skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if no soldiers perished in the search for Bergdahl, it clearly was a dangerous, hostile environment. The planned 20-mile trip back to FOB Sharana wasn't just a day hike, and Bergdahl was either a fool or indifferent to the dangers it posed to both him and the individuals who would come looking for him.
It sounds more like they're integrating their stores with their online site. You scan the register you're at when paying for something, and then you can pay with the app -- you probably need your credit card info saved to your Walmart.com profile or something as well.
It's possible to have it done in a couple days.

But yeah, like the other comments have noted, this probably isn't very wise. I didn't mean to offer real advice, just say that it's essentially possible, with tons of pain and considerable amount of money.

In the end, you probably just want to hold on to those natural teeth.
Here is a time lapse video of the 9 year construction, quite fascinating to watch: http://www.ipp.mpg.de/115632/zeitraffer_w7x

YouTube mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fbBRAxJNk

A more technical video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqt6u5_sHA
The new Prius can talk to other cars and traffic signals
Late Bloomer, Not a loser. (I Hope) (2012)
I liked old site: it was warm and fuzzy.
Would love to see this tested in a more detailed way, what if your vegan diet consists of high amounts of non-animal oils, would you still crave oily burgers eating a vegan diet with high amounts of canola or olive oil? Would you lose the cravings with lower oil intakes on the same vegan diet?
Good to hear. Waiting for a useable version on a good phone in the US. Preferably a OnePlus.
I've always found the Robert Half salary guides to be the most comprehensive guides available:

http://www.roberthalf.com/workplace-research/salary-guides
The JIRA integrations with things like HipChat, Bitbucket, Bamboo, etc. are incredibly valuable for their customers from day 1. Competitors can't offer that level of integration right away and chipping away at one product category will be harder when companies like Atlassian offer well integrated products in suites or ala carte.
Oh I def see that inspiration. I've been watching "Arrow" recently and they have a lot of interesting UI on that show too.
Go to the detail view of the comment by clicking on the timestamp, there you'll find the flag-link.

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That's actually causation, not mere correlation, its just reversed from the direction the GP implied.
"One possible reason for this is the availability of
salary alternatives as part of an overall compensation package. For example, companies with less than 200
people are usually in the series b or below stage, and can offer more equity, whereas many companies with more
than 500 people are publicly traded and can offer stock packages. Those in the middle have less equity to give
and typically aren’t publicly traded, so higher salaries may be a way to keep offers competitive"

That's a pretty big caveat, and is a big problem with their data. I'm at a big publicly traded company and my taxable comp is 60/30/10 between salary, stock, and bonus. Comparing just the salary portion with another company where comp is mostly salary wouldn't be very helpful.

I wish people talked more about total comp and less about salary.
Is "your thick skulls" and "stop saying stupid shit" unreasonable incivility when you're responding to someone who's telling you to shut up because he doesn't like what you're saying?

A quick review of my comments, including on this topic, shows it takes rather a lot to push me that far.

That Hacker News hosts "classic flamewar topics" is an issue in your court. E.g. in this domain, you could declare as non-germane any discussion of gun control per se, and limit discussions like this to e.g. the intersection of the 1st and 2nd Amendment issues these printed guns are prompting.

(Although I suppose it's hard to say "this makes gun control obsolete" comments are off-topic, but I have no dog in that hunt, it's not an interesting topic except in how it causes the authorities to over-react.)

The sign of a classic flamewar topic is that it ends in a recognizable meltdown end state, of which the-culture-war-will-lead-to-a-new-U.S.-civil-war is surely one.

Then it's a good thing I didn't say that, only pointed out that this topic in the US context is a part of our culture war. And it clearly is, e.g. given the severe political costs to his party, it's hard to see why Obama is still prosecuting it other than as part of a culture war.

(Seriously, I've just read a couple of stark statistics about the RKBA in the Age of Obama: 100 million guns have been sold (not all are new ones, but we bought enough to equip the active US Marine Corps on 2015 Black Friday (!)), and US firearms manufacturing is up 140% in units. I know people have been saying he's the best firearms salesman ever, but this was way beyond my gut feeling.)
> Now I have more proof.

Good luck. From personal experience, more evidence will often make someone stick closer to their original position based simply on faith and reluctance to admit a fault in their thinking.
Strongly recommend multirust. It can eat a bit of space if you end up with both stable, beta and nightly installed (but that can still be a good idea -- obviously lots of new projects will experiment with some new features). But multirust takes a lot of cues from other similar tools for sandboxing. I just did:

$ multirust update
$ multirust show-default
multirust: default toolchain: stable
multirust: default location: (...)

rustc 1.5.0 (3d7cd77e4 2015-12-04)
cargo 0.6.0-nightly (e1ed995 2015-10-22)

$ multirust list-toolchains
beta
nightly
stable

$ du -hs ~/.multirust/
996M /home/e12e/.multirust/
Factual Raises $35MM in Series B Round
HelloSocial Agency – SaaS Platform
Likelihood for Gaussian Processes
Of course, once you have a hypothesis (this café causes better productivity), you can actively choose to go to that café in circumstances where you wouldn't before, continue tracking, and test the hypothesis.
I love the UX but I still find the self-quantification data shallow. Time as a measurement of efficiency is inherently flawed, for example.

