skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they include PhDs, DDS, Architecture, Mech Engineering. Their rejected list is guys that don't have much all the way to degrees in mining engineering. Software engineering tends to be what they "settle" for or are ok with. One, because software engineers make decent enough money and if they discounted them, they'd be throwing away a huge and competent group of men.
Thanks Karan. Appreciate you reaching out on LinkedIn.
My bad, you're right — my astonishment has risen by orders of magnitude.
What’s new in JUnit 5?
Quite simple. People in IT (and hobbyst programmers) tend to not learn the
tooling, its features and properties, and reasons behind the tooling itself.
It's all rage about writing things, never mind that somebody had it already
implemented and way, way better.

Look for instance at how programmers deploy their applications (which are
mostly web applications). Are those applications tied to operating system
version somehow? Mostly. Are those programmers using this operating system's
tools for software installation? Hardly. And why? Because it's not sexy
enough, npm or gem are way sexier (despite apt-get or yum being much more
mature and robust).

It really takes a long time to feel how and why the OS works and to work
with the system instead of against it. Don't expect programmers with vast
three years experience to understand their surroundings.
Certainly there is an urban prejudice, but that just happens automatically when you average a country's worth of people. I think there is an east coast bias and an upper income bias, as well.

I still think they are ok views of a mass of people, if you squint and keep them general enough :)
That is a good point - perhaps it would all come out as neutrinos or gravitons... then we'd be fine. I doubt such an event would result in no electromagnetic radiation at all however... Why would it? The creation of a new black hole typically releases enormous amounts of all kinds of energy, electromagnetic as well as in the form of neutrinos.
It would be great if Netflix bought pandora, I can see Netflix doing really great things with the underlying tech and expanding on the general idea and service of pandora. Also the pandora recommendation engine could be leveraged to provide improved Netflix recommendations.
Training Deep Neural Networks with binary weights during propagations
Are you saying there is some kind of confirmation bias at play, or does this increase confidence in the result?
To be blunt, I think phrasing things as questions is not helpful, because the government entities that want to violate all of our rights will just answer "yes" or whatever suits their current spasm of sociopathy and control. We need to start phrasing these things in a manner that says "NO" and doesn't leave it open for interpretation. No, a person should not be on the hook for indecent exposure because individuals should be able to decide when they have an expectation of privacy. No asshole in the government should be able to say "everybody doing thing X (or using thing Y) does not have an expectation of privacy" because that's what they say about everything. Nothing makes me rage harder than these criminals in the government saying things like that about me. Like this stuff about Tor users not having an expectation of privacy. If those people don't have an expectation of privacy, nobody does. So let's stop phrasing these kinds of things as questions and be more forceful about how we really feel.
That's why the rule is typically narrowly tailored for actual good-faith attempts at following the law. It's not for situations where the police just ignorantly violate the 4th amendment.
Can't wait until this discovery can be utilized to creating some kind of a new technology! Such as time travel!
Your post shows up in https://news.ycombinator.com/ask that's why some commenters understand the headline as question and try to point to other existing tools.

Try a https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html style post.
Thanks - still not sure I get it. The "fabric" is stretched in x, squeezed in y, sure. Is it that the wavelength of the light is -not- stretched? Guess I need to go back and study physics again :/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster is fairly good evidence that dark matter isn't just unobserved regular matter. In these massive cluster wide collisions the dark matter seems to have "kept going" (you see very strong gravitational lensing where there appears to be nothing) while regular matter that we know is subject to forces besides gravity collided together, slowed down, and became very hot.
Right, this is a matter of the rule of law. Criminals may do quite a number of things that law enforcement cannot because criminals do not follow the law. Rulings like this could drive us even further into a surveillance society where the Feds become comfortable putting cameras on every street corner (and some may say they're already started doing this).
True.

Unfortunately, I can't remain humble when my date starts a brag-fest like high school kids.

Humility is sometimes taken as cowardice or shyness.
Does the CEO of HP own all of HP? No, of course not, and likewise it doesn't imply that the leader of a country would own everything. Now compare to Putin who by some accounts has ~$200B in his name.
The LIGO detectors were very carefully constructed to rule out this sort of noise; they are the result of a lot of human engineering ingenuity. It turns out that before making this investment in instrumentation specifically for the purpose of detecting gravitational waves, the scientists in question also came up with the objections that you spent presumably less than fifteen minutes thinking of. They then spent time and substantial engineering effort to avoid those objections.

