skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valid point, but generally speaking, I was looking for someone who was a bit more mature than straight out of Highschool - and college gave me some concept that they'd achieved that.

Hiring right out of HS would have been a higher risk in my mind
Perhaps I'm being naieve but I don't want my DNA in any database without my expressed consent or criminal conviction.

DNA is inherently personal, and while its true you leave your DNA in almost as many places as your fingerprints (skin flakes, stray hairs, et al) DNA can tell you much more about someone's medical conditions than their fingerprint can.

I'm interested in personal medical devices, but not if that means leaking my medical info to the companies selling said devices. That info is personal and private and is nobodies business except mine and my doctors.
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This is called a heckler's veto and it's a terrible precedent to set at what is (nominally) a non-partisan, non-political tech conference.
I thought that movie pulled the punch. Turns out, the 'normal' guy actually had some genetic defect that SHOULD have excluded him from service. So it wasn't about discrimination after all.
Or just inductive charging at a distance?
Desura's parent company has filed for bankruptcy
Yeah, but I'm not sure about the "independent random variables" part. Specifically, the "independent" qualifier.

This is not a bunch of uncorrelated uranium decay random number generators.
I wonder if they'll try to reassure people that they've "anonymized" your DNA.
Awesome. I ride past this pretty often when I visit my family upstate. It'll be great to walk across it.
New Uber privacy policy
I didn't expect The Matrix to become reality quite so fast :-/
What about monthly over a single year like this startup is doing? As long as you ensure that the receiving family knows it will only last a set duration.

I think that allows families to learn to better manage their money and not blow it on a single large purchase, and also prevents disincentive to stop working entirely.
I always assumed Cassandra to be the easiest-to-operate distributed database. What are other choices could I make? I'm primarily interested in using it as a distributed, on-disk, datacenter-aware hash table.
This is a good list of things to avoid when presenting. I'd like to add another that I've commonly seen:

Don't give up control of the presentation until it is time for questions.

Sometimes people will butt in with questions, and you should answer them quickly and minimally. I've often seen this kind of thing fluster a presenter, and sometimes the presenter will say "okay, is there anything else? any other questions? " as if to invite more interruptions. This is a mistake, you should quickly address the person who interrupted and then get back into your flow without allowing others the chance to also interrupt.

Another one, that maybe only I am bothered by, is don't start every single answer with "That's a good question..."
Actually there's no reason to suppose that computer vision hasn't already exceeded the human capacity. After all, it has lidar and radar. Cheating or not, it has a very good result.
Wondering if this was Left Bank Pictures [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Bank_Pictures
Just because someone has written a thing - and even gotten it published - doesn't mean there is any truth to what they have written. Otherwise your link could just be to my comment.
Perhaps, but it's not exactly a fair system. Reddit is based on a "rich get richer, poor get poorer" type model. The more people you are competing against, the more likely you are to end up in tail end of the distribution. There are only a limited number of slots on the front page after all.

No one sorts through the "new" tag, especially on reddit. So your post depends on getting on the front page for a few minutes and hope a few people see it and vote on it.

If there are many people posting, those precious front page slots will be taken, and your post will appear on page 4 and sink down over time.

Hence you are far more likely to do well in a smaller subreddit than a larger one. That wouldn't be true in your egalitarian model, where more users mean each post gets proportionally more attention.

But in reality those extra users still all go to the top 25 posts, but the competition to get there is increased.

>To me, this is ignoring the fact that a million dollars split between 100 people is still a lot more than zero dollars you get for yourself because you played different numbers.

The expected payoff of a lottery ticket minus it's cost, is already negative. If you divide up the jackpot it gets even worse.
> Why would machines be worse than humans in bad weather if they are better than humans in good weather?

[Because they are.](http://jalopnik.com/this-is-how-bad-self-driving-cars-suck-i...)

Basically, the sensors they tend to equipped with aren't even close to being sufficient in poor whether. Humans are EXTREMELY good at pattern recognition and can manage to make it work, but computers just aren't at that level yet. It'll take a combination of improved sensors and computer vision (ie, pattern recognition) to make it happen.
It's a buggy pile of shit, for starters. Constantly drops network connections, will frequently flood your network history with multiple duplicate entries for no apparent reason, will often mysteriously fail to connect to a wireless network for whatever reason even though others work fine (and other devices can connect to the wireless network in question without issue - even other NetworkManager-using ones)... that sort of thing. I know the underlying utilities (namely, wpa_supplicant) aren't the issue, since wpa_supplicant - in my experience - is much more robust when configured manually, with far fewer problems, but at the expense of having to edit wpa_supplicant.conf in order to manage wireless networks, which is a bit of a pain (though perhaps worth not having to deal with NetworkManager).

