skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using PTVS for about two weeks now. Previously I just used Spyder which shipped with the Anaconda distribution.

Some things that annoy me:

- Reading intellisense python documentation in the mouse over window is really tedious. There is an object window that can display documentation for your classes, but not from libraries.

- Rendered docs are much easier to read. Spyder did this very well. With PTVS I'm looking at the docs online for numpy and matplotlib. With spyder I just ctrl+I and it displays using sphinx very nicely.

- I was not able to get IPython to cooperate with displaying plots in separate windows in executing scripts as easy in PTVS compared to Spyder.

- Being able to commit and push to github is a great feature.

- Spyder had superior debugging features in terms of examining array data throughout the debug process. Make plots just by right clicking the object in the variables window. Very useful for making sure a step for a scientific algorithm is doing what I intended.

I'm hoping more features like the above will be added over time. However I'm looking at going back to Spyder + some git plugin or tool, or switching to PyCharm.
> Surprisingly most normal folks don't really get what "follow" means, and the slightly arcane terminology of twitter. The learning curve is a bit steep - and most users sign up, hang around for a while, don't really invest in discovering and following the right people, and soon just give up and never come back.

Question, do these people who find it hard to grasp how twitter works have facebook accounts? As facebook is way more complicated than twitter is (which is just a textbox, a submit button and that's basically it).
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IMHO a lot of people stop with twitter because they don't get the right social circle going: they follow a bunch of people but don't gain much followers and who they gain aren't really engaging in any activity, so it feels as if they're posting text in a document they store on their own computer: no-one really sees it nor cares.

Twitter has the downside that it's really 'in the moment': stuff that's tweeted now is interesting now, not tomorrow. This gives a problem with people who open twitter occasionally: they're likely not on twitter when something happens IRL and everyone's tweeting about it. With Facebook this is different, as things aren't really 'in the moment', or at least aren't depending on that that much: it's perfectly fine to read someone's post 2 days after it's been posted.
Some laws should be broken.

I'm sure you have your own list of exceptions.
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Thanks. I'm currently spending my free time learning ML and strengthening up my math. I'm not sure I would want to commit to supporting DH again. Maybe one day though.

When I shut it down, DH had ~5K users and supporting it was work then. Not to mention no employers really seemed to care about it so it kind of made me wonder what I was doing it for. I made no money and I had people hitting me up to fix this or that.

Be careful what you wish for!
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Because a lot of C++ code predates the STL (or at least the STL being made available for whatever compiler they use).
Salmon protocol provides very powerful decentralised commenting - http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SWA...
I got all that too, East Asian Music in particular was pretty confusing. The rest could have come from stuff like my wife using my computer after me.
I agree with you, and I think companies are abusing the word "sharing." If I lend my neighbor a tool, that's sharing. If I bring cookies in to work and put them in the break room for everybody, that's sharing.

If I visit a website, order something and pay for it, then it's not sharing - it's ordering a product or service. I don't care who actually owns the car or the room.
"I want to stop you right there. I think your objective from here out is to make sure you never find yourself unemployable again - rather than waiting and/or hoping it doesn't happen."

I think that's kinda like saying, "I want to stop you right there. Instead of buying auto insurance, your objective should be to not get into a car accident again." It's a nice goal, but you're gonna need a backup plan for if something goes wrong.
There are different types of recruiters. Some are those worthless spamlords, who pester candidates with irrelevant jobs and submit worthless candidates to hiring managers.

But the good ones look for good matches and good candidates, and don't waste people's time with junk. One recruiter placed more people on my team, with a much higher hit-rate, than any other one I dealt with; when I was interested in changing positions, I let him know, and after a month in which he didn't bother me at all, he pointed me toward an opening that was a perfect fit for me.

If you build up relationships with recruiters, you'll learn which are which, and how to ignore the Robert Halfs and Manpowers while still getting the benefit of the good ones.
I completely disagree. I was working at FedEx as a programmer in 2012, and decided to make a move due to some internal changes. I made that decisions about two months before PyCon - at PyCon, I had two interviews, one of which landed me a great job at a significant pay increase.

During those two months, I had phone interviews with two other companies, one of which I bowed out of the process because as I learned more I didn't believe in their mission, and the other I got turned down on.

