skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. One of the Fun things that are less known that comes from n-body orbital mechanics is the instability of orbits. You can't just leave your satellite out there and fast-forward two years because you have an Eve mission going - your satellite needs to make correction burns as other bodies perturb its orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping

But anyway, I still hope that Principia mod (the n-body simulation addon mentioned elsewhere in this thread) will get released. This will really bring KSP into Dwarf Fortress level of enjoyment. Also, you'd get to make some really weird-ass stuff:

http://images.scholarpedia.org/w/images/f/f6/NbodyChoreoGamm...

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/crisscross123.loop.gif
If you guys are interested in this stuff, I highly recommend "The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley.

http://amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evolution-Human-Nature/dp/006055...
Well, that was a weirdly written article... I do think we need the US government to do more for Labor/People in this country. At this point Labor/People are so unrepresented in the political process they are just getting screwed left and right. Unions are a nightmare and keep a lot of bad people in jobs that shouldn't be there, but without them nobody is pushing for fair pay.

Why can't the US government pass a plan to push us slowly to a real living wage instead of a minimum wage?

Why can't we push for a $12 to $15 an hour living wage across the board and tie it to future inflation?

Not enough to be crazy, but enough that people are not stuck in a perpetual trap of poverty.
I think you missed the point. Planets orbit in ellipses in the regular, 3D world.
As others have noted and in my own limited experience picking up OCaml -- a static type system does not solve the problem you need unit tests and functional tests for. They're good for readability if you explicitly annotate everything (and forgo the type inference) and they're good for flushing out a whole class of run-time type errors. But that's about all.

At this point in my learning it's more about pleasing a SAT solver than getting anything useful done... but I'm sure that will change with time.

Common Lisp does have a type system... it's just dynamic so you can hit things at run-time. This is great in development because it allows you to under-specify things that aren't terribly important (like types) at that time. However when you begin to find your code is ready to be locked in place you can annotate your function to hint to the implementation what the types should be. In particularly well-tested and heavily-typed code you can even turn off dynamic type-checking entirely for your production builds and get the performance boost from that.

Regardless of your approach and requirements, tests have a completely different use beyond ensuring type consistency. They set expectations, inform API design, and catch mistakes in refactoring; they act as a specification for the module under test. I've had plenty of OCaml code compile that still failed tests. Even in the presence of strong static typing you need unit, integration, and regression tests.

Just food for thought.
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The royalty reporting is this complex already anyway. It's really crazy.
Since we have intelligent vs stupid, I assume industrious is given as the opposite of lazy. So industrious really means hard working.

And hard working can be dangerous. Very, very intelligent workaholics are responsible for some of the most expensive, least efficient work I've ever seen. No matter how hard and difficult, and too complicated things get, they just roll up their sleeves and go to work. And using their super intellect, they can manage it. But everyone else is hurt by that.

Maybe you thought industrious meant inventive, or creative. But if it means only hard working. Then intelligent and hard working is a dangerous combination. Often successful but at a huge cost. Smart and lazy is just as often successful, but without those huge costs.

When smart and lazy people get hard work, they think of ways to make it easier. That's where we get the old saying that civilization advances only thanks to lazy people. Hard working people just put up with however hard or inconvenient work is, lazy people get creative.
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With all the sex discrimination and harassment charges, I sometimes wonder if founders get subconsciously influenced that hiring women can increase the risk of lawsuits to their companies. Not fair, I know! But you aren't thinking about fairness when it comes to your business that already has too many issues to take care of.
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This article is written from the perspective that everyone is guaranteed a place at the table of the hyper-efficient capitalist economy when no such guarantee has ever been made.

If these kids went to college, then surely they learned how to learn, so why not adapt to the market by learning new skills that the market values more? Better than sitting on your ass waiting for the market to adapt to you.

Or join the military, file for disability, or get a second crappy job since your free time is likely spent watching netflix and playing games.

As alluded to in the article, even the low skill, low paying jobs will be going away soon so the time to act is now.
> I find it interesting that someone who is making a news site would say that most of the news is "bullshit and a worthless time suck."

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. 99.9% of news is garbage, .01% of news is valuable. I want to make it easy for people to get that .01%.

> Perhaps you should take Swartz advice and stop fighting to improve something that has so little value to you.

I think news is badly broken, and I'm trying to fix it. I don't understand what problem you have with that.
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It probably will be a failure just like DeMail. I have a pretty bad outlook for the future of our country.
This is a very good point. I'm sure that Spotify could encode the rules and accurately calculate what each artists was owed under such a model, but it would be far more complicated to communicate to people.

