skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's partly my point. It's obvious to just about everyone else, including those who submitted the application, so no one else is actually going to patent this. Because no one is going to submit a patent application, especially if you're building of a patent portfolio for defensive purposes it's all speculative and secretive during the phase when you're searching for things to patent.

So they actually haven't "won" anything. The "won" and "awarded" terminology, at least in the vernacular and the way these terms are exploited for talking about obtaining patents, implies some kind of objective assessment of worthiness. There's nothing worthy in obviousness.

The test of obviousness is set by the patent examiners, which is not a high bar to reach. The reasons patent examiners are not able to meaningful (dis)qualify patent applications on obviousness is frequently discussed (incentives that encourage issuing rather than rejecting; overwork at the patent office; unqualified, not versed in the art, of the area being examined). So in effect, the patent application is "awarded" a patent for "winning" the task of gaming the patent system. These terms attribute meaning to a meaningless process.
> But that doesn't mean that something isn't also broken at the hiring end of the pipeline.

It also doesn't mean that something is also broken at the hiring end of the pipeline.
Right, my interpretation of other comments about education, was that women were marrying down based on education level. But economically this isn't true. They still marry up.

I'd be surprised if degree level was a major factor by itself. E.g. If the woman has a masters but the man has only a bachelors, she would discount the man as a potential mate. He may still be socioeconomically on par or better.
>I don't think the baby-boomer generation realizes that there is no such thing as company loyalty in the big scheme of things anymore, especially in an at-will state.

I very much doubt this is true. It was the baby boomers who bore the brunt of the new paradigm in the '70s and '80s. By the time gen-X entered the workforce you had to be a bit delusional to think your employer saw you as anything other than an expense to be minimized.
Like it was mentioned people from low income brackets are more likely to spend money on in-app purchases especially those which are designed similarly to games of chance, lower income people are also likely to impulse buy.

Financial planning is like the chicken and the egg - poor people don't have good financial planning abilities because they aren't used to having capital and because they aren't good at financial planning they are more likely to remain poor even on a steady income.

There were some startups that aimed to fix just that by managing your monthly expenses and basically giving you a daily allowance almost if you hand over your salary to them.
We had a techtalk from the head of Buzzfeed's quizzes -- those annoying ones that overran Facebook about a year ago.

One of the things he said is that internally, Buzzfeed is actually three different groups.

One of them is a team of straight-up, legitimate investigative reports.

That's why every once in a while Buzzfeed break a big story and everyone sits around saying "Buzzfeed?"
Заработай в интернете  фонд финансовой стабильности f
Are those red pills making you feel your oats?
FAQ still reads:

Is Quantopian free?
Quantopian's community and backtester is free for everyone to use. There will be a charge for connecting your algorithm to your brokerage. Pricing isn't finalized, but we're considering a flat monthly fee.
Second that. Remember Scream Tracker?
Business owner with great conversions won't participate. Business owner with sucky conversions will.

See http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lemons-problem.asp
The US is not Europe.

US colleges already abuse their student population by increasing tuition costs faster than inflation. I do not believe the cost of providing an education has gone up---actually the Internet has made the cost of accessing knowledge free, and colleges pay adjunct professors next to nothing.

Colleges charge whatever they can get away with. And they can charge a lot because tuition loans are subsidized.
> It seems that maybe Lightning does it. I'll try it out.

I hate to say it but I've rarely seen text wrapping worked in Lightning, and even when it worked it's nowhere near as good as Opera does it.
I bailed mentally at an interview with a YC startup in SF because, as part of the technical portion, they had me write a scraper to pull information from searches on other sites. This was against each site's legal/usage terms (and so was defeating the basic obstacles the companies put in the way of being scraped in bulk). When I asked about their business model they revealed that they were making money by doing exactly this and had zero intention of changing that or partnering with the other sites to legally obtain the data.

Their recent series A made them so cavalier; they landed money to do this, so of course it was right. It would eat into profits if they negotiated contracts to do it aboveboard.
If anyone's interested in the tl;dr bullet points:

* At home have a sense of separation (psychological detachment) from work:
* avoid work emails at home
* incorporate a ritual like changing out of work clothes
* get fully immersed (no negative work thoughts) in a sport, exercise, volunteering, musical instrument, or other creative pursuit
* At work reduce nagging thoughts of "unfinished business"
* plan and organize your work day / develop a clear picture of what you can realistically get done during the day
* do not start a new task right before leaving
* take rest breaks, and seek out natural environments if possible,
* do not do errands on a break
Nothing is free and when it is, it is rarely the best.

You can buy a $1.00 hamburger at McDonalds that is not that filling nor nutritious. You can buy a $9.00 Big Wave Cheeseburger at Islands restaurant that is huge, yummy and filling. You can buy a Tri-Beef Burger for $125 at the Old Homestead Steakhouse in Boca Raton and meet lots of swanky people.

