skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stocks can and have fallen more than 15% in this window.

Possible, but not common or likely. The shares are granted at the end of one trading day (which will be the close of that day if that's lower than at the beginning of the period) and are available for sell the next trading day. e.g. my last ESPP grant was on a Friday and I sold my shares at the open on the following Monday.

So for someone to lose money through the ESPP the stock a) would need to be lower at the end of the period then the beginning and b) drop 15% at the open. Let's say such a move happens once a year to the average stock, there are about 250 trading days in a year so you have a 0.4% chance of that happening. (realistically it's probably even lower than that since drastic moves like opening down 15% are much more likely to occur following an earnings announcement than on an average day and ESPP grants and earnings aren't aligned)
Ahh. Wasn't aware of that. I found a screenshot, and it's an odd, non-obvious way to allow tipping:

http://www.sarahdoody.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/lyft-ux...

I wonder how much that keeps it from being used.
Pretty much everyone in my university took notes on paper in CS classes. Most of it was just math which is much easier to note down with pen and paper (I tried tablets with a stylus but still prefer pen+paper).
Really sorry to hear that. I didn't wind up homeless (thankfully) when I did it, but I burned through a good portion of my life savings (20+ years worth.) I'm going to write about it at some point, but the short version is that if you don't have any family or anything similar to fall back on other than your savings, you'd better be very sure your idea is a winner in advance (not exactly trivial.) We all know about the magical exceptions, but most of us aren't in a position to take risks like that without losing most or all of what we have, and that fact sucks. People (especially younger ones) are more risk averse for good reason:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-slow-death-of-americ...

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/29/chart-of-the-day-m...
Ask HN: Who is Using Syphony 1? Why not to use it for new projects?
Hi,

first to make thinks clear. I am a big fan of Synfony 1 and the current fork 1.5
https://github.com/LExpress/symfony1

On gitHub there is this, I Quote:
"Do not use it for new projects: this version is great to improve existing symfony1 applications, but Symfony2 is the way to go today."

But Why?

=========

Symfony 1 is perfect as Basic PHP Web Framework! OK, You will maybe not have some new modules that you want to use, like modern and Up to dated modules for logging in with social networks or some other fancy Web 3.0+ API. But anyway Sypfony 1 is perfect for me as “Basic and Great PHP Framework” for lots of web new application and daily needs.

So my question is: Who of you do think, Syonfony 1.4 or 1.5 is okay to use when you start a project today. I defining think it is OK. Maybe I am wrong.
You should have read the rest of the post before commenting.
> What happens to all of the people that aren't educated or don't have the skills in this new economy

What happens now to people who have no education or skills relevant to the economy? AI won't make this new problem, it's something we already deal with.
I love Ember - and one of the best things about it is its emphasis on convention over configuration. React is the exact opposite. While it's an amazing library, it only makes up one part of a front-end stack, which causes everyone to waste tons of time deciding on what the other parts should be.

A set of sane, accepted defaults would help the community tremendously. Personally, I'm hopeful that that's what React/Redux/Webpack turns out to be.
Globally yes, locally no. It is not reasonable to discount the fears of a to-be-displaced factory worker in Michigan because their loss is offset by new service industry jobs in New York, even though the net economic effect may be positive. For real examples, laid-off shipbuilders in Liverpool and coal miners in Wales are still largely out of work even while the UK economy has grown since those mass industrial transitions.

Taken to a limit, a sector-wide displacement could have quite severe repercussions for a society. Imagine for example a majority of truck drivers* losing their jobs once self-driving cargo vehicles become available. Assuming they'll be adopted rapidly (for their advantages in safety, fleet efficiency, and reduced transit time due to continuous operation) and the change is quite sudden. Those truckers are now an immediate, acute problem for the country: unemployed, not spending, not earning, heavily invested in training and experience for a now non-existent job, and not (in aggregate) well-suited for other work. They are also a large, angry, nationwide group - a pre-fabricated voting block - ripe for political exploitation.

