skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I would argue the easiest way to plot log log x is to parameterize the x domain.

For f x = log x where log has base b, we know that f b^0 = 0, f b^1 = 1, etc. what does g x = log log x look like? Well, we know log x is undefined for x < 0, which implies g is undefined for x < b^0 = 1, or b^b^0. More generally, you can say when f x = y, g b^x = y. So we know that g intercepts 0 at b^b^0 = b. You could do this for several more points for y = 1, y = 2, and so on, or you could draw a graph of log x and just relabel the x-axis to be 1) shifted by 1 with the x-intercept at b and 2) scaled logarithmically.
People here are complaining about potential censorship and paywalls. Perhaps we can have the best of both worlds and decentralize it, compensate authors and still provide it free.

Implement it as an Ethereum like dapp/smart contract with the same function as Patreon for long-form articles. Make the Dapp usable and accessible through the browser like Instapaper.

Liberate the content, make it 'free' after stretch goals have been reached. Use community curation through voting contracts similar to the slashdot/hl karma points.

Also integrate distributed search, automated tagging and perhaps integrated commenting and Sia or IPFS for distributed storage. And automatically create an epub versions of the top 12 longforms of the week so people can read their longform articles offline on e-paper/paper.
Congress could make that illegal if they wanted. They could e.g. make it illegal to sell a device that doesn't accept code updates signed with a particular government key. But they can't do it retroactively.
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If you own all of the copyright over a work, or if the license explicitly allows sublicensing (BSD and MIT), you can change the license of a work (or a fork of the work).
Actually, chromosomes are a worse target for predicting behaviors in terms of sex-linked traits since genes during conception can and will be exchanged between the X and Y chromosomes in humans. This is why sometimes the SRY gene is found in women (XX) despite clearly having an operative uterus and ovaries. Nature loves to pick on us humans when it comes to assuming fixed traits.
Except the alternative, developing binaries for Linux is not a viable option as Linus itself explains very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&feature=youtu.be...
RAPD is a catchy acronym.
That's why there's a voting system, if people are interested, it gets to the front page :-)

For me, I haven't worked with Go before so it's nice to see a resource like this as it's appealing as an outsider. Maybe it's the thing that pushes people from just hearing about something to actually try it out themselves.
It's about time we let go of the symbols hardcoded onto our keyboards and start finding better abstractions for our thoughts.

Touch devices have already started the move to a virtualized keyboard, but so far they only parrot the static layout of a QWERTY keyboard and add a few tabs for emojis.

Predictive typing adds a few higher-level, dynamic keys to your virtual keyboard as a top row.

But if you make every key dynamic and predictive, you have a self-programming macro generator guessing your next keystroke and combining frequent sequences into a new single function.

And if you have that, why do you need a 2D keyboard with the confusing N-to-1 mapping of functions to fingers?

The keyboard has to rest on a surface, you need to make non-discrete movement in space to find what you want, and the whole thing leads to enormous bodily stress.

It is time to wash the printed letters off our keyboards, tear out anything that is not the homerow, glue those buttons to our 8 homerow fingers, and live a full, untethered, virtual, predictive typing life =)

I want to tap on my thighs while zooming through predictive VR code interfaces, not go back to ASCII.
I'll take the devil's advocate here and claim that it won't be near as useful as you'd think.

For 4 reasons:

1) Most of the mutual funds that hold these shares allow redemption's on a monthly basis so they'll evaluate their holdings on a monthly basis. Since companies like Fidelity do get to see the books for these companies these valuations are likely to be as accurate as you can get

2) It's very hard to evaluate the common stock for the reasons that everyone has talked about over the past year. Liquidation preferences. It's extremely hard to evaluate a private company as you have to evaluate 3 things.

- The value of the company itself

- Tease out the common shares value vs preferred shares vs liquidity preferences( this is the hardest step in my experience)

- Figure out what someone will pay for an illiquid name that they may not ever be able to sell

3) Even if you can evaluate what the common shares are worth, then what? You probably can't buy them, and once they go public your evaluation is worthless as the whole game changes, Liquidity preferences are gone, preferred share are rolled into public creating a new unknown number of common shares in the float.

You essentially start at zero in the evaluation process once it goes public and IPO prices are, as history has shown, often divorced from any fundamental values.

