skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends. If you're doing very well and want to do better or if you have an immediate existential crisis in your company then a consultant may be your best bet. If you simply have some work that needs doing freelancers are a good way to get the work done without the red tape and overhead that is associated with having employees.
Neither side being happy is typical of fair processes for resolving disputes; if one side is happy with a dispute process, its usually because it is biased to their side.
The Classic Controllers on the Wii (and WiiU, I suppose) aren't bad. Good, precise dpad, quick switching between face buttons. A kind of updated classic feel. You can buy quite a few NES games for those systems, among others.

The main place you'll encounter problems playing legally on new equipment is with games where licensing issue have cropped up—we'll possibly never see a re-release of Goldeneye for the N64, for example, and some newer versions of games have been stripped of their original soundtracks (Crazy Taxi).
One wildly successful rude leader gets thousands of times more attention and consideration than the thousands of amiable managers who do their jobs well without hurting people's feelings.
The characterization of the first option as North Korea is not honest. They kidnap people and make it hard to get out---but no one is proposing that. They're worried about people getting in. We generally consider DPRK a failure because we watch how people are voting with their feet. But by that same measure the US is wildly successful. So I don't think "like North Korea" is a fair comparison.

"Dropit, you're ignoring reality, people will come whatever official attempts are made/there is not the political will to do what it would take to maintain an actually strong border."

Yes, I know. And the incentives of that reality, for the elite, are to become rootless and disinterested (or worse: exploitative), while the proles just become resentful. I don't get the sense that anyone is making that connection.
> I really dislike this line of thinking. It assumes things can't change.

I never said that things can't change. I've seen many companies change over the years. However, Microsoft's anti-competitive and underhanded practices have been extremely profitable for them and have -all things considered- resulted in very few negative consequences.

> It's clear [that MSFT is changing] from the people that I've talked to that work there. It's clear from the messaging by senior management.

Both Plus and Hangouts were supposed to be bold new directions for Google. At the time, it was abundantly clear from talking to most people who worked there and senior management that everyone was totally stoked about these new platforms and that this was the direction that the company was going to go for the foreseeable future.

But here we are -four years later- and Hangouts is -all things considered- a steaming pile and everyone in the company knows it, Google is slowly but steadily disentangling itself from Plus (and Plus from its services), and Vivek Gundotra -the former head of Plus- quietly "left the company" several years past.

As you say, companies change.

> It's clear that MSFT is changing.

This isn't the first time that it has been "clear" that Microsoft was changing. In the past it turned out to be a temporary change in order to gain reputation, or new users for their platforms or... Like I said before, "Playing the nice guy" has -historically- been just a small -and fleeting- phase of Microsoft's dirty market domination strategies.

Given the enormous amount of harm Microsoft has done to the industry over the past several decades, (and given Microsoft's historical propensity for lock-in and intentionally high switching costs) I'm going to wait for a very long time before seriously entertaining the claims that Microsoft has actually changed.
A both loving and detailed look into the internals of controllers. Fun read!
Small correction: the company is HaCon (http://www.hacon.de/), HaFas is their software.
The quotation you selected caught my eye as well. Sort of defines the independent hacker lifestyle well.
In the US to a first approximation, the regulations regarding construction companies don't include auditing of internal processes such as those PlanGrid appears to be tackling. The problem is the relationships between margins, the potential cost of errors, and the volume of projects a construction company undertakes. Margins are low, the cost of potential errors can be higher than the initial contract, and contractors handle a relatively low number of projects. In other words: small reserves, very bad worst cases, and not much spread of risk.

If Facebook looses my post of a cat picture, the worst thing likely to happen is that I rant on Hacker News. If a critical deviation gets lost in the shuffle, people die...and lawyers get involved. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse...
Does anyone know what the candidate was actually trying to do here? Is it semi intelligible? I can't figure it out.
Never on -O3 / Oz :-)

(Obviously it transforms it to a loop, so it sorta breaks the rules at compile time)
Partly it's because people don't agree on what a rational basis would consist of. For example, pro gun enthusiasts consider a suicide by gunshot to not count as a "gun death", whereas pro gun control folks generally do. This different turns out to be an enormous problem, because suicide by gun makes up approximately half of all gun deaths, thereby making gun deaths either seriously dangerous when compared to motor vehicle accidents, or not dangerous at all.
I've used it a few times and loved it (I know, this sounds like an ad. I promise I have no personal involvement or investment in the company). They have a system where you can rent an extra size of the dress for no charge, so if you're unsure, or between sizes, you can almost always get the one that will fit you best. You can also get an extra style of dress for an extra $25, along with an extra size in that one too. So you basically get four dresses. I've never had a problem finding one that worked out well, but it also helps that they have extremely detailed fit notes, lots of photos, and encourage people (I think they offer discount promotions and things) to post photos and additional reviews of the dress. There have been times where I've seen a dress and thought "yes! That will work great!" got to the reviews and some "in the wild" photos and immediately changed my mind. And vice versa!

