skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone trying to move to a completely keyboard-controlled desktop, thanks for posting this. The file manager is one of the few things I have left that I'm using the mouse for. I've also considered vifm (http://vifm.sourceforge.net/). Do people have other mouseless file managers they're using?
> Yep. Just on principle, I'd have a hard time living somewhere that was insufferable without A/C. It's a clear sign you're doing something wrong.

Welp, I'll get right on telling 40% of the world that they're wrong, then.

https://tropicaldatahub.org/research-in-focus/people-and-soc...
I'm critical, not negative. Maybe they're considered to be the same thing in California but, where I am, the difference is still recognized.
uh... i'm not sure which crappy browser you use, but firefox mobile, the only browser you should be using this day and age, has this in the settings menu (don't even have to go to some hidden about:config) page.
Agreed. The valley is, without a doubt, an incredibly enabling place, and there will never be another.. but there's perhaps a large percentage of smart people who also see the valley as disenfranchising for whatever reason. It's not a matter of fair; life isn't fair or unfair. Entrepreneurship is always a gamble, and there are enough examples of previous entrepreneurs (including one that operated out of that other Menlo Park [1]) that did just fine and/or made the world a better place, even without the amazing support structure of the valley.

Life is choices. Some are harder than others.

See you in Austin!

1. http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/history/thomas-edison-and-men...
I install java but remove it from the browser.
or a GPS tracking app, called Pied Piper, that could follow your child anywhere and there is nothing you can do to stop me...

https://youtu.be/M1vfXoUNDYA?t=108
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(a) Money isn't everything.
(b) Over a long time horizon, selling a product is more profitable.

EDIT: It's non-trivial to go from consulting to product development as part of the same business. It's often easier to use the money from consulting to start afresh.
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The article seriously reads like it was written by a 15 year old, and not a 15 year old who is excelling at writing. Ouch.
Quick Note: I clicked on "careers" from your homepage and got an error [0].

It's really great seeing you on HN – great to see more and more Haskell jobs available!

[0] http://www.soostone.com/careers/application-engineer
Not unless you're experiencing friction.
OP is referencing the HBO show "Silicon Valley"
Personal wiki can work quite well.

E.g. https://moinmo.in/ works nicely (can be put on a server, but also run locally and stores everything in plain text files)
Just like in a venture portfolio, the venture industry is characterized by a few big winners. While the industry in general may lose money, a few firms consolidate most of the profits of the entire industry. AH is one of the smartest firms, and one of the first to push the philosophy that "it is easier to train a technical founder to be ceo, than a ceo to be a technical founder".

This was one of the firms that lead the founder first philosophy, and is run (obviously) by well known entrepreneurs. They atrract top talent (founders) like the article says, and gain great positioning in rounds, and in the ecosystem.

> if most of these founders put their money in standard index funds, they would have better returns adjusted for risk, but without all of the publicity that they crave.

The market typically delivers ~10% on average[0], while you are correct that their isn't a lot of transparency, AH almost certainly beats 10% annually. Another top VC/Angel is Chris Sacca. I have heard that his initial fund which was heavily in twitter, was single or double digit millions and is now worth over 1 billion dollars. So key firms do have outsize gains.

As to the MA tweet

> "When the market turns, and it will turn, we will find out who has been swimming without trunks on. Many high burn rate companies will VAPORIZE."[1]

This is not about a bubble, but individual companies not focusing on business fundamentals. In a climate where raising money is easy, he is pointing out these companies grow without underlying businesses. The grow big enough to sell advertising/information is not sustainable, as everyone was made painfully aware of in the 90's and 00's. Vanity metrics and valuations mean nothing if you are not profitable (or even generating revenue), and it will be apparent if there is a funding freeze.

[0]http://quicktake.morningstar.com/index/IndexCharts.aspx?Symb...
* This has the 10 year around 8.3

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-on-startup-bu...
well, the first negative review have to come from someone.
Something to note: the whole "96 of 128 bits" thing drastically reduces entropy. By my count it's only got ~27.2 (!) bits of entropy, as in, if you have one number in the database it's take ~2^26.2 tries on average to get a valid one.