There are already a bunch of assumptions in the payment model, do you pay per track? (In which case, the artists could game it by sticking in 30 second intro tracks and things like that). Do you pay per minute? (In which case, artists can increase their revenue by putting in dead time in "bonus tracks").

It would be an interesting experiment for Spotify to calculate what the payouts would be given the proposed scheme, and compare the differences.

Anecdotally, the people I have met that work at Spotify are a lot more sympathetic to the indie artist and non-Top 40 music than the average person listening to Spotify. There is a reason they keep building ways to discover non-Top 40 music. I'm sure they are interested in making things better for these types of artists.
She thought Spanish was what women spoke and that English was for men.

I know a woman who grew up in Germany, and whose parents spoke Polish at home.

As a child she was convinced that German was for children, and Polish is the language you speak when you've grown up.
I disagree on the houses bit. Literally speaking, the million dollar houses in the Bay Area are being purchased by a wide range of individuals, many of whom are young professionals earning a decent amount and stretching themselves very thin or relying on family gifts to purchase what amounts to a shitty starter home.

Certainly investors and execs in the mix as well, but I think you are painting with an overly broad brush on the housing front.
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I was just an individual contributor dev. I was hired as a referral, though other folks we hired, even after me but before the IPO made out well.

I was aware of the IPO plans, though the price I was given was about 3x less than what it ended up getting to after the IPO, and it's now 6x less. In that sense, I was extremely lucky - if it had been at the original price and stayed there, I don't think it would have been more than 500K.

Repeatable? Probably not, just given the luck involved. However, I think the payout I was likely to get (200k-500k) was much more likely than getting the same payout from a real startup.
I can't tell whether you're talking about Albini or Lowery here.

I think Albini is shackled to view of the industry that rejects anything that doesn't sound like The Jesus Lizard. For a good example of this: read the very long thread on the Electric Audio message board where his fans try to find a hip-hop track he'll like.
Please add a proper font stack. The design doesn't break down nicely on systems without Helvetica Neue installed.

Other than that, good start!
We shouldn't place our values onto them.

If someone has a natural talent that they've developed into a very useful skill (mathematics, programming, selling vacuum cleaners, whatever) and they use that to get a cush 9 to 5 job, all the more power too them. Let them spend less time on politics, and more time on family, friends and hobbies. Who are we to say it was a bad decision to let someone else write the next great math paper?

If anything, this highlights that an aptitude for theoretical mathematics can be a launching point to a lot of different things, and that's refreshing. (I'd be less likely to encourage kids in math if Professorships were the only outcome)
That sounds like the same sort of person Helmuth was describing as "stupid and industrious" — they make a lot of progress in ill-advised directions.
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IC in Development, not a "senior" at that point.

I'll also add that I was given a competitive salary as well (120K/year with around 15% bonus target) for my location.
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There are two main functions on the site. One is a fact-check, the other is an upvote. People are told to upvote the most important info - we define "most important" as "having the most affect on the citizens of the world."

Of course, that's very difficult to quantify, and there may be some bias of the news junkies, but I think the end product is pretty great (though not perfect yet). Of course that's just me, and I'm probably biased as well, but there have been times when I have said the news coming out of grasswire is complete shit, so I'd like to think I'm at least trying to be honest with myself.
Please provide an example. As the examples I have seen of artists showing their Spotify payments do not support this assertion.

Here is a link to one such example I have seen which has each song paid at the same amount per play. This has made the number of items on the payment record to simply be the number of different songs which were played by that artist. http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/B...
Anyone knows why the url isn't changing in the gif?
Very well put, so what do you see serving as a force to distribute the wealth?
Wow, that's pretty damn dismissive of journalists. Is writing not a skill?
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I would be interested to collect data on two things:

1. In what city/region does the laptop spend most of its time in?
2. A few places the laptop sees heavy use (home office desk, coffee shop, etc.)

I wonder if there are environmental factors at play here that a database like this could build a correlation on. Maybe people live near salt water, or their environments are more humid, or temperatures fluctuate.

Please note that this sort of thing should NOT be required to repair a faulty product, but it might be of some benefit to the general public.
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Honest answer, I don't know. But I wouldn't have known what would happen to the ~30% of the US population that worked in farming 100 years ago or the 90% that were working as farmers in 1862 [0]

Jobs aren't really created by a central authority. They just kind of appear as people find better things to do with their time/talents. The future may not follow the past, but so far we've been okay.

