skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, same here 9 or 10 years ago. University of Kansas recommended it for their intro to software engineering class (I think) game project. My project team created a shitty RTS that used pirated starcraft sprites. All I remember was that implementing that fog of war was a CPU hog.
Incorrect.

The law varies state-by-state but the actual process is closer to the following:

(1) Company agrees to file for bankruptcy, usually because they feel it's in the owners' (shareholders) best interest to do so, in terms of recovering as much as possible from the "bad" company, vs. trying to keep the company running.

(2) Company's management comes up with a plan to distribute company's assets (cash, servers, IP, whatever) more or less "fairly" among the creditors. A big part of this is preventing management from giving a sweetheart deal on something worth a lot, to their friend/relative/whoever (e.g. selling the customer list for $1 to their friend's company), vs. making sure everyone who has a claim on said assets can get the most back as possible. A lot of arguments happen here, this is the main point of the rdio situation, whether the sale to Pandora is the best possible outcome for everyone.

(3) The company's assets get distributed as follows:

Employees -- most states give employees' unpaid wages preferential treatment in bankruptcy, under the same legal doctrine of why employees can't be held civilly liable (sued) doing something under control of their employer -- employers have a general duty to care for/protect their employees. (Note that neither the high priority bankruptcy payment, nor the liability protection, applies to contractors. Keep this in mind next time you think contractors are "overpaid" earning 2x as much as a W2, on top of the fact that they get no benefits and have to pay both sides of FICA)

Secured creditors -- any creditor whose claim is "secured" or "backed up" by some kind of asset, e.g. mortgage lenders.

Unsecured creditors -- 1099 contractors, lessors, all vendors, debenture (bond) holders, basically anyone who claims they're "owed" by the company.

And finally, lastly, equity holders (stockholders). They don't necessary have to get zero, but often do, because they're so far down the list of who gets paid (what investment bankers call "capital structure seniority" -- they're very junior).

So yes, it might be more or less ratable within each class, but there's no guarantee that "shareholders will get nothing", nor is it strictly proportional.

This is the garbage collection of capitalism and I find it fascinating.
The last two points are extremely debatable.

I have used Google, Spotify, and Pandora, and in my experience, Google's hands-off auto-generated playlists are extremely high quality. They also have great radio/curated playlists via the Songza acquisition.

Spotify is a clear winner for a social experience, but I think you're really underestimating Google on the other dimensions.
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> Coca Cola has been around for 129 years. How many centuries does this process take?

The US market (like most real markets) is neither "naturally regulated" nor a libertarian "free market".
It seems that industry-wide, PC revenue is on par with or surpassing consoles, though. [0]

Completely anecdotally, in my experience as a consumer when games do better on consoles than on PC it's because they A) are poorly ported from consoles, often by a third-party developer, B) are poorly suited for PC, such as "party" type games better played with many friends in one room, or C) don't offer enough new or differentiated content to justify the purchase, since the PC platform has (nearly/theoretical) unlimited backwards compatibility. Sometimes the new Assassin's Creed just isn't a different enough experience from all the previous games to justify the purchase when you can just go back and play any of the others on the same platform.

[0] http://hexus.net/gaming/news/industry/83972-pc-games-sales-e...
You are being a good short-term team member, but that might not be the best for you or the team in the long-term. If you/other senior devs are getting the same random questions, maybe create a faq/run book? I've usually made it a point to say: here's the answer, now can you add it to the FAQ? That way, ideally, I never have to answer it again/that's the first place people check.
Well, excepting the "freedom fries" nonsense from a while back - the French have never really been portrayed as an enemy of the United States. Russia (and Putin especially) most certainly has. I'm guessing that generally the American population is discounting the deaths of innocent Russians to the same degree that it's discounting the deaths of innocent Iraqis, Afghanis, Syrians, Palestinians, Yemeni, etc., etc., etc.
Interesting. I used to have a Galaxy Nexus, which was made by Samsung but configured by Google (it was the Christmas phone the year I worked there), and currently have a Moto X, and those are the only Android devices I've used. Perhaps not a typical experience, then, since I haven't had to deal with manufacturer-locked crapware and the like.
I encourage you to improve you English skills, but you should know that native English speakers working in diverse settings are accustomed to being around non-native speakers with varying levels of skill. You probably aren't being judged harshly for speaking with an accent or missing articles. Even many native speakers have difficulty speaking continuously or extemporaneously. I think you may not need to worry about it so much. If you still want to improve, there's absolutely no shame in learning in a classroom setting. It may be the best thing for you.
I wonder what reasons there are for not putting npm in a foundation in the same way that happened to Node itself? Surely such a critical piece of Node infrastructure shouldn't be controlled by a single (for-profit) company.
One of the great things about Python is the C API and how well documented it is.
Being a good judge of people and being judgmental are not anywhere near the same thing.

