skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And which one is the cause here? I don't see why anyone wouldn't WANT to marry up.

I'm pretty sure that there are much fewer women in the high status category than men, so these men make the only rational decision (if they don't want to stay alone) - they marry down.
On Windows, sure. On other platforms UTF-8 is generally preferable (in my opinion).
FYI, the ranking has changed. The results depend on how the lines of the form "1, 10, BLANK, BLANK, 2.04E+07" are interpreted.

Physicians are still up there, but some other occupations have also entered, such as "Farmers, Ranchers"
Any good books/videos on someone explaining the first few days of  business?
It doesn't necessarily have to be each and every single day, but basically looking for a book to see how they went from idea to execution particularly in the very early days.

Something like:

Day 1 - Registered domain/hosting/etc
Day 2 - Released beta of site
Day 3 - Contact X for marketing
etc
Yeah, the model-truck driver connection is a real head-scratcher. It doesn't seem like they would often be in the same social circles.
If, after 8 years of med school, your surgeon had to sit through a 2 hour video made 15 years ago about "The importance of surgery" and "where to keep the scalpels", he's probably be a bit frustrated.
I think the mirror is the problem here. A better idea is to videotape yourself and watch it afterwards.

Of course all situations are different and you are dealing with something else, but it's worth a shot.
Startups Selling to Other Startups: A House of Cards?
Sounds to me like the real problem was in the test. If someone can get by without actually absorbing the material then they should be given the pass, if they can't then it's a different story. Of course as soon as the program starts answering test questions or something like that it is a different matter but to spend less time than required and still pass means that either the test is inadequate or the course is needlessly fluffy.
Automatically turn parsers into railroad diagrams
I'm interested to know how they can be so sure that the change in distance between the two arms of LIGO is attributed to gravitational waves? I would of thought that miniscule movements in the Earth's crust would be a more likely culprit.
They give you an entire year of warning to find somewhere else, give out the tools for others to offer a compatible service and they "close up suddenly"?
Chrome Will Drop SPDY Support on May 15
So, you took the red pill?
Could you elaborate on why you view this list of dependencies as a problem?

I've been using request and its many transitive dependencies for years without hitting any real problems due to this.
This is an interesting article, but the "Portability" comments could be a lot more useful: strndup and open_memstream are both "POSIX 2008", but strndup can be used on OS X while open_memstream cannot.
According to the article, Sacks discovered the issue in January, and then forced the company to report it to the California regulator - if you believe that sequence of events, he can't really be held accountable for the action of Conrad.

Let's say you are an engineer, take a new role at a company to work on their database, and then discover that one or your managers has stolen money, do you think you should be held accountable, assuming that you report the issue immediately when you discover it?
Snowdrop – The Game Engine Behind the Division
> I have met more black men who said they would never date a black women and Asian women who said they'd never date Asian men compared to white people who say they'd never date a white person

Anecdote: a second-gen-immigrant Italian friend of mine said her mother declared that my friend was not allowed to marry an Italian man, the reasoning being "I didn't raise my daughters to be mothers to their husbands". My friend said that from what her mother saw, Italian-culture men behaved like other men when married to a non-Italian woman, but when married to an Italian, there was a cultural expectation similar to mothering involved.

data size n=1, anecdata, all that stuff.
ghilint bot for eslint anyone?
Facebook has had essentially no involvement in Phabricator for several years.
There is a requirement that someone spend 52 hours in a pre-licensing course. There is a separate requirement that someone pass a broker exam.

If it is possible for someone to do the latter without the former, what purpose does forcing them to do the former serve? Some people will need 100 hours of preparation for the exam and some will need 10. Forcing the latter group to spend an additional 42 hours in prep simply wastes their time.
Come on now. I'm sure the commenter knew you could search the subscriber list when new comments come in. I think the real interest was in how Grossman may have optimized it for CPU or memory efficiency. I was curious myself given it's easier to keep sites like this up if they take almost no resources to run. Some low-power, disposable box or extra CPU cycles on an existing server.

"It's the kind of small scope and easily defined project that's great for learning a new language."

I totally agree with that. Matter of fact, I was planning on implementing that exact project to learn Rust or Go. :) Might still do it as it remains a good learning experience, esp for stuff you use 80% of the time.
In the UK the APR is supposed to be a figure which includes all costs, it's why payday loans have such high values as any fixed costs are considered part of this. As far as I understand it anyway.
I think what you're trying to describe is something like 'confinement'. I'm not confident that a massive graviton will necessarily lead to confinement, neither gravitons nor confinement are that well understood.
Another blast from the past, but no, that wasn't it either :(

grrr. Now I really have to figure this out.
Perhaps Bitcoin
Same reason no one can stop cryptocurrencies.