[0] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/trouble/timeline/
Yeah I feel this would have made my life much easier. I love having paper copies of stuff too =(
I've got some plans. Right now I've got all my music on Google Play, having moved it from iTunes last year, which was painful, but not too bad. I eventually want to write some Ruby software that will hold all the metadata in a sqlite database replicated to Dropbox. That way I know what the tracks are. I'll seed the DB, hopefully by hooking into a Google Play API that hopefully exists.

Then I want to grab all the files and put them on S3 or something and store the links in the db. Then it's a front-end problem, I'll need a command line interface and then one day I'll make a GUI. I could also find tracks that exist only, say, on YouTube, and store links to those too.

Then I'll be able to use it as a music player and store no music on my local machine.

Then the biggest pain in the ass becomes syncing to my portable devices, which is the only reason I haven't done this yet. I would hate to have to maintain two libraries at the same time. So I have to think my way through that. Though I'm sure I could write a syncer that would work much better than Google Play's, I haven't bothered to sit down to do it yet.
Bing starts taking invites for Distill, competitor to Quora and Yahoo Answers
This is big news. AeroFS is one of the most underused tools available today. It is by far my favorite way to exchange files securely with people; the distant #2 is a "secure data room" hosted on a TLS website, and #3 is PGP-encrypted email.
Do you mind to take a screenshot please? I'll appreciate it very much!
I've been playing with Owncloud, but I read a lot of horror stories about it this week.

https://owncloud.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206002
I think it is the EDC Executive with orange cerakote. The programmability of the thing is awesome. There is a locator beacon function that I would have loved to have on my lost Fenix P2D Q5. Honestly though, if you just want a good flashlight, Fenix and Zebralight are more than good enough. For the woods though, I definitely advise getting the highest CRI you can. The warmer tints usually have better CRI.

With standard CRI LEDs (~70 CRI) I experienced a strange effect. Standing in a field and shining the light (Fenix P2D) into the tree line, the treeline and much of the forest behind it would be illuminated enough to make out details, but I could not judge the distance of anything behind the treeline. It was like the treeline was a wall where my depth perception stopped. With my high-CRI LED, even though it is not as bright (120 vs 180 lumens) I am able to see "better".

It is all subjective though. There are some good threads on CPF showing picture comparisons between high and low-CRI. For me though, the differences at the conscious level are very subtle. Lots of vision comprehension is below the conscious level. OK, I am done babbling. :)
Hmm. Could be the mailbox communication for VPU<->CPU communication timing out? BCM should be able to repro and fix that. They could also be able to make enabling HYP mode less of a hack.

As for the lack of an accessible GIC, the VPU runs ThreadX, which has a software timer infrastructure: no reason I can see they couldn't expose those if they wanted.
I don't think there is anymore entitlement than in the past. I think that is just something old people say about the next generation :)

College has increased in price so much compared to inflation. My parents paid for all their school bills while working part time, you can't even pretend to do that now.
Per a quick Google search, it appears that Gregg Patruno was also in Fixed Income at Goldman Sachs. (More specifically in Mortgage Backed Securities)
Programming Is Harder Than Chess
Let me preface this by saying that above all else, your soft skills are important. Learn to interview. Read Cracking the Coding Interview. Practice your people skills. It's likely that your friends who "were able to get those internships inspite of having almost no software development experience just because they are good at competitive programming" are really good at the soft skills in addition to being good problem solvers.

Assuming that your soft skills are up to task...

It really depends on how many side projects you already have, either open sourced on GitHub or tangibly published (such as iOS apps on the App Store, for example).

You're best served by having a balance of tools in your skill set. If you already have side projects that you're proud of, getting better at "competitive programming" (which is really just getting better at solving problems in certain domains quickly) will make you a better candidate overall.

Companies like Google want junior devs and interns to be problem solvers that they can mold into senior developers. That's what "competitive programming" tests for. However, if you have the soft skills and the pedigree of presentable projects to demonstrate, you can make it work.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-... :

> ~10% of the men who reside within the borders of the Mongol Empire as it was at the death of Genghis Khan may carry his Y chromosome, and so ~0.5% of men in the world, about 16 million individuals alive today, do so. Since 2003 there have been other cases of “super-Y” lineages. For example the Manchu lineage and the Uí Néill lineage. The existence of these Y chromosomal lineages, which have burst upon the genetic landscape like explosive stars sweeping aside all other variation before them, indicates a periodic it “winner-take-all” dynamic in human genetics more reminiscent of hyper-polygynous mammals such as elephant seals. As we do not exhibit the sexual dimorphism which is the norm in such organisms, it goes to show the plasticity of outcome due to the flexibility of human cultural forms.
My 2 cents: many file systems do not have a file locking feature that can enforce file locking. In unix-like systems, file locks (e.g., lockf(3)) are "advisory" rather than mandatory, meaning it's up to the higher-layer apps to check whether another program has locked a file and voluntarily stop.

