skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Shoes of Prey Built Its Business by Getting to Know Its Customers
FWIW The CEO deleted his own answer, it wasn't taken down
This is a great idea. Thanks for the feedback.
This site refreshed itself 6 times as I read it on my mobile device. Each time it lost my location on the page. Quite a frustrating experience.
Curiosity. I am a junior developer/devops. In general I find junior level developers are more curious about how things work. Often people find my ideas interesting, worth thinking, or right on the spot. There are some very talented junior-level developers who wind up being very successful members of a team in a short period of time.
And the irony is that people like yourself, chasing phantoms of unfairness in the free market, support the extension and entrenchment of coercive governments, an institution which is and always will be eminently corruptible, an institution whose history is a litany of abuse and overreach.
Care to share some? I can't get any, just like most people around the world.
This is sad, in a way; once I achieve my dream of exterminating all the spiders there won't be any left to spin this nanotube-reinforced fiber.
At this point it's a surprise to see AMD able to bounce again. They're strong survivors, always late but still going. Impressive and kind of dramatic at the same time.
A blind Google engineer explains how he writes code
If the purpose of rushing is to engage in commercial activity, I could see how insurance companies would claim that it constitutes commercial activity by itself. It just seems like a higher risk profile.

> Rushing to a hot spot seems like a flawed argument, you can do that while totally off the grid.

Maybe my original example was misleading, but Uber app points an idle driver towards the areas of increased demand (and surge pricing) by color-coding them http://disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/s...

> App closed, phone off.

This part I agree with, if the driver has arrived at a pick up point due to inside knowledge of relevant details, and was not guided there by the app, it's a personal ride.

I think any time the app is open, though, you can make a reasonable argument that the driver is guided where to go. However, in the US it only matters what the judge/jury says if/when such case hits the court.
It wasn't a philosophical problem for me. It wasn't that my value system was distorted, it was that my entire experience of existing was distorted. I could logically affirm that positive experiences are possible all I wanted, but they were somehow profoundly remote, in a parallel universe that I could vaguely remember but no longer existed in. It's not just that I had confirmation bias and fewer positive experiences, it's that my entire perception of everything -- every thought, every experience, every future possibility -- was so warped that positive experiences seemed like an impossible fantasy. More than once, I overcame a tremendous amount of lethargy and pessimism and tried to have a positive experience, and I simply couldn't experience it as positive, no matter how good it "should" have been.

That is the power of having a seriously screwed up brain. My symptoms improved not with antidepressants or psychotherapy or self-help, but with treatment for a previously undiagnosed chronic physiological condition. Despite having a "real illness", I've found validation for most of my experiences in first-hand accounts of people with "mental illness" (which is defined in such a way that the practical definition is "any psychological symptoms not explained by a lab test known to your GP"). Allie Brosh was mentioned by another commenter, and I definitely had a "holy crap, someone else gets it" moment when reading her "Adventures in Depression" comics.
It's a shame, too, since C++14 is a far cry from 1983's C++ (or whatever version the majority of the segment of the industry which uses C++ is actually using), and the others are similar stories.

One the one hand, I suspect ams6110 was referring more to those things we give names like "pattern," "architecture," and "paradigm," maybe even "stack," "platform," or "library" than to languages. On the other, my suspicion may be wrong, and I'd agree with him about it if it were anyway; so little that's been developed in the world of programming languages recently is anything new, and what isn't is as often as not a poor reimagining of something Lisp or ML had figured out pretty damn well ages ago, thank you very much.

Still, though, progress has been made even on the mainstays, even if the industry hasn't quite caught on yet.
> I have never been so excited about my career, the field of computer science, and most importantly the opportunities that exist today in the field of technology.

I am in the opposite side, I am also very excited about computer science so I focus now on sales and business development because I can earn much more than developing software. Now coding is a hobby again and a complementary knowledge to sales.
It makes me wonder if this was the better option for Go servers rather than the incremental collector coming in Go 1.6. I guess the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Only because you asked, this has been my pet project :)

Using Artificial Intelligence to Write Self-Modifying/Improving Programs

http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149
FAA Will Let Some Drones Fly Beyond Line of Sight
Interesting, how much can you make?
Tesla plans to unveil its $35,000 Model 3 in March 2016
I feel these types of articles glorify work-o-holics, as if to indicate if you're not working 24/7, 365 days a year, you're not trying hard enough.

On the flip side, it's an example of how far you can push yourself when you're truly passionate about something.
I always say shoveling manure was good preparation for the corporate world.
There are going to be a lot of debtors..
There is still no construction of a study that I would think would convince me of those figures. The number of confounders is invariably far too high.

But there are definitions of at least the latter two which are substantially justified via an FP take on the world.

