skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago I quit my job with the idea that I had three projects I wanted to work on, I could do them from anywhere, and probably one would pan out into my next startup. TLDR: it worked, one did, and I had an awesome four-month trip in the process.

I subletted my room in NYC for a bit more than I paid, bought a plane ticket to Goa, and started there. It was the right decision insofar as it's a very soft landing in India, which can be a fairly difficult place for a lot of people. After two weeks and some research. I moved on and spent time in a bunch of different cities in India and Nepal; most days I would simply sit and write code in whatever hostel or home stay I was at, eat cheap street food for lunch, and generally be really, really productive. When I felt like it, I'd go take a walk or see something cool in the area or take a couple days and go on a short vacation somewhere else (e.g. I would never have wanted to spend much time in Agra, but it's a short overnight trip from Jaipur to go catch the taj mahal at dawn and then explore agra fort and take a walk before getting on a bus back).

It's actually the perfect vacation -- traveling can be really stressful, always trying to get to the next place, cram in all the stuff you have to see, etc. You wind up doing crazy things like exhausting yourself taking overnight buses to save time and hostel costs. But I spaced out what could have been a 3-4 week trip across four months, and it was relaxing, productive, interesting, and fun. I got pretty well into each of my projects (all of which involved acquiring new skill sets), figured out the one that had legs and was right for me, and turned it into my next startup.

The toughest part was in Kathmandu, where at the time power cuts were 14 hours a day, and of the 10 hours with power, they were mostly at night. But it was actually nice -- I got up early every morning with a charged laptop, worked until the thing was nearly dead after the power had gone out, went to a rooftop cafe to read for a while, went back and worked/charged again for a while, went for a long walk, and got back with enough charge left to last until the power came back on.

Overall, a pretty great life.
Skimming the chapters, it seemed to be taking various fields of mathematics that are used in data science, and presenting the foundations of those fields as the foundations of data science.

I'm biased, but I think that data science is statistics, and therefore the foundations of data science is statistics and probability theory. If you want to understand data science at a fundamental level, I would suggest taking courses in these areas.
Whoa. The servers for this competion are about 8km away. That's the most 'local' content I've ever seen on HN.

Unfortunately I have to agree with obstinate here. The pure math is too much for me and reverse engineering (still daunting, but interesting/possible) is not acceptable.
If any HN person wins this contest, I offer beers close to the black box :)
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Dang, this was next on my side projects ideas. Looks good though.

You looking for contributes?
Yeah, an infinity cubed is countable. Just iterate over the infinite number of finite diagonals, like you did for the square (a diagonal is any set of points where the coordinates sum to a particular constant).

Similarly, an infinity to the 4th power is countable, as is an infinity to the n'th power for any finite n. Interesting question - is an infinity to an infinitieth power still countable?
cool product!
The part that tripped me up when I was younger was using the power bombs to shatter the glass pipe to gain access to Marida. It looks like a piece of background, does not respond to any other weapons, is not colour coded or have any breakable indicators, and does not react to the X-Ray beam.
The 2016 Presidential Race to Mobile Technology
That is an interesting perspective. In my experience it seems a bit too narrow to generalize across companies but I know a lot of folks who have had some bad experiences at companies and then have extrapolated that to an entire industry. It has been interesting meeting folks at IBM who have 20+ years at the same company. Atypical of Silicon valley folks but not unheard of[1]. Having the experience of having been at a company for a while gives you the ability to do things that people who have not been there cannot, in part because you have a better view on where things get done or don't get done.

It is apparent from Erik's response to recruiters[2] that he approaches work in a somewhat mercenary way. And while that can work it sets a tone for your relationship with the people in the company that does not work to your advantage, and can sometimes be a handicap down the road as you re-encounter people with whom you have previously worked.

Companies are communities of people. Communities have norms and values and expectations. It is always uncomfortable when you don't fit in with the community, and some people are better at "finding their people" than others are. I can say though that when you and the community "click" for what ever set of reasons, it can be a wonderful thing indeed, and a real sense of loss when you lose it.

[1] One of my early friends at Intel is still there 30 years later, and the same with folks at Sun I knew who are now with Oracle as part of that acquisition.

[2] From the comment section Erik wrote:

This is particularly valuable when talking to labor
salesmen (i.e. recruiters).

"They have a pool table!"
"Don't care, what's the pay?"
"$X"
"Not enough money."
"But, they have a pool table, and everyone there will be
your dudebro and they'll even add rockstar to your
title!"
"Don't care, not enough money. Call me back if the
offer changes."
"Claims to be Web Smith, but his real name is Webster Morlowe Smith."

