skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does: clearly explained in the first ten minutes or so of the video
Open Payments – search your doctor's pharmaceutical payments
I have a client in Florida looking for a EE that will also develop software to work on the devices they create and have manufactured. Pay is good, and they are willing to have someone that needs to learn some parts, but it is on the opposite side of the country from where you are at. The owners successfully sold two businesses for large sums and have financial resources most of us can only dream of having so they are not afraid to pay for quality. They are struggling because our area has some large employers that keep their EE's with Software experience very close and guarded so it is hard to pull them away.

If there is any interest you can send me an email and I will connect you. I have no decision making authority here nor do I get anything out of it monetarily, but we run their software development right now and have agreed to help them find someone that can bridge the hardware and software side like my team does for them now.

edit: clarity
The use of the word "illegals" to describe human beings is dehumanizing at best, outright xenophobic at worst.

Exploitation of the undocumented workforce is rampant and systemic. Blaming the individual for our country's structural ills is myopic fantasy.
> I have zero respect for someone that was there

Serving isn't for everyone, and I don't expect you to understand it if you haven't. But either way your attitude is as discourteous as it is pretentious, and you have added zero value to the conversation by shooting your mouth off on the subject.

America's fighting forces will continue to carry out their mission, day in and day out, just like they always have. I have a feeling they'll do just fine without the backing of the German nerd contingent.
I can't tell if you're be hyperbolic...

All negative comments directed towards Matt are surprising?

How so? What's so surprising?
Anytime you see a title like "What Makes Founders Succeed" you immediately know that whatever is behind the link is bullshit.
Untipped as in you always got a flat rate near minimum wage? That seems like a really bad deal.

As to the base pay argument, I have seen a lot of versions of this in sales, but almost always it's base pay of X or a commission structure with many people actually making the base pay for a while and then either being fired or moving on.

For the sake of argument we assuming the actual hours worked is only 8 and tips are frequent that might support 100$ as a minimum instead of average day. On the other hand if the average is 100$ and some days hit 150$ then you need several days @70$ to balanced out to 100$.

I accept both readings are reasonable based on wording, but even then 100$ per day in NYC at best supports minimum wage in the rest of the US.
This is awesome; am ordering a dongle right away!

Did some digging and there's a whole load of things which can potentially be picked up, including dead satellites [0]. RTL-SDR.com has a whole load of awesome looking tutorials [1].

[0] http://www.rtl-sdr.com/receiving-dead-satellites-rtl-sdr/
[1] http://www.rtl-sdr.com/category/tutorial/
ANTLR is written in Java, but can generate parsers for Java and C++ (and some other languages I believe).
3taps built a data exchange that aggregated user-generated data housed on various websites and then made that data available through an API to developers, including PadMapper and Lovely.

Craigslist discovered that it had become (has become) the "MLS" of rentals... and perhaps even more accurately -- it's a brokerage of _housing_ data -- both rentals and sales. So when property management companies (PMCs) discovered how darn easy it was, for example, to flood craigslist with multiple ads for the same unit, or to flood it with units that were never available to begin and thus alter market perception -- certain people got exactly what they wanted: hyperinflation in rents, or the subsequent upward pressure on housing prices, or both.

As recently as 2010, craigslist welcomed innovative uses of the publicly available data ... Over the next two years, as innovators like PadMapper and AirBnB began to thrive, craigslist reversed course, and punished the innovators it previously welcomed to use the data. In February 2012, craigslist rewrote its Terms of Use, abandoning its long-articulated position that users own their own content which was freely available on the “public” part of craigslist's website.

As outraged as everybody was about this, it is exactly what the real MLS does when you decide to sell your house. You sign a contract promising to pay some Realtor's brokerage company 6 percent of whatever your house goes for -- in that contract you are essentially giving them the "copyright" of your house listing; they own it on the MLS and that is why you have to pay them the big bucks. Never mind that they do basically NOTHING other than simple photography and data entry to post on the MLS... but now they require you give them ~$66K of your equity for their 3 hours of work. (Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28512250/report-silic... Median price of "entry level" home in San Mateo County = $1.1M).

Same thing is happening in rentals / property management co's (PMCs), but slightly different symptoms.

