skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would suck. VMWare Fusion/Workstation/Player mean I can run the exact same VM on a Mac, Windows and Linux without any modification.

Having to use VirtualBox over here (which I've had problems with before) and KVM over there and Hyper-V over there and whatever shows up on OS X yet again would be such a pain in the ass.
Mark Twain's response to a snake oil salesman
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Benefits of a single US electrical grid with high-voltage direct current
It also gets them into a "hybrid cloud OS", IaaS model...lines up well for competition with BYO Datacenter+OpenStack, or Windows 2016+Azure. VMware owns many, many assets beyond vSphere and has a strong chance (IMO) at becoming an incumbent hybrid SDDC provider with Virtustream, vCloud Air, VCloud Air networking, etc.
At human scales Matter and energy behave as if space was 3-dimensional. That does not mean space is 3-dimensional.

This may seem pedantic, but a lot of assumptions brake down when you look at tiny or high energy things. So, it's really important to mark down all your assumptions.
Really? After looking at your post history, I found this.

>I've lost the ability to focus on a single task for hours at a time like I used to as a kid. Even if it excites me. My attention has been completely ruined by social media and I don't know how to recover.
Always some sort of chat or something in the background. I really don't know what to do, should I get counselling or something?
First Laser Measurements of Magnetic Fields of Single Nerves
What’s Apple’s competitive edge going forward?
OFFTOPIC: I have two "I heart Lotus Notes" stickers on my laptop for the irony value.
Not all that different these days. http://imgur.com/qII55SM

The new FF UI has been out and stable for nearly two years now.
I still think it's a good metaphor: they eat constantly while still eating regular meals that must be huge. Like probably a lunch and a pizza or two burgers plus lost of soda or alcohol per day. I'd say 3000 kcal easily per day assuming they do at least _something_ (and that's not much) to add to their basal metabolic rate. They are completely in a feeding mode that is required just to upkeep the amount of fat tissue in their bodies. If that doesn't remind you of a barnyard animal, I don't know what does.
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I was thinking of a user defined schema or ontology for a wiki, allowing the user to also create simple queries for their own data. The example data for a lot of GraphQL tools is Star Wars characters, movies and space-ships. If you look at the Star Wars wiki, it can get a lot more complicated, but it's not something you would want to hard code because new types and relationships are being added all the type. The simplicity of the schemas and queries in GraphQL, and the existence of UI tools out of the box, it seems a lot more approachable than something like WikiData or Semantic Mediawiki.
One thing that helps me overcome template/boilerplate paralysis is when there are a few sentences for each of the submodules that explain what they do, how they fit into the larger picture, and why they were chosen over similar alternatives.
Uber and Lyft get out of more than just paying benefits by classifying their workers as independent contractors. They also avoid paying their portion of the payroll taxes, liability for workman's comp, protective laws (minimum wage, unemployment coverage, for example).

Edit: For those downvoting...you really think these exact things weren't discussed when Uber & Lyft were deciding how they would comp drivers? Heh.
Makers collect the spread from participants who want to transact right now (the price of immediacy). "Real" investors are better off because they paid someone to take a position of their hands that they didn't want. They made their trading problem someone else's.

Takers exploit the option value of resting orders by trading when "fair value" moves but those orders don't. "Real" investors are better off because they cheaply acquired a security they may hold for years (the fact that the price will shortly move against them by a penny or two is irrelevant). Market makers are worse off--but they're HFT guys, and it's not really your problem.
The challenge with this statement is that Dell is privately owned, so "private equity" as opposed to "public equity"...harder to be overvalued.

If what you say is consistent, then EMC/VMware is overvalued in the M&A activity here (and honestly it might be).

The best correction I can make is that "leveraged private equity is aquiring inflated public assets"
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I've not had any problems running VirtualBox on Linux. Is it worse on Mac or is VMWare better is some way?
The Pet Funeral Industry Makes 100M Dollars in Profit
Yep, the Alfa was a strange design, Titanium hull, reduced to way below safe minimum shielding to save the weight, noisy as hell (like insanely noisy).

Basically designed as the submarine equivalent of an interceptor, get somewhere fast and open fire.

IIRC the top speed of the alfa was above the speed of the NATO torpedoes in use at the time.
> One key thing to remember is: You cannot outrun a bad diet.

I'll also add that you can't undo a bad diet over x years in much less time.

Obese people are shocked that changing the course and loosing fat takes time. Of course, they didn't also get obese in a year.