If someone figures out a way to port Android's network management system (I'm not sure exactly what it is off the top of my head, but I know it uses wpa_supplicant and that it's not NetworkManager) to general-purpose GNU/Linux distros, that would be a godsend.
I wrote Angular for 18 months and this is 100% the process I went through and the decisions I came to.
I'm willing to bet the aesthetic design is a very deliberate choice. Google knows that there's a lot of skepticism toward the idea of autonomous cars, largely based on their unfamiliarity. By limiting the initial version to 25mph and making it shaped like a Cozy Coupe, they're making it seem as non-threatening as they possibly can.
Why Nano Server is the most vital change to Windows Server since Windows NT 3.5
CloudFlare is still doing IPv6 automatically
After reading something like this, I always wonder if the author later decided "yeah that was pretty much bullshit". Especially if it was written in their youth. I mean, people change their minds - I'm 33 and I know that I think radically differently to when I was 23. When I'm 43, who knows.
I could swear you were talking about IBM's SCM software :)
> But the question remains, what might he have done if he lived.

I can't be the first to observe that with Gulf War II, he killed himself just when we needed him the most. <deity> only knows what he would have made of the Snowden revelations.
This is probably the most relevant post in this thread.

I recently left the working world after realizing I really don't need that much money to be happy. In the turmoil, I realized some things I had read or thought that were a little misguided and almost burned all my industry bridges completely, thinking "f--- that place anyway."

But this comment really hits on something I've felt throughout the whole thing... eventually you just get tired of the games. And maybe one day I'll get back into the working world, but for now I have what I need.
> Why would I upgrade to Windows 7 on an old laptop, I would rather just buy another one where OS X is free.

Are you saying "why would I spend 150 on a Windows 7 upgrade instead of paying $1299 for a Mac laptop where OS X is free?"
I reason that the hard part was failing in spite of all those great things that she had managed to accomplish. That is super tough. She overcame many obstacles that, in her understanding, would bring her closer to the goal. In the end, the core of the business was not sound. Is it her fault? I don't think so. Its nobody's fault. A business is more of an experiment than anything. She may have felt that way because it was a very public failure and she was the face of the business. Which is a mistake in my opinion. Don't become the face of your business. Let the product take center stage. You should be the person behind the curtains making things happen, but never in the spotlight. If the product fails, all you have to do is find another product. No shame to deal with.

I learned this from my first business failure. I was being the center of attention and loving it. But when it failed, I was crushed. Took me a while to understand that a business is merely a system that works around selling a product. Its not me. This has allowed me to build and sell products that fail without feeling shame or pain. Its just a product. It failed. Let's move on to the next.
It always "just works" at first. The problems start creeping in after a few weeks or months, when NetworkManager inexplicably vomits all over itself with dropped connections, unexplained failures to connect to wireless networks, and duplicate wireless entries (among many, many other things) when the underlying components (namely, wpa_supplicant) work perfectly fine on their own on the same hardware.
Strange Loop Tech Conference Bans Software Engineer Over Political Views
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We are looking to inject new DNA into our team, learn some new tricks from the people that join us and maybe share a few tricks of our own. You'd be working on our backend distributed data processing systems and search engine technology.

If you are looking for a 9 to 5 gig, keep looking. If you are looking for a challenge, a seat at the decision making table and want to be empowered to take ownership, you should check us out. We have an open vacation policy: no-one will bean count your time off, just make sure your team is taken care of while you are sipping Piña colada somewhere tropical. Our office is located in the impressive WeWork space in downtown Boston (https://www.wework.com/locations/boston/south-station), an easy commute from pretty much anywhere. And if you need to work from home part of the week, that's ok too. Lots of us do just that.

If you're interested, we'd love to chat. Check out http://traackr.com/careers/ and/or ping me at gstathis [at] traackr [dot] com.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Good point. But I would like to know other side of the story too, not just from the CEO.

Although, while I'm not an expert on France's labor laws, I agree laws in most EU countries are on the side of employees. But that doesn't mean when you hired someone, he/she will be working at the company for rest of his/her life without doing some work. Maybe someone who's expert on labor laws can clarify.

Edit: Also different countries in the EU has different laws. It might be difficult to `get rid of bad employee` but it might be easier in Spain...
Well, the Nobel is usually awarded quite some time after the deed is done and the achievement has gained recognition. This is especially true for the prize in the "hard science" fields.
I don't have enough karma (I guess?) to downvote this but if I could I would.

