skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a relative newcomer to the NoSQL scene and have been using RethinkDB for a couple of sideprojects. The IRC channel (#rethinkdb on FreeNode) is really second-to-none - the people on there are incredibly friendly and patient when answering what are probably obvious questions.
This also deserves a shout out to Sinead of http://www.fluency.io/, who is one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs I've ever met.
This appears to be broken. After going a few rounds and getting nothing right, I "cheated" in another window, and it was still marking everything wrong.
because for many people, not even in CS, 'he' is the default pronoun. There's a trend in writing now to actually use "she," when writing about a hypothetical person who is genderless, rather than "he." But not only could this be construed as sexist (i.e. akin to reverse-racism), but randomly breaking convention can be jarring to the reader. It isn't necessarily, but can be.

I'm just saying that I've read some papers by leading feminist theatre art/drama scholars, and even they use the masculine pronoun.

Also, I find it annoying that while you adknowledge OP's attempt to be gender neutral, you destroy her (see what I did there?) over a single pronoun, which happens to be gendered but is used neutrally.
Indeed, Mr Money Mustache is a good resource for people looking for an early retirement with an average salary:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
Great read. I've finally taken the plunge and have spent the last 3 weeks extensively studying Haskell in the evenings. My first attempt was a couple years ago, but somewhere between then and now I've grokked something mysterious and it's been easier to dig into. The last 6 months or so has been something like Common Lisp -> Racket -> Haskell, which may have contributed a little.

My long term goal is to write a realtime game server with it, however, I keep flopping back and forth between wrapping my head around the high learning curve and jumping to something more familiar to Get Things Done. It seems the payoff for learning Haskell is intrinsic in and of itself even if I never end up using it, yet I can't help but wonder if I'm spending my time wisely.
In the back country, especially in the sierras, you can get pretty close to some microwave and other communication relay stations. Not open to the public, but you can nearly walk right up to them.
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Unfortunately, pronouns are a closed class[1] in English; the possibility of getting people to adopt a new one is vanishingly unlikely. Fortunately, we already have “they”, which has been used as a gender-neutral pronoun in the singular for at least half a millennium.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_of_speech#Open_and_closed...
While I do not have any first hand experience with this, I have heard/read from several sources that a co-founder bailing on their own company can be a big mark against your reputation in the future.
>... it becomes a lot more like trying to smuggle drugs over borders. It still happens, but not so casually.

I don't think the legality matters much. Drug prices have across the country have dropped significantly despite a ballooning war on drugs. A quick google search shows that cocaine has dropped 80% in price since the 80's.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
> We really just want to see how you think

> Zero feedback.

So, they never let you know how you think?
A perceptive point. The whole piece felt like a paid for PR piece to me.
Ok, I don't need you to or expect you to reply. Just, consider this if you wish: when you are told that people are harmed by things other people in your community do, or things you might be doing without thinking, is it not worthwhile to listen?

Take this whole discussion, for example. My takeaways are that:

1) There is a group/generation/subset within nerd culture that has had "social norms" and "proper conduct" used as a weapon against them, in order to attack them over what they feel is unintentional social clumsiness or voluntary disregard of norms they don't agree with, without intent of harming anyone. I tend to trust what people tell me, so I now believe this is a significant grievance for a number of people. It was never quite as large a part of my own experience with nerdyness, but I acknowledge it has been for others.

2) Public shamming is an effective tactic (in pointing people to the existence of a problem), but also a terribly aggressive one towards the person being named. Specially if they are only been picked as an example of what is considered bad only because of how common the behavior is and the toll it exerts on people in aggregate, not just that particular instance. This is, by the way, a point I have seen made before, within activist communities. I'd still argue naming and shamming is a valid response in cases of obvious ill intent or physical harm (e.g. rape), but not for all types of "inappropriate behavior" (in which I am including unintentional or miss-measured psychological harm).

Could you, reciprocally, consider giving some though as to whether some of the things people label as unwelcoming, harmful or oppressive within a subset of nerd culture might be real grievances as well? How about considering whether the people exposing these grievances really come from outside the community, or from within? Or whether or not, if the grievances are real, they are right to demand that the culture addresses them?

And, while I stand by the point you quoted, I'd still wager more oppressive things happen in the name of "this is how we always have acted" and "you are not really part of this group", than in the name of anti-oppression.
The only problem I have with this is that it's wrong[0], but it's still kinda fun.

