skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that nuts? It's pre-release software, which is subject to change. Why would you submit a patch to fix an issue which might change all over again before it's released?

Seriously, if this is your bar for being nuts, then I'm glad you don't have anything to do with the iOS ecosystem.
Yup. My GitHub is littered with them. A side project can only hold my enjoyment for so long. Without financial incentive, I have to be incentivized by my interests which are very volatile.
Turning the world's casinos into massively parallel crowd-sourced processing centers is a great idea.
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As linked elsewhere in this thread,RMS explicitly endorses using GPL software for nefarious purposes outside of restricting software freedom.

GPL solves one specific problem. It isn't Superman.
I was looking for experiences other people have had after being in a similar situation.
Still at that company, and still enduring long compile times.
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JRuby 9000 now uses native operations for much of IO and almost all of Process. This makes us the first POSIX-friendly JVM language.

Did they achieved this via JNI?
Acidification is not "purposely alarmist", it is the accurate scientific description of what is happening. pH is logarithmic, so "slightly moving towards neutral" is actually a huge relative change.

If anything, the "climate change industry" as you put it are doing a piss poor job of attracting attention to something very scary.
You're being paranoid.
Refocus on something else.

Rusty car can still move to beautiful destination.

Once you start moving - rust will gradually drop off...
Team events? Is that a thing. Even if I was an avid soccer player and drinker, I'd still find the whole concept pretty horrifying.

I guess I've (fortunately) just never worked at a company where you're expected to participate wholeheartedly in "team events" -- I honestly can't imagine what universe these people are living in where it's considered acceptable to judge people based on how willing they are to engage in the cool kids' favorite activities outside of work.
So make one and then try to migrate existing users over if you want that community.
What can we do to educate folks about the ecological threat to large commercial oceanic shell fish farming?
> race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability

I think they missed "chosen brand of kitchen sink".
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Hm...probably not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647826

Voting rings undermine the exposure of truly successful products, while giving preference to a possibly inferior friend's product.
It's at 9000!
Yeah honestly the community doesn't come off as sincere or genuine, so I've never felt compelled to participate or even visit the site more than a handful of times.
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Neat, but Affero public license? Ick.
Overall experience - Is there a career progression? Does the person have increasing levels of responsibility? Do the titles make sense? (You're a VP of Marketing for a 5 person company? Heck, I would be too.)

Just like how everyone at my company is a director!
"If you use a computerized system based on ratings, you will tend to get very relevant but safe answers"... I call this my "Radiohead metric": for a given music recommendation system, how long do I have to use it before it tries to recommend me Radiohead.

One of the problems I find in music algorithms is they can't know how I've changed - suggesting music based on what I play or input - but that's stuff I liked in mid-2000s when I was in peak music consumption mode. Most suggestions then get picked from the same pool.

I'd love these algorithms to take my age into consideration: "If you liked X when you were 25, you're going to love Y now that you're 35!"
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The question is what relevant correlations there are. You won't do well to hire a taller programmer just because taller people are healthier.

See also adverse section paradox.
It's just another marketing platform, right? Nothing really "crowdsourced" about it. We dealt with similar voting ring issues when I worked on another industry forum, but people were really not subtle about it, even when it was explicitly discouraged. Sort of mindblowing, actually.
"I don't see how failure or success changes that question of "is a lifetime of free money for some small value of work acceptable?""

Because it's not "free money". At all.

Edit: "free" implies that you don't have to do anything for it. That's not the case.

Do you also consider retirement pensions "free money"?
You should read "innovator's dilemma"
A lot of the optimizations are for responsiveness, not throughput. It's terrible to work with a site that has a one second response time. Cut that down to 15ms and it's an entirely different site, something that you might want to use. And, the side benefit is that it's more likely to support 10,000 users/second because you just optimized the system.
Once you figure out how to write a software license to prevent this kind of usage can you work on that 3d printer that will print anything except weapons?

Next on your list is to define "repressive governments" in non-ambiguous terms such that it doesn't include more than half of the world.

You may be able to prevent them _legally_ using your work, but will never prevent them from using your work.
I worked at a company in this situation. Revenues were stagnating and senior employees started leaving. The non-CEO partner was uninvolved and kept pressing for a sale at all business meetings. The atmosphere at the company was pretty dreary.

The CEO remedied this situation by choosing a new CEO from within the remaining senior staff, while giving himself a new position of chief product officer/biz dev.