4) Even if you can buy share on the secondary markets, those prices are often moved by non fundamental elements. ie an employee who has been at the company for 8 years want's to sell some shares on the private market to buy a house may take less than full value just to get some money out as they'll view it as free money. On the flip side speculators may over pay to get into a startup that they view as being huge, like a snapchat.

The secondary markets are so illiquid that its' almost impossible to arb prices to make money, we've looked at it and tried. I'll let someone else try:)
For starters, Mondo is based in the UK - Ally in the US

I'm not sure if there are any other UK based online banks, I couldn't find any in 30seconds of googling
> 1. They're not "breaking the law" because copyright infringement is primarily a civil matter (recent changes notwithstanding).

They aren't committing a crime, they are breaking a law (copyright law). Civil laws are called "laws" for a reason.
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PC gaming (Windows) is a huuuge market. The GPU drivers support for Linux is poor.
Just got this setup on our Slack channel. The setup was a really pleasant experience. Well done!
If you're in the UK then the appeal is that they will be available in the UK.
Everyone who at least couple of times googled for anything Go related knows this site. Should I post golang.org now, because there may be someone living under a rock?
Ummm... the dangers of lead paint would be noticed by consumers who would demand an alternative and corporations would provide it.

If you look at a lot of the health concerns in our society, that's how it works. Often companies change what they are offering long before the gov't passes any laws forcing them to.
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Also I think the thin laptops are a big part of the problem with the PC industry.

They are trying so hard to compete with phones they aren't doing anything to improve performance. Back in the day you could buy a new PC every 2 years and get a big performance boost, today that is not so. Get a cheap netbook and put in an SSD and you'll get something that feels more responsive than an i7 machine saddled with a mechanical drive.

No wonder people are not buying PCs. I remember when Tom's hardware used to be interesting but for a long time they have been colonized by this "power efficiency" thing which is really bogus because you can work really hard to power optimize your machine and then some stupid flash ad makes your CPU spin at 100% and it is all for nought. People buy things because of product attributes they can feel, not because of attributes which require careful measurement under controlled conditions
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I heard about them on Hacker News I think.

I invested mainly because I like the idea of a bank where I can do everything online. There's no reason I should still have to call or go in to a store to change my address/unblock my card (because of their crappy fraud detection) etc
They did not? They were on plenty other platforms including Linux.
I would expect no less for the majority of companies. If you put in X hours for Y salary/wage I don't doubt they'd give the same amount as compensation regardless of sex, age, race, etc. Money is money and work is work. Social norms are the real culprit in terms of inequalities in society. Sometimes businesses do push back against these norms since more often than not it hurts their bottom line (ex. racial segregation laws hurt the private bus companies). So, if a social norm can be toppled to boost revenues or productivity I always expect a business to wave their progressive banner.
It would - you'd have the aggregate bandwidth of the multiple controllers to use. Similarly, RAID-1 is better for random reads than RAID-0.
Exactly. Asking the candidate to outline the solution, the issues encountered, and the rationale behind the design should quickly illuminate any funny business. Depending on the scope of the project, you could even have them push code to a company repo real-time as they make progress. Obviously VCS histories can be rewritten in some circumstances, but I think it would help give a little more granularity as to how the work was done.
The actual title is "Companies! Don’t discriminate Front-end Developers!", which changes the headline meaning in my opinion[1].

As it is, "Companies Don’t Discriminate Front-End Developers", sounds like the crux of the Medium post is "Companies do not discriminate against front-end developers", whereas, the post headline and content reads as, "Companies, stop discriminating against front-end developers."

While its more of a rant, it would be nice to have more specifics on that complexity vs UX and other generalized subjects.

I say this, because being submitted to HN it is probably targeting a technical audience, vs, this reads more to "business" folks who may not understand the back end vs front-end.

[1] Maybe HN removes ! marks, so I would edit in a , if possible after "Companies".
tl;dr: The only measure of on the job performance is on the job performance. The only thing that matters to your company is also on the job performance. Why not focus on that?

It is utter voodoo.

I came up in the late 80s. Interviews were maybe 2 hours long. You might be handed a piece of paper with a problem to aggregate some information distributed in a few different arrays and print them out. You know, write some for loops and a few logic statements.

Then you talked about the job. This is the job. Do you want to do it? What do you have to bring to us? Do you have a lot of experience and want to lead, or not a lot and want to learn - we'll adjust position and salary.