Really, though, I think FP does itself a disservice by claiming to be a "style" of computing much like OO. It's really just a back-to-the-basics take on what "is" computing and from it you can get a very well-behaved foundations of formal languages to build your CS (of whatever brand you like) atop. This has proven to be incredibly fruitful as a theory since, honestly, something like 1907.
"they do not use a password hashing function"

this is a bit of a facepalm whenever i hear this.
Having stored money values in Redis several times in the past (sometimes without replicas at all!), the answer is knowing how much you can trust the system.

I trust enough to get the job done, but not enough to get bitten when these systems drop data. Because here's the truth: they all drop data.
> pricing is an open conversation

I do not want pricing to be an open conversation. That sounds horrible to me.

To take a wild guess - maybe you think that an open conversation is good for the customer because it represents flexibility? To me it doesn't. To me it screams "UNCERTAINTY!" and the less of that I have the better.
HR vs. programmers – how they reads your resume
Translated: "I want people to make me think that prices are as low as they need to be."
I agree with you, but the benefits of this kind of research have to be balanced with the harms as well. Rampant consumerism has driven environmental and economic damage, and while it's hard to weigh these kinds of benefits against these kinds of harms, my intuition is that if even a small percentage of the consumerism was caused by this research, the upsides far outweigh the downsides. Of course that's entirely subjective.
It's called principled reasoning. Radical stuff man, give it a try. You hold no principle to be true that dictates voluntary and peaceful cooperation should be prevented with threats of violence in order to achieve safety.

The only reason this conversation is being had instead of the conversation about background checks on your mechanic is because one sector is unionized. If you don't understand that you don't understand the politics of the situation. Great rebuttal though - shows what we're up against.
The Life and Death of Steel City RubyConf
How big is "large spaces" (should I start pitching this internally for a client with a ~30x60m room)?

How does it perform with many people at once (think of a trade show booth hall - if there were 300+ people running an app would it be practical to use this to direct users to a 3x4m booth amongst a hundred or two such booths)?
Can anyone suggest some great books to buy while this is on?
New York companies come up short at TechCrunch Disrupt
That sounds like a raw, perfect insight into a company I wouldn't want to work for.
Are these computers actually useful?
Yeah, had the same issue here. It refreshed like almost 10 times before I manged to finish the article. Incredibly annoying.
That is certainly a more diplomatic way of putting it, and I will try to use such language in the future because its probably a lot more conductive in exploring such with those who are interested but reluctant.
> What methods of communication with the balloon are allowed. Many in the US us GSM cellular devices hooked to GPS units, but from what I've read that it is not legal to use cellular devices from high altitude balloons.

Also worth noting, consumer GPS chips won't work above a certain altitude (or speed for that matter), due to weapons export restrictions to prevent them from being used in missiles, etc
Same here on desktop.
Why is it noteworthy that it was done using rust?
I'm very excited about this! Is there any possibility for me to work in a company working on similar stuff? That would make a dream come true for me! I live in Germany and would love to write my masters thesis a related topic!

This is so amazing! Btw. I have found an HP Invent sign in my town, but the security guard didn't answer any questions about it. The only thing he said was that I won't find any address or telephone number for it. That made me curious, because HP is working on a memristor based Computer, but I doubt that they produce it in Germany.
OrderAhead is a YC company (Winter 2011): http://blog.ycombinator.com/orderahead-yc-w11-nabs-23m-seed-...

And yes, I can only imagine they're going to get sued very, very hard.
That labor is a commodity is not an "idea", but in the case of Uber drivers and the Foxconn workers who assemble iPhones, a fact. It is a fact because that's how those jobs and service/production processes have been designed. The work has been broken down into their smallest parts, so that it will require no special skill or intelligence to perform them. As anyone can do those jobs, they have been de facto commoditized.

For someone who cares for the wellbeing of people at the bottom of the enterprise pyramids, the goal should be to design new organizations, with jobs that have latitude for learning and development, that is multi-disciplinary and creative. And many of the worst jobs today should be automated because they are not fit for human beings.
Or a breakthrough in battery tech, or fusion, or any number of the pie-in-the-sky ideas that get floated every so often.
I'm more likely to get rich.

You're going to be terribly unhappy when you turn 30, have spent the past 8 years working 80 hour weeks, and have no friend circle or significant other to show for it. Maybe you'll be rich; you probably won't be, but you definitely won't have anything else to show for it.
maybe the insurance industry could innovate and solve this problem
MIT RACECAR Course Using ROS
Hacking a surgical robot
Are you an EE? What exactly would you like to work on?
That's what I did in quiz bowl in high school. Calculated risk, but one that's likely to pay off.
Crew Dragon Completes Pad Abort Test
Is HT hyperthreading? Why would that help AMD, when Bulldozer already does hyperthreading?
More recent papers at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?&q=leon+chua+memristor
The US Navy, 20 years ago: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Haskel...

