skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fine if you can stop them from tearing you apart for not increasing their basic stipend as the cost of living increased.

You aren't going to defeat human nature.

Those theories have been around for hundreds (thousands) of years, but oddly, it never happens. There's a reason for that.

People are not automatons and they usually think for themselves (with varying degrees of success) and won't fall into line with the rules necessary to sustain a utopian society.

You'll be left with nothing but a gun in your hand trying to force your well upon them. Forced utopia begs for revolution.
Esssentilly, what all the studies did was asked the equivalent of, "Did you threw your controller at the screen when the boss cheated and killed your whole part in one move?" Of course, most people will answer yes. But that doesn't mean most people are going to go out and do a mass shooting at the mall.

It's the same nonsense as, "Does playing sexiest video games like GTA makes your sexiest?"

Really, if it was that easy for video games to brainwash and control people, the Russian government would have used video games to brainwash and control all their citizens so long ago.
It's definitely a concern, especially since I run a side project for STEM education that has ads[1]. My site doesn't break even at all from ads, but they help offset the running cost (revenue is in the single-digit dollars-per-month range). Ad revenue has fallen greatly though for sites displaying ads, I believe owing to the fact that online ads have been found to be much less effective at driving sales than they were once thought to be (though they may still buy mindshare). Current ads are more flashy, more annoying, and are a greater source of frustration. On desktops that's one thing, were the cost of viewing the ad is largely paid with your attention. On mobile though, they take up even more attention but they also use expensive mobile data and drain precious energy from the battery.

I'm not sure of how things will look in the future, but it will probably be a more heterogeneous mix of funding sources. We'll see more subscription-based sites, we'll see more sites run as cashflow-negative hobby projects, and we'll still see ads. We will also certainly see another category: sites the sell your info for money. We'll see sites that combine all of these. I suspect we'll also see more content distributed solely in app form, with in-app purchases buying more content. Since operational costs have fallen and continue to fall, the world won't look so different for a while. I think the best model for consumers is one where ads are the default, and a cheap subscription can be paid to remove them. Microtransactions are an alluring solution, but no one has really made them work yet. There is also a growing trend of sponsoring content before it is created, via sites like Patreon.

1. https://www.takeitapart.com/
your "this is me" signal couldn't actually be a "this is me, fob 123ABC..., and I can authenticate with the vehicle with VIN# 123abc..."

You're right, that might be it.

the unlock button was on the fob rather than on the car door

Let me clarify: the fob does have buttons for lock, unlock, panic, and open trunk. But I don't normally use them. My normal usage is as I described: just walk up with the fob in my pocket, and press the button on the door handle.
Predict Social Network Influence with R and H2O Ensemble Learning
I am going through the official tutorial right now. Are there any:

1) examples of phaser games using multiple .js files?

2) games with multiple levels?

And what are the best games made with phaser?
Or how the drought is loosing to California..
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LOL, yeah, the american intel community. Everyone else has already read them.

The americans just haven't gotten to the point in their data review of monitored internet traffic to see them yet.
I wonder if Amazon runs 126 Labs this way. If they do, I think they are reducing the chances that they will turn Fire OS into a serious competitor in phones and tablets, even for media consumption.
AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
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I was trying to additionally distinguish between accidental and intentional distracted driving, because I find that when a distinction can be made like that but it isn't made clear, people end up talking past each other about slightly different things but with the same name.

I was a bit unclear in what I was doing though.
Reality is continuous. Human categories--like cancer--only have sharp edges because we draw them with an act of selective attention. The edge of our attention is discontinuous. Nothing else (that doesn't involved quantum mechanics or integer counting of attentionally-isolated objects) is.

"Cancer" is not a simple thing. Two people with "breast cancer" may have very similar or almost completely different diseases. As others here have pointed out, the magnitude and frequency of wins and losses matter even though trades are binary win/lose (which they can be because we've created an entire category of imaginary objects called dollars that can be counted).

Bayes rule is as applicable to any area of significant uncertainty, including win/loss magnitude. It is universal.
A company is the property of its shareholders. Like your house is your property. As long as you follow the law, you can do whatever you'd like with it - in that sense, it exists for your benefit. You have no obligation to buy new chairs for the plumber to take a break, or allow the house cleaner to have a coffee break.

I agree with the link you're providing though: I'm not saying management should have an ideology of "shareholder value" - it's circular. "Make money" is not substitute for having a vision for what you'll build & sell.

I don't think it's clear at all that Larry is pursuing a suboptimal growth strategy. Clearly other shareholders believe that too, as evidenced by strong demand for Google stock. I think Larry is doing what he'd like to do, considering he & Sergei are the largest shareholders. I do think in the long run his long-shot investments are really smart, since ad revenues will grow more slowly.
I see it repeated frequently that Bill's parents were very or extremely wealthy. Where's the proof of that?

