skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
R tutorial on its Apply family of functions
Nope, I won't, since it's basically impossible to prove it from the outside. But the raw possibility is enough. But I think that finding truly relevant results without clutter and people gaming the system is much harder than personalizing results, where one can cheat and find "close enough" results based on historical data and so on
Ask HN: How would you fire a cofounder, when you aren’t one?
6 months ago, I joined a small startup in SF and have quickly risen to become the lead engineer, despite there already being a technical cofounder. I very clearly replaced this person in all "cofounder-y" activities (fundraising, pitching customers, cultural/hiring work, etc) in addition to pure technical contribution.

While the cofounder has taken his new mentor in stride and we have a good personal relationship, it is clear to everyone that he is in over his head. I fear will always be a low performer on my team. I would never have hired him much less passed a phone interview.

I'm disappointed that I didn’t discover this in my own diligence nor pressed the matter sooner; but now what? When thinking about how I could grow the team, I get irritated trying to justify the cash and equity this person is taking up, not to mention the message it sends to the stronger collaborators to keep him around.

The business co-founder/CEO respects me and agrees with the performance issue, but has only suggested we find a less critical role for him (like QA). I think if I pressed the issue I could get him fired, but as a socially close-knit team I'm struggling with how to approach that. Frankly, I've been (foolishly) waiting for the CEO to do it himself.

It’s easy to just say, “insist he is fired”, but the social issue is very awkward for me. I worry for team morale since he is well-liked. How would you go about broaching the subject and making the case? If you've had a conversation like this, I'd love to know how it went.
You actually do at a wide variety of places - every job I've ever had had no problem letting me duck out in the middle of the day to do errands, visit my grandmother, celebrate my anniversary with my girlfriend, etc.

Anyway, this is a pretty interesting case historically, legally, and economically. The reason we have labor laws is because way back in the 1800s, the pendulum swung the other way. Early merchants paid their suppliers by piece-work, and negotiated each shipment individually. During the industrial revolution, corporations found it more economical to dictate exactly how employees performed their jobs, with set hours and assembly-line processes, and gradually this contracting turned to employment, under terrible terms (because workers had no bargaining power for their newly-unskilled jobs). Over time, we got the organized labor movement, which managed to say that "If you're going to dictate how we do our jobs, what's in it for us? You might as well provide us with security and decent wages," which is how we got employee benefits.

Every regulation creates a dead-weight loss: that's the share of transactions that would have occurred in a free market, but which don't because either party now finds it too much of a hassle with the regulations. Uber and other sharing economy companies have stepped into the dead-weight loss created by labor laws: they fill the share of transactions that would have occurred if companies in these industries were not required to provide employee benefits. All well and good for Uber & its drivers, and not so good for competitors.

The problem comes down the road, where Uber etc. have outcompeted everyone else in the industry, and all the jobs are independent contractor ones with prices set by the app. Then you're pretty much forced to accept whatever bargain they provide - and without legal protections, it probably won't be a good one. So no, Uber drivers don't really get a choice. Hope they're happy with the one Uber provides.

(This is all just analysis, and I don't really have a personal position one way or another. I've generally found it a lot more fruitful to work on things lots of people want and not many people can do, because then you have negotiating leverage and can demand flexible hours regardless of what your employer wants. I think that many of the sharing-economy contractors are working against their own long-term interests, but I'm not one of them, so it doesn't personally affect me.)
Is your application just a jar? In the yes case your conclusion is correct.

Throw in a database, a cache server, couple of versioned libraries your jar file needs, and more developers, and suddenly a reproducible image with all this packaged will make a lot of sense.
>> we support ACH

Did I miss that announcement? Because accepting e-checks has been a huge request from our clients. I just went through the documentation again but I have not been able to find how a person can pay through ACH. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction? Thanks!
I really don't want them to "own the experience." I want their brochures to stay nicely sandboxed in a browser where they don't invade my computer and try to tell me what I can do with it.
They didn't cover reel-to-reel recorders in that episode.

Obviously, recording the raw studio performances directly onto the masters that were to be reproduced would be a waste of resources. Multi-track reel-to-reel recorders were still pretty costly, even if the tape was relatively cheaper than the other costs of recording. That tech also improved up until the digital era, but I imagine most of the progress now goes into computer software.

People haven't really recorded directly to a groove in a plastic medium since wax phonograph cylinders. When you cut a vinyl master, you were probably doing it from tape.
It could be the way Intel is layering the memristors.

>From there, memory cells are layered in an intricate three-dimensional checkerboard pattern that Intel researchers say is 10 times denser than conventional memory.
Hollywood does have a very important role that isn't subject to disruption by technology. Hollywood is the home of the "star" system. Stars sell movies these days. Be them writers, directors, models, or guys with funny voices, the market want to see famous people on screen.