Any apps that do implement this feature likely do so by making the original file read-only and having the first app that opens the file work on a copy. However, I think Windows may have a mandatory file locking mechanism.
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Not everything that needs interoperability can, nor should, use HTTP/HTML. For me, IoT includes very small devices still with only a few K of RAM, and requiring an HTTP/HTML stack in amongst everything else will just serve to push up prices and add needless complexity.
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I'm glad the copyright appropriation will be worked on in some unspecified in-the-future release, according to a less than one hour old anonymous YC commenter, instead of being taken care of ahead of the official release.
Recalibrate your expectations of Valley pay in engineering positions upward. $250k is not outlandish in total comp (base + bonus + RSUs) for a 30ish engineer at AmaGooFaceSoft.

If anyone wants to take bets on when that's a reasonably achievable starting salary for a new Stanford CS grad my money is on 2020.
Google wants self-drive cars by 2020
It is important because the submission process is an important filter - someone from HN saw something and thought the rest would like it. When that is circumvented the front page becomes democratically assembled from content that is provided to us, not selected by us.
I'm not really following.

What's the contradiction between the PG startup thesis and your experience with employee equity?
This is the classic symptom of changing oneself to fit the mainstream once one hits the mainstream. Whether it's EA's fault of Maxis's fault is just fruitless finger pointing (it's EA's, these guys are literally the cancer that's killing the video game industry), but the real mistake is updating your game to fit "mainstream standards" of connectivity, social, high quality 3d graphics, etc. Some management official or engineer probably sold these ideas as completely required innovations if Simcity wanted to stay competitive with things like facebook or MMOs (i.e. other time-consumers), and everyone just jumped on board.

And it's that very idea of "we need to stay competitive" that really killed Simcity. Here in capitalist societies, we're sold on the idea competition is great, but it's not, it assumes the fact the rules stay the same and focuses attention on what our "enemies" are doing. We become obsessed with not doing what we do best, but with doing what we think will beat the others. In Simcity's case, it was adopting online connectivity and social interaction despite the fact Simcity is inherently a creative game and not a social one (in fact, unless you're a trash-tier mayor, you've spent time researching city layouts, reading through strategies, and possibly even simulating various algorithms and geometries in matlab or whatnot... whereas in a social game, you'd be spending your time name-calling the other players). Strategies and ideas that emerge from competition focus on trying to capture customers from an adversary, and completely ignores the fact people are complicated, don't like change, and that a company can capture them by just being incrementally "better" in some engineering metric.

Today, it's too late for simcity, but to a new rising city game like skylines, I hope they ignore what "the competition" are doing and just focus on making their fun city building game more fun (e.g. instead of worrying about online, social, or the 2018 version of online-social which will probably be 3d holograms or something, spend time introducing new mechanics like strategic resources, "work from home" algorithms, flying cars, racism / gentrification, etc.)
I don't know of anyone personally who got an exit like that but I do know companies are staying private longer nowadays. This can increase the risk for employees. EquityZen (where I work) is trying to make it easier for employees to exit before their company has an liquidity event. This blog post explores Fab and Aereo and how a big exit is not always guaranteed: https://equityzen.com/blog/learning-from-fab-and-aereo-liqui...
Do you artists would prefer being underpaid to getting extremely long payment records? I really don't see the issue.
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I swear that MS only introduce the online serial code checks etc after the BSA threatened to expel them. Before that you could install Windows and Office as much as you wanted with just a serial code. No check back to a server, or any kind of hoopla over swapped motherboards on already registered copies.
Why did you built your own login service when you could just use Dropbox authentication? I was about to try the app (just to give you feedback), but I will not sign up again, I'm afraid I will get a confirmation email.
Oh come on...So i'm guessing we are to assume the NSA doesn't have an insider electronic or human threat who can find out where these "empty house" packages are being sent and intercept that way?

How much money does the USG pay to Cisco per year? The fake shock of so many US companies who have been collaborating with the NSA for years is grating.
So where the proper ones can be found?
The fact that you have to carry around such accessories for a PC you should be able to use anywhere without much thought about stuff like the above is frustrating.
> We use Microsoft OneDrive which is bundled with our office 365 license. Pretty good. Strongly recommended.

I'd like to pitch in until the parent clarifies but they probably mean OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business. To anyone reading this, please stay away from OneDrive for Business. It is NOT OneDrive and you will regret using it.