skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult to manage something if you don't have measurable outputs. The emphasis is on the word "measurable". Give a manager some way of objectively measuring what you're doing and most of them will be happy.

It's easy for them to measure office hours or lines of code or commits or bugs fixed, etc. This does not logically imply that the person is actually doing any "real" work but it creates the perception and it's easy to measure and so managers are fond of it.

At the end of the day you need to manage the perception that you're working or not working. When you're not working in an office it's even worse. You just lost the easiest way: creating the perception that you "put in the hours". Don't make this difficult for your manager. That's my experience anyway.
I was in the same boat. I had a Zune HD, and it was a very underrated hardware/software package. Probably a good example of a superior product that was a victim to timing, marketing, and other forces outside of the product itself.
Dyson’s robo-vac goes on sale in Japan for an eye-popping price
> Yeah, I freeze and thaw cells constantly without much trouble--just plop those suckers in a solution of 10% DMSO and a serum-containing isotonic liquid then throw into the freeze-assist device, then put that into the -80C freezer and transfer it to the liquid nitrogen freezer the next morning. Everyone does it this way, and has for years. I've always wondered if the freezing and thawing process subtly changes cell functioning (beyond the time given to cells to rest after being thawed), but I'm guessing if it were the case someone would have noticed it by now.

Has anyone tested this on a macroscopic creature? In particular, one complex enough to demonstrate memory, which could be tested afterward?

I've seen one or two reports of such tests, but nothing going into detail about the degree of function afterward.
I think you are overestimating how much of the popularity came from the FGC.

All of the popular emotes represent pretty common reactions, especially with respect to watching e-sports. BibleThump is a crying eyes, which is pretty much the best emote for sadness or, more commonly, faking sadness. PogChamp is a guy screaming so when people are demanding stuff (e.g. "FIX SOUND PogChamp") its an obvious choice, but it can also be used for things of excitement, so it has a lot of uses. I think, even without the FGC, the emotes that have risen to the most used would've been very similar, if not the exact same.
This doesn't seem like something you'd need a genetic test to determine.
Ask HN: Blue skies research in early-stage startups
Would love to hear about examples of startups on how they handle R&D / blue skies projects in the first few months or during a pivotal phase. Process, tools, roles, etc.
libjpeg is silly, but that's why everyone uses libjpeg-turbo now, which maintains API/ABI compatibility with libjpeg v8

http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Jpeg-9

And if it comes to having a library or two with two ABIs/APIs, like gtk2 and gtk3, or libjpeg7 and libjpeg8, that's not a big deal - those two lines have different "sonames", and it's just those two versions to manage globally, rather than a per-app multitude.
Nope and I would probably never want to work under those conditions :P

Most office buildings I've seen have restrictions, the office tower i work at in London (Reagent's Park) requires you to enter and sign in with security from 7pm till 7am and if you want to enter during the weekend you need to register explicitly for the day and tie and it has to be approved.

And this is pretty much the case for most shared offices / office towers I've worked in, if you own the campus and want to keep the same level of security staffing during the night as you would during the day I would think that 24/7 access wouldn't be an issue to facilitate in all other cases they rather that you wouldn't be hanging around.
You could, but typically the editor of the journal asking for reviews is a leading academic in the field of the journal.

Refusing to review non-open work sounds like a good way to burn political capital for those early in their careers.
What rewards are they reaping? They're not necessarily getting more jobs, they're not getting more tax revenue, and as soon as the "efficient" government's tax break is over, the company will jump to the next country, and the original one will likely be worse off.
You then have to write out a check to the right person, the amount, the other person has to sign it and then take two pictures. Venmo just reduces all of that to. Send $10 to X
SolarWinds acquired in $4.5B private equity deal
I really liked my Surface Pro 1 when I got it. There were a number of small problems such as missing key up events that resulted in stuck Ctrl keys, cursor getting stuck in one place, random resets overnight, but nothing that I couldn't live with. Form factor was good and the hardware just about good enough all round - slightly small hard disk, one USB is a little annoying, but again, can live with it. I recommended it a few times to people and online.

Unfortunately the power supply died one week out of warranty. There was a long back and forth with support after one person said they could replace it free of charge since there were symptoms within the warranty period, and another said that person had made a mistake and that I'd need to buy a replacement. Not a good experience and device was out of commission for a long while waiting for their responses. I bought a third party power supply, which I don't really trust, but clearly the 100 USD Microsoft replacement power supply is not reliable either and is twice the price.

Now the power button is becoming unreliable and if it goes I'll be unable to use the device at all as there's no other way to turn it on, and it does reset itself from time to time still. I don't want to move it too much in case it turns off and I can't get it back on again.