And there's (as best I can tell) no goal setting nor recommendations for meeting goals based on prior successes and failures.

That's still the big gap in self-quantification. In the mean time we're just making prettier charts.
Tucked in at the end of the article is this gem:

Before he founded Marquis Jets, the world’s biggest private jet company, Itzler was known as Jesse Jaymes, a white rapper with the hit single “Shake it Like a White Girl.”
Their products are general enough to be easily customized by a couple of devs (or even only one) for very specific use cases. They're also easily integrated with market leading erp software. Companies that already use it for development departments might very well use it to manage most of their operations under a single umbrella application by linking multiple instances.
Which jobs are that?
Profile Likelihood vs. Kriging Variance
I don't think hired.com really takes candidates who are just starting their careers, so their data will be almost all mid-career folks.
> No cryptographers believe the NIST curves are backdoored.

That's not true. For an example, see Schneier's comment here:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_br...

Or Bernstein and Lange's comments here:

https://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/20130531.pdf

(specifically the: Jerry Solinas at NSA used this to generate the NIST curves (or so he says))

I believe Matthew Green may have also made a similar statement, though I can't find it, so perhaps I'm not recalling correctly. In any case, I don't think you can outright say "No cryptographers believe the NIST curves are backdoored". You can at best say "No cryptographers have proven the NIST curves are backdoored", which is true.

However, those cryptographers have also raised concerns (including concerns about backdoors) and I just hope we move to safer alternatives quicker.
"Start with the highest number possible and you'll get offers with those numbers or higher in the future". Sure, that's logical.

That said, how long are you going to sit in San Fran before you transfer to another city to realize the benefit of that salary change in real terms? What's the cost of doing that? It seems like a weird overall conclusion to draw. If their goal is for everyone to have a job they love, they should start wherever the work is that they love at the best salary possible (I would argue that the best salary possible should not take geography into account)
> Hell, try less if that's what it takes to not quit [...] most athletes I see [...] they're training too hard

Yeah, this was a huge lesson for me. I was used to being good at the things I spent time on. So when I'd try doing sporty things, I'd overestimate my current level and underestimate how much work it takes to improve. Training would be awful and discouraging and I'd quit.

Less ambitious training was the key for me to learn to not give up. At this point I've done a couple of triathlons and I don't know how many distance runs. I never would have gotten there without a big dose of humility and being realistic.
a meditative state is definitely helpful in reducing the body's consumption of oxygen.

I got my open water scuba certification many years ago from a former Navy SEAL.

At the time, I was 4' 8" and weighed 85 pounds.

The Navy SEAL was about 5' 10", 200 pounds.

Every single dive we went on he used less than half the air that I used, and I used less air than the rest of the dive group (because I didn't need as much given my stature).

He explained that he used a meditative style breathing pattern and simply remained very calm underwater.

/anecdata
Slack is starting to become popular with student groups at my university. Definitely has a wide range of potential users.
Unibox is the perfect email client. To me is a game changer, what I love the most of it is that the App organize my emails based in a PEOPLE CENTRIC concept,so when the user receives an email and clicks on it, he can see the email thread that he was exchanging with that specific person over the years, which is very helpful to keep everything organized. You can add accounts from different services, Gmail, iCloud, corporate emails and so on.

The new iOS app is what I was waiting for years, a clean design with a very good performance. It keeps the same concept as the Mac App, which was hard to conceptualize in a smaller screen, but the Eightloops guys made a great job for the iPhone and the iPad.

I love the app, I just hope they can add soon the Apple Watch integration. I very highly recommend it. Kudos for the Team!
Well, it's clearly not aimed at privacy-oriented people.

But, you imply that's a tiny minority -- I take exception to that viewpoint. Many 'non-tech' types I talk to have a strong aversion to the idea of this sort of information going out broadly because they rightly believe they don't understand the ins and outs. So, the target market may grow quite a lot with a clear and understandable privacy story.
Why? $130K is a respectable salary, nearly twice the median for the area. Sure, you couldn't live in a luxury home in the city, but with $130K you could live in the outskirts of the Bay Area and commute in. Totally do-able.
> Is "your thick skulls", "stop saying stupid shit" unreasonable incivility

Yes, because the rule holds regardless of provocation. It has to, because everyone always feels like they are merely responding to provocation.
While this article is sadly vague, I will at least commend the GSA for commissioning some great architecture in the more traditional sense.