His father was a prominent lawyer by the mid 1970s, yes. They were an upper class family, that is well known. As far as I'm aware, having read a lot about Bill Gates over the years, there isn't much evidence to stipulate just how wealthy they were. If his father earned a higher level lawyer salary in the 1960s, it does not necessarily mean great wealth had been accumulated. I'd argue it would be extremely unlikely at that point in time, as his father would have been merely 40 years old in 1965 when Gates was 10. Try accumulating "extreme" amounts of wealth in just a few years as a lawyer, it's nearly impossible.

By the time Gates was 25, he was already richer than both of his parents combined.
The article puts too much blame on Unity and not enough blame on browser vendors.

This is hinted at in the article:

> Browsers are the programs which eat all of a computer's free memory, and the half-finished Unity WebGL build often causes crashes and closes browser tabs (especially in Chrome).

The main problem is that Chrome has deprecated NPAPI before it is capable of running content like Unity well.

If you look at Unity's forums, you can see lots of posts talking about Chrome-specific issues, for example

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/webgl-issue-on-chrome.33687...

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/bugs-in-chrome-stuttering-a...

As those threads say, many Unity games run well in other browsers, but since Chrome is dominant in the market (over 50%), poor Chrome performance makes Unity look bad. But this isn't Unity's fault.

Chrome decided to deprecate NPAPI now, before it has a good-enough solution for running large asm.js codebases. For example, on the Massive asm.js benchmark, Chrome is well behind both Firefox and Edge,

http://www.winbuzzer.com/2015/07/28/asm-js-only-benchmarking...
Obviously I agree. My simple point is that the OP is making claims about a binary outcome, which could lead one to infer that stock trading binary up/down outcomes are all that matter.
That can't possibly be true, the Go port also doesn't use ASLR.
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I went to a vintage bookstore the other day - the kind that has Keates' poetry from the 1900s. They threw out all of their computer related books due to space constraints and that no one was interested!
Because shiple :)
When I say "you do not have to lean at all to turn", I was not clear. What I mean is that you can look like the left photo, rather than the right photo: http://i.imgur.com/K4vTdDm.gif

I read your comment to imply that the rider's body lean is what initiates a turn, rather than their handlebar input. Or that the rider must actively lean (their body), rather than allowing the bike to lean them over.

Your other reply to jsprogrammer says that "it's pretty obvious that the passenger needs to be shifting its weight to achieve that." But that's precisely what I'm saying is wrong. No weight shift is required at all to do any street-riding turns. When the handlebars are steered, the bike will force you over. When a seated driver of the C1 turns the bars, the seat will move their body over, they don't have to do any work.

If you're on a racetrack, then yeah, shift your weight and eek out sharper turns, but you'll look silly shifting your weight around when riding on public streets or a highway.

Cheesy video that shows it better than I can explain. Skip to 2:25. https://youtu.be/8_5Z3jyO2pA
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Yeah. We're going to disagree here.

Let's revisit this after the next big earthquake to see which buildings survived the event in a habitable condition and monitor which areas are without utilities the longest.
Ugh, the term sociopath being applied to capitalists just dilutes its meaning. You really just mean narcissists. People with unreasonable amounts of self-esteem and confidence in their decisions. They frequently fail to consider other people's feelings, but it doesn't mean they are incapable.
Interesting. Landscaping lawns and communities into desert ecoscapes is common in Europe? I also wasn't aware that building desalination and greywater recovery plants was in vogue in Europe.

Actually, why would Europe institute such measures in the first place? They aren't suffering from drought. In a non drought situation why would you undertake such measures? The reason desalination plants aren't commonly built is that if you have adequate water alternatives, they actually hurt the environment, so there's no benefit.
There is no prize as such, right?
I misphrased above. The index fund will pay out a dividend if the underlying stocks do. Fortunately for investors, Companies are paying dividends less and less frequently, preferring to do stock buybacks (which improve the stock value) instead. Dividends are also "qualified" if you've held the stock long enough, so you pay the lower capgains rate.
You're right, I want clearly thinking about that. Thanks.
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It was illegal then and it's illegal now. The circuit court didn't say "as of May 7th, 2015 this is illegal"; they said that the NSA exceeded the scope of surveillance authorized by Congress in October of 2001.
Amazon's stock packages vest non-linearly (exponentially) over 4 years, so if you leave after only one year you get only ~5% of the total package.

As opposed to the industry standard which is linear vesting.

