skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you find a friend that would be willing to split time with you? Not an employee but a partner. Sure, you will lose half the profit (make sure you put it in writing that the situation is temporary), but it is better than being completely overwhelmed.
Implementing a React Autocomplete with the TMDB API
I think it also has to do with Haskell's type system. Quickcheck is able to "discover" the bounds within any arbitrary type can operate, and thus makes generating random values within these bounds fairly easy.
That is my question. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to learn anything from a powerpoint presentation (the worst way to convey any type of information).
Yes, forgot to mention that: http://chewbonga.com/simple-world-threejs/
Firefox 36.0 released
Because it has to be recorded for their annual review.
Email Overload: Building my own email app to reach Inbox Zero
Hold back features and ship
Depends who the investors are. I know some really first-class ones... then again, I know some dumb ones...
I think a clue might be where he stated that the CNN checks stopped rolling in. I could only assume to get them back he needs to have more news and a captive audience.
I saw a post recently about the difference between Engineer and Developer (I think on HN). It is definitely a contentious issue for some programmers.
First, I don't think they claim a 50/50 split. I guess there's still room for improvement even before hitting the applicant pool limitation (I have seen it, too, BTW, when we hired; the number of women applying is higher than their representation in startups).

Second, it's also very possible that there is a local, fast, feedback loop. I think women would be more attracted to companies that already employ a higher number of women, and are known for a hospitable working environment, so it's likely those companies will receive a higher share of women applicants.
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Agreed on the "senior" designation. I'd prefer to see number of years developing software instead of an arbitrary title as the measure of experience.
Race conditions can and do occur with message passing as well. All that is required is to depend on operations split between threads (processes, machines) occurring in a particular order, and you will eventually run into a race condition when you try and run the code concurrently.

The problem occurs in that both programmers and our tools are terrible at guessing when such order dependencies will occur, except when working with "embarrassingly parallel" tasks.
Any thoughts on this? What else can MSPs and sysadmins at smaller or mid-sized companies do to prepare for the heightened expectations that come along with this buzzterm?
It's pretty obvious... reading books digitally is a lousy experience. IMO, the only people who benefit from e-books are the people publishing them, except for reference books.

The textbook cost problem is about the implicit corruption of the process promulgated by publishers and colleges.

My nephew has the 45th edition of some Accounting 101 textbook, which is almost exactly the same as the 20th edition that I had a long time ago. It costs like $150, which is criminal. This situation exists because everyone is getting their pound of flesh from the poor students.
This precisely. I commend Authy for trying to make 2FA for a wide audience, but security is not easy. Training users is the correct approach.

Give an option for those who deeply care about their security. If you're going to grab the industry by the balls and capture the attention of major industry players at least stick to your core values and offer an advanced/expert option for those of us who want to stay out of your system but still use 2FA.
I don't think that thinking other people suck is good way to develop confidence. At least not without experience. If women for the sake of confidence should learn that people suck, it's that most programmers do, not that most women do. I'd rather they develop confidence through experience with programming rather than arrogance toward other programmers. Since the problem with arrogance is that it almost always clashes with reality.
I had to use Ruby on a couple of different projects and it left a really sour taste in my mouth. Granted some of it really wasn't fair to Ruby but it still did.

This gives me hope that I'm more in line with the development community rather than a curmudgeon :)
Do you direct users there for troubleshooting etc?
It's relevant because problems like this default to being the result of "the patriarchy" or sexism.

OTOH you could argue that women were kept out of skateboarding because the entire thing moved below the glass floor (the opposite of the glass ceiling that keeps women out of dangerous jobs) as it became too low-class and dangerous for even poor women. In line with what mtbcoder noted, throughout the eighties and nineties being a skateboarder meant you were an outcast and a criminal. As a society we don't like attaching those terms to women. It was only after several years of the X-Games being on TV and new skateparks being built that the sport gained the sense of legitimacy it enjoys today.
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Not at all. I'm entirely for the rule of law - EULAs are clearly wrong and should be held to be entirely unenforceable. IMO the suggestion that their unilateral terms are legal requirements should instead be met with a severe penalty, it's deception.
It's just TOTP, so if they weren't creating a walled 2FA garden you could use any of the available TOTP apps on Windows Phone, but alas...
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> Syphilis is also not new, but that doesn't mean that it's not a problem.

This is more like the wheel rather than syphilis. Something created by humans to serve a purpose, that endures because it continues to be useful.

> One of the major advancements in civilization was the idea that parents _cannot_ pass their debts down to their children.

