skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my short list: Peter Norvig, Yann Lecun, Andrew Ng, Demis Hassabis, Michael I. Jordan, Ben Medlock, Jeff Dean, Jeff Hawkin, Steve Gould, Geoffery Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Simon Osindero and Fei-Fei Li
> I've heard that their employees do shady things on occasion (2nd hand knowledge).

Care to elaborate?
Gah. At our company a bunch of early Rails apps metastasized into financial/billing modules that do DB access using ActiveRecord. With all the convenient pluralization and automatic field/method naming. And are now on the critical path for our revenue. It's a daily reminder to me of how the "easy API" thing can go wrong :-)
My friends and I were at the Origins conference in Ohio. It must have been some time around 1992, or so. We were there to play some AD&D. But, we happened to be roaming the conference area, and some guy, wearing a tshirt and MC Hammer pants, was at a booth selling these cards in a plastic container. It was a new game, he said. Magic. He gave us a bunch of cards for free and some rule books.

We ended up playing all night. We liked it so much that the next morning we bought the rest of his plastic containers. They were filled with cards of all types. These ended up being all 'alpha' cards. Little did we know, we were stacked with Moxes, Black Lotuses, etc. As a group, we must have had dozens of them.

We had no idea that they'd be worth anything. And, neither did Wizards of the Coast. The original rules stated that you had to ante a card out of your deck, just to play!
Will there ever be a native Mac OS X release of FL Studio?
I started playing at 8th Edition, so my "classic" Dragon and Angel are Shivan and Serra, respectively. Don't know how far back those two go, though.
Good luck. Efficient 2D using OpenGL is very difficult. It will never approach the speed of a well designed 2D API. Microsoft gave a lot of insight about the hard it was to get Direct2D to be competitive with GDI/GDI+.

If you do see any performance benefits it likely will be because you support less features than what a modern day browser supports with HTML/CSS. But in my opinion you could probably achieve faster speeds with Canvas in a similar manner.
Thanks for the great comments! We fixed the blurbs with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/8e24fc11... and the homepage is greatly improved because of it.

We'll try to improve the rest too and track it in issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/271

Thank you very much for your kind comments.
Mozilla releases open-source memory-scanning technology
The Digital Nomad: how to code and travel
GitHub took VC funding in 2012. $100M from Andreessen Horowitz and SV Angel.

I have no direct knowledge about their revenue stream, but profitable companies don't usually seek VC funding, and I've heard from other people (who may or may not actually know what they're talking about) that they're not profitable and are relying on the VC funding to operate.

And they're certainly spending money like it's not their own. Check out their ridiculous office: https://customspaces.com/office/DhXb6EKlE9/github-office-san.... And that bar. That's "we're spending VC money" behavior, not "we're spending our own revenue" behavior.
> I hope laws like this help deter such behavior.

Wishful thinking. The law in Canada, to my understanding, says that if you have conducted business with someone, then it's fair game for them to contact you with offers for some period of time (either 6 months or 12; I can't remember which.) Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk mail. If you bought something or subscribed to a site or whatever, then it's not unsolicited regardless of any opt-in or opt-out mechanism. The "do not call" registry of phone numbers similarly only applies to unsolicited callers; companies you've done business with can spam you with calls if you give them your phone number.

For these throwaway subscribes and transactional e-mails, I use an e-mail of them form <user>.<pin>@<mydomain>. When my mail server receives mail for this pattern, it changes it to <user>@<mydomain>, and bypasses all filters. Thus I'm sure to get important transactional e-mail. From time to time, and when I start seeing spam, I simply change the value of <pin>, which is a global in my mail server's config file.

Some people have date-based approaches, which can work well. E.g. if it is March 2015, your mail server might recognize an e-mail of the form you.201503@yourdomain, and map it to you@yourdomain. When April comes around, it stops working.
Theory-crafting: Maybe Intel overestimated the impact of some Microsoft change (say, bringing back the Start button in Windows 10), and projected that "maybe everyone will finally upgrade this year", before realizing that it didn't actually pan out that way.
Personally I think browsers will become service layers that expose the underlying OS in controlled and specific ways. Not a completely sandbox, but not a free for all either.

