skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The topic is complex. Author is right that law/science/anything-orginated standard of language is a trap and misunderstanding. On the other hand this can be easly interpreted as "we can speak just as we want".

As a language freak (and polyglot by the way) I have found out that one should develop his own language and in fact he/she's gonna do it anyway, the only choise - consciously or not. I've choosen to constantly improve my language and I like this decision, I've seen how big is language's influence on speaker. It's just like an operating system for computer.

On the other hand if you want communicate efficiently you must accept the fact that everybody have own word meanings and speak a little differently and you should adapt to it. Another thing is relation language-subconsciousness, I belive there's very broad influence. Those factors that make caring about language worth. By the way conforming national standard is not the best way: "who's language - he/she rules", so if you want to rule, you need your personal.

As usual, we need to find the golden mean.
A lot of companies make you sign an agreement to arbitrate instead of going through the courts. That would mitigate the risk for them that they would get sued. Arbitrators don't use juries.

Hopefully the California legislature passes AB 465 and bans pre-dispute arbitration clauses.

Companies need to fear being sued in the courts if they misbehave, and should not be able to keep the disputes private and out of the court records.
The most American thing there is: eating alone
I like how you applied pure logic to the Bible problem.
That was just an example for how even the court system, in the U.S. takes religion as the de facto standard for setting moral ground. :)

I do not agree though that text isn't the right form. We will probably never talk to each other in person, but we had a text-mediated prolific and mature discussion that, in the end, enriched both of us.

Thanks.
agree, this guy likes the smell of his own farts. Would not want to work for or under him.
That's an absolutely incorrect statement.

Before switching to programming, I was a research associate. Internships, publications, the whole deal.

I would argue that cancer research and the other biomed research my colleagues did was absolutely useful to society. Yet it's no secret that if you want to be financially self sufficient, a B.S. in biology is a horrible way to go about it. Sure, there's private industry, but then

a. How useful to society is working for Pfizer, GSK, etc?
b. Is it really a viable option when you have dozens of applicants per job option?

People in development are in a great spot in the job market today. Demand outstrips supply, high salaries, etc. That said, do not think that the rest of the world is like that. The world also needs lawyers, researchers, teachers, and a whole list of other jobs, yet those jobs are also well known for having horrible job markets and lots of debt.
Java is great for middleware and backend systems.
yeah about that last line you quoted, something rubbed me in the wrong way. OP was articulate and does come across as intelligent but people who say shit like they are autodidacts, polymaths who can hold their own amongst PhDs, etc... the people in real life whom i've heard say similar hot air stuff often ends up not as good as they claim, when challenged by someone who is truly an expert.
There's been a lot of crack downs in China. Prices are about 70 bucks a gram on the darknet, and much higher locally. Local stuff is cut to shit to, and you'll likely never find liquid.
DirecTV's first 4K set-top box works with any screen
PHP: I ain't going nowhere.
Primatologist Frans de Waal Responds to His New Atheist Critics
I recognize myself a fair bit in this, though I probably tend to overdiagnose myself. But now I've got questions!

How did you learn so much about your neurochemistry, especially your neurotransmitter levels? Any past experiences with medication?

And how do you deal with creative downtime, or relaxing?
I had to laugh at how familiar this all sounded. I've observed again and again how there was an inherent conflict of interest in a hierarchy of ambitious people trying to climb the ever-narrowing tree between serving the company and serving those few who are responsible for your own promotion.

The bigger the company gets, the bigger the conflict, because as a company grows, your contribution is known to a shrinking subset of the company and your distance from the people at the top (whose compensation is most benefited by overall company success) increases to the point that you become invisible to them.

Your promotion will almost always be determined by your immediate subtree of superiors. If you want your contribution to the company overall to count for more, you have to work for a company where your personal subtree and the company itself differ less, e.g., a smaller company.
What does this say for the GMAT? The test has two categories: verbal and quantitative. 35% of Verbal questions fall into a category called 'Sentence Correction', which test grammar. Many correct answers to these questions are hotly-debated and often in contradiction to current style guides.

Perhaps, there is some value in segmenting test-takers in their ability to learn and apply an arbitrary set of rules in place of their own. But, perhaps not.
Hey, that's my ketamine doctor (Brooks)! Fantastic guy.
Well, at least that's what I read all the time. I couldn't confirm it, too, but I always thought that's just because I'm perfectly fine with Qt. QML is also pretty good for responsive UI.

Maybe these companies prefer the web stuff because most developers know it anyway.
The lab-grown brain...contains 99 percent of the genes present in the human fetal brain.

