skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main differences are gzip doesn't strip out the documentation, and you don't need to decompress it. So in some cases the minified version would be smaller and a bit quicker. YMMV. I think it's trivial and you're right. Using gzip is easier and a bit more transparent.

Related article I found: http://engineeredweb.com/blog/why-minify-javascript/
Walmart was number 4 on the list. Needless to say I immediately dismissed it as PR.
It's 2,000 grand pianos / yr, 500 upright pianos / yr. 149. Around 1,000 grand pianos and 250 upright pianos are produced per year in the New York Factory. The Hamburg Steinway Factory produces a similar number of instruments.

http://www.steinwaypianos.com/159-facts-about-steinway-and-t...
I think you're right but people need to learn before they do stuff....you can't walk around life being dependent on regulations protecting you. I can't even remember the last time I placed a market order.
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Sure, that's a thing - but I'm pretty sure that STEM PhDs has not reached that point and so that phenomenon is probably irrelevant here.
The morning of 8/24 was more complicated than that because lots of these stocks/etfs had hit their Reg SHO thresholds, which restricted the ability short sell into a resting bid.

https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/rule201faq.htm
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This recalls some of the table formatting and exporting magic one can easily achieve with emacs org-mode. http://orgmode.org/guide/Tables.html
And there, if you like, you can include a full set of spreadsheet operations.
It does kind of suck, you could grab a little ethernet hub for pretty cheap, though. Would be nice if it just came with it.
Here's a working link to Kwiki, which is mentioned in the article,

https://metacpan.org/pod/Kwiki
You're making a lot of assumptions, though. You're assuming self-selection, and you're assuming what kinds of situations the data is being used. The plural of anecdote isn't data, but a group of anecdotes isn't inherently not data.

Further, a collection of many anecdotes is not necessarily great data, but the quality of data can be taken into account when making assertions about it, and you can attach confidence ratings to assertions made based on data with known faults.

The problem here is that "the plural of anecdote isn't data" is just a short, snappy thing to say, that doesn't capture any of the nuances of what data is and how it's used. A lot of times it's used to express a legitimate point, but I think we could express that point more accurately by actually talking about what data is instead of oversimplifying the concern.
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Aha! That must have been the first time I have tried to read Tcl for more than a minute :) Looks like one can prototype fast in this language. Thanks for writing / posting!
They should have a principle of maximising the public good which I feel would allow some of that stuff.
the 14-bit encoder giving feedback not just on the
position, but also the load?

Rotary encoder probably wouldn't give you that. Usually you just measure how much current the motor's drawing.
> In this way, the Well temperament can be seen as an approximation of equal temperament in a time when the mathematical tools to achieve it were not really known.

Is there any evidence for this narrative? Like anyone from the time writing about this who said "the keys are not all identical, but this well-tempered tuning is the best we are capable of doing."

> The purpose of Well temperament, used on the harpsichord, was to get rid of those limitations and gain the ability to transpose everything freely while remaining consonant and in-tune.

It was certainly designed to make all keys usable, but it doesn't necessarily follow that all keys were intended to be identical.
Americans can obviously use drugs approved in Europe in Europe; drugs approved in Europe but not the USA cannot generally legally be imported, sold, or prescribed in the USA, however.
> churned out

I think this might explain why what Sacks did was important and not something simply "churned out": https://xkcd.com/397/
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You can often get a further 10% saving on top of what you get from gzip, and many of us think a 10% saving is not to be scoffed at: not everyone has a high bandwidth connection, and many mobile users are still charged by the megabyte.
Everyone has an HFT engine. Five minutes is intended to be long enough for a human to have a think and then put their orders into their engine - then there's an opening auction and theoretically the price stabilises as the humans will have reached some kind of consensus. The circuit breakers only tripped again because they hadn't - which suggests that either there really was disagreement between market actors (and the volatility was in some sense correct), or that some participants were trading poorly - whether that's automated systems, human traders, or brokers executing retail orders.

I don't see what you think extending the circuit breaker time would accomplish? "Allowing a larger window between haltings" would defeat the whole point - if the price moves by more than 10% immediately after the re-opening auction, the circuit breaker goes off, as it's supposed to, for all the reasons it goes off whenever there's a sudden >10% price move.
Would be great to integrate it into a live regex editor such as http://www.regexr.com/
Most at home modems (think Surfboard) have one, maybe 2, ethernet ports, unless you're using a modem/switch or modem/router hybrid device.

