skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After re-reading the article, I guess an incorrect use of language wasn't the problem per se, but perhaps the confusing structure and lack of motivation. It's not clear why the author wants to express certain things.

For example, how do the examples ("Declare all... avoid polymorphism...") relate to the rest of the article? They seem quite detached.

I can sense the author has some ideas but they don't reflect in the words of the article.
What an outstanding and moving article. When I lived in Germany years ago I visited Dachau and other sites. Despite the long interval since the camps were used, the aura of the atrocities committed there was still palpable.

The doctor's letters are no doubt an immensely valuable resource concerning history of WWII and the holocaust. More importantly, it's a record of human reaction to the horrors of what he observed, and very likely provides insight into experience that transforms a person so adversely.

Nowadays we call it PTSD and of course it's still a scourge in a world filled with horrific conflict. Perhaps these letters would encourage people suffering in the way the doctor knew to get treatment, above all talk about it, hard as that is to do.

I hope the letters are donated to a proper archive for preservation and made accessible so that the lessons contained can be widely shared, and become an encouragement to healing.
There is another theory about this: older humans are not 100% useless, they provide wisdom and skills to the younger people. As such communities with (not a burden) elder people have an advantage. And this removes some of the selection shadow.
I think you could just use the simplest form of CVT: a variable-diameter pulley under each rotor. You'd still pay a pretty big cost in terms of mechanical complexity, though, which makes the swashplate system more appealing as offers a lot of additional advantages in terms of thrust vectoring.
I believe Wikipedia should use this technology to store images and movies on the client side. That would save them a lot of data storage money.
It is incredible how far ahead of his time he was on so many things.

I wonder how much further along our technology would be if his life had not been cut short.
Asian-American groups file racial bias complaint against Harvard
CFPB seeks to fine PayPal $25M over credit allegations
I guess the difference here is the substrate is another silicon chip rather than PCB or substitute. Pretty cool. Must have been some significant engineering challenges.
Them be fightn' words.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone saw Google's acquisition of Firebase as a sign that they can invest in similar technologies and hope that Apple, Facebook or Yahoo will buy them in response.

It's a terrible model, but hey... Clinkle.
This is a really smart acquisition. WordPress continues to dominate the CMS market. With the upcoming REST API, it's only going to get better. I'm watching niche CMS industry after niche CMS industry crumble under the continual migration to WordPress.

The latest victims are the small CMS vendors who have been selling proprietary CMS solutions to public school districts for the past 15 years, charging far too much money (your U.S. taxpayer dollars!) for barely functional CMS's. The FCC voted recently to prohibit spending federal money on these solutions, a practice that basically created the market, so now every school district in the U.S. (14,000+) are looking around for cheaper and better solutions. A large percentage of them are migrating to WordPress.
SENS and SENS-like work outside the area of cancer and stem cell research is generally at the pre-animal-testing stage, so not something you can run via the ITP.

Senescent cell clearance is there, so could be making in that direction in the years ahead. Nothing moves fast of course.

I'm not sure where the ITP stands on things like stem cell treatments. They are very focused on diet, drugs, supplements, and resulting complex changes in the operation of normal metabolism. i.e. things that don't matter if you want meaningful results in extended healthy life. Good for scientific rigor though, going back through all the studies in the past that failed to control for inadvertent calorie restriction and showing that they were wrong.
Consider the midwest. Minneapolis, MN. So many burrito options.
That is a huge "cliché", not to mention that we are talking about things that may have a long term impact on your life and a rational choice must be done. Going impetuously like that is sub-optimal in nature. You may have bills to pay, and hope that the startup work/culture/founders will get better, while at the same time being miserable with all aspects of it.
Ahh...CD-ROMs. Those PC-GAMER demo discs are the biggest reason I volunteered to go to the grocery store with mom. Getting them through the plastic wrap and into my pocket was effortless. Sorry, grocery stores.
10-12 hours
But not all of us are using Meteor for work. I just started using Meteor for a fun side project last week (after first banging my head against the still-a-work-in-progress ember-cli and ember-data), and I am having a grand time of it. It's amazingly intuitive, and I'm making great progress, mostly because they already handled so much of the grunt work already.
Them be true words. (I'm a santa clara valley native)

San Diego is even better.
Humans are not the only species for which this is true though.
About 8 Su-Th, about 9 on F-Sa
These two statements contradict each other.

Well, if you read carefully the "we" is operations, and they're just jiggering things around enough to throw the complexities over the wall to development.

I'm with you that this (at least for the Core OS case) isn't terribly exciting conceptually. The exciting part is someone is doing the heavy lifting to introduce this level of flexibility into Linux. It brings the highly tailored OS approach to users that haven't had a business case to do all that work in house, and builds the ecosystem around the idea in a way that doesn't happen with one-off implementations.
I'm in a similar situation and I've decided that while I won't live there, it's worth visiting my friends and contacts once in a while to catch up and learn about what they're doing.

