skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because so many of these points are demeaning, right? Practically everyone I've ever met uses "you guys" in place of "you all", etc, with no derogatory intent. Certainly anyone familiar with the western US would realize and understand this. My mom and dad are both technically illiterate, and I gladly use both as examples. I would never assume a woman is non-technical _at a technical conference_, but everywhere else in the country the average woman is far less likely to be in a technical career than the average man, by simple probability. IT IS UNUSUAL.
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You probably already know this, but just want to point out that SpaceX's approach goes way beyond "landing it on a boat". For today's launch (and launches in the near future), they'll land it on their barge. But after the landing system has been proven, they'll land it on the launchpad it took off from. Work is already underway at Kennedy Space Center to make a launch site capable to have a rocket landing.

Pretty cool animation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM

I do wonder how much this will save SpaceX in logistics cost once it's in place. Seems a lot cheaper than coordinating a helicopter to catch a rocket engine in mid air, land it on a barge, and ship it back to shore.
>The granularity of sand makes it pretty similar to liquid

Sand behaves much differently than liquid. The friction between sand grains is not like viscosity and it lacks surface tension too. I don't know any continuous model that describes the movement of sand similar to Navier-Stokes for liquid.
Please stop submitting WSJ links.
A blog post about our iOS game going paid  free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372297
I know that this might be frustrating to men out there but there is important silver lining.

Trust and Talent are finite things.

These institutions of "higher learning" became what they became because people trusted them to be impartial.

The more they continue with this type of shenanigans the more they will lose their relevance in the 21st Century. This is amazing opportunity for the crowd who read HN. These left out talented men are a market ! especially for businessmen looking for talented and driven people.

Also this 2:1 ratio is terrible news for women !

Now women won't be taken seriously even with a degree from some fancy place.
Just finished filling the survey. Next time, try to not force the user to select the "Never" option. If I have not used that OS or browser, I will simply skip over it.
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@1. You don't need threads if workers are enough for you, that's how you should do computation intensive tasks...
I have seen this taken further into the personality types:

Starter - someone who can solve design problems and pump out new features
Journeyman - someone who can be given a spec and turn out solid, maintainable code. This kind of developer is also good a debugging and resolving edge cases.
Finisher - someone who is really good at completing and polishing features/applications

A single developer is likely to be a mixture of Starter/Journeyman or Journeyman/Finisher. It is rare to find someone who is strong in all three traits.

I think I am more of a Starter (too many design ideas) with some Journeyman. I don't think I am so strong as a Finisher (too many other distracting design ideas).
Hmm. As someone who has never understood/visualized/been taught matrix multiplication in any other way than how it's shown on the linked page, could someone explain the alternative? I.e., if this is new, what mental model do you currently have? Presumably that one would be new and useful for me.

Edit: "Typically this visualization isn't taught" -- that's what I"m asking. What visualization were you taught, if not this one? I can't think of any other that makes any sense.
You can't really say that until you have studied other fields' hiring practices.
Just think if many recreational drugs were not illegal. You would have access to safe(r), rated products, open testing of products, knowledge about use (and abuse) out in the open.

You would not have to jail people for illegal drugs and destroy their lives - usually much more than the drugs ever did. You would not be funding criminals who own the market now. It could even be taxed.

At some point in the future, this will happen.
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I'm sure their respective governments can do something about this tragedy. The banks always win, everyone else always loses; that's Capitalism 101!
> Welcome to life after the fourth industrial revolution, where all of the objects you use on a day to day basis are custom-made and constantly talking to one another for your benefit.

Maybe, if they talk through an API filtering proxy of the user's nomination, which can determine benefit based on personal data history that is unavailable to partially-trusted objects.
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or just search for "Etsy Vendors to Get a Piece of IPO" in Google and you're good to go.
Related:

"Impact of gender on career prospects

According to the survey, male students were more likely than female students to feel that their gender will hold them back in academia. The proportion of men who said they were very disadvantaged in their academic career because of their gender ranged from 77% to 91% across the countries surveyed, compared with 36% to 61% of women."

From "Major survey of PhD students in Europe sheds light on working life", http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2011/10/04/major-survey-o...
It's interesting to see that a lot of the respondents wrote basically the same thing I did: the documentation for actually making even a simple application in pure F# is basically non-existent.
> Trust and Talent are finite things.

> These institutions of "higher learning" became what they became because people trusted them to be impartial.

> The more they continue with this type of shenanigans the more they will lose their relevance in the 21st Century.

