skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's see. My first job, I got when a job offer fell through, and the hiring manager told me about this other company that had a similar job open. My second job was after reading about a startup launching and emailing them. My third was when I joined former co-workers. My fourth was when I contacted people I used to work with.

I guess you can call it mostly networking. Obviously, networking works better as you gain more experience, start knowning more people and get better technically.
The rise of the bus trackers has made union sq area livable. However the GLX would be huge simply from a revitalization angle. I'm ignoring the property value increase, which admittedly is/was something I've been looking forward to
"The danger of critical infrastructure being attacked digitally is already far greater than the risk of say, a bomb attack."

This is not true. However, it is important to keep in mind that were it ever true it would be because of blatant negligence on the part of human actors.

It is neither obvious nor inevitable that a nuclear plant will ever be attacked digitally because a nuclear plant need not be networked - even internally.

It is neither obvious nor inevitable that a hydro dam will ever be attacked digitally because a hydro dam need not be networked - even internally.

With an open mind and some creativity this could be true even for things like air traffic control and the power grid. They don't need Internet access. They might not even need IP.

If any of these things are fragile to digital attacks it is because they were gratuitously made fragile.
It's been some time (10 years or so) since I've last bought a prepackaged computer (I build my desktops from parts) but do you really have to register your personal information with the manufacturer when you buy a prebuilt computer? Why would there be a need to do that anyway, wouldn't the serial number of the machine be enough for warranty purposes?
Roko's Basilisk has decided to punish you by having allowed others to create the shirt ahead of you.

http://i.imgur.com/XlydDcK.jpg

https://teespring.com/ask-me-about-roko-s-basilisk
It goes deeper: the greek texts are divergent as well.

The work you proposed, believe it or not, has been done by hand (though I'm sure it has been replaced by computers.) Concordances have been around since 1262, and the first (according to wikipedia) was an effort of 500 monks.
It won't because there are other forms of distribution too. Yeah steam is the big guy. But there is always gog and whatnot to keep quality high.
Same reason you sometimes want to stay in a relationship but at the same time get the hell away. There are good and not so good things about any job/relationship.
I am both a gamedev and a avid game player, of some niche and strange genres included.

I found out that Steam catalog, despite "opening the floodgates" is quite limited on some genres, some niche genres have the nicest games don't even volunteer for steam (usually because the nicest games have perfectionist devs that don't want to be "another shitty early access", for example Starsector, the game has been being sold in pre-release form for years now, but the dev flat out absolutely refuses to get on Steam, because he thinks the game ins't ready for that), and even when they do, they don't get enough traction with the public to get through Greenlight or to skip Greenlight.

On some other genres, you will see loads and loads of crap shoveled at you, but the good games still don't fill completely the recommended games section screen...

The only thing I think Steam can do differently in their interface, is make the "order by public rating" easier (this feature actually exists already! But is mostly hidden, every time I need it, I google around until I stumble on it, and each time I end on it by a different path!), usually when you do that you see a list of actually great games, mixing both truly great AAA games and actual underdogs (example: last time I checked for some genres, I owned all games on the first page on the list, some of those games I know I am one of the few people that own them, because they are not widely known, while others are full blown 100 million marketing AAA).
any equivalent for MySQL?
Given the Thunderbolt connector, Apple probably prefer to put as much as possible in the pen to increase the profit on replacements.
You can't really fight fads. Did you see Dying Light clearing nearly $45M? Yeah, its not some indie half-cooked turkey, but its a completely forgettable and short zombie shooter/parkour game with milquetoast story and gameplay.

Can you blame these other devs jumping on the wagontrain? There is so much money to be made in this space. It should be Steam's job to keep out halfcooked games but apparently they disagree. I imagine the whole greenlight "give us what we want" aspect of Steam encourages realeases like these. This is the problem with fan-led media and stores. Fans get too excited and are willing to excuse a lot of things just to "get the game." The devs cash out on what's at best a beta-test and have zero incentive to continue.
This kind of thing is why the EU has data protection law.
Hey now, some of us love living out in the burbs. When self-driving cars are available, I'll buy one and move even further out.
So can frequentism.

Many investigators in parapsychology who were sincere and intelligent appear to have based their career on the incorrect use of frequentist statistics.

And it's not just them. Ernerst Rutherford, who discovered the atomic nucleus, "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to do a better experiment." In the 1990s I was a physics grad student and I think none of the professors had ever heard of the idea of a parameter estimator so we had a bunch of ad-hoc ways to fit power law coefficients that gave different answers and no way to judge goodness of fit that was thought out at all.

One postdoc in my lab suffered through a difficult job market before finally, after a decade of anxiety and uncertainty, got a tenure track position and eventually wrote a paper on how to fit power law curves... in a statistics journal.