With welfare, it's not parents' debts being passed on to their children. Its the childrens' obligation to begin with.
Part of Einstein's genius was that he took seriously the fact that in all the empirical data, no one had yet found a way to distinguish between inertial acceleration and gravitational acceleration. He decided this was not a coincidence, but a fundamental equivalence. It resulted in his elevator thought experiment that predicted that gravity can bend light.
If you are a startup, working remotely is not a good option. It is even worse, if your co-founder is working remotely. Startup is not just about getting things done faster. It is about validating if your direction is right. To do that, you need your team with you for brainstorming and moral support.

If you want to save cost, you should move to the remote location where your team is, after raising some money in the valley.
Thread about Ellen Pao just disappeared from the Reddit front page
What they have demoed and are building out now is a pretty incredible advance in modern radio systems. So there is healthy room for skepticism.

It seems like there would be some major engineering challenges ahead, with predicting localization and movement of each receiver to adjust the location of the 'cell', and dealing with multipath. So this might explain why they are going slowly with building it out.

But I think that it is not snake oil, just a disruptive innovation that is slowly trying to get a foothold after coming out of relative secrecy in development for years. If they get it right, though, then it will absolutely reinvent the cellular industry.
Human Genes Should Not Be Patented
Has anyone used the KeY project in industry?

I'd certainly prefer proofs over unit tests. However, I don't understand formal proof systems sufficiently well to know whether these they would work in terms of your typical "app" that makes RPC calls, DB changes, and generally has lots of moving parts and statefulness.
Figuring out the possible global combinations of multiple different interacting state machines can still be tricky. You can still easily get into racy scenarios.

The problems you see with memory races (e.g. publishing a pointer to a structure which does not have all its construction memory stores retired) are at a different level of strangeness, however.
Digital media are failing, especially eBooks are, and it to me it feels like a huge cultural regression.

In the nineties, I digitized my CD collection and haven't looked back. I did the same with my DVDs, and eventually I got (DRM-free or cracked) eBook versions of all books that were important to me. Doing away with all those physical storage objects felt so liberating, I can't even describe it. Plus, I can have all my stuff with me wherever I go. I do enjoy reading on my iPad, too.

However, nobody I know of made this leap. Usually, older people like me do have some sort of ripped movie or eBook collection which they don't use. Millennials, however, use physical media all the way, and even where they don't they accept only DRM'ed, thoroughly walled gardens where you can rent stuff for a limited time and those companies only allow you to consume things in a very restrictive manner. They have huge DVD collections, they started printing out their photos again, they mostly only read paper-based books, they prefer streaming content via crappy proprietary channels, and I'm not even sure many of them would know how to copy a file if their life depended on it.

This feels like an immense failure to me, not only because I feel isolated in my content consumption habits, but also because we've somehow managed to move backwards for purely cultural reasons. It's a loss of capability, and a loss of personal freedom and empowerment.
4-5k a month is more than enough to make a hire. Think of it this way:

What is your time worth to you?

Would you rather work your ass off and make 5k, or have a sane workload, make 2k for a while, which then rises as you have adequate internal infrastructure to support growing sales and users?

It sounds like you have a good thing going, and I'd strongly recommend at looking to get another pair of hands involved - or close it down.
> There are still inputs that will make it go quadratic

Can you elaborate on this? To force quicksort into a quadratic running time, you need to ensure that each pivot splits off a bounded number of elements (e.g. no more than three, or no more than twenty million) from the rest of the list. If the pivot is being chosen at random, then it looks to me like the guarantee you'd need to make is "every single element of this list [because any of them might be chosen] is larger, and smaller, than no more than k other elements of the list". But as the size of the list grows, that condition forces it to be mostly composed of the same element repeated over and over again, which is really easy to sort, and in particular is really easy for quicksort to handle.
Why would you shoot with live ammunition during a war game?
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Of course, but this is probably true on some level about nearly every sport or physical activity. Sports probably provide interesting models for individual and tribal innovation, and something resembling a fairly clean meritocracy... before a culture gets layered on top of that which puts up nasty guard rails and biases.

I don't think we have to worry about SV emulating that, it already resembles that model quite thoroughly. Fortunately I do think the conversation about how to resolve what distracts from merit in our industry is at least in the beginnings of happening.

I don't think it's reasonable to say that nothing to learn from or even emulate about an (admittedly deeply) flawed culture.
The population of London has been declining for many years, so point #1 is out.
Passive Facebook Usage Undermines Affective Well-Being: Experimental Evidence [pdf]
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This sounds like a cop out. The people who flew into those towers were neither poor nor badly educated - so it can't be a social issue. They weren't very religious either (mohammed atta went to night clubs and drank alcohol), so what caused them to act?
While explicitly sharing memory isn't a great solution to threading, one shouldn't think message passing is some sort of panacea either, you can end up with things such as race conditions or deadlocks if you're not careful there as well.