Also, I'd much rather plug things into my router, which has ingress filters, than my modem.
If your modem (which isn't really a modem if it has >1 LAN port) is plugged into the WAN port on the OnHub (or any other router), anything plugged into the ports on the modem will have trouble seeing things on the LAN because of NAT and firewall rules.
Continuous availability is good, but we also want markets to connect buyers and sellers of various sizes as efficiently as possible. Efficient not in the CS sense, but in the sense of paying the middlemen as little as possible.

Discrete markets are, under certain circumstances, more efficient at connecting buyers and sellers than continuous markets. It's similar to how an eBay auction is a more efficient way to get the best price for your rare item rather than having a continuously open market where you have to keep deciding whether or not to accept people's lowball bids.
Being granted refugee status != being resettled. They can be sent home when the situation improves.

Germany(80 million), France(64), UK(64) have the capacity to absorb most of the refugees, compared to smaller European nations (below 10 millions)
Surveillance and the erosion of weirdness
> The whole point of a stop-loss order like that is to fire immediately, because it's meant to protect you against crashes.

Stop losses are meant to exit you from a position, not just protect you from a crash, so it's not at all equivalent to getting a put. People use stops for profit taken when the trade is over or for cutting losses when the trade didn't go their way. It has nothing to do with getting something for free.
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The problem with JIT compiled languages is compilation time is as critical as the performance of the compiled code. Using string length happens to be quicker than producing ASTs. So while it is a dirty hack, it generally offers greater performance more often than not.
We actually use rails just to manage our db. Rails migrations are so good and sane (including the rake generator tasks) that I highly recommend it...even if you are using nodejs or something else as your actual stack.
Nope. Parsing happens inline with execution, unless the function has less than 600 characters, where it'll be compiled down instantly. If it has any hotspots after that, they'll be JIT optimized.

It is a terrible way, but you can't complain that it's a lot faster than rewriting V8 to count nodes.
So yeah they optimize for space but they also optimize for execution. For example the closure minifier literally puts everything on one line, without semicolons (where possible) and uses commas which forces the JavaScript engine to execute it as a single statement which can be faster.

That's just a minor point but it can help with speed. Is it enough of an optimization that it's worth it though? I'm not sure; I haven't seen much in the way of benchmarks in this area.
hmmm, just bought the Nighthawk X6 AC3200 and it is still unopened. I think I will keep it and wait for another rev on this.

Anybody has any opinions on the X6 AC3200? Bought it for $399 based on "I don't want to have Wi-Fi problems at home" (tons of devices, works from home, etc. etc.)
You're right, but I think more importantly sometimes data is not data. A white suburbanite will collect anecdotes from other white suburbanites, like for example that the police are to be trusted. Then a study which doesn't properly control for these variables says the same thing. The anecdotes are actually more informative, since they are passed by word of mouth among similar people: they get at facts about the world that are true about the people you associate with. A black person would be unlikely to trust these anecdotes, but dress it up in SASS and call it a study and everyone pretends it's objective. More insiduous yet is that selection biases are usually this damning but much less obvious, and most studies are run on a select group of upper middle class educated psychology majors..
Most people are thoroughly dependent on regulations - they're what let you e.g. walk into an unknown shop and buy food there and be confident it won't poison you.

Sure, it would be best if every retail investor learnt the market before participating - but that doesn't make it bad to take steps to protect those who don't (assuming those steps aren't particularly costly). If you can't remember the last time you placed a market order, surely it would be no big loss to you if they were banned entirely?
I wasn't implying drinking more water to help weight loss, just to avoid drinking things that have fructose.

The thing is, less fructose, more fat, fiber and protein will put someone in a caloric deficit without them trying. You crave sugar, but once you get over that you aren't hungry.

Remember that it isn't calories in calories out, it is calories absorbed calories out.

A caloric deficit happens naturally which is why it is so effective.
Hack – A typeface designed for source code
Is it? Is there somewhere to read more?
I’m sure you can figure out ways to break it, but it’s a waste of your time (and you need to get a life).

If it's not worth gaming then why waste time making it in to a game by producing a leaderboard? If your answer to making a leaderboard is 'because it's fun' or 'to learn something', then those reasons apply equally well to working out a reason to game it so you're at the top.
tl;dr

"So the bias is definitively not that incompetent people think they’re better than competent people. Rather, it’s that incompetent people think they’re much better than they actually are. But they typically still don’t think they’re quite as good as people who, you know, actually are good."

and graphic:

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/du...
NoBitcoinLicense.org: Fastest Tool to Fight California Virtual Currency License
I'm in same ballpark, I have ads from which I made about $20 with 26k downloads (and 1.4k current installs), and I have in-game purchases from which I made 0. It seems some people really enjoy it, and give a good review, others post something like 'garbage' and give it a 1 star review https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mildspring...
Worth noting that Ars also reviewed the OnHub [0] and weren't all that complimentary about it.