And you put a team together. Some were great, some were okay, some needed to be let go. In total, all sw people had a job.

Contrast that with today's voodoo, where proxies are weighed more than on the job performance (the only thing that matters).

In the end, you put a team together. Some are great, some are okay, some need to be let go. In total, all sw people have a job.

It's all exactly the same, except the absurdity of interviewing by proxies. It's simple logic - he average of everything is average. Why have we abandoned logic?

So many things matter more than remembering red-black trees from your midterm (I'm 49. I TA'ed a graduate level algorithms class back in the day, but I don't happen to remember it. That's what books are for). Like being able to run a project. Being able to write documentation. Being able to enter a room with a combative and upset client and keep the business. Being able to mentor your colleagues. Taking ownership. Leading by example. Ability to learn. So many things that are not even discussed in the current interview environment.

I've watched companies spin their wheels for months, rejecting perfectly good people, looking for that mythical person with exactly the right, esoteric combination of skills, who, for some unknown reason, wants to stall their career and get hired into a position where they learn nothing because they are expected to know everything already. People that are eager to learn? No, sorry, not rock-star material. All these prior successes mean nothing, no one could possibly learn a technology or new algorithm, right? And, more than once I've had people get downright snide about it. I'm sorry that you misread my resume, contacted me, and I didn't have that absurdly specific combination of skills. My fault, right?

Y'all have lost your minds. :) Which is okay, we're an eccentric bunch, but jeez, let's inject some reason and introspection into it. The faces are different, but the talent is no different than the 70s and 80s. There's zero evidence that any of these interview techniques are reliable. There's tons of evidence that interview techniques are horribly biased in many ways. Just stop.
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> If you look at a lot of the health concerns in our society, that's how it works. Often companies change what they are offering long before the gov't passes any laws forcing them to.

Yes, like the well known example of Tobacco and Asbestos.
A rehash of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html

Haven't heard so much from Joel these days - sad :(
I think the US would have a long way to go before the public would ever accept having 7+ figure salaries paid out of the taxpayer pocket. That's pretty cool that some countries do though I see some of them only offer the 100% to women and not men.
Google Wave used operational transformation in their protocol[1]. I've always assumed that the lessons learned on Wave got reused in the Google Docs rewrite.

[1] http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transfor...
So you say 'no' but you don't refute the argument? Can you explain why following correct substitution principles does not work?

You could also try to answer to the arguments of harry8, who gave you polite and well-written points, that you consciously ignored and resorted to name-calling ("you're heavily clueless about what psychology is") when you have absolutely no element to back your claim.

>Fuck me, but it's funny when detractors claim that psychology is full of unscientific behaviour, while they're way overgeneralising the entire field on a subsection of it.

What I mean by filled is that this subsection (which exists in any field, even mathematics) is an important fraction of this particular field. And before you bring this up: I read a lot of important papers in the field, and they were all below my expectations, which were admittedly not very high. I came to think that the "journal of irreproducible results" is one the most serious publications in soft sciences.

>Apparently arguments become stronger when you add "fuck" qualifiers

Fuck me!
Revenue is from LEGO and toy-related ads? What is the pricing model for an information-based website such as yours? I'm at work and unfortunately can't browse at the moment.
One rival is https://www.atombank.co.uk/
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And you don't think there are privacy concerns with that? It is a /very/ intimate relationship, and generally requires some ritualized/formalized interaction, and a very high degree of trust.
As far as I can tell, this is by Daniel Brandt - previously of (now defunct) Google Watch and a bunch of other similar projects over the past 27+ years: http://www.leavegooglebehind.com/news/2012/02/google-critic-...

(Based on the IRS letter posted on the site at http://www.crimeflare.com/gifs/irslet.gif which mentions "Public Information Research Inc", Brandt's organization)

Update: confirmed, here's a page on the site which Daniel signs his name to: http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html
I don't know about routers but I've had very good experiences with Cisco's SMB switches like the SG500.
Until somebody sues you for copyright infringement (because you broke the law), nothing bad will happen. Yet.
A content addressable distributed cache, where the disk + network IO capacity is ~40Gb/s. A bit similar to IPFS.
I can attest to that. I came to the US half a year ago on a work visa (not H1B) from an European country, with dependents in tow. Earning modest tech salary I was able to "sock away" more earnings in that time than I would be able to in my home country in three years. My observations is that people here simply live a lifestyle that matches their income.
Generally, I've come to believe that the 'field' that a company specifies they're in is intentionally left vague. I would assume that most people looking for a new job would more likely than not look for something in a similar industry, and be, in fact, infringing on such clauses if they did audition project work for other employers in said industry.
It's interesting that USB Type-C specification itself has an example of PCI Express docking solution, "5.1.4 Example Alternate Mode – USB/PCIe Dock", page 168.
They've been talked about on HN more than once. Pretty sure that's how I heard of them.