Some "diploma mills" are like the Old Homestead Steakhouse, overpriced and definitely not worth it.

Some Junior colleges are like a McDonalds restaurant, cheap and incomplete.

If the public wants a free education, I suspect the public will be receiving the McDonalds version rather than the Islands or Old Homestead Steakhouse. I hold up public schools as an example.
Kim Jong Un Is a Mac User
Argon2 code audits – Infer
I suppose the prediction didn't include a scale (it was determined from the observation+model) so there is a little bit of room for model fitting there. And sure, other stuff could have generated a frequency sweep. Maybe if this is replicated the newer methods will narrow down the possibilities.
If you value your own time -- or your employer does -- this is a no-brainer. Spend your valuable brain on high-return stuff and automated the rest. ($20/hr is ≈ $42k/year)
> Force carrying particles in general don't have mass.

Massless particles don't have energy. Massless and energyless particles have no speed. I have no interest in massless and energyless particles that stand still.
Why not just use node-fetch? It's tiny.
What is fiction ever based on? Imagination.
Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.

Keep competition, but play for the same team. The losers are losers because they didn't create the best solution, but the losers are winners because they get to enjoy the spoils, since they're on the same team. Isn't status everything, after a point? Why can't the United States actually be united?

Develop universal human code, highly vetted, secure, and performant code; employable by everyone to satisfy the tedious data management and automation of everyday needs that arise as a consequence of our biology and community structure, like health care, administration, maker technology, infrastructure, education, and the creation of art. The amount of mediocre code getting created, and relied upon, is atrocious, and often the highest quality, most valuable software is completely inaccessible except for by some very small subset of the global population! It's some kind of collective insanity.

> bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.

I would say the worst of the present are written deeply into the structure of our societies, iterative processes spanning a very, very long time. These non-friendly, non-cooperative entities are very self-protective. It is only recently that it has been able to reap such unimaginable power.

How much harder does it become to create a better form of government, the longer this goes on? Our existing governments clearly can't handle current problems in any kind of respectable schedule, much less the ones that will result from the increasing acceleration of technological change. Perhaps whatever comes after human is already here, and it's eating us.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5371/ToDoList-An-effecti...
According to this paper ( https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P150914/public ) they detected the signal first at Livingston, Louisiana and 6.9ms later in Hanford, Washington. The distance between them according to wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO ) is 3002km (Ok, the 3002 km distance is on the Earth). If the gravity wave travel at the speed of light they should detect 10ms later (300 000/3002 sec = 1/100 sec = 10ms ). From these data the gravity travels at 434 000km/sec instead of 300 000km/sec. Almost 50% faster then light... Is there any error in my calc?
But, a substantial portion of their revenues come from startups paying them for advertising. If the lake dries up, the river will get lower as well.
Interesting, didn't know that each arm has only 10 uses. Why is this limitation? Wear out of arm or mfr limitation in attempt to sell more. Makes sense why some insurance plans don't cover DaVinci and patients have to go for laparoscopic surgery.

How did you get hold of DaVinci arm?
Yeah, I don't agree with anything you just said. VLC was free software from day one. FFmpeg was free software from day one. Linux was almost free software from day one (the license was stupid). GNOME was free software from day one. All of GNU was free software from day one. I've covered just a couple of things you probably use all the time.

This doesn't mean you can't work on a prototype before releasing it. Most projects do that. But asking free software developers to sign an NDA isn't going to work. They'll just go off and make a competing free software product.
Wages are shitty and management is habitually abusive. Anybody talented will run away quickly from that place.
Random anecdote, take care of your heart. Impaired blood flow will decrease your skills (be it physical, neurological, intellectual) and your ability to grow again.
>>As far as I'm aware, we have ways of measuring weight, but no way of measuring mass.

Then we are speaking of different things. I understand 'weight' as how heavy something is within particular gravity field (ie on a bathroom scale on earth) whereas mass is independent of local gravity. The schemes I suggest measure mass without resort to weight.

>>I have no intuition for this. Maybe it's valid, but your other two examples raise grave doubts about this one.

The motion of the more massive pair will describe a smaller circle than the lighter one. The ratios of the two circles/motions allows you to calculate the unknown mass from the known.
Harvard has seen a surge in CS applicants
Wild guess on my part. The wave is traveling through the earth, while the distance you measured is around the circumference and therefore larger.

Too bad, you had me excited for a moment at the thought of faster than light travel.
I realize it's the law, but that is an interesting question. I'm a page-at-a-glance reader (not to brag) and sitting in front of something for 52 hours would make me feel like a character from "Harrison Bergeron".
content is a verbatim copy of this:

http://dainelindleymawer.me/5-free-tools-for-working-remotel...
Aerion supersonic business jet to ship in 2023
I suspect the people who are right every time keep quiet about it.
Mobile Android Firefox with uBlock Origin it's not bad, other than that the font's too small (10" tablet). With Firefox's Reader Mode (which I engage for virtually all text content, and very much wish were the default), it's fine.

