skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey jqm,

I'm so sorry this is something you thought you had to outline.

I do think it's worth noting that everyone has a lot of quality when you actually believe them into it (also known as Pygmalion Effect [see http://psych.wisc.edu/braun/281/Intelligence/LabellingEffect..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect])

One of the reasons we keep a curated community of hosts is because we think a lot of our belief in others is a function of situational notions of normalcy. Good hosts create a sense of norm by being the first to take that leap of faith on the people around them. What does taking that leap of faith look like? Welcoming strangers with double high fives, looking them in the eye when they talk, asking questions with a genuine interest in what the others have to say, and trusting them enough to share oneself with them, for starters.

These norms set the environment on fire. It's what makes the air at anything Tea With Strangers different from the air in most gatherings of strangers. Breathe it in for a little bit and everyone begins to find interest in each other because layers that make people 'strangers' begin to get peeled very quickly. That is, unless you're holding your breath.

Quality people believe in the quality of people in mind and in action. And that's one of the reasons we think TWS works. Because it attracts people who don't hold their breath. Upward spiral!

High fives,
Ankit

P.S. Quality might sound snobby, so let me qualify:

Everyone is smarter about something than you are.

Everyone has been motivated to do something you haven't.

Everyone laughs at something. It's one of the two more fundamental human emotions (i.e. babies either laugh or cry when they express emotion. This isn't lost as we grow.).

Everyone has an interest in themselves because we want to be taken care of (see: Maslow's Hierarchy), but sometimes people have circumstances that make them distrustful of others. You have an opportunity to empathize and understand that there's a reason for that that are beyond your understanding unless you take interest in others without wanting to take unfair advantage of them yourself.

Everyone's mind is as open as their life's circumstances have conditioned them to be. If and when you interact with someone – even if by sharing physical space – you are a part of their life's circumstances.

Everyone is interesting.
That's not uncommon, unfortunately. I've off-and-on bothered to notify various entities about bad behavior for the last 15 years or so. In most cases, it goes completely ignored. Most recently, on April 2, I notified Rackspace's abuse department that they were hosting a major fraud/scam site (websitebackup.com, they send out fraudulent invoices and wait for non-tech-savvy customers to send payment) and never heard back. Rackspace is still hosting them.

It's just one of those facts of life: nobody really cares, not until they're directly affected by it somehow.
> When people are talking about "safe areas" to protect students from words spoken by a speaker, then criticism is dead.

I understand what you're getting at, but some people really do have PTSD, and some speeches really do contain things like graphic recountings of abuse. Should those people just not attend university? (I'm actually undecided.)
Part of this is that Co-Op terms are 16 weeks long. There are 52 weeks in a year, 16*3 eats up 48 weeks, if there are 2 or 3 weeks for Christmas it simply isn't possible to have more than a week or so between the winter and spring/summer and between the spring/summer and fall terms. I feel like 12 weeks is a better length for an internship, but I believe that the University Co-Op rules require that it be at least 16 weeks.

I feel that a lot of the packing and moving stress which the author describes is self-inflicted. If one is moving every four months it makes sense to pay the extra money for a furnished place rather than criss-cross the continent moving one's furniture and cookware around. If one is going from Waterloo across the continent, then it makes sense to take only stuff which one will be able to take on the plane. It might make sense to have a storage locker in Waterloo to throw excess stuff in (books and other entertainment-related things come to mind). The author claims to have done 3 co-op terms in the US, I would hope that he had this down to a science by now. At least some checklists or something to streamline the process. And given the number of Waterloo grads at this point, I would hope that even freshman have moving checklists.
Because now they can write a blog post about it, which duly appears on HN's front page.
Holding philosophy to the standard of utility brings a lot of assumptions to bear on your reading. Conciseness is a virtue that one can overindulge.

Many philosophers aren't concerned with providing readers with ideas in the system of efficient exchange of language and labor hours. For many in critical theory the project is the opposite: to show how the systems of exchange and efficiency dominate our meaning-making.
Offendy has both a CKO and a CNO? Presumably the Chairman is the only one doing any work.

This quote was on the money: "It’s an unique opportunity to meet awesome people and change the world!" It reminds me of the old (old, old...) fake Army recruitment slogan something like "Join the Army! Travel the world, meet interesting people, and then kill them."

I just turned up "WasteIgnite": http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=31556537750 -- "WasteIgnite was founded by people who love wasting just like you! Enter your favorite ways to waste and we'll help you fit it all in. Since we're using righteous technologies, you can count on us next time you waste."
I have the Samsung Gear 2 Neo, and tried building an app to record HR all day sampling once per second. A full battery lasts about 12 hours in this condition. However, the heart rate monitor subsystem crashes fairly often, and gets very inaccurate with pretty much any arm motion. So not super useful.