Being judgmental is usually meant as someone who is quick to criticize even mundane things and who focuses on the negative. Its a filter that ignores the positive and amplifies the negative - someone who blows things out of proportion. It often is driven by a desire to feel superior to another and comes from a place of insecurity.

Being a good judge of someone is being observant and weighing the complexities of what someone presents of themselves. Think lady justice with the scales - taking a whole picture before making judgment, and avoiding bringing in one's own motivations, emotions, or concerns in the process. Lady justice's blindfold is the symbol for this objectivity.

As you can see they're totally different in how they filter data, when they make judgment, and their relationship to the other.

You're right, the criteria used doesn't seem to be visible. While feedback on particular aspects of an interview NOT related to social cues would be helpful, feedback for social cues & character is just not something anyone owes you - no matter how emotionally difficult an interaction may be to participate in.

There are likely ways you can get feedback on these kinds of things - friends or coaches - but ultimately its not the kind of thing that one studies directly for. If it were, everyone would come in an actor, rather than themselves (and lets face it, the psychopaths would be the winners). You can try all you want to study how to project the right microexpressions and whatever but that's endlessly complex and you'll lack sufficient data to optimize, not least of which is because every person and situation is unique. This may go against some notions of fairness but lack of visibility and feedback is just part of the domain of social interactions.

Fundamentally the character & social cues you give off are an output of what you do with other inputs - how you view and treat people, what you're motivated by, the time you take to strengthen your own observational skills (such as through mindfulness practice) and how well you know yourself, etc. If you're concerned about giving off good social cues, you'll get a heck of a lot farther focusing on building an awareness of whats going on in your mind, in the conversation, and with the other person that is triggering those cues. That's the best way to be genuine, and in turn the best way to come across as genuine.
Ask HN: Why aren't p2p borrowing/lending as popular as car sharing or rental?
Just a thought on this, in the peer-to-peer space, there are many car sharing companies or room/apartment rental companies. How come there isn't a big name when it comes to borrowing/lending? Something that would work the same way as Airbnb where people could list items they own (such as books, tools, games, sporting equipment, bikes, etc). People would rent these items and pay the lender a fee. What are some potential problems with this idea?
There is some of that. As a result, many states have increased the enrollment age, and now have transitional kindergarten, or TK, for kids (like my daughter) who would have enrolled in kindergarten at an earlier age a few years ago than they're now eligible for.

Seems to me a properly controlled study would have to compare kids who started at an earlier age, then repeated kindergarten, versus their peers who waited a year to enroll. Despite not exactly being feasible, that would measure the effect of the structured environment at a young age without getting so apples-and-oranges.
But this persons believes that if we do what he thinks is right, he can prevent attacks like this from happening in America. So it seems like the perfect time to talk about it. It's not like he's trying to push some completely different policy about say wall street regulations with terrorist attacks as the context.

Also, I'm sure if it was brought up randomly, with no linkage to a current terrorist attack, you and others would be saying "There haven't been any terrorist attacks on (countrys) soil in X years, so whatever system we have now is working just fine"
well, actually they have a web site with a Flash player.
The Paris Attacks and the Abuse of History
It's amazing how the same media outlets will play both sides for maximum views. Sometimes (though not this time) from the same author.

Hype up a 'movement' or protest until it is able to hit critical mass. Have nothing but encouraging words to share. Then when it is mostly self-sustaining and has a large group of people who have invested too much to back down, start fighting against the movement. Fan the flames to create two groups on both extremes ("pro-movement" and "grow up already") shouting over each other, not accomplishing anything and reaching no agreements.

Neutrality doesn't sell as well as extremism. This has happened with every protest/movement in recent memory. They jump from one movement to the next because as the fire dies out the clicks stop coming in.
So do you think the lack of fireworks since the London and Madrid attacks are more about the terrorists being lazy and not wanting to attack rather than their being foiled?
I think it's a little of column A, a little of column B. The consumers are desensitized to the bugginess of early access, and therefore more forgiving of companies releasing games that aren't yet finished. Companies have been releasing buggy games for a long time, but are pushing those limits further every year.
> Also, there's some attempt in kindergarten at ensuring everyone can read—i.e., it serves as remedial education backstopping the bad parents who never read with their children. That continues on in grade 1, but it's good to know early who the problem children (problem parents) are.

That’s interesting, considering how in Germany reading and writing is the only content of German class in first grade of school. Many kids are unable to read by the time they go to school.
I think ADP and Gusto forced their hand. They realized they needed to be in control of this part of their business, and while before they had planned it as an "eventually" thing, it became a material risk that was no longer tolerable. If I were them in the absence of the ADP shut down and Gusto competing head to head I would have wanted to focus every dollar on the core service and scale and kicked Payroll down the road. Makes sense in context they did it now though.
FiiO are only really popular with audiophiles who claim they can hear the difference. For everyone else, if you're going to blow $200 on an MP3 player you may have well get an iPod (e.g. iPod Touch) since it unlocks far more potential (apps).

