skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to assume your answer was "I want to have a semi-curated list of companies that are interested in me"

In and of itself, that's not a bad list to have. BUT deciding on which one you want to work at for the next 3 years should be more of a "I want to work there" not "let's see which ones will have me". So if you really want to work at a YC startup then go over to http://yclist.com/. Do some due diligence on who excites you ( not "which is the most exciting one that will have me") and apply to that one. Trust me. In the long run doing so will save you a lot more time.

Joining an early stage startup isn't a job, it's a lifestyle.
You did it wrong. This is just the name of the city of Buffalo over and over.
Not in the same sense as something like this:

http://imgur.com/nIPkSDm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoskFuM_VU

(You can see the MacBook through the watch itself in the video. Yes, I know, it's not as technically amazing of an engineering accomplishment as the iWatch or whatever it's called - but it's got its own weight impressiveness. The iPhone Watch doesn't evoke the same feelings of awe and grandeur nor aspire towards the same emotions of perfection and regularity that a traditional watch would. Of course, the iWatch keeps better time than my automatic skeleton watch does, but who uses the iWatch to tell time, anyway? ;-)
Most watches I've seen have been extremely reliable in their operation. Most computers I've used have not, and Apple machines are no exception.

Which leaves me with the feeling that, if I wanted a watch for telling time, I wouldn't get one as complicated as an Apple watch, and if I wanted the extra utility, I wouldn't expect it to be as reliable as the alternative. I think it's the same bloat-avoidance instinct that drives people away from IDEs: don't get more than you will actually use, because you will probably end up paying for it in money, time, and frustration.
Why words are the new numbers
Self Promo:: but https://www.rallyverse.com/showcase.html you auth twitter and then we see what you like and recommend content around your three top topics.
Like Haskell, it's a functional language in the ML family.

Haskell isn't in the ML family. It's a successor to the concepts used in David Turner's languages (but more specifically Miranda), themselves born out of a language named Hope that came out nearly the same time as ML.
not in most eu country's ok recent immigrants may have to have a short period of paying into the system.

When I was out of work in the UK I signed on to keep my NI record up to date as they only account full years
I think though that that only accounts for the money that would be saved in the lawsuit payouts.

It doesn't include all the costs of un-necessary tests doctors do because they fear getting sued. No matter how big or small the payout in a lawsuit, that's not a good place to be and is going to leave a black mark on a dr's record no matter the outcome.
There's a mechanical way to make any NXN square where N is odd. Start anywhere, writing numbers in sequence. Go to the upper-left each time, wrapping around horizontally and vertically.

When you get to the Nth, go down instead of to the upper-left.

That's it.
Users buy Apple phones (++aapl_profit), they browse or search the app store, they find something, and they spend a few more bucks on an app (++aapl_profit). Users remain blissfully unaware of the full situation or lost potential. No major user complaints and we can only speculate about lost potential Apple profits.

Sadly, I think Apple serves most users best by simply ensuring the "top" choices during an app store browse or search are good enough that users don't ever have to search deeper and really feel the pain of the App Store situation. And the top choices are often quite good.

My conclusion is Apple just doesn't feel enough pain to solve the discoverability problem that hurts developers (especially new developers).
I'm not sure if I'm disagreeing with you, but I really dislike the "collection of numbers that transforms in this way" definition of vectors, tensors, etc. I get why it's useful in calculations (that's why physicists like it), but it seems really inelegant to me.

To me, a tensor is a function that maps a collection of m vectors to a collection of n vectors, such that every output is linear in each input. It's true that if you choose a basis, then you can write down an array of numbers which identifies the function, and that changing the basis causes those numbers to change in a certain way, but that's not what a tensor "is".

Of course, the beauty of mathematics is that there are many different ways of looking at the same object, so physicists can deal with their arrays of numbers, I can play with my multilinear functions, and everyone gets the same answer when we ask the same question.
In terms of preserving maximum value for shareholders, Yelp has no choice but to sell itself, and the sooner the better.

They're currently able to generate $10-$12 million in net income on $377m in sales. Their growth rate has slowed down drastically. Take their 52 week high (much less their all-time high), which is a roughly $6.4 billion market cap. Their best case scenario, ten years from now, is that they're worth ~$6.4 billion.

$200m in net income on that $6.4 billion market cap pegs them at a 32 PE (plausible, if not a bit rich, ten years out). To get there, they probably need - even giving them the benefit of expanded margins with scale - $2 to $3 billion in sales.

