skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Basically, if your chosen major doesn't have a well-defined career path, (This includes biology, incidentally) you need to work harder and be even more proactive in figuring out where your next move is going to be. This bodes poorly for the average immature 19-year-old who has absolutely no idea what he's going to be doing.

I think this slippery-slope outcome of this is that children are funneled into early tutoring, academic kindergartens, etc. It seems absurd to do everything in life just to optimize for profit. Bye bye holidays???
Seems like a world of difference between letting ants do their thing and importing mongooses to hawaii.
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I can't approve of that attitude.

Why not?

Most companies that end up with that kind of hardcore legacy code a) refuse to upgrade on a reasonable basis and b) refuse to compensate their developers in proportion to the value they ultimately deliver.

So, fuck'em. Might as well enjoy the pseudo pension.
> billions over budget

Well, maybe millions. A billion dollars is real money to anything except the federal government.
Great story!

I worked at a large aerospace manufacturer who had their most important production systems (just for a single factory) running on an ancient VAX.

It was written in the 60's and the original author's son, who was the sole person on the planet who knew anything detailed about it - he was the architect, the dev, the BA, the sysadmin and so on - was due to retire after 35 years with the company.

The DR plan was similar to this - they had found a model of the same computer in a museum somewhere that still worked and they had dibs on it.

In the end they shut down the factory, one of the major factors in that decision was this system. Just too hard to replace it
I feel like my undergrad in Economics was the perfect middle ground between humanities and STEM. Also helps to do it at an engineering school with engineering/math as the core curriculum.
It's not a widely held theory in the scientific community.

It's more likely she's underreporting her food intake.

"If the body was able to go into 'starvation mode' and run more and more efficiently, famine wouldn't be such an issue."
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You really need to do a "Show HN" submission to let people
know that you want feedback on your project or startup. The "Show HN"
submissions get listed under the "show" link in the top menu and the
rules for doing a "Show HN" submissions are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

If we're lucky, the mods will notice and change the title of this post for you.
>(This includes biology, incidentally)

It actually includes most of the pure natural sciences, and mathematics. Engineering is the track with the careers.
That's exactly the problem with these sort of changes. They lack heart. They're not made because of intuition or legitimate business value, they're made to generate publicity and done in the interests of a small subset of people who use the product (in this case, focus groups, etc.).

It's largely arbitrary what a company's logo looks like to me, but aesthetically this change seems largely unnecessary.
You can't control the font rendering in Slack (it's Lato, at a certain size). The Unicode cards are far too small to read.
I'm not sure if we should call it a slippery slope so much as a water-slide: when you present the extreme version of this scenario people tend to eat the bullet and endorse it as virtuous/prudent/praiseworthy rather than rethink the assumptions.
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Or maybe a next step plugin that just asks you every 15 minutes to complete your next step. Then you can do whatever you want until the next time.
May be only me, I dont really find those annoying, in fact i find them helpful when they tell me my favorite site has an App and I dont need to use Mobile Browser to Read.
I wonder how much money is involved in writing articles saying the tech industry is in a bubble - maybe they are also in a bubble ?

Anyway I have stopped thinking about tech from my very own bubble.

In the real world there is more money in things like gold and silver then there is in tech.

There is more money floating around in the housing market of every developed country.

Rich people are desperate to multiple their crystallized ill gotten capital.

As long as the tech industry is transparent and does not commit fraud like in 1999 I think we will be fine.
> May I ask you - did you hired anyone from these HN threads? How many people applied?

I don't think I can provide public information on the number of applicants or new hires.

> I'm still considering to apply but haven't decided about relocation... Really no chance for rem0te?

In terms of relocation, I think it's very difficult to decide whether it's worthwhile if you don't yet know what's in store for you at the destination. I encourage you to apply for the position via jobs@ghs.com and see where it takes you.
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the error would be system and consistent and thus irrelevant. it would just appear that you had a faster than normal metabolism.

this has nothing to do with the fact that a caloric deficit will cause weight loss. you're moving the goalpost and talking about something completely different.
It really shouldn't be this false dichotomy. We could have richer specifications for the bounds of numbers and the rules used to convert their formats. It's some kind of failure of imagination to not have that when arithmetic bugs traceable back to "implementation does not match representation" are so common.
Ok this is annoying, why do they choose GPL instead of something similar to PostGre?
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Yes! This is exactly how it used to work.
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you keep harping on this 'absorbed calories' thing. and it's irrelevant to the discussion and not helping your argument. people have different caloric requirements doesn't mean that a some people magically can't turn body tissue into energy.
It's actually not querying anything, since it works for any query you pass. What happens is that you're bypassing cache because you're loading a different page, as explained by sirn above.

https://www.google.com/favicon.ico?anyquery
I would love to see recommendations for service providers; what should we be doing on the server side, given the reality of mobile networks.
I (and all my friends) switched to here.com maps after Google has horribly old (2005) data, has a horrible UI, and is generally unusable. In many cities in my region whole districts are completely missing from the maps[1], MapMaker is not available, and in general it’s just a huge mess.

