skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't sound right.

Why should a person maintain their LinkedIn profile, if they're not actively looking? Wouldn't it make more sense to only update it when they decide to actually look for a job, and not waste time/energy/spam-dealing-with before then?
This is exactly true. Not only in corporate taxes, but payroll taxes as well. So, literally, up to 35% of each contract goes back to the government in one form or another (whether directly or through overhead personnel salaries), hence the "buy American" thing in contracting with the government.
I hope you never consult for any company I work for.
SICP is written for Scheme, not Common Lisp, so that might've been your issue. They're not at all the same, despite both being Lisps.

Just use Common Lisp. I use SBCL. Read Practical Common Lisp [1] &/ ANSI Common Lisp [2]. Skim the CLQR [3].

If you're just starting out, you can get away with just using the REPL. You might get that ^]]A crap when you up-arrow to previous expressions, so install rlwrap and run 'rlwrap sbcl' instead of just 'sbcl'.

Once you get tired of that and want to use an editor, get Emacs (on OS X: see [4], on Ubuntu: apt-get install emacs24). Install SLIME [5] through package-install to send expressions down from a .lisp file to the REPL (with C-x C-e).

If you get stuck, try looking for youtube videos (or add an email to your HN about).

[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html

[3] http://clqr.boundp.org/download.html

[4] https://emacsformacosx.com/

[5] https://github.com/slime/slime
I found a solution to recruiter spam in LinkedIn. Instead of killing my account I just deleted all the details (positions and education) from my profile. Now I connect to ex-colleges without getting a lot of spam.
I hope the story has changed your path for good. Your family seems important to you. I bet you're really important to them too.
This is exactly how I feel. I have no I mention of suicide, but I feel it looming over me.

The biggest thing that has stopped me has been not wanting my family to have to deal with my suicide. I've slowly distanced myself from my family over the past few years, and figure at some point I'll just 'go away' in such a manner that nobody knows what happened. I guess I'm a bit selfish, but I really don't care anymore.
How Words Shape Our World
Not really. Top of the line Android phones can actually be worse for this problem than cheaper ("burner") ones.

Top-of-the-line Android phones tend to follow the pattern of having a CPU with many cores each of which is slower than the CPU would be if they used a single core solution. This is excellent for native apps that properly use multithreading, but dreadful for web apps since JavaScript as it is commonly written (ignoring the various *Worker extensions to the language attempted over the years) is essentially single-threaded, so the majority of the app code is running on one slow core while the rest sit idle (or run background services that have nothing to do with the foreground app).
Use the 'Web' link at the top of the page
The fact that autoplay makes for better retention of gamblers is not a long term asset; Autoplaying means it is straight up games of chance, and casino gambling is usually regulated differently from games of skill.

Acording to a recent estimate, something like 0.19 % (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354546), and given the type of f2p under discussion, "the autoplayers", that fraction should be compared to something like the the rate of gambling disorders in the US population (around 1% for adults, 6-9% for youngsters http://www.ncrg.org/sites/default/files/oec/pdfs/ncrg_fact_s...)
Turns out software estimates are hard. Who knew?
create and manage events

I only created my LinkedIn account because our major supplier (before they recently got acquired) used LinkedIn to run "round table" type events, and O were often invited to talk about the product.

In the interest of playing nice with the supplier I played along, but it was always a horrible experience. You don't realise how far from "real time" LinkedIn is until you're in a Skype chat, two people are discussing a question and the rest of the room is complaining it hasn't rendered for them yet. Not for seconds.. minutes. Eventually you would end up with statements I made at the end rendering right at the top with people then replying stating they can't understand what I said without any context.

People were obviously interested in using it for these sorts of events but there seemed to be no interest in making it a tolerable experience.
There is an analog with art, a /droight de suite/ or a system for resale royalties. The idea is that starving artists have very low bargaining power compared to galleries and art dealers. The theory goes, that if the artists are disallowed from selling all of their ownership rights, that is, they will receive a royalty every time their painting is sold in the future, then the creators of pieces that turn out to be extremely valuable will never be left starving on the street simply because they were bad at negotiating.

However, retrospective analysis of such systems in practice has tended to show that artists' bargaining position has not been as weak as the common narrative, and constraining the upside potential for art dealers has lead to less funding in the market overall, and less risk-taking in the form of purchasing works from undiscovered artists who are most likely to resemble the starving artist archetype.
Absolutely and the same can be said for the original idea behind copyright. Heck that descendants can live off royalties of a passe one's copyright is not why it was invented.
How is that valid, if the paper and implementation are from 2010?
As a corollary to this, I was laid off from the first "real" software development job I ever worked, when I was an intern (though, I was finishing off the summer with a full time offer in hand).