Basis, Amiigo (not yet for sale), and even Epson have wrist-based trackers which claim some form of continuous heart rate monitoring. The Epson in particular seems interesting, as they developed the sensor in-house with a focus on power management; they say it can record continuously for 40 hours.
Jesus, I'm occasionally amazed at GAAP for not requiring breakout of a business unit as large as $6 billion (last quarter obviously somewhat less) simply because the overall company is comparatively large; especially so when the profitability of the unit is so different from the overall company. Seems fucking material to me.
One note: Azure SSD backed Storage is now GA.

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/16/azure-premium-sto...
I would hope that adults entrusted with the care of our children would be paid more to get the top talent the job requires. Even a 1% change in a students learning is an immeasurable sum of profit to an organization and someone who can eek that out should get the compensation due.
This is great. A great idea. It is strange no one have thought it before.
If the workload characteristic changes over time you may want to recompile with different profiling data.
If you're controlling your azure account through the powershell interface, it's a little better... a lot of things require the beta UI, which isn't so great.

That said, I was able to setup a quick little proof of concept web/worker app with node pretty quickly... though you should be aware it is running in a windows host (either 32 or 64bit configurable)... you can include exe/dll's in your package as needed too... I used a git endpoint for deploy, and that worked pretty well. There's apparently a build environment suitable and configured for node_gyp to be able to use.

Though imho it's not as flushed out as App Engine, or bits of AWS... I am able to run dokku on a few hosts... Work's account finally came online for the SSD preview about a month ago... it's definitely worth it.

There's some mishmash of availability... I kind of like that using blob storage, tables and azure queues is as simple as having a storage account... though the node client is a little lacking in documentation and examples.
We do indeed sync the data to Google Fit—so it both reads your activities (walking, running, biking) from Google Fit and any connected apps you have, and writes the raw heart rate measurements back to Google Fit.
>since there was no longer an easy way to separate valuable comments from not-valuable ones

You could read them, and if you don't like them, stop reading them. Granted, it's harder to automate, but if the tradeoff is having to engage with more of the narrative of a thread then I don't know that that's a bad trade. So many variables can go into a comment score that the actual number becomes less meaningful than the sort order of the threads themselves.
They are built into the same way extra buttons you get with dress shirts are built in. Not everybody needs them, theoretically the people who don't use them are subsidizing the people that do, but no one cares. It is cheaper to deal with missing buttons as the norm than to build custom supply chains to optimize for correct distribution. If I called up the shirt manufacture and demanded 10K buttons on the other hand, they'd probably make me pay.

Finally, none of this has anything to do with spoofing, because spoofing doesn't need high cancel rates. If anything, making cancels more expensive will encourage the behavior, because it will make traditional market making more expensive (either explicitly or implicitly by requiring membership in a cartel to be a market maker). Meanwhile, the spoofers trade is much higher margin and can absorb the new extra cost more readily.
Kansas City Reaches Compromise with Uber
Wait. Book-devouring, ideas-discussing students? Where the hell are these creatures, and where were they when I attended undergrad!? All I've ever seen was job-seeking, exam-studying things.

Also, doesn't the constant talk of debate and free exchange of ideas rather presuppose a form of antirealism about everything under the sun? After all, we don't talk about a free exchange of ideas on the laws of motion. You can be accurate or incorrect about those.
This. The pearls are in the essays too. While some may not appreciate the tenor, the underlying wisdom is applicable in any setting. Despite that fact, many will find some reason to ignore the wisdom. I did. Only later did I learn, that in fact, he was right all along.
It does send the data back to GFit! Warning though—the GFit graph isn't necessarily built for this resolution of data. That's part of why we built our own chart to show you the details.
We have servers that store the raw data and run the algorithms on it, and then it's also synced to Google Fit (on Android) and HealthKit (iOS).
George W. Bush had the blocky "BUSH" with an American flag coming out of the "W." above it. That's as much of a logo as Rand Paul's.
csproj's do have wildcard support, just no way to create them through the IDE: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164283.aspx
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=695909360423

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> The thing that turned me away from Atom and its' development is CoffeeScript.

...

> There's still a JS/V8/Chrome for a dependency. On an application where we're rendering huge walls of text - we forgo native redraw. Crucial to response time.
> What makes Atom a viable choice when there already is free, open source, native, cross-platform editors with great plugin ecosystems?

I guess maybe CoffeeScript isn't what turned you away?
This article misses the fundamental difference between vision and hallucination.

Hallucinations are psychiatric states, characterized by confusion, loss of identity and control, and have a destructive nature.

Visions on the other hand are spiritual experiences, they come with clarity, finding of identity and control about the inner and outer world, and are very constructive and uplifting experiences.
I move often (once a year for the past three years). Once in Kitchener, twice in Waterloo. I'm moving on the first of May. I've been a professional software developer for 10 years now. Moving and never being stable in life is a reality for me. It does not get easier.
Cool.