Even worse: It loads so slowly (compared to here.com or bing.com or openstreetmap.org) that sometimes it takes several minutes to load an area while competitors load instantly.

And then there are cities where Google tried to add the new 3D buildings, but the result is so horrible that the satellite view is not usable anymore, for example Vienna [2]

[1]: Compare https://goo.gl/maps/e4awg https://www.here.com/?map=54.35326,10.0714,17,satellite
[2]: https://goo.gl/maps/LUHiN
Thanks for the link, that's a nice critique. That said, much of their arguments don't apply here. The article take the publisher's ("businesses") perspective, but that's not consistent with a search engine in this case - the original study is more accurate from the perspective of optimizing for the search user.

The business wants to convert low-value mobile users into high-value app installers, and would happily sacrifice most to get a few installs if that's net positive on long-term value. The search engine, on the other hand, wants as many users as possible to be successful in finding what they're looking for. These perspectives are not aligned - high abandonment rates due to interstitials can be fine for the business, yet penalized as destinations from a search engine. The underlying question is who Google optimizes for in this case, the user or the destination.
Except google _has_ punished its own sites before, so calling them hypocrites so early seems a bit too trigger-happy to me
I've been thinking it would be really nice to build a Wiki kind of like this, but with interactive visualizations like the ones in http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction..... Of course Bret Victor has done a lot of exploration of that space, and I've done a few things like the live Burrows-Wheeler transform at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/bwt, but nothing really interesting. And Mike Bostock has done some amazing work in algorithm visualization, inspired by Victor, among others, at http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/, which also has a great list of links to similar things at the end. But without a shared repository we can all build on, Wiki-style, we are left with just the efforts of individuals or small groups, although some of those efforts are very inspiring.

In addition to visualizing the dynamic behavior of algorithms, I think we also lack good notation for their static structure; existing pseudocodes are verbose and pencil-unfriendly. APL was one attempt to solve that problem; I recently spent some time noodling around how to do a better job of solving it, specifically for the case of pencil-and-paper sketching, at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo. That page doesn't work super well on phones due to depending on <abbr> to explain some things, and I think the notation's readability leaves something to be desired.

I was kind of hoping MediaWiki's addition of Lua would help with this kind of thing, at least for producing static visualizations, but I don't think it has. The closest thing I've found is maybe actually JsFiddle, but it lacks the linking and social interaction that make a Wiki work.

JsFiddle's security model of isolating the active part in a frame on a separate domain might be one way to keep such an active-algorithm-Wiki from suffering from worms and cookie thieves. Caja is another. We need to figure this kind of thing out in order to move to a decentralized web like IPFS, not just for centralized Wikis of algorithm visualizations.
Humanities: where you don't realize you need to tell us what the y axis of the graph is to make your point, and then wonder why people aren't lining up to not learn anything.

Then blame common core, because... too many tests?

And the sad, sad conclusion: Of course the answer is for professors to insist that their institution force more students to take more humanities classes.

Because it would be a tragedy if you didn't make a future chemist sit through a semester of Introduction to Shakespeare and force them to write 3 essays that will be vaguely skimmed and returned. If they didn't have to do that, well, I think we all know you can't be a well rounded person without having to listen to a class discussion between a dozen borderline illiterate communication / journalism / criminology majors, and taking notes as they try to make a coherent point about Henry III.
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I would predict that I'll never drive one of those deathtraps either!
At least here in Hawaii, predation by ants apparently is not effective at preventing termite infestations. They eat them, yeah, but they don't actually significantly affect the nests, according to what I've heard at least.
All ants aren't native to all areas. This article is talking about transplanting weaver ant nests (which are native to tropical areas) from one area to another. The risks are still there.

You can't take fruit between some areas in Australia because of the risk of fruit flies - I wouldn't be so quick to write off the possibility that certain species of ants might carry a similar risk. Northern Queensland certainly has some nasty ants that we don't have in the more southern states.
I wouldn't disagree that you and I could build a wall that would be fine for a thousand years, but could either of us build a wall that could be used daily for a large part of that time?

