skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That says nothing about other people.

If you say group X is different because it has more of quantity Y, then it means that you think non-Xers have less of quantity Y. You can't say a demographic is noted for a virtue, then say that this is not a comment on other people - because those other people are the baseline against which the measure is made.

> You really should apologize.

Really? Right after you accuse me a stretching, then immediately use my profile to say something I never suggested? My profile commentary is asking for accountability in the way the forum moderation works, not demanding that people behave a certain way. People are free to disagree all they want, but the way the forum manages disagreement sucks - how many times do we see people genuinely puzzled about why their comments get downmodded, and asking for explanations?

It's also a bit much to be accused of being susceptible to feeling abuse, then having an apology demanded over a passing internet disagreement. You want me to grow a thick skin, but don't have one yourself?
Is it possible that they're using "sequential" strictly, to mean that the arithmetic isn't vectorized? What's the scalar throughput like?
That seems right, I must've swapped that behavior with that of pointers in my head.
needs some music!!! Crashman, possibly the catchiest song..
To provide a counterpoint, and I say this as a big casual user of Haskell and Rust (both immutable by default), but a professional Java developer.

I work on a large, mainly Java codebase. If we used `final` everywhere it is applicable, the code would have a ton of visual noise. We find that `final` is not as valuable in most cases.

`final` doesn't buy you as much in Java as `const` does in C, or (the lack of) `mut` in Rust.

In Rust, I can pass in an object reference without mut, and I know that the object will be the exact same after the function call.

In Java, even if a function takes `final ArrayList<..> xs`, the function can still delete every element of your array, modify elements at will, etc.

That means `final` is basically useless as far as using an API goes (I don't care if the implementation of a function reassigns to the same variable as the object I'm passing in, but I do care if they mutate it).

`final` only helps you avoid dumb reassignment bugs that tests should probably catch anyway, and in that case, if you are already writing good tests, why pollute the code with the visual noise of `final`?
Congratulations, this is really a beautiful software. Do you have an idea of the total budget spent in such beautiful project?
If anyone's curious on how it is possible to list all the rational numbers, it would go something like this:

0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 1/2, -1/2, 3, -3, 1/3, -1/3, 2/3, -2/3, 3/2, -3/2, 4 ...

at each step you list the numbers where the numerator and denominator are <= x. For example, if x = 2, we can count 1, -1, 2, -2, 1/2, and -1/2. Obviously it is an infinite list, but you can list them.
Cool! Reminds me of kdiff3 but can do terminal output. Nice.
“Googles 'vertical center div css' for the 100th time. reads for 7 minutes”
Light Raises $25M to Put DSLR-Quality Camera in Your Next Smartphone
Are you saying that it's hopeless to expect businesses not to be jerks, or that it's morally acceptable to be a jerk as long as the shareholders see a return on it?
i'd like to be able to see comments in the widget without having to go to hacker news.
With only a bit of extra state-machine glue, you'd have a clean and standards-compliant websocket-based VPN.
So the problem as I see it is the layers of complexity of record deals. In my limited experience with the music biz(released a record on itunes, a few side soundtrack projects, and 3 friends with major label deals) there isnt much chance of making money from the record deal itself until you have accomplished the following:
1) > 2 profitable and high selling records
2) a solid fan base
3) luck

One of my friends was signed to Barsuk records, and released 2 albums with them. He made about 25k per year including touring. He released 2 more albums independently and licensed a song for a microsoft zune commercial. He was telling me about some of the details of his record deal, and it obviously wasn't a super good deal for him, but he was just taking whatever he could to get on. He maintained a near constant touring schedule which broke up his marriage, and it generally just made his life really hard. This guy still struggles, I havent spoken to him in about a year or so but he may have given up.

Another was signed to hollywood records, got major label promotion as a VH1 artist to watch with heavy rotation. His first album didnt sell very well and he got dropped. He is still a semi full time musician in Austin right now.

