skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fun read but i'm not convinced about the advice. I'm sure Balmer is a smart guy and lucked out by joining MS as #30 (is it really so unlucky to be #30 at MS?). He was also outspoken, loud, and perhaps had some leadership qualities lacked by other nerds at that moment.
And now it's easy to pick him apart and "be more like Balmer" but I doubt mirroring his annoying personality will get you far.

Next time you give a presentation, repeat the same key word or phrase at least 5 times. Preferably 10.

i think Balmer succeeded despite this behavior, not because of it.

When you sense a gap that’s closing push yourself in with full energy. Love the party, get into it, then make it your own

the "make it your own" is almost like saying "tell a funny touching story that everyone will love".

Imagine you are — or be — the tallest person in the room. (Create situations where you’re standing and they’re sitting?)

this reminds me of the NLP craze back in the day, i.e. micro behaviors that are subconsciously making you more attractive / easy to relate to / superior etc. Dubious at best.

* not to dismiss micro behaviors completely. There are numerous TED talks about body language that present convincing evidence that it works. I think they are especially applicable if you're the kind of person that tries to occupy least space and remain un-seen in meetings. For an average person I just think this is a minor tweak, not the big change standing between you and tres commas club.
"Mummy and Daddy are giving you a seed round because they want to get you out of the house"

Granted that it would suck to have this kind of relationship with your parents, if they are willing to give you seed money why would you not use it to try to create a company? Is it better to spend it on video games and mountain dew?
My understanding is that Uber is currently providing new hires with RSUs, not options (so valuation growth isn't necessarily necessary). I could be misinformed.
http://quotle.co/ - I came across this few days back through techcrunch article. Not sure if it is really an alternative though.

(no affiliation)
You can make a large amount of money by successfully riding down a declining business, even in the technology sector. It's just not true that bold moves that "bet the farm" are a generally winning strategy, although pundits do like that it generates a lot of drama.

Of course, the former isn't really Yahoo's approach either.
The point is that there isn't a nightmare problem supported by evidence, and that irrational fear causes a cognitive bias which leads to such slippery slope fallacies (e.g. Y2K scare).

You're more likely to be negatively impacted by slipping in your shower, yet I bet you have spent more energy hand wringing over tracking. Just as parents have given overt attention to vaccines causing autism.
While I applaud the privacy advocates, we knew this was coming when HTTP/2 (RFC 4750-4751) because an official standard in May 2015. The only way a country with limited bandwidth can operate a transparent proxy is to stick a new certificate in the root chain so that it can decode, cache and re-encode the traffic.

I don't like it anymore than anyone else, but I see a non-malicious purpose here.
Event Horizon Telescope reveals magnetic fields at Milky Way's black hole
Not in general. If the system loses confidence (bad lane markings, tight curve, that sort of thing) then it will ask (and then insist) that you put your hands on the wheel. But on a good road you can let go entirely and it will happily drive this way for a long time.

They are careful to state that you should always keep your hands on the wheel. There's even a little popup on the instrument panel that says this when you engage the system. But they don't enforce it.
Is there any indication what the sponsorship money of Let's Encrypt goes toward?

Corporate sponsorship looks to be somewhere around $2m/year.

Is the money needed for scaling? Hiring engineers? Broadening product line?
Used this for a few months and I can highly recommend it for anyone who likes the command line workflow (as I do). No mousing around, just typing. I still occasionally use it for tracking how much time I spend on a task:

$ task add some project
Created task 1
$ task 1 start
... do some work ...
$ task 1 stop
$ task 1

This will show you how long you just worked on it. You can start/stop a task multiple times and it'll show you when and how long you worked on it each time.