What evidence do you have that Web Smith is really Webster Morlowe Smith? There could easily be someone with a similar name living in the same city, and Smith is one of the most common names in the U.S.
It's a little strange that they do not have a track that gives gradient information, given that it is often a real world possibility. Also, this basically allows unlimited time between eval... So this becomes a contest about
- coming up with a distribution over R^n -> R function
- finding the optimal evaluation points to do Bayesian update

I predict the winner will use some a mixture of Gaussian processes with various kernels and stochastic control (with a limited look ahead, otherwise it blows up) to pick the test points.
relevant https://twitter.com/philsturgeon/status/425697220009410560
and they do a good job on products - well worth prefering their stuff...
what is "typical" for one can be "rare" for the other, "black box" suggests that the participants do not know what is inside, the organizers on their side should make sure that the content is of some interest for the "real-world problems/applications"

what you are describing is related to the "no free lunch theorem", something one can attempt to deal with to get things working "in practice"
Me too, thanks to really beautiful sounds.
The listed sex offender website contains his information and a his photo, which is the same as @web.
I quit my job at Amazon and went on a 4 month long bike tour through South East Asia... it was kind of a sporadic decision, but basically it was a gut feeling that I needed to get out there and mentally reset.

Great experience and would definitely do it again, especially bike touring. You kind of get into this rhythym of: wake up at sunrise, eat breakfast, decide on route, cycle as much as you feel like, go swimming, talk to people, find a place to camp/sleep, fix bike, go to bed. Every week or so you'll hit a major tourist centre where you can get a western meal/talk to other English speakers... then you're back on the road!

If you're burnt out/are looking for a reset, I'd avoid trying to work and travel at the same time, if you can afford it.

Budget: I think it worked out to about $15/day over the 4 month period, which may have included a flight home too.

I came back feeling energized, optimistic, and found a job at a great startup within a month of being back!
Vin Diesel Confirms ‘Fast and Furious 8’ Will Open on April 14, 2017
The 16-bit era seems like perhaps a golden age of console gaming. Enough memory and CPU to do quite massive games, but still not burdened by 3D graphics and movement.
Plenty of money is needed to create a better nursing home. Then finding the staff with "the call" to perform the very difficult job of caring and serving others.

Once that better nursing home is built, very few will be able to afford it. I know I will not. Yet, I do not lose hope.
Cracking Open: Apple MacBook (12-inch, 2015)
So it's like the Dwarf Fortress of driving simulators?
Yikes. I wonder if they were running a CMS (Wordpress, Drupal).
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> Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb and we are not that smart.

I'm never sure how to interpret this statement. What is the middle ground between making a marketing mistake and planning the whole thing? If they were not dumb enough to bring a product to market that everyone would soon hate, and not smart enough to predict that this would wind up making everyone love them for bringing the original back, then...wouldn't they have not introduced New Coke in the first place?
I would love to see what would come out of such a NN trained on a set of chess games. Would it "make the next valid move"? Would it appear to behave tactically? Strategically?
New 2015 laptops still do use nonsense 16:9 screens what makes them unusable for serious work.
Why Apple is obsessed with gold: It's all about Asia
I expect it is unfair to generalize that "people that play the game and fail" blame the game. Rather there are a number of people who do not understand how communities work, and never have, and so they don't recognize when they are being antagonistic to the very people they want to be friends with.

I remember having a conversation with a relatively new programmer who was ranting they were "fed up with all the political BS and just wanted to write code and be left alone." That is a sentiment I completely resonate with, but in this case the "political BS" was folks trying to help this person become more effective in the organization.

What was impairing their efficiency was that this individual wrote code in a vacuum. people trying to integrate with it were frustrated when this developer decides on Friday night that they don't like how they structured the APIs with an opaque handle and convert everything into a callbacks which appears as the new API to the rest of the organization on Monday. It wasn't "political BS" that was causing these folks to be angry with this individual, it was that this individual was actively making their job harder than needed.

But when it became clear that more people where being hindered than helped, I was asked to step in and see if I could help this person see what the real issues were. I was only 50% effective, they understood the issue but decided to leave rather than slow down to listen to the needs of the other engineers. To this day they assert they were 'forced out' but nothing could be further from the truth.
Can you explain why this is illegal in the US? It in the UK, there are a number of companies investing in rural fibre broadband for communities where 1. the area is not expected to receive FTTC from BT Openreach and 2. there is sufficient demand from the local residents (i.e. how many people have signed up).
In addition to the explanation by a1369209993's explanation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438730):

* <> reads from file(s) specified as command-line arguments (data.json in this case)
* Option -0777 tells Perl to slurp the whole file
* Option -MJSON loads the JSON module
If you're in the bay area, we're hiring. ReSchedule Med is an automated staff scheduling solution for healthcare orgs. The scheduling part is pretty intense math wise, but we're early so we really need someone who can help with a bit of everything.