The sum total of my "trying to find a job" was making a profile on StackOverflow Careers and answering a Reddit ad.

For what it's worth, I have no degree and am self-taught. In 2012, I had ~5 years of experience as a full-time dev, and none of it was in a traditional environment.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998011
Document intent not algorithm: An use case
I'm not usually a fan of the full-screen art on medium posts - something about having to scroll a full page before being able to actually read anything - but that one is really well done. There's actual substance to it, and it doesn't have the 'pull something pseudo-relevant from stock photos' that most of them do (even when they're not stock).
2 are included. +2 for another 2 or 3 bucks.
This is one of the reasons I've become, lately, a big supporter of the IPFS - Internet Permanent File System - http://ipfs.io/

I think its very important for us to engineer ways to perpetuate human culture as expressed on the web. Having been privileged to witness the birth of the Internet and the subsequent explosion in human expression as described by the Web, I'm very concerned that we are losing so much with every new site update, every change/refactor of existing communities, every death of a blog. I remember so many wonderful, enriching things happening in the early days of the Web, which are all gone now .. being replaced with terrible instruments of cultural devolution. With tech like IPFS, I hope we are able to construct a less neurotic corpus of human information - that the truly valuable stuff sticks around longer than the current attention span, and remains available for years to come. I'm of course, explicitly not referring to cat pics.
> Prime postage is now tied to a physical address (not Amazon Account), regardless of sender

This isn't going to go over well. If you think the original Amazon Household was abused, this would be a lot worse. I live in NYC in a small building (no doorman), so I get everything delivered to my office, as do most of my coworkers. If 49/50 of the people working on my floor dropped Prime because we get it from just one person, Amazon won't be happy.
s/union/guild/ just like doctors, lawyers.

A good doctor/lawyer is not easily replaced, and lawyers have fantastic negotiation skills by definition :-)

Yet they have very powerful guilds (professional organizations)
I tried using Inconsolata but recently switched to Anonymice pro.
>> My job is to help our companies make hardware people want faster and better than ever before.

Wha??

Your job should be to go back to school to learn how to write down your thoughts faster and better than ever before ;)
I'm actually really glad they got the paper out there as a small pdf (and I'm actually glad they compared it to other commercial renderers). The reason is that it shows very real world performance results. Not only that but cache coherency optimization results are shocking and illuminating to many people because it seems so counter intuitive when there technically aren't more instructions being ran.

Every paper I read now I am looking for all the things that were left out, how the comparisons have been changed for each scene to make that particular algorithm look good etc.

It answered a big question lingering in my mind that I haven't been able to actually try out.
I've used Scala's call-by-name, but what I really wanted was call-by-let taking the argument as pure and evaluating at most once in the called function.
The whole point of Twitter is to know what's going on in the world of people and things you're interested in, BUT, and perhaps more importantly, IMHO foster conversation. The latter is completely opaque to someone who is new to the service. Conversation threads are buried under a click/touch and even then, it's hard to parse it.

I think the best thing Twitter could do is to downplay the importance of favorites and retweets (though they are important for growth but are a proxy for ego boost for the average user and not easy unless you're popular or important), and make the replies and conversations to a tweet/news story more prominent and "always-on" (with some limit of course, lest you see 500 replies to a Britney Spears tweet -- but then again, if you're following someone like that, may be you want to know what people are saying about it).

Engage more people in the conversation and surface it better. New users will have a much better grasp on what Twitter is if they do this.

My 2c.
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Of course it does, but that's not exactly the same thing, now is it?
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It's more complicated than a simple breakdown of "high price because of taxes".

Part of it, not shown in that breakdown below, is the "Public Service Obligation (PSO)" tariff DKK 0.214/kwh (USD 0.031/kwh), primarily used to subsidize renewable energy (http://energinet.dk/EN/El/Engrosmarked/Tariffer-og-priser/Si...). Given the wikipedia cited total price of ~USD 0.40/kwh, and the breakdown linked below showing that the actual cost of the electricity is only 18% of that, 7.2 cents per kwh, a 3.1 cent per kwh renewable energy subsidy is pretty significant...