The reason I don't really use Taskwarrior on a daily basis anymore is because I don't use any todo list anymore at all. Currently there are things with a deadline, which are either in my head or in my calendar, and there are things that happen at a certain time (e.g. meeting). A todo list doesn't fit in how I currently work.
Your question about self-fulfilling prophecy is very relevant to a recent piece written by a transportation expert. Among other points he makes:

>Uber-type companies need to be understood as a radical departure from Amazon/EBay type models. Instead of displacing competitors through actual efficiencies, or by creating entirely new markets, its model is entirely based on getting the world to believe that it will inevitably dominate the entire industry. This requires aggressively suppressing any discussion of empirical economic evidence (which would undermine its case) and emphasizing the factors driving inevitability--the brilliance of its early stage investors, the ruthlessness of management, and the raw political power of the company’s wealthy supporters. PR is a component of every start-up; at Amazon/EBay it played a supporting role and relied heavily on economic evidence of competitive strengths, but at Uber PR is the heart of the plan, and replaces the need to figure out how to provide much better service at much lower cost.

https://pando.com/2015/12/01/has-pando-missed-heart-uber-pro...
People in this position generally don't start successful companies. Do charity work with the money instead.
Julia in contrast to most languages can run very fast or very slow for roughly the same program because of type information and garbage collection.

I would be willing to bet there is a lot of fat to be trimmed if you can't get close to LuaJIT unless SIMD is involved. Have you tried profiling your Julia code to see where the problem is?
My contention is that all things are understood one step at a time, and I believe this is influencing theoretical physics in a way that the theoreticians themselves are not fully aware of. Especially Wolfram's theory.
It will probably stop working. Aerodynamics are crucial to the way a hard disk works. One cannot not simply increase the density of the gas inside the drive by 10x and expect it to continue working.
I do not think author understood the challenge that turning-around Yahoo presents:

1. Decimation of core revenue by everyone moving to mobile.
2. Core management not suitable to face future challenges.
3. Non manager employees not pulling in the same direction.

It was not her job to bet the farm, it was her job to revamp the people infrastructure and management infrastructure so that some innovative solutions bubble up from the middle that might be tried..
“I was sued for sounding like myself”
I see things that look a lot like english sentences that are neither preceded by #, nor surrounded by #= =#.

edit: with examples. this code, all the way up to line 48 looks like some comments, but also a bunch of sentences without the comment characters.

https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/src/solve/...
Reminded me of the SV episode where Russ Hanneman asks Richard to not generate revenue because once you do people would start quantifying it.

If they don't generate revenue then the sky is the limit!
> This same condition, ketosis, occurs naturally when people are literally starving to death or seriously ill. During starvation this metabolic state is a kindness of nature allowing the victim to suffer much reduced pains of hunger while dying. During illness the suppression of the appetite frees the person to rest and recuperate, rather then be forced by hunger to gather and prepare food. Because ketogenic diets simulate this metabolic state seen with serious illness, I refer to them as “the make yourself sick diets.” As we will see below, another reason low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets deserve this title is they contain significant amounts of the very foods — the meats — that the American Cancer Society and the Heart Association tell us contribute to our most common causes of death and disability.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/...

> A plant-based diet beat out the conventional American Diabetes Association diet in a head-to-head randomized controlled clinical trial, without restricting portions, no calorie or carb counting. A review of all such studies found that individuals following plant-based diets experience improved reductions in blood sugars, body weight, and cardiovascular risk, compared with those following diets that included animal products.

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-for-diabet...
"The Dalai Lama is not the head of Buddhism but the head of Tibet, which is a tribe seeking a political state."

The Dalai Lama has abdicated political leadership to the Tibetan Parliament in Exile and only retains a leadership role as head of the Gelugpa sect. He still speaks to the human rights abuses and political oppression of Tibetans but his proposal is a "Middle Way" which would preserve Chinese rule but give Tibetans some autonomy and representation in governing Tibet.
The biggest issue with the Apple Watch is that third-party apps are heavily stunted. Basic things like audio/video streaming and audio recording aren't supported yet (only for Apple's own apps). Once the OS is upgraded to support additional features I think we'll see the ecosystem expand a lot more.
EU's Sentinel colour Earth camera now operational
Oh wow, "task help" shows an incredible list of thoughtful options. That should be part of the Getting started documentation. I had no idea. You can do

task +weekend +garden due:tomorrow

That's super cool. I keep a to-do list in a text file, but It would be nice to have the metadata task keeps around for things.
> Can you let us know which buddhist principles were invented by white folks (and by whom) in the past 150 years.