"We are thrilled to have finally created a living human brain in a vat. This is an exciting experiment and one that has absolutely no possible ethical ramifications of any kind whatsoever, now or wherever it may lead in the future," the not-evil scientist Anand added enthusiastically and without visibly fighting the urge to twirl his totally not-evil mustache.

"It's simply completely obvious that this is a great direction to go in and one that will never give anyone any pause. More biscuits?"
That's one of the reasons that I'm excited about decentralized storage. Data stored on dozens or hundreds of nodes spread across multiple countries and jurisdictions is much more robust to things like earthquakes, storms, government intervention, and companies going out of business or changing their profitability model. It has a much stronger defence against black swan events.

When you are storing many billions of files consuming many millions of disks, you become vulnerable to black swan events, simply because you are rolling the dice so many times.
How We Got to Now is excellent! Quick and fascinating read. Especailly loved the story about Ada Lovelace at the end - waaay ahead of her times.
Real World Elm – Part 1
If you read carefully, you'll see that I was saying the "good enough" attitude is toxic. I was not complaining about not having the tools(I don't even write Go) and a contributor mentioned above that it just wasn't a priority(which I have some beef with) but is a fair statement.

There are some problems that can't be solved by printf debugging. They include:

-GPU Performance profiling: All your commands are async and appear immediate, teasing out performance characteristics takes a massive suite of tests and may not even reproduce your issue.

-Thread concurrency issues: Adding a printf can actually make these bugs disappear as printf usually has some sort of memory fence or flush semantics that change behaviour.

-Platforms that can't handle large amounts of trace logging: Sony PSP was one of these where each printf() required the tcp ack before the buffer would clear after a trivial amount of logs.

One of the core tenants of comp sci and technology in general is building on what came before. That's where our productivity gains come from. Not taking that approach is a dangerous mentality that can have serious implications on your velocity and agility and is not a choice to be made lightly.
No problems.

There are bunch more waiting to come out that I can't wait to try. MXE hole in the market still needs to be filled as it gets slowly banned everywhere.
Can you recommend any for a newcomer to look at?
This guy turned his failure on 'Shark Tank' into a $28M investment
Honestly, c) should read

c) Leave: there are plenty of good middle managers who protect you from toxic politics from above. Find one, and stick with them.

In fact, that is almost explicitly the job of a middle manager. They provide you (and the rest of the team) clear direction when upper-level politics get toxic, and weather the storm by providing a good "face" for your project. The middle manager worries about the politics while you the engineer work your ass so that the middle manager doesn't have to take a fall.

As I've stated in other posts in this topic, you don't necessarily have to leave the company. And its often very possible to find another manager close by who can be a positive influence on the team. It may take a few tries though...
...and I'll think less of you for having that opinion. A lot of people will just stop talking to you if you choose to behave that way. It's hard enough to communicate with a listener who is trying to understand what you're saying. If the listener would rather get hung up on rules which have no basis except in collective usage than listen, I simply can't be arsed to talk to them most of the time.

Also, analogies provide explanation, not proof. You've not provided any justification for your opinion with your map analogy, you've just over-explained your opinion which everyone already understood.
Why is there no hope for this world?

Because we are starting to neglect useful and important languages that shaped both our thinking and engineering. Instead, we use languages that babysit us at the expense of expressiveness and speed. Not a fan at all.

Less people using C/C++ just means less security vulnerabilities as far as I can tell.

Yeah, better rewrite Linux in CSS to make it secure. I heard CSS is turing-complete if you click through instructions, so it's possible!

Not entirely sure why C# is listed but not Java here.

Because there's more Java than CSS.
The author definitely did not consider that there are goals outside of saving Amazon money that could be important from a strategic perspective that they would have appreciated his/her help on.
Most hedge funds don't appear to be doing any hedging or active management
I've added a caveat along the lines of your suggestion.

> By teaching them mathematics.

The terse complacence of this statement, and your easy use of technical terms, make me doubt whether you know what it means to teach mathematics, to empathize with those who lack knowledge, and ultimately to help math exit the ghetto of jargon.
Your post is a prime example of what is wrong with Amazon - I'm not sure if you were aware of the irony when you wrote it.

If the author is capable of developing systems that save the company hundreds of millions of dollars per year, why the fuck does it matter if they are a "great person to work with"?
Aye, this is the second time today a post that's interested me has gotten tanked.