My tone here is rather curt as it's clear your skepticism is unfounded and that you didn't look at even the layman explanations put out by the scientists who made these claims. For example, the video announcement talks about the construction of the equipment in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE&feature=youtu.be... and specifically t=3310 talks directly about how they worked to avoid detecting the motion of the earth.
Bingo. It boils down to the narrative law enforcement wants to make their case, and nothing else matters to them.
My impression after doing a bunch of research (trying to get relocated there!): Singaporeans get into banking/lawyering instead. For some peculiar reason software development seems to be seen as a sort of janitorial task there. This doesn't seem super sustainable...

Google just announced that they are locating their SEA engineering hub in Singapore though - perhaps that will cause more of the young smart Singaporean people to aim for software careers.
That's the problem. 99% of the free users are middle-schoolers watching PewDiePie on their cell phones during recess. There's 100 of those for every adult subscriber to Red.

If, and only if, Google divvied up the Red money by the creators Red subscribers actually view, then that scheme might appeal to me. As-is, it does not.
Come one, its not worse than anything that professional economists come up with. They can't even agree on things amongst themselves.
> Under the theory of science as the study of what is falsifiable, there's nothing here to falsify because there is no way to disprove that a conjectured but unobserved collision of two massive bodies was something else or didn't occur.

Yes, there is: if the predicted kind of observations did not occur, it would imply one of two things:

(1) the model of gravity waves and their generation and propagation on which the prediction was based was incorrect, or

(2) the expectation of large-object collisions on which the prediction was also based is incorrect.

Now, were that the case, distinguishing which of those assumptions was false would require coming up with a new set of experiments that would have different results if the first was correct and the second false than if those were flipped, and yet a different set of results if both were false.

> That there is not a geophysical theory, doesn't have a bearing on the correctness of the gravitational wave theory one way or the other

Science isn't about correctness, its about continuous refinement of models which better predict observations. The absence of a better alternative model doesn't "prove" that a given model is "correct", but science deals with neither proof (except in the negative sense) nor correctness. (Further, the model of gravity waves being tested here is an implication of broader models whose other implications have also withstood attempts to falsify them.)
That might be how you read it. It wasn't my intention to mislead, but to make people aware of the fact that there's a new time tracking integration (the first actually) which I know lots of people would value.
be forewarned that the reason it's asking you to use only #'s and spaces is the effect only works if the ascii image is very contrast-y. if the ascii art makes use of gradients (....:::;;;iiii@@@@) the effect won't be as obvious or work at all.
That's a very common sentiment, but a mistaken one. Theories do not get accepted only if they match the predictions of the previous theories. People value other features besides accuracy of predictions, like simplicity and explanatory power. Just recall how Kopernik's theory of solar system got accepted. It had worse predictions than Ptolemy's scheme at the time it was introduced; Ptolemy's scheme was way better in accuracy, but utterly complex and explained little.
Yes, from what I can tell, Bialystok is explicitly violating the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertonian_norms, particularly with "How much would I win by ..." and denial of Skepticism.
Zapier needs a face... Love the company and always thought that the human connection is what was missing.
>But violating rights in one case makes it more likely that rights will be violated in other cases.

So find another way to punish it. Why should that get some off of a criminal charge. Most of world has no such rule.

And the point of a good-faith exemption is because allowing good-faith fucks up to be used as evidence doesn't increase (much) the likelihood of violations.

>Better to let one guilty person go free than to injure and possibly lock up a hundred innocent people.

But throwing out ill gotten evidence after it was obtained doesn't decrease the chances of locking up innocent people.
Why is that something to be proud of? If that works for a good idea, it would work for a scummy, fly-by-night idea too. And in my hell, there's a special place for deliberately obscure their own field.
With binoculars
I'm absolutely certain those cars don't belong to the employees. Also do take in consideration the average would include salaries from execs and teams in SF and NYC.

Also, the amount you take home from 80k, while good for Berlin standards, is hardly enough to buy a 120k car (depending on your personal priorities, of course)
Pandora's algorithm is specific to music and it requires musicians to hand label each song.
Copying gives you stability. I work in a regulated environment so every change has to be scrutinized. Updating a library like jQuery is a big deal. If you use 10 libraries of decent size you will most likely rarely update them because it's too much work and risk.

By isolating out parts you actually need you have a better chance of making updates with reasonable effort.

Not saying this is for everybody but a lot of dependencies can be a killer.
Love the tool. We're using it daily to automate a significant amount of our business processes. I'm actually giving a presentation for our organization on Zapier (and Asana, which is our primary integration) next month and would love to touch base with your team so that we can get the details right! info@commoninterestsfinancial.com if you want to get in touch.
My rule: unless it was TERRIBLE, I always try for a 2nd date. Too much variability in a first date to draw meaningful conclusions.
Why I would never recommend Zenefits
0.5 seconds actually.
Huh. That sounds entirely sensible and correct, and at the same time it's bugging my physical intuition a bit. I guess they're not trying to do this measurement by absorbing energy, but much more directly by just watching the change in length. I think I believe you: thanks!
Thanks, that was a good read. I plan on checking out the source too just to learn.