*I picked this example based on that map of common occupations that was floating round here a few months ago. By far the most popular job by state was "truck driver", so this is potentially a real issue.
Although this might be a sensible way of looking at how the brain processes information, it doesn't address the hard problem of why there is a subjective experience.
Physicists have been thinking about this for a long time, and I seem to recall having seen it pointed out before that the question of a space-time that never had matter in it could be different than one that had it but somehow had it removed. Which then implies the possibility that the space-time has a state in it, in which case, where did it come from and where is it being stored?

Given our current state of understanding, there really isn't a need to insist that one question is wrong and some other question is better, seeing as we are currently equally incapable of answering any of them.
> Spinning motion is an illusion and doesn't exist as a fundamental form of movement

If there is no objective space, then "movement" in general is not a fundamental concept; but you are assuming that at least some kinds of movement are fundamental (tarikjn points out something similar to this).

> similar to how lack of gravity in orbit is an illusion, in that you are continuously falling downward but missing the earth.

Actually, you have this backwards; it's the "falling downward" because of "gravity" that is the "illusion", according to our best current theory, general relativity. In a free-fall orbit, you are moving in a straight line through spacetime; you can tell this by the fact that you are weightless.
https://www.google.com/?#q=self-xss
The Java binary can be run on any system for which a JVM exists. If Microsoft ports the entire thing to a native language like C++, we are at their mercy to provide binaries for non-windows systems.
I'm still on a Mac Pro 2008, and I've written several articles about upgrades which drives the majority of my blog's traffic. I've done everything from jam in a nVidia GeForce 760 GTX, to SSD, to mini-PCIe wireless A/C card + Bluetooth 4.x The legs the Mac Pros had are incredible pre-2013. As someone who's contracted for four TV shows for some visual effects on the side, it hurts that I may have to switch to windows.

I love OS X and dislike the desktop hardware.
Misleading title - He took class notes using a notebook instead of a laptop.

I dared to hope to find some absurd story about turning in his CS homework in hand-written C++...
Google AI algorithm masters ancient game of Go
Sure they do. For someone who is a little bit tech savvy, but not senior engineer level, there is pretty good money to be made setting up Wordpress sites and the like. This person can be an interface to the small or medium business owner who knows nothing about the interwebs but needs to get a presence online.
Oh yes.

The short list/affacturation scam. Software can only support safely at most 10 providers ... for RA.. facturing ... limitations.

Thus I had between 1 and 4 mans in the middle for the purpose of "factoring, risks assessments" and shits.

I usually was paid 300€ to 400€ / days when customers were billed between 1000€ and more. Each companies adding delays and free to use and recycle my specs, my codes, my works to compete against me next time. Added value : negative.

Have you ever been 38 yo, back at your mum's place, honoring a contract and eating ramen while waiting 18 months for the magic of "affacturation" to work and discovering that the men in the middle are now making money from YOUR creation ?

Fuck rotten so called capitalism.

Only the kids born rich gets the money and they scam people like me to have the job done.

This business is very close to both scam and extortion.
Writer Claims Libel, Copyright Infringement; Screencap of Tweet Used in Article
... and democrats have been making that exact argument for donkey years.
Say hello to David Silver for me. I had the privilege of working with him at my previous company.

Never have I felt more like a total numbskull then when I would talk with him about reinforcement learning.
Physicists are rather aware of these things, seeing as you they are the ones who taught them to you in the first place. This is an old, venerable question that, as the article says, dates back to before Einsteinian relativity and remain unresolved to this day. Physics 101 is not capable of resolving the matter.
I may have missed this part in the article, but the "0.1x" moniker, as a reaction to the "10x" label... seems to miss the point.

The "10x" type folks I know are "10 times as productive" as others precisely because they know how to deal with some of those issues in the 0.1x list - push off new features, reduce amount of new tech introduced, drop old features, etc.

