skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a zero sum game, so the applicability of your skill is relative to the other players. The average bettor understands the mechanics of the bet and has an intuitive understanding of what he is betting on. The 25th percentile bettor is clueless or worse (I like green, go Jets!) and is operating a reverse ATM.

Look at horse racing. At an off-season harness track where the purse is low and horses all suck, the professional handicapper loses a lot of his edge, as you never know when one horse is going to have a great day.

At the Belmont/Preakness/Travers/Kentucky Derby, a pro has a huge edge, as they generally can call the winner with precision -- the pros are betting on the finishing order via exacta bets. The crowd tries to picks the winning horse, and in the event of a win, makes a lousy $0.50 on a $2 bet :)
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I am not a lawyer. Even worse, this is random internet advice.

There is clear guidance and precedent for investors and employees - founders are best thought of as early employees of a C-corp.

Stock options for a contractor are likely to be a legal and tax quagmire on both sides. I suspect it to be symptomatic of a lack of experience and sound advice.

From your standpoint. Contractors get paid and that's what seed stage funding is for. The value of any stock options you received would be dependent on the goodwill of those who control the company several years down the road. If there's actually good will now, then additional options can be granted if and when you are hired as an employee.

That the company cannot hire you now suggests that it is underfunded or understaffed with technical people or both.

Keep in mind that stock options are not stock. They have no value unless exercised. Granting options to an LLC would compound the quagmire (if quagmires can be compounded).

Good luck.
It would be much appreciated.
I've had literally the opposite experience. Everything I seemed to need, IntelliJ IDEA magically had. I just ended up uninstalling things like pgAdmin, for example, since IntelliJ IDEA is just far superior at doing the same thing, and it's just right there where you code. Convenient. Usually it started out as, "I wonder if it can..." and then quickly find the feature that just does what I want.

Even as a Windows user myself, I can't quite articulate what has always bothered me about Visual Studio in general over the years. It seems to have it's own language, terminology, and way of doing things that you have to buy into. And I really don't like that. Let me pick a folder, have that be my project, and edit text really clever like. That's what I want.
Nice viz ! That's awesome to have such a dataset available, kudos Citi Bike ! I wish we had the same openness here in Paris, I would love to compile the same view for velibs (that's how our shared bikes are called). All we have is an API for bike station data https://developer.jcdecaux.com :/
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Thanks for the interesting discussion on Perl6; will have to try some of these cool new syntactical features.

I haven't had much need of Perl recently; trying to force myself to switch to Python (a jarring psychological experience) not because I hate Perl but because Python seems to be where a lot of the demand is these days.

But I learned something else of great importance from this article: cowsay

I'd never heard of cowsay before but it's an amazing tool! I installed it on my SuSE workstation (sudo zypper install cowsay) and on my Mac (brew install cowsay) and it just makes me happy! My favorite command is:

ls|cowsay
>> But they do -- the evidence is copious:

> The evidence is non-existent.

If you're familiar with Occam's razor, you know that, for a given phenomenon, the simplest explanation is to be preferred. There certainly are massive objects at the center of most galaxies, and the most economical explanation is that they're black holes. No one is closing the book on these ideas -- that would be unscientific -- but there is strong evidence that these things are black holes.

That they exist is beyond question. That they have super-high masses confined to a small space is beyond question. General Relativity then fills in the blanks in our observations.

> That's a terrible argument. One is an actual physical process, the other is a mathematical abstraction.

So is General Relativity. But because nature follows the same rules, General Relativity accurately predicts many aspects of reality (certainly not all).

> And accretion disks don't have to be bright BTW ...

Well, yes, they do -- they're giving up a huge amount of gravitational potential energy, and that energy must be conserved -- it's converted to kinetic energy, it becomes heat and light.

Consider a satellite in an elliptical orbit. At the orbital apoapsis, potential energy is highest and kinetic energy is lowest. Not surprisingly, this is the point of smallest velocity. Now consider periapsis -- it's the reverse: lowest potential energy, highest kinetic energy, therefore highest velocity.

In a normal planetary elliptical orbit with no friction, even though the two kinds of energy are constantly changing, they sum to a constant at each point in the orbit, so there's no net dissipation of energy. But as matter falls into a black hole, in order for it to pass through the event horizon, it must give up most of its energy (both potential and kinetic). Most of that energy is converted into heat and light.

Most accretion disks preserve the rotational momentum of the infalling mass, so they're in the form of disks surrounding the event horizon. In theory, mass could fall directly into the BH without any rotation -- in that case, there would still be a huge energy conversion process and much radiated energy. Sp accretion disks are very bright.