[0] I clicked on a category and it said "I think I have", so I cheated and typed into Google "I think I have" and looked at the top suggestions from Google. But when I entered the top suggestion from Google into this website, this website said I had entered the #2 suggestion. And when I entered another suggestion straight from Google, the website said it was wrong.
I like Slack and have been using it since very early on, but although it is pretty my use of it has tailed off and I've returned to sharing things via email. It essentially works like a private Facebook wall or any number of other shared-space aradigms. It's beautifully designed, and it just works, but once you fill it up with a few months worth of random crap it's not obvious that it's fundamentally better than any other social communication tool.
I am rather horrified to hear of your setup, how has it worked out for you in practice?
Ok, then what's the pattern?
Same. Fun idea, though. I wonder if the answers are tied to someone with a specific search history?

edit: seems to be working better now.
Honestly, I find the backlight less obnoxious. I can use my Pixel indefinitely with no complaints. The Retina is the only computer I've used that hurts my eyes after a couple hours of work.

The screen's also 8% sharper. (220dpi vs 239dpi). I don't have them side-by-side right now, so it's hard to say if that part's noticeable. I mostly base my judgement on the quality of the backlight in conjunction with the super-high DPI and touchscreen.
> Again the facts simply don't agree with you. Companies have been moving away from SQL databases in droves compared to the 1990s.

Do you have any links to said 'facts'? Otherwise your comments are just hearsay and anecdote.
The drugs being tested are all already approved, so safety would not be really a concern.

Not true at all. Two drugs could be very safe on their own, but in combination could cause serious adverse events or even lead to death (combining some drugs with grapefruit juice can be bad). When drugs are approved by the FDA, the obvious combinations are sometimes tested for (or theoretical interactions are called out). New combinations are basically an unknown.

After some time to collect the data, you could fairly easily compare outcomes of patients who undergo this test versus those who do not.

Unless you are running a controlled clinical trial, I'm not sure anyone would trust the data. There is too much variability among patients, that if not controlled for, could seriously skew results. Sure it might indicate a promising lead, but I doubt that's enough for insurance companies to start paying for it.
As a product of the system, agreed 100%. Also, the true cost should account for lost income while in law school. As opportunities improve for those students who could excel in other areas, the lost income exceeds the tuition cost.
I spent 2014 trying to get a Bitcoin derivatives exchange off the ground and had a lot of intimate conversations about business models with large players, I am not speculating here.

Consider that Bitcoin has return characteristics that are highly desirable to a VC's risk profile, yet the restrictions of their limited partnership agreements precludes VCs from directly buying Bitcoin.
Nah, not compared to Oakland or SF. It is starting to get more developed but still a bit sleepy. Park street has become pretty built up. Less going on near the webster side but closer to West Oakland BART (any train to SF) and a little bit cheaper probably.
Probably not. I think panicky entrepreneurs aren't particularly good either.

The worst case for most SV entrepreneurs is "have to go get a job" or "have to move in with family or friends for a while". When you're young and single, that's an ok outcome, especially since you have a level of control that matches your level of risk.

It's a very different calculus with a spouse and kids. There if you blow up, you don't want your family to end up homeless. And you don't want your spouse worrying about ending up homeless, either. Since your spouse doesn't have control over the business outcomes, it can be much more stressful.

I'd encourage you to jointly split your cushion into "can gamble with" and "won't gamble with". Then if you want to do a startup (or join something early enough that they can't pay you properly) the deal you make is that once you've burned through the ok-to-gamble money, you go back and get a real job.

I promise you that watching your bank balance tick down is going to create significant motivation, especially if your #1 investor (that is, your spouse) is getting weekly status reports on the business progress.
This is the "I don't know how to do it, so no one does" fallacy. Total bullshit.

See, I'm pretty confident that, in a focused year of mentoring, I could turn anyone with strong general intelligence (say, IQ over 125) into a good programmer. If I can train someone into a hard job, then it can't be that difficult to train someone into a much easier job.

You should be extremely clear up front that you expect your executives to be world-class in their functions. If they are not, they will not keep their jobs.

Oh, this is just self-congratulatory claptrap. I don't consider myself a "world-class" programmer. I'm good, but it's not like I'm not one of the 20 best out there. And I'm far more "world-class" than 99 percent of tech executives.
Well, to step back from even the future the parent is describing, consider what's already taking place.

LegalZoom type services are wiping out entire segments that pricey lawyers used to occupy. Need to incorporate? Don't spend thousands of dollars, spend $150 to $200 + state fees. Need a trademark? $150 to $200 plus govt fees. Need a basic will? $50 to $100, no hassle.

There are somewhere around 3 to 4 million corporations in the US. Most of those will fail and die over ten years. The new corporations that get started, will increasingly use easier and cheaper web services to incorporate. That's billions of dollars in lawyer revenue wiped out every ten years, from one example service.
I think they're trying to push onto [Maps].