Past that: all the correct systems I know were built using formal methods and a mix of functional languages and assembler to reduce the semantic gap.

All the highly productive programmers I know use either functional languages (or logical languages, same reasons) or else very assembler over very tight machine models--and the one using MMIX is an exception.

I think SML makes a good case to have won the modularity front, but there I don't feel as certain.
AMD was the ish back in the day. Remember the Athlon 64?
All good, but why did they not use Mercury to dissolve Gold instead ? It's almost instantaneous, and it used to be commonly used for Gold extraction by the mining industry (until they replaced it for safety reasons by other materials).
I don't find the parts on lazy evaluation very convincing.
They're just disruptively growth hacking inefficiencies in the restaurant space by website seo arbitrage.
> At the end of the day as long as the transactions are consensual, there's no need for this rhetoric of abuse.

That's one of the biggest singular pieces of bullshit I see regurgitated in the discussions about market economy.

For most of the people on this planet, a lot of Uber drivers included, there's little choice. They either have a job, or go hungry and homeless. The power asymmetry between an employer and employee is so big that you may as well enforce that "consent" at gunpoint. There's little practical difference.
Noon Pacific - a weekly handpicked mixtape
It may sound silly, but I was first introduced to Welles in the original Transformers animated movie where he provided the voice for Unicron, one of my all-time favorite villains, who spends most of the movie as a planetoid.

His voice shook the theater and is unmistakable to me to this day.

One of the greatest voice casting decisions of all time and one of his last roles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzNsOGt3bHk
What?

What's circular about it?

The poor don't influence politics via campaign donations, the poor have less access to politicians.

The poor don't take advantage of what little political influence they do have--they vote less, as well.

The rich, on the other hand, use every influence at their disposal to enrich themselves.

If the poor had a tenth the willingness to go out and exploit the system the rich do, we'd see a far more equitable distribution of resources than we do.
Navy Robots Test the Limits of Autonomy
It's not really voluntary if you can either accept a crappy, abusive job or starve to death. People purposefully creating such conditions are doing something incredibly evil to other human beings. Having to "choose" at a gunpoint would probably be more humane.
Google Apps is good. Have large storage, IMAP and POP access and also you can sync calendar, contacts etc to your devices.

If you use MS office a lot perhaps office 365 subscription is better suit for you.

I heard fastmail is also provide good mail service.

If you want free wan zoho also provide free mail service with your own domain http://www.zoho.com/mail/
Tldr its stronger than kevlar they say

Cool!
I wish the 40% IPC raise is true and bring their CPUs into i7 territory.

I'm an AMD "fan", but we all know how AMD is all bold claims 1-2 years before release date, and when the time comes.. well if they deliver half of that it's already a win.
You could allow contestants to buzz in as soon as possible, but have the system wait until Alex has finished reading the answer (remember, it's Jeopardy! so the contestant gives the question ;-P) before it indicates which player buzzed in first. Yes, there might be an audible clicking sound in the background while he's talking, but it would make the game more about speed of recall rather than hand-eye coordination.
> Memory usage isn't that big of a concern anymore, not when phones ship with 1 or more GB of memory regularly.

Memory access costs power and time (which = power too).
In 1999, prototype self-steering ag equipment could get the angle of the working implement (bulldozer blade) by having GPS antennae on the perimeter of the vehicle. The lack of OpenCV and such made full-automation imposisble without a driver in the cab at the time. But, a collision avoidance system that could handle autonomous AND piloted rigs together was already in an advanced prototype stage ( basically, an automated "aircraft" controller that would say to the driver "wait", "accelerate" or "turn")

Backgrounder on GPS tech at the time: accuracy was ~10 mm in the horizontal, ~1 m in the vertical when differential GPS was used. Differential GPS means a well-known, fixed base station (WAAS or your own) provides error-correcting deltas over a packet radio link. (This would also eliminate any SA injected error, so SA was pointless to all but stand-alone receivers.) TRMB's differential GPS was called "kinematic" because the differential calculations would be valid while receivers were in motion, whereas most others at the time would only be sufficiently accurate when base and receivers were stationary. Their receivers were extra accurate because of the, at the time, expensive pseudo-wavelength + relativistic measuring of the receiver-satellite distance.

With tech advances and scale, it makes sense that such tech becomes widely available.

(TRMB's founders designed GPS)
RockYou acquires PlayHaven as it moves deeper into mobile ad networks
This looks cool but I'm somewhat skeptical. I would be more interested in seeing what problem the system solves better or decently (say even MNIST) rather than how it was built using memristors.