I still really like the form factor, but what a review like this doesn't capture is the long-term reliability and service quality that comes with the device, and that's what's most likely to put me off buying another Surface Pro / Surface Book.
Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
Have a feeling JSConf Colombia is going to be a hard ticket to get next year.

Here's the link for their recent (10/16-10/17) conference, some great talks: http://jsconf.co
Another consolidation this year: Dialog is buying Atmel, although Atmel is fairly small compared to the other big players in the microcontroller market.
Hahah agreed with @kej. Jokes aside, I've held off getting 23andMe because of this reason. Does anyone know?
> it did claim to apply to all men
No, it was just vague in its scope. It can only be interpreted that way, if you deliberately ignore the first sentence of the article "In my experience, 99% of men and women in the tech industry are decent and genuinely well-meaning people.".

+! for the argument for pushing "people shouldn't treat people that way" over "men shouldn't treat women that way" style messaging.
I think you are missing an opportunity by making this only work on macs, even with a windows release. We use http://www.adfreetime.com which is a dns server that circumvents region restrictions and the value of doing it at that level is you can put it in your router and then all your netflix devices are covered - only covering a computer just isn't representative of how we (prob. most people?) watch netflix.
> I'd assume that if inter-neuron communication speed is anywhere on the same order as the time-between-individual-neuron-loss, then that would alleviate the effect somewhat, no? My understanding was there was a lot of redundancy up there, so it would make sense that the brain would resilver itself in certain scenarios.

The brain is remarkably resilient and adaptive; people manage to recover at least partial function even after major strokes. And, quite frankly, I'd take "functioning like a stroke victim" over "dead" any day.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but here's me selecting from a customer table. Customers have a FK to 'address' via ship_address_id. I want to filter on address.state, but can't figure out how to do it. 'state' is not an available field in the filters and I can't seem to drill into any of the FK entities.

Screenshot:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/57670/394271/Wt...
Bank Plans and Unicorn Proms
Yep. Twitter, for one, will not like this. At all.
Humans are the softy vulnerable underside of the computer-dragon.
"High prestige journals offer value to both authors and readers."

This is a very odd situation that I suspect isn't really amenable to normal economic analysis, at least outside of very simplistic models.

The value that journals offer is, over the medium term, due to the editorial staff and the authors that submit articles. Remove those two, and the journal will cease to be "high prestige" and will likely fold. In the short term, however, the value is in the journal's name: you could replace the editors of Lancet with a crop of corn husks and it would still be "high prestige" for quite a while---at least until the third or fourth major screw-up. (Losing the authors is harder, but hold that thought for another paragraph.)

On the other hand, over the long term, the value lies entirely in the readers. No major academic is going to waste their professional capital on a journal that isn't read by their colleagues, and ultimately, an academic's articles need to be read, not just published, for them to advance more than locally.

In the same way, new journals have issues: In the short term, it's hard to get over the name recognition hump; in the medium term, they have to have consistently good editors and authors to attract more than momentary attention. But once they have attracted a readership, they have an inertia that makes other factors less important.

A couple of examples:

* Anyone heard from Software: Practice and Experience lately? It was one of my favorite journals, and was being edited by Douglas Comer the last time I interacted with it. But I haven't seen an issue in more than a decade, mostly because it is (was?) hideously expensive, and haven't seen any references to it, either.

* How about PLOS? Seems to be high prestige now, judging by the number of references I hear on the Science and Nature podcasts.

My personal suspicion is that a better analogy for Elsevier and company is the mining business: extracting as much wealth as possible from academic journals, as cheaply as possible, before the ore runs out and the town dries up and blows away.
That seems like a very silly policy. Do these companies do any kind of analysis on what they'd need from their software licenses and what they'd be giving up by using AGPL?

You'd think from their attitudes that the FSF is a patent troll.
If anyone's looking for a straightforward ETL framework, check out DataDuck http://dataducketl.com/ The `dataduck quickstart` command is as close to automagic as you can get, and then you can customize your ETL after that.
Just FYI,there are plugins for your wordpress installation to connect to the rest of the social indieweb community https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/
As a small company, stuff like this scares the shit out of me. It would be expensive, but companies like Microsoft can survive things like this. But how can a small company do anything but ignore it?
DDoSers [1] around the world rejoice.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/talks/2009.08.10/slides.pdf
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery.html
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2009.03.21/slides.pdf
etc etc
but also
http://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html
I worked at a major consultancy and this is definitely true. The major parties in a large enterprise IT project are (in shit-rolls-downhill order):
1: The enterprise itself
2: Strategic advisors (consultancy)
3: Integrators (often the same company as #2, or a competitor)
4: Software vendors (note the plural)
5: Third-party QA

All but #1 have a structural incentive to make projects bigger the same way a mechanic has a structural incentive to "find new problems." The client always has final say, but people underestimate how hard it is to keep saying "no" to multiple reputable firms all warning you against going too small.