[Maps]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Thanks for the advice and the article
I think the autocomplete suggestions are region specific and possible linked to your Google account. Were you logged in?
> The drugs being tested are all already approved, so safety would not be really a concern

I think the problem is that Notable Labs would be testing combinations of FDA-approved drugs:

Step 2: We use lab robotics to apply thousands of combinations of FDA-approved drugs...

> After some time to collect the data, you could fairly easily compare outcomes of patients who undergo this test versus those who do not

Until then, this won't be broadly available. I do think such a comparison would be interesting.

I guess you'd need to compare the expected benefit of using the Notable Labs-suggested combination to using the standard of care. You'd need to have cells from patients who did not use the Notable Labs-suggestion. This requirement could turn an 'easy comparison' into a lengthy clinical trial.
Isn't concentrated solar power measured by average output, instead of nameplate capacity?
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I've always wondered about doing this in non-flat spaces. Like if I add the "7100 miles west" vector to the "California" point, I get Turkmenistan. If I add "7100 miles west" again, I get back near "California." Similarly, adding the "not" vector twice might get you back where you started in a word embedding. Anyone know if anyone is working on this? It could be tricky because "7100 miles west" lives in the tangent space to the space "California" lives in, but that in itself could be an interesting thing to study in the context of words.
TL:DR - Build Something People Want :) (as you say in your second section heading!)
Summary: be a novelty stunt. Not very encouraging.
> you can see it practically from everywhere

That's why a lot of people, myself included, like it. It's always there if you live here (unless Karl's swallowed it again), but doesn't feature on postcards or travel brochures. We love our tourists, but it's nice for citizens to have an icon of their own that people who don't live here don't really get or even notice.
Some of the best sleeps I've ever had were on the floor in Korea, in winter, with the ondol system running.

Coming back home, I struggled with electric blankets and all sorts of things to try and replicate it and the closest I've come is an electric mattress pad. Something about the low heat rising from beneath you is incredibly comforting.

Every winter we put it on our bed and sleep like babies, even if the rest of the house is cold.
This is due to Google's search personalization, and/or because I'm betting this site is using Google's custom search API, which often returns fairly different results from normal search.
I got the same question twice, answers that were right the first time (and obvious) weren't included the second time. Fun concept, though, it'd be interesting to play multiplayer.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Scam-Tannenbaum-Business-ebo...

"From 2005 to 2009, the heir to one of South Africa’s blue-blood families, Barry Tannenbaum, methodically constructed the largest-ever con in South African history. ... Barry Tannenbaum, the grandson of the founder of one of the country’s biggest pharmaceutical firms, Adcock Ingram, offered investors stratospheric returns of more than 200 per cent a year by investing in the components used to make AIDS drugs. It was nothing more than a lie, which suckered the country’s business elite, including the former CEO of Pick n Pay, the one-time head of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the ex-boss of OK Bazaars.

After the bubble popped in June 2009, finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that hundreds of investors in South Africa, Australia and Europe had ploughed more than R12.5 billion into Tannenbaum’s scheme, based on the empty promise of immense riches. Dwarfing the Brett Kebble rip-off, Fidentia and the Krion pyramid scheme, it proved to be the most embarrassing financial disaster in the country’s history, and it exposed holes in a banking and financial system billed as one of the safest in the world.

For Tannenbaum’s victims, the nightmare continued after the scheme collapsed, as liquidators, tax officials and criminal investigators demanded their pound of flesh. But Tannenbaum, now at large on Australia’s Gold Coast, continues to live as if nothing happened"
At one point in my career, I took a job as a hedge fund analyst. It was interesting because the metrics of success were so radically different from normal corporations. In a hedge fund, if you succeed, say, 55% of the time, you're a rock star - like Ted Williams batting 400.

Psychologically, this was hard to take - and I realized it was because in most corporate environments, success is expected.

Inside most companies, there is an assumption of 100% success. You can see it everywhere - but particularly in goal setting. The idea is simple: you ask people to set goals, often about areas they don't know much about, then you measure them on their ability to hit those goals.

So one way to solve the problem, in my experience, is to make it clear that goals are not expected to be 100% achieved - otherwise they wouldn't be goals. If you make 100% of your goals, then you likely sandbagged the goals.

But to do this, you need to remove the connection between goal and financial outcome. Not easy to do. The way I've been doing it is for well known/understood areas (aka "mature"), goals should be aggressive and you should be measured on them. However, if the project or product is very nascent, you should shift goals to focus on iterations - namely that you do your best estimate, but recognize that you don't know much, and therefore you are more than likely to be wrong.

This has worked (thought there are always exceptions) - but it is challenging for managing inside a corporation, mainly because some senior exec will sh*t all over a failed project not understanding the difference between mature and developing projects.
I live not too far from Sutro Tower. One use for it: fog indicator. I used to commute from Pleasanton back into SF. I'd always take a look at Sutro Tower. If it was shrouded in fog, I knew my house would be too. If it was sunny on Sutro, I knew I'd see blue sky at my house as well.
Is Google cool with people using their name and logo like this?