And ironically, their website kept crapping the bed as I try to find their page on it, so I'll just have to post a few examples from outside sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Federal_Building
http://www.archdaily.com/416001/som-breaks-ground-on-los-ang...
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/mediaId/190803/fileName/2014DA--Aw... (PDF)
Whenever a statistical report uses averages (and no medians anywhere), I always look for a sample size, since it gives an indicator on the potential variation for the true average. (Error is inversely proportional to square root of sample size)

So I checked the methodology and found something odd.

> The salaries included reflect more than 80,000 interview requests and job offers from the past year

Why are interview requests and job offers lumped together? Wouldn't there be disproportionally more interviews by definition? As a result, it's very hard to gauge the sample size of the salary data.
VC backed companies are focused on capturing a market as quickly as possible. A free or below cost product helps with that goal, as does having a lot more money than bootstrapping could provide.

If you think of a VC as a conglomerate, startups are money losing R&D and market research divisions, searching for the next goose that lays golden eggs.
So now I have to watch TNG all over again?!
Serial only has one season on which to base its reputation, but thus far it seems exceptionally adept at not picking sides. The case in season one was polarizing, but Serial did an admirable job of presenting all sides and not making overt attempts to push audience opinion in any particular direction. I'm hoping this season has the same balance.
Then don't move them. They can be moved physically without actually moving the coins or they could be moved without physically leaving the country. He could have moved to Germany before letting anyone know of their existence. If he was smart he would have admitted to owning some Bitcoin as a way of engaging with the ATO to discuss how they would generate a tax liability. If any tax liability was too honerous be could have kept some hidden until he was in a jurisdiction where the tax laws were more in line with what he had in mind.

I guess the point being given that be is not satoshi nakamoto because if he was he would have been a lot more organised than it seems he has been.
Both were refreshing yes. I am seeing forward to the upcoming Dishonored 2. But DX3 cannot be compared with DX1 on any level. The development of DX4 appearently took the wrong turn and additionally has been pushed back for almost another year.
I was thinking the same thing until I realized that I use a dedicated Starbucks app for mobile ordering and payment...
You are worried about the same things, just to different degrees. Both of you depend on selling your time and skills for a paycheck.

A hot dog vendor might make less than you do, but their income depends on leveraging their assets and selling a product. The hot dog vendor is middle class, you are working class. Income isn't really part of the equation.

Of course, that's the strict traditional definition of middle class. Maybe that has changed.
If you keep adding axioms, the system at some point flips from having undecidable statements to having demonstrably true statements that are mutually contradictory. So you have a "choice" there.
> outskirts of the Bay Area and commute in. Totally do-able.

I'd imagine people with family wouldn't want to spend a lot of time away from families to commute
Site got hugged to death. Needs a fusion powered server.
Ask HN: Feeling stuck Looking for suggestions
Hi HN,

I'm a senior software engineer at a 5 year old startup in the bay area and I am fully vested on my initial amount of stocks.

I'm making a good salary (210K+).

My problem is that in the last few months I feel stuck, the company is not really growing to say the least and there's no more focus on big things to bring users in.

There's enough money in the bank for a long time but it just feels that I am (along with the company) standing in place waiting for something to happen.

Since I am the most senior engineer I am really lacking professional challenge and learning experience from my peers and it's starting to feel really boring.

I realize this sounds a bit whiny but I am sharing this because this weight heavy on my. Looking for suggestions and inspiration...
5 things to prepare for before thinking of leveraging Big Data
Thanks for helping to create it. It was a blast to play. I loved the Old Man Murray review:

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/longreviews/751.html
They are also skewed as to the specialties they can effectively place. Their clients seem to over-represent web and mobile companies and under-represent the rest of the industry.
>With orphan works specifically, the concern that I've heard expressed by some photographers is that companies will spend exactly 10 seconds trying to track down the copyright holder before deciding it's orphaned and using the work as they see fit.

Isn't that the point of a national copyright registry? I understand that you don't have to register a copyright to be protected by it, and I also understand that it's not desirable to register every work individually, but making use of a copyright registry would alleviate this particular problem.
What if you made a white labeled incentive health tracking app that can be used by schools to set contests for activities each week. You can have prizes or incentives set for people individually and as groups.

"Who ran the farthest?"

"Who lost the most weight over the school year"

"Who is eating the best"

And allow competition groups in each between friends as well, e.g. A competition for all students to run or bike, but I can do an individual group challenge with just my friends too...

It might be a good way to get value and start setting good habits at younger ages.
Old Stuff That Rocks
You may be right that "inflammatory ideological rant" wasn't a perfect fit for that comment. And I'm afraid I don't have precise definitions for you.