I realize the idea of using a wall is awkwardly phrased, and I pre apologize.
I wonder if those are the sort of links that can leave you on the wrong side of the Computer Fraud and Abuse act...
Here some of my current complaints:

I (and all my friends) switched to here.com maps after Google has horribly old (2005) data, has a horrible UI, and is generally unusable. In many cities in my region whole districts are completely missing from the maps[1], MapMaker is not available, and in general it’s just a huge mess.

Even worse: It loads so slowly (compared to here.com or bing.com or openstreetmap.org) that sometimes it takes several minutes to load an area while competitors load instantly.

And then there are cities where Google tried to add the new 3D buildings, but the result is so horrible that the satellite view is not usable anymore, for example Vienna [2]

[1]: Compare https://goo.gl/maps/e4awg https://www.here.com/?map=54.35326,10.0714,17,satellite
[2]: https://goo.gl/maps/LUHiN

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And here some suggestions:

- Allow the user to turn of 3D buildings. They are annoying, kill loading times, and are buggy and just a mess of polygons that looks more like abstract art than buildings.

- Use recent satellite imagery. When Bing and Here maps have images that are 10 (!) years newer than what Google uses, it’s just inacceptable

- Stop having a UI where everything changes while people click on it – Google’s own guidelines say that you should keep stuff predictable. Especially due to the slow loading times people often try to click somewhere, while they try to click some box moves, and they click something completely different. This is extremely frustrating, I’d even begin to call it clickjacking.
The weird thing is that he's advocated ditching the application in favor of either a custom written or customized off the shelf product, it's more so that upper upper management said "if it's still making us cash, why chance it?" .
I've implemented a 14 day trial period, for users to test the service before staying with us.
> MP1 interacts with lipids that are abnormally distributed on the surface of cancer cells, creating gaping holes that allow molecules crucial for cell function to leak out.

This is fascinating. As IANAMD, I had no idea there were physical (or nanomechanical?) differences between normal and cancer cells. This sounds like a huge number of mistakes, maybe from the extremely rapid divisions.

So is Polybia-MP1 another game changer in the Cancer world?
In response to user feedback, I've implemented a 14-day trial period for all subscription plans.
Fraud doesn't become legal just because someone has a clever idea for SEO. You're scenario only works in a totally unregulated environment. Internet businesses are not magically except from the types of regulation found in every other industry. The entire point of a regulation is to place limits on behaviors that harm society when left on their own.

However, focusing on my suggestion of transparency and verification misses the point. The method by which Google regains (and maintains) the public trust is their problem, and I'm sure that more than one solution exists.

My point is it would probably be in Google's best interest to fix this problem, because waiting too long has consequences. At some point, the people who feel that are treated unfairly by Google - it doesn't matter if they are correct in that belief - will fight back, which has already started in small, preliminary ways.

> The outcome would be ugly.

The outcome would also be ugly in a future where a socially-necessary service is controlled entirely by a single entity. As usual in these situations, the best situation is somewhere in the middle.
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That is a very succinct way of putting it, thank you.
I was mistaken about how that works, sorry. (I'm not involved with the Peek product.)
>The ideas behind the so-called "on-demand workforce" further solidify the notion that labor is a commodity. After all, you can order an uber ride just as easily as you can order vitamins online.

How does this make Uber drivers any more or less of a commodity than the taxi drivers they replace?
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Before, I actually used the top menu to navigate from one Google service to another.

Now, I just rely on Firefox’ autocompletion of the URL bar, or I just use Thunderbird instead of GMail, or here.com maps instead of Google maps.
That happens in Android sometimes, too, but my evidence-free sense is that it's usually rogue ad network participants because the app is usually some mundane game.
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Floating point numbers are almost always a mistake. Classic howlers:

"Well, we can represent almost all the values we care about." Until the day you can't.

"We'll represent time with a double, with the fractional part being part of a day, and the day being an integer day number from when Somebody Famous Did Something." Until you realize that the 10AM meeting you want to put in your scheduler can't be exactly represented.

"We'll put our account balances in there as floats because unlike everyone else who has done this, we know what we're doing." But you don't. And that noise you heard was a million accountants crying out in pain.

You wouldn't represent a pointer as "some fraction of the amount of memory the machine has, from 0.0 to 0.9999", which is my usual retort when someone wants to smuggle a scalar or structural value in a float.
Ask HN: How to improve vocabulary?
It seems like everything I read contains words that I do not know the meaning of. For example, every page within a novel contains atleast 1 or 2 words that I do not know.