I recently stayed at an up and coming country musicians apartment(she is a friend of a friend), she sold 1 million copies of her self penned single. While she is doing way better than I was at that age, she lives very modestly.( I dont know all the specifics of her deal, and she is young and wants to live simply so she could have a million bucks in the bank but I doubt it)

Anyway, I mention this because from what I know of their deals, the record companies still treat them largely like they still spend big bucks at a big studio, and manufacture vinyl, CDs and cassettes for the bulk of the revenue. The music biz is making a killing on streaming because manufacturing is so low these days, and anyone can have a laptop studio capable of professional recording for 5-10k. The situation for artists wont change until record companies are not their main outlet.
No...after the first X minutes, the option to change the title is lost. Maybe a mod will change it though.
How do circRNA-based biomarkers compare to miRNA-based approaches?
It's possible that unlike Instagram and Whatsapp, the next hot new app that's popular with young people will be bought by a competitor of Facebook's rather than Facebook - or will just refuse to be bought by anybody and challenge Facebook on their own terms.

It's also possible that open social platforms like Diaspora will start attracting away some of Facebook's more privacy-oriented users.
Is that the obstacle to turning them into businesses? I think getting paying customers is the hard piece of the puzzle? The cashflow will help solve the spag-bowl problem. You can hire a chief refactoring officer :-)
I really liked StumbleUpon exactly for this feature until they ruined the product during the monetization phase.

Edit:
Having comments is really important. Maybe marked by color of source (blue for reddit and orange for hacker news) and separated into submission sections. Also important is the preservation of the original tree structure of the submission comments.
Congrats! Co-founder of AsthmaMD here.

I'm curious why you are going through doctors and not direct to consumers at the begging? I understand FDA might force you to limit your marketing claims, however you now need to convince both physicians and consumers of the benefits of these tests. No? Where as I would imagine there will be enough early-adopters in the consumer space who'd be happy to pay for a test like this.

You can later move to the physicians space and assuringly get insurance companies cover the costs, when you have been more stablished.

Would love to learn more about your thinking and strategy here.
That problem is orthogonal to the discussion and not absent in real contracts either.
I disagree. Unless they're breaking licenses or taking credit for someone else's work, it's not dirty money. Is it shameful for Apple to make money from an OS based on FreeBSD?
I am happy with my faith. I've gone through a crisis of it. I've come out much stronger on the other side.

Specifically to the extreme, during that time I re-evaluated possible philosophic systems. I am an absolutist. I think there is Truth. Without a god, I needed to see if there was any system that provided a similar world view. Existential nihilism does. It says that the only fact we have is that nothing fundamentally matters (I'm treating existential nihilism apart from the extreme skeptics that deny the existence of things). The universe will die, or collapse and re-expand. Regardless to the exact details, every invention and power of man amounts to nothing. Therefore since every man is within the group man, individual acts amount to nothing. I've not seen a more honest system than this. I want an honest system

Most other systems are predicated on a quasi-Christian-like system. They believe that people are somehow different than everything else in the universe. That they have intrinsic meaning while nothing else does. Or they go to the other extreme that makes everything equally special, and as we're taught in the movie The Incredibles, nothing is special then. As we've seen in this thread, the view might boil down to "it makes me feel good to help people".

The problem that I have with such systems is that they ultimately anchor to a feeling or some other arbitrary truth. Upon that rock an edifice is made from which various dogmas are shouted. If I were to throw away one system of belief with that behavior, why would I adopt another?

As a result, I find that there are only two systems that could be true given what humanity knows: some form of theism or nihilism. I'm convinced of the former, specifically Jesus as the Christ, but I find no honest system possible other than nihilism if my feeling and beliefs were some how shown to be false.
Today we call this "IDFA".
The article's main concern is that "decline of religiosity has probably led to increased loneliness". The loneliness concern doesn't seem to resonate with the commenters here, so I dug in to the article's footnoted references.