And good devs can learn another language no problem, so the PHP niche isn't a concern.

https://reschedulemed.com

My email is in my profile.
Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Unclassified Emails, Officials Say
You could PGP sign the binaries.
This isn't just for YC interviews. It's actually for anyone that is starting any business venture.
Sabeen Mahmud, the woman behind Pakistan's first hackathon, shot dead in her car
I am seeing this claim a lot, but I do not understand it. Why would readers assume that a riddle is a bunch of nonsense, rather than something with an objective answer?

Different people carry different assumptions with them throughout their lives. Not everybody approaches a logic puzzle with the mental preparation of solving logic puzzles. They aren't looking to analyze the statements and they don't carry the assumption that the statements carry just enough information to solve it. Instead, they might expect some trick or play on words to give a "stupid" answer.

because I had no trouble understanding the wording of the puzzle

But you do have trouble understanding that other people might be different from you; with different experiences, assumptions, etc.
Carbon dioxide was a more common hazard - organic material decomposing in a sealed chamber would result in CO2 pooling in the depths, meaning that a visitor many years later could asphyxiate upon entry, which would undoubtedly discourage his friends from following.
You know, using a shortened version of your first name isn't the same as using an assumed name to hide your true identity.

Probably nobody named Mike was given that name at birth. More likely it was Michael. And for people named Michael it's fairly common to go by Mike.

It doesn't sound all that sinister for someone named Webster to go by Web.

And it's not really clear how a criminal past is relevant to a company a guy is trying to get off the ground years after having already been punished for his crimes.

Unless of course, the crime was fraud. That would be clearly relevant.
Thats only to find the files, not afterwards.
This is an "agile" operation. A few years of "agile", and they'll be burned-out husks. Then you fire them and hire the next round of naive kids.

Another article cited today on HN, from the Paris Review, says it better:

"When you begin programming, one of the attractions is the certainty that you will never run out of things to learn. But after a few years of working in a corporate cubicle under exploitive managers, after one deadline too many, after family and age and a tiring body, learning the ins and outs of the latest library can feel like another desperate sprint on a nonstop treadmill."
OpenBSD's safe, new file(1) implementation
Yes, children don't understand satire because satire is complicated, but that won't affect their enjoyment of the movie. The satire is there for you, the adult stuck in a cinema for 90 minutes, watching yet another rehash of an old story.
I spent the last four years doing web development while on playing drums in multiple touring bands. I got to travel abroad for free, and meet great people through it.

Unfortunately I remember very little of this time because I was taking on freelance projects to make side money and using mobile broadband to work in the van. It was incredibly stressful and one of the worst ideas. Multitasking the two jobs just burned me out quicker.

I wish I had planned it all out better so I could actually enjoy it fully. If you're going to travel, make sure you have the time to actually experience it.
Upvoted for inaccuracy!
I quit my job making video games and cycled across the country for fifteen months.. I worked a bit in the last 8 months from my tent (40-60 hours a month).

It was epic! I would definitely do it all over again.
Ask HN: What's Facebook Good for?
Do you use Facebook? If so, what is it good for? Does this have any professional value in life? Or is it only good for personal social stuff?

Also, how big a deal is their REAL name policy anyway? (My account has my middle name on it. I see no way to change it to my first name. I am debating either deleting my account permanently, OR learning to use the darn thing, OR deleting it and setting up a new one under my actual first name.)

Links to articles or personal anecdotes welcome.

Thanks.
The photographs do look somewhat similar, but that's still not proof that they're the same person. If you had a similar name and appearance to someone convicted of a crime, would you want to be publicly accused of being that person?

I'd be more convinced if you could find something like a public business record for Whence that has his full legal name on it. He's a co-founder, so he'd probably be listed as an officer of the corporation.
Interesting article... I just made a Metroid style game for Ludum Dare, and one of my key lessons from previous games was listed in the article: force people to use new tools. I have a room with a double-jump powerup, and you have to use it to get back out again. My experience was that otherwise, far too many people simply didn't figure out double jumping.

http://chaostomb.moria.us/
If I read correctly. It reads in sample data at compile time and constructs a type from that? `PersonsData` ? That's really cool.
Not an AMA by any stretch. He's sitting in a coffee shop for a couple of hours starting to deal with the shitstorm. He seems to be addressing quite a few issues brought up though.
FWIW, how their website looks like as of Apr 25 3:40pm PDT:

http://imgur.com/RBIsbKk
"I quit college to travel for 2 years and played online poker as a means of income." Wow--online poker! I couldn't imagine the worry factor, but I'm not a gambler. When I look back on my life, the only real money I made was doing something risky. Right now, you made me realize I need to add more risk to my life.
Red Hat distros: Fedora, CentOS. Red Hat is a technology leader, especially for Desktop stuff, and they have the right attitude to bugs: bugs should be fixed, not worked around, and fixes should be made (or at least merged) upstream.
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Thanks. Already fixed it - that was my incorrect spelling rather than not understanding the meaning.
The only way out is "loser pays, always, period".