This article is terrible advice as has been pointed out already by many people in this thread but I just wanted to add my two cents.

"Academic education", up to undergraduates imo, is not so much about what you actually learn, but about the learning aptitudes and social aptitudes that the experience makes you develop. I think we can all relate.

This person seems to make massive generalisations from his (rather lucky I'd imagine) personal experience.
In some parts of the country, it's pretty normal. The roads are caked with snow for weeks at a time and you can get into white out conditions if the wind picks up. As long as you slow down accordingly, it's usually not an issue.
Well, if they had fought smarter, and hadn't been so cruel to their own citizens, there could have been many fewer casualties on their side.

But still, thank you, Russia.
Even if Hunter thought it was bullshit, he sure lived according to these principles.
Anyone that is not from Genius care to comment how useful this might be? I'm having a hard time thinking about why I should integrate with this service. All it seems to do is take notes. Am I missing something?
At the very most, it might involve having to navigate the CUPS web interface (which, admittedly, is a pile of shit; thanks, Apple) in order to get a printer setup. Still rarely involves having to install drivers (though some vendors are better than others; Brother and HP tend to be the most Linux-compatible, while Canon and Konica Minolta have tended to require driver installation on some distros).
"startup" gets a lot more traffic on HN than "charity".
Well I certainly don't disagree that he's capable of being judged. And you're right - it's simply my opinion that what he did was not unethical.
This is very interesting and strange to me. Cooking and eating tasty and new food in the company of other people is a major source of enjoyment in my life. I understand that most people may not enjoy cooking, but surely most people enjoy eating tasty food. Why would you give that up for Soylent?
Yeah, that's a really unfortunate simplification.
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This should be a compulsory part of education everywhere.
These advertisement articles are way too common on HN.
I left tech to become a chef: reflection from 2 months in the kitchen
I am very hesitant to build anything on a free API like this nowadays, after seeing what happened to the Twitter API, and more recently, the Soundcloud API. I don't feel comfortable building an app using their API, and then having them shut you down for whatever reason they come up with.
I know I do; I've bought every version of Slackware since I started using it a couple years ago (which, granted, has been, like, three versions, but still). I've also bought a few OpenBSD CD sets, though I've slacked off a bit lately.
Ellen Pao's appeal is now about the money
Off topic writing criticism: avoid using synonyms for "said", like "replied", "inquired", and "countered". It's ostentatious and distracting. Let the dialog speak for itself, and only add the bare minimum needed for the reader to keep track of who's saying what:

http://bookblog.kjodle.net/2011/06/he-said-she-said-the-fine...

Now compare this to the original:

"They don't speak much English yet, but maybe the public library will be a useful resource for them," she said.

"Do bring them by here regularly. If they are interested in self-advancing their learning, the public library is the perfect place for them to do that. Do your kids have their own computer at home?" I said.

"No, they currently borrow my laptop, which is not such an ideal situation."

"Tell them they're getting their own donated desktop computer on Monday next week. I'll prepare it for them over the weekend."
Well, right... but "1 month and 5 days" isn't particularly well-defined on its own, unless you have some starting date that you're measuring from.
Agreed -- don't knock it if it works! However, those kinds of sensors don't really fall into what's normally considered "computer vision".

Mind you, I'm extremely optimistic about the potential successes of autonomous cars in the near- to mid-future (the next 5 to 25 years, say). But I don't want people to get the wrong impression about where the state of the art is today. And in particular, I want to push back against the idea that machine learning is a solved problem, and that autonomous cars can teach themselves to drive as well as a human if we only give them enough miles of practice.
I love this video Computer Chronicles: Unix (1985)
feat. Gary Kildall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7P16mYDIJw
That hardly is an excuse for US corporations to avoid tax obligations. Rather it shows the two standards of treatment of the US towards real people and corporation "people".
Not really, a startup is a fuzzy concept, but 'business' is always included in the definition. A charity is not a business.
> Sending a team of people to look at how pretty the toilets are is ridiculous

Not if you have paid big money for those toilets.

To survey and document if the work was really done is a normal procedure all around the world to increase transparency in organizations. And yes, it costs a lot of money (it saves money also).
I actually think this has a ton of potential. Quick example would be documentation for some framework. Users can comment directly on confusing parts of some documentation, and after some discussion, it can be edited to fix whatever confusion there was. That's just one example, I think anywhere you have big blocks of text this will be handy. Even simple things like marking typos in an article would be much easier if every site used a single annotation service.
Is it suitable to develop nodejs addons?
They actually address this point specifically on their Nutrition page. I am not an expert so I have no basis for comparing your claims to theirs, but it seems like they are at least sensitive to the issue, as it were.