Here's a graphic of the imagined BH from "Interstellar", thought to be fairly accurate as movie graphics go:

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black...

> Eh? If it never forms a singularity, it has no event horizon.

Yes, and by the same reasoning, because a Calculus limit expression never gets to its limit, therefore Calculus is bunk. My point? Just as (1+1/n)^n approaches e as n approaches infinity (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=limit+n+-%3E+inf%2C+%28...), a black hole approaches its final form as mass approaches it from the perspective of a distant observer.

You might as well have argued that, because this classic-physics gravitational equation:

f = (G m1 m2) / r^2

assumes that all the mass is a dimensionless point at the center of the central body, therefore if m1 and m2 occupy the same point in space, the result is infinite, therefore (because infinity isn't a number) Newtonian gravitation is bunk.
Your EV would increase if you removed numbers that are picked more often.

Your chance of winning is still the same but the expected payout is higher because the expected number of identical tickets is lower.
Figure out what the job entails, and the tech required to do that. Then recall the job description - is every need listed as a requirement? If so, this is "dead end" by any reasonable definition, as they expect you to learn absolutely nothing on the job, but just regurgitate what you did for somebody else.

That is not entirely sure fire, as of course maybe your next task will give you the opportunity to learn new things, but to me it is always a red flag that cannot be ignored. If you expect me to know every last thing you need, I don't want to work for you because I will be stagnating in my career. I'm not going to gamble that I'll be allowed to move into a different group (I'm way past the beginning of my career, where some dues paying is usually in order).

If you are on the other end of hiring - consider letting us know what our chances of growth are in the job. So many job reqs just list requirements. It's hard to get excited about repeating the past.
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Heh. If that were the case, we'd still program in assembly, and RISC architectures would have taken over CPUs.
And ARM
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> CLA could give joint copyright to the involved parties

Licensing to allow joint copyright isn't really a thing in the US. Anyone trying to craft a license that formalizes joint ownership after the fact is going to have a not-so-fun time trying to make that work.
"What you call over engineered I call common sense capabilities that get out of my way."

I should have just copy & pasted your comment.
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If you ever need more time "to think and decide" (and feel that you are being rushed) simply ask a question (almost any question will do but one that isn't a simple yes or no is better obviously) or make a statement and use that time to give more thought to what you are trying to make your mind up on.
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The original title is completely bewildering. And now it looks like an article entitled "Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art," possibly written by Paul Graham. Just write:

Computer Programming as an Art

By Donald E. Knuth

It's that simple.
There are some "standards" like Ford Escort turned out to be in rally circles. But there is no Socket 7 of cars.
Uplifting why? Is there any evidence that electric cars are better than gasoline ones--environmentally or in any other way?
So many things coming out of "the new Microsoft" that it is hard to keep up with.

Gone from being vehemently anti-Microsoft most of my career to going "Hmmmm, I should look at that."

Now to carve out time to do anything with any of it. :\
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I had the same reaction, but then thought....there may be a small, but growing niche of people that want a 24/7 connected device allowing some of the 21st century apps without all the overbearing communication.
>This is a typical case of a person misusing equipment/breaking the rules...

... in a completely benign way that you might expect of a real human being, not a slave or serf.
Right, totally understood. My point is that there are shades of grey.

- My arm. Did I mention this is the 3rd time I've hurt it this way? Since I'd seen this scenario before, I had heard professional opinion on how to treat it.+

- The cost. Time cost is real. In my case (and most founders), time is more valuable than money.

Should we encourage more people to talk to more professionals than do today? Sure, yes, I do think so. But we should also encourage people to self-educate and self-treat. Those aren't at odds with each other.
If there is that much distrust in your employee or employees, you should just fire them.
The LEDs are working great, the halogen went explody. I have no problems with the LED.
I'd like a citation of a study or some numbers that back up your claim, really I would. I'm strictly speaking about commercial aviation - not puttering around in a Cirrus with a parachute. Those aren't equitable comparisons.

Mostly because in recent times, pilot error has been the most frequent cause of crashes, to my knowledge, in Airbus planes. Whether that's being too stupid to avoid an active combat zone and get shot down, or turning off the wrong engine and causing a prop plane to crash in a recoverable situation (granted not an Airbus).

Basically, there are pilots flying in commercial aviation today that, practically speaking, are not qualified to be stick & yoke pilots but are commercial pilots because demand far outstrips supply in some parts of the world.
What does it mean, canicule?
For year_day(2016), I get 145 (using the 1900 option). Can you check your formula?
The body holds the car together in most lighter cars. This is called "monocoque construction". You can't just add the body. Body-on-frame construction is used for trucks and some larger cars, but there's a weight penalty.