Not dismissing your experience at all (I'm quite sensitive to annoying sites). Just noting that it's possible to improve on it markedly.
> LIGO's mirrors must be so well shielded from vibration that the random motion of the atoms within the mirrors and their housings can be detected.

It's just simply amazing to me that this is possible.
Photons are massless particles that have energy. All massless particles travel at the speed of light.
On the other hand, at least in the self-hosted version of GitLab I use at work:

* Can't quickly create a whole bunch of new labels -- have to wait for a very slow form submit, which takes you back to the label list, where you have to click "New Label" again.
* Can't quickly add labels to an issue -- have to jump off the issue discussion page and edit the issue.
* New issue page is very slow to load, and submitting an issue takes almost 4 or 5 seconds (might be our problem).
* Closing an issue does a full page reload (which is sloooow. again, might be our problem).
* GitLab-flavored Markdown and the default CSS have lot of little problems.

And that's just issues with… issues.

GitLab has improved quite a bit though since I joined the company a year ago. Every GitLab upgrade we've done thus far has made me a lot happier using it, so good on everyone working on GitLab for that. I'd still rather be using GitHub, though I think there are better options that GitHub too.
Even ignoring the curvature of the Earth, the signal source was not necessary located on the straight line between two LIGO locations, but rather at some angle to this line. For example if the signal origin was on the line that is exactly between the two LIGO detectors, the time delay would be zero.
Spend some time tracking who gets what from the government, directly through tax subsidies, and indirectly from fed zirp policies, its total kleptocracry.

Special laws, ie you're now mandated to purchase healthcare, special barriers to entry, copyright give aways etc etc, the rich get super rich through government corruption.
Only electrons get mass from the Higgs mechanism. Most of your mass comes from your protons and neutrons (or rather the energy "stored" in the bonds between the quarks that make them up).
All you need is a switch to turn it on and off.

Tell someone to hold it. Turn it off. Watch them struggle with the sudden weight. Turn it back on.
I just received a call that the truck has been recovered in central California. We're super relieved. Thank you all for your support!
Self advertising on crappy tech. Running everything on one box is like moving back to mainframe era.

Thread pinning described in article is BS, software will run as process not threads and I don't think you can use custom scheduler for processes in linux kernel. This whole thread manager is just few settings on task scheduler and kernel config options. This type of tinkering with kernel is extremely dangerous.

AWS + Docker and I could be build much more flexible and faster platform.
Data scientists map every important character in the Star Wars universe
Not to defend Zenefits conduct here, but I'd hardly compare them to Theranos. Not passing broker certifications doesn't mean the insurance policies were invalid. It's not giving people bogus test results based on claimed Area 51 black turtleneck technology.
I moved in USA recently, so maybe can help me understanding the impact of this beyond not respecting the law. What value this license provides to american workers? Do the healthcare system get better with the help of trained brokers? Thanks!
I see too much damage caused by strncpy() to ever recommend it for use. Code that is blissfully unaware of the non-guaranteed NUL or that repetitively does extra work to guarantee a NUL. Use strlcpy() if available or reimplement it.
> Photon's and gravitons have to be masses because Gravity and Light and interact with matter at finite distances.

Photons don't have mass. If they had mass they couldn't travel at the speed of light.
This is the result the theories predicted, and there's nothing for the theorists to do except gloat. If people had kept building more sensitive detectors, and kept failing to detect gravity waves, then eventually that would have been a very big deal for theoretical physics. But it didn't happen.

On the other hand, there is now a way to see dark matter. That could enable a lot of new astronomy.
The Six O'clock Swill
Ask YC: Difference between two founders and single founder with full time employee?
First of all, thanks to Sam for speaking at Washington University tonight. I really enjoyed the talk and like YC's drive to "increase the innovation output in the world."

The question I was going to ask during the talk was about co-founders vs. a single founder with a full time employee. I understand that YC prefers founding teams over a single founder but I'm curious to hear more of why. I am seeing first hand the amount of work a startup is (I know I had a productive day when I end it with more things to do than when I started it). But are there other reasons (company dynamic maybe?) why the same number of people would be more likely to succeed in a horizontal company structure (co-founders) vs. a vertical company structure (one founder with employees)?
Is appeasement an attribute of emotional intelligence?
All I can say is way to go! Buzzfeed journalist. Literally nothing positive came out of this for anyone. It sounds like all of the brokers were capable of completing the training material in under 52 hours. Now this is getting blown up #bureaucracy
Regardless of how much time you you spend at work I think having a couple of weeks in a year for yourself to explore the world or be it just mindlessly staring at the sea waves is a reality check and time when you can evaluate whatever you are doing. It is also a good benchmark - if your current job doesn't allow you to do that then - is this a good job? Or you can't really afford to go at the other side of the world, then - am I being paid right? Go figure...
There are moderated groups. The NetNews Moderator's Handbook[1] has technical details (and more) but basically:

'Moderated' means that all postings to the newsgroup go to a mail
address (e.g. comp.std.unix@uunet.uu.net) instead of appearing
in the newsgroup directly. The postings are then forwarded via
email to a moderator, or group of moderators, or even an automated
program, who decides whether to actually inject the article into
the newsgroup or to reject it as not meeting guidelines spelled
out in the group's charter.