Nobody is attacking the problem the right way, though. 42Floors tried the experiment and found it to be a failure, too. (Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9881213)

The market should be putting more pressure on brokers to compete with each other ... damn that 6 percent. (Right, but the NAR signed a non-compete agreement with itself so it gets to do that)

Hackers should stop building tools that make it easier and cheaper for the PMCs and real estate agents to steal everybody's equity.
Though it is most likely still flat files, storage is no longer Unix FS on NetApp. It
seems to currently be FreeBSD ZFS [1] on top of hardware RAID [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/583694734792597505

[2] https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/583940393433083904
Various people have attempted to speed up zlib; it's not that high a bar, if you're OK with not producing output binary-identical to the original zlib. Deflate compression algorithms keep references to possible LZ backreferences in a hash table, and depending on your choice of hash algorithm, and how much you prune your table versus spending memory and time storing and searching it, you'll end up emitting different backreferences. The implementation at https://github.com/jtkukunas/zlib/ replaces the hash algorithm with something much faster.
Once with a good friend, when she said "rabbit food", I said "dead body" pointing to her chicken. That was childish of me and she obviously didn't like it. So it is possible to make fun and even annoy meat eaters, but it would only end up straining the friendship (or whatever relationship) and nothing will come out of it. The best thing to do is to just smile and keep eating.
Chisel is a nice toolkit that proved itself in the Rocket processor. One of the more unusual uses of it was Chisel-Q for quantum computing:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/papers/qarc/pdf/Chisel-...

Chisel is pretty well-known in academic, hardware community. So, here's a few that you might have not heard of.

Caisson - language-based security meets HDL
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~chong/papers/109-Caisson-pldi.pdf

SHard - a scheme to hardware compiler
http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/05-saint-mleux.pdf

Cx-Lang - A statically-typed, c-like, HLL for hardware
http://cx-lang.org/

Note: I'd love for some people familiar with ASIC or FPGA design to check out Cx-Lang to see if it's good for beginners getting results on FPGA's. The I.P. they sell is so cheap that it's either (a) crap or (b) the result of a productive, synthesis tool (Cx). Just like to know if it's a decent HLS tool compared to FPGA or EDA company offerings. Additional advantage that it's open so it can be reviewed for subversion if one is willing to invest the effort.
Dilution really doesn't matter that much - your chances of getting anything are vanishingly small.
The governent already ignores small electronic transactions as not worth the time to collect. I don't see how a cashless economy changes this.
I would expect the communication to be encrypted, or is it supposed to be open to the outside world?
I don't know a real number but my guess and personal feeling, having failed and succeeded, is that technical debt accounts for very few failures. Wrong product fit, ignoring customers, failing to market properly, failing to ship etc all are far more likely to cause the demise of a startup.

Also, I would say to much concern over technical debt can cause failure. I personally lost what I conservatively would say was 30% of our net revenue last year letting my prior lead dev address technical debt that never benefitted a single client and that in areas we have now replaced (or are in process of replacing) entirely in the product. I am as much (if not more so) to blame as he was because I approved the time.
Oddly enough, much of the formal economy seems to be based on tax avoidance as well: shelters, offshore payments/banking, Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich, etc.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dutc...
but police involved shootings by contrast are way down.

Not sure if you are referring to Chicago here, but (reported) police _killings_ in the US are way up during the 2000s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
You can use the same dongle to tap into ADS-B signals to get realtime ATC and display it on a map. Also, it's interesting to just sit and listen to SFO ATC audio channel.
There's a famous, and depressing, quote about newspapers by Micheal Crichton that fits here:

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

The full essay appears here:
http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
Your local computer recycling spot. Could cost you 30 bucks or so. Also, most Best Buys will recycle them for you. Check with your local one. (If you have those...)
The funny/sad thing is that the NY Times basically admitted that's what they've become. In the Ellen Pao "Public Editor" column I linked to, the NY Times Public Editor herself said "I often hear from readers that they would prefer a straight, neutral treatment — just the facts. But The Times has moved away from that, reflecting editors’ reasonable belief that the basics can be found in many news outlets, every minute of the day."
Go to a not so loud bar, have a beer, and talk to people.
I think weather satellites were meant to be useful to everyone who could receive the signal.
Knows that a note Alice withdrew was received and what notes were exchanged. But not necessarily that it was Alice (though other data might corroborate that).
The likely failure of a start-up is market based, not technology. Look at Twitter's fail-whale years. They were on a platform which couldn't scale to their growth and it took many months for them to re-architect and build a working solution. It definitely didn't kill them.

Another example is Instagram, I read recently (but can't find the link) that the founders were learning to code when they built it, and that some of that code is still in production, and apparently, it's embarassingly bad, but it gets the job done.

On the other hand, I worked for a consulting firm and one of our clients sites was absolutely riddled with technical debt. The result was that any changes they wanted to make were significantly more expensive than if they would have been on a better architected system. The thing is, it did't matter to them because the cost of re-creating the system was significantly more than the cost of working with what they had.