The trouble with in-wheel motors: unsprung weight. Works great for big, slow vehicles like mining trucks. For smaller vehicles, the motor weight has to come way down. There's been some progress in this.
If you want to argue that, also take a good look at the French Revolution.

> A lack of belief.

In deities and supernatural powers.

In other aspects I find many forum atheists to believe strongly in theories that are way above their heads.
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Many scientific studies confirm common sense. It's the process of turning assumptions into fact.
Why? A currency symbol does not come with a decimal/thousands separator convention.
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What do you mean by the, "edge-case of an implementation... makes its way into programmers' habits" as something that happens a lot in javascript. Maybe I'm not understanding but I read that statement and I don't see how that applies to javascript.
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I also saw that as taking undeserved credit at first, but the fact is, this region will be carbon-neutral and they are right to advertise it as such for those who would be interested in hosting in a carbon-neutral environment.
Then thats precisely why you should always pick your own numbers, and specifically choose combos containing numbers above 31. You would get (slightly) better EV than even the RNG-generated ones, because those can include both +/- 31
Finally an affordable standing desk.
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As exciting as this possibility is, I'm more interested in what I'll learn from the refutal which I'm hoping someone who understands this stuff will write here soon.
Very neat idea, now I just have to buy 3 for my monitors + laptop haha. Still cheaper than 1 normal standing desk though...
California has water that is next to free from the snowpacks. Water is so cheap that desalinated water, which costs about $0.45/1000 liters, is almost never seriously considered a major source of water (as compared to places like Dubai, or even Singapore, where it is a major source of water) - even given that vast portions of the population live right beside the ocean.

Several iterations of this device might result in something very useful in areas far away from the ocean (which makes desalination difference), and lacking the major infrastructure for centralized water recycling.
I'm personally hoping the future holds some way to blend the openness/interoperability of the web with the performance of native apps. Maybe React Native, maybe web assembly, etc.

I hope that pure mobile development doesn't win, because the mobile app ecosystems are way more controlled than desktops/servers, and if everything went Android/iOS, it would be a major loss for freedom.
Upon further reflection, I think some shit pilots still manage to crash the plane even when something IS a textbook simulator issue.

That shorting of the runway in San Fran? Every warning worked as intended except the pilot. The prop plane that went down in Taiwan? Pilot shut down the wrong engine.

Basically if we're talking about a person being unable to actually handle the needs of modern piloting - mode confusion as it were - then I'm suspicious that they aren't very good pilots in the first place. This is where I see the correlative in cars.

Just because lane-alert and auto cruise control can help an inattentive driver stay out of a crash doesn't mean the systems can't be compromised by a poor operator. That's kind of my thought process.
Glad I'm not alone. Obviously it can download pages like wget or curl. Presumably you could access the DOM of a page - for scraping, etc. Then there is a testing - perhaps this would be used for automated access of your website to make sure its working. But these are all guesses.
> abandoning that part of the probability space

this is hogwash. ALL numbers are equally likely to come up.
Wonder how the CAD/USD exchange rate will affect pricing in the region.
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> But they will take infinite time to actually merge though.

Yes, from the perspective of a distant observer. From the perspective of an observer falling into the BH, time will pass in the usual way, indeed it must.

> The closer they get to that event horizon the slower time goes, so they will take longer and longer to orbit.

Only from the perspective of a distant observer. This might explain why black holes last as long as they do, from the perspective of a distant observer. For all we know, they all blow up in short order from the perspective of an observer falling into one.
That is probably true, but maybe this position stems more from the fact that they were never challenged than we think. I'm hoping some pride will be thrown into the mix and will make them care just a bit more than they currently do.
What a bunch of lame BS excuses.

Searching for "Computer Programming as an Art" the PDF comes up as the second link (below PG's rip off). Not that it's even relevant because it's given as a direct link.

A scanned PDF is a closer reproduction to the original presentation, and easier to save for later to read.

I trust the ACM's "goodwill" to continue hosting it more than I trust it to remain on PG's website.
The idea with a waterless toilet is that it can be cheaper than installing a conventional toilet and plumbing. There are hundreds of millions of people that do not have plumbing.
Well, to be fair, Qt was aware of the free software movement from near the beginning. Richard Stallman tried to convince them to liberate their code, and resulted in pushing for a free software replacement. The existence of that free software replacement forced Qt's hand and they released their code under the LGPL. The OSI, Eric S. Raymond and the other "open source" people were not involved AFAIK.
For "low cost, rural use" - nothing beats a hole in the ground. :-)
We're working on the duplicate detector and one goal is to give the original submitter credit more often. Thanks for being generous about this case.
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> a AWS region in Canada will make the issue more prevalent