We've started creeping that way with a lot of the newer HTML5 stuff, but we have a long way to go.
>What they need to say: no UAVs above 400' AGL or within a mile of airports

Actually not far off from the model aircraft provisions of the FAA Modernization Act, except that the requirement is getting in contact with ATC if you're flying within a 5 mile radius of an airport.

Agreed that the commercial/non-commercial distinction is totally arbitrary.
Just because it isn't the bottleneck today doesn't mean it isn't slow.
It's not a big deal at all. It defaults to "no tip", there's no guilt since drivers don't find out immediately and drivers don't expect tips. For drivers it's a big advantage of Lyft because a lot of people actually do like the =option= to tip.
Sure, empathy might be positively correlated with agreeability, but it does NOT mean that there is any causality between them.

I am incredibly empathetic towards people (by the article's definition), but in no way you could label me as "agreeable".
Same with Lyft. Three people looking at their phone in a Lyft Line just means that they want to get to where they want to go without some mindless chitchat.
I just did a commit to start a css preprocessor war: https://github.com/robashton/crowdsourcedhomepage/commit/1d0...
Yeah... no. The reason salaries aren't going up is in the piece but casually dismissed as if it doesn't matter. Instead of "following the money" to people who own companies, why don't we follow the smell of bullshit to the BLS. Unemployment numbers are laughably phony. Of course workers don't have bargaining power - there are millions of people who've been out of work for half a decade desperate for a job and yet not counted as "unemployed".

Also, add in health care cost increases that employers have to pay but that don't show up in salary surveys.
If you like the deckbuilding mechanic without the collectible aspect, you might like games like Dominion.
As someone who spent time at MIT and Georgia Tech, MIT may be a bit better but the difference in quality of labs, resources and faculty is pretty small, with lots of cross pollination between the schools (exe: Thad Starner jumping ship from Media Lab to GT). I don't think you could credibly call GT anything but top tier unless your only resource is Hacker News or you're focusing on one of the few sub-disciplines the College of
Computing (yes CS is its own independent college, not merged with EE) doesn't have great coverage of.

Now if you combine EE+CS, I might believe you.
Chris DiBona is Google's Director of Open Source and the author of the blog post announcing the deprecation, so I'd say yes. But he's "planning", not guaranteeing it.
Really, that's not weird at all. Far from it.

For a truly different Ruby coding style checkout some of Ara T. Howard's code: https://github.com/ahoward.
The worst example of a bar chart I've seen
> ... In this model, agreeability has been repeatedly shown to correlate with worse career outcomes and lower professional satisfaction over time.

That's sad.
Inspired by some of their earlier articles, we did a similar test in-house on an ssd model we were planning on deploying into production. The goal was to make sure we knew exactly what to look for when our ssds were on their last legs. We actually bought a smaller capacity version of the same model so the test wouldn't take as long.

I feel a lot better about that production hardware now that I have seen first hand what SMART reports as the drive is running out of reallocation sectors.
You bring up good points, but I still think 25% of drivers (or even fewer) would be enough to compete with Uber, and here's why. If you've got a new startup and you want to match Uber's response time, you don't need to have nearly as many drivers as Uber, because you will initially be be serving a small number of customers in a geographically restricted area (if you're smart). Your first customers may actually get better response times than Uber, merely by having a higher initial ratio of drivers to riders. So once you've got that toehold, you can grow your service gradually, while maintaining the same response times that Uber does.

It's true that Uber could try to run promotions to starve competitors, but could Uber keep this up forever when it's so easy to compete? They have deep pockets, but not infinitely deep.