And this was in a good department with people in which I was proud of both the teaching and research going on.
There's also a lightweight menu bar for X11 systems called bar.
https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar
Fortunately, I've never come across a situation where I had to have v6.
I was actually hoping that Apple would use some haptic electrostatic feedback for the stylus... making the whole experience less like writing on glass.
In my experience, Facebook pretty much just shoves all photo (visual) content to the top. Kind of frustrating. Not actually possible to find people talking on facebook anymore, it's just single-column pinterest.

The whole internet is sort of evolving into photo content these days it feels like. Twitter, tumblr, pinterest, reddit...all very photo focused.
Thanks for the suggestions. I was thinking that sorting, as well as limiting the date range, would be useful. I'll also sort out the new tab opening :). If you had any other suggestions, feel free to let me know!
I am not asking 15$/month its 15$/year. What kind of service would you be ready to pay 15$/year.
Show HN: React Container Query – true modular responsive component in React.js
High-Performance PCs Optimized for Oculus Rift
Works fine with scriptblock installed as well.
I'm trying to read this comment in the most kind voice that I can muster, and it still comes across as rather mean. The article may not be useful to you, but it was well written, quite funny in parts, and useful to enough people to make the first page.
Taking that into account now I'm glad my current place of employment DOESN'T pay out PTO. You can accrue about two years worth but after you hit the cap you start to lose the days (just dropped, not paid out). They also don't pay out if you quit.

So I have no valid reason to convert my PTO into dollar amounts, so no specific guilt about using them. It also doesn't make sense for me to save too many as I could be fired tomorrow and lose them all...

PS - My employer does warn you if you're about to lose days at least a month ahead. A colleague took three weeks off last summer because they hadn't used enough in previous years.
So what you're saying is if I don't go to the doctor for 10 years, but pay $350/mo over the course of that 10 years for an insurance plan, the insurance company uses the money to fund college education for nurses and doctors?

Doubt it.
The only way to change culture is through law.

Not at all. For gay marriage or pot legalization, large shifts in public opinion have preceded changes to laws.

If it's legal to work longer hours people will, and everyone else will do so to compete with them.

The Moloch post is excellent, but it doesn't really apply here. Productivity isn't a zero sum game; unless you're in a dysfunctional stack ranking environment like Microsoft used to have, being more productive doesn't hurt your coworkers.

And for tech workers in particular, it's impossible to prevent you from working "off the clock" in your spare time. Yet people generally don't, probably because as others have noted just adding hours doesn't actually make you more productive.
I've had people seriously claim to me that using Bayes theorem to evaluate beliefs that one deals with in ones everyday life using evidence that one comes across in everyday life was likely a good idea and would reduce bias. I wish I'd had the presence of mind to point out that that did nothing to eliminate the selection bias of one's own experience. No mathematical formula can draw meaning out of weak or flawed evidence.

Trying to do so is like trying to 'enhance' a blurry photo so that you can see details in the photo that didn't exist.
Is using mathy concepts to dress up poor reasoning worse than not using anything to back up your reasoning? At least you can point out exactly what's wrong with the mathy reasoning.

A colleague of mine says 'Sometimes pulling numbers out of your arse and using them to make a decision is better than pulling a decision out of your arse'
Kind of a clickbait title considering the article is a bit more nuanced than that.
That doesn't really explain the defaults, though. Translation could override the defaults if that fit better. This already happens when translating C functions, as none of the parameters get external names.
Dont forget non-fried Okra, Rutabaga, Pole Beans, Corn, Mustard Greens, Succotash, Lima Beans and Black Eyed Peas (these are traditionally consumed on New Years Day to bring good luck).

Its not all fried food in the South. The sides are definitely where it's at.
I think dang wrote about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
I should have provided a key. Where I listed a +, I basically meant that there was either work underway or it was something that could be done yourself without hindering a project too much. I did not intend to imply that symbolic expression was a solved problem, or anything of that sort.

As for QR decomposition, I am actually rather familiar with it, my brain simply decided to fart on the symbols QR without being followed by decomposition.

For Cholesky Decomposition, I'm sticking with "trivial to implement", and I'll even throw in "trivial to implement well": https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.10.1/numpy/linalg/lin...

You asked if D had code for a list of math capabilities that you use on a regular basis. My answer says "In many cases, no, but there's work being done toward that goal." No one is saying "we have a feature-complete math library!". There's much more needed than what you listed, and even the things you listed have many items with zero work done toward them. I am not attempting to say "D can do all these things!", and I don't think the author of the article was either.
Fewer hours makes me less burnt-out, yes, but it also means I can't pay bills, which comes with its own set of issues.
Your Major Doesn't Define Your Intellect
2-years is the low end for how long Lithium-Ion batteries last. They last anywhere between 2 to 5 years in my experience.