Whether it is Paris Hilton or Bill Maher, stars are the people who rise to the top of the system and become household names. The various media wings need a place with a critical mass of famous people. That happens in LA, and to a lesser extent in New York. Look at Vancouver. Lots of films, lots of money, but none of the media associated with LA's star system. The physicality of this system means it is resistant to disruption by technology. Hollywood will be king for a long time.
Even though I'm a bit butt hurt about the new syntactic changes to JavaScript, I very exited about the browser development.

Hardware accelerated Canvas 2d graphics and Web-sockets are the two I'm most excited about because they are now stable across most browsers.
I run a tiny startup, and honestly don't see a benefit to using docker.

Every service I deploy gets it's own VM (which is automatically provisioned/locked-down by a bash script), and they automatically update when a new revision is pushed to our production git branch.

It seems that docker is more useful when you have physical hardware? and/or lots of under-utilized infrastructure?
Show HN: Vero – True Social
they're great, have several for my kid. One at grandparents houses, and one at home. Class 3 Coast Guard approved, really happy with them.
We've been experiencing huge problems with our multi-AZ and encrypted MySQL RDS instance this morning (it looks like a hardware issue). We're contacting support, but are considering taking our entire application down and migrating to Aurora. The timing on this is too ironic.
Statements from the article like "how much value are universities contributing to students and is it worth the societal cost?" are cringeworthy. The better question to ask is what is the societal cost of ignorance? That's a different spin on the question does society have an interest in reducing the cost of education?
Do you have any growth statistics as reference?
Author here, happy to answer any questions.

For this question: I've used Tcl for 20+ years for various things, database, web, monitoring, prototyping - basically anything you'd use any other scripting language, it just happens to fit me well (I also use Python for some things). Tcl is not without its warts, but positives far out weigh any negatives. Translation to C or Java is done primarily for performance, other use cases would be for IP protections.
Copyright died the year that xerox machines got installed in public and college libraries. Everything since then has been attempts to unring a bell, and maybe stuff a genie back into a lamp.
if you sit in it awkwardly, though, the window will pop right out.
Maybe not the best looking, but definitely a classic: https://github.com/404
Thanks. I've done stuff like that. For "whole system" lag it's also a good idea to record input lag with a faster camera and analyze the count the number of images/frames that it takes from the input to the output on screen.

My problem is that, from what I've seen so far, camera/capture card retailers sometimes don't and there doesn't seem to be a particular standard for those who do.

Thanks for the link. It's quite interesting.
We did not make $50,000 in our first week. We are bootstrapping slowly
A summer camp I went to when I was younger was very heavily focused on swimming and water craft. We had 3 different colored bands to indicate your swimming ability. Red if you couldn't swim well, yellow if you were OK, but not enough for the deep end and green for the deep end. The counselors tested and trained the kids to go up the color bands, which was pretty neat, but I realize now that it was also a way to keep an eye on weaker swimmers. I think red bands had to have a life jacket on even while in the pool on the shallow end.

There was also the coveted blue band, which you could only get by doing a very rigorous set of tests and passing junior lifeguard training. I had to swim who knows how many laps and tread water for like an hour, plus lift bricks up off the pool floor and various other lifeguard-related things. The blue bands were super "rare" and I realize now it was just an inventive way to encourage the kids to swim better and harder.

Not exactly the same bands you were talking about, but a cheaper alternative and a good way to keep control and prevent drownings before they happen.
> The job was sometimes so intense I'd wake up in the middle of the night in a panic because I thought I had forgotten my whistle or someone was having an emergency.

I had the same waking panics while being a camp counsellor. We'd have 7 day sessions with 3 day breaks in between and quite often those breaks were punctuated with waking up bolt upright to figure out where my kids were. Took a while for that to pass.

Also took a while to remember how to eat slowly (you eat quick, or you don't eat!)
Ehh… no. The subscribers in the ring would only be gaming its own payments, no one else's. They'd be paying themselves, less the federation's operating fees.
I found this a bit confusing. I thought it was one of those things where the drowning kid doesn't look like he was drowning. But instead, no one is generally drowning in the first 10-15 seconds. Then a kid flips over a floatie or such, and they are pretty clearly the one in trouble. Then the lifeguard jumps in.

So you really only have 2-3 seconds to spot the child.
As a non-lifeguard, I would rather have a machine than trust myself. So ideally, you would have both a lifeguard and another independent monitoring system for non-lifeguards. They could be fail-safes for each other.
How often does it happen that a lifeguard has to intervene in a swimming pool? I've been in pools a lot throughout my life and have never witnessed it.