Particular negatives were the price tag, single LAN port, poor wifi performance (particularly important if you're not supposed to use wired Ethernet...) and no web interface.

[0]: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/google-onhub-review-g...
AT&T grudgingly accepts $428M
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was young. I read tons of people on here urging others to "get help". But what does that mean? Essentially there is only one thing a therapist can do. That is, prescribe you speed/amphetamines. These will make anyone more focused, its a complete fallacy that they are proper medication for having ADD. When you take these drugs (which are neurotoxic at higher/extended doses, a fact which is actively hidden by drug companies), you are seriously messing with your reward system. This makes them very hard to get off after taking them a while, as it can take months for your brain to go back to normal. Thats why people think they have such terrible ADD. Look! I cant focus without the meds! Well no wonder, they manipulated your brain chemistry at a huge level!
The sentiments are charming.

Appropriating the David Brent image for commercial purposes (this is a marketing campaign), hotlinked from another site even -- (it's being served from aboveaverage.com) is not so impressive.
This review seems based purely on one anecdote. I'm curious whether the antenna positions on his Asus were partly to blame.

The Wirecutter review [1] was a bit more negative on performance.

But, even with Wirecutter there's not much consistency in review quality with APs. I usually trust the methodology of Wirecutter but Smallnetbuilder has the most comprehensive coverage I've seen and they rate the Wirecutter top pick (the Archer C7/C8) quite middle-of-the-road for its class. I'm interested in what SNB's test results say once he tests the OnHub.

[1] http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/#
Wait, so they're offering you cash (I'm assuming at standard $200/hr consultant's rate), and you instead are asking for a unicorn (shares of something that has a statistically tiny chance of ever generating a good profit)?

That just boggles my mind.
I wish it had a request parameter for each quote so I could link specific ones to a coworker, otherwise hilarious.
theverge is a joke, I wish people would stop linking to it.
Banks can (and already do) have multiple shifts.

I used to work for a forex broker (forex is 24h a day) and we had offices in different timezones (Toronto, New York, London, Singapore) so we would always have trader coverage without requiring night shifts.
This sentence shows a trap most technical people keep following into:

"These arguments cannot fully account for CORBA’s loss of popularity, however. After all, if the technology had been as compelling as was originally envisaged, it is unlikely that customers would have dropped it in favor of alternatives."

Wrong. Those arguments more than explain the failure.

CORBA, like most technology, doesn't succeed or fail because of how "compelling" or repulsive it was. People use terrible technology all the time. Major applications are written in terrible technology. Business make huge amounts of money off terrible technology. Great technology is skipped all the time.

As engineers we care about this kind of thing. The problem is that, the vast majority of people in a business don't give a shit what technology stack you use.

Technology does not exist in a bubble, where it lives or dies in some kind of hippy meritocracy. Technology exists in the real world where other factors tend to dominate far more than we think they should. This is also why when engineers start companies, they quickly learn that 90% of running a business has nothing to do with technology or development.
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This is great for regex crossword generators!
Your+Own+Affiliate+Marketing+Mall
These numbers seem exaggerated or inflated to me as well. I can't find any evidence of these $375k salaries anywhere else online except a reddit post which came from the same username.
As someone who tried RVM for a while and until it's problems became obvious, and lived (very successfully) with rbenv as an escape for a long time afterwords, I have been liking chruby:

https://github.com/postmodern/chruby

It doesn't have most of the problems of RVM/rbenv, and mainly provides an easy way to switch between rubies while leaving everything else as full-path references instead of the "magic" tht RVM tries to provide.

That said, I really like the local $GEM_HOME method, and guix sounds like an interesting solution.
"JSON schema seeming to finally gain traction"

Could you describe this further? Are you referring to http://json-schema.org/ or to more general efforts to bring typing to APIs, like GraphQL?
LHC Finds Particles That Defy the Standard Model of Physics
I don't know if you could hide it from competition - it can be unminified ex with: http://jsbeautifier.org/ I have tried this before and it worked.
Meh? It really depends on what you're building, who you are, how well you know each other, how globalized your product is, and a thousand other factors.

It also depends a lot on whether your team is a bunch of extroverts that works ten times more efficiently when you're all in the same room, or a bunch of introverts who work ten times more efficiently in the peace and quiet of home at the middle of the night.

You still need to have plenty of face-to-face meetings to hash things out, I agree with that, but leave it upto people as to how they get work done. Expect results, that's all that matters.
Who cares if stocks flash crash? If you're buying stock for short term profit you deserve to be screwed by volatility and I have no sympathy for you.
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Would be nice if there was an additional model that had a built-in DOCSIS 3.1 cable router.