Knowing how to focus on the things that provide the most value in the least effort - but still move the project forward - that's where my understanding of the 10x label always was based. Maybe I'd had it wrong and people were always focused on "lines of code"?

Or maybe this was the point the OP was making anyway, but it went over my head. I know only a handful of places that have ever really looked at pure "output" (of code, for example) as the primary productivity measure.
Your missing my point entirely. This is what the resumes look like.

Clyde: Spent 6 months writing a custom CMS in Perl in support of Project X.

Bob: Spent 2 months writing a custom CMS in Rails to support Project X. 4 months writing feature A and B for Cool Project X while continuing to support the CMS.

Alice: Spent 6 months writing feature A, B, C and D for Project X.

If I was looking for a developer for Project Y, who looks better?
Try to Interview Google’s Co-Founder. It’s Emasculating
Same. Mid 30s, no one used laptops to take notes when I was in college. Somehow we all survived.
Like button has nothing to do with people liking something.

It has everything to do with Facebook tracking users on 3rd party web pages. This way they know where you have been, for how long and how often. IMO this data is much more relevant to knowing users interests that enables FB to sell targeted ads.

Same goes for Google Analytics: that's the reason it is free - because you are the product.
Those that weren't turned to dogfood. I'm fairly certain we have a considerably reduced population of horses
It's pretty hard to analyze a decade-long trend by just comparing the 2 most recent years. It could be that growth has stopped, or it could be that growth is continuing, but that 2015 was an outlier. We won't actually know until next year.
This is a complex issue, and like on most complex issues, there is no simple answer.

The general idea that technology deprecates people is true. It is also true that there is an escape valve in new needs, requiring new jobs, that allows for us to shift occupations and remain employed.

However, there is no law that states that the escape valve will always work, nor that it can work at high rates of job displacement.

Moreover, there are signs of low aggregate demand in developed economies. These signs are appearing now even in developing economies. This means that money is not percolating down into the hands of people, who can't then spend and create demand. There is a huge number of factors at play here (see the note about being a complex problem). Higher worker efficiency causing higher unemployment rates is one such factor. It can't be dismissed outright.

We may be witnessing Marx being right (albeit ahead of its time).
When can we hope to see some form that will allow the public to play against this even if it is pay to play for each game or a weaker PC version? I hope the system does not end up being put away like Deep Blue was.

Also, what kind of hardware results in this level of play and how is hardware correlated with strength here?
> does a universe in which there is nothing (and never has been) still contain space?

Within the framework of our best current theories, the answer is yes, in the sense that flat Minkowski spacetime, containing no matter or energy anywhere, is a valid solution of the Einstein Field Equation of general relativity.
With Corbis Sale, Tiananmen Protest Images Go to Chinese Media Company
But that’s exactly the situation, isn’t it?

More and more people are unemployed every day, while more and more workers get replaced.

The social welfare system in Germany started in the late 1800s when industrialization and internal combustion engines started to replace people.

Nowadays a country can be considered to have a "good" job market when only 5 to 10 percent are unemployed, while other countries, even in the first world, are at up-to 25%.

This all also extremely depresses wages, because the workers are competing against each other on the job market.
Do the Alice thing, leave early

Ha! First you have to find a company where the reward for finishing early isn't more work.
It's because they don't want to add buttons, because buttons are "ugly", and usability takes a backseat to looking pretty in screenshots.

My estimate is that the average person knows about maybe a third or a half of the features on their smartphone, because the rest are hidden away behind never-explained gestures or long presses on things that don't look like buttons.