Perhaps not relevant anymore but here's my take.

My company uses a similar-ish service for our after hours emergency number (AnswerConnect). We pay $149/mo for the service and like $20/mo to the phone company for our own toll free number plus any minutes.

The only reason we pay the phone company is because we have our own toll free number and forward it to the answering service. It costs a little more but if we want to switch we're good and it's our number.

A couple of things that jumped out at me about your service:

- Website looks good to me although the video felt a little "slow." I personally wouldn't have the video start automatically but who knows.

- The per minute pricing would be the deal breaker for me. I'd be happier to pay $100/mo or whatever and not have to worry too much about minutes. Perhaps 1,000 minute package or something.

- If I were doing the copy for it, I'd do something like "cloud-based" phone system, or something like that. For non-tech folks it might take a little bit to figure out what you're offering.

- I can't tell if an actual human answers the phone. Is that on the customer to answer and route, is it an IVR, or is it someone that works for you?

Anyway, good stuff!
Devising a Solid Test Automation Strategy
Some testing: Apparently the text flows fine in Chrome. The AMP team would like you to believe their open standard that should be good for everyone everywhere has a website that only renders correctly in their own browser.
Ask HN: What are words that you cannot spell without a spell checker?
This is an insecure solution that doesn't scale, and only works because nobody uses it.

I don't need to lock my door either, but that kind of security doesn't scale. I either use mailinator for throwaway email signups, or I have a spam gmail account.

But I'm not going to give out my main account+marker if I expect to want to be able to undo sharing my email in the future at some point that I try to follow an unsubscribe link and it doesn't work, or because my email might get sold: that's just downright silly. You think the kind of people that would sell email lists wouldn't run a regex to strip +spam markers from gmail accounts?

You literally have to apply a one-line regex to do that. It's security by obscurity. Anyone working at google should understand that.
Deference to authority is a funny thing eh? I find that in life, and especially in running my business, I pretty frequently lock horns with people who disagree with me on account of a seemingly differing opinion of some other Experienced Person(R). It's like, such and such person has lots of experience in the industry, therefore they know the answer to this specific question better than you do, regardless of anything. When I hear these appeals to authority I always think that if I were actually sitting across the table from this Very Smart Person--as opposed to the person citing them--and they were willing to listen, we would probably end up in agreement. Like you say, the person might be WAY smarter than me in general, but... LOOK AT THE FUCKING DATA.

There's a reason smart people are good at solving problems, and it's not because they always defer to what other people 'know' to be true!
Understood, but please post comments that make the thread better rather than worse. It sounds like you know a lot and are thus in a position to do so.
That reminds me of another thing I'd like to tell library writers: please think of your stack traces as somewhat public, because I always end up 40 layers deep trying to debug something and it's just painful.

Hopefully a facade will introduce a small constant number of stack frames...

Anyway, with something like Lodash for JavaScript, I'd even want to "facade" that into a project-specific utilities thing. Right now we're on an old major version of it and upgrading would require changing hundreds of locations. When very many files in a project mention the same external dependency, that seems like a recipe for future sadness.
I see ggplot2 is not so much as a replacement for base graphics but rather for lattice, and as such it is pretty amazing. Downsides of ggplot2 are the poor default theme and the fact that it's horribly slow. For bigger data sets it is often two orders of magnitude slower than base graphics, which can be prohibitive.
Remote Workers Make the World Your Office
I really don't have any good answers here; this just isn't something I know very much about....
Well I'll have to disagree with you in that my belief is really good pop has to be mediocre otherwise it will alienate its intended demographics for maximum monetary gain - the 14 year old girls & their mothers group. That's what drives pop music sales. They don't dig complexity, they latch on to simple things. While the theme song for 'Frozen' is most definitely a well crafted tune, it's absolutely engineered to not be challenging or revolutionary.

Regarding quality, subjectively speaking individual composition/talents/efforts tend to influence one's opinion of the work seen/heard/etc. This is why music does, in some avenues, resemble a competitive avenue in the collection of skills and techniques. For a not-insignificant number of people, Kanye's music is subjectively bad in quality, which is irrespective of popularity.
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Seperate and reccommendation (spelled wrong for context) are the ones I get wrong the most.
One thing I wonder about is for $35k, say a lot of people buy one instead of a gas car. Is the charging network support going to increase by leaps and bounds too? If it doesn't, everyone will be using home chargers and will electric companies increase the kw/h rates?