I was interning for a recently acquired ~10 person startup that basically operated like it had before the acquisition. The parent company lost confidence in the product we were building (and a few other things). As a result, they came in one Friday and laid off everyone in one fell swoop, including intern me.

It was a humbling experience at 19 to be handing my company provided laptop to an HR person and signing away the offer letter I had only gotten a few weeks prior. Definitely a good lesson in job permanence in this industry.

Sometimes, it probably doesn't matter how good you are, shit happens.
But then it is not land prices itself but rather the availability of the credit that seems to be the fundamental disparity, isn't it? And you could question why there's such a big difference in credit availability, which comes down to accumulated capital and to productivity/technology. Not to disparage your argument, but aren't you just saying more productive/advanced regions have more expensive stuff?
We already HAVE seen what the long term cost is. It's great for corporations, shareholders, and board members, yet terrible for the middle class, and thus a net negative on the country as a whole.

It will only continue. That is the "long term effect".

This guy is basically telling everyone from the grave to vote Trump, or Trump-like economic policies... but never utter such a thing around these parts!
> the use of force inherent in slavery.

The article in question mentions agreeing to willing slavery, i.e. without the use of force:

> Once we get this far, we are almost all the way to Carlyle on slavery. We have not agreed that a man can be born a slave, but we agree that he can sell himself into slavery. That is: he can sign a contract with a master in which the slave agrees unconditionally to obey and work for the master, and the master agrees unconditionally to protect and support the slave.
The evidence for physical activity being good for just about every ailment under the sun is about as incontrovertible as the evidence for water being wet. Considering that it's vitally important, often ignored, devoid of negative side effects, and free to implement, I think you're the one being irresponsible.
But he doesn't have to sell the patent. He only has to sell the rights to use.
Not even $30 as the cost of the filter and oil (not to mention tools and ideally things to make it safer like ramps or jackstands)...
> fail to recognize how hard it is to come up with something legitimately new

The vast majority of process and software patents seem to not actually be new though, and the patent system explicitly doesn't reward 'new' in the general sense, it rewards 'new to the patent system' (aka first to file)

> and verify that it works.

In most patent troll litigation, the holder of the patent hasn't verified or actually built anything.

In my opinion, research labs should be rewarded for their work finding genuinely 'new' things. That includes benefiting from another entity building or developing what they found. It doesn't include sitting on the patent waiting for someone else to 'discover' or simply do the same thing, wait for them to profit for a few years, then sue.
Palo Alto considers subsidized housing for families making under $250K
Three cheers for a honest man.
This doesn't happen very often because, as a government contractor, you are subject to audit at any time and anything they deem unreasonable can make you non-competitive in that market.

The only time this (high margins) really happens is in the no-bid cleared (black ops) type contracts let by the intel community and such. Those margins can be huge, but it is because of the level of clearance and company expertise required to perform the work.

However, even in that case, it's not 10x. Maybe 30-40% margin, but not 10x.
My experience with every new release of safari on IOS would break something that worked before.
Last one screwed with SVG sprites
This one already had issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366468
From the article: "Menlo Park fire district workers will earn an average $147,000 this year."
So maybe a hybrid approach would be to keep them legal and monopolized by the state but simultaneously run PSA and adverts as well as emblazon labels on the tickets about the ills they visit upon the buyers.

And so a successful lottery organization would be one which eventually drove itself out of business.
The company you work for on whose time you invent something that is granted a patent should give a revocable license to your employer but the inventor should never have to give up the patent to the employer. Unfortunately that's how it's handled in most places and a reason why many do not submit stuff to patent lawyers in the company. I'm curious how this works in the US with IBM creating at least one patent a day.
Extending this logic, we should also avoid anything from China or any country with an oppressive regime, which have repeatedly been violating human rights (which I think is more important that violation of a software license).

In fact, if we're talking ethics and politics now, there's also labor, abuse of workers and local people losing their jobs to cheap overseas workers issues.
Production Cost of Smartphone AMOLED Is Lower Than Production Cost of LCD
That's not quite what he said, though. Here's the full quotation:

"I guess to make a broader point, so often in the past there's been a sharp division between left and right, between capitalist and communist or socialist. And especially in the Americas, that's been a big debate, right? Oh, you know, you're a capitalist Yankee dog, and oh, you know, you're some crazy communist that's going to take away everybody's property. And I mean, those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don't have to worry about whether it neatly fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory -- you should just decide what works."

His point seems very straightforward and noncontroversial - why should we marry ourselves to ideology when what we truly care about are solutions to problems?