I wouldn't call it silver lining. Yes, it may be good for some in the short term, but it's another case of people fucking up institutions and destroying trust for some random fashion-driven goals. Lack of social trust is already a serious problem (see the rise of anti-vaccine movements as an example) and we will pay hard for that in the future.
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Given the underrepresentation of women in tech I think I'm ok with them being chosen over satisfying your ambitions.

What's this supposed to mean? Is this some sort of reverse sexism? Reparation in kind for the gentle sex?
Interestingly the search on HN is powered by algolia :)
Ah, excellent point. Yup, I got that one wrong!
Our images range from 600MiB to 2GiB in general. When you say share port numbers what exactly are you referring to? App X listening to port M in eth0 and app Y listening to port M in eth1? We don't really have this use case so for us it has been pretty simple.

I think that your use case is a lot more complex than ours or I'm misunderstanding some part, are you using bare metal servers in your own data center? I'm trying to grasp what's your architecture like so I can see what parallel can I make to ours.
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I think that is exactly the negative attitude that they are trying to reduce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.#Game_theo...
> How would you classify your day job? - Data or anal

I guess you gotta be anal to do data.
>Given the underrepresentation of women in tech I think I'm ok with them being chosen over satisfying your ambitions.

There is so much wrong with this. You do no justice to anyone when you discount merit in the pursuit of ham-handed ratios.
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The thing is that the bank is still doing OK out of this (as is the customer obviously).

Banks have the ability to raise capital. Then they can do something with the capital or they can leave it in the bank, in this case the central bank, who would give them negative interest. If they lend it to a customer who buys a house then they will get slightly better return on their capital with that customer (Trying to avoid the term "a less bad return").

As long as it's a temporary thing then the banks will ride it out and the customers will remember it fondly.
Isn't troll face was "cool face" before? I thought the original comic was not about troll at all, can't search it at work.
What happened to hiring people based on merit?
But it's a bit hard to say at which altitude the failure would occur. Plenty of rockets have exploded on the launch pad.
No, the applicants in the study had the same qualifications.
the scary thing is they are proud of this.
Wouldn't really consider Viadeo as a startup anymore.
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There's a lot to like about this rocket:

1.) It's good to see ULA stepping up to the plate and actually innovating. SpaceX will need some competition by then, to keep the industry healthy.

2.) The name, "Vulcan", is pretty badass. Certainly far better than the other, embarrassingly jingoistic candidates they were considering.

3.) The inclusion of innovative NewSpace companies like Blue Origin and Xcor is pretty exciting, even if ULA hasn't actually committed to using their technologies yet.

That said, there are ways in which the Vulcan seems like it was designed by a committee, and doesn't quite seem fully-baked. In particular: the "dial-a-rocket" approach of strapping on solid boosters is at fundamental odds with the economics of reusability.

In an expendable rocket, solid boosters are used because you need a lot more thrust early in the ascent (to overcome gravity losses), and solid rockets are a relatively cheap way to achieve that. (Solids generate a lot of thrust during a short period of time, but their efficiency over long-duration burns is relatively poor, which is why they're generally not used all the way to orbit). You could accomplish the same thing by using more liquid fuel and more engines in the primary booster stage -- but turbopump-driven liquid engines are a good deal more expensive than solid boosters, so it doesn't make sense to do this if you're going to dump them in the ocean after a minute or two.

On the other hand, if you're recovering the engines, then using more of them is absolutely the right thing to do. In that case, the tradeoff isn't between the cost of liquid engines vs. solid boosters; it's the difference between the cost of refurbishing liquid engines (and some extra fuel) vs. solid boosters. In this case, the latter is likely to be more expensive by an order of magnitude. So if your hardware is reusable, then it's better to have one or at most two vehicle configurations, and simply accept that most of the time your vehicle will be oversized for its payload. You also get some additional benefits from doing this, such as greater mass-produceability and engine-out capabilities, etc.

I suspect that the problem is that aerospace engineers are used to doing high-level trade studies using a crude $$$/kg costing for the cost of a rocket -- at least, this is how I've frequently seen them do it. If this is how you think, then you want your vehicle to be no larger than the payload requires -- and that's what the dial-a-rocket approach allows you to do. But it's kind of like assuming that a truck costs $$$/kg, and therefore if you need to carry a load across town, you should build a truck which is as large as you need and no larger. This makes sense if you take it as a given that you will always be building your trucks by hand, and that they will be thrown away after every journey. But if both of those assumptions are false, then so too is the "build the truck to fit the payload" design philosophy.