I owned a Fiat 500e. It took 17 hours to charge on 120v and about 6 hours to charge on 240v. I could find 3rd party places to change, like the grocery store, but these were always taken when I was running errands.
If one event happens 1B years ago 1B light years away and another event happens at .5B years ago .5B light years away... how would we know there are two events?
Cruz’s Definition of Torture Is So Extreme, His Father’s Torture Doesn't Qualify
Link to the clip: http://media.smh.com.au/entertainment/entertainment-news/eve...
I'm not assuming it. The court has to find that it was a good-faith. Otherwise the evidence is thrown out. It's not an assumption but a conclusion.

The cops can already lie to cover up a 4th amendment violation.
L1-EB1 is a good idea if I can do it through one of my startups. Working for a big corp outside US for a year, and then moving back and doing the Green card work would involve lot of uncertainties and a commitment of at least 2 years to this process.

EB-5 is a good idea. That is the plan after giving EB-1 a shot.

It's unfortunate to have to go through so many hoops just because of your country of birth. I owe a good part of my success to US and want to contribute back. However, the system is making it very very difficult.
"It takes a long time to understand" is synonymous with "can be improved."
Sure it's specific to music but the thought technology and ideology around it could be exported to other things. The hand labeling sucks though.
Loss of 44m dollars is nothing in internet industry. As long as that loss contributes to growth!
I can't speak for him but I'm a bit over 40 and single again, and looking. What I'm seeing in the DC metro area is a ton of single women in my age range who are single and never married, and all of a sudden now they want to get married and have kids. (Some of them want kids, some don't.) So not "pushing 30", but "pushing 40". Other data I've seen shows that there's a big surplus of single women in both the NYC and DC metro areas. OTOH, in Seattle and the Bay Area, there's a big surplus of single men. (There's a smaller surplus in Portland.)

My problem is that I don't live quite in the DC area, I'm about an hour away from downtown DC. And what I'm finding is that the desirable single women all live right in downtown DC, and do not want to date a man who lives an hour away. Now, if there were a healthy market of compatible men, this attitude would be quite understandable. But we're talking about a bunch of women who are bitching that they can't find any decent men to date, but then I come along and I'm told, "you look great, but you're too far away!! Sorry, but give me a ring when you move closer."

So IMO, these women are extremely picky and unrealistic. If I find someone I really like and might want to marry, I would move to be closer to her, just like married couples routinely move long-distance because one of them got a new job. I've even stated this up-front, as I do not plan to stay in my current location long-term (I'm a software engineer like probably half the audience here, our jobs don't last that long and we move around a lot). So as far as I can tell, many of these women have done this to themselves by being way too picky and having overly high expectations. They think they're going to find a guy who looks like George Clooney or whatever, has a $250j/year career, and lives across the street from them.
Nope. Gravity is vastly too weak, black holes are far too rare.

Consider that major galaxies (apparently all of them?) have a massive black hole at the center, yet those galaxies aren't collapsing in on themselves.
I enjoyed the first portion of the article until the 1/3 of the screen was taken over by a call to subscribe to their newsletter.

I can certainly relate to feeling the happiest at work when I writing more code and dealing with less deployment/maintenance work.

I also feel the happiest when my manager or his boss has expressed that the project I am working on is important for X reasons. It isn't just the request to make this my top priority but also the increased attention that tends to come with that declaration. It feels nice to know that someone actually cares about a feature I am writing and when they say "Top Priority" they mean it and do their best to deal with all the process related "stuff" , ensure that I get rapid feedback and responses from other groups as fast as possible. It really kills the "flow" to be stuck on a portion of the project that can't go forward until the SQL DBA decides to check there email.

I've expressed in the past that I often feel like a code monkey churning out units of work and I think most of that comes down to a lack of recognition for things I am working on or realizing that what I am working on just isn't that important. I can't tell if I just like the attention of working on "important" projects or if the important projects just happen to be the most fun.

I am a bright shining star and I just want someone to say thank you (mild sarcasm)

I'll be curious to hear opinions from more experienced Software Devs, I came from a production support team where we did quite a bit of "high profile" firefighting and moved into Dev 1-2 years ago. Dev is certainly more... mundane.
When one arm gets longer the laser takes a little longer to travel through it. That changes the interference pattern.

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Sorry, man. Based on what you wrote and how you wrote it I'm sensing that you might be the one with the massive ego.
I once knew a male high school teacher who was married to a Yale dropout, after 1 year. He told me she had gone to Yale to meet someone to marry well. Apparently common that time, 40 years ago.

Although it didn't quite work out well for her. He was a great msn husband but not a doctor or lawyer...
Ugh, no. I had to abandon Songza when Google bought them, don't make me abandon Pandora too.