So far I don't see any reason why Bitcoin's exponential adoption rate would suddenly grind to a halt.
Hey, I'm sorry to hear that. I know it's really frustrating when you rely on a service that closes down. I'm curious - can you not afford to change it because it's too much work, or can you not afford to change it because the alternatives are too expensive? Maybe there is a way forward that is not as bothersome as you expect.
The value of training videos is on the back end. Whenever shit goes wrong, peoples' first reaction is to plead ignorance. "Oh I didn't know that, I wasn't told that." These sorts of things eliminate that excuse in a way that leaves a paper trail, making it easier to hold someone accountable if they do fuck up. It's not about making sure they know all of these things that are mostly obvious, it's about ensuring you can fire them, sue them, or defend yourself in a lawsuit if someone sues you, by eliminating their plausible deniability.
Thanks for writing it. I seriously was getting tired of looking for replies. I was about to write one myself within the week. Might still do it to experiment with a new language. Thanks still.
Fine grained classification and management of issues is why Mozilla is so reliant on Bugzilla.

Bugzilla is a beast, for sure, and it takes some time to learn how to use it correctly, but few other systems come close in functionalities, and github is certainly not one of them.
Rumi (YC W16) is Hiring – Lead engineer at a YC company in the current batch
I got mine at about 100W from a Tronser trimmer.
One way to witness that the notion of 'self' is bankrupt is to sit quietly, and gradually begin excluding all experiential input. Begin with numbing the bodily senses, then proceed to blind the mind's eye, and then stifle the voice of your thoughts. These won't actually go away, of course, but you will realize without them that your experience is nothing more than the sum of these parts. There is no 'disembodied' consciousness. You are a stream of sensations.

Things of this sort were once quite interesting. But once the 'illusoriness' of the self is understood intellectually, one comes to realize that it has essentially no implications for our lives, our relationships, our societies, or our species.

We find ourselves in this world with desires: survival, reproduction, physical pleasure, social acceptance -- whatever they may be. All of our interests stem from the need to serve these desires. Interests align and conflict with those of other human organisms. However harmonious or contentious the social context, and whatever values you seem to hold, this fact always remains at the core of our behavior.

In a sense, the Western conceptualization of the self, false though it is, is nearer to the truth: our experiences are atomic, separate, isolated -- in the most literal meaning of the word, we are alone. You may feel human warmth, compassion, and love, yet these remain individual experiences. To define oneself in relation to others is no wiser than to envision oneself as standing in relation to nothing at all.

I think this need not be a sad or a happy fact. The abstraction we call 'the self' is simply not a useful one.
Ahh, just realised that there are two instruments located on either side of the states, so if both instruments register the same event then it is unlikely to be tectonic movement...
Could you recommend more music? That track made my day.
It looks like counts of people with particular job.
A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook
I blame Apple. Their failure to bring a proper package manager to OS X is the reason this type of software exists and needs to be added ad hoc in each application, often insecurely. Hell, even Windows has a package manager now. It's just ridiculous how little Apple cares about OS X these days. And no, the App Store is not a package manager though the rare app is available there. Then again, the more I think about this, the more I realize it's pointless to even hope for such things in OS X given Apple's hostility toward developers.
Exactly. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant no matter how quickly/slowly your frame of reference is (Special Relativity). You can think of it as the space "stretching/shrinking" because of the gravitational wave, as that is how it looks from the point of view outside the experiment.

Another way to look at it is to change your reference to be internal to the experiment. You can imagine the experiment moving through space-time at a constant rate of speed. When the gravitational wave hits the experiment its movement through space-time changes an infinitesimal amount (faster than slower as the wave passes, or vice-versa). Since the speed of the light passing through space-time has not changed (due to special relativity), the difference between its start and end points can be used to measure the amount of change caused by the gravitational wave, essentially in the same way you can use a laser to measure the speed of a moving object relative to a stationary object. Only you are basically "bouncing" the laser off of the experiment itself to determine the change.
I don't think we will ever overcome thousands of years of ingrained social sharing Norms, nor do I think we should.
And if distribution is the problem then there are good existing solutions to the problem of bandwidth cost, e.g. torrents.

There might be a way to monetize sharing digital content using some micropayment system like you say. Though I think that will have to come about after the current players have left or been marginalized as they don't care so much about helping the artists make a living, instead wanting to maintain control so they can get the money.
The "pick" though was 1 out of 1, and I mentioned in another comment how one could sort of replicate it by moving into a state that has 0% sales tax to boot (finding a cheap property that would not generate a large property tax bill would be step 2). It also seems that Nevada extended a similar deal to Faraday, and actually went out of their way to attract them http://www.autoblog.com/2016/01/28/nevada-lawmakers-spent-25... at which point I get what you're saying - why doesn't Nevada just pass a universal incentive for certain industries instead of operating on a company-by-company basis?