I don't know to what extent individual principles or beliefs were created. Rather, the argument is that the religion as a whole was created by removing the parts that didn't fit the narrative. Think of it like the Jefferson Bible, but if pretty much the entire living tradition of Christianity was also removed from the religion instead of just redacting and rearranging the text.
The Fed isn't a government agency. It has private share holders. It was named The Federal Reserve specifically to breed the confusion that most people have - it was supposed to sound like a federal agency while it is not.
Doubly-linked list without unsafe code.
Today is the day when Certificate authorities can no longer take your time and money for something that can be easily automated.

http://www.instantssldemo.io/ is live demo of letsencrypt.org technology.
They make a ton of revenue....
Thanks for asking! My answer, of course, depends on the particular scenario. I've had success with simple static methods, especially early in a project. I'd also consider some kind of composition (has-a vs is-a). The latter can be especially nice as static methods gain complexity in the form of more parameters/variations. This also shines if there's meaningful alternative implementations that can be swapped or if you're writing business logic and some legitimate business concepts start to congeal out of the code being re-used.
It's WAY too slow to load and most pages time-out for me... I understand the hug of death coming from HN and twitter and reddit (and God where from) but this is Apple-backed right?!
I can't imagine how there could be. All a GC does is free the programmer from worrying about memory leaks/manual memory management themselves (sort of). It doesn't have any effect on computability.
What Would It Take to Flip States in the 2016 Election? (Data Visualization)
I'm not sure how someone can clear up your confusion without a link to the specific things are you seeing.
Are you contending that Android Wear watching can't keep time? I'm willing to listen if you have any evidence, but that sounds like an extraordinary claim.
TFA says that Facebook has a "Gold" level sponsorship. Gold sponsorships cost $150K/year (see https://letsencrypt.org/become-a-sponsor/), which isn't much for a company the size of FB. (It's not even the most expensive sponsorship level available -- Akamai and Cisco are both "Platinum" sponsors, for instance, which costs $300-350K/year.)

So the motivation is pretty straightforward: they spend what to them is a small amount of cash in order to get a little goodwill and maybe some positive press. (Which are the usual reasons corporations sponsor not-for-profit projects anyway.) Everybody wins.
You said it better than I could:

Character : one of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual.

And what you said makes our friend here an outlier compared to the norm since he took the effort to grab his disease by the neck, shake it around, and making it tell him whose his daddy is. ;-)
That's just really not true based on modern research. That's a fringe theory at best, that might be applicable to something like "Mainstream Buddhism". (e.g. what you see in a yoga magazine in the grocery store)

There's quite an established corpus of Tibetan texts and monastic curriculum that has existed for the past 1000 or so years (depending on the tradition) that involve primary sources (Sanskrit Indian texts dating from 100 AD or so onwards) and developed commentary in Tibetan. It's of primary importance for every Monastery / center to have a full set of Kangyur (sutra) and Tengyur (tantra), with many of the most revered and most studied texts coming from 1300 AD or so in Ancient Tibetan, and as far back as 100 AD (Sanskrit and Tibetan translations of Sanskrit).

There is meticulous textual preservation practiced at all major Tibetan monasteries, and many have preserved texts throughout the Cultural revolution that have been confirmed by other discoveries of identical copies and translations in China, India, Ceylon, and Southeast Asia.