There are n choose k bitstrings with exactly k bits set to the correct value. Hence, there are sum(n=96 to 128 of 128 choose n) length-128 bitstrings with at least 96 bits set to the correct value. There are 2^128 length-128 bitstrings. Hence, your chance of randomly generating a bitstring with at least 96 bits set correctly from a length-128 bitstring is sum(n=96 to 128 of 128 choose n) / 2^(128), which works out to ~1 / 2^(27.2).

If I did the math correctly, that is.
Are you hiring software devs for the Vegas office?
Sorry, I try to reply to everyone

Also, if you're still in school or just graduated, make sure to include your GPA, even if your experience is amazing.
the way to get such corruption out of government is to limit the power of government

Where's the power going to go? If you have a weak legislature that's clean-handed because it does little of consequence, that doesn't mean society is magically going to operate better. I'm also a fan of public-choice theory, but I think there are two aspects of the situation it fails to address:

1. Public administration is relatively transparent. Not as much as we'd like, of course regular people simply don't have the time, energy, or expertise to fully exploit this transparency (and so rely on lobbying organizations that do represent their interests, eg the ACLU or EFF), but the public sector is more transparent than the private sector. I don't have much faith in market mechanisms to correct excessive behavior in the private sector because bad actors can buy a lot of good PR.

2. A non-negligible degree of the power invested in government is the results of demands from the public, eg things like the clean water and the EPA exist because private entities exploited the commons sufficiently that there was eventually an outcry eg repeated fires on the Cuyahoga river. There are many similar demands for governmental action on climate change today, it's not hard to imagine a tipping point in the near future with carbon becoming much more heavily regulated than today. The fact that granting more power to government may well result in future abuses doesn't negate the existence of problems absent regulation.
I am in support too. The problem is that most companies take implicit advantage of data obfuscation. Some people would ask to be paid more if they only knew.

It is great for employees, but not all companies are ready to do that, and I would guess most would not surive the moment of truth.
Thank you for this! I'm just not getting acquainted with Servo and starting to get interested. This is a great place to start.
A simulated brain can be reverse engineered and improved. We're going to have to deal with some intense ethical and philosophical questions as a species though...
You're absolutely right, no good deed goes unpunished. I think I was suffering from "well, I expect FB and Apple to behave that way, but Google? Now I'm mad!"

Well, that's not logical thinking. Google did try—more than anyone else—to bring openness to IM. When they did eventually throw in the towel, they became the unjustified focal point of justified anger.

Meanwhile, iMessage, BBM, AIM, ICQ, MSM, Yahoo, WhatsApp, etc. all continue running walled-gardem IM systems. The closest thing to an open IM system is SMS.

Thanks for the correction.
No wireless! (Nikola would be so disappointed...)
Not only that, but Servo is experimenting with new techniques for just about everything as they go. Progress may seem slow if you measure how "done" it is, but it's much faster than other projects if you measure how much research is being produced.
I don't think it is well established that we he took was an algorithm or any such thing.

Michael Lewis wrote a big article in Vanity Fair which I suggest you look at. He gathered a number of experts who looked at the evidence presented at his federal trial and concluded that what he took was modified open source code to run the queues, do messaging, etc. Boiler plate code to create the infrastructure.

This is what GS is calling "proprietary source code", since he made the changes on GS dime therefore it is proprietary to them.
Maybe his passion is to build something. I think we all get stuck initially chasing the dough but eventually realize it's not what we want.
The airbnb team is strong in this thread.

http://www.airbnbhell.com/

there are several sites like the above. most of the real complaints are cleaning fees that airbnb promises to cover in case of abuse and they never do.