How on earth will it? The EU region launched 9 years ago & AP 6 years ago. Would the prevalence be in Canadian businesses who weren't aware of these other regions and the legions of other hosting providers available outside of the USA?
i don't think so, because it's really hard to write bindings to qt, and relatively easy to write them for gtk. gtk therefore became the default choice for a lot of language communities when they wanted a more modern alternative to tk. had gtk never existed, i think tk could have become a lot more popular, and seen faster improvements, rather than qt taking over the desktop entirely.
does your EV calculation adjust for subtracting all the minor wins as well ?
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> An implementation of ChakraCore interpreter and runtime, no JIT, on Linux. Targeting x64 Ubuntu 15.10

I suspect the implementation is tightly coupled to Window's ABI.
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The control room:
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I know everyone is going to shoot this idea down with a million reasons why, but even so:

why are these laws never symmetric?

Why can't employees also access things possessed and used by the employer, like, say, HR personnel files, or executive emails, so that employees can verify the company is not committing fraud, engaging in discriminatory practices, etc.?

There's such an emphasis on what the company has a right to do to protect itself that we almost don't even think about how company actions, which could be damaging to and unapproved by the employee, go on unchecked all the time.

I assume the answer is just "might makes right" and the employer is the one with capital available for legal and political manipulation. But what's so surprising to me is that we rarely even talk about it even in an era with so much overt and publicly hated corporate corruption.
Well that's the good old GNU/FSF firmware reasoning; its "better" to have the same firmware permanently burned into a chip than have it software upgradeable. Also happens to be one of the reasons I think FSF has lost its way if they ever even had it in the first place.
I'm intrigued to see when someone launches in Africa.
Best experience I've ever had was when I woke up at a hotel in Muir Woods and just started.. walking. I didn't have a car, a map or a phone intentionally. There was a trail, I had enough food, and there were enough every ten minutes or so to ask questions if needed.

Thirteen miles later, I ended up at the ocean for the first time, when I didn't even know which way was west. It was mindblowingly refreshing. Sure, it could have gone completely differently, but is that the point? I was content where I was by just hiking with my own thoughts and awareness of my immediate surroundings. Having a phone or GPS would have completely stripped that feeling away.

There's something to be said to just living in the moment when the risk is low-medium.
I hope this isn't the case. The last time I purchased ReSharper it was a one off payment. IIRC you got a year of upgrades included but if you wanted the newer versions after that then you needed to keep paying a subscription renewal fee. However, it wouldn't stop working after that time. You still kept what you paid for.

I just had a quick glance at the ReSharper page [0] and it appears that they still use the same model. They also offer monthly subscriptions but say that "12 months of uninterrupted subscription payments qualify you for receiving a perpetual fallback license.". BTW the cookie law notice on that page is one of the best I've seen :).

I've used pretty much every version of Visual Studio and 2015 is the first to have issues with licensing. I originally signed in with my MSDN account to activate it (fair enough) and then signed out. Now it tells me that my license has "gone stale" and I can't use it until I sign in again. There is an option to enter a product key but MSDN tells me:

A product key is not offered with this edition of Visual Studio.
To unlock the product, you must sign in using the login associated
with your active Visual Studio subscription. By signing in, your
IDE settings will sync across devices, and you can connect to
online developer services.

My old versions of VS are still licensed with a key and work fine. It makes me worry whether I will still be able to use VS 2015 when my subscription expires. Maybe it's worth exploring the free community versions. I believe that they no longer have the limitations on plugins that they use to have. I don't mind paying for things but the time and cognitive overhead dwarfs the financial cost.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/buy
It's a good point, but it matters for Apache licensed code, too, because Apache 2.0 has a self-destruct clause in the patent grant to keep all parties' lawyers in check. CLAs (like the one Microsoft uses) routes around that.

The way this ends up working for Microsoft projects licensed under Apache 2.0 is that it essentially allows Microsoft to do anything with the contributions (as if it were licensed under MIT, with a liberal interpretation of the implied patent grant), but requires everyone else to continue abiding by Apache 2.0. Not exactly balanced.

EDIT: I'm totally confused about why people are having a problem with this comment.
From what I've read, you can get pretty good performance on an iPad Pro. Here's 8M pixels:

http://flexmonkey.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-first-look-at-metal...

The author provides the source. Portable to the Mac?

https://github.com/FlexMonkey/ParticleLab
You only need a free Apple ID.
All right, here is a small video of the simulation:

https://vimeo.com/151682787

But after all this recording, converting and uploading, the quality is a bit down... If you like it and have the necessary hardware, I would recommend to just run it yourself. Looks a lot better :)