It doesn't look like ULA has figured this out yet -- but they've definitely realised that there's a fire under their tail, so hopefully they will do so eventually!
What is your definition of 'code'?
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Who's going to be reading this site in 2015 that doesn't know how many in a lakh.
It's a near infrared device (so it is optical and not a mass spectrometer, I have no idea what jargon is appropriate):

https://www.consumerphysics.com/myscio/technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_spectroscopy

I suspect a lot of naive users would end up measuring the pill coating.
I would like to think that someone will find the happy medium between target advertising and privacy, but I don't hold out much hope. When ad companies get sold and acquired (like Flurry for $300m to Yahoo!) the buyer is not buying their ability to serve an ad.
> This is more than just a nice gesture

Of one thing I'd be sure: being nice does not come into this in anyway, it's all about business strategy
People usually don't care about someone else's experience and want to make the mistakes by themselves. So there is no point in explaining.
On a server you generally cannot afford to have the event loop blocked by a computational intensive task.

You are not supposed to use your main event loop for computational intensive tasks.

Offload those tasks to separate workers and use queues.

That's node's basic knowledge.
Its a trade off that you're supposed to be aware of when using node.
its called feminism and its pretty scary
Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap. Every psychological dynamic you see playing out in mass societies liberated from artificial constraints on the sexual market flows from this premise. This means, as a systemic matter, women are coddled, men are upbraided. Women are victims, men are victimizers. Women need a leg up, men need to man up. Women have advocacy groups, men have equal opportunity violations. A woman subjected to the indignity of eavesdropping on a tame joke about dongles makes national news, while the chilling fact that 95% of all workplace deaths are suffered by men barely pings the media consciousness.

It is what it is, and it will never change so long as humans are a sexually reproducing species. All the laws in the world can at best only paper over the very primal compulsion of people to value the life of the average woman more than the life of the average man, and sympathize accordingly. Railing against it is akin to shaking a fist at sunspots and gamma rays. It’s therefore folly or self-serving disingenuousness to act like there’s some moral high ground to stake out by imparting culpable agency to an indifferent, organically emergent biomechanical phenomenon. Rationalizing favoritism toward women as some sort of payback for male privilege, or refusing to acknowledge this favoritism altogether, is an example of the cognitive calisthenics and evasive sophistry most people will indulge to avoid grappling with the cold, black void of an uncaring evolutionary replication machine.
> Now women won't be taken seriously even with a degree from some fancy place.

Why do you say this? The experiment was about hiring faculty not about student standards.
Does this study break out hiring for top-20ish departments in, say, theoretical physics? I could certainly envisage women being favoured in general but still disadvantaged when it comes to prestige institutions, particularly if the reports that hiring for those best positions comes down to "he's better than Smith, but not as good as Jones" assessments passed along the social grapevine are true.
> No, the reason it was used everywhere is because it was assumed to be license-free

What does that even mean? No image or any art is "licence-free" unless author explicitly states so. That's the basis of copyright, your creations are yours (unless you give them away). Publishing your work doesn't change anything.
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I think this page is meant for someone who has no mental model of matrix multiplication at all and just applies the formula blindly.
I did read it. Like many other major steps in technology, it's a litany of trivial imperfections. Golly, it might take a moment or trivial effort to turn on! ok, that's not as instant as a normal watch, but the vast capabilities (over mere time) more than compensate. Golly, it's not completely waterproof! though washing your hands or showering with it (which few people do with their watches) is actively encouraged. Golly, it's not perfectly readable in bright sunlight! most people aren't in bright sunlight, and a little shade resolves the problem suitably. Golly, it's very accurate! always irritated me that hand-set watches are typically off by minutes (reality check: starting right now, wait 3 minutes before reading the rest of this post, then tell me how that didn't annoy you), and though just twice a year DST adjustments are a PITA.

You've got accurate time, weather, stocks, email, texting, photos, games, health, etc info all on your wrist...and Gruber's complaining it takes a moment to turn on and you can't go diving with it? c'mon, that's practically proof it's awesome.
1. Steal content that other people produced.
2. Call it "aggregation".
3. Profit.

These clickbait sites like Buzzfeed, Vox and Gawker are the cancer of the internet.
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The picture is terrible. The watch in person looks great.
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Is it modeled strictly per-user or is there any notion of an "organization" similar to Github? It's hard to imagine a business having to manage paying for a bunch of individual accounts so they can have access to the company's private repo.
Do not trust the accuracy of any article that calls Ketamine a tranquilizer. It is not, it is an anasthetic. People who fail to do research commonly repeat this completely inaccurate belief.
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Arbitrarily limiting JSON size/nesting because it blocks your event loop seems silly. What if a customer needs to give you something taking a while to parse?