There is a lesson from IBM trying to mimic a rat's brain -- that is you try to solve a problem rather than just burn power.
There simply aren't enough senior developers to go around.

In the long-term, this means we need to make more senior developers. In the short-term, we need someone to write some code. Hiring junior developers is the best way to achieve both of those goals.
Someone stole $1B from Moldova. That's an eighth of its GDP
Nvidia  to Wind Down Icera Modem Operations
If you only want to aggregate content you might want to use planetplanet (www.planetplanet.org)
So, about the weight of a phablet like Galaxy Note 4.

That's heavy, but not too heavy to be noticeable in a large flask containing an unknown liquid of unknown density. And since the flask survived, the Nazis probably knew not to mess with flasks of unknown chemicals.
Completely agree. You do need a government to set the rules of the game.
Here's how less than one percent of Sweden's waste ends up in landfills
About as much as any computer with no software. It's more a push into a new technology for the sake of it. Applications will come, or they won't, we will have to see.
Back in the early 90s, I was doing mac68k programming. Very large Inside Mac volumes were pretty much the only documentation for anything - no stack overflow, no internet, no searchable docs. Almost everything was closed source, and many people wrote their own data structures. When programming Macs, if there was any kind of null value dereference or pointer problem the computer usually crashed and you had to reboot.

The main thing I learned was to be able to look at code and determine if it was going to actually do what I wanted it to do without having to run it through the debugger a couple times.

It's important to spend time thinking about and reviewing code when edit, compile, and test cycles start to get long. There are a lot of instances where that still applies, such as with multi-threaded programming, integration testing or long running jobs.

I also learned the value of having muscle memory for APIs. Sure you can look things up in a jiffy, but actually rote memorizing stuff that is used often can speed development up.
Yep. The reason why Jeopardy works so well is because the contestants are all trivia gods, so they all know the answer most of the time. The audience thinks that the difficulty is in the trivia, because that's more challenging for us, but it's actually in the buzzer press.
Although this depends on the country. If Apple says that you can't run your Mac Pro on Thursday, it would probably break some Australia Consumer Law.

Although the "Only run on Apple Hardware" would probably be fine.
Link to a version that does not autorefresh constantly: https://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http://citypaper.net/uberd...
>>>I would be more interested in seeing what problem the system solves better

Better than what?
Much more. It is important to note that I am the cofounder of the company so selling impacts my income and it's not a commission.
Why do you feed your childrn when their are people starving on the other side of the planet?
Thoughtbot also have laptop (https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop)

I write a bash script to install standard development tools for developers in my company. I put most of the application on local server inside company network so I don't have to re-download the application from internet. I plan to release this script sometime this month
I'll preface what I'm about to say with this: I don't think any economic system works at the scale on which modern economies operate.

> If you want to organize resources and work in a centralized fashion, you still have to understand people, how they think and how they're motivated. You still have to decide who gets what, how they get it, who works on what, how to motivate them... You just do it directly instead of detouring through the abstraction of money and prices.

Understanding people, how they think, and how they're motivated, at the scale of modern economies, is necessarily an approximation. We can group people by demographic, and that gives us better coverage, but ultimately some percentage of people will never be adequately accounted for in our models.

At a smaller scale, say, 50 people, it becomes possible for each of the members of the economy to understand each others needs and motivations. It becomes possible for each person to state their needs and motivations and for others to judge whether these needs are adequately being met or if the person is being too greedy.

> Getting rid of the intermediate pricing abstraction doesn't magically solve the underlying problems.

At small scale, the pricing abstraction offers very little.

> Perhaps it lets you address those problems more directly, but it's not clear that that's a better approach—as programmers and computer sciences we should appreciate the power of abstraction and indirection to make solving problems easier.

I think this is a mistaken characterization of abstraction in computer science. Abstraction doesn't take you further from the problem you're trying to solve, it takes you closer to it. Indirection and abstraction are there to pull you away from the problems you aren't trying to solve: memory management, bit twiddling, etc.

When you talk about addressing problems more directly, that to me means you have created a better abstraction, not that you've removed an abstraction. If a layer of abstraction means you're dealing less directly with the problem, then it was the wrong abstraction and should be replaced or removed. YAGNI.

> The same energy would just have been spent in committees. Except, historically, the process would have ended up far more political than scientific.

I think this is also a function of the size of modern economies.

Size is a difficult problem to solve in itself, but situationally it has been solved with great success: see kibbutzes and communes.
Amazon Isn't the Only One Killing It with Cloud Computing
How to get good deals
Just because I said there exists a strong argument for communism doesn't mean I am not aware of other arguments for other alternatives which might be stronger.