, presumably anyone who shells out for a smartwatch wants, you know, an actual smartwatch.
poor division street :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXLlVnL72Q
Maybe it's the optimist in me, but I would change this to be "Work with people you have a good feeling about."

Though, the underlying difference is that the original phrase implies that everyone is fine to work with until you've eliminated them, whereas I'm saying that I assume no one is good enough until I've cleared them.
Piracy is actually quite hard on Windows 8+. The way it is licensed is way different from the past and the current circumvention methods require repeated reactivation and break a lot.

Note: I do own Windows 8.1 Pro, so don't think this is based on my experience pirating the software. I merely have examined the licensing system for some software I was writing.
A sizable portion of Quebec's population east of Montreal doesn't speak English at all.
While you're correct in that teachers in better districts are respected, teachers in the inner city literally are babysitters (although I would argue that they earn every penny of their paychecks; they aren't overpaid). They spend so much time and effort keeping order that they can barely teach the classes. No parental involvement, kids with mental disorders who cannot be disciplined, insanely high class sizes, and an administration that shrugs and says, "Just keep us from getting closed."

Just get 'em to 18 (or earlier - a lot will drop out) and get 'em out the door. Someone else's problem now, probably the state penitentiary.
Purely anecdotal and IMO a bit disingenuous. Most McGill students are not from Québec for starters. I could comb through the requirements set by the government concerning secondary education and easily find many supposedly acquired skills that the author either forgot or never learned.

Write the same story about how a lot of anglophone students do not learn to speak/write/read French properly as they simply do not care and you will be overwhelmed by responses in their defense.
Last night I fired up a brand new HP stream desktop with windows 8.1 (only $179!). It had a Superfish icon on the desktop. When I get home I'll check for the cert.

So maybe Lenovo isn't the only offender.

Edit: Duh. It was snapfish, not superfish. I've been reading about superfish so much that's what I saw.
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This ^^^, Even when looking on our own internal job posting board where I work, you can never find out how much a job pays, or even a range until you've been offered a position. Wastes tons of peoples times.
Thank you for doing that. I hope to climb the Chief some day, and I'll be happy not to top out in front of a gondola depot.
This sounds like a great idea!

I am familiar with logistic regression (studying to be an actuary) but the problem is that my documents are unlabeled: I literally have 2000+ unlabeled documents and a list of positive and negative words.

I'm willing to label 10% (~200) documents but how should I 'score' them? On a scale of [-1,1]? Just {-1,0,1} for negative, neutral, positive? How do I create a training set?

Also can you point me in the direction of some of the implementation details e.g. how do you translate text into logistic regression model?

I would also like to implement POS tagging and 2-grams (e.g. "not bad" != "bad") - any advice on incorporating this into the system?

Thank you for your input!
Perhaps this is overly prying, but do you have a family?
I think it needs to keep being synthesized and summarized and codified only because there's always a generation of founders that haven't seen it. I feel the same way you do, but it's a good reminder to read it and it's good for new founders to have it freshly in front of them.