The gist of the references is that loneliness is a problem for old adults, and religious community helps them. Intuitively, religious communities could probably help other groups at elevated risk of loneliness (the youth, the poorly educated, the depressed, etc.) even though I don't see studies showing that they do. The article's statement that "people are lonelier than ever before" is not supported by the references (except insofar as the population is aging, and the elderly are lonelier than the middle-aged). Footnote 11 suggests increasing social isolation across society but is, imo, not conclusive. Footnote 15 explicitly asks "Are we getting lonelier?" and finds the results inconclusive.

On the whole, it seems consistent to say "I'm not lonely right now, but I think that more diverse, intergenerational communities would be good for society."
because now you are 9-5-ing it for a salary that is above the median wage for Seattle. ( http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2013/09/median-incom... ). Considering that this is also above the median income for the Washington and the US as a whole.

There were a number of people making less than that at Gravity Payments; so it seems likely that there are other qualified people in the area who will appreciate the salary that you are now grumpy over.

In fact, apparently 1000s are applying to Gravity Payments hoping to take any grumpy person's job.

So if you are grumpy and 9-5ing it (as you said); why should Gravity Payments keep you?

How would your stated attitude help you work with people who did get a raise?

This kind of attitude is toxic.
A few wealthy foreign property owners are a drop in the bucket compared to a structural deficit of 3.5 million homes.

Yes, you found the exact problem.

But, with such a current high demand, all sales end up going to these wealthy few since supply is so restricted. We see it every day. Multi-million dollar condos and houses going for 150% to 200% over asking price (in cash, paid in full at closing, either by wire or by literal black duffel bags full of currency delivered by their proxy lawyer who doesn't ask too many questions). Bidding wars for simple apartments. If you try to buy housing as a worker (by saving from your paychecks to obtain a downpayment), you'll always be out priced by people who can just drop 20x your net worth on a whim—in cash.

If only we could tear down the sunset districts and replace them with more modern high density housing plus a real transit system. Heck, if only we could step back and get a real transit system between San Jose and SF at all. It shouldn't take 90 minutes to go 40 miles on dedicated track. A 90 minute commute (if you're not rush-hour bound) is the ultimate killer of morale.
If you don't care all that much about music then there's no reason you should and that's fine. I too pay 10/mo for spotify. It's worth noting though that mostly likely the huge majority of that 10$ goes to music you aren't even listening to.
How exactly do you not have to worry about dependencies? Does the Go SDL include every routine you could possibly need and is always 100% correct and bug free? If you build your static binary today and tomorrow there is a vulnerability in your libssl dependency of choice, don't you now have to recompile and redistribute a new binary? Seems like a terrible and insecure way to do things. Instead of a distro developer worrying about security updates, you have signed up to do that yourself.

As for logging, there are loads of logging libraries that support both stdout and file logging. My policy is to support both for my project and it has been almost no burden so far (in Python and in C). Not everything is containers, and having a feature like logging does not mean it cannot be used in a container.
Small nit: you can know it's the same, unless it's a type which offers interior mutability.
faceyspacey echoed that sentiment below too -- I've added expandable inline comments to the todo list (thanks!)
"The article mentions Einstein creating his theories alone. Einstein is the exception, not the rule."

Even Einstein probably spent a lot of time talking face to face with his colleagues and presenting his ideas at Physics conferences. Science progresses through the exchange of ideas, both formally and informally.

"It's just like all the people who idolize Steve Jobs and try to run their business like him..."

And I bet that Jobs, like most executives, spent most of his days in meetings rather than thinking alone in his office.
Great idea! I visited it two times only, but could definitely recognise some areas.
The Einstein thing was pretty weak. We don't need 100% asynchronous collaboration, but meetings should be treated as a last resort, not a first step. Call meetings when the features unique to meetings are needed - body language, 100% attention and instant response, etc.