Those kids also don't seem to be able to swim. In The Netherlands its obligatory for children to have their swim diploma before being allowed in the deep end. Also since swim school is part of primary education not many children exist above the age of thirteen that can't swim that I'm aware of. Is it different in the states?
There's actually a bit of text below the video. I didn't see it at first either. Great intention but the tool could use a little polish.
Friendly reminder: rescuing a drowning person (even a child) is incredibly dangerous if you have not been trained in how to do it. They will try to climb on top of you if they get a hold of you and unless you are an exceptionally strong swimmer they will then proceed to drown you. The drowning reflex overrides most people's abilities to process other thoughts, with the result that a loved one is just as likely to drown you as a stranger.

Many people are embarrassed by their inability to swim and so won't mention it in circumstances that you would expect them to -- visits to water parks, beaches, lakes, or even acting jobs that involve being pushed off a dock into a lake (oy). Don't assume that a person can swim, even if they tell you otherwise.
> Yes, so what? That's the nature of freelance marketplaces. So those types of businesses don't even belong in a discussion about Uber. They involve different business transactions.

I find it somewhat humorous that you don't realize that this is the entire point. "Contractors" are supposed to have these freedoms, however Uber workers do not. The differences exactly like these are why their workers are being force-reclassified to "employees".
Rarely to random people say: "Hey, that looks like a good industry to disrupt!" It usually comes from the people that actually work in the industry and have experienced the inefficiencies first-hand. They then work with outsiders to actually implement solutions.

I work in med-tech on the tech side. Every CEO of the small companies I deal with have 15+ years in medicine. Almost all of them have experience in both the practitioner and administrator roles. From my experience, these arrogant outsiders you speak of either don't exist or make such an insignificant impact that you'd have to put effort into actually finding them.
Thanks for the replies. What about able swimmers?

I've played water polo for several years. When participating in an activity where it's mandatory to wear a life jacket, I do, but is there really a point?
Maybe I missed something, but using cProfile to read the produced stats is a bit of a pain in the neck. I was debugging a django application, where every request involves a large call stack either through the django web server or (in my unfortunate case) through the templating library, so a lot of cruft was in the profile. I had to dig through the underlying dicts that made up the stats output.
Ad-free social network with one-to-one, one-to-group and one-to-many communication.
The MPAA is not "Hollywood" and had not been so for a long time.

MPAA current members:
Sony, Disney, Fox, Universal, Warner and Paramount.

Netflix is not a member. Lionsgate is not a member. You tube is certainly not a member. The MPAA therefore doesn't represent the content industry let alone all of Hollywood. Those writing about the MPAA (Wired) should not take its word as representative of anyone other than its FIVE backers. And some of those (Sony) aren't exactly happy with them these days.
The use of reference counting is suddenly really compelling for me to try out Tcl a bit. I've been looking for a good reference-counted language (other than Perl, which is where much of my programming background originated), and Tcl's looking more and more like a good fit.
Do memristors read or write based on the applied voltage? I noticed that in some of the intel marketing material.
I agree that former is harder. Thanks for the insight.
Yeah, that's what people say, I just don't really get it. Kneecapping their economy is a lot more aggressive than any level of bluster or bravado, and has not been all that secretive in implementation (i.e., overt sanctions on economic sectors and particular individuals).
I'm a big fan of very early swim lessons.

For Silicon Valley based parents, recommend AVAC. http://www.avac.us/
PSVita:NeopopVita Release Candidate and Problems with PSM Solved
rsc's talk was really good. Glad some of the best minds from the Bell Labs team are thriving at Google now.

Uriel would have been very proud to see this day. Rest in peace.
I am curious about this because different camps scream about its "everything is a stringish thing casted as needed" type of language. (I know that is an oversimplification, but hear me out.)

I wonder how that translates, at all or well, to compiling languages like Java.

Will have to read on. Sounds neat!
Yeah, actually I was looking in Jersey City and they were $1500, $4500 is insane to me. I'm from the NY tri-state area but I never bothered trying to live in NYC.
Windows 10 review: Microsoft goes back to the future
Obama: If I Ran for a Third Term, I Could Win
No required training in the States that I'm aware of and there are a surprising number of people who can't swim.

Most people who can't are in landlocked states and whose family either does not go to public pools or none of the family has a private pool.

No pool, no beach, no "real reason" to learn to swim.
This website made me totally lose the plot, while attempting to spot the drowning child from the beginning of the video after refreshing the page.
That's kind of true (definitely NOT TRUE). But as you can also read in the article that you referred to. The source for this article is Zimperium. So who rewrites it first is not the owner of an article, or the owner of an importat news that need to be spread asap. Please don't influence peoples by this kind of comments. Thanks for your feedback anyway.
If that population is practically nil, then what's the problem with torrents/pirating?