However, this was all merely a title swap, as the ex-CEO kept tight hold over the finances. So a weird power dynamic formed, as the new CEO was essentially effete. Anything that incurred a cost had to be discussed with the ex-CEO. The new CEO enacted a rigid fiscal policy by reducing headcount and the expenses under his immediate control. Morale fell and the new CEO eventually resigned.

The company is still in existence, and the owner is considering selling it now. Hopefully it's not too late.
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"...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."

- H. L. Mencken
Go read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event
I don't think any amount of alarm could possibly be enough.
Static electricity was a big problem on early drum computers.
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And by unsubtle, I mean all the accounts had the same prefix and similar profile pictures.
Often a side project of mine will serve as a reference, or even provide snippets of re-usable code.

I can now trace some snippets over multiple generations of projects, slightly improved each time. In this sense code doesn't just grow vertically, even a dead project can yield code that grows laterally too!
... IF the body is not modified, and the header signature matches, AND headers retain DMARC alignment... the reality is that retransmittal (as opposed to just relaying) almost always does one or more of these.

Here's an example from a Google email engineer's recent post to the Mailop list, which is running Mailman software.

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=neutral (google.com: 2001:41c8:51:83:feff:ff:fe00:a0b is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of mailop-bounces@mailop.org) smtp.mail=mailop-bounces@mailop.org;
dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header.i=@google.com;
dmarc=fail (p=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=google.com
Category view versus inside view, as expounded upon in another link on HN today: http://edge.org/events/the-edge-master-class-2007-a-short-co...

Funny how category view seems to work for everything EXCEPT human beings </sarcasm>
That is exactly right. And it will even go further. Someone will see your twitter feed/blog/facebook/whatever kids are into these days, find something "offensive" about it and complain about you on the Github project you're part of (and probably to your current employer and your mom).

Maybe the project owner will try to say that the CoC only covers what happens in the repo/chat, but the "victim" will explain how she doesn't feel "safe" anymore working with you and you will be kicked out.
You can say not interested specific content as well (on the web interface at least). It doesn't always seem to get the message straight away though.
I assume they have some moderation of the images selected for display by the hashtag, otherwise that's a prank just waiting to happen. :)
I think Java on the backend is still the de facto standard...
Do you ever wonder who of your friends are nearby? For example, in the same subway car, festival, or street.

Nowy Friends tells you when your friends are actually nearby, not that they were 1 km away 10 minutes ago! Nowy Friends transforms a boring subway ride into something fun.

Nowy Friends works anywhere (no GPS, no Internet), protects your privacy, and is battery friendly.
Beautiful piece. I was also a big fan of the dot display you guys did previously...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jkoIyJgoc

Seriously, if you ever thought about mass-producing the dot module (or even a split-flap character display), I'd buy them by the hundreds.
"Why shouldn't I enforce unique constraints in the application?"

You should to both. For all the reasons you mention, it's often cleaner to just do it in the application especially when you can use a framework with a simple "validate_uniqueness" flag.

But, what you're describing is also the very definition of a race condition. It's the same reason you don't increment counters by retrieving them, adding 1 to it and then saving the number back to the database and instead pass in an increment command.

Check it in the application but let the database make sure it doesn't get violated in a race condition. There's a significant amount of either/or in this entire conversation (not just you, the whole thread) when the database absolutely can and should be leveraged for certain things.

It's extremism and purism where the problems get introduced (in both directions).
When making up theories, the burden of proof is on you.
You're referring to the limitations imposed by security as a spectrum versus usability (more secure to more usable). I don't think many people consider a lack of privacy to be a "feature" in the usability sense -- that's typically desirable by 3rd parties, not the users.

I do agree with your profit motive. I consider that a potential opportunity rather than a problem.
You can now muck with the source code for EA's Amiga hit DeluxePaint
Don't deal with it. Many good points have been made here. But basically just tell your current employer on the exit interview (if they have one) that you have a new opportunity that you just can't ignore. Don't tell them anything in specific, it does you no good and honestly they don't deserve any more of your time.

As someone else mentioned too, the tech community while seemingly large is not, and it is not unlikely you will run into some of these people at another place. At the same time work to not hold a grudge, some people are more weak minded (and struggle with it internally) so they go along with the culture instead of standing up to what they don't believe. That isn't calling you weak, its calling those that participate, when they know better, weak. Yes it is a character flaw to some people, but I just don't believe in holding a grudge against these people.