When you're getting fatter and fatter you don't even register couple extra kilograms, compared to if you have a healthy habit of measuring weight/lean body mass/body fat weekly (this is crucial, because measuring JUST weight is just half-assing yourself) and staying in shape.
One who's doing that will notice the weight change even without measuring, your more attune to your body and you "know". It's ironic that more better you're in shape, easier it is to stay in good shape, but hey that's how law of fittest works.
> different foods likely result in more human fat development per calorie than others (see bleeding edge research)

It isn't just varying the food that makes the difference: there is variation by individual as to how certain foods affect the body. There is evidence that it can vary somewhat not just by age and gender, but the results are noisy enough within tightly controlled test groups that it varies per individual. Where there isn't an obvious cause for this such as diabetes, differences in gut microbiome are suspected to be key.

Everything you said is still correct of course. This variation just adds wrinkle to it, but a small enough one that "calories in" against "calories out" is accurate enough for the vast majority of the population (i.e. those without significant medical issues).

If you are aware of this there is nothing wrong with exercising more so you can eat more, just be careful not to bias your diet by making the extra all "bad food" or you risk being the right weight but unhealthy in a number of other ways. These days I run for three reasons (roughly in order):

* Cardiovascular fitness. It is nice to feel healthier than old me ever did.

* Stress. A 30 minutes jogging with good music or a podcast and/or around some nice scenery is a great way to break away from hassle long enough to relax so you can deal with it better when you get back (burning 250 calories while you are doing it is almost a "freebie"). Don't speed run while stressed though, you'll not concentrate and damage yourself via putting your feet in the wrong places, bad posture, or literally running into things.

* Helping to get rid of the extra I've put on if I had a bit of a food bender last week (over the festive week for example) a little faster then I otherwise would.
Ha! I was looking exactly for something like this (Zoom/rotate)

Sweet, I lucked out.
The biggest thing that will improve the odds of getting hired is applying for jobs...though that's probably not much of a vacation.

My advice, beyond that, would be to do something that you enjoy and not worry about how it might effect an imaginary career.

Ask yourself, how much Rails or React or Clojure are you going to learn it two weeks?

The answer is: a lot but not enough.

Good luck.
i've always been a fan of moz, starting with its founder rand fishkin. the value and advice they've provided from the very beginning, it's something i learned a lot from and im sure other founders as well.
Great question. In almost all cases, you have an actionable lead after doing a screen experiment. The problem is typically that you have learned too many, not too few things. And those things need to be backed with more experimental evidence.

But more generally, the iteration latency is about a week to order & receive reagents for another targeted screen. Or if you want to do a single gene CRISPR experiment, you can get the single oligo reagents the next day.

Then the cloning, virus production, cell infection, etc. will be about another week if you are rushing. We in genomics are still a far cry from the iteration latency in software dev, but given that many of our scientific forefathers/mothers in the previous generation counted on making a whole genetically engineered mouse (which could take a year+) for an experiment, we're making solid progress.

More questions about the real world lab experience are always welcome!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_tower

Really the only thing that made defensive walls useful for sieges in that era was the fact no one had any decent portable fireproof siege towers, so most towers ended up burnt down, unless the city under siege literally ran out of things to light on fire and toss into the (wooden) tower.

Also see "moat".

Defensive troops on the walls were pretty good at tipping towers over with ropes or whatever, too.

You'll note like a good engineer he promises all the easy stuff like logs being pretty good at stopping arrows, and doesn't mention the unfixable parts like "it'll burn" or "it'll tip over".
There's actually a site which features testimonials of people in tech (including quite a few well known ones) who've been rejected: http://rejected.us/
Would love to see an example speech or two!
Does this article actually have a specific message? I read the whole thing and it sounds something like "businesses will exploit you." (True, but duh.) Or maybe "startups are trying to be acquired." (Sometimes true, sometimes false.)

I'm not even sure she has a specific meaning for the word "startup," or that her usage means the same thing that most other people mean by that term.

Most people want most things as a means to an end, so it's hard for me to see how using product sales/adoption as a driver toward being an attractive acquisition is unusual, surprising or crazy; but either way, not every startup wants to be acquired, and not every startup is trying to drive toward that end. One of the many "facts" in the article that are not facts.
Great job on building what was a great product. I've been a faithful Workstation and then Fusion user for the last 10 years, and it's always been much more reliable than its clone VirtualBox.

I was already a bit troubled by the shameless yearly waves of "upgrade begging", and by VmWare clearly keeping features back to try and segment the market (especially with Fusion, because "everyone knows Apple users are rich idiots"). This final nail will likely push our company to VirtualBox for good, it's become the standard in OSS circles anyway. You did well to leave, VmWare as a company has lost direction.
tl;dr: Bonnie ordered an Uber SUV and is bad at math.
I thought Apple software was supposed to be "secure by design" and immune to buffer overruns, etc.
I think there is a cultural disconnect to some of the complaints about Wolfram's post.