I hate technical debt, but have come to realise that it is a debt much like any other, and if you can cover the cost of that debt, it doesn't really matter down the line.

This isn't an excuse for bad programming, I consider that to be something slightly different from technical debt which often works but is not an idea implementation.
You saying MyHDL is not cycle accurate?
Could you give a citation for that?
Cool, good to know. I have 11 4TB WD Reds, 10 of which are all in the 100k range (the other one is a warm spare). I was pretty upset when I saw the numbers.
Almost Lovable: on Stalinist architecture
Who The Police Shoot

A vast majority of the people shot by the police in 2011 were men between the ages 25 and 40 who had histories of crime. Overall, people shot by the police were much older than the typical first-time arrestee. A significant number of the people wounded and killed by the authorities were over fifty, some in their eighties. In 2011, the police shot two 15-year-olds, and a girl who was 16.

The police shot, in 2011, about 50 women, most of whom were armed with knives and had histories of emotional distress. Overall, about a quarter of those shot were either mentally ill and/or suicidal. Many of these were "suicide-by-cop" cases.

Most police shooting victims were armed with handguns. The next most common weapon involved vehicles (used as weapons), followed by knives (and other sharp objects), shotguns, and rifles. Very few of these people carried assault weapons, and a small percentage were unarmed. About 50 subjects were armed with BB-guns, pellet guns or replica firearms.

The situations that brought police shooters and their targets together included domestic and other disturbances; crimes in progress such as robbery, assault and carjacking; the execution of arrest warrants; drug raids; gang activities; routine traffic stops; car chases; and standoff and hostage events.

Women make up about 15 percent of the nation's uniformed police services. During 2011, about 25 female police officers wounded or killed civilians. None of these officers had shot anyone in the past. While the vast majority of police officers never fire their guns in the line of duty, 15 officers who did shoot someone in 2011, had shot at least one person before. (This figure is probably low because police departments don't like to report such statistics.) Most police shootings involved members of police departments followed by sheriff's deputies, the state police, and federal officers. These shootings took place in big cities, suburban areas, towns, and in rural areas. Big city shootings comprised about half of these violent confrontations in 2011.

http://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/01/police-involv...
You can read the brief for their full argument:

https://3taps.com/images/pics/430_Amicus%20Brief.pdf

Their analysis may allow for something like what you propose – a purely contractual cause-of-action for damages. But the EFF et al are objecting to criminal liability based on CFAA/CPC §502 (computer fraud statutes).

I don't believe your shopkeeper analogy quite applies, though. Let's say the shopkeeper opens their shop, but puts a sign over the door to the effect "by entering, you promise to keep my prices secret". If someone enters, leaves, then later spills the pricing beans, it's not clear to me that traditional, non-computer law would allow the shopkeeper to retroactively characterize the visit as 'trespass'.

That's a major problem the EFF brief identifies with the Craigslist interpretation: it lets vague or arbitrary private conditions be creatively recast as criminal violations with more significant penalties. As a matter of fair law and the public's interest in clarity and the free-flow of true information, they argue that such application of the CFAA (and its California equivalent CPC §502) to be dangerously incorrect.
Don't judge Ashley Madison users too quickly, their accounts may be fake
Torturers walk among us. That's a stain on all of us.
"3taps replied that it did not access craigslist and instead obtained the data from Google"
What does this mean? how do they get that data from Google?
The fact that the premises is an Internet website changes nothing.

It absolutely should. There is no accurate physical analogy for an HTTP server that responds with "200 OK" and valid data for a given set of "GET whatever HTTP/1.1" requests. Rather than contort existing trespass law to match the Internet, we have to derive meaningful boundaries for the Internet from ethical first principles if we want the conclusions to be remotely sane.
Every news site has (and has always had) an ongoing credibility problem. We're just noticing now that there's the Internet
The original NYTimes author disagrees and offers proofs on her Twitter
https://twitter.com/SarahMaslinNir
Tell HN: Proposal for next great leap in software developer productivity
Here's the proposal that will lead to a major global leap in developer productivity: shut down Hacker News.
I think there is validity to that argument. Journalists are essentially writers --but writers with short deadlines, so they don't have time to research as normal writers might, in order to have a cursory understanding of what they are writing about and present it with understanding of the subject --be it astrophysics or social sciences.

In addition, most publications have political tendencies and aren't typically totally disinterested.
Motion supported! :-) (From irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn )
Please keep doing it; you're making the world a better place.
I don't get the down votes. If you have several hundred pounds on the bar, you are by definition in balance.