In regards to a new employer, you never say anything derogatory about a prior employer or manager etc. Simply because they will have in their head if you are willing to do this to someone else you will do it to them if you are unhappy. So instead, play the game and just tell them that you are looking for new challenges. It is even better if you are going to Enterprise from Startup because you can say, well I wanted to gain experience in an Enterprise environment now or something along those lines. When you have a change in types of business it helps. Also if you change industry, say from B2B products to B2C products you can use that as your reason for changing. It is simple and easy and no one really questions it. Just be prepared for a follow on question about what intrigues you about the B2B or Consumer market etc.

Good luck and I hope you find an environment that appreciates you soon.
Are YC becoming a standard VC firm?
I agree about your "real hype" statement. There is always the potential for a provider to build business value by nailing recommendation, especially when it comes to lesser known content. Most viewers have heard of big-budget films they plan to watch, or they'll watch any movie with <insert actor>. However, if someone created a system that did this well enough for users to trust it with unknown content, it would go a long way toward meaningful differentiation.

Right now, I don't know of anyone who has limited spare time who would risk trying something unknown just because it shows up in their Netflix recommendations. If Netflix got those right frequently, people would rely on it more and probably enjoy it more. A 10% increase in accuracy has a decent chance to push beyond the invisible "good enough to trust" threshold and create an experience other streaming services just don't have.
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> "Even though the remnants of old projects can sometimes feel like tombstones or failure markers, for some reason we don't feel the same way about, say, an old save game file."

Very true. We beat ourselves up over leaving projects unfinished in a way that we don't about other things. It's probably because side projects mean something more to us, and the way we look at ourselves.

Also true that side projects are explorations. It's also more fun to explore with other people than it is alone.
WHAT, 9000?!?
Fighting procrastination
I know where the name comes from but still, the word Turk being used as the name of the unit workforce while making automation by using mass manual labor is a bit inconvenient. We already have an ambiguity with the name of our country in the English language, give us a break :)
I would enjoy seeing the same with Hacker News. It would be interesting to see how affiliation with Y Combinator influences the vote.
In order to get a higher switching speed of a transistor you need to increase the voltage. For the power usage of an electronic device holds: P = V^2 / R, therefore if you want a higher clock frequency your power usage increases with the square of the applied voltage. Which means that you'll need excessive amounts of cooling power (e.g. LN2) to keep your CPU from dying at such high core voltages (2V). Usually processors are run at ~1.2V for factory specs.
Something similar but without the gambling aspect has been done before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_game
I don't think that's true anyway. I just saw an update from Dropbox yesterday that had the update text "Fixes most common crashes for users running the iOS 9 Beta".

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8
"Using the three-year-old technique, researchers have already reversed mutations that cause blindness, stopped cancer cells from multiplying, and made cells impervious to the virus that causes AIDS."

Ugh. Overreaching rhetoric like this with no context or detail signal silly pop science writing rather than anything substantive.
Oh sweet! I somehow missed it on the announcement. I only saw Mail, Calendar, and Contacts.
there is even pl\brainfuck so as far as choice of langs PG has you covered
This is/was a problem on Stack Overflow (retired mod here). Work colleagues in the same office or company upvoting each other's questions or answers. You could often tell it was fairly innocent from the activity on their accounts (active, positive participation, asking and answering with reasonably good posts) and from the spread of votes (lots of upvotes given to/from unrelated users outweighing their votering count).

But sometimes the votering detection would ring bells and when contacted these users had genuinely not considered what they were doing was creating a votering, yet were willing to understand the problem at hand and back off from each other a bit.
Sure, but there's a widespread way to reliably detect correlations. Besides, my point is more that we shouldn't plug our ears and go "racism lalala" whenever the reasonable, scientific fact that, like everything else, race may be correlated with some traits pops up.
FWIW, I thought The Interview was way better than I expected it to be. It is very, very silly, and it does not take itself seriously, but it wasn't particularly predictable either. Maybe you'd be pleasantly surprised?
an announcement internally would have been nice...
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So excellent. It's a bit akin to a visual version of a Melotron.
An excellent effort; proper execution of experiments is independent of the sensitivity. It's very inexpensive to get good at the science and art of experiment itself. Proper execution is the hardest part; improved sensitivity is in significant part a question of available resources (cleverness is significant, too).

(The precision-metrology part of me feels compelled to point out that any absolute measurement of the speed of light using this method should include an estimation of the covariance of the result (and its uncertainties) with the variation of the assumed value of c used by GPS for timing and position determination).
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>It's an excuse to check for more serious violations.