Wolfram and Minsky both have backgrounds in academia. In academia "self-promotion" is actually not generally frowned upon.

People really do expect you to bring up your own work whenever possible and connect it whatever issue is at hand. This is not considered rude or offensive or "bragging", anymore than if someone told you they're from New York City and you mentioned that you'd lived in Brooklyn for seven years.

It's a way for people to find common ground and show how much they share intellectually.

Thus, I'm pretty sure Minsky wouldn't be offended.

And yes, for the record I have found Wolfram to be somewhat self-aggrandizing in the past, but I just don't think this is an example of that, he's simply reminiscing over his history with Minsky and describing some connections between their work.
Just to clarify, VMware has delivery mechanisms for SaaS EHR and Clinical but does not own them. They do partner with EPIC, McKesson, etc etc to make sure app and/or desktop visualization works well with them in clinical environments.
I had been using Freshbooks when I tried to do a lot of my stuff on my own. But I switched to Xero plus some supporting software - Receipt Bank and Hubdoc - after having an accounting firm help me in that area.

Between my first and current business, I had started another company and my co-founder found QuickBooks Online to be the lesser evil as well. She was still not a happy camper about using it though.

As far as I’m aware Xero has the least amount of issues that I’ve seen from all the packages: there’s too many little inefficiencies and annoying things with QBO and I found there’s a ceiling with FreshBooks in terms of the software being able to grow with your needs as your business grows. Xero strikes a good balance here IMHO, but still has its pains (especially if you invoice through Stripe in multiple currencies).
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This is broadly correct. The part that preserves the rights of prospective plaintiffs to sue individually is contained in the opt-out provisions that are always a part of a class action, and involve notice and deadline requirements.
So the statement should be 'it is easier to not eat a bad diet than to out run one for most people, including those who over eat for more complicated reason than hunger'. But you lose the sound bite quality. It is like pointing out the grammatical mistake in a punchline.
From the paper:

Good examples
– cut republican billion will pay percent benefit cost
– program fund educ cut provid health help million
– economi job see need percent continu import now
– job make work compani busi right american good
– iraq war us presid support vote administr congress

These don't really look that great to me (and the 'bad examples' are worse) but I'm not an NLP expert
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https://www.google.com/maps/search/electric+boat+groton+ct/@...

While we're mapping, there's also where they're built: Electric Boat in Groton, CT.
And then we wonder why even the simplest statements in advertising need a paragraph of fine print asterisked onto them....
It is still consistent with the luck & connections theory if you allow that you gain a lot of experience and connections from the first successful round.
Still broke on my iPhone. Not sure a server change should break my iPhone internets, very poor.
No, Bitcoin creates more than just heat: it created thousands of jobs (see section "Bitcoin already benefits the economy" in http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=82).
The story is simplified. The 10x engineer is usually someone who has the technical skills and knows have to deploy them effectively. The 10x finishes the Wordpress site and then moves on to the next task, and the next, and the next completing them efficiently, even though some require technical skills and some do not.
They don't "insert" themselves, they were there before you came along. Your market order trades with them because their price is the best one currently displayed. As for an HFT firm "seeing" your order and front-running--you're just making stuff up.
You are my savior! I must've press cmd+R at some point on accident. Thanks!
> will do just fine with Wordpress with a couple of tweaks.

I see there's already some WP criticisms, right or wrong, in replies to this. I just want to point out that Drupal would take care of this use-case just as quickly and you get a wonderful ecosystem of battle-tested modules and, ignoring a couple security fuckups, really nice secure code compared to WP, or most popular FOSS projects for that matter.

This problem shouldn't be WP or custom code. I find there's almost always some FOSS project that stops me from writing new projects. This wheel has been reinvented so often, that there's often a pro-level project perfect for a lot of business use cases.

Not to attacked new CMS projects, but if you're going to create a new project your first question should be "What can I do here that Drupal isn't doing already? Or that Drupal can't do with just a custom module?"
What's hungry ?

After being on intermittent fasting 16/8 for half a year the notion of being "hungry" amuses me. Now being hungry means not eating for 24h or more. Sadly some think that if their stomach is a bit empthy, they have to eat. Or they need to eat because the device on the wall/hand/in the pocket displays a certain number which indicates food time, then wonder why they're fat.
> head back to their garages after each fare

What an odd rule in general
A very interesting rebuttal to "Flash Boys, Not So Fast" is the many factual errors as pointed out in the top 1-star Amazon review of that book: http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...
This article seems to be based on a mistaken premise. There is nothing wrong with the calorie as a unit of measurement. The problem is an inability to accurately measure it.