Note that this subsidy has been going up with the increase in wind power. Q1 2014 price was DKK 0.19 - http://www.energinet.dk/EN/OM-OS/Nyheder/Sider/Energinet-dk-...)

"""For example, some wind turbines are guaranteed a fixed price for the electricity they generate.

The PSO tariff rises, as the electricity price is low at the moment and the difference between the amount the electricity consumers must pay for electricity and the amount some energy producers are guaranteed thus is more significant. Furthermore, Denmark will have more renewable energy. The objective is that 50% of all electricity must come from wind turbines by 2020. Finally, a new increased funding to electricity generated by biogas will enter into force - and must be paid out"""

See also, http://www.energinet.dk/EN/OM-OS/Nyheder/Sider/Energinet-dk-...
The collective bargaining thing is a non-starter IMO but it would be nice to have an organization that looked out for developers legislatively, helped freelancers with contracts, etc.

In the US at least, unions are only in it for themselves. Take the recent push by California unions for a $15hr minimum wage - except for their own members. Yes, they want an exception to the law so their members can be paid less than minimum wage. [1]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-union-exemption-...
Yeah, that surprised me too, considering that Unreal Engine is free (until you ship) including source code, which is hosted on github (behind a free registration).
thanks for your feedback. we've taken down the pop-up. we were on the fence earlier about having it up and you brought up good points.
Patio11 seems to be the perfect example of what you describe - he's on HN and that's his handle.
This is an incredibly stupid analogy. Twitter doesn't give it's users money. Twitter doesn't give it's advertisers money. They run a high gross margin business. Your analogy would be a NEGATIVE gross margin business. Their cost base is too high right now given the revenue, but there is no reason to think they need to grow at the same rate. Many profitable companies at one stage ran at a loss.
I'm in a similar boat. My plan is to learn ML through application. I'm going to start doing exercises on Kaggle.

I'm also going to start focusing on the computing/architecture side once I get the theory side down.

I wonder how many other folks out there are in similar boats? We should band together lol.
At the same time, you guys are constantly complaining that you can't find qualified people.
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> they give you a dollar, you'll give them $1.50

Not sure if you know it, but that is clearly not Twitter's business model.

Twitter's costs are mostly fixed, so if it can generate $3B in revenue, it will be profitable.
Also, one of the silliest legal procedures I've seen.
It's almost like the EU wants to become irrelevant...
Because it's Windows-only still...
I think he means that his degree is not in Computer Science or a related field. Not that he does not have a degree.
Creating a Java console app is not really the same as creating a non-portable, Windows only console app. Of course VS does Windows integration better, that's kind of the point :)
Imagine this:

A website that fulfills a search query by searching google.com, then searching google.fr, then searching google.cn. It shows the results to the google.com query but gives badges to results based on which governments appear to be censoring them.
Are Yelp, GrubHub, and Uber Creating Any Lasting Value? [paywall, try Google]
India bans hundreds of porn and dating websites in misguided crackdown
I'm a thin male 5'9" 135lbs who is constantly hot even at 72. It's not just a body fat thing. My metabolism rules my temperature.
> Why is nobody stopping it?

Why does this generation assume someone else is going to fix the problems they see?
The more I read HN, the more I am convinced that the dearth of leadership & management experience among founders is the biggest reason (besides bad ideas) so many young companies fail. Seriously, reading some of the questions & answers here gives one the impression that the value YC and other incubators provide -- besides networking -- is just in keeping founders from making stupid business & management decisions.
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"We sometimes hire fresh grads without a clearance, but experienced hires are generally expected to already have them"

Sounds like the problem is one entirely of your company's making.
Yes, every one of these folks - mostly friends and family - has a Facebook account and are active users of Facebook. It is not the simplicity of having a textbox and a submit button that matters in this case - they all know how to post a tweet. It is that once they do that - nothing happens. In FB - a post often immediately gets a reaction - a like or a comment - even if they have only a few friends. The stuff you post on FB is not as transient - while your Tweet most likely disappeared in a few seconds from the timeline of your followers.
Picky Eating in Childhood Correlates with Depression and Anxiety in Adulthood
Massive leverage? Can you not read a balance sheet? They aren't drowning in debt. They have negative net debt.
During my last round of interviews last fall, places that required knowledge of major math theorems in the interview resulted in rejections 100% of the time. Interviews that either provided a definition of the math required or provided some of the steps to solve the problem resulted in job offers 100% of the time.