I invested to show support, I've had various current accounts and the usability has always been really poor. Time for something to shake the uk banks up a little, hopefully make them care about their customers a little more.
In my experience, those who must work with people 'on trial' hate doing so. They treat the entire experience as a chore, well aware that 90% of these people won't be around next month. That lack of commitment by the organization means those in control are only more free to express bias because they know the person at issue is already disenfranchised and weak.
I did a huge bunch of research on eGPUs before I gave up and purchased a PC: the main issue (18 months ago) is that Intel won't certify any of the Thunderbolt eGPUs since they don't have OS X drivers, as part of Intel's agreement with Apple. Both Asus and another company had tech ready to go, but they couldn't get permission to release them from Intel.
Even if they preface their action with "is it not our intent to endorse this, we're only doing it to make it function" they know damn well that all the other iPhones in the world, to which this speech isn't intended to be heard by but could potentially be heard by later, will infer/interpret it as an endorsement. Knowledge of an obvious likelihood of a particular inference despite claimed lack of intent is a form of intent.
It's funny how Often a real space concept (country) which is used to model business logic ends up morphing into a abstract configuration knob.
karma be damned: the 90s called and they want their website back!
Simple had the exact same idea years ago. I think they are still around and doing well although I have not looked at them in a while. (I think last time I looked you needed android or iOS and I am a windows phone user.)
If you choose to use code that is under the GPL or similar copyleft licenses, then you have to play by the rules and provide people you distribute your software to a way to get the source code.
Sad to see one of the giants slowly dieing that you grew up with.... Hard to change the direction of a major company
Changing the Apple Watch interaction paradigm
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I don't even mind tracking too much - I despise text-based sites with animated ads, though, for obvious reasons.
I really like the idea, but mainly as a driver for the other high street banks to do better. While I don't have the sort of money where I'd actually lose anything if Mondo failed (the government insures everything up to about £35k) I can only imagine how much hassle it'd be to try and move everything away from them if they did fail - especially if they failed in a way that meant they closed their mobile app API down without notice.
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I would definitely demand the firmware if it is GPL. Just because it is "firmware" doesn't suddenly not make it software that you've given me.
Also

https://www.simple.com/

http://starlingbank.co.uk/

https://www.ffrees.co.uk/

https://www.monese.com/

Not to mention a few of the big boys have "Internet only" brands: First Direct (HSBC), Smile (Co-operative Bank), etc. These typically have their own customer service and distance themselves from their parent operationally, while still leaning on that reputation.

One thing that concerns me about investing in Mondo is that their only fruitful exit strategy might be being bought out. People are notoriously relunctant to switch current accounts, and a bad decade for public faith in banks might mean people will likely stick with names they know.

They're also at least a year from launch afaict, and Android doesn't seem to be a priority. They could miss the boat.
To people saying "UK" as a selling point, doesn't ING work in the UK as well? I'm not saying ING is the future of banking by all means, but they're pretty much (totally if you want) office-less.
Can it show multiple projects in the same winfow yet? And I don't mean by abusing the maven module set up, some of my projects use grails for example.

It's nice having my relevant Java, grails and php projects in one window, which eclipse is quite good at. A way to get multiple maven and grails in the same window is pretty much a must for me.
>I invested mainly because I like the idea of a bank where I can do everything online.

Is this really unavailable in the US? Here in Canada, PC Financial has been operating like that for well over a decade. Sure, they have kiosks in some of their grocery stores for those people who want to talk to somebody (which is genius, really), but it's entirely virtual. I've operated almost exclusively online, outside of lost cards and things of that nature. Ordering cheques, creating new accounts, switching pins, transferring money, it's all a couple of clicks.

>There's no reason I should still have to call or go in to a store to change my address/unblock my card

So you'd prefer your bank didn't freeze the card based on what they deem to be suspicious activity? Good luck to those banks...