I agree on the churn, though, in dense populated environments big retailers are known to close up shop in one town to reopen it across the street in different town with different plaza, just because the second town offered a better tax deal.

> in the US, making all of these deals illegal would be a good first step

It might improve the overall business climate in China though. Once the supplier chain is set up and functioning, it's hard to move it elsewhere

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...
Annoyingly, there is no simple user accessible UTF-8 decoder in libc. The only standard way to use iswalpha is to convert to wchar_t first.

One hack is to assume that bytes of UTF-8 encoded strings above 127 are all letters. It mostly works :-)
With technology, the cultural gap between generations widens, but the time gap between generation ages actually shrinks.
Every generation has their own technology and apps and I think it is fine.
You, being 22, might not even use Facebook at all, whereas I, being 38, still use it, so I feel "aged-out" versus you. :)
The problem with some of these new apps is the loss of "real" human connections. Like this girl said she almost does not even pay attention to her snaps because she gets so many. She just responds. What is the point of that?
It seems it is more important for her to get high scores to show she is popular than the actual interaction.
This might create some social and psychological problems for her later in life. At least this is my humble opinion.
Full disclaimer: I am working on a social app too, but opposite of these current alternatives, we are focusing on the "real" part, the non-idealized part of human interaction.
About 7ms apart, which ties in well with the distance between the two detectors.
Well, just as methodologies such as Agile or programming standards are not controlled, per se, by a central body, but adhered to more or less by individual organizations, what if there was an agreed upon standard for collective bargaining for coders?

Like say in a company, you work with your direct coworkers (as opposed to members of a national or even regional union) to adhere to that protocol of bargaining when disputes with management happen?
I know, it's sad.

I made a point of swishing the rotor side-to-side a couple of degrees after I figured out where the dead sparrows came from. That caused them to fly off and once the transmitter was on they'd stay away from the antenna.
Reflection is a sign that your system is inadequate. In some (maybe even all) languages it may be necessary, but for a language designer it is a failure.
We'll get there next year, but to take the price leap, we have some new tech to get ready for market.

CA has Title 24, which mandates net zero for new homes, so that is the long term focus.

Check out the home we just completed for $145K, looks great, great performance and very comfortable. It's just hard to do at scale with out a bit of a war chest.

As you know, blowing foam, sealing leaks, upgrading HVAC, and good windows will run most folks close to $60-$100k to upgrade. That will still leave it fairly leaky, have an un-insulated foundation and be an older structure. Wish there was an easier solution to upgrading existing homes, but that is a tough business.
App Annie is expecting revenue of the global app market to pass $100B by 2020
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11072467
Oh, man, the comments section on that article is a dog's breakfast.
> it's great to see non-psychoactive drugs used to combat mental issues

Huh??? Drugs that combat mental issues are, by definition, psychoactive. If beta blockers weren't psychoactive drugs, they would have no effect on anxiety.
Apache Geode (incubating) first ASF release is out: grab it while supplies last
Perhaps there's a social barrier to VR being more than a niche device?

> There are technically no reason that quality would be too inferior with smartphone based devices as long as smartphones have some additional bells and whistles.

According to the Oculus folks, 90Hz is the minimal refresh rate for avoiding nausea in too much of the population. Their latency target with regards to refresh after head tracking input was 5ms, last time I read about it. There's a reason why their 1st commercially released device is going to cost $600 and require a hefty gaming PC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11073007
:) That was funny, you made my day.
3 Types of freelancers: which one are you?
The LIGO mirrors and beam splitter are attached to Earth very loosely. They hang from towers of pendulums; when Earth moves, LIGO catches up eventually, but over the time it takes a gravity wave to oscillate the components might as well be in orbit.

That is one of the more routine feats of engineering involved.
> 1600 karma gives you some relationship potential and places you above trash.

I think you might be valuing people rather strangely, don't you think?
I've been to Singapore a couple of times, so I can answer about transportation.

You won't have a car in Singapore, unless you are filthy rich, car registrations cost in the tens of thousands of dollars range.

The public transport is world class, the metro is great. I guess that's one of the big benefits of having such a high population density.
Highly misleading title. App Annie is expecting revenue of the global app market to pass $100B by 2020, not revenue of App Annie.
Ok. What if spacetime folds back onto itself over a very long distance? Wouldn't that be (viewed locally, with our limited instruments) as if another version of spacetime touches upon our version of spacetime?
My original wording was too concise, sorry.
I started my career working on software where serious bugs could get people killed. You do need experienced mentors, but they certainly could be under thirty.