The only way they're going to exceed those types of numbers, is through using their equity on acquisitions.

Here they're sitting on a very rich stock market valuation, in one of the greatest bull markets the US has ever seen, and it's unlikely they're ever going to top their 52 week high. Selling is the obvious move.
A law being a law doesn't mean it's right.
Startup Family: Starting Up and Staying Together
I think to have usable matching you're going to have to go that way, unless you want to write custom parsing code for each command's output.
Agreed, but this is for go only, so it's replacing a mix of go and assembly with a mix of go and assembly. How does that make anything safer?
Yes, the officers used force to subdue a suspect but that force was only necessary because:

- Suspect failed to obey orders and FLED from the police and this is corroborated by the eyewitness accounts.

- Suspect resisted arrest and even after the officers tackled him, he is trying to get out of being handcuffed which of course prompts more officers to pile up. Perhaps the better option would have been to tase him which may be safer than having 5-6 people dogpile on you (suffocation risk).

Let's review what you should do when dealing with police (https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-if-youre-stopp...)

- Stay calm and DO NOT RESIST ARREST regardless of whether it was justified or not.
- Ask if you are and why you are being arrested. If you are not being arrested, ask if you can leave.
- You can stay silent and refuse to consent to a search and wait until you have representation.

If you do these things, you will be less likely to be beat up and if you think excessive force was used while you were fully compliant, you will be in a much better position with a lawsuit if you didn't run and resist.
From what I see of housing costs 100k isn't that much in sf and one relitivly minor medical emergency can put a big hole in any savings you have.
>>this thing is a solution to a very tiny problem: gunshots that are not reported via emergency calls.

That's not exactly true. When people call in gunshots they frequently have at best a vague idea where the shots came from. If you're sitting in your house with the window open, the shots will most likely sound as if they came from that direction - even if they were actually in the opposite direction. So you could be sending the police to a place 6 blocks away, which in a dense urban environment is quite a long ways indeed.

Being able to reliably figure out the actual location has value.

source: we have lots of gunshots in our neighborhood. Police response and ability to actually catch people has gone up since the spotter was installed.
Checkout my repo https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
There needs to be Netflix style predictive reviews: "Based on Yelpers with review histories like yours, our guess for your rating is 4 stars." And maybe a rottentomatoes-esque separate average rating using only ratings from "top Yelpers."
60k per year * 4 years = 240k, with 0 scholarship
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Some people enjoy tracking birds some people enjoy tracking aircraft.
If you're not into that you probably won't get it I knew a guy who was a plane spotter and he would get a kick of being able to recognize a commercial jet by its sound and even estimate it's approach and altitude. I didn't get why he enjoyed that, and i don't think that you can relate to that to understand it if you didn't decide to take up that hobby in the first place.
cool idea, thanks for sharing! for some reason, everything is working but the ability to move up and down, regardless of whether i use arrow keys or j/k. any ideas?

EDIT: should note i am using iTerm on a Mac
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Why does Piggydb make your note-taking stand out from the crowd? (2013)
I meant the fact that one should move at all. You guys are locking yourself out of a huge market of potentially great developers because you don't consider remote work.
You are grossly misguided and should consult a lawyer.

Linking to a random programmers stackexchange question is an unwise way to make licensing decisions.

Per GNU's own faq at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnreleasedMods:

A company is running a modified version of a GPL'ed program on a web site. Does the GPL say they must release their modified sources?

The GPL permits anyone to make a modified version and use it without ever distributing it to others. What this company is doing is a special case of that. Therefore, the company does not have to release the modified sources.

It is essential for people to have the freedom to make modifications and use them privately, without ever publishing those modifications. However, putting the program on a server machine for the public to talk to is hardly “private” use, so it would be legitimate to require release of the source code in that special case. Developers who wish to address this might want to use the GNU Affero GPL for programs designed for network server use.

In case you missed it: However, putting the program on a server machine for the public to talk to is hardly “private” use, so it would be legitimate to require release of the source code in that special case.

There are numerous other potential consequences to the GPL and the question of when propagation occurs is ambiguous.
Java 8's Functional View on POJOs (Plain Ordinary Java Object)
Working at a startup definitely isn't the right decision for everyone and I agree your reasons are the best ones to do so. We're specifically not taking a shotgun application approach here. We work with engineers to help them figure out five startups they're interested in for specific reasons to avoid a situation where they join a startup they wouldn't enjoy working at.
I find it kind of confusing how you fit this back to the land idea with being an engineer that wants to work on his own engineering projects rather than just scape the cubicle farm.