Nobody doing it: no loss to the studios.

Even without knowing exactly, precisely how many people int he USA are torrenting and pirating, the studios seem to think it's a Great Big Deal, and are willing to splash out a lot of cash, and a lot of good will to get torrenting stopped. That would seem to indicate that the US population that cares about torrents is actually pretty large.
Hey, writer of the article here. What browser are you using? It will help me fix the that bug you mentioned of the social bar covering the text. Thanks!
Hey there! I'm the author of this. Thanks for sharing.
Here in Chicago, fiber is either tied to the 100+ year old L tracks or run through the more recent L tunnels. The L has a system length of just a tad over 100 miles and covers a good part of the city. Makes perfect sense to run everything through there. The only downside I see is that its within easy each of vandals in some locations, especially where the L tracks start descending into tunnels.

There was an article not too long ago about how some parts of India still rely on telegraph for any sort of communication and the government's plan to modernize it all. I'm a little surprised no one has figured out a DSL-like technology to use existing telegraph lines for high speed data. According to wikipedia the German postoffice had a 50 baud link working in 1933 using teleprinters. Even a 512kb link would be of use, assuming we can beat those speeds by 10x 80 years later.
these guys claim 55nm mram: http://www.avalanche-technology.com/about/public-relations
> But the reason that clickbait works, is that people like clickbait.

No, the reason that clickbait works is because the clickbait itself (which is the thing which is presented before you click the link) looks like something that the user is likely-enough to like that they are willing to click it to find out.

The whole reason that its called clickbait is that that impression is often deceptive. So, getting feedback of the quality of the target of clickbait links would be potentially useful in weeding out the garbage.
Hah! Thanks for pointing it out. I thought it was made up.
AOPA lobbies to delay unleaded fuel at every opportunity [1] [2] [5]. Unleaded fuel is available now [3], but 10% of owners would have to spend some money to stop poisoning 3 million children [4].

[1] http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2015/April/01/Bi...

[2] http://www.agairupdate.com/article_detail.php?_kp_serial=000...

[3] http://www.flyingmag.com/blogs/flying-time/transition-unlead...

[4] the link in my GP post

[5] http://blog.aopa.org/vfr/?p=870
Yeah, but then there's still the issue of secrets, you need to have testing PayPal credentials, testing mailing service credentials, etc. There's the issue of deploying changes fast without leaving files in an inconsistent state (you don't want half of some file to run). How about installing the required dependencies?

I don't use Docker, but those are problems I can think of off the top of my head.
I thought it was a really good practice, and didn't feel it was assholeish at all. It's not like having your camper stolen was unavoidable. If there's a lapse in your attention long enough that allows someone to walk up to one of your campers, explain to them what's going on and walk away with them, there's a lapse in your attention long enough for your camper to drown. You're signing up for your job with the primary description of, "Keep these kids safe for a week."

Plus, it wasn't a secret. We all knew it was happening. If all the counsellors down by the waterfront were being attentive and they couldn't steal a camper, one of the admins would just come up to a counsellor and ask us to take one of our kids, and tell us to go report a missing camper to the lifeguard in about 5-minutes.

Now as a parent, I'd much rather send my kid to a camp where the counsellors are terrified of losing my kid, than one where they're not.
Here's the point in the keynote where he starts talking about it - really interesting stuff! https://youtu.be/0rPpCnFE-hU?t=33m34s
Sounds like a completely reasonable belief!
Does this have any chance in being put into electronics in the next year?
Google-backed ZenPayroll plans to hire 1,750 people in Denver
The funny thing is that I remember as a kid using a borrowed set of water wings (I'm assuming those are the inflatable things that go on the upper arms?). I was like 9 years old, and could barely swim by doing a back stroke (floating on my back, and somewhat making my way across the water). But when I put those water wings on, it gave me just enough support that I learned that afternoon how to do a breast stroke and side stroke, and ended up being a fairly strong swimmer after that (only used them that one time though).
> There's a standard for most things happening in a browser, which means that things look pixel-perfectly the same on a huge amount of browsers <snip>he browser is basically what the JVM tried to be, a write once work anywhere solution that is pretty well sandboxed. It's miles better than pretty much every other cross-platform piece of tooling in existence.

That's a good theory. My experience as a consumer of web sites across chrome, firefox, chrome on mobile, and firefox on mobile leaves me with a perspective more aligned with reality than theory. The same pages vary widely across these platforms. It's not uncommon for form fields to be illegible on one or more of them, layout is different, readability is different.

Maybe once we get that little problem ironed out (whether it be people building websites badly or things aren't as compatible as they should be, I don't know) we can talk about taking it further...
Best First birthday party entrance ever
I really like HN's https://news.ycombinator.com/not-a-real-page