Though it is admittedly a fair bit more sane for most applications.
Meet Mixcloud, the bootstrapped London startup tuning in on longform audio
Show HN: Web-based text generation engine for automated comedy
React JavaScript and a browserify workflow
I purchased about 30 helium-filled balloons for my 3-year old's birthday party for about $10.

So I would say that no, we're not running out of helium, by any meaningful definition of "running out".
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American cities have tried rent control, and it simply leads to a shortage of rooms for rent.

In NYC's case, it also leads to 1.5-2 million people being able to live in the city who otherwise (at market rates) simply would not be able to, period. To flatly assert that it "simply leads" to a shortage in stock (with no other significant effects) -- or that unregulated housing markets don't also have crippling shortages -- is just... weird.

After all - why would you build apartments or rent out existing rooms if you're not going to make money off of it?

This is, of course, completely illogical: just because some apartments are rent-stabilized, that doesn't mean that all of them are, or even a majority of them are. And of course owners will still rent their stabilized apartments -- they may forego some of the niceties of higher-end maintenance, but they'll still rent them.

And in any case, the reality is that while developers in NYC are occasionally forced to build a small portion "affordable" units[1], it doesn't ding their profit margins very much, and they're falling over each other to create new stock, just the same. (Hint: city planners have long been aware that there's an incentive tradeoff that comes with requiring a certain proportion affordable units to be built; that's why they keep this proportion very low, so as to not impact the developer's incentives, very much).

[1] Most of which generally aren't actually affordable to actual low-income residents (due to on some quirks about how "mean income" is defined), but that's another matter.
Lamest attempt yet, in the history of humankind, at a Trojan Horse.
Homeowner's insurance is also to be considered as a non-negligible fraction of the monthly cost of a house. When I bought a house in 2008 in upstate NY, I was moderately surprised to see that with taxes and insurance my monthly payment more than doubled from the amount I was to pay from mortgage alone (granted this was at a time with a historically low interest rate).
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I am a bit surprised to see the salaries for Denver.
For anyone leaving/working in Denver area is that on par with what you see?

For some reason i was expecting Denver to be a bit higher on that list in terms of salaries.
Teenagers absolutely expect each other to have a Facebook account, and many use Messenger. They're not doing as many News Feed posts as older users though.
Much like the one on here the other day it's full of ignorant hateful hateful comments and I don't blame them for killing it (If that is even what happened)

So was the thread on the woman only ycombinator conference. I know we as a community can be better than this folks.
I think the repeated use of "Top Skill" rather than "Common Skill" is giving the wrong impression. The impression that Javascript is the most desired skill for 60% of the titles/shapes.
> - Reading is only problem in crappy screens. When 14" e-paper becomes norm, paper books will be obsolete

Many of my books would suck in ebook form, no matter how big the screen is. Color, predictable layout so text, meta-text, and diagrams/images can be laid out sensibly and helpfully, and having two pages visible at a time are important for some books.

A good 14" e-ink screen won't make books obsolete. It'll take some much larger advances in technology and in standards (ha ha, good luck) for ebook readers to match paper books.
"And London needs this citizen's just as hard as the higher paid individuals."

Apparently not.
Aside from the government being a fiscal conservative, the word "tax" is a dirty word for many ordinary Hong Kongers.

Their lack of tax diversity is also one of the main reasons why housing is so damn expensive, because the government make money there.
As a freelancer, "hour worked" and "billable hour" are two very different things. If you're billing $x/hour, then you're earning much less when you count in all the hours that are work that's required for sustainable freelancing but aren't billable - finding clients, negotiating with them, making proposals for prospects that in the end don't become clients, handling your business/taxes/legal/advertising/etc.

Taxes/etc are a different issue on top of that, but a freelancer should expect to work many hours at a high rate, and many hours at the rate of $0/hour.
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Yes, that's definitely unfortunate. I don't remember it being required with older versions of the Authy app. I really hate forced cloud service integration, especially in applications that deal with sensitive material.
You're both wrong; most people at the point of browsing don't care that much for privacy. Most users would hand out their passwords for a chocolate bar! [0] How much less would they care about their privacy let alone understand how one browser is better than another.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3639679.stm
To add to #3, the UK needs sane public transportation prices. It costs more to take a 40 minute train ride from outside of London into London than it does to take a plane ride from Heathrow to the continent.
With a watch called Time and Kickstarter return, Pebble's not backing down
The problem is GMO is an arbitrary distinction similar to labelling food "organic". There is no clear definition of GMO because almost everything we eat has been genetically modified by humans. Corn, wheat, cows, pigs, chickens and all domesticated crops and livestock exist due to genetic modification by humans, they are genetically modified organisms, now we are simply arguing over how their genes are being modified not if.