They also have onerous clawback clauses on signing bonuses and relocation, and I know of one instance where the clawback stipulated that the signing bonuses would be paid back pre-tax (e.g., $10k signing bonus, of which you got $6k after tax, but if you quit you have to cough up $10k) - meaning you are actually in the hole if you leave.

They also have a habit of putting 2-year clawbacks on their bonuses rather than the more common 1-year, so leaving even in your second year at Amazon would result in substantial financial loss.

Even in this environment I know multiple people who left before their 1-year anniversary, that's how bad it is in many parts of the company. I personally know multiple people who suffered substantial financial loss in order to leave.
Try the new iterm2 beta. It does the first two items in your list (tmux integration and shell integration)
You can create a Google account for any email address...no need to create a gmail account just to setup forwarding to somewhere else. Or will those accounts not work with Google Groups?
So... you can use Ember and React together? I didn't realize that.
> being openly reamed out by managers in front of their peers.

that's pretty unprofessional, does that happen a lot?
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He works for the Internet Archive, but this isn't an IA project. He's the "face" of Archive Team, but this isn't an AT project (not that AT projects are ever really official). This is just a Jason Scott project, which is why he's asking the whole world for help.
Mind sharing what company it is?
> They also have onerous clawback clauses on signing bonuses and relocation, and I know of one instance where the clawback stipulated that the signing bonuses would be paid back pre-tax (e.g., $10k signing bonus, of which you got $6k after tax, but if you quit you have to cough up $10k) - meaning you are actually in the hole if you leave.

so if you get fired then you don't have to pay it back?
This is just more anti-government FUD. It is legal in all 50 states to collect rainwater on your property.

http://www.enlight-inc.com/blog/?p=1036

The story that keeps circulating on the internet is that a guy in Colorado was fined for doing just for that. But looking at it more closely you find he was damming creeks on his property and building holding ponds (essentially lakes), which is subject to standard environmental regulations.
There are some metrics that you can certainly require. For instance, a maximum threshold on cyclomatic complexity.

A less rigorous option is that you could require regular drops at which point you look at the code and only agree to buy the next drop if the existing drop meets your need.
It's ironic that this submission is taking off on a Saturday morning when fans of the (Jewish) Sabbath are presumably absent from HN.
CPython the implementation has a GIL; Python the language does not. Plenty of other implementations (PyPy, Jython, Cython) avoid having a GIL or have options to disable it.

> If you wanted extreme performance Python is a lousy choice in the first place.

Using Python for glue code and C-modules for performance critical work is a popular option.
@sebg - who ever you are thanks for the starting point. Btw, can you refer it to your friends so that they can help me get some user feedback.
Just do what works for you. If one diet isn't working, just try out a different one. Eventually, you'll find the correct diet for you (paleo). Obviously, paleo is the correct answer, but, you have try out all those other diets first, before you can get to the right one (paleo).
whenever you pipe input into fzf, it goes into fuzzy mode and you can select one of the lines of the input.

so, doing something like

vim $(find . -name *.py | fzf)

will show you a prompt where you can search for all .py files on the current folder. after you select a file, it will open it on vim.

it's something textmate's find in project, but for the command line.

(i hope that made sense :))
I will after I sell my shares. They might preach respect, but they don't take criticism too well.
Apple would probably try to restrict where you can drive too... and if you cover the windows with tint that doesn't have the right RFID tag embedded in them, forget about it, you can't start the car.
I've been tinkering with phaser for awhile, so far it's been an enjoyable experience. The best parts I've seen is the out-of-the-box support for animations and integration with tiled map editors.

Work in progress (not too much to show really)

http://gavinm.com/phased/

Source

https://github.com/gavinmyers/phased
So what's your coaching strategy?
Interesting website. This is similar to the idea I expressed in another comment of having a lot of data and giving it to companies.
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This is a great resource of examples; the author uses Phaser for all the samples:
http://gamemechanicexplorer.com
Many more anecdotes from former or current Amazon employees in the biggest Reddit discussion of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3h391m/amazon_e...
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243

And please stop editorializing the titles on your submissions.
Just an FYI, the first picture is _not_ from 1949. It's from the 80's. A result of the SALT talks whereby the US and USSR would start dismantling nuke-capable offensive weaponry.