EDIT:

On second thought, your point about Uberpool is more compelling. Whoever has the higher density of riders in a given area will be able to do pooling better (although with diminishing returns as density increases past a certain point), and this could be hard for a newcomer to match. On the other hand, if you can reach that threshold by competing on non-pooled service, you may be able to roll out a competing pooling service later. It seems more surmountable than competing with Airbnb, because you could start by targeting a small geographic area, but I can see this driving some of Uber and Lyft's valuation.

Thankfully, newcomers will always be able to compete on price with regular (non-pooled) taxi service, so we can expect those prices to stay low, effectively setting a ceiling on pooling prices.
There are many ISPs that offer transit, so Comcast can choose which one(s) to buy from.

The Comcast/Netflix intentional congestion thing actually happened and caused actual harm, so I'm not sure why you're responding with trolling.
Life long Pratchett fan. Only thing comes to mind is a quote that I don't know who to credit for

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened"

:/
15 year old fire mixtape
That's part of it, sure. The other part of it in America is the successful suppression of any sort of labor movement and the success of efforts by the very rich to drive a wedge between the merely affluent and the middle and lower classes.

America has a real strong strain of the "I'm not poor, I'm merely a temporarily embarrassed millionaire" sentiment.
I would like to see the OP do mock redesigns of these sites they've picked, showing by example how these designs could be improved.
The problem is if "who you are" is a quiet, fairly shy person, you will get run over by everybody in SF. Just my opinion. I've been to 40 different states and met people from all of them. The SF crowd has very little empathy towards other adults. Abandoned dog? Theyll adopt right away. Child with a peanut allergy? Theyll murder every peanut in sight and ban peanut butter city-wide. Grown adult trying to just find a place to live or get a decent job? You're entirely on your own.

I've seen fake empathy used more here to play people than legit empathy to help another adult struggling.
Wages are not stagnant, they have begun to rise.

And this is simultaneously at a time when Americans just received one of the greatest purchasing power increases in modern history, as the USD has skyrocketed in the last nine months (so far that the USD and Euro are near parity).

November

"Wages and salaries climbed last quarter by the most since 2008 as a dwindling number of unemployed per job opening approached a tipping point."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-19/wages-pois...

December

"An important measure of household income rose in December by the largest amount in nearly 8 years, signaling a long-overdue rebound in family earning power."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/families-are-finally-earning-m...

January

"Average hourly wages, meanwhile, jumped 12 cents to $24.75, the biggest gain since September 2008"

http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article9388535.html

Wages aren't rising as quickly as expected, because the labor force is not tight enough yet. The U3 is only partially accurate.

The labor force participation rate is sitting near a 40 year low and the U6 unemployment rate is still significantly elevated.

The U6 was about 9% in 2004 (8% by 2006). It's 11.4% as of February.
Yeah, right; where are you going to get the money to finance the cannon?
Create condensing headers like those seen in Safari, Facebook, and Square Cash
It could be to avoid crowding at peak times.
Alibaba invests in Snapchat which is blocked in China
Text Understanding from Scratch [pdf]
Yes yes yes!!
Organized labor getting everything they wanted is what led to basically all US auto companies going bankrupt.
No matter how much I tried to install this on a side-project, I had no luck:

https://www.tithess.gr/

The test site displays the banner fine, my site doesn't. Given how hard these things are to debug, a simple "banner checker" page that would tell you what you did wrong would be a great help.
> your server OS vendor, your own workstation's software, your OS, all your firmware

They all stake their reputation so in theory they have checks in place to minimize rogue behavior (in practice though they are often clueless, see starfish). Also they put their code/hardware into public so they normally can't target individuals without fearing others to discover their attempts.