That's an extremely odd theory, as well, because Tibetan literally has two different forms: Modern and Ancient, and texts can be dated by their use of language, similar to Modern and Ancient Chinese, and anyone who denies that is basically equivalent of thinking fossils were buried by the Jews or the earth is 5000 years old or something equally non-factual.

It's certainly reasonable to say that there are "Buddhisms"--there were many different interpretations of primary sources in different Asian regions that continued to develop independently of each other (and merged with local custom or ritual), but it's somewhat ludicrous to say that there was "no core set of ideas" that was being actively practiced in Asia 150 years ago within specific traditions, or that what is currently practiced in Asia is "Western" at its core. You can even make a strong argument that there are a few core principles that are consistent across all branches of "Buddhism" that have little to do with Western ideas or Western religion, namely lack of self, and the composed nature of all phenomena, which have their roots in the very earliest texts, with constant development and reinforcement from ~100AD forward.

source: Master's in Religious Studies, specifically Tibetan Buddhism
I'm curious, with the LLC structure of the Chan Zuckerberg organization, there is more flexibility than a non profit. Are there any checks at all to ensure that it is actually operated as a charity? For example, thinking generations ahead, could a Mark Zuckerberg III go against his ancestor's wishes and take the private company in a totally different direction and not actually do any charitable work with the money?
The Fast Idea Generator
Testing in Production: Risk vs. Reward
Disclosure: I've been working with Tutum since the initial team.

Tutum was actually a container hosting service at first but we found there were a ton of technical challenges in multi-tenancy with hundreds/thousands of containers and it's hard to build a level of trust that larger IaaS providers have like AWS.

Hosting puts you in direct competition with IaaS providers, while being a middle-man can provide more value-add and you get to work with the other providers to strengthen your solution.
Geneticists Are Concerned Transhumanists Will Use CRISPR on Themselves
Current movies use 36 bit – that’s enough for 4K usually.
It is also a very good way to stagnate under fear of trying something new
1. Who said matlab was unreliable? (There's a difference between "reliable" and "good")

2. Matlab code gets published all the time.

3. Just because it's not matlab doesn't mean that it's, for example, in a state others can use. See for example: http://reproducibility.cs.arizona.edu/v2/index.html (which isn't perfect, but it's something)
They make a ton of revenue....

I was commenting on the medium article linked which said...

In order to increase the value of the company, Basecamp has decided to stop
generating revenue. “When it comes to valuation, making money is a real
obstacle. Our profitability has been a real drag on our valuation,” said Mr.
Fried. “Once you have profits, it’s impossible to just make stuff up. That’s
why we’re switching to a ‘freeconomics’ model. We’ll give away everything for
free and let the market speculate about how much money we could make if we
wanted to make money. That way, the sky’s the limit!”
3 Vital Tips to Build Unstoppable Growth
I'm having trouble finding where it specifies what permissions I need to use Let's Encrypt. Can I get a certificate for my subdomain even if I don't control the full domain?
Whats your current storage in a 4U chassis?
I don't want to deny that those "quantitative" measures exist. I want to cast doubt that they're the dominant mechanism for modeling how real people think when they're accomplishing a task in a formal system.
Despite his public perception, he's incredibly intelligent. He has an IQ of 150.

His strategy of being a fast follower worked great for Microsoft when it had crappy competitors - it was ill equipped to deal with good ones like Apple and Google.
I'm confused...who said they could be hashed?
these discussions always devolve into a bunch of numbers by diet pedants who seemingly have no passion for cuisine.

i'm sorry but all the numbers in the world will not make me give up a nice fatty spiced chicken shawarma, or a juicy sausage and kraut, or a nice ribeye steak with a glass of pinot noir. i'd rather be dead and in the ground.

on the other hand, i'm fine skipping the bread and eating just a couple of fries.
>>He also told me to get away from the Sargent and Stachurski course, that they add too much complexity to the explanations just for the sake of looking more Nobel-prize-winner like.