1: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/usefor/other/moderators-handboo...
Aging, mediocre programmer seeks wise fellow programmers/technical folks
Very soon ageism will catch up with me and I'll be unemployed. I'm smart enough to do most business related software development but mediocre enough that I won't be hired by the likes of Google. As they say, most technical work or any work that requires deep focused thinking is a race to the bottom. I see great potential if programmers/technical folks are willing to put aside their overly individualist and reclusive tendencies, and start realistically co-operating. I'll like to get in touch with fellow programmers who have realized this. And want to hash out ideas for any mutual co-operation. I have nothing concrete in mind yet, but I can be reasonably sure that I'm not looking for software related ideas.

A starting point could be some online forum where ideas can be exchanged.
Try asking that question in Hiroshima :-(
>>> So instead of having large breaks every few months or once a year, it’s better to incorporate simple recovery practices into your everyday routine.

Is this some Orwellian nightmare? Rather than have the workers do less work through holidays, let's have deal with the stress during their off hours. Don't take a 2-week holiday, just exercise more every day. Sitting at a desk all day isn't making you fat, it's that you're spending the hour between work and sleep with your kids rather than at the gym.

Some things matter more than productivity. Give your people the time off they need. Or how about just allowing employees to exercise and de-stress on company time.
(sorry for the late reply) What you're saying is not strictly false, but it's also not very useful for practical photography. High grade "practical" color film (ektar 100, provia 100f, velvia 50), shot extremely carefully with a vacuum back and drum scanned wet will out-resolve high end 35mm digital but lose against modern medium format digital backs; 6x7 or 6x9 with extremely good lenses (mamiya 7 system, alpas) might beat last-gen digital backs in some scenarios. Impractical 3 iso bw microfilm copy film stock (techpan, chs 20) used to shot something standing extremely still with an adapted photolithography lens might win against medium format backs, except if you need color, but at that point you're actually competing against scanning backs for reproduction work and the scanning back is going to prevail.
Eisenhower was the President of Columbia University. Clinton and Obama both taught in Law Schools.

I think there's a better batting average for college professors than engineers.
"Here's a board with wheels we call a hover board!"
Facebook Etiquette Advisory
If both pilots die I'd land that pig.

One of the benefits of prior experience working on flight simulators is I actually have practice landing 737s (testing is fun).

Talk to the control tower, request a runway for approach. Dial in the navigation station to the specified ILS beacon. Pray to god there's no cross wind. Decrease speed @ 5-7 nautical mi range and switch flaps to 20 degrees. Watch the ADI for the cool little runway indicator to popup when the runway is in range (the analog ones are especially cool). Drop landing gear. Adjust approach to stay within one dot on the horiz/vert glideslope indicators. Land. Reverse thruster to slow down. Steer and brake using the foot petals.

The change in flaps is necessary to increase lift @ slower speeds and slightly upturn the nose on landing for that nice rear-wheel-first touch down. Do not attempt to land @ 0 degrees flaps. I've done it before in a 747-400 sim while testing the EGPWS, "you're doing it wrong" callouts. It only took the 5 tries to hypothetically not crash and die.

If you're in an Airbus, 'land' mode is the equivalent to 20 degrees flaps because European pilots aren't smart enough to understand geometry.

Useful tips:

Don't wear yourself out fighting the yoke, the little up/down triggers on the yoke will adjust the trim to compensate for wind and/or resistance. Pitch/roll on the yoke, yaw with the petals. Don't manhandle the yoke, a light touch is enough. Avoid roll on approach. Use yaw to compensate for wind. It's better to be slightly above altitude than touch down short of the runway. If the first approach sucks add power and go around.

Aside: I totally probably forgot something critically important.
> Good PMs are hard to find

I'd take this further -- I think finding good PM's is harder than finding good dev's. I'm not sure why exactly. I bet you'd find a lot of dev's who think their PM does the opposite of their job (that is, creates more work for them).
10ms is the absolute maximum difference in time, if the source was located on a line running through the two detectors. If the source was located on a perpendicular bisector of the line running through the two detectors, the difference in time between detections at the two detectors would be zero. Any value between the two is possible depending on the geometry.