I am personally rather partial to the "Sandisk Clip Jam." It is roughly $30-40, is a glorified micro-SD card player (up to 32 GB), and has tons of battery life. Great for when a smartphone is too large and cheaper than a iPod Nano.

The FiiO is just either too expensive or too large.
This is a real shame. I just discovered Rdio about a month ago and it was a breath of fresh air coming from Pandora (repetitive music discovery, and you can't play a specific song/album) and Spotify (awful UI, cluttered and full of bugs, and not web based).

I also had this handy bookmarklet to mute most of the ads: https://gist.github.com/craigds/14db5022a00b946ee14f

I have no interest in a mobile app or downloading content. Streaming whatever I want whenever I want on my laptop is important, and having a good discovery mechanism is important too. Pandora and Spotify aren't up to scratch.

I don't think there are any decent alternatives to Rdio, though I just googled and discovered Google Play Music is now available in NZ, so maybe I'll give that a go.
Is this what what Pagoda Box uses for their in-dashboard live updates or is it an off-shoot of that project?
People can see and directly compare fingerprints, but DNA only showes up after extensive tests which gives it much stronger constitutional protections. Further it's only relevant in significant quantities as individual cells may end up hundreds of miles from where an individual has ever been.

Where you at the scene of the crime, or did you happen to walk by the factory where the shelf was manufactured?

PS: As we get better at testing DNA we ar e finding it less relevant.
Statically checked pattern matching validates that the provided patterns cover all possible values the variable could have (the whole space of the variables declared/inferred type). So the actual runtime value is not necessary: if the match is exhaustive, there is no possible value that could be taken at runtime that would result in no match.
The real problem was autoplaying the sound -- they should not have auto-enabled sound... if they were worried that users wouldn't know there was sound, they could have put in a prominent button to turn it on, but auto-sound sucks.

There are plenty of ways to trigger it accidentally, like loading Google, then walking away from your desk, or doing a google search in a presentation and pausing to talk about something.

I might expect an autoplaying video with sound at a news or social media site, but I certainly wouldn't expect it from Google.com
Based out of Oakland before it was cool
Another point, which is that although the precise composition of alleles in one individual is not known, even a handful of markers are enough to identify a member of a given family. People will share their genomes because sharing is incredibly beneficial and the risks are indistinguishable from 0. As long as people care about genealogy it will be difficult to prevent identification of your genome at a family level. This has been demonstrated for a set of anonymized genomes that were part of public genomics projects.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/321.short

> Sharing sequencing data sets without identifiers has become a common practice in genomics. Here, we report that surnames can be recovered from personal genomes by profiling short tandem repeats on the Y chromosome (Y-STRs) and querying recreational genetic genealogy databases. We show that a combination of a surname with other types of metadata, such as age and state, can be used to triangulate the identity of the target. A key feature of this technique is that it entirely relies on free, publicly accessible Internet resources.

Unless we make sharing genomes illegal (and we absolutely should not!) this is going to become a hard fact of life. So we should focus on mitigating potential problems that arise in different ways.
No one seems to have mentioned the fact that in USA right now most "redshirted" children are boys whose parents value athletic "success". The theory is that those boys will be more likely to make the team when they're competing against younger, less developed boys.

As a July birth who ceased being the shortest kid in his class in about ninth grade, I'd say "meh".
A good point, and many games are being developed for consoles, or include consoles as "stretch goals".
type 'a myOption = Some of 'a | None
let f (Some x) = x*x

Gives this output:

Warning 8: this pattern-matching is not exhaustive.
Here is an example of a value that is not matched:
None
Thank you for pulling out that tweet from deleted Twitter history and posting it here.

Of course content is going to overlap, however, affiliate links specific to a single site do not.

A part of your staff added a WPexplorer link in an article of your instead of the actual link. That link wouldn't appear there unless there were some copy pasting going on, the details don't matter, I saw the end result, and commented on it based on the information available.

p.s. Tom Ewer is Raelene Morey ? The post is attributed to Raelene Morey, so I'm not quite sure I understand why are you explaining how nice of a guy Tom is in real life. I'm sure he is, but the article isn't written by him.

Have a fantastic day yourself, today I learned a couple of things about the internet, thank you for that, I truly appreciate all your time spent on the discussion with me.
There are a few in specific verticals (e.g. camera equipment - https://www.cameralends.com/ or clothes - https://www.stylelend.com/)
I think these are separate issues. There is definitely an important difference between being able to use DNA in criminal investigations and maintaining a database of every genome in the population. The first solves a problem of legitimate social concern, the second is the stuff of dystopian fiction.