So, yeah, I think their system does work, it just takes a little effort, and you have to ship a lot of dresses around. I've been happy with it though!
How (or why) is Facebook claiming this is (or will be) patented? https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot/blob/master/PATENTS
I've always loved this idea.

Fun fact: a blame-based suggested reviewers UI was included in the original Pull Request design mockups. We shipped with a much weaker list of everyone with write access list and eventually dropped the list altogether due to it not being very useful. I've always wished we would have revisited the blame based approach instead. A seemingly small feature that could dramatically improve communication and reduce noise.
Speaking of being polite...
Geode wiki is quite good though: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Index
Url changed from http://m.fastcompany.com/3053678/copenhagens-new-bike-bridge..., which points to this.
This result is going to be abused by people whose ideas of good manners a) don't cover themselves because hello important work and b) are essentially a demand for deference.
I have used in-flight WiFi on about 10 to 15 flights, and I would say that about half those times it either breaks midway through the flight or it doesn't work at all. From my anecdotal experience the failure rate is more like 100x higher than home WiFi.

Not that I'm complaining, it's magical to even get WiFi for a few seconds in an airplane. I try to hold the same attitude as Louis CK on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFsOUbZ0Lr0
First I thought 'that's a palindrome?', then I saw what you meant. Is it repeatable?
because people are interested in maintaining each
The cable modem is telco infrastructure that happens to be in your house. The boundary between telco and customer networks (called the "demarc") is between the cable modem and your router. It's entirely theirs to administrator, same as the vault down the street.

A comment I posted about this a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6998650
I wonder how much data there is against the First Amendment. I'm not saying the ads aren't a problem, I'm saying censorship isn't the solution.
Show HN: Learn to beat procrastination and get stuff done
#1 & #3 are just different implementations of the same idea. Putting up a wall does make you "North Korea" any more than having a locked front door on your house does. You can simultaneously make it easier for them to enter legally AND harder to enter illegally.
In both the case of Linus and Jobs, they aren't/weren't reviewing everyone's code directly. It's possible to work on Linux and work at Apple without enduring the wrath of the very top.
I have researched the issue lightly, and am told that EU rules are particularly ...bothersome. Is it true that an EU company has to advertise for/and keep open a position for 3 months and show that none of the applicants met the requirements as compared to the non-EU applicant to be able to hire them?
Well, try this: You go to the doctor's office. They take a blood sample or a throat swab or whatever. They DNA sequence the bacteria they find. Then they give you antibiotics that will kill what you have.
Yeah, TV and movies are kind of switching place in this regard. Once TV was safe and family friendly while movies could be provocative and daring. Now it is the opposite with TV (HBO/Netflix) pushing the boundaries with sex and violence and bad language. I think the reason is that mainstream movies today are so expensive they need to go after as large an audience as possible (ie PG-13), while TV can cater for a more specific, say adult, audience.
http://www.savethepostoffice.com/how-postal-service-began-pr...

EDIT:

> I was 13 in 2006, so if this really was the result of Bush and his friends in Congress, they did a fantastic job of playing the long game. But I'll wait to form an opinion until I see credible citations.

Also, IMO your age at a particular time a decision was made is irrelevant. The facts on what happened are readily available. Just because I was 9 when the first Gulf War happened, doesn't mean I can't have formed an understanding of it from (contemporary) sources and later reports, articles, and books. It's almost a reverse ad hominem, an attempt to excuse yourself from a discussion or drawing a conclusion because you weren't present or cognizant at the time. You're capable of conducting research yourself, you're an intelligent, human being. And others have provided citations and discussion throughout this thread on the topic.
the problem is all to often they stop trying to govern and instead spent their time preventing any chance of revolt (see North Korea, the last Kings of France)
Why is SQL not an acceptable ORM?
Intuition on this issue is not that politeness in itself matters, but that politeness would be correlated with patience. Patient development schedules are likely to result in less technical debt, fewer defects, and greater long-term throughput.
> The data doesn't care whether or not you see the logic behind it.

This is true only if corporate executives are amoral automatons running hill-climbing algorithms. Rather than, say, citizens who use logic to make responsible decisions not just for their short-term profits but for the long-term good of their community.
"I've never understood the logic behind prescription drug ads. The first rule of sales is to pitch the decision maker."