It’s cute that Google is going for “something you’ll want to leave in the middle of the room,” but cable modems make that a non-starter.
Since Americans typically commit three felonies a day, can you always take the Fifth? You were possibly committing a crime and don't even know it.
Maybe world governments should focus on not being so overbearing and thus driving their citizens to drinking...
This is pretty neat. I once bought a HDMI Android dongle along with an air mouse as a HTPC kind of set up. It was a disaster; I felt I should've just bought a new Roku 3 instead.

This is a little different as it's trying to be a PC. However I bet it would have the same issues as A PC as Windows has as a phone. I imagine a Chromebook might be a better bet as far as support goes (think about it).
CORBA was terrible at versioning. If you tried to use a client with a mismatching server (e.g., the server's IDL added a field that the client didn't have), you would typically get segfaults.

Protobuf, on the other hand, builds in versioning right from the start. Every struct field is tagged with an ID, so unknown fields can simply be ignored, and marshalling/unmarshalling can be adaptive. It means that structs can be preserved across version boundaries; in theory, a "v1" client can read a "v2" struct, modify it, and pass it back with the "v2" fields intact, even though the client didn't know about them. (This requires that the client doesn't unmarshal the data into something that would lose the metadata, like a C struct.)

Another big difference is that CORBA had IORs (Interoperable Object References), a kind of smart pointer to a remote object. With CORBA, as with DCOM, you could pass object references around and make method calls on them, and the calls would be transparently routed to the correct server. You could have client A get an object from B which got the object from C, and if A did a .foo() call on the object, it would call C. Of course, this leads to all sorts of issues, such as having to make sure objects stay alive for as long as any client (or server, since it goes both ways!) has a reference to it, and dealing with unresponsive clients/servers.

gRPC is much simpler in this respect, in that it's just RPC calls, pure data, no objects. In that sense, gRPC is closer to DCE RPC (the basis for Microsoft RPC, which was the underlying RPC technology of DCOM) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC
Thank you I didn't know this. Then I will again asked why Apple is STILL on HFS+? If they actually moved to ZFS or any modern file format it really would help the developers world. Just seems that this is such a obvious need to be fixed that doesn't get any concern form Apple and most users/developers.
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We probably need a little more information to help. In my experience, I got enough very close matches from past companies (1 or 2) that I didn't need to look at other promising candidates. The number of applicants is irrelevant -- what matters is the number of good applicants that are a match for what I am looking for and I only need 1.

There is generally a shortage of engineers, but you still need to find a good match for what you can offer.

1. Are you applying to jobs where your skills/level/location match what was being advertised?

2. Is that clear from your application? Did you write a custom cover letter that specifically draws attention to the match?

3. Generally what level are you? What is your strongest tech stack/language? Location?

I recommend trying out other places. I got my current job on careers.stackoverflow.com -- if you need an invite, email me at loumfranco on gmail. There is also hired.com.
> hotlinked from another site even

I was curious and checked whois: aboveaverage.com and citizensagainstremoteworking.org don't seem to be related at all.
"Adventure" is something bad happening to someone else, in another time and / or place.
You seem to be arguing from the theory of mental health; I am talking about what people do in practice, and the cultural norms and views that shape the application of theory.

As to, "I have yet to see any reasonable argument" bit, I can certainly believe it. But I think that's mainly because you haven't looked. Plenty of people have talked about rampant overdiagnosis of ADHD in the US because putting everybody on stimulants makes classrooms easier to control. Overdiagnosis here means taking healthy but inconvenient behavior and pathologizing it. If people only have "dysfunction" in particular classroom environments with particular teachers, I think it's reasonable to suggest that what's dysfunctional is the environment and the expectation of universal conformity, not the people who are different.

It seems like we are mainly talking in circles here, and given that this is a topic on which I have paid attention to for a couple of decades and also have direct experience, your arguments from Wikipedia theory links aren't going to do much for me. Maybe we should stop now?
The US equity index futures opened for trading (as usual) at 5pm Chicago time on Sunday night. Two of the biggest US equity exchanges (NASDAQ and Arca) start trading in a pre-market session at 4am NYC time. The futures hit their own limit down band before the cash open, and I don't think the single-stock circuit breaker rules apply during the pre-market session for equities.

There was a ton of volume in both the futures and the pre-market, but it was still dwarfed by all the activity at and just after the open. Most people just don't want to trade until other people are trading, so there's this sort of feedback loop that drives volume to the open.
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Given they couldn't be arsed to spell the misleading headline correctly, I'm sure they were more interested in posting the link first than writing accurate headlines.