There is simply not a good way to measure human calorie expenditure. Fitbits and their ilk are, to put it bluntly, useless. They measure the number of movements, not the work expended for each movement. They cannot distinguish between a step taken on flat ground or an incline (or decline) or even the difference between an arm movement and a body movement.

It wouldn't be impossible to measure total calorie expenditure, but it would be pretty impractical. You'd basically need to isolate the person from the external environment and measure the total heat produced by that person's body.

But, like other commenters have pointed out, you don't even need to measure calorie expenditure to lose weight. You just need a running average of calorie intake and of weight loss. If weight loss is too low or too high, adjust your calorie intake and wait for more data. Repeat as needed.
Works fine for me too and I'm using DuckDuckGo on both iOS and Mac.
I recently installed vimium on chrome, and being able to quick navigate to a specific tab via keyboard (by typing the title or selecting it from a list) has completely eradicated my issue with finding tabs on chrome. There's something like vimium on Firefox, but I haven't really looked into it. I mainly use chrome because I use chrome. I just don't feel like putting the energy into setting up Firefox how I like it. currently, my chrome history is synced between a bunch of devices nicely. Between setting up that and having to find alternatives to all the addons I use, making the switch just doesn't sound fun.
Likewise, in my experience across many different sizes of company I've never seen LOC used as a productivity metric.

The one time I've seen LOC taken seriously was when I've been asked to produce a LOC report as part of a due-diligence audit of a codebase prior to acquisition - that's largely because the line of code count of the codebase is indicative of what code IP auditing/security auditing/localization might ultimately wind up costing the acquiring company so they're using it to figure out entries in the liability column, not even valuing the codebase based on LOC count.
Chrome forced the rest to become better.
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What bothers me about React is that there's too much magic going on under the hood, I like minimal libraries that I can easily reason about. jQuery isn't small but is really simple. Backbone too - you could just read the source to instantly answer any questions. Angular & React remind me of RoR - sacrificing simplicity in favour of "magic" for a few made-up use cases. Being forced to do things the framework's way (embedding HTML in your code, always having to diff the DOM, etc) to adhere to framework's principles sometimes becomes a hindrance

I've ended up doing the same - writing yet another super minimal framework: https://github.com/techlayer/espresso.js

It borrows lots of concepts from React, but is faster & more memory efficient in under 500 LOCs.
That's different though - Tesco needs those suppliers, and the suppliers can boycott Tesco for not paying up, which would cause them to go down very quickly.
My understanding is that we have conducted experiments to measure the curvature of the universe, and come up with answers that are withing the experimental error of being flat. Without any theoretical reason why the universe should be flat, it is still possible that the universe is curved, but to slightly for us to detect, however, but the simplest interpretation is to say that the universe is flat.

Of course, if we a assume a multiverse with universes having regularly distributed, positive curvatures, then, the size of the universe would grow asymptotically as the curvature approached flat, so, statistically, life is more more likely to arise on the flatter universes.
Indeed that does seem to be how they do it. Here in the UK, when you order a keyboard or a MacBook from the Apple Online Store, it gives you a bunch of language options, which doesn't affect the delivery time. I think you can only get ones with the same physical shape (no Japanese), but there's a choice of lettering.
> In what way? The only difference I can see is the download status bar, but that's available on firefox as an extension.

Yes, I've tried to replicate Chrome's UI with Firefox extension. But it feels like I'm using extensions. Furthermore, I really don't enjoy configuring browsers because between work, school, and hobbies I use a lot of different machine. For this reason, if I'm using firefox, it's usually with the default UI... which is not my personal preference.

>> has the best extension ecosystem.

> Can you elaborate this?

Take a cursory glance at each of the two stores:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

vs

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions

Aesthetically speaking, the firefox add ons page is the Tux Racer to chrome's Mario Kart.

One has the passion and enthusiasm of well respected open source volunteers behind it, and the other has a sleek high quality shine only our dear corporate overlords could deliver.
This is minor, but it sets the mood the for the whole experience of add ons.
(Of which, I only need uBlock Origin"). In general, it's easier to find what I'm looking for, see what's trending, and generally browse for extensions in the chrome store.
EDIT: The chrome store is also much faster and more responsive.

Aside from that, Chrome seems to have more active developers because of it's better brand name. On /r/cscareerqustions, for example, you'll hear people ask about ideas for resume-boosting side projects. One of the first answers is usually "make a chrome extension". I have yet to see anyone say "make a firefox extension" or "make a cross platform browser extension".

Either way, it's all personal preference. I'm sure you prefer a different model car, style of clothing, and a favorite color than me too. It's all ok. There's no right answer here.