Batteries are NOT uniform, they will last varying amounts. Therefore, field-replaceable parts are important. Many of my laptops (I manage at work or at home) are on their 2nd or 3rd battery for instance.

Field-replaceable batteries is good, long-lasting design. Apple however does not like this idea on any of their products. In general though, Apple's support seems to be around receiving broken parts, replacing their batteries at "Genius centers" and mailing them back.

So I'm not really criticizing Apple here. But their innate design ties customers to the Genius bar for support for the simplest of hardware faults (ie: this battery issue).
Interesting that they mention the medical case, when there's some psychological work around the idea that we should present these cases in terms of natural frequencies instead of Bayes' theorem.

The natural frequencies approach is to say "if 10000 people take the test, 100 will have cancer. Of them, 99 will get an accurate positive test, and 1 will have a false negative test. Of the other 9900, 99 will receive a false positive, and 9801 will receive a correct negative. What are the odds that someone who has a positive test has cancer?"

It turns out that doctors and other professionals whose core professional competency doesn't concern probability do terribly when presented with percentages and Bayes theorem, but can handle natural frequencies quite well (here's one quick summary: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/chances-are/...).

As is obvious, this isn't an argument that Bayes' theorem is wrong--it's a theorem after all. It's an argument about which types of reasoning people can be easily taught.
Bayesian probability is catching on because the technology has finally caught up to the point where it's feasible. Thanks to the web and the proliferation of big data, we now have enough observations that Bayesian models can be trained (this was always the hard part). This doesn't mean we don't need smart people figuring out what things the model should and shouldn't look at; but it's at least possible to do today.

It also doesn't hurt that the Bayes theorem is at its heart a map-reduce problem. Where once Bayes' theorem was considered a cumbersome artifact for "brute forcing" probability, it's now likely faster than competing methods of statistical analysis.

We almost seem to be getting to the point in ad targeting where demographics are expressed in terms of a set of bayesian properties. You don't even care what the properties are; just that they're potentially more willing than average to use your product.
For i3, i3blocks does the same job:

https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks
If I was creating charts I would want the freedom to do this. Perhaps display a warning if both Y-axes are the same units (e.g. both dollars) because there is little reason to do that - either the values are related and the graph will be hard to parse/misleading, or the values are not related and they probably shouldn't be on the same chart.

But I can certainly see a use case for $ v. %, etc.
I agree with this, Dick Smith's should have watched the fall of Radio Shack and said, "Gee, we don't want to do that..." but such things take time to play out and when RS first made the switch to de-emphasize electronics and get more into higher margin consumer electronics it looked like a winner for them.

Neither company predicted, nor expected, that kids would go back to a more 'maker' mindset from the packaged goods mindset.
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Thank you! I'll definitely consider this.
The second one is actually mine, I didn't promote it because I was unhappy with the font.
What's cool about monads is that the computation (assembly code in this particular case) is just a plain old value.

So if you have a fragment like this:

factorial :: Int64 -> X86 ()
factorial n = do
mov rcx (I n)
mov rax (I 1)
l1 <- label
mul rcx
loop l1
ret

you can just compose this into a bigger program:

two_factorials :: Int64 -> Int64 -> X86 ()
two_factorials n1 n2 = do
factorial n1
factorial n2

Notice how the labels won't get mixed up. This concept (representing computation by values) is incredibly powerful: one can compose, combine, abstract values into bigger values. For example, compare the compositional properties of RethinkDB's query language to SQL.
Good point. I'll look into it. Thanks!
There's a reason why we have a United States. We all chip in our money and spread it around to help fund various kinds of infrastructure projects that would be too burdensome for one state to handle.

I mean Alaska is in a harsh environment. Why should I fund their infrastructure projects? But I gladly do so knowing the rewards are greater - having a strong and prosperous union.

That's the point. Of course there's always the issues of cost overruns, corruption, etc.
Have you ever tried Local Social Network?
Same here; at work, I work. As soon as I leave, I drop it (although sometimes I get stuck on a hard problem and it won't leave my head for the rest of the day/until I sit down and focus on something else). Nobody I work with has my personal cell number, and even if they did they wouldn't ever call me. Big plus, all of our users work 9-5 in the same timezone so we don't have anybody using our software past 5pm anyway.
I wonder if this is how we will eventually create cities using nanobots. Give them a finely tuned fractal formula, and let them go.

Who says grey goo has to be goo?
Rutherford should just be happy he discovered the last reasonably tangible piece of matter humanity will see for a long time, if ever.
I've found that it makes sense to outline what actions it is convenient to view on screen at any given time, and group those things into an app (here, one JS file that is served along with some HTML by the server).