It's about time to do something about these context stops. They are just too easy for the weak-minded to abuse for their own ends.
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What does this mean?

I have zero business acumen and have no familiarity with investing or how new companies work.
Would you have any interest in demoing this at the "other" breakfast in NYC - NYC TechBreakfast? Check it out at http://meetup.com/nyc-techbreakfast and drop me a line if so.
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Is the cash coming from the new growth fund that YC raised recently? Does that fund have non-YC LPs?
Dear lord the hours! I enjoy having a life too much to go in to it! :p

That said, I cook basically every night, and I've got some toys I suspect you'd enjoy. Good luck with it!
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> Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard A. Clarke said that what is known about the crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack".

Holy moly.
I don't disagree, but the tricky part is where do we place the modest investment? The type of AI research happening now is too fundamental and low level to place any safeguards. We are so far away from even beginning to approach anything that could be described as motivation.
Same thing here. It seemed like what they were really after is finding out my current employer's pay scale for engineers with my amount of experience. They never even officially rejected me. I had to call them to find out what the situation was.
Doesn't GitHub Enterprise use JRuby?
Twitter's Fabric just reached 1B devices
It is a combination of things, of which cooling is one. A more fundamental and challenging physical limit is increased loss due to higher frequency (which is why chip voltage needs to be increased). It gets to the point where too much signal loss occurs across "long" lines between parts of the chip. This is why using plasmonics in ICs is an active field of research; the hope is to be able to use optics for long distance interconnects inside the processor.
Nope, it is a deployment of the ruby version we use on .com.
It's too bad they haven't included actual performance comparisons. The Celeron (from '06) running at ~8GHz will most definitely be outperformed by any modern i7 running at stock speeds.
Who are the LP's of this follow on money?
I have a huge problem with this. What I normally do is read a book or listen to music before I'm trying to sleep because I find that watching tv or looking at another screen only makes the problem worse.
There actually has been precedent for ocean acidification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...

But I don't think we should only be scared by things that cause "full trophic collapse". We're looking at unprecedented environmental changes (in terms of speed) at about the same time the world population will be hitting 11 Billion people. Foreseeing how all the variables will interact is almost impossible.

Yes, the earth and life will go on. But it very well could be a horrible and scary place to live for us humans in the interim.
We can't really say until/unless someone can find the unedited footage. Without knowing what's contained in the missing parts of the video it's all speculation. A number of people have speculated that the parts that got clipped are when the officer is conferring on the radio to try to fabricate a plausible series of events that would justify his arresting her since up until he gives her the order to step out of the car (presumably to arrest her) he has no actual justification for arresting her (cart before the horse). You can't be arrested solely for resisting arrest, so he had to come up with some sort of charge that he could claim that occurs prior to his asking her to get out of the car. In his arrest report apparently he claimed she kicked him, which in light of the video evidence is clearly BS, but whoever edited the video was probably worried that if too much of the video goes missing some very pointed questions would be asked. A small blip is more likely to be excused as a "technical glitch" particularly if the majority of the stop was captured.
I think he means before he told them to stop calling. It seemed like in the second interview after he said, "I already interviewed for this position," they suddenly wanted nothing to do with him for some odd reason.
There are quite a few studies about humans, fruit flies also make an appearance (since you can rapidly breed them). All in all, there is quite a bit of evidence that genetics can influence animal behavior both across and within species.

Based on my reading, I'm quite confident in my belief that genetics explain at least 25% of behavioral differences. I haven't been convinced that it explains 50-90% (as some folks claim). I've appended below a dump of papers which I've either read or are in my queue.

Most results in this space find that white (particularly if you exclude Ashkenazi Jews) people are not the superior race, at least in popular metrics like intelligence, criminality, drug use and divorce. Those westerners trying to "prove that non-white men are inferior" probably should have realized that isn't how evidence works: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence...

http://ussc.edu.au/ussc/assets/media/docs/publications/44_Ha...

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n7/full/ng.3285.html

https://infotomb.com/g99o4.pdf

https://infotomb.com/sy7jn.pdf

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/57897#files-area

https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/38881/HECER...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1758921

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/neu.10160/pdf

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opinion/45_Hatemi_...

http://unamusementpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/boucha...

http://www.matthewckeller.com/16.Hatemi.et.al.2010.Nuc.fam.a...

https://infotomb.com/evkop.pdf

https://infotomb.com/cwnp1.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923822/#!po=50....