Otherwise you're just wasting 1 man-hour per person in the meeting. Did we need to spend the equivalent of somebody's work day to talk about this thing? Was that needed? Because that was extremely expensive.

And the title is just click bait. If anything, meetings are legalized sabotage or vandalism. Not robbery. I don't go and steal people's time and end up with it myself.
Sure there is... Don't be grumpy over someone else's good fortune.

Be happy for them.

Be happy that they can now afford to get married.

Be happy that they can now save money to buy a house.

Be happy that they can now save for their kid's college education.

Be happy that you work for someone who cares so deeply about his employees and will be there for you when you need help.
Why Some Startups Are Called Tech Companies and Others Are Not
I understand that but I don't think you realize how hard it is for even those who are widely accepted (not self proclaimed) unique snowflakes. Also I would hope you find it easier to feel compassion for the struggling artist over the corporation, in this scenario where two sides annoy you.
This sounds quite likely. After all, how much entertainment was there back then once you'd got drunk in a courtly setting with mistresses and dismissed the lutes? Surely sharing part of the regal harem was de-facto normal! One could assume all out orgies without retiring to bechambers were feasibly frequent since lewd behavior was unlikely to be questioned or reported in a totalitarian / death-for-criticism political environment.
Instead of complaining, Roger Reynolds should be peddling his services to Gravity Payments employees who can now afford his services.
CareMessage (YC W14) Is Hiring a Director of Operations
Humans have a stubborn habit of assuming what they experience right now is the steady state future of the universe. It helps our meat selves cope with inevitable futures so we quickly believe things will always be the same from now on. (Also see: housing prices will always go up, my stock prices will always go up, i'm healthy so X doesn't matter to me, etc.)

But, facebook is a fad that will be torn down and replaced one day. If facebook is still around in 50 years, we have failed humanity by letting such a violation of privacy and invasion of decency survive into an even more modern era.
So apparently they really did close Sirkus[1], but they didn't tear down the house and build anything in its place?

[1] :´(
Most of the US founding fathers were Masons. They claimed to have founded the USA on Masonic principles.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2009/09/14/masons-and...

The problem is organizations founded to oppose the Masons are religious just as well for the most part. The ones that are secular aren't that big and don't have the money and volunteers to help out.

Corporations have gotten secular like Microsoft and Google and Apple. They try to do things to give back to the community. But still some claim they are like the old railroad companies and in it for the money.
Content sounds interesting, unfortunately it doesn't load without Google Analytics, Twitter and Facebook.
If that was possible, how are you supposed to get updates then ?
I would guess that scuttling a ship so that it descends into a deep sea trench would have minimal environmental impact. Any toxins would be contained by the immense pressure.

No, that's not how it works.

Any vessel unable to withstand the extreme pressure will rupture, and then anything contained within it will move to the point dictated by its density.
ihm's response to you I think did a great job explaining what I meant to say, but let me elaborate further.

Just like you might define computable real numbers, you may similarly describe the "definable" real numbers, that is, those numbers which are uniquely specified by logical statements. You will inevitably find that the definable real numbers, like the computable reals, appear to be countable.

So the fact that something is computable, per se, isn't exactly what makes the real numbers countable rather than uncountable.

I use the vocabulary of meta-theory and models, because the practice of defining either the countable reals or the definable reals within a formal system looks a whole lot like defining a formal system within itself (i.e., metatheory). So the fact that the computable reals and the definable reals appear countable, is, at least to me, much like the statement that there are countable models of your favorite formal system.
I didn't get anything from that interview. Can someone enlighten me?
Why would you still use FB today? There are better photo sharing apps, there are better messenging apps, there are better broadcasting apps. The fact that FB monolithically encloses these is only relevant on a desktop browser.

FBs biggest strength is it's market share, the fact that you can be reasonably assured that you _can_ look up that girl from that party on it.