I've been told by many friends in the Bay Area that day-to-day, it doesn't feel to them like there's enormous networking because everyone is in their own routines. They advised me that a huge percentage of networking can be accomplished by telling people you're "visiting for two weeks".

However, living there long-term and having your personal network double as your professional network is a different order of magnitude benefits. My perception is, from the outside and from visiting, the reason specific companies get bought or partnered with is often because they were more closely socially connected and geographically nearby (more likely to hear about one another, have friends in common, etc.)

I believe it's not something that happens overnight, but over time as an investment in the community and being there long-term.

I've recently made a conscious decision to put other priorities in life (where I really want to live, and my life outside tech) on equal or greater footing. For those for whom that's no conflict, I'm sure it's fantastic to live there.
UTF-16 is also a variable length encoding and addressing a character is a linear time operation. Then again, even UTF-32 can have composed characters, such as ¨a separately forming ä.
National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators [pdf]
Sure, as long as you can convert said publicity into money faster than you the lawsuit drains you.
One of the things I love about HN is you often get the answer right from the "top".
Занятость еще не значит эффективность
Burrito based decision making is clearly the way to go.
I grew up in NYC and lived there until I was 32 and then moved to rural Massachusetts. The time I spent in NYC has been invaluable to my career, but I am able to draw on that (the network, the experience, etc) from where I am now and get much of the benefit and a much lower cost. I currently remote to a job in NYC.

So, knowing nothing about you, I'd generically say that, yes, a few years in a tech hub can be a lifelong benefit.
I moved to Orange County after living in Bay area for 4+ years and I don't miss a bit. The ridiculous cost of living, full of pretend-like-entrepreneurs, incubator scams etc was too much. Looking back I wish I hadn't caught up in the hype of Bay area/silicon valley being the center of the universe.
It depends, of course.

If your goal is primarily to save money so that you can retire or don't have to work or can choose when/where/how to work, you're already on the right path. Economically, demand for housing in the bay area is strong enough right now that rents are rising to whatever level people can afford to pay. That means you're basically assured of having little or no surplus unless one of your ventures is wildly successful.

If your goal is to develop a bigger network of people in your industry, you're probably missing out, although your client network will be very valuable to you as well. Also, not all of the people you're missing out on are people you want in your network anyway...

The culture in "silicon valley" is toxic. People are obnoxious and narcissistic; many are pathological liars and self-promoters. Plenty has been written about this, both serious and satirical. There are certainly people who enjoy it, but it sounds like you're fairly happy where you are, so you probably aren't one of them.

If you're tired of bootstrapping and want to get funded, you'll probably have a better chance in the bay area or some other large city. Otherwise this is moot for you.

Also, remember that most of "silicon valley" isn't involved in technology any more. It's become mostly a media/advertising center. There are still technology companies around, but the focus has definitely shifted.

You might want to ask yourself not "am I missing out?" but rather "what would I like to change about my present circumstances?" and go from there.
Flashback: Mark Zuckerberg: You Don't Have to Move to Silicon Valley> http://www.inc.com/news/articles/201111/mark-zuckerberg-in-a...

Striking a balance -- it's also good to attend workshops, meet-ups, and conferences in other markets.
I would have to agree about Berlin (I'm in London), if not the language I'd be there already.
open takes a NUL-terminated filename.
Always take quality of life into account.

SV has more opportunities for engineers/entrepreneurs, but then you're up against people who have done a lot more of that, plus the outrageous housing costs in the area. Oh, and the crazy traffic.

I was living in a 'burb and moved back to the city for quality of life. Being able to walk to things (grocery store, restaurants, bars) was more important to me than having a bunch of land. Also, my commute is now 5-10 minutes instead of 30-90. The cost of it was a smaller house on a much smaller plot of land, but we decided that's a sacrifice we're willing to make.
I just listened to this relevant interview with Brad Feld, a VC in Boulder, CO: http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/05/build-life-want-live.ht...
​Google still supports Docker
Last night I finally got to watch "The Imitation Game". I was already familiar with Turing and his life, but that movie really solidified with me how terribly he was treated despite the fact that he was responsible for saving so many lives.
Yes, if there's some place to move to get away from people who think they're the center of the universe, Orange County was definitely the way to go ;)
Companies that want you in their office will say you're missing out. Investors who want you to hire and raise from the area will say you're missing out. But these things are only as important as you make them.