...and cool site. One of those things where you wonder why no one's thought of it before.
Try an incognito window, and through that go to google.com/ncr to get US-only results.
I am more like Mr. Money Mustache. When I was 47 my wife and I sold a nice house just north of the Del Mar Race Track, and moved into a tiny but really nice house in Sedona Arizona. Major downsizing.

As it turned out, I got bored in retirement and in the last 15 years I have written a bunch of books, consulted for some great companies like Google, but the difference is that I have had a lot of freedom now, and probably averaged less than 10 hours per week, not including writing, in the last 15 years.

I have to admit to a lot of curiousity about how Google's CFO will do after a few years of leasure - I hope he enjoys his travels!
When I visited San Francisco for the first time for JavaOne last year the Sutro was the last landmark I saw and finally got a glimpse of it on the highway back to the airport. It's a cool structure and I definitely felt it was iconic "San Francisco" after the Golden Gate, Alcatraz, Transmerica Pyramid and Coit Tower.
A full rewrite of OpenSSL in a better language like Rust will probably take a very long time to be production ready.

Your best middleground is LibreSSL, which is still C but is at least written by developers with huge amounts of experience writing secure C.
Money isn't about money. It's about status and power for many people.

That's different from being ambitious in general. I probably wouldn't stop working if I made $20 million, but I'd work differently. I'd take more risks, play less politics, and be able to focus more due to fearlessness. I, however, don't view work for work's sake as being valuable. When I'm 55, I might decide that it's time to do more traveling and less working.

There are, however, a lot of people who see money as "life's scorecard" and that leads them astray, because ultimately optimizing for that one factor is (beyond a certain point) astronomically stupid. If you enjoy your work, keep at it. But a lot of these people don't. When you look at why they keep going, though, it turns out that they're not really into the work or the money themselves but the status that come with them. A surprising percentage of people don't really care what it is they do, so long as they can use a private jet to do it.
Does it really matter if [project].github.io is used when github.com/username/[project] will exist just as long if not longer?

Also, I've been noticing a handful of project sites hosted at github.io that apparently once used to work have been returning a "site has been disabled due to a misconfigured custom domain" message. I realize its a configuration issue but this is just as annoying as a custom domain like rivetsjs.com potentially disappearing.
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Writing this from my 2011 MBA. Looking at a replacement, and the CBP is a strong contender. If I swap out the storage for a 256 or 512 GB drive and throw linux or windows on it, then it's better hardware than a macbook air, for cheaper. In fact, it's impossible to build a MBA that stands up to CBP's hardware.

the chromebook represents essentially what i wanted out of a macbook air refresh, instead the ipad-with-a-keyboard Macbook showed up.
What part of Santiago? At this moment, I'm staying at a hotel in Las Condes. This part of the city seems very safe, but I've taken the subway to other parts of the city, and never felt unsafe in those other places either. Part of my strategy is to blend in with my attire, mannerisms, and attitude. My Spanish is currently rudimentary at best, but I still manage not to stick out like a sore thumb and "shout" that I'm a tourist with my actions.

If you stand out like a tourist, it seems like no matter where you are in the world, you will be taken advantage of.
I think you should be having this conversation with the investor whose money you're burning through at the rate of tens of thousands per month! Now, I dunno your precise situation so you should probably speak to your personal attorney first about your contractual obligations to your investor as well to your co-founder and anyone else in the picture.

But I think the investor is hoping to recoup or better yet to grow the value of that $1m investment, regardless of how that happens, as opposed to get a data point on the quality of the original investment decision. I don't know exactly what your side project is but if it is generating consistent growth and daily engagement with little or no additional effort on your part that sounds promising.

If I was your investor Id be far more impressed by your candor about the need to change direction than I would disappointed about the first idea not panning out.
> A fun challenge is figuring out why the definition of (.:) is equivalent to

> (.:) = fmap . fmap

> !

Of course it's not really equivalent, since the most general type of the LHS is as you have said, whereas that of the RHS involves functor constraints; but inlining the definition of `fmap` for arrows gives the amusing definition:

(.:) = (.) . (.)

I tend to figure this sort of thing out by successive eta conversion:

\f g x y -> f (g x y)
\f g x y -> (f . g x) y
\f g x -> f . g x
\f g x -> ((f .) . g) x
\f g -> (f .) . g
\f g -> ((f .) .) g
\f -> ((f .) .)
\f -> (.) (f .)
\f -> (.) ((.) f)
\f -> ((.) . (.)) f
(.) . (.)

Is there a better way?