What would you call a CEO or an executive at a company who rejects a solution simply because it doesn't match their rigid ideology regarding the matter at hand? Bad - very bad.

There is much to be said for the flexibility and wealth of options that a free market can provide, but is there truly nothing that other systems can offer?

Cuba is in many ways far behind us, and I am glad that we aren't in their situation. Havana looks just as it did in the 1950s.

But at the same time, the Cuban health care system has far better coverage than ours. You can decry waiting lines and shoddy doctors and so on, but there is objective truth to my statement. Cuba has a lower child mortality rate than we do - 4.83 per 1000 compared to 6 per 1000. Just last year, Cuba became the first country to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV. The first!

When we talk about the world (I guess economic systems in particular) as simply a matter of capitalism vs. communism vs. socialism and so on, we limit our ability to solve problems and make progress. That's all Obama was trying to say, I think.
I guess caradoc forks a lot. ( sorry non French readers. And French readers also)
I don't know which version of Ember the author is using, but note that last year Ember introduced a new rendering engine called glimmer which performs much better on the same benchmark:

https://www.isemberfastyet.com/

https://dbmonster.firebaseapp.com/
And, you know wages are way lower in those developing countries with cheap land. You may want to adjust for average and median wages when comparing the cost of living in various countries.
If it's interesting to anyone, I evaluated a few NAS software and landed on Unraid, which is not as popular, but quite nice. It's not free (but it's cheap), but the way I can easily expand storage and Docker support sealed the deal for me.
And things like that don't happen in the private sector?

Corruption is a human problem, not a government or corporate problem.
"It's not done until Google doesn't run!"
Sometimes they can explicitly tell you what margins you can make in a Cost-Plus type contract. The thing is, when they dangle a 5-year long $75,000,000 contract in front of you, you'll basically take any margin at all since the amount is so large that companies will work to undercut each other drastically and even work at a loss just to get the past performance, which is treated as an asset (like cash itself) in the federal market.

They can also audit you any time they want to determine the "reasonableness" of your pricing based on overhead, margins, etc.
They don't have to stop generating revenue from recruiters, it just wouldn't be their focus if they went in this other direction.
A study can show that men are taller than women without showing that every man is taller than every woman.
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Hundreds and thousands.
The thing that's a bit absurd about all this is that there doesn't seem to be any reasonable, non-abusable way of creating tools that can both be general-purpose and still not used to create weapons.

I for one would not accept limitations on any sort of manufacturing device that would prevent it from building things of type A but not type B when it is otherwise mechanically possible to do so.
Well his talent was completely different in nature from Jobs' talent, but it still yielded some world changing technology. Maybe the answer is that his sort of talent is not as rare as you'd think, or easier to replace with teams of less talented individuals.
I pretty much always assumed this is what police helicopters did.
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Whole RGBI output was a big mistake imo, monitors internally have fully analog RGB path, so why not use it?

Imagine if CGA cards had full palette control from the start. Four 74189 16x4 bit SRAM chips connected to R2R resistor ladder providing programmable 5-6-5 RGB palette. Would add ~$30 to the BOM in 1981, but SRAM prices fell drastically at that time, two years later it would be single dollars.
Wow - good catch. This was a huge miss on our part. We had it in the previous version, but it got overwritten (no excuse, our mess up).

Anyway, thanks for bringing it up. We've pushed the updated terms.
If a consultant writes assert(isEmpty()) then the first thing I'm going to do is fire up version control, find the consultant and have them fired.
nope, only small trades to start. average trade was 0.05 BTC, total volume was 1200 BTC
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Pigeons have very easily exploitable security vulnerabilities. No, you should use end to end encryption if you want security. But the other end is the weak link so you have to trust it.
Real world agile software development
he doens't get it because he personally had to save Job's ass on a number of occasions, and in fact, Jobs kept getting himself fired over stupid shit.

The Macintosh was floating on the sales of the Apple II. Without the Apple II, the company would have failed. The IIgs is arguably a better computer. Woz did more important genius type work for Apple, Jobs did a lot of great work, but not genius level.

Jobs has a lot of charisma and you can't really put that in a bottle and measure it. Jobs doubtfully had an IQ on par with Wozniak. However Jobs made a lot of amazing things happen that wouldn't have. Doesn't make his brain genius level. Like most bosses, he took a lot of great ideas other people had, and solutions other people solved and helped a lot of management put it all together.
That doesn't seem to back up the assertion, unless the reader is unaware of the meaning of 'parsimonious'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
Definitely a good idea not to hide depression. I also learned that as a friend/ family member you can help a lot by being there and listening to people when they are depressed (but not trying to cheer them up). I would recommend anyone to read up on the condition - e.g. http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-h...
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The difference is intent.