Also, you mention you have a spouse. I know it is terribly unfashionable to say this, but have you considered being a single income family? Sounds like that would give you the best of both worlds.

In my case, we are a single-and-a-half income family. Once kids go to school, there's no much reason to keep an adult around home all day. I am officially the bread winner, and my wife has the lifestyle job, but considering how much she has accomplished just by working part time, we might need to revisit that decision sometime down the road.
So relocate to bumfuck, england and do your work there. I don't think the idea is to ditch your job and still pay $3000 a month for an apartment.
>>But even without owning a car, not having a child, etc.

>>I don't get why the world thinks software engineers are so rich...

Last year I lived in Austin TX, owned a car, ate healthy, lived 15 minutes from the city center and made 29000 before taxes. Of which I managed to save 15000.

The world doesn't think software engineers are so rich, we think anyone above 50K is rich, because for a lot of us thats double what we make a year, and many of us are supporting families on that. The idea that some one making 75-100k could be living paycheck to paycheck is fucking baffling to the half the population making less than 42k per household.
The key here is developing good points of convergent measures - not all of which would have to be valid for any one review to be weighted (think a Bayesian scoring approach?)

- Age of account

- Account engagement (patterns matter too)

- Check-ins via a mobile device at the business

- Check-ins at other near-by businesses (patterns matter too)

- Partner with a Credit Card company to offer Yelp-reward bucks to encourage reviews, track usage and validate reviews (and reviewers) [Use this to feed into the engagement score, above]

- Partner with OpenTable (they do this) & prompt reviews after attendance (they do this) – weight these reviews more heavily. [Use this to feed into the engagement score, above]

- Let me actually identify myself to Yelp or to the world (or to just business owners, ONLY if I want to [Use this to feed into the engagement score, above]

- Reviews of similar businesses (e.g.: I like thai food) -- patterns matter here. Do I rate all competitors poorly, etc? Did I post all reviews in one day, etc?

- Do my reviews vary significantly in a systematic way from others in a category? (This shouldn't be enough on its own, but variance might mean something)

- Do I post photos of the place? (Factor into engagement score, above -- but if it's only for one business, it might be a flag)

etc., etc.

Really – a statistical model shouldn't be that hard to do -- maybe processor intensive, but hard? It doesn't feel hard, given all the data they're sitting on...
If the lava flow is active, built a drawbridge and have the best moat ever!
IMHO, once you've got a db attached, "secure cookies" are a bad idea.
I'd go further and say the nature of these new technologies changes what observations should be permitted by law enforcement, with or without a warrant.

While automated license plate readers may be collecting the same information that police officers can from a public vantage point, the scale that they can be used at changes the nature of the information. Suddenly it can be used to track the movements of everyone in a city. While it's arguably the "same" information, it vastly changes the calculus of the public benefit vs privacy of the individual.

We ought to be having a deliberate debate about how to change our laws to reflect the fundamental differences these new technologies bring about. While it may be legal for law enforcement to fly these surveillance missions now, the public has every right to demand that the laws be changed. The police in Baltimore have proven they are incapable of wielding the privileged status they have without systematically oppressing minorities. It makes sense that we roll back some of the surveillance tools they use to prevent dissent.
Totally agree. I get my energy and focus from working with a (small) team of people, usually under time-pressure.

Working by myself, without any deadlines or goals, I become unmotivated and pretty depressed.
Sorry about that. I must have looked at ACAT - Outgoing for some reason, believing it was ACH.
It's just an outgrowth of the fact that I find commercial aviation fascinating, really. I'll occasionally pull up flights near where I am, but I usually use tools to track whatever flights I find interesting for other reasons (off the top of my head, for instance, American Airlines' first revenue 787 flight was today, and I watched that one this morning).
Ah. If you're upfront about it, that's somewhat more reasonable. Though I'd still rather see more approaches that are tools-agnostic, and better approximations of real work.
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I would much prefer working part-time in traditional money earning avenues, and spending my other 20-30 hours of energetic time on the projects/activities I personally want to work/play on. I just wish there were more opportunities for high value part-time work.
i will, thanks!
More introductory DSP for non-EE people:

http://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

http://dsp.cs.cmu.edu/
i'm disappointed this made it to the top of the front page yesterday with such little criticism. it feels like something written by an intelligent yet naïve marketing undergrad, not something on which to base pricing strategy.