That said, this kind of swindling is far from ubiquitous. There's a philosophy that blindly upping scope is shortsighted, and you do better in the long run by actually representing your client's best interest. Where I worked, I found it pretty easy to surround myself with people who thought this way.
If they weren't making a profit, they wouldn't act the same way; for example, if they weren't making a profit, they wouldn't have any incentive to publish vanity journals.

> And again, there is nothing stopping anyone else from starting their own journal. If they fail, then authors and readers must find some value in the current situation.

Publishing in a journal with a low impact factor isn't nearly as worthwhile as publishing in one with a higher impact factor, which implies a strong lock-in effect which works on Elsevier's favor. Even if Elsevier weren't around, a new journal would have a hard time getting off the ground.
I tend to use http://hckrnews.com to get a summary and check ask and new now and then when I am taking a break. It can be addicting
Breathing mosts kind of dust is not good for you... being cement, wood, asbestos... which is why workers wear dust masks.
Fruit is not a uniform shape and it typically bruises easily so it can be difficult to design a robotic "hand" to consistently pick up fruit of irregular shape without bruising.

This article from Gizmodo does a good job of explaining the difficulties involved: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/10/why-is-it-so-hard-for-robo...
> There is a ton of evidence demonstrating the pro-inflammatory and obesegenic properties of saturated fat.

Yet most of those studies have been shown to be flawed and are contradicted by newer studies. The world's health organizations have been back-paddling on this, because wouldn't you know, the trans-fats that we ended up eating on our quest for low-fat are the fats that are actually linked to cancer or cardiovascular disease.

> People want to vilify processed foods, but processing isn't inherently bad. Aspirin is basically processed willow bark

Aspirin is not food. Name a processed food that proved to be healthy.

And it is true that we as humans have always modified our environment and selected for the traits we wanted in our domesticated crops and animals. We also adapted to new foods, like cow milk. But this process has lasted for tens of thousands of years at least, whereas current "innovations" are newer than 30 years without us knowing enough about food and nutrition to make health claims. One day humanity might get used to the current blend of processed foods based primarily on corn, soy and fossil fuels, but I for one refuse to be the sacrice generation ;-)

> milk fat is quite poor from a health standpoint, being high in palmitate

Milk is a very complex substance and this reductionism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism) doesn't apply well to food. Here's one study that claims that people consuming high-fat milk are not more prone to cardiovascular diseases and even more so people consuming high-fat milk are less likely to get fat from it, versus people consuming low-fat milk: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00394-012-0418-1

Here's another study showing that people consuming full-fat diary have a 69% less risk of cardiovascular disease: http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n6/abs/ejcn201045a.ht...

> the single biggest problem most people have is consuming too many calories

Yet those extra calories are not coming from high-fat milk, but from the cheap high-fructose corn syrup that has been flooding the market for tens of years due to subsidies, most of it ending up in the processed food we consume, including low-fat milk, because in case you don't know, in the process of stripping the fat from milk and of ultra-pasteurizing it, the milk loses its texture and taste, plus it has to travel a lot, so it has to be supplemented with things such as powder milk, artificial colourants and preservatives (based on petroleum) and HFCS.

> It isn't like there are a ton of fat soluble vitamins in milk that you lose switching to a reduced fat option, it's just empty calories.

Not all calories are created equal and milk is rich in essential nutrients that we need, like calcium, vitamin A and D, phosphorous or B vitamins amongst others. Even its fatty acids are essential for us. And there are recent studies showing that the fat in milk helps our body absorb it better, yet we are stripping it out, then enhancing its taste in a process meant to fool our senses. You think it's just the fat that goes, but that's not true.
PlayCanvas also have a site that lets you view an iPhone in 360°, presumably for marketing that their engine can be used for product demos.
If you're out of there in less than 2 weeks, I would just leave it off the resume entirely.
Haha Filo did you really call ECDSA modern?
I was also overall impressed with the tone of the article. However, there were a few phrases which somewhat worried me. Specifically, "there is a broad recognition on both sides of the Atlantic that we live in dangerous times" and "if governments are going to prevent and investigate threats to public safety in the real world, they need timely and appropriate access to data that is stored online".

The first is somewhat debatable (there obviously is danger, but more or less than there used to be?), and even if completely true, "dangerous times" have been used to justify a lot of very bad things, so nebulous references worry me.