I will say that the weather is nice in much of the bay, SF has (I think) one of the highest young single populations in the world which can make for an interesting time, and there are many events that take place that could help your business but a plane ticket can rectify that.
Issue Stats -- compare how long it takes for Github issues to be closed
Indeed, planes are not designed to be flown in that configuration normally, but they are certainly capable of single-engine flight in emergency situations (where the alternative would be "flying like a ton of bricks"). Exhibit A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
Maybe to some, but in my eyes they had an amazing amount of contribution to basic science and technology in EE - especially during the 80s.
No, absolutely not. I just left and I couldn't be happier. We work in this ironic industry where, on one hand, you can do this job from literally anywhere with an internet connection... but there is this tremendous pressure to be in the Bay Area. It's all hype my man. Save your money and keep doing what you're doing. Correlation is not causation: there are other ways for you to stay current, you don't need to be in SV.
I lived in the Bay Area for 3 years and might return. You do meet some pretty cool people working on interesting projects.

Besides the networking you just feel pressure (and inspiration?) to work faster and harder. Not just because your savings are being eaten alive, but also because many are majorly ambitious.

On a list of top five things that will make or break your company, I don't think Silicon Valley would make the list. But if you live and breathe your startup and want nothing else in the world, it's worth a look.
Crass - The Gas Man Cometh

Auschwitz's now a tourist spot for the goggle eyed to pry, /
Still in working order just for you and I.

http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/crass/thegasmancometh.html
> he did the research to show that in theory it can be effective, and it seems reasonable practical

Close, but no cigar. Do you have any idea at what speed the saliva particles are flying during a sneeze? There's no "wall of air" made by patented nozzle covers that can possibly stop them in the economy class of any commercial airplane.

Let's show the guy some respect and stop patting him on the head for something of low quality and no value.
Avid public radio listener, WBEZ member.

I guess I'm not opposed to scaling up program underwriting, but I wonder what it is about the structure of NPR and program buying that prevents shows like Ira Glass's TAL from just making their money on "the back end".

Long-term, FM radio NPR is not going to last. As radio shifts from FM to the Internet, local stations will matter less, and NPR/PRI will increasingly become a Knight Foundation-like seed fund for new shows.

The ones lucrative enough to raise extra money can use all of the tools of the Internet to monetize and expand.
Nailed it, lol.
While I do follow your logic, and really don't disagree on a principle issue, I do think it's important to note that the concept of copyright and payment is a 'forced / legally created' scarcity problem. As in, the only reason there are laws that dictate creators get paid is because there are laws on the books that say so. It's a tricky subject, and a delicate discussion I think, but fundamentally important to keep in mind that barring natural scarcity, there's really no fundamental law of nature that indicates a creator must be compensated for creating.
I never verified that they paid the graphic designer, but they told me they did (I took their word for it).

They didn't show me anything as far as validating the idea; nothing shown towards funding efforts (just, "I have people in my phone I can call right now for funds."), nothing towards user acquisition (I asked about their plan; one involved marketing against a hit movie's release).

No buy-sell agreement.

Not exactly sure what the electrical engineer is afraid of in terms of learning how to write code on his own in order to develop at least the alpha of this. He just told me, "It's not my thing." The other guy said something similar. Both said they're willing to learn but that it'd take them a really long time and that, essentially, because I already know how to do it, they called on me.
Does torque give an api to access that data?
huge investments in innovation science and engineering
It takes YEARS for any meaningful return, no matter how huge the investments may be. Just my 2 cents.

There's no denying rampant theft of IP by Chinese companies, even between the Chinese companies.
To some extent , that's not really that impressive. AMD gets access to a breakthrough technology like HBM and 2.5D silicon interposers , and all we get is just a measly 50% improvement in memory bandwidth ?

A more interesting configuration would be attaching 12 1GB HBM chips to the gpu , and achieving a memory bandwidth of 128GB/s * 12 = 1.5Tbyte/sec (would increase power only by 30W over current model).

Maybe their gpu is too weak to support such massive memory bandwidth, and it would be quite hard to do so ?
Well now that we have supplementary planes, UTF-16 should also be considered variable-length.
I chose what I wanted out of life, and moved to a place that had the most of that (great food, good weather, reasonable cost of living and a growing startup ecosystem). I lived in SV for a few years (2007-2009). It was great. I live in Portland now, and it's better in many ways (lifestyle, cost of living, ability to get out of the city) but it's def not the startup hub that is SV. On the other hand, you can be a bigger fish in a smaller pond here, vs. SV, where you're swimming with sharks. Both have place, but, for me, moving away was a good choice.
The immune system operates more or less as a limited capacity system. It has low levels of replacement of immune cells in old age. For reasons that may have to do with exposure to persistent herpesviruses there is an expansion of memory cells and related types at the expense of the naive T cells needed to deal with new threats.