You don't have to be old to build things safely. You just have to care.
When would I use this vs kudu?
If you need ideas on what you can do with Geode, here's a few of our past hackathons http://ambitious-apps.devpost.com/
No one thinks unions are a panacea. But a market without a single union is diseased.
Every relationship is engineered, one way or another.
7 Things Zano Did Wrong: How to Avoid Failure After Successfully Crowdfunding
But unlike the first dvd player, people have been doing ZE homes for a long time.
As effect size goes down, statistically significant data gets harder and harder to collect and control effectively. We have tiny amounts of research funding, and even if we took in seven billion people as a dataset, there is some non-negligible dose below which this ceases to be statistically significant.
You're questioning the reality, when all of this is about perception.

The board needed to hold someone responsible for this mess in order to satisfy the regulators that they're taking the problem seriously, and things are different now.

Effectively, the message they want to send is that the adults are in charge now.

There was no way Conrad could stay. Even if they could somehow hide any evidence that he knew about the violations (and they probably couldn't), it's very clear from his public statements that he had built the fast and loose culture the had allowed and sustained the problems. He had to go and the message needed to be that the company has no place for him anymore. He's not stepping into a reduced role, he doesn't have a board seat, it's over, he's dead to us.

Sacks has a different record. He wasn't there from the beginning, he hasn't been the public face of the "ready, fire, aim" culture, there's plausible deniability. And he has credentials to justify his position - Yammer, Microsoft, PayPal - he can be painted as a safe pair of hands.

And, since he's been the COO for a year, he can step straight in an take over without needing a handover period from Conrad.

The board need Sacks to stay on and be the new face of Zenefits. And they've decided that the regulator investigations are not going to find damning evidence against him. Maybe because he had no idea. Maybe because he was smart enough not to leave any evidence. Maybe because there's a paper trail of him reporting the issues up the chain in way that makes him look like the good guy.

You're asking the question "How can a COO not know about all this stuff, and not have had some responsibility over it?" and that's a good and fair question - the regulators will ask it too. I take it the board will be able to provide a plausible answer to that question when the regulators come knocking.

But that's not really the #1 question that the board's worried about. They want to know "who has the best chance of saving this company?" And what Sacks provides is:

- Plausible deniability

- Credibility in the market

- Credibility with the regulators

- Knows the business

- Can do the job

- Ready to start now

There's no one else with those credentials, so Sacks needs to take the job.

Once that's decided it's a matter of execution - almost literally. If Sacks is going to save Zenefits then he needs to look innocent, and blame Conrad for everything. That might actually be true, but that's actually not the key question for the board. They just need something that they can sell to the market and regulators.
I really don't understand your argument. Git is for decentralized development but there has always been a need for a central server to host the repo and github made a business out of providing that along with additional services (pages, wiki, issues). The dear-github complaints are overwhelmingly about the secondary services github provides for project management.

>Why did people set up systems that depended on the ability to download from GitHub, for instance?

Because if they didn't rely on github they'd have to rely on some other server subject to similar downtime?
First we need to find out how to create repulsion. Right now I'm pretty sure a graviton generator would just be a novelty device that weighs more than what it's mass would lead you to think it weighs.

Maybe we could make orbital graviton beam generator that could literally suck an object off the face of the Earth.
This is the essence of why Zenefits is in trouble. One of the mantras Parker would frequently state around the office was something very close to "growth is responsible for all of our problems and also the solution to all our problems".

His view, if I'm recalling correctly, was that hypergrowth makes customer problems more visible due to scale while making the company inherently more valuable. There was absolutely no downside to growing as fast as your imagination could manage - despite an accumulation of red flags, technical debt, and unhappy employees.

As you mentioned in your comment, values absolutely matter. I think Sacks gets this, but a company this deep in with so many employees is a big, unwieldy ship that's hard to turn.
LIGO's vibration isolation system
because I remembered reading it, there's a wee bit more to the story than Ben shares. It took a while to find it since Bloomberg reorganized their site [1] but here you go [2].

tl;dr: what Sharlene really went to jail for was more than shifting grant dates around (some by more than 60 days, which is more than a month last time I checked.) She appears to have changed grant and exercise dates both to increase income and to shift exercise income to long term capital gains, and then mislead auditors about these practices. Specifically, she want to jail for listing a false exercise date on her income tax return.

The point is, according to the reporter, what she went to jail for was more clear-cut than Ben is claiming.

[1] http://go.bloomberg.com/market-now/2014/02/12/dont-worry-ben...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140309175428/http://go.bloombe...
The Dream of the 90s
Geode is orthogonal to Kudu, here's the IoT'ish like architecture diagram that can help understand where Geode fits a little bit better http://pivotal-open-source-hub.github.io/StockInference-Spar...