Plenty of logic is there.

Part of the purpose is to make the Doctor pay attention to the advertising that they see in a journal. [1]

How?

Patient goes in and "asks their doctor" about a drug.

Then another patient. And another.

So now when the doctor sees an ad (or the detail man comes in) the doctor pays more attention and perks up. Similar I guess to the way once you buy a particular car model (or a friend buys one) you start to notice them all over the place. Same reason Pepsi puts ads in football stadiums. Builds general awareness and adds to reinforcement of the product as being "current".

HN works in a similar way for YC by the way. Repetition and current relevance very important in advertising.

[1] Edit: And of course Physicians also watch TV and read mainstream magazines and an ad is likely to stand out and get noticed just for that. (As a tech person imagine if you saw an ad for some software or SAAS that wasn't mainstream on the nightly news. It would certainly get your attention and stand out (more than if you saw it on Techmeme)).
Absolutely.

Rdio had insane product talent but no business captain (this can only be an obsessed founder, pre-success).

With normal startups, they just fail off the bat in this scenario.

Rdio had enough money to hide the lack of captain issue for a really long time.
The games that we participate in are themselves defined by human actions. Do we rationally choose the games we play? Which of my preferences are compatible with your preferences? How do we compare utility between two individuals?

Since we live in the same universe and have to deal with some of the consequences of each others' actions, there's some natural correlation between our utilities, but we live in civilizations which have far more social structure built on top of this basic structure, and these social structures inform and structure our possible preferences and the relations between them.

In fact, these social structures can have preferences and play their own games! The United States government, for example, is an entity whose preferences and actions are embodied in the coherence of its constituent individuals, and its structure informs the games and preferences of its individuals in a feedback loop we like to call bureaucracy. Does the large-scale behavior of the US government explain the choices of its constituents, or vice versa? Clearly the answer is neither and both: They are two ways of looking at the same dynamical structure.

In one view, things can look perfectly rational. In the other view, things can look stark raving mad. I don't think either point of view is distinguished as canonical.
I think the 68000 was a much better architecture than the 65816. It was nicer to program and had 32-bit registers which was probably the result of not really being a ISA compatible successor to either the 6800 or 6809. Perhaps if WDC had built a 32-bit successor to 6502 instead of a 16-bit with some weird performance issues, it would have been more interesting.

I do wish something had evolved so we could have something to power the low-end PC market in the original 6052 price range.
Probably because it has nothing to do with the topic or just doesn't fit it well. What would you do about gang violence if they all looked like innocent people with nothing discerning them and the attacks were so rare that your neighborhood got hit only once every 100-1,000 years? Would it even be worth worrying about vs all the things that have been killing people in your area regularly? Or would you just refuse to worry about it in general while dealing with it if it ever happens? (aka refuse to be terrorized)

Note: The 100-1,000 years is to represent the fact that virtually nobody dies from terrorist attacks. It's so rare that bathtubs and bee stings kill more people each year in the U.S.. I'd imagine it's not a leading cause of death in France either despite the recent attack. So, for your gang thing with 100-200 people in a neighborhood, they'd go through many generations before one person died from gang violence. Sounds like the high risk that should keep them up at night, eh? ;)
How to Know Everything
I like the fact that the information theory adds up. To specify 30 bits he used a 26 bit number and then specified one of 24 permutaions, and this is just right because

26 + log(24) = 26 + 4.58... > 30
Antibiotic use has an immediate return and the externalities are pushed on to society.

In context of the large scale structure of society, one that promotes large scale exploitation for the benefit of an individual, it makes sense to profit now and let others take care of the costs accrued by your actions.

There is no clear economic disincentive to steer people away from making this decision despite the negative outcome it will eventually have for everyone including the individual.
Google Acquires Diane Greene's Startup Bebop
Ubuntu Phone Update: OTA-8
Police are empowered and sometimes licensed to act against the law in the pursuit of justice. Anyone who has observed police officers running stop signs (lights or not) knows this.
A New Recipe for America's Test Kitchen
I'd like to know more about the strategy for disrupting that $4.5 billion gravy train. The pharma industry and consolidated media is going to fight tooth and nail, and our current surgeon general seems too close to the industry to act as the heavy in calling for more regulation, as did his predecessors with tobacco.
US approves genetically modified salmon for food
People are less creative when they feel disrespected. If you're running a military or places like UPS, where your work value can be boiled down to time and motion studies, it makes a ton of sense to break down people's sense of self: they are being asked to become machines, after all.