Do the parsing in a web worker.
Small point, the article mentions Apple's QuickTime as the first software only video system.

I seem to remember at the time that Acorn's Replay video codec had been around for a few years prior to QuickTime.

Replay was designed by Sophie Wilson who also designed the original ARM instruction set whilst at Acorn.
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I was taught to go element-by-element: element c_ij of the product = the linear combination a_ik*b_kj. What's presented here is the "same" but represents a higher level of abstraction, so that you think in terms of linear combinations of rows or columns, rather than linear combinations of scalars.
Typically, this visualization isn't taught, in my experience. What's taught is the formula for computing each cell of the result matrix (cell i,j being the dot product of row i of the first matrix with column j of the second). While this is, of course correct, and also the most efficient way to compute the multiplication manually, it's not always clear why the formula is correct.

Hopefully the visualization on the linked page makes this formula's origin clear.
Thank you. More on the installation steps on an, now closed, issue[0].

[0] https://github.com/goniltalk/niltalk/issues/3
You're thinking about a different comic: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/80430987/

The original can be found on the linked site, but it's also on DA: http://whynne.deviantart.com/art/Comic-Trolls-98357844

From the description:

>It's trollface, not coolface, but call it what you like.
as mentioned elsewhere in the discussion most open source folk that have not moved to linux seem to put their energy into illumos now.

At least for illumos (SmartOS and OmniOS, ...) there is a lot of work happening for web services.
It depends what is meant by the word "sexism", which to the public usually means something like "discrimination based on sex", but to those in the know refers to some putative destructive ideology, or even "absence of sufficiently favorable conditions for women". Hence their use of peculiar monikers such as "reverse sexism" to mean discrimination against men, rather than simply "sexism".

An illustrative example of this attitude is in the UN's Gender Inequality Index, where, in factors in which women are advantaged (such as lifespan), larger gaps push the figure down rather than up (so larger gaps are considered as more "equal" in those areas that already favor women).
I'd like to borrow 100 trillion dollars please. I won't actually do anything with it, so you don't need to worry about my credit or ability to repay. In fact, I'll happily keep it in my account at your bank!
Masi Oka mentioned this consideration very briefly in regard to when he was at IL&M, not very informative but gives a sense of what they tried to achieve there.

https://youtu.be/P4e-s-lfx7k?t=42s
I guess that capitainetrain is too much "France-centric" to be listed on businessinsider, despite it being a really clean product.

I used to work at Sketchfab, which is another really interesting french startup which raised a few millions in the last past year (plus, they work with pretty cool technologies). Incidentally, I think that they are currently hiring.
Docker Hub is basically a compile farm and software distribution mechanism. It's not that hard to see Docker moving towards providing continuous integration, containerized cluster hosting, app store like stuff, and so on. With expertise and funding, they could become a very interesting platform.
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We had to change how we managed services, I think it was for a better way, we were too much reliant on instances being available all the time, although I tried to always think with an HA/redundancy mind most of our team failed to do that. We're now using Docker with CoreOS (and fleet), so it has not been without headaches (mostly in part from CoreOS and btrfs and fleet scheduling going afoul), but we're much more resilient.

Compared to VMs we adopted a lot more of a "this is disposable" mindset, we persist any data that must not be destroyed in a failure in an external volume and treat the instance and service as something unreliable, pretty much it's always "Game Day", before deploying something we've already tried to cover the basics of HA (what happens if this service suddenly stops? How is the rest of the system behave? How do we make it automatically restart or reprovision?).

As I said, most of our issues regarded CoreOS (especially running with btrfs, getting out of space for metadata was a pain in the ass for months) but right now, after moving to ext4 + overlayfs we've been running without issues for a combined 28,800 hours of instance time (roughly NO issue in half a month in an environment running 30+ deploys a day).

I've not stated that we're perfect, very far from it, but Docker itself has not been a pain in production. Our private registry is currently running in an Ubuntu-based instance for more than 6 months non-stop (and we push/pull a lot of data from it everyday).
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Just out of of curiosity: Which tools did you use to write the book? I know it's especially hard to create different file format (HTML, epub, PDF).
I'm using it for a financial application in production.

Granted I can go without it, but currently it makes lots of sense to use it since I need the ability to nicely handle dependencies.

I'm using Grunt for handling the creation, destruction and running of the containers. Docker Compose didn't exist back then.
So you would be OK with your ISP adding popover flash video ads to XKCD for you? Or your boss calling you in, asking why you are reading comics instead of doing useful work?