But that strength is waning, especially in the sub 20s who are strangely rediscovering what sharing on the internet used to be. We have yikyak instead of IRC for community based anon-chat. We have whatsapp and wechat instead of AIM for non-anon chat. We have tumblr instead of geocities for free expression front walls.

Kind of funny how far people think we've come and how innovative these new apps are. It's all just a rehash wrapped up in pretty colors with trendy logos.

It was cool for about 5 years, then people started realizing that maybe it wasn't a good idea to have your smoking cyph posting pictured of bongs on your biometric profile that you got pressured into sharing with the boss and mom. No clue what happened to that early 90s generation. The late 90s are way more savvy.
I've read that Wing Commander anecdote before, and it still doesn't make any sense to me (also I don't remember that original message "Thank you for playing Wing Commander" message and every abandonware version I found had a different message - "You step out of the airlock and into.."). It doesn't make sense because EMM386 is the expanded memory manager that came with DOS. It's not something you ship with your game and can hex edit at will. Now if it was a 3rd party library that USED EMM386, and which they didn't have the source for, then that might make sense..
> The argument against minimum wage increases is that it has a ripple effect and raises other wages as well

CORRECTED: The argument IN FAVOR of minimum wage increases is that it has a ripple effect and raises other wages as well
I've had too many people ask me, "What's the point to an older automobile?", or lately, "Why do you like/collect those old watches?"

My answer is usually, "Yea, you're right--I should look into new stuff?"

I then ask about that old Toyota truck with the 22r engine collecting leafs on the street. "Do you want to sell?" Oh yea, if you have any old watches--I buy those too?"

Years ago I got tired of trying to explain aesthetics, or the beauty of a well designed mechanical object.

I tried to put a new stereo in a later model Ford this weekend. I told a family relative, I need to access one of the computers with a scan tool. I think I need a bi-directional scan tool--which I don't have. I put a portable radio on the passenger seat, until I figure how to change the radio?
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
Anyone have an archive of this? The link won't work.
Well that's another thing. My comment was referring to the fact that many documentaries list 19th England as a tipping point about views on sexuality that backfired silently, turning people away from natural relationship into hidden ~perverted~ customs.

I didn't know the British still had a hand in Indian economy but I guess they still need their old 'supervisor' behind the curtain.
For that matter, it's really just a matter of faith that the settings completely disable the sending of this information (or disable it at all).
There's a whole lot of desperation in the air when you're final-ing and your development director is standing over your shoulder at 1 in the morning. :-)
> Who doesn't want more money? Who doesn't have getting less?

The answer to both questions in this case was:

the CEO

The money came from his paycheck.
LDA implementation using PyMC. Feedback welcome
> He also get formulas like: pq divides a^pq - a^p - a^q + a

Incidentally, assuming you mean p and q to be distinct primes, this latter formula is almost just another instance of Fermat's little theorem: we have that q divides (a^p - a)^q - (a^p - a) and p divides (a^q - a)^p - (a^q - a) (that's the little theorem), and then that q divides (a^(pq) - a^q) - (a^p - a)^q and p divides (a^(pq) - a^p) - (a^q - a)^p (that's essentially the binomial theorem); so both p and q divide a^(pq) - a^p - a^q + a.
New Video VIRAL
Steve S eloquently addresses the fallacies inherent in the anti-anti-racism argument. The piece's own introduction is its own best lede:

You said I've been ignoring class, which is demonstrably false, but in your effort to focus almost _exclusively_ on class, it seems to me that you've been ignoring race, and more importantly, racism. This turns out to be a very bad idea, especially since you're actually in favor of equality.

It doesn't matter that the notion of race doesn't have any biological support or even make much sense when you really think about it. Racists don't care about the science and aren't burdened with an excess of clear thought. Excuses for forming tribes and abusing outsiders don't really have to make sense, but that doesn't make them any less effective.

Race is an illusion: a very powerful one, often fatally so....

Read the rest.