Oddly, while I didn't need to be able to reference the language I was using exactly (pseudocode was good enough), they wouldn't help me out with the math knowledge, implying that it was "Algebra I stuff" and that "Everyone knows that."

The interviews (and my job as an Ops guy) in general don't require advanced math knowledge. Places that require memorized knowledge about things during an interview that are not part of the job field pull crappy things. I saw this in at least half of the interviews.
> For all its problems, the fact that a lot data is published (pubchem and pubmed) is good for society as a whole. The for profit side doesn't do that to the same degree.

I work in a pharma lab, and I can tell you that a great deal of the work we do relies heavily on work done by university labs to point toward the right pathways to target.
JavaScript can't fix the legacy issues because of backwards compatibility. Not in terms of making ES2015 code work on old browsers, but making old code work on new browsers.
Man, if this is true I am going to be very very disappointed. I am very happy with Windows 10 so far. My main computer is my gaming machine which I have Windows 10 installed on. I find it very hard to believe that they would require a new install for new hardware. I mean just think, so when you need more ram or you want to add a second GPU, you need to buy windows again?!?!
"So a company that does $2B/year in revenue isn't a real business?"

If management consistently can't find a way to make that level of revenue without spending far more each year then yes it's not a real business.

If I bought iPhones at full retail and then sold them for less than I paid I'm sure I could quickly rack up tons of revenue... but this wouldn't be a real business. It's this concept that a lot of 'tech' companies struggle with and why their execs want to focus on 'user growth' and 'revenue' and not normal metrics like 'profit' and 'cost of goods sold.' The later is where it gets real ugly.

Yes, there's a 'ramp up period' where costs outweigh revenue, but Twitter has run out of runway. There's no clear sign of how they'll increase revenues to justify their cost of generating that revenue. They could start a slash-n-burn operation but everyone will just read that as the company going under and people will ditch the platform faster than MySpace.
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Sounds like BT Openreach, the last mile provider of BT Group, selling to BT Retail and BT Wholesale on the same terms as any other ISP or phone company in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openreach
To date YC has not shown a good understanding of the life sciences. It's not just about a regulatory burden, but the premise of breaking away from academia, of somehow finding a magic bullet and commercializing it, and assuming that biology is somehow like software is flawed. Sure the barriers to entry may be lower, but most science is a slog. There are very few home runs. Next-gen sequencing was a huge breakthrough and happened very fast by life science standards. The drivers came both from academia and industry and by all means it worked really well and remains highly innovative.

I completely buy that a different model of funding will help and could be successful. I just don't have a good understanding of whether there is a good understanding of the real scientific challenges and the implications.
It's a paywall that you might be able to get around from Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=Are+Yelp%2C+GrubHub%2C+and+U...
The real aim of a startup is to change the world either in the smallest, unnoticeable way or at perceptibly larger way. When you do a startup, you want to address a problem and change the world by solving that problem. If you don't want to change the world, what is your startup trying to achieve?
Btw, nobody reads books because they make choices for you, or teach you how to make choices. In fact, books don't teach anything if you are not ready to learn.
I'm working on a tool[0] using LSA [1] to mine the emails from Hacking Team so that people could use it to get more relevant results compared to what wikileaks has available (a lot of stuff to sift through to not know how each message might be related to ones queries outside of just mentioning the word in an email).

Right now I have to break up the term-message matrices by person to do before doing partial eigenvalue decomposition, to generate inverse(sigma) * transpose(u) and inverse(sigma) * transpose(v) and the lower dimensional space representation of each message for each message, but it would be cool to not have to do that if I had more computing power available (a friend let me use his 12 thread/ 6 core machine which has helped a lot while building things).

Ideally it should it hosted somewhere eventually, because the project it self might be a bit complicated/tedious for most people to set up themselves, that would allow people to search it using these indexes as well as enabling (independent) journalists to be able sift through everything in an arguably better way.

[0] https://github.com/cinquemb/hackedteam-email-index-mining

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis#Deriv...