Also, several analysis from insurance companies saying that the $1mm "host guarantee" is a marketing ploy and not that most of the insurance business loss is on small things, and that only covering the big bust is a fake way to not have insurance losses. but you will have to search those for yourself

edit: ok, i've searched for you http://www.tnooz.com/article/homeaway-thinks-1m-airbnb-host-...
That's what I meant by branching out. Productize the consulting, so he doesn't need to be there.
http://www.airbnbhell.com/
Given the small amounts involved, it's worth the money just to figure out the source of experimental error. NASA isn't giving money to random kooks off the street, these are actual physicists in labs doing the work.
Not like this "scientist" at a reputable university.
http://wjh.harvard.edu/~jmitchel/writing/failed_science.htm

> · Recent hand-wringing over failed replications in social psychology is largely pointless, because unsuccessful experiments have no meaningful scientific value.

> · Because experiments can be undermined by a vast number of practical mistakes, the likeliest explanation for any failed replication will always be that the replicator bungled something along the way. Unless direct replications are conducted by flawless experimenters, nothing interesting can be learned from them.

{edit: read the link. It's scary to read this stuff coming from a science PhD.}

Other psychologists have realised that there's a "crisis of replication" in psychology. But it's not just psychology, it affects other sciences (albeit to varying degrees) too.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
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The next problem is IP addresses. How is SNI these days? I've been meaning to experiment with it but the lack of extra personal certs have prevented me.
Couldn't they just do something similar to Microsoft's Edge/IE11 approach? Servo for HTML5+/CSS3+/Javascript ES6+ and then keep Gecko as well inside Firefox for "legacy websites"?
Is Google allowing emoji to become the new spam of search results?
Would you mind describing how your keyboard-controlled desktop looks like?
>> If any of this is true, why not start in phases where you have memristor replacing SSD/existing system memory.. why this monster design?

From what I've read, the memristors may not be working at scale. A single device works, but chips packed full of them have not AFAICT worked out yet.
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>> Most important takeaway about salary negotiation, by the way: disclosing a previous salary is almost always against your interests because it pegs your new salary to that plus 5% rather than your value to the new firm minus a discount, which is a brutal mistake

I had a phone screen with an HR drone once (Cerner Inc. to be exact \waves) part way thru she asked me my current salary. I declined to provide that information. She replied "we can't continue without that information". I replied, I'm sorry, but I won't discuss salary at this point. She said, "good bye" and that was all. I had a job so was not desperate at the time. I was still shocked at how abrupt it was.
This makes no sense.

I assume the name is probably French, because it was discovered by a French archaeologist. I think it could also be Latin, since I think "Milo" would be the dative case of "Milos", but I'm not 100% sure (I haven't read much Latin since leaving university).

In either case, Spanish has nothing to do with the matter, the name is perfectly valid, and more generally "Venus de Milo" is the canonical name. I'm sorry if you don't like that, but there's no way in which it is is less valid than using an Italian name in English conversation.

Also, you probably wouldn't say "Venus of Milo", because that's a really awkward way to refer to the geographical origin of something in English.
Anecdotal evidence to the contrary: I am 25 and this has been one of my favorite movies since first seeing it around ten years ago.

Few under-30 year olds have even given The Beatles or Pink Floyd a proper listen either or know of Ferris Bueller's Day Off - I'm serious, mass cultural memory is not very long.

But I think you'll find that all of the above will be mentioned in discussions of 20th century movies and music long into the future. Citizen Kane definitely stands the test of time.
We have started to work with git about a year-and-a-half ago. Here are some of the lessons I have learned in that time:

1) Get yourself a decent visualisation of the commit graph.

You should see at least:

* Labels for all local branches

* Labels for all remote-tracking branches ("origin/whatever" etc)

* A label for the HEAD pointer (i.e. what is currently checked out.)

I found the Git Extensions plugin for Windows pretty helpful in this regard, though I think gitk and the Eclipse and Intellij visualisations show them, too.

"git log" with default settings does not show anything except your currently checked out branch, which can be extremely confusing.

2) When in doubt, do "git fetch".

This will synchronize the remote-tracking branches on your machine with the actual state of the remote repository. It will not include the changes into your currently checked out copy and it will not modify the remote repository in any way.