In terms of conveying functionality the popular smartphone and webpage UIs today are atrocious. Just today I was talking with someone who was really frustrated that they can't see webpages anymore because web browsers all got rid of the magnification feature. He was amazed to discover that it has been there all along but hidden away in a menu that doesn't even appear unless you hit alt. He thought all of that was moved over to the "hamburger" menu, and they just dropped it. He's been squinting for months (years?) because someone doesn't like the look of dropdown menus.
Improved GitHub commenting with Markdown
In a lot of cases with the 'hosted' platforms, you're limited to a handful of 'approved' plugins that have been vetted and are kept up to date for you. So... you're getting protected, but losing out on one of the primary reasons people choose WP in the first place - customizability. But it's not the reason everyone does, hence the hosted places can still thrive.
I occassionally use PhotoSwipe when I need an image viewer (http://photoswipe.com/documentation/getting-started.html). Bit of a pain to implement, but I really like the way it works both on desktop and mobile and the fact that it has linkable URLs.

For all the over the top options that ViewerJS seems to have, I find it strange that a simple 'click background to close' option is missing.
"alive", life has deferent meaning (and defined requirements e.g self-reproduction) than "consciousness", "sentience" or "mind".

Unless you belief in a mystical soul component (I do not), there is nothing else "there" but machine. A very complex, biological machine. But there is no reason to believe that that a sufficiently powerful software/hardware can not replicate the functionality of that machine exactly. Then what possible difference could there be between the two duplicate machines?

But, we will have systems that exhibit a many aspects of "thought" and sentience long before we are able to code up homo sapien sapien.
Yeah, IIRC most engines just blunder every once in a while depending on the difficulty setting. rather than playing consistently less strong moves, or something like that.
I feel like this is mostly misleading. Look at a list of top players (goratings.org). The top fifty is mostly players 5p and up. There are a few 3p or 4p Chinese players running around, and apparently even 1 1p (Li Qincheng) but by and large, there is a relation.
We certainly disagree, however this isn't really about your or my subjective experience - it is about whether these kinds of tacting induce guilt in other people.

I take it you believe they do not, despite the contradicting evidence of people here supporting the idea that they do.

I agree that not everyone will feel guilt at each particular message, but I am saying you are wrong if you believe that none of these messages induce guilt in anyone.
I found this page: http://maps.nls.uk/os/abbrev/index.html
So is it a valid claim, or not? Aside from the higher taxes to support a new program (not that the gov't doesn't already spend huge amounts in healthcare already) and the insurance industry, who loses out?
No, I think that only VMWare Fusion and Parallels offer the ability to use a bootcamp partition to boot.
You're right, ignorance of those things is more dangerous. But people do interact with electricity every day, so I would have thought they'd know the basics a little better.
1. The absence of tipping is a feature. Uber was originally a premium service. Many premium services explicitly discourage tipping.

2. Driver ratings replace the primary function of tipping, which is to incentivize good service and leave feedback.

That said, I very occasionally leave a tip in extraordinary circumstances, and would not be opposed to a way to do that in-app, as long as it was very clear it's not expected (hide behind 5-star rating, call it a "bonus" or something).
The Man Who Tried to Kill Math in America
"Free software projects with terrible names" is a long, long rabbit hole.
Does it really take much to maintain a user modifiable tower? I imagine the amount of engineering the 2013 Mac Pro took, was greater than simply maintaining a 4x PCIe slot box with whatever the latest and greatest Xeons are. Apple could have left the tower exactly the same. Problem solved. It's not sexy, and its not exciting but it'd keep a very dedicated group of Mac buyers happy and married to the platform.

It isn't mutually exclusive to cater to both audiences.
The forth paragraph in that link really sums up the difference for my poor brain:

"One advantage of direct current over AC is that DC current penetrates the entire conductor as opposed to AC current which only penetrates to the so-called skin depth. For the same conductor size the effective resistance is greater with AC than DC, so that more power is lost as heat. In general the power losses for HVDC are less than an AC line if the line length is over 500 -600 miles and with advances in conversion technology this distance has been reduced considerably."
So Facebook versus Google is the next sound thing.
Ofcourse. But there is an expectation(not a guarantee, though) that ntp.org provides a sincere and non-shady service - which is why this blog posts, among other things, have made ntp.org started to weed out such shady servers.
If you're going to apply a word to a place where it previously hasn't been meaningful to apply the word, it's worth clarifying what meaning that word now has.