The silence with which moderation on HN is wielded has been frustrating me of late.
It reminds me about the story of a famous Japanese street food vendor, who had cooked soup out of the same pot for fifty years, every day, never stopping to clean the pot, because he never stopped cooking soup out of it. When the soup got low, he just threw in the ingredients it needed to fill the pot again. According to the story, he had been serving the same pot of soup for fifty years. Pardon if I have murdered this story, and I have no idea where it comes from. Just something I read one time, and remembered.
Surely I'm not the only one who can see that section for what it was? That is: letting us know that pure competence wasn't the issue? FOllowing from that: if pure competence isn't what works in a meritocracy, then what does? Maybe your answer is: "team work", whatever that is?

Since we are saying "this person isn't a great person to work with", let me say the same about you. If you can't read someone else's accomplishments without the need to put it down/skim, then you probably have self-esteem issues. Consequently, you are probably not that great to work with. Additionally, you seem to support propping up "team work" at the expense of actual work (so you tend to favor status quo when it collides with competence), so that's a double no :)

Ah downvotes. I guess I am the only one.
There is really nothing physically interesting in this - a two lens telescope (in the geometric optics approximation) admits a point where rays from the object are focussed. It's not surprising then that there are regions in between which are unable to propagate rays to the collection optic.
A transfer to Oakland is just about as bad.

And yes, my mother, while going through cancer treatment, was pretty much powerless, regardless of how she wanted to act.
In my experience large, successful companies can be harboring a very large number of incompetent or irrelevant managers. The parts of the company that work often do so spectacularly and sometimes carry the bulk of the company that's broken.

Eventually the tide goes out and reveals who's been swimming naked, but that can take decades.

The point is- you definitely cannot look at a successful company and infer that all (or even most) of management knows what its doing.
I basically agree with you, except I don't think there are many cases where the usage of "literally" makes the meaning ambiguous. It should be clear whether someone's head literally exploded (are we having a conversation about an industrial accident, or is a person simply becoming angry?). I treat "literally" and "literally" as two words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
Oh, and for the record, the crazy-ass geometric animations on the article are not that far off what I get when receiving IV ketamine and I close my eyes--although the real ones are far more complex and change constantly. However, the fear-and-loathing melty and color changing stuff is not something ketamine induces. What the page does not capture at all is horrible effects it has on sound. The visual stuff is pretty tolerable, but a simple fan ends up sounding like a helicopter, and most other sounds get very harsh. For me, having music is absolutely critical to getting through the whole process. I listen to a mix of various Bach performances, which gives the whole crazy trip some structure and narrative and keeps it familiar enough that I feel like I still have a handle on and am still grounded in reality, despite the strong dissociative side effects.
SASS and rem are the biggest features I am looking forward to.
Assuming they don't deplete the charge too much, maybe.
Your prediction gets as good as your data
As I mentioned elsewhere, another way to resolve this is to reform the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and adopt rules similar to the EU Working Time Directive.
Exactly - predicting 200 of the last 2 crashes doesn't make you any more accurate than predicting 0 of the last 2 crashes.
Diffusion. Oxygen levels in tissue are about 3%, compared to 20% in the atmosphere. In fact, that was quite a finding back in ... the late 80s I think: they could coax fibroblasts to divide many more generations simply by incubating them in a low oxygen environment. Free radicals are brutal.
Indeed. I still play MUME (http://www.mume.org/) from time to time. Not nearly as much activity as the 'good old days', but it's definitely possible to fall victim to an orc/troll raid if you wander in the Misty Mountains. (:
I would be worried about getting marked as a spam server.
> Could well apply to a company too

I've thought about this in the past. Companies get a reputation for doing certain things poorly or doing them well. For example, think of high profile games from a long time ago that have continued to release new versions to this day. How many of the people who worked on v1 have continued to work on the latest release?

On a larger scale, consider what happens when the oldest person in the world dies. Every person born before them is gone. How did we manage to perpetuate all of the ideas, culture and values through to an entirely new set of people? The mechanics are easily observable, but the scale is boggling.
Only single people would use their real email to sign up for such a service.
Did I understand correctly? So they include the whole browser tech stack for a simple graph? Am I the only one who finds it strange - rendering text and polygons is not exactly rocket science.
It's surprising that someone who is so smart would be so complacent with accepting slotted into a low rank and accepting of it after two years of that situation not changing.
I guess the reason is that they (Awesomium) don't provide an Open Source license like MIT or GPL. Instead Github Team choose CefSharp.
Nope, maybe my formulation was a bit foggy, but that's not my point.
I'm not saying that the old adage that you shouldn't be worried about your privacy being breached if you have done no harm or if you have nothing to hide. Quite the contrary.

Mine was a very specific assertion related to the king of leak we're witnessing: what's making this data so relevant and prone to gossip is the way we give for granted the monogamous nature of our relationship and how we deal with a moral set of dogmas that society inculcates on us "because God says so".