Therefore, if you are unsure if your local repository is correctly synced, calling "git fetch" is usually a good (and safe) way to be sure.

3) Be careful with "git pull".

"git pull" is basically an alias for "git fetch; git merge origin/<the branch you have checked out right now>".

However, what this means is that it will synchronize your "origin/..." branch with the remote repository, then immediately try to merge your local work with whatever changes just got downloaded from your repository.

A good analogy for this procedure is "trying to cross a road with your eyes closed": Because you have no way to inspect the changes that you are actually merging in, this can lead to unexpected conflicts and can be relatively counter-intuitive to undo.

If you are not entirely sure about the state of the remote repository, a better workflow is (in my opinion):

* Do a manual "git fetch".

* Inspect the "origin/..." branch using "git log" or a GUI and identify any relevant changes and possible conflicts.

* Do "git pull" or "git merge origin/..." when you actually want to incorporate the changes into your checked-out copy.

4) All the history rewriting stuff creates copies.

Your old commits are still around, they are just not included in any branch and therefore hidden from most GUIs. However, you can still access them by calling any git command with their commit ID.
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Autodesk goes full-on Microsoft with HoloLens and 3D printing pact
What is the value of Category Theory for programming? I'm genuinely interested, as my knowledge about this subject is little to none.
I'd love the servo team to show more demos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZGhnqtXVdc
It is also latin, happening to mean "concerning" "of" or "about", which in this context seems appropriate. (I'm only mildly a latin type, not an art historian, so I'm not sure this is in fact the intended meaning, but it fits, and given the statues classical (albeit greek) history...)

Edit: As sister posts point out, the french meaning is far more appropriate, but the latin is valid as a root.
Gravity data show that Antarctic ice sheet is melting increasingly faster
David - I think some of the criticism you are seeing is because, while this idea may have merit, your execution of it here on HN feels weird. This "Urgent" post feels hasty, unorganized and after reading it I don't know what to do. Let alone try to help.

I'd encourage you to take a step back, organize your thoughts and put up a real website asking for help so it has more of a presence. Nothing goes "viral" (your words) from this kind of post on HN.

If you believe in what you are doing, stick with it, get organized and keep your chin up. :-)
No you don't and it's a Greek statue. The English name it's known by is "Aphrodite of Milos" but almost nobody uses that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo

http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/aphrodite-known-venus...

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/mis...

http://www.venusdemilo.gr/

http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-aphrodite-milos-bett...
I think it's fine to model people's ideologies according to their comments, so long as we are able to adapt that model when new data happens. Similarly, if we consistently comment in ways that don't match our ideology, we shouldn't be upset when people draw incorrect conclusions about us.

Anyways, no harm done...it's just a few pg funbucks.
"De" is also French, and I'm guessing it's the word they use on the sign in front of the statue...
I found this spreadsheet[1] to be pretty interesting. Obviously it's anonymous so take the data with a grain of salt.

1- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F9e8DrWv5_rx3il0r2Sg...
Yes please! I will send you an email now.
Indeed, it has been discussed many times. But I don't remember any discussion on attribution rights. If GS replaced GPL text with their own header they presumably deleted names of the original authors. I wonder if those authors could (collectively perhaps) send a complaint to GS and ask to restore the attributions?
Blades are much more efficient. I've done some back of the napkin estimates that this would levitate if paired with lockheed's supposed small fusion reactor. (and works at all, and if the drive reaches improvements that one paper thought possible, and if it scales with power input, and ....)

This inefficiency would still be great in space because you don't have to carry reaction mass with you. (and hovering on earth would mean sustained 1g acceleration in space, which is fantastic.) But if you're swimming through reaction mass anyway, then just push it as efficiently as possible.
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"De" is also French, the language of the place where this Venus is, and "Venus de Milo" is simply the most common name used in English for referring to it.

If you really have to be pedantic, say the Aphrodite of Milos, since this is a Greek statue.
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