For instance, is Android a Linux distro? Depends why you're using the phrase "Linux distro". For some applications of that phrase, yes; for some applications no. Saying that it is, or that it isn't, doesn't tell you anything more, and doesn't help you answer those questions; you still have to answer them, so you might as well answer them directly. For instance, if you're packaging some software for a bunch of Linux distros, you probably don't want to count Android (or at least, handle it very differently from Debian or Fedora). If you're tracking fixes to kernel CVEs, you probably do want to count Android.

Or, more mathematically, is 0^0 = 0 or 1? Depends how you ended up with 0^0 in the first place: if through 0^y as y approaches 0, then 0, but if through x^0 as x approaches 0, then 1. Saying "It's 1" or "It's undefined" is satisfying to the part of the human brain that likes clean answers, but it doesn't inform us.

Similarly, let's not ask "what does 'consciousness' really mean", but "where do we use the term 'consciousness'." Should AIs be able to drive a car unsupervised? Should a sufficiently advanced AI have civil rights, such as the right to life? Should an AI be entrusted with political office? Or with the vote, and if so, what representation is fair? Can I give an AI ownership of a company? For the religious among us, do AIs have the ability to have human-like morality? Those are all questions worth answering, but saying "Yes, this computer has a conscious mind" or "No, it doesn't" is not really going to help those questions get answered.

The Chinese room experiment is sort of not useful in that, while "the ability to learn Chinese" is a thing we expect of consciousnesses, it's not really generalizable. Nothing else in our society really depends on people's ability to learn a language; those few things that do, generally don't require the learner to be a person (e.g., you want something translated and you give it to a company).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respondeat_superior

>> ... a legal doctrine which states that, in many circumstances, an employer is responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their employment.
Serving Static Sites with Fastly and S3
Err, it does if you mean what I think you mean by "subjective experience". There's subjective experience because the brain constructs a narrative about the sensory data it is getting (and that narrative is also part of the information it is processing). This is what subjective experience is. Why it exists is because people needed to tell stories in the ancestral environment.
LTE security and protocol exploits [pdf]
Snowden has referred people to the CIA standards for secure telephones: Baseband limited to data only, VPN'ed into VoIP server to make/receive phone calls. I believe he was still using Android to do this.

Any smart person would get a cheap chinese knock-off phone based on a MediaTek MT6592 with a bunch of RAM, install vanilla linux on it, and run YateClient or Plasma Mobile. Combined with VPN, data-only, and VoIP, this would be an enormous pain for anyone to be able to properly track.
That's not really right. In your first equation, if we're looking at transmission losses, then V is going to be the voltage drop in the conductor, not the total voltage in the system. Voltage drop is proportional to current. For a given amount of delivered power, current is inversely proportional to total voltage. Thus, power dissipation in the transmission lines decreases as voltage increases.
Unless I missed something in the article, I'm not sure this is odd or malicious behavior. The NTP servers know your IPs because you sent packets to them from those IPs. So you basically told them what your big random 128-bit IPv6 address is.

And the fact that they sent packets back to you (after you sent them packets) is not surprising either. However, if you can show that a full-blown port scan occurred after you sent them packets, then that would be odd. I did not see evidence of that in the article... did I miss that?
Why I work remotely has nothing to do with productivity
As you are a German citizen now I suppose money's your most urgent problem, not immigration laws. In that case I'd suggest trying freelancing. I literally get several requests per week for .NET projects around Munich.

To get you started you could try some freelancer forums / groups at XING. If you need any help with getting started as a freelancer just drop me a note.
Is this open-sourced?
Lightning fast internet is here