Contrast this to rogue employees at Github who can copy repositories for their old colleagues from college to give them an edge and the only difference you will ever see manifested is competitors seemingly always having timely answers to any new features you are about to unveil in your solution, because they were too smart to copy/paste your code directly.
Out of next year's budget, just as we learned by watching the finance guys. Or maybe by selling some debt to another corporation to be used as a valuable tax reduction device.
And, it would be extremely easy to implement, because you only have to assert erase on every page in the device, which can be done in parallel.
Maybe the article refers more towards the assembly line worker, but GM IT receives an annual merit increase (a.k.a. raise) across the board.

YMMV based on performance, but if you worked the year you get something.

But I do agree that 'returning value back to investors' is sucky. I'm of the opinion rewarding your employees, and hence retaining your employees and their knowledge brings value to the company, and in the end, the investor.
Not sure what you mean that it doesn't matter what the SC thinks - if they rule that states cannot ban the use of stun guns, then the states have to comply. What workarounds are there?
That would be a ~70 hour download through my rural UK broadband connection! It would be quicker for me to fly to the USA, visit the devs in person and ask them to copy it to an external drive.

I understand why games are getting bigger, but there are going to be accessibility issues for a lot of people. I am often reluctant to tie up my family broadband connection for hours on end to download a big game. I find myself choosing small indie titles instead simply because they are more convenient to download.
Software development is supposedly a high-demand skill. And, I hear that companies can't seem to hire anyone qualified. I still get dozens of recruiters contacting me, each week. Yet, with all of that, my salary has remained stagnant for the past few years.

My guess is that people have no idea what they're worth, so they don't ask for anything more. I see way too many developers who are getting paid pennies to the dollar. I see upper-end developers working for 70-80k.

Look, people. If you have skills, you should be getting paid 150k+ a year. Please, stop taking menial salaries. You're hurting all of us.
It can be used for good or evil, like any talent. The good is that a person with empathy will be able to find common ground and defuse conflicts by understanding the other side's position and actually be able to address their concerns instead of just talking past them. Being empathetic can also lead to better leadership and maintaining groups by helping different participants in the group communicate and understand each other instead of splitting up the group due to petty squabbles. A very empathetic person can design brilliant products too by being able to feel every pain point in a user's interaction with that product.
Not sure; I think they implied gross, but probably meant net.
You assume that understanding a belief system is enough to manipulate it in the direction you want. This is not necessarily always possible. If you want a external test of empathy, how about settling for the ability to predict what someone else will do, given particular circumstances?

Even this much simpler test is often blundered at, even by professional diplomats.
Guilty Plea in $14M Ad Fraud Case
(How) do you intend to handle accessibility?
> The idea that nVidia and AMD are detecting your games, and then replacing shaders, optimizing around bugs, etc should be absolutely terrifying.

Actually it's par for the course, if you care about backwards compatibility. Raymond Chen has many, many stories about the absolutely heroic lengths Microsoft has gone to ensure that popular, yet broken, programs continue to work smoothly between Windows upgrades [1][2][3][4][5].

On Depending on Undocumented Behavior:

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/23/45481...

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/15/55296...

Why Not Just Block Programs that rely on Undocumented Behavior?

[3] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/24/45779...

Who cares about backwards compatibility? (A lot of people):

[4] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/06/99999...

Hardware breaks between upgrades, too:

[5] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/28/54719...

Joel Spolsky's (somewhat dated) "How Microsoft Lost the API War" gives a good overview of the above concerns:

[6] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
...and just like that, we have become the finance guys.
Intel and Microsoft could make it easy for desktop customers to move to a new desktop and use their old hard drive to run Windows XP in a virtual machine, alongside Windows 10 which includes Hyper-V.
They did :)
Hrm. Personally my favorite format is limited. I've been drafting with the same group of friends since highschool and even loosing is fun because I'm playing an intellectually challenging game and hanging out with friends. Legacy is incredibly fun to play but competition is completely out of the question so we end up playing on line. The thing that drives me to buy boxes is that I want to play with my friends, the fact that someone might need a card or three for one of their decks later is entirely secondary.
Unemployment numbers are laughably phony

That's simply untrue.
Former intern that admittedly sucked at his job gets promoted to NVIDIA Dev by HN moderators because clickbait. Srsly?
There are lots of situations where letting either side have free reign is bad, and the best is for both sides to be in healthy competition.
Play 2048, get paid in Bitcoins
And strangely enough, the most advanced Perl 6 implementation is even written in Haskell!