The planes were towed into position and chopped up in-place to ensure their numbers and disposition.
This is a great point. I worked at such a company in a satellite office. A favorite activity was to get drunk and bitch about corporate, etc. Everyone loved each other, but _hated_ the company.
I agree. It'd be great to have more frequency bands, but if we're all on the same wifi, what if someone starts downloading obscene amounts of data?
That's true, if one is using the same kind of radio tech that Marconi used. Fortunately numerous techniques for intelligently sharing spectrum have been developed. R&D in this area will only accelerate when applications like those described in TFA are finally allowed.
Microsoft’s Lost Decade
That attitude still prevails. Last time I talked to someone at Amazon he said something "we get more done in one quarter than you finance guys get done in a year."
...and it's gone.
I don't think the description of people's experiences is bullshit. I can only speak for what I've witnessed in the company, which is a fair amount. However, there are cases where the writers clearly misconstrue things or take things out of context. See, for instance, their treatment of Bezos' Princeton commencement speech, highlighted above. So I don't see the article as an even-handed description of Amazon's corporate culture. When I look at the totality of David Streitfeld's reporting, I think he has an agenda when it comes to Amazon.
I don't know any examples, and maybe there aren't (at least as of today). But it is beautiful, deep and fun at the same time, so if you're into that sort of thing it's a perfect hobby.
Is it also ironic that I am an NFL fan, but I don't play football (professionally or otherwise)?
My experience was polar opposite. I interviewed with AWS. The entire process was very well organized and very professional. The recruiters were very professional, everyone showed up as promised, manager took me to lunch - overall a very pleasant experience. The HR rep took me thru the benefits, comp. package etc before the interview.

The only thing I hated was the "bar raiser". He was a guy who came in made up his mind for sure. I could see it in his face. He was not pleasant, did not smile. And he started with "I have a lot of questions to ask, and I want to get through all of them in our time. So give me short straight answers and dont take too much time". At that moment I knew I was a goner. Just to compare, I have 12 years of experience in areas of open source, big company, big university research on large systems. A few patents and a ton of publications. Either he walked in feeling insecure and wanted to crush me with his power or feeling that I am full of shit and he is going to let me know about it. The bar raiser has veto on the candidate and I think it was abused severely. He did not like any answer I gave, and keep in mind that the questions he asked are not the kind that have black and white answers but the answers vary on your background and experience. Since I signed an NDA saying I wont reveal any questions, let me give a simple example:

What have you ever done for a customer that was not planned?

Now if you come from a hardware product development background, there is nothing you can do without it being POR. Engineers cannot randomly decide to change specs or features without the entire supporting organizations knowing about it. If an engineer decides to add some feature to help some customer, who is going to test it, document it, train the support organization, tell the factory about the changes in the process etc? You can't do stuff without anyone approving it. yes, you can affect change and try to get buy in from the rest of the organization but thats all you can do.

If you come from a web dev company, maybe there is more leeway in what an anyone can do individually.

So there is no black and white answer here and he just said "thats not satisfactory". Shortly after that the hiring manager came in and said the process wasnt going well and basically told me to go home.

One would think someone who is given that much veto power is more professional and objective and unbiased.
Sure, fine, they were "only" upper class. I'm not really sure what the appropriate response here is when Gates went to the best private schools.

Anyways, influence is as important as wealth:

Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell. She was also on the national board of United Way, along with John Opel, the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC.
> What is a participating law firm?

> Participating law firms are the law firms which register an account, advertise their fees, and may be hired through TicketTitan.com. Only licensed attorneys in good standing with their state bar(s) may register to be a participating law firm on TicketTitan.com. Law firms may register and advertise their fees for free, paying a very small flat processing fee to TicketTitan.com only when hired by a client.

> *Currently, TicketTitan.com only allows one law firm per county to advertise their fees, but additional law firms may register and be placed on a waiting list.

lol okay. So "firms" is really "first firm to register in your county".

It's an absolutely fantastic idea but this tool is worthless to me until that isn't the case. Why are you doing this?

Edit: Upon further reading, it's because one of the founders of OP's site runs a law firm named after this site which is conveniently one of the firms registered. What a racket!
Hopefully companies and organizations like the UN start moving away from AT&T. AT&T is a publicly traded company and so the only thing they understand is profit and loss.

The snowden releases cost u.s. tech companies $100B+, including a 10% drop in Cisco quarterly revenues. Hopefully this continues as multinationals continue to move their business outside the u.s.

Let the u.s. government spy on Americans all they want since Americans seem to like being spied on, while the rest of us move on. I know that mindset doesn't match many of the people here on HN, but Americans are mostly Authoritarian and seem to like the comfort they feel from programs like this.
Not every day - but it happens often enough that it's no longer surprising or shocking to see it.
The issue is that virtually all practices will refuse to disclose any medical information to third parties without explicit written authorization.

I'm certain a lot of this behavior is illegal, but people who don't know or choose to ignore the law are everywhere, and litigation is expensive and time-consuming. I just want to build stuff, so I take these sorts of policies as a warning sign and look elsewhere.