So my typical applications have a handful of traditional routes serving HTML and a few small single page apps. To the extent that functionality is shared, I'll create a Clojurescript or Javascript library and reuse it. It keeps JS files small and quick to serve. I've found it to be a good balance between server-side rendering and having a massive SPA.
Should I keep cirtru closed to companies and universities or open for all?
Thank you for expressing that insight.
This is explicitly NOT what the article is talking about.
As a hobbyist photographer, I appreciate being able to share my photos, however I don't feel like throwing the "art gallery" at the user. That's why I take a much humbler approach by just posting my pictures to my own personal website's gallery. If someone were to stumble across it, great, otherwise no harm. It also helps that I have canceled my Facebook account.
The numbers in the aggregated top list don't add up. ARK for example is listed with fewer revenues for the whole year than for June alone.

This does not add confidence in the validity of other figures in this post.
A stackexchange site with an automatically posted "question" for each arxiv submission would be an interesting idea.
Thank you for pointing out the exploit! I'll see what I can do.
Yeah, that's true. I meant US company app stores.
But some other countries have these kinds of rules. I know of France.
Just because a theorem is true doesn't mean you can't misuse it or that you don't need to do some work to map it to reality.

For example, the Banach-Tarski theorem is solid, but that doesn't mean you can start a business making golf balls by buying one and then endlessly replicating it.
5 Engineers Talk about Their Favorite MapReduce Frameworks
The Wacom Stylus works on PC and Mac OSX Pro, and therefore has access to actual software.
While I'm not sure about the complete anonymity suggested by Hanel, I do wish that journals would move to double-blind reviews. It would not be perfect, as often research know enough to guess who the authors might be, but it would still reduce bias.
I think the title isn't quite so off. The article is trying to point out that people should be wary of using it wrongly.

Like other commentators have pointed out, the saying "garbage in garbage out" only helps when you stop to think whether or not you're putting garbage in.
Anyway I can hook up custom keyboard shortcuts to BitBar scripts?
Is it too high? It might be too low.

I pay $20/year for feedbin.com, under a grandfathered rate. The currently advertised price is $30/year.

I'd probably be willing to pay $5/month (or more? I haven't given it much thought) for this service, though. I use it a lot, and I use it almost every day.

What are you thinking about building?
Even if you only get weak of flawed evidence, then you do what you can to make the best decisions given that evidence. No one tries to suggest you do actual bayesian calculations on everything you know, for the simplest reason that it's not computationally viable.

But if your beliefs directly contradict bayes then you're doing something wrong - there's an inconsistency that's likely worth investigating, unless the matter is really minor. It's a sanity check for your decision making, not a constructive algorithm for the best decision.
I imagine large publishers negotiate a much smaller cut.
The difference between Hyper-V tooling on a domain vs off a domain is really shocking. The tool sets you get on a domain can be useful...off a domain...I'll pass entirely.
This happens to me, too... I'll have a problem that gets stuck in my head that I can't stop thinking about. In the car... making dinner... exercising... the whole time it's there, in my head, hanging over me. Sometimes to take my mind off of it I go work on other programming projects, but I am worried about burnout from programming 70+ hours a week. I've looked for other hobbies, but so far programming is the only one that I thoroughly enjoy and can stick to for an extended amount of time.
I've lived for 7 years 50 km east of Utrecht and my main point of entrance was 90% of the time the Central Station.

I always found it ugly indeed (the whole district around actually) and not welcoming at all. Now I come back there once or twice a year and I can't wait that they are finished with the work to see how it will look like :)
Yes, my "home" state is Texas, which has been extraordinarily regressive on ACA. It might be time for me to consider making another state "home".
Chow chow, sweet potatoes, beets, corn, etc.

To me the fried stuff and BBq is the once a week or less meals that are considered reserved for a big family sit down dinner or special occasions, they aren't an everyday thing. I wouldn't say we eat more of it then say any other region eats pizza, burgers or other traditionally unhealthy foods.

That said the years of poverty does have a distinct effect on the culture and work ethic here. I wouldn't be surprised if it had an effect on diet and physiological effects.

Our dinner last night was some baked chicken with italian seasoning, and potatoes and carrots similarly baked with same seasoning. Wasn't that healthy, albeit healthier than most non-vegetarian meals, but certainly wasn't fried.

That said, I know quite a few people with heart disease, etc, and honestly, I can say diet definitely played a role in it, as well as possible smoking/drinking.
I've used Dwolla for my own payments before they decided to focus on merchant accounts. Pretty good experience with them, and I wonder how they compare to Stripe today. I'm always suspicious of such over-hyped services as Stripe, and wished that there was more of a focus on describing the features and technology rather than trying to make everything into a human interest story. Yeah, the Collisons are interesting and successful guys, no doubt. Is Stripe actually a better service on merit? I really don't know, nor does this article enlighten me on that front. It really gives no basis for answering the question in its headline, other than pointing to the precocious financial success of the founders.
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