> "You should avoid charging different prices based on past behavior, demographics, or any other factor besides natural supply and demand."

wow. what an incredibly stupid recommendation. based on this, every major grocery chain should terminate their loyalty card program, many luxury products/services should never see the light of day, and perhaps the rest of us should just start businesses in perfectly competitive markets with little hope of long-term economic profit.

an aside: searching for "you should avoid" led me to another incredibly naïve recommendation: "you shouldn’t A/B test your prices."

there are so many ways to test pricing it seems irresponsible to dissuade people from doing this, especially in the context of a gigantic list of pricing strategies.

here are just a few types of tests that come to mind:

* practically any promotional/limited offer pricing scheme could (and probably should) be tested.

* prices of users' shopping cart items saved for later (e.g. amazon)
- can a/b test same items in different users' shopping carts and measure purchase patterns

* grocery coupons for people in different zip codes
- most people don't get coupons for other neighborhoods so they won't see two prices

anyway. rant over :)
What do you mean "bigcorps aren't interested" ?

Are you applying through the blackhole that is an online resume upload? Don't do that.

Find someone in your network who works at one of these places and get them to forward your resume.

Oh yeah, if you really need the money, maybe an early stage startup isn't the best idea :P
Which ones? We're thinking about offering all the questions in a bunch of languages, and letting people pick.
someone has to develop at the federal level a "kernel" for financial institutions.

i can dream, can't i?
> At $500, even for someone on minimum wage it's not even 1 month wage after taxes.

If you ignore rent, utilities, food, that unexpected medical emergency, this months car repairs because you can't get to work without it, and you can't afford to save up to get a nicer car that doesn't always break down because of these constant repairs...
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/loosemore20140724
It is interesting how he can be so highly ranked with so few downloads. How is that?
I wish that I could have iTerm2 for windows (where I use conemu) and Linux (guake has similar features, but an alien ui imho)... I tend to really like tabbed console sessions, and usually have a few local and ssh sessions open at a time while working.
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This page says OP is the CTO of Monsoonco: http://www.hunzekerhesed.com/about/

This page says CTO of Monsoonco is a different person: http://www.monsoonco.com/featured-article-in-infoworld-is-an...
Cgroups have been around for a long time. Wikipedia says 8 years.

I think was in RHEL 6.2 possibly even 6.0
That can be said for people who are working for Google, Facebook and any other major tech company out there.

All of them milk the heck out of every piece of data they got and each service they put out is designed to milk as much data as possible in the future.
Like it or not personal data and clever means of working with it is the new currency for many companies on the market these days.

And some of the stuff they pull off is just as shady as what the NSA and similar organizations do.
Heck at this point a better bet will to worry more about those companies than the NSA since for better or for worse the NSA still works for you, they are not planning a coup. Google and every other company out there wants to know as much as they can to not only "own you" financially but to ensure that they can direct virtually every step you take online and offline.
I also found this detailed post on ARGUS-IS http://ambivalentengineer.blogspot.com/2012/08/argus-is.html
Foursquare does this. Explicitly shows you your 4sq/Swarm friends' relationships to the place (have they been there? saved it to a list? said they 'like it' or 'dislike it'?), and then in the list of tips/reviews surfaces the stuff your friends have left before others.

When searching, you can even filter for "only show me places my friends have been".
> The act of describing what you want the machine to do is interleaved with the machine actually doing what you have described, observing the results, and then changing the description of what you want the machine to do based on those observations.

That sounds really powerful and interesting, but wondering how often is that used in practice? I can imagine maintaining and understanding a large self-modifying program like that could get a bit complicated for a team.
May I suggest a more lightweight alternative for Tmux/Screen/DVTM sessions - http://zserge.com/blog/mucks2.html ?
I have worked 4 10-hour days for about a year. Three-day weekends are nice, but 10 hours is a loonnngg day. You get into a stride and don't notice all the time pass, but then it gets to be dinner time and it's dark out but you still have to work a bit more, so it gets old.
You know, I think it's pretty funny (with a heaping helping of schadenfreude) that the first graphic in the first link shows some completely arbitrary "DoD Sensing Requirements" compared to actual processor capability. How exactly does one bridge the gap between our current processor capabilities and fucking omniscience? I guess DARPA will try to find out.