How should I improve my vocabulary? Should I stop at every word I do not know, and look it up in the dictionary? I sometimes do that but I eventually forget the meaning of the word literally five minutes later. Also what should I read to increase my vocab? Anyone know of good websites to read from?

Thanks.
Very exciting. Since the current rustc is based on a fork of llvm, when can we expect it to be part of the mainline llvm?
>>Humanities: where you don't realize you need to tell us what the y axis of the graph is to make your point, and then wonder why people aren't lining up to not learn anything.

The y-axis was explained in the text! Did you just give us all the perfect opportunity to draw some snarky conclusions about the difference between STEM and humanities students? :D
If I need the cash more than a few years out, whichever provides the highest return, like all long term investments.
The new favicon resembles some sort of gay pride logo. It's a bit off-putting.
Thanks for point #1. I'm going to change that right away!

I use mailvelope for reading Private Forms submissions in Gmail, and it's wonderful.

As far as crypto in the browser, kbpgp is a great tool, assuming your browser supports it.
Because, for good reason, not everyone has that set to Google?
The humanities ARE easy.

This is why it is common for someone to give up on Computer Science / Math / Physics / Chemistry / Engineering, but go on to graduate in History or English or Journalism.

Does anyone know a single person who tried and tried, but just couldn't manage a History degree, so they had to take the easy route and ended up majoring in Physics???? HA!
Yahoo just redesigned their logo to look more like calligraphy.
I'm an engineer and my designs look like it. I've been trying to improve lately. It started when I took a look at http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and then looked at http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ It was an eye opener to me how just a few changes made the basic page so much better. Then I took a look at http://www.csszengarden.com/ and by that I mean more than a look. I spent a lot of time studying how each designer did their work. I really tried to get into the mindset of a designer and how CSS is used to do this kind of thing. These people are genius to me; it seems so far out of reach. I started paying attention to design as I browsed the web. I thought about what I like and how they did it. I showed source to see what css libraries are being used. I subscribed to designers on social media (Facebook: I like WIMP - Web and Interactive Media Professionals, Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=web%20design) I started browsing http://thenews.im/ once in awhile. I've been absorbing some of the ideas by osmosis. I'm starting to think in new ways about it without too much effort. It's mostly a matter of paying attention instead of thinking about code all the time. I'm not very far along the path, but the effort I made above is already paying off. Hope this helps.
Doesn’t help with Google Maps, or Inbox, which take ages (literally, sometimes half a minute) to load and still lagg forever.
They know what the content is, so they can probably analyze CSS when retrieving via JS.
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The DC Metro actually (mostly) hasn't used their automatic train control system in full automatic mode since a collision in 2009 that killed nine (for which the ATC system was directly responsible; a faulty circuit both forced a train to stop and rendered it invisible to the control system).

Safe train control seems like it needs a little more sophistication than '60s or '70s tech was able to give. For one, it's common sense that a train that disappears from the system isn't really gone-- but the Metro system couldn't take that into account. Stuff like that should be pretty trivial today.
That's cool, thanks for sharing!
They actually do have a relationship to Phi, but not the one in the in picture you link, which is obviously bad.

If you draw a pattern of dots according by rotating points 137.5 degrees (which you see on a lot of seed heads and fruits, such as sunflowers, pineapples, pine cones, romanesco broccoli, various succulents, etc.), you create a pattern were certain spirals 'jump out' at you. If you count the number of 'arms' in each successive set of spirals, the numbers are the Fibonacci sequence. http://momath.org/home/fibonacci-numbers-of-sunflower-seed-s...

Somewhere along the line I read on some website that it might have to do with optimal packing theory -- distributing the maximum number of seeds over the seedhead, but I think it was just a guess. It does seem to show up in a variety of plants, more than just chance would lead you to expect.
I'm enjoying not reading all of the article.

OK, I admit I read most of it, but I really am enjoying not finishing it.

:-D
Personal preferences does not imply that it's good, especially for things like

"Single line if possible: if(rc < 0) return rc;"
Uber's role in the labor market at large and Uber's relationship with their workers are two separate issues. The lawsuit only deals with the latter. Your analogies to taxi services relate to the former and are irrelevant to the issue at hand.

To clarify, the labor protections I speak of relate to giving employees the proper benefits, not to overall labor market protections. The lawsuit (which is the topic for this discussion) alleges that Uber miscategorized their workers as contractors to avoid paying these benefits.
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I've ported this to run on Giant Swarm: https://github.com/giantswarm/swarm-holdem. That repo also supports running it locally in a container.