The second is also a sentence that by itself is fairly straightforward and uncontroversial, but is highly dependent on "timely" and "appropriate". After all, if "timely" means "as soon as we need/want it", and "appropriate" means "we swear we won't look at it unless we need to, honest", then many NSA programs could be loosely described as a way to get "timely and appropriate access to data that is stored online".

It is possible that neither of these sentences is meant to weasel in these sorts of meanings, and that I'm simply reacting to anti-privacy advocates having used otherwise innocuous phrases to justify bad behavior.
The woman who saved more than 1000 gross online comments
also, I don't trust them with my DNA data anymore.
Life expectancy is a really poor metric. When accounting for the average life expectancy due to huge drop in infant mortality, LE has made very low gains at a high economic and medical cost. I was commenting that if naturally occurring nanoparticles as created in combustion are getting lodged into tissue, that synthetic nanoparticles have the same opportunity. Combustion byproducts are already known carcinogens.
I got a macbook pro back in July and I just use homebrew to install the linux equivalents I need. I have a few VPS machines running Ubuntu 14.04 and all my code works fine between both environments
I wonder what would you say about accessibility standards of this website? :-)
I really dislike when an article waits til the end to explain why I shouldn't care. First half of the article is all about how we should worry and care about this thing. Second half of the article is, "actually you should just disregard everything we just said."
You still have to implement the spec, and my question is about the spec. Yes, we can overcome crap which let us end up with the least liked ISA for the winner.
It will be really interested to compare this to google contributor [0] in a year or so and know what's working, what isn't working, and why.

[0] https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
My sentiments exactly!
Note this "can distinguish and selectively pick fruit." Right now you either set up nets, have a machine bulk shake a tree and take what falls, or pay someone to pick ripe fruit. The conveyor system would then sort the collected fruit.

This system either replaces human collectors or significantly increases yields compared to shaking the trees. But, you would likely still need the bulk sorting at a later stage.
Who carries checks everywhere anymore?
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Disclaimer: I don't think Yahoo is doing well and I think Marissa is not the leader people were hoping she would be.

From the few company announcements I listen to, it seems common for the CEO of the company to be emphasize the good, and de-emphasize (or omit) the bad. Anything less than great confidence is perceived as weakness, and the last thing a CEO wants to do is imply to shareholders that they don't know what they're doing.

Of course, I don't believe her words excuses her poor performance. Rather, it's important to recognize that her words are rhetoric: not necessarily things she believes but things she must say in light of the various pressures acting on Yahoo.
The corporate tax rate is not as important because taxes will still be paid on payroll and other uses of the money. The effective tax rate is not going to change much as the corporate tax rate changes because so much of the companies expenses are going to payroll and bonuses.
> this is using WebGL? Unbelievable!

What, have you never seen a WebGL demo before?

> it demonstrates that WebGL is not just a toy, but something to be taken more seriously in the GL community.

It already is taken seriously. WebGL is merely a variant of OpenGL ES for JavaScript. Heck, the whole of Unity and the Unreal Engine can run on it.
My wife (tech writer) calls this the 'mystery novel' form of essay. She says Engineers are particularly guilty of writing that way. She was right, in my case anyway. For a while after I married her I would go through all my writing and move the last sentence in each paragraph to first. Because I did it all the time.
Twitter's Dorsey Apologizes to Developers for Past Conflicts
It depends on the publisher copyright agreement. With many closed journals, the researcher is free to post a preprint on a personal site or to something like arXiv, but not to post the final version with the journal's "value-added" layout and such.
There's still Federal taxes which get paid, and distributed out to the states. Whereas there is no "EU" tax that gets distributed to the member states.
In Search of a More Constructive Answer
how about trying to make a project that provides some service and figure out how to automate getting new users for that project. That is quite a challenge
360 Video Library
I'm an avid Tutum fan and an early adopter. Explore and play with this tech it just get's nicer the more you use it. You can run Tutum on your own machines (including your laptop behind a firewall/NAT) with the Bring Your Own Node configuration. I have moved systems from AWS to Digital Ocean with a couple of clicks. I currently have regional failover on Digital Ocean which took me a few minutes to set up.

The whole user experience is awesomely simple. If I had to describe these guys I'd say they are the Digital Ocean of the docker ecosystem.

Their 'Stacks' are so similar to docker-compose that only minor edits are required - and I expect with this acquisition even that will go in time.

And yes, finally a revenue stream for Docker I can believe in!
M-Pesa moved over a billion dollars by SMS in 2014.
The point is that 'associated with' definitely does not mean 'causes'. But somebody will probably try to use this paper as evidence of a causal link.
The constant attempts to keep the harassment conversation "on-message" as regards sexism is intellectually bankrupt. Detailing the problem as it really exists is the first step to actually fixing it, not an attempt at "derailing," because, and this is really important, the rails are immaterial.