Who doesn't live by these archaic impositions and accepts more open forms of relationship has a strong advantage because his pursuit of perfectly natural sexual desires doesn't need to be hidden and is not considered (especially by the partner) as an immoral and punishable thing.
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TypeScript does the same thing - its compiler is written in TypeScript. See https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/tree/master/src/comp.... But yeah, darned cool, and very meta.
LSD is as close to as harmless a drug, physiologically, as you can get--no one has ever died of an overdose on it, and there isn't permanent physiological damage that happens even with regular heavy use.

Of course, your psyche might be another matter...
You may be thinking of the "memory effect" of old NiCad batteries, which indeed needed to be thoroughly discharged before recharging otherwise they'd lose capacity. However, LiIon is a different chemistry, and different rules apply. I don't know of any modern device that still uses NiCad, though I'm sure there's still some legacy niche where they're useful...
If it had resulted in even a single death, then yes, it would have been negligent of him to release it.

But from what I understand, after watching his talks, was that was THE REASON he gave the docs to journalists, so they could evaluate the downsides of releasing each doc.

Unethical, absolutely. He breached his employment contract, and exceeded access to systems under the pretense that he was given access to them.

Since you asked...
Very nice guy. He used to work at Azul with Cliff Click.
That's a pretty bold psychological assessment based on an anonymous post.

They seem to be writing about the gap between the reality for promotion Amazon and how they thought they thought they had fit the expectations - the latter of which involves talking about themselves and establishing why they think they qualified for promotion.
I don't use it, so I don't know, but I'm just wondering, why is it necessary to use gcc to use libsass? Isn't there a PPA for it? Would a PPA be the proper way to distrib what sounds like a really valuable program? Thank you.
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Here is an article refuting the concept that Facebook should pay the people that use it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/08/16/the-econo...
I just got this email too.

Price jumps from 5 bucks to 50. Still too pricey for me.

I did explore what they have to offer and it is fairly extensive. I'm not sure about performance though. I did not test that.
In this setup it looks like you can't obscure the center of the cylinder defined by the lenses. That's where the background light goes. So the cloaked region is actually a long tube with a hole through the middle, and probably wouldn't work for street corners.
It's a neat demonstration though. It seems like the point is to show cloaking with the simplest materials and optics possible.
Dynamo is very complex, beyond consistent hashing. It also uses (or used) gossip and lots of tricks (hacks) to gracefully handle adding and removing nodes and distributing data to new nodes, etc. This uses a simple partitioning scheme albeit it does have its own consistency issues.
If deceit, politics, and treachery are what's required to "get ahead" in a company, it should be no surprise that anybody who has an alternative (e.g., put skill points into engineering instead of sociopath biz bro) will look elsewhere.
Agree, ya. I have a hard time kissing ass but I realized what I needed to do to advance was a little different.

In my case, the key was to stop actively pissing people off. Maybe just a change of perspective but it has helped me a good deal.

People who say they don't play politics just reveal themselves as unable to perceive and react to the daily goings on.
Yes I have experience. That is where my comment came from actually.
"Show HN" is for sharing usable products and projects with the community -

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
in what way?
Yes, have a partner, if you want, but don't marry. I agree.
In Europe, where I live, is considered normal to legalize a union not as a marriage but as a simple contract between two persons. That's more than enough to take care of the legal stuff that getting married would normally imply (right to visit a sick partner in the hospital, some forms of mutual agreement about the financials of the couple, etc...).
>> Without specifics, it's hard to tell.

I'd agree in most situations, however, given that it's not uncommon for many at Amazon to move to Google, Microsoft, et al. we can make a general assumption that the average engineer isn't a "dangerously incompetent buffoon" (outliers can occur, but a whole team of such is very unlikely).

Also, OP is probably not nuts, more likely a narcissist as other have commented. Of course there's many posts out there stating that management is not functioning as it should - OP paints the same picture, however, the statement provided by the author also tells of continuously combative attitude.
In the US, only the "State" can file a criminal lawsuit. Imagine trying to explain this crime to a county prosecutor!
In New Zealand, the Southern Institute of Technology [1], one of the universities runs a zero-fees program [2]. This, I believe, is funded from local businesses who see substantial benefits from having students around with money to spend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Institute_of_Technolo...

[2] https://www.sit.ac.nz/Fees-Enrolments/Zero-Fees
Not sure why it is surprising. Analytical intelligence (the type that can build systems that save the company hundreds of millions a year) is different from social intelligence.

The author clearly states that their smartness did not extend into the social realm. He cites the friend he referred to Amazon, who got hired and quickly started rising in the ranks by kissing ass, sucking up and going so far as to show fake data in meetings to make his superiors look good.