The injured war veteran, at least according to the official fiction, suffered in the course of benefiting the community. Whether they succeeded is up for debate, but the intent to benefit is seen as evidence that gifts/support/etc. won't "enable" them.
It's a great adjunct IMO, but it doesn't necessarily fix the underlying problem reliably. I got my usual run up to 21 miles before I developed fractures in my shins and the coping strategy fell apart. I should have spent some of that time with a doctor.
I said that sinxoveretothex_atThatTime was wrong.

The reason I dismissed the product then was because of the aesthetics. The same reason that my parent commenter pointed to to suggest holoportation wouldn't work.

I gave the example of VR. I can also give the example of "portable" phones and "portable" computers (have you seen how fugly those things were back then?). Or bluetooth earpieces.

That being said, I'm not predicting the end of in-person meetings or anything remotely like that. I wrote too candidly when I wrote "this will take off". Let's just say that we'll see more and more of that type of technology in the future.

I expect this to reach Bluetooth earpieces level of ubiquitousness: not quite without haters and not quite everyone-has-one, but rather everyone-knows-someone-who-uses-one kind of thing.
just. build. more. housing. units.
I get so tired of comments like yours. What are we supposed to do then? Just give up and watch them go? If someone can't or won't go to the doctor, they're done for? What about all of the other people reading, who might now or at some time in the future suffer from depression? Is it really 'irresponsible' to suggest that there are ways to prevent/decrease depression besides going to the doctor? Compare it to cancer. There are things people can do to lessen their risks for getting cancer. (Including exercising). Obviously if you have cancer, go to a doctor. But until then it's not irresponsible to suggest that you get some exercise. Or eat carrots, for that matter.
You can also adjust the odds to mostly pay people their money back, keeping only enough to pay for the administration of the games themselves.
It seems crazy, but pretty damning evidence of that gong on discussed here

http://www.nuclearphynance.com/Show%20Post.aspx?PostIDKey=17...
Here we have a person expressing psychologic pain. And then another person, with no medical training and no psychologic training dismisses any possible cause of that pain and says "go for a jog". It's not a helpful way to give that advice. And it might not be useful advice.

> The evidence for physical activity being good for just about every ailment under the sun is about as incontrovertible

How do you explain the meta-analyses that show weak results for exercise?

http://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depre...

> However, it is not clear if research actually shows that exercise is an effective treatment for depression.

> Exercise is moderately more effective than no therapy for reducing symptoms of depression.

> Exercise is no more effective than antidepressants for reducing symptoms of depression, although this conclusion is based on a small number of studies.

> Exercise is no more effective than psychological therapies for reducing symptoms of depression, although this conclusion is based on small number of studies.

> The reviewers also note that when only high-quality studies were included, the difference between exercise and no therapy is less conclusive.

> The evidence about whether exercise for depression improves quality of life is inconclusive.
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Exactly; when work gets more demanding I unintentionally stop working out and eat fast food and I notice a significant increase in depression. I actually need to take more effort to work out, eat healthy when work is more demanding (or kids just being kids) just to keep my head above water. Easier said than done thus therapy helps as a lifeline.
As someone who owns a house in PA/Menlo, no. I will lobby, make calls, and write checks to government to make sure it doesn't happen. Is it fair? No. Ethical? No. Doesn't matter to me.
The state has lost control: tech firms now run western politics
On Chrome, I get nothing but whitespace and the usual suspects of share icons; perhaps it shrouds content when ad blocking is active. (Pageload also hits 10 external metric sites),
I would have thought that text rendering would be top priority from a UX perspective given that reading text constitutes such a major part of browsing the web.

The problem, as demonstrated by your example and the replies it's generated, is that people have different preferences on text rendering.

Of your 3 samples I think IE is the best and Chrome's is the worst, with FF inbetween. More precisely, I'd be OK with reading text rendered the first way indefinitely (although I'd want to change it), the second one I could probably stand for a few minutes, and the last one I'd want to stop looking at as quickly as possible, because of how blurry it looks.

This is what I normally use:

http://imgur.com/T3ihEqw

Sharp, pure non-antialiased text. I can read text like that all day without feeling like my eyes are going out of focus.
Wooder and crick are dead on. Also unmentioned is "down a' shawr", meaning you're going to the shore, specifically New Jersey.
Honestly, I wish Facebook or Plus would create a "Professional" portal with a distinct friend list and profile page and searchable resumes so we could be done with this digital albatross.
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