That hasn't been true for a few years, but it was true for quite a while. At this point Pugs is fairly out of date and (I believe) abandoned, as it's main developer discontinued development. For a long while it was the most advanced Perl 6 compiler though, and from what I understand a lot of it's rapid advancement was attributed to it being written in Haskell (Perl 6 and Haskell share a good portion of advanced features, so that may have helped).

The current state of support of the various Perl 6 compilers can be seen here[1].

1: http://perl6.org/compilers/features
A) $300/day is not 90k/yr unless you are working 6 days/week and 2 weeks off the whole year.

B) There are significant direct costs that come out of that $300, it is not even $300 before taxes, it's $300 at the top of a Schedule C.

I think many of these drivers simply have not done the math.
American unions were always pussycats compared to German and Japanese unions, which didn't suffer near the same fate.
Maybe you're optimizing for the wrong thing?

Let's imagine a world where a browser is just a secure place to execute code. You get vulkan, io, networking, input, camera access in a cross platform way.

So, how do search engines find any info? How do you share links to content? How do you support braille readers? Browser extensions?

I'd argue those things are pretty essential to the web as we know it (well maybe not the extensions) and I might also argue that some of the inefficiencies of the web environment are a direct result of making the decisions that the most important part of the web is a common semi scannable and linkable format, HTML.
Deep Convolutional Inverse Graphics Network
In the spirit of neither party citing anything, it is true. I don't understand how people think otherwise. If I had to guess, part of it is the majority of readers here live in a bubble and don't see the forest for the trees.
No, that I get and understand. I meant, why is she in the out-group? Or, more precisely, how do you know she is in the out-group?
Reminds me of MIT's Exokernel- make the lower level interfaces as low-level as possible (while still providing security) and let user-level libraries provide various abstractions suited to different use cases.

No file systems, no network protocols, no processes; just a very thin layer that lets userspace implement those if/how it wants to.
Yeah, one of the things this doesn't mention is that, to a certain extent, these issues are self-imposed and the GPU vendors make money from them. In particular, one of the big reasons OpenGL games are so standards-violating is that NVidia consistently refuse to enforce the specs. So software is developed against the NVidia driver's behaviour and breaks on AMD, Intel and open source drivers that enforce the specs, then people blame this on the drivers being crap and buy NVidia hardware. This was a big reason why Wine worked badly on non-Nvidia hardware for a long time.
Does anyone index the web by {secure hash}? What a good index that would be.
In California food and any items bought with food stamps are not taxed. So the government has more or less complete freedom in reducing the regressive nature of the tax by expanding the food stamp eligibility.
How 2 Georgia fraternity brothers created Yik Yak, a ~$400M business in 365 days
Old article [2003] but I bet still relevant today: 39% of Americans believed they are (19%), or will one day be (20%), among the top one percent. Until this "Don't squeeze the rich because, hey, I'll be rich one day" attitude changes, labor and equality movements will always be uphill battles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-hop...
My First Week on Meerkat – Featured on LinkedIn Pulse
How did you recover your hearing?
No idea why you were downvoted. Maybe people percieved it as an implication of "I knew better 3 years ago", but it's not that.

It's hard to imagine someone working with Enterprise Java and thinking "This isn't helping. This isn't making things more reliable".
HGST gets closer to shipping 10TB HDD
Consider it done. http://i.imgur.com/Xdmlj6v.jpg

In all seriousness, though, I started my own open source project hosting website back in the day. It was the first to offer public Mercurial and Git hosting.

Google Code existed then and the interface and functionality has not really changed since I released the first version of the site.