That's really good feedback for anybody thinking of attempting that course. Does your professor recommend an accompanying course to Sargent and Stachurski's quantitative economics course? I haven't seen many other courses that provide code fragments to run, so S&S's course still has a lot going for it in that regard.
Ask HN: Best front-end framework to use with React to make a web app?
I've been looking at Meteor and Electron to build a node.js app. Are there any other options to consider? Which would you go with? Please support your decision with a few arguments such as one has more libraries, better structure, preference, etc
Nice, thank you so much! Please use example.com instead of foo.com though!

Edit: 20 minutes later I am online with a cert thanks to your site. Awesome!
The Future of React with Christopher Chedeau
CloudFlare websites load faster with HTTP/2
Right, but Microsoft completely mis-identified their core platform. Windows is not the core platform - Office is. They should have gotten a consistent Office interface on any device with a screen back in 2010.

Instead, they embargoed Office on every platform but Windows and a shitty, incompatible and infrequently updated Mac port. They tried to leverage Office to make their other platforms (Windows, Windows Phone, Azure) successful, rather than focus on making sure Office runs on everything and the licensing works.
Android inter-thread communication tutorial
Hank Torbert direct air
We're based near a large University and hire Masters/PhD students about to graduate first as a part time/intern then full-time. It has worked out pretty well for us.
Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours?
Especially in the multi-core era, this becomes more and more important. Thanks to the Java Memory Model specification, if you are using constructors (and yes, pretty much every DI framework by now has this feature), with just a bit of care[1] you can ensure that your object is never visible to any threads without it having been completely constructed.

[1] Make sure to not leak references to your object in your constructor. Most of the time that you would want to do this is starting a service or registering a handler, etc. The solution is to use a static creation method which first calls the constructor, and then registers/subscribes it, etc.
IQ of 148 here (not that I put much stock in it). Ballmer is an idiot. What he lacks in idiocy, he more than makes up for with... lack of leadership, lack of charisma, lack of ethics, and just raw lack of coolness period.

Anyway, that's what I thought BEFORE I read the article. This article is actually pretty awesome! And points out some good things about the guy. I like him a little more now. Nice work, Medium!

One thing I would note is that sticking with 1 company for a long period of time is not necessarily great. You (and the companies you switch among) can learn a TON from each other if you move around a bit. There's even studies that show this (your value to a company is largely exhausted after 2 years).
I don't count calories anymore. I feel it's a waste of time and frustrating at times.

Instead, I focus on nutritional quality including density and variety. I find it leads to better health at a lower calorie count. Yes, you have to adjust for your lifestyle like working out, etc. However, it's much easier to manage and squeeze in those indulgences.
Now that it's public, and I verified it works...

https://letsencrypt.org/donate/
>micro behaviors that are subconsciously making you more attractive / easy to relate to / superior etc. Dubious at best.

Have a look at primate domination behavior. It's a big subject of study for zoologists/ethologists. Displays of dominance are a real thing, even if NLP sold it as pop psychology.
I think they are creating a new market. People now use Uber in situations in which they never would have thought to take a cab. That is not to say this valuation makes sense
How does this work? Is the notifications sent via your server which finds the correct device and pushes the message?
I feel the same, to the point I'm now selling my watch and can't see myself buying v2 unless there's a huge improvement.

I use it for telling the time, tracking my activity, and reading iMessages, but I now know that attempting to do anything else I'd possibly want to (like replying to a message) will take twice as long on the watch as it does to take my phone out of my pocket and do it on there. It even lags while scrolling a notification, sometimes.

Many of my friends are the same, although don't dislike it enough to sell it. They don't plan to upgrade to the next version, however.

Edit: I also wish notifications were smarter. I like that you can choose which apps have their notifications show up on the watch, but it's currently all or nothing. I'd like to be able to choose what type of notifications show up. For example, I want notifications for Twitter DMs on my watch, but not notifications for likes, retweets, etc.