skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Trivia questions" are not useless. I've put out job ads only to receive hundreds of applications from all over the world, many not even in English or without even a word accompanying a CV. Of the "proper" applicants, I've then had to deal with dozens of candidates that claimed a competence they did not have. And guess what - that's a lot of effort and time which is taken away from the business. In my case, that's a big opportunity cost with salaries burning a deeper hole for every minute that they are not offset by client time. I suspect it's much worse for famous organisations.

So now I ask a dozen questions by email that should take 5 minutes to answer in order to filter out both these groups, and that cover many basic CS concepts. Works really well, even if it's a bit annoying for candidates and probably turns off many vs just uploading your CV for HR to auto-scan for keywords.

For example, if I'm hiring someone to do data modelling work and they tell me it's called the relational model because of the relations between tables, it's unlikely they'll know how to unfold EAV antipatterns. And if you have actual machine learning experience, it's unlikely you'll be stumped by my asking what high leverage means.
GNU would have gone nowhere without Linux.
Do you really think GNU/Hurd would have taken over?
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All types of costly mistakes happen in non-bitcoin land too:
Deutsche Bank accidentally transfers $6bn to hedge fund client (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/20/deutsche-ban...)

...as long as humans are involved in transactions (by writing software if anything), human errors seem to be bound to happen.
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Quite; she seems to have chosen the worst course of action for everyone but herself.

No writes "expert in converting investors money into my own" on their CV but it is the main skill of most CEOs these days.
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>the entire goal of technology is fight the actual laws of nature

I find this a very questionable premise. Technology, being constrained by physics, necessary works with the laws of nature at least to that extent[1]. Well-designed technology, however, most often also works with rather than against its materials[2] and with, rather than against, the human mind that is intended as its user.

[1] E.g., airplanes do not fight physics to fly but use it. The "fight" view is based on an incomplete picture that ignores everything beyond gravity.

[2] This is not the same as the intent of whoever created the materials, hence hacking.
Federal Circuit Declines to Fix Forum Shopping in Patent Cases
Lane discipline makes a huge difference. It's what makes driving 110mph on the Autobahn safer than driving 70 on a busy US highway.
Some guys I worked with got a mixed signal IC back and the inductors were off. I don't know if it was a true bug[1] but the proprietary software used to layout the inductors was giving values about 50% too large. Which meant the inductors values were about 33% too small.

[1] The inductors were small spirals laid out on the top metalization layer. I assume finite element analysis of those involves a lot of magic.
Her severance would be due to a sale. There are lots of regular employees that get severance packages when they're let go due to a sale.

What's her severance in proportion to her annual salary along with tenure? The norm for my area/role, as an engineer, is 4 weeks per year of service. So 6 years would get me half a years salary, but you know what - it's only two weeks per year for "lesser" roles in my company such as support.
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I feel this way when doing sports. Often the desire isn't there, the sensations only come back after 15 minutes in.
I've heard from various friends at Apple that their interviews are way less structured than Google or Facebook or Microsoft's. For similar software positions, one friend was seriously grilled on implementation details of WebKit internals, while the other said he just shot some high level shit about music production software for a coupe of hours. Similar resumes, similar backgrounds, both got gigs but I was kind of surprised at how different their experiences were.
They are focusing on 5G

> 5G will become the key technology for access to the cloud and as we move toward an always-connected world.

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/brian-krzanich-our-str...
Intel Open Sources Arduino 101 Real Time OS
IBM Launches Blockchain Cloud Services and Releases Hyperledger Code on Bluemix
A long long time ago, I stumbled onto the personal website of a guy who was really into this. He had little simulations of different types of traffic patterns, and how a single car could break it and return it to normal. It was really interesting, but I don't have the slightest idea on how to find that website again if it even still exists.