So the quick and dirty solution to this, which has some support from animal studies in the past few years, is to selectively kill off the undesirable excess memory cells. Perhaps via one of the targeted cell killing technologies developed in the cancer research community. This should free up capacity and spur the generation of more naive T cells to replace the lost numbers. It isn't a reality yet, but all the pieces are more or less in place. Someone just needs to do it.

A similar thing was demonstrated for B cell destruction in mice (innate immunity, not adaptive immunity): the bad cells were stripped out, and fresh new cells were generated as a result, and the innate immune response improved.
Well, for a HTTP server, I don't have a specific idea... But in general, the fun part would be trying to come up with string representations that are optimized for the particular application.

The original 1984 Elite computer game is famous for its huge galaxy full of planets. Each of them had individual names and descriptions such as "Lave is most famous for its vast rain forests and the Laveian tree grub."

Yet those strings were never stored as plain strings. The game had to run in 32kB of memory, so almost all strings were stored in a tokenized form and expanded using a pseudo-random number generator:

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Random_number_generator

That article shows how the planet description strings were stored and reconstructed on the fly. The base representation for the aforementioned description of planet Lave was only a handful of bytes: "\x8F is \x97"

So I think Elite is a pretty good example of an application written in assembly that didn't have anything like a generic string type.
I am surprised they didn't go down the container route for OS updates like CoreOS. I think I like that approach.
Precisely! Also When I first saw the post in hn. I immediately thought like a game graphic sprite. Not even the soda.
The first hydrographic apparatus registered for a US patent was by Motoyasu Nakanishi of Kabushiki Kaisha Cubic Engineering on Jul 26, 1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrographics_%28printing%29
Full Stack Developer Is a Tall Order Bordering on Unicorn Territory
whoops...

Those were 320 Million Americans and 900 Million englisch speakers, not native speakers.
Naive question... with the influx of cash from larger and larger underwriters and the public funds becoming a smaller and smaller % of overall funding how does public radio handle the natural tendency to chase the big funds?

What's the % breakdown today? I don't think it's evil, but when 80% of funding starts rolling in for projects like invisibilia I could see it as tempting to head more into a "reality show" type programming to chase big donors / big audience... again, that's not to say that is wrong... but it certainly isn't the mission.

Big dollars brings big pressures.
Ok, lets say I instead decide I don't like how companies sell their cars, so I 'protest' by stealing a copy of the schematics for the new 2016 model of some car. I construct and sell them for the price of materials, meaning I make no profit from them. Many people who wouldn't have paid 100k for the car now get the car for much cheaper. I'm robin hood now, right?
Haven't people already been doing that for years? Am I just unusually paranoid? I always lie to companies I'm buying from when I can find some way to pollute their database.
There are many edge-cases where a product can be viable without actually working. They mostly come down to markets where the buyers are affected by principal-agent problems, and thus are willing to buy something that "doesn't work" for the principal's use-case, as long as it matches the incentives the principal has put upon them.

For example, it's very easy to sell things to defense [sub]contractors. They're not spending their own money; and, in fact, the more money they hand out to others, the more they can consume as a margin. As long as what they get in return matches the strict definition of a few check-boxes, they can't be blamed.
Maybe I watch too much "Silicon Valley", but my understanding is it could be seen as she never intended to jump ship; she just wanted to strong-arm us into a pay increase
What is "chutzpah"?
In general, I'd say that the answer is no.

It depends on what you want. If you can travel, if you can get out to 3-5 conferences per year, and if you get out to Meetups (or organize a few) in the nearest major city, then you're probably learning just as much as you would if you were in the Valley. You might be learning more, because you're more relaxed.

That said, if you want to work for one of the giant tech companies, the main office usually gets the most interesting projects. If you decide to work for Google, try to get them to relocate you to Mountain View. The imperial culture is strong in Bay Area tech giants and in venture capital.

In general, though, the Valley sucks (unless you're trying to raise money). Under 30, you suffer a bad dating scene if you're a heterosexual male (and I've heard that it's unpleasant more generally). After 30, you're too old for the nonsense and, if you're thinking about having a family, forget it. San Francisco is half-decent and has a lot of natural beauty, but it's dysfunctional and shockingly expensive (worse than New York, and you get a lot less!) There are a lot of great jobs in the Valley that I'd say you should take if you're a typical person, but you'd take them in spite of their location, not because of it.
>No one is obliged to give me money -- unless they consume the content I created. At that point, they are.

I just read that sentence...am I now obliged?
Looks like their propaganda is working then.
In the US we have the 5th Amendment to the Constitution which forbids the government from making you testify against yourself. Details can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_State...

TL;DR: Case law is mixed on the matter but it sure seems clear to me at least. I don't understand why people can't just say, "I forgot it. Sorry."
Part time parliament was written in 1989, but not published till 1998. Probably not fair to claim to much recognition of its value till the mid (late?) 90's.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...