Don't have a strong case with risk of losing? Don't go to court!

Have no money but a very strong case? Good. Go to court, you'll get your cost back if/when you win.

That alone would end many of the - shall we say - speculative lawsuits.
1. amendor-account created 2hrs ago-wondering if maybe you have previous ties to this person and just trying to haunt him?
2. Is he actually delivering the goods? I'm not sure if whence employees do it or a third party. As CEO i would be surprised if he is handling any of the transactions by hand.
3. As a previous Coast Guard Academy student, I question the validity of the findings and take any punishment sentencing with a grain of salt. The barracks are tiny and highly-populated with 2-4 people per dorm room. Doors have to be open all the time during daylight hours unless changing or sleeping and there cadets on duty monitoring the areas. You were not allowed to have closed doors in rooms occupied by opposite sex so that would be caught and investigated immediately. Just seems highly unlikely to me especially with 4 different people. During my stay, we had the campus locked down because of a rapist and something like six months later the female cadet admitted she made the whole thing up - so there's a history of false positives. Lastly, they over-punish. I had one friend get discharged for verbally hitting-on another cadet while he was drunk and another friend discharged for getting help from a classmate on a homework assignment.
4. I have a friend who is a registered sex offender and constantly goes through shit for it. If he did something legit wrong I would have no sympathy for him, but the details of his case in particular opened up my eyes alot to how someone can get screwed. Web Smith jumps out to me as one where it may not be the severity of the label or even true.
Xubuntu 14.04 is working well for me on three systems.
Elon Musk Twitter Account Hacked
Really useful tool. I would also take a look at this article, which has a prioritization of the different questions out there, and therefore which to focus on: https://www.aptible.com/blog/y_combinator.html
No one argues the packaging system can handle every possible situation. It's just that this case seems, on the face of it and without knowing any of the details, have been one where the system was manually placed in a state where the updater was broken.

I'm not a DD and I have no vested interest in it, but that particular data point is an outlier no matter how you look at it.

There are more obvious situations where updates will break your system. Most common probably when you've installed third party packages with dependencies on system software. But that's not generally what's referred to when asked if the update process is stable. Such things will break no matter how stable the process in itself is.
You can't make a truly static binary with glibc, so almost no one has a toolchain that is able to do it.
Hello, National Security Agency: Preventing this sort of thing is your job. Once you're done snarfing up my personal data, perhaps you could attend to it.
The link redirects to www.linuxjournal.com. If you remove the "m." from the address, it works.
You assume that it's not dangerous even if it doesn't go to folks who would be helped. I disagree: the possibility of contributing to frauds is not harmless. There is also opportunity cost: if you've donated to someone who is incompetent, then you no longer have those resources to fund someone who can make better use of those funds.

Ideally, you want to focus on the folks who can make a difference. Just funding folks with good intentions isn't enough. As an example of a group that appears to want to help drug addicts, but is pretty dangerously incompetent at it, listen to the Prologue and Act One of the This American Life story "Not It": http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/554/n...
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Wow! I had no idea you could inject that much mercury and have so few side effects from it. The article states she injected 10 mL of mercury which, due the density of mercury, is 136 g or 0.3 lbs.
I really hope that this is a bad, belated April fools' day joke.

If it's not, I doubt that this is actually lawful in Europe
Drawn as a graph, it ends up minimizing:
- Node size (think small functions and objects, not big ones)
- Degree (minimize dependencies. Also, an O(m+n) many-to-few-to-many is probably easier to reason about than an O(mn) many-to-many),
- Overall number of nodes (DRY, also, less code is generally better than more code).

Of course, the prioritization between these three is up in the air.
BitTorrent lays off close to a third of its workforce
If you scroll down on the main website, http://firestr.com, you can see some screenshots. Animated gifs actually.
I am under the impression that attribution is a very difficult and often impossible process. If that is true, what is the point of including "Russian" in this headline? I would guess the most probable response would be something involving "fulfilling a narrative." Even if that is true, what makes "Russian" hackers more exciting then just "Hackers?"

I am not trying to pose some profound question. I am genuinely confused by this.
When he said "old school" I was expecting fixed-length records.
6 tech tycoons just made $13.4B in a week
How do you merge two Git repositories?
For Latin-derived words, doubling the letter pluralizes an initialism. You will see 'p. 5' to cite one page, and 'pp. 8-17m to cite more than one.