Fats: Those worried about saturated fat content should be assured that our saturated fat (and cholesterol) content derives from healthy sources, not industrially produced fats. Milk, eggs, cocoa butter, and sunflower seeds; these are nutrient-dense and healthy sources of energy. All our sources of fat have shown numerous benefits in long term studies. Lacto-ovo vegetarians have significantly extended life spans compared to people eating normal diets, vegans, and even regular vegetarians. Dark chocolate lowers blood pressure as well as being an antioxidant and nutrient source. Sunflower seeds are a rich source of vitamin E and demonstrate anti-inflammatory properties. Most of our polyunsaturated fat derives from raw sunflower seeds. Given the very high vitamin E content of sunflower seeds, we are confident that our polyunsaturated fat is stable, not oxidized. We will be sourcing our sunflower seeds from the high oleic acid varieties to reduce polyunsaturated fat content further.
The right amount of saturated fat to eat is a major controversy, and I think you're promoting incorrect beliefs here.
Wi-Fi security in Ljubljana
I like how management is going, but as someone who fled Windows 8 to Mac OS X (10.9), I couldn't disagree more. I feel like a huge thorn has been removed from my foot and I can now walk normally, after a couple of decades of limping. Of course, I used Cygwin to make Windows seem more like Linux (what I use for server stuff at home and work). Mac OS X for a desktop is still far better than Windows.

Given the direction of MS, I'm hopeful that they'll do some real change under the UI hood of Windows, making it a real alternative to Mac OS X. Some of the apps I need to run (e.g., Lightroom) only work on Windows and Mac.
I agree that Webpack is a serious competitor, and it's rather odd to not even mention it [1]. But I don't think Webpack does incremental compilation, since it usually takes quite a long time for me to compile my modestly-sized assets..

[1] https://github.com/brunch/brunch-guide/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93...
Having gone thru a nightmare trying to upgrade a Mac Mini to Mavericks - obscure error messages, things that "just don't work", and search results leading to forum posts that said "The problem went away when I took out the PNY RAM and put back in the Apple OEM RAM", I'm a little more hostile toward Apple products than I am to the "Wintel" environment.

*In the end we wound up buying a new Mac Mini. We needed Mavericks for website testing.
This is Econ 101. What else do you expect a skyrocketing demand meeting a just-destroyed and rapidly plummeting supply to do?

I think the onus is on you to somehow demonstrate that the price of goods would not be affected by such a blindingly obvious combination of supply and demand changes.

I have no idea where you think this "evidence" is coming from that somehow in a disaster prices don't rise. If they don't, it would only because the entire market has been destroyed and "prices" don't even apply anymore.
> manufactured spending

Buying expensive things at Nordstrom, returning and refunding onto your debit card and then paying off your credit card?
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I use Protobufs for my startup and it has saved us an incredible amount of time building out iOS, Android, and Web clients. With a small team, any time we can shave by not having to re-write the modeling layer in all of these languages is a big win. As the writer of the APIs, I publish the new Protobuf models/services and then can switch over and instantly start working with real objects in Swift or Java.

Coming from a larger startup, I've also experienced the pains of trying to maintain JSON objects between different services. Protobufs have some quirks, but I think its a great solution to get behind at any stage.
Here is a Google Street view right underneath the bridge

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Imagine mixing oatmeal flour in water until you get the texture of pancake mix. Taste is very neutral. I add flavored whey protein which makes it taste better. [Oh -- I forgot to mention -- looks a little like baby barf -- don't think baby barf when you drink it and you'll be fine].
Does it matter, the motive of the employees and executives at Microsoft?

If you do something for the wrong reason, is the work tainted? Or is everyone who does your work on your side, regardless of who or why?
Yes, some of us have these kind of stories. Yours is remarkable! A computer that was getting trashed. That is amazing. I can try and imagine the sense of wonder that it woke up inside of you.

To share a somewhat related story:
My first computer was a C64. It was given to us (two brothers and me) by my parents. We were not rich. Lived in a low income neighborhood. Education was important to our parents. But, the funny thing is that we almost got a Nintendo! My oldest brother suggested the C64 instead. I was furious (six years old at the time). My first code was written in that wonderful machine.

It doesn't end there! I had a hiatus from computers when the C64 broke! My middle brother had bought a computer for college and I wanted one. Well, he didn't use it that much. I had an old car. I traded the car for the computer. I met my wife through that computer. Not only that, but it allowed me to connect to the web and learn about software. For which resources were not available where I lived. :D
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