None of this is at odds with insisting upon higher levels of precision and integrity in forensic science. We can talk about reducing the number of false positives and educating juries about the limitations of forensics without resigning ourselves to the unwelcome collection of our DNA.
This

> This is a real shame.

And this

> I also had this handy bookmarklet to mute most of the ads: https://gist.github.com/craigds/14db5022a00b946ee14f

Might be related.
That's right: nine assholes IN A ROOM. You'd have to be stupid to plan something like this online, even with encryption. For one, the implementation of the encryption could be wrong. Second, the computer on which the encryption is running could be compromised.
mute, not block. Rdio still gets paid.
I think this is a direct effect of how large the media portray an event to be. MH17 was a much larger 'event' in the media than the Russian plane crash recently (probably due to a bomb placed by IS). The number of casualties were roughly equal.

So I don't think it has as much to do with the event itself rather than with the degree to which the media put it on the front burner and what the nationalities of those involved are. A rule of thumb seems to be that the further east something happens relative to Greenwich the smaller the font will be. Ditto South of Spain. To the media some lives are fairly clearly more valuable than others.
you can use apt-get (and everything else you'd expect) with Ubuntu Touch, just disable the read only mode
Ten Breakthrough Technologies of 2015
What took Brennan so long? I mean the blood in Paris was starting to dry. Isn't this all so predictable?
It stamps its pretty feet: on Goya
Par – a paragraph reformatter vaguely similar to fmt, but better (2006)
Most phones in the UK are locked to a carrier, but we don't have anti-unlocking laws like DMCA. There are little shops on the high street that offer unlocking services.

(This is just carrier locking. Anything that changes IMEI is illegal with a maximum 5 year prison sentence)
You might consider some people won't be able to use this calendar as-is; it isn't accessible. Consider http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201302/making_elements... and perhaps change the spans to native HTML elements with visual and keyboard focus. Thanks for sharing!
Well, I'll give a contrary to your contrary. I started a year late (I begged my parents not to make me go to school yet), and I got straight A's through high school and have always been very self directed.

The point is, this is a study, our anecdotes are not.
I second this. I've been an extremely happy paid subscriber to Rdio for years. I generally listen to full albums on the desktop (at work), with a moderate bit of classical.

Rdio lets me find out about a specific musician/composer, then I get get to listen to a lot of their recorded output for free immediately, and repeat albums as much as I want.

RIP Rdio, you were awesome!
Pre-school is still considered "optional" if you "make too much money" (at least in Los Angeles County & Ventura County). My daughter was denied access to pre-school even when my wife would only enter her income, my daughter would get denied. Together, according to the IRS, we're in the top 10% of income earners (though it sure doesn't feel like it). She turned 5 in July and was very excited to start Kindergarten in September. For the last year or so, she's had "Pre-school-like" daycare. Playful learning I would call it. Identifying animals by type (aquatic vs. aerial vs. terrestrial), basic colors and geometric shapes, matching (all the blue items on left, all the stars on the right), Alphabet & Phonics, Numbers, basic writing implement handling (pens, markers, crayons, paintbrushes), writing & recognizing her first name, counting (forward and reverse, counting items), lots of sharing and socialization (no touching, fighting, biting, etc.), manners (please, thank you, excuse me, etc.). So far, I think she's advancing well in Kindergarten and is learning addition, words and sentence structure/grammar, writing, reading, arithmetic. She's beginning to read very well for her age. But, like I said, she's had some pre-school like work, lots of Leap Frog video watching.
All nice and dandy in theory, clearly disproven by practice.

Heath costs and medicine costs in Europe and Canada are lower than in the USA.
> If you have a problem with a reclining seat in from of you, choose an airline without reclining seats or upgrade to a seat with more leg room.

Airlines don't offer rows where the seats in front don't recline as a feature (although rarely the seats in wing exit rows don't recline).

And, yes, if everyone could just upgrade at 300x the cost then all of the issues would be solved. Next let's just give everyone $1,000,000 so that poverty is solved! That will work, why did nobody suggest that?!
Yet Muslims NEVER speak out against radicals in their mists. There are very few exceptions. For the number of Muslims in this world, they've remained pretty silent whenever Islam is used in an attack.
I almost (but not quite) voted it down. I think it's mostly the tone, especially the "wait, what?" for something that is patently obvious to some people.
Tom Ewer writes for Rae, she's the editor at WPMU DEV. ;)

They regularly converse about all the articles they both write for their profession. Don't you see the connection between articles written for both companies?

Still a lot about nothing really. A couple of links were copied whilst researching, but the content was all unique for both sites.

Cheers.
Bringing Up Genius
> You could just as easily call the person in back rude for having the temerity to have long knees poking into the seat back.

Darn them for having the audacity of being born with long legs... The nerve of some people...