The problem here isn't just one comment, though, but a history of making HN threads more toxic with incivility and inflammatory rhetoric. Doing that doesn't improve discussion; in the long run it destroys it. The whole of HN is organized to try to stave that off. If we have an existential concern, this is it.

I don't think bit-flipping arguments are valid here, i.e. arguments that acting to dampen one thing (incivility) will flip the system to its binary opposite (sterility). That's not how complex systems work. There's plenty of room for thoughtful discussion to flourish. On HN this happens when people take up the challenge of remaining civil and respectful, even when others are wrong or provocative. One can do that while still feeling strongly about a topic. Yes, it's hard, but not because of any contradiction in the spec.
I am the author of these posts, and I am happy to answer questions if you have any.
It is a plugin.
cargo install is by far the most interesting one in terms of usability. I was wondering how to write deployment instructions for my binary program written in Rust; it's kinda clunky to say "here, open target/release/my_program or copy it to /usr/share/bin"
I'm glad they put that in there, until I read that I figured he was your typical run of the mill billionaire instead of someone with actual originality and artistic talent.
This is one thing iOS does much better than Android. Apps don't request permissions until the moment they need them, instead of the entire laundry list at the installation time. This allows auto-updating of all apps, while still preventing permissions creep.
You don’t even need to omit the grains. You can just eat Dinkel or Urkorn, two very common (like, in every bakery) types of grain that existed even in the paleolithic times.

EDIT: Seriously, how is this not contributing? Please provide a comment if you think it is not contributing.
For me, it has served a similar purpose to the dashboard in a car or plane. This latest design also slightly reflects that visually.

When you're driving a car, you're not staring at the speedometer, or constantly checking the gas meter, but they're still useful tools. Especially when things start to go wrong. If you're almost out of gas or in the redline, then it becomes much more useful.

The other thing to note is that this isn't finished. The new structure — splitting things up by brain, heart, core, fitness, travel — is something we designed to grow into. There are tons of new data points we want to add, which will hopefully improve the actionability. Maybe you already have a sense of how much you've walked today and the step counter may not seem that exciting, but that same logic doesn't apply for things like Vitamin D or Glucose, where having good visibility and software is much more valuable.

Each of the various sections has already had pretty significant effects on me as we've been building this. They are mostly very svbtle changes, like trying to walk more every day instead of taking Ubers after seeing how low my steps were, or realizing how much time during the day I was spending on Twitter after seeing that in the graph, or seeing how much weight I had gained in just a couple weeks and switching to ordering food from Sprig instead of Caviar. Seeing the map of where I went last month has led me to venture out of SOMA more and mix up my routine, which also improves some of the other sections. Theoretically I could've realized and done all those things without seeing any of the data, but it is unlikely.

Some things like heart rate I haven't really done anything about, but it is cool to just see it automatically come in every day. The lowest and resting heart rates are quite variable and seem to be much lower around days when I exercise properly, so that would be a fun thing to try to optimize for and some people have used it that way. My blood pressure also seems to be high, which I haven't really done anything about lately, but having that alert constantly there keeps it on my todo list.
Why in the world would I want to connect this to Facebook? You really need an option to sign up with email.

Other than that... Very cool looking design. Looks like it would be interesting to try. I like the integration with other apps and sensors. Lots of potential.
Buy it does seem that transitioning from a free to a paid for service is a tripping point for many of these VC backed startups. Of course by the time this happens it has usually gone through an IPO, the early investors have made a nice profit, the shareholders start requesting a return, the company has difficulties monetising and the shareholders eat a write down. But the VC makes out OK.
The simulated 60 FPS (or higher) are significantly worse than just 60 FPS source material. TVs attempt to interpolate between the frames automatically and it just screws everything up.
When Slack self-hosted is a possibility, Hipchat is dead in the water.

That's the only reason to use Hipchat today, and the Slack experience is an order of magnitude better.
They might not want to but many definitely do
I can do 6 chinups right now (I happen to have tested last night of all things). If I tried to do 100 chinups, I would certainly be scheduling a Physical Therapy session tomorrow to deal with the pain in my elbow. Unless I was having surgery for a tear in my shoulder.

There is lots to recommend "don't give up". But it also has to be tempered with "Stop if it hurts". You'll get fit/strong/endurancy-faster if you can keep training tomorrow than if you have to spend three weeks icing your wrists and gobbling down NSAIDs.

EDIT: Leaving this up for posterity because why not. After re-reading your comment, I'm not convinced that we disagree. It's just that the whole thing becomes extremely nuanced once you start talking about things like: "I'm stopping doing e.g. chinups today so that I can do more tomorrow. I'm not giving up on my goal, I'm just altering the timeframe". Here it's not clear how you should interpret the "Don't give up" mantra.