I just realized who you are.

Taking time off from healthcare.gov?
Weechat triggers are powerful
> ".NET platform will probably get (finally) on track"

Eh? .NET land has been on a higher technical superiority level to Java for almost a decade. Pretty much as soon as .NET got generics at the CLR level the tide was changing. Then that so-called LINQ feature in C# put the final nail in the Java coffin. The fact that .NET has always had value types and function/delegate types from day one has meant the third party .NET toolset has emerged in a different less clumsy way than in Java land.

> "but it's an uphill battle against Oracle's current position"

Eh? Java isn't even open source in any meaningful sense. Just look what happened to Google/Android when they mistakenly thought Java was open source.

I'm not sure what this so called "maturity of toolset" for Java really is either. Most of it is just piles of garbage libraries and frameworks to work around fundamental flaws of the language, and/or to continue pedalling the broken enterprise styles of OOP and SOLID bandwagon onto yet more innocents.

> "the amount of skilled developers any employer can pick from."

Eh? Ever tried picking a good one from a batch of Java Enterprise devs? It can be a costly exercise. There is almost nothing to distinguish them, that is the problem. Because they're all just Gang Of Four Do-Repeat-Yourself-But-Claim-Not-To code monkeys.
That's great to hear! I barely touch Google Fit myself; I was more wondering about it because I use Google Fit to send HR data to gyrosco.pe.
I have the Gear Fit and while it doesn't crash, the sport mode is very inconsistent while running. Tightening the band might help but it's uncomfortably tight.
Capturing HR once a minute is of really limited use. More than benchmarking against resting HR, the interesting thing is to look at heart rate variability, and to do that you need to scan several times per second.
For that using purpose-built devices is just better.
I am thinking:
https://jawbone.com/store/buy/up3
or
http://www.getqardio.com/qardiocore-wearable-ecg-ekg-monitor...
Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress (2013)
That is shockingly ignorant, and shame on whoever taught you that.

Free markets and trade have lifted the most people out of poverty and improved the living standards of the largest number of people in history.

It is an imperfect way of organising the needs of people, but it is superior to everything else that has been tried, by an order of magnitude.
I don't see that this is just another PR article, more that there will always be a place for craftsmen in Toyota, even in the face of the wave of production automation.

One thing I admire from the Japanese culture, is that they take `craftsmanship` very seriously in all aspects of work.

I gain this appreciation after working part-time as a kitchen-hand in a number of Japanese restaurants throughout my uni days.

Those that are `authentic` Japanese (ran by Japanese owners) has a very methodical process and obsess over every single detail.

Even a simple task such cooking rice has an elaborate process and specific technique that I must always follow through. Just two examples:

* the amount of water to put into the rice depends on the season (i.e. dry vs wet season at harvest), must be exact to the millilitres.

* the specific motion of washing (or more appropriately `grinding`, as the water has been sieved out).

The chef always check the rice after it cooks and gave me feedback, every single time.
If it has those primitives, why not just wrap them up into a bind operator?
Ask HN: Who's hiring Jr Engineers
I've been searching for a while so I decided I would reach out. Who out there is hiring junior developers/software engineers?
Lambda looks awesome... I'm tethered to Azure, so the closest I get is Azure App Service which works, but not as elegantly... Dokku-alt is working pretty well (testing now) as a deployment system... was looking kubernetes and the like, but it's overkill for my needs.

Doesn't Amazon's mysql api fronted db work similar to google's?
It's probably so they can disable malicious links.
Sweden is a capitalist country with a strong social safety net. It's not remotely socialist, at best a social democracy. In no way could you say that, in Sweden, 'to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities'.

The majority of production in Sweden is not state owned.
Kleiner Perkins seeks legal fees or dropped case from Ellen Pao
That paper caused a small sensation in the compiler community at the time, as everyone rushed to implement it!
http://www.launchnik.com/footio

Receive feet

No fancy algorithms (yet), no automation (yet). I will personally send you a foot I think you'll like every day, entirely determined by your preferences. Each foot will come as a surprise, probably not at the same time every day.
You shouldn't advocate for socialism, even in jest. It is a terrible system which has caused more suffering than all the despots in history together.