Torvald's recent screed on Management via perkele, where rudeness is encouraged, interestingly, was born from his time serving in the Finnish military. Could Linux be even better if he dropped this mentality? Maybe. He insists that by being rude you stop tacit political behavior which would undermine technical excellence. But this seems contradictory. Management by perkele is by definition a form of tacit politics.

Torvalds position:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ017D_JOPY

Other points of interest:

https://hbr.org/2013/01/the-high-cost-of-rudeness-at-w/

https://hbr.org/2013/01/the-price-of-incivility
1) I can play the "let's make numbers up" game, too.

2) There are many, many people in the world today who access the internet through what is effectively a 2G connection.

3) "...at the cost of obfuscation and more difficult debugging."

3a) Sometimes obfuscation is a desirable side-effect.

3b) Javascript source maps exist for a reason.

4) "And If it's cached, witch all main-steam browsers does..."

4a) It's almost as if you ignored the majority of the last sentence in my previous comment. :)
Yeah, no need to trust these things as firewalls.
This post has more information on what the patent grant is: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-ou...
Very Strange Cat
Most healthcare consumers don't shop around by cost for their healthcare, either because they can't (emergency services) or because its too damn hard (example below).

I encourage you to call your three closest hospitals, pick three surgical procedures, and ask them what the cash rate is from their chargemaster. You may get an answer from one hospital, possibly.
As part of the UK's single-payer system, it is illegal to advertise prescription medicines to the public. Seems to work.
>Why don't they?

If I was slightly more conspiratorial I would suggest that that is the 64 million dollar question.

In reality though, I think we are talking about two different types of knowledge here.

When I say knowledge is power, I'm talking about power over individuals. The type of knowledge that allows you to say "Hmm, those are some interesting emails you sent, Senator. Let's see if we can come to an agreement to make sure nobody else sees these." The type of knowledge that makes the average citizen think twice before making that Google search, or before posting a comment online.

Even with total info awareness, to stop attacks you need the ability to filter and flag the data you have to sound the alarm when needed. Fundamentally, that's a data processing problem and not specifically what I am talking about.
They are not claiming this specifically is patented, this is standard boilerplate on all their projects.
I'm only a half decade out of college and I'm wanting all these whippersnappers off my lawn.
I remember when Konami tried to silence Super Bunnyhop awhile back via DMCA abuse and Youtube stepped in, I'm glad to see that has in a way evolved into a proper policy, caveats be damned.
I don't believe management from the CableCo is done over IP and the other management end requires being plugged into the LAN port.
Closer to 12 hours.

Read, watch videos that I've downloaded (unless there are on-demand movies), listen to music/podcasts, play games on my tablet, snooze.

Maybe it's just a function of traveling a lot but I've pretty much got a system down for my in-flight entertainment. I don't really care that much about in-flight Wi-Fi. Sometimes I really need to work on something but generally I find it's hard to use a laptop on a plane unless I'm flying business.
Even if the number he specifies has leading zeroes, it's still one out of the set of 32 bit numbers.
I'm sorry but what in the article actually makes a solid body of evidence in support of its thesis?
You can short if you can find shares, which is harder than normal on IPO day. But it is possible.
By volume or mass yes, by calorie absolutely not.

Edit: I totally misunderstood the comment I was replying to and agree with it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-omnia-hi-performan... is a recent attempt. No DOCSIS modem, though.
> And it really was significantly harder for anyone except the government to listen in on phone conversations.

This is absolutely not true. Outside everyone's house was a box, and by hooking two wires there you could easily monitor phone calls. There was similar security every where else along the way.

When wireless (not cellular) phones became common, you could get a scanner to listen them (I'm not sure they were legal to sell listening at that frequency but they were easily modified).

The POTS was simply not secure at all.
I can try!

They are both an array of pointers to functions.

Go(int i) is a function that finds the correct "printer" for a number, i, within the cycle of 15. `Go` then calls the printer function with the argument and prints the corresponding line.

Stop(int i) has similar side-effect but exits immediately after.

Since all of the printers return the value of "i", you can recursively call them in cycle-sequence through `go` until the return value lines up with the "kill number" and causes `stop` to be called instead (this works as `i % n > 0` for all numbers below n and you can force this to be zero, and thus index the first element of the array, by negating it).

Sorry for the scatterbrained explanation, the code wasn't designed to be particularly comprehensible!
I would not mind keeping them provided that they were required to mention the generic if it exist by name in regular sized print and voice.

Most of the drugs I see are ED/PE related and yes you can get prescriptions.

Still in the end, if we are going to allow untested by the FDA and others supplements to be advertised then why would we block drugs which have passed rigid testing from being advertised. Sorry, that would make zero sense.