So when someone says GMO it assumed to be what exactly? Targeted gene inertion? Mutagenesis? What about marker assisted breeding? Each one of these is a continuum of progression from "conventional" breeding. All of them are human induced genetic modification, drawing the line at say targeted gene insertion is arbitrary.

More details on the problems with defining and classifying food as GMO can be found here: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC510...
Not a proper digital native (I'm 37), but still I prefer reading on my laptop, tablet, or even phone.

I've been reading tons of books since I was 6. Switched to digital 10 years ago, more or less.

Only thing I can't absolutely think of reading other than in print, are mangas.
Recruit someone, on a contracting basis, for $15 / hour, to do support responses. Pay that person 70 or 80 hours per month. Adjust the hourly as desirable to get the kind of person you need.

Have that person also build a very comprehensive FAQ, if one does not exist. They can also process any time consuming sales routines for you (refunds, billing questions, whatever). If they're any good at basic sales, you can give them a commission for selling which might get their income up to near full-time after a while.

Begin slightly restricting what kind of support tickets you'll handle (specifically begin to make it abundantly clear to users that if their question is in the FAQ, all you're going to get is pointed to the FAQ; ratchet that up to whatever degree is necessary).
Interesting! I've always wondered how people managed to have families while traveling the world.

I very much prefer to travel alone, because being stuck miles from home with an unhappy partner is a special kind of hell. It can also be quite lonely to be alone on the road though.

Good luck in your travels!
Introducing Pebble Time
Fibonacci( n ) = ( P^n - ( -P )^-n ) / sqrt(5)

Where P is Golden ratio ( about 1.618 )

So yes it resembles exponential growth but as you can see it is slightly less due to the "- ( -P )^-n" part.
Fair comment. We'll get on updating this. Thanks for your feedback.
Older people tend to live longer and healthier lives if they continue working past the customary retirement age. Both of my grandfathers (who became adults before Social Security existed in the United States, and who aged into old age when the standard retirement age was 65) worked until about age 75. They both lived well into their eighties, with my paternal grandfather dying from being hit by an errantly driven car rather than from disease. My parents both retired right on the dot at age 65, and I think that has been worse for their health than continuing to work longer (my dad has now died, at a younger age than his dad died at).

The article kindly submitted here mentions an issue of age imbalance in the population. "The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and World Health Organization forecast Hong Kong will have the highest share of population aged 65 years and over in Asia by 2050 with 42 percent, outpacing Japan's 39 percent." That's an exceptionally skewed age ratio for any place in the world. If people cease working at age 65 in such a place, a large proportion of the population (both children and the elderly) have to be supported by a not very large proportion of the population at working age. That's difficult to do whether support for the elderly comes from their own children or from taxpayers in general.

What's happening in many countries, of course, is that people are living far longer into old age than they imagined they possibly could decades ago.[1] Life expectancies at adult ages (say, 40, or 65) are increasing steadily all over the developed world. If people retire at the same age as decades ago, in much better health and with many more years of remaining life ahead, it's not surprising that their personal savings may run out. The response is to keep the proportion of working years over a whole lifespan a more or less constant proportion of healthy life years.

[1] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...
The GIMP had terrible, terrible, terrible UX, kind of based on a "fuck the end-users, I've got a horse outside" principle. Maybe philosophies will change for the better.
It's still snake oil. What they're designing is called a thinned phased array, or sparse phased array, see figure 19 in the white paper. Such design suffers from a major flaw known to any radar engineer: The Thinned Array curse. It even has a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinned-array_curse

In layman terms, >99% of the power transmitted is lost to sidelobes and doesn't reach the intended users (1-a/A power is lost, if you want to get technical). Such design can carry a small number of users, operating very close to the environment noise floor. The maximum allowed number of users is approximately proportional to the number of transmitters. Each user added above this limit decrease the SNR for all users in the system, killing the communication for everyone. Not a sound design for a cellular system.

Phased-array design is complex and not always intuitive. Whoever invested in this company hasn't done proper due diligence.
LLVM is a C++ monstrosity that takes hours to compile. Other programming language projects have to maintain a "temporary" fork of LLVM to achieve their goals: https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm/tree/master
That is not at all an issue with an eink display. It's almost exactly like paper.