If you can move through the full range of motion of the movement you are flexible enough.

Being able to squat above your body weight is going to make you a more useful human being than putting your leg behind your head.
Why does React.js truf other innovations like Cycle.js?
I'm surprised to read the following tweet, made yesterday by Sebastian Markbåge of the React team.

"React tried and abandoned the Observable tree approach that @andrestaltz is using but but try out http://cycle.js.org/ incase we're wrong."

I agree Cycle.js is fully reactive while React.js is only partially reactive in it's state render function. Something that is missing in React.js is robust interaction and event handling. Both the front/data and back/event side of a app should be reactive and I think Cycle.js is just using Rx to show the way.

More React.js developers have seen the light of Rx recently so how can Rx be argued with? Maybe its just the MVI Framework that React.js does not like? Certainly Cycle.js brings a different sort of observable tree into the arena, exposing a whole new level of interactive computing for web apps.

Looking at another statement made by Sebastian Markbåge on April 10th, he admits that a better React.js event strategy is required. I see Cycle.js contributing to this acknowledged gap.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/1389#issuecomment-86478622

What is the verdict?
Yes I was referring to Chicago (based on the Chicago Trib story I referenced).
Hear, hear. If you paint with the broad stroke that a person who breaks a silly law in order to build a better life an illegal, then you should call just about anyone who breaks the other silly laws an illegal.
As does her editor: https://twitter.com/michaelluo
US is a third world country with a first-world layer on top. A more concrete difference is that there are a lot of people in the US with guns and bad attitudes. (A lot of Americans don't know it because the layers don't mix much.)

So, US cops are right to have a different basic stance than German cops.

That is not to defend the actions described in the news article. And there certainly is a big problem with militarization of cops in the US.
> The one thing all successful founders have in common is that they found help early on from people in a position to help.

Yes, but very rarely did the help come before the proved themselves in some way. They could have gone to the right school, learned the right skills, worked with the right people, gotten involved in the right clubs (on or off campus), took the right job, took the right risk, or any combination of those things. And things tend to multiply.

Going to the right school opens doors but so does learning the right skills. And both can lead to the right job working with the right people. The right clubs are hit or miss but can also lead you to the right people. The right risk might put you next to the right person for that one conversation that changes your perspective or path.

* Also, every time I said "right" above, it should be in quotes. Because what's right for you on your path isn't necessarily the same for everyone else. I grew up poor but went to a great college. My first couple jobs were mediocre but I worked with some great people. My skills were basic until I got involved in a few meetups/user groups and then had to learn to get better. I worked for a couple terrible startups that burned out quickly but I met great people. They forced me to learn more constantly. Then I turned those skills into something bigger and better as I could. I'm not calling myself "successful" but I have had successes.. and a lot of failures. ;)
I just ordered one too - this looks awesome.

You can track aircraft (newer airplanes broadcast their locations, ships, etc.

This [0] is the one I ended up ordering, I just wish one day shipping was available.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009U7WZCA
It's the same in the high assurance systems field albeit with different goals. We're concerned with optimization-induced failures, subversion, complexity, and so on. Mainstream languages and their compilers... doesn't exactly help on this. I've been out of it a while, evangelizing & informing mainly these days. Yet, your post brings back memories.

My strategy, leveraging the Write Great Code book, was to map language constructs onto assembler via macro-assembler or languages such as LISP with good metaprogramming. Then, I hand compiled the code in other's projects with my macro's. So, we took a similar approach there although my goal was to show a correspondence argument between source & asm. Meta tools turned that into full program for assembling and linking.

One wild idea I had for portability was doing optimized routines of a safe HLL in a bytecode like LLVM. That knocks out most of the uncertainty of above layers that limit optimizations the most. Then, the simple optimizations that machines are good at can be performed from there along with generation of assembler. Close to portability of C and efficiency of hand-written assembler with inline available.

For instance, code zlib functions in pretty optimal LLVM and let toolchain do the rest on full-optimization. Think yours will be 25% faster, 10%, similar? And I'm talking what you can code quickly rather than spend 30min-1hr optimizing by hand. Just curious to hear your thoughts as you have way more experience in that stuff.
Hey all,

Didn't expect to get on the front page. Just want to make sure we clarify what the intent was here.

A lot of people on our user group have been asking us about predicting continuous values in neural networks. This page rose out of the need of explaining that a neural network itself is a universal approximator that solves for different objectives/loss functions.

Two instantiations of that problem are regression and classification only changing w.r.t the activation function and objective function.

Happy to clarify/update anything.

Thanks!