Forward thinking will only happen when everyone walks away for the wreckage of socialism and realises it is a dead fork in the road that must be rejected utterly.
Defining the Elusive Product-Market Fit in B2B
For distributed scenarios where the architecture, language and library are unspecified and effectively random, it is not. Not so long ago x87 80-bit precision was common while non x87 systems typically used single and double precision. Finally, IEEE-754 does not specify transcendental functions, so once you use those your results vary all over the place as approximations vary. The fact that Go does not use the the CRT for FP will demonstrate this in the real world.
An app like this could save a life one day, for sure. My uncle recently died from a heart attack. It's impossible to know for sure but perhaps if he'd been wearing a smart watch, it could have told him to seek help before it hit.
Prior discussion on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9429865
Forward Selection with statsmodels
Hallucinations are certainly not by definition destructive. If you play Guitar Hero for a few hours and then look at something stationary, it will look like it's moving. If I haven't gotten enough sleep for several days running, sometimes walls will look like they're at the wrong angles.
I thought the Up3 only measured resting HR.
On a single chip, yes. But different chips handle some corner cases differently, leading to divergence between machines.
Those South Koreans were probably carrying brand new Samsung phones under their jacket. Just as potent as a pair of Kalashnikovs, which their Northern brethren prefer ;)

In certain parts of the English-speaking world, universities are not dying, they're actually flourishing... but only because of a major influx of Chinese and Korean students willing to pay those exhorbitant out-of-state fees.

And since most of those valuable foreign customers want to study business, finance, medicine, law, and a handful of STEM fields, universities have no choice but to cater to their demands. Some programs in the West Coast are half Chinese by now. Those kids probably pay 80% of the gross fees, too. On the other hand, when I took English or philosophy, I was often the only Asian in the class.

But China is growing very fast (slower than before, but still fast), and Korea has all but done catching up with the rest of the developed world. Other countries might then supplant China as the largest supplier of international students, but they'll grow up, too. Sooner or later, all the international students who are propping up American universities will decide that they'd much rather spend their dollars elsewhere. When that last bubble bursts, even STEM fields will not be immune from a massive shock, and heavily subsidized humanities departments will be in real trouble this time.
Technically, maybe, sort of. http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/flo...
Oh! I wrapped up my involvement last fall. It was a 2-month rotation that became 3 months, then 5 months, then 8 months, ...

After taking a couple months off, I started collaborating with some UCSF researchers--we know that in the next few years, millions of people are going to be wearing heart rate monitors. But what does that mean for healthcare? Can we actually detect things like heart attacks or lethal arrhythmias before it's too late? Could we potentially build the "check engine light" for your heart?

So that's what this app is a first step toward.
What amazes me is how strongly the Waterloo folks do in every field. I bumped into quite a few that excelled at Finance too. Combination of solid skills and humility.
So is rand() and similar. The point is that Heisenbugs and such at the app level are hard to debug because behavior is not absolutely repeatable under what seem to humans to be identical circumstances.

That most certainly gives the appearance of non-determinism.

And floating point is frequently infamously tricky to deal with, I think is the obvious point without arguing terminology.
Teachers have job security that is very rare in the private sector. They also have fully funded benefits of a kind that is rare in most occupations at matching salaries. They also get a lot of psychic rewards from their jobs, and graduates of teacher-training programs are in large supply, changing the supply:demand ratio for that occupation. I would indeed be glad to pay teachers more in salary, but I'd also like to be sure that wherever your children or my children go to school, the friendly local school is hiring only effective teachers, not ineffective teachers. If teachers get behind public policies that ensure that, then I think they will see increases in pay. (See the links in my earlier post in this thread.)
Tethering works for me.
I've only been programming for a couple years, and I thought I was a genius for coming up with a game engine exactly as you describe here. deterministic randomness, doom beat me to it by a couple decades.
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Somewhat tangential, but give 1909's "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster a read. It's excellent and speaks to this point.

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
Made in Africa on GitHub
Lol!! He was just trying to help!! :-)
As a node developer, seeing any official, open source package in CoffeeScript is a red flag.

The sibling I made a link to a thread about CS in Atom. The creator of express.js has his take:

"Hell I had to rewrite a coffeescript driver this week because I can't have our company relying on things written by people who are unfamiliar with javascript, throwing strings, super awkward apis, lots of indirection, and stepping through the compiled source is a nightmare. It's not like I didn't want to contribute, I even tried for a while, but it's just not worth the hell, it was quicker to just rewrite the thing. Not to say all coffeescript libraries are written poorly, but regardless you're really not gaining much, just losing a lot." [1]

If you write an open source application in CoffeeScript, you're not doing the community a favor, you're doing yourself a favor. They pay the penalty.

[1] https://discuss.atom.io/t/why-coffeescript/131/8
We have not. We had planned the first email to be a sort of short study guide for the concepts we're playing with in Chapter 1 of Starfighter, but then I had the traditional Rev 1 Weeks From Shipping freak-out and relitigated every concept from Chapter 1 and Patrick had to fly all the way to Chicago from Japan to help Erin talk me down and so now we've settled back into a solid plan for what the first ~20 levels look like and long story short update coming soon.