EDIT: Found in the comments, this may have been it. Honestly don't remember: http://trafficwaves.org/
Web Project Managers: Getting Shit Done
They're giving full refunds to all their customers, so it's more like those customers got to use the device for "free" while it was available.
Jeff Bezos Explains How Blue Origin Will Prevent Its Rocket Engine from Melting
You'd think that there would be a sort of temporary wrap sold at hardware stores, covered in/inundated with a bittering agent, to protect any wires you were going to temporarily leave exposed.
Well duh, obviously. They're not going to concatenate entire paragraphs of documentation into the method name. Like so many things it's a matter of degrees. If the method was called table.multiSel() then you'll be more likely to need to consult the docs.

It's not optimistic in my experience. Much of the time when doing code review or bug hunting other people's code, it's less about knowing exactly what a particular method does, as much as being able to rapidly estimate your way to relevant areas.

If nothing else, verbose names can make it faster to ignore irrelevant code.
Bezos: Computer Simulations Will Reduce “Test-Fail-Fix Loop” for BE-4 Engine
Is this a recent development?
It says on Revolv's website that they're giving full refunds to current customers:

"If you're a current Revolv customer, please email us at help@revolv.com so we can help you out during this transition and provide you with a refund of the purchase price of your Revolv hub." - http://revolv.com/
You are absolutely right. Scientists are the only ones to blame for this. It's true, as someone else replied to you, that scientists tend to chose journals based on their reputations but it's also true that nothing prevents a scientist from publishing their unedited manuscript on their personal websites. It's absolutely legal and absolutely uncommon.
Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules
> It is very difficult if you are in the circumstance of having to learn things as you go and having to prodding at things and trying things to figure out how things work.

With respect, it sounds like you are describing a problem caused by not knowing the technology/tooling well enough to begin completing the task, rather than a problem directly caused by procrastination.

That being said, one can easily procrastinate the task of learning too :-)

In cases like this, the first item on the to-do list could be a time-limited R&D task where the goal is to learn enough so that you can compose a more concrete plan.
No spacemacs love? It's by far the most noob-friendly way to get started with emacs.
When you hire the people that determine your compensation, not hard to get rich.
I think he meant that the P4 (netburst) architecture wasn't very good. It was optimized for high clock rates und utilized a long pipeline for that. I had some fellow students back in those days that overclocked their P4s to 4Ghz and beyond, which was quite insane compared to other architectures (P3 and AMD). However as a tradeoff the architecture was not very efficient.

With the Core2 line Intel then moved into a completely different direction with higher efficiency and lower clock cycles. Core2 was considered to be a massive success compared to P4.
If by consciousness you mean the property of having subjective experiences I don't think that is something that you will ever "understand" through a computer simulation.

Personally I do not believe that a computer simulation can ever be "conscious" in this sense. There are arguments for and against this thesis that I'm not going to get into here but even if you believe that a computer simulation could be conscious you will never find objective evidence of that fact because consciousness isn't defined in objective terms.

By no means do I mean to imply that studying the neural basis for conscious experience isn't a worthwhile thing to do. In fact I agree with you that it is one of, if not the single most interesting thing science can study. However if your goal is to "understand" what consciousness is based on such an undertaking then I don't think you or anyone else can ever achieve that goal.
I wouldn't call it "an end", €0.05 extra per MB of data is still very very expensive. It seems like a low number, but people forget it's per MB. Going out, claiming an end to "bill stock", could mean that people will forget that maybe the kids shouldn't be watching Netflix during the holiday, unless they're on WIFI. You still need to disable mobile data when traveling around the EU, because it's not going to be as cheap as using it at home, far from it.
It would be great if RISC-V and other open CPU architectures dominate the CPU and SoC market, but that is going to be a long time coming. lowRISC seems to be the best chance for that.

http://www.lowrisc.org/
The idea of a book that could solve your procrastination problems sitting unread on a shelf is an amusing irony. And I say this as someone who has multiple procrastination books on my shelves. :-)
For me, the 2 reasons are 1) forced labor, we're too proud to submit fully and blindly to the system, we're meant to be free, or at least trust the government more, and 2) all the superhero movies and games stuff which make us worried about not being as exceptional as we should, so we need an excuse not to be exceptional, and that's procrastination. I couldn't be a hero, because I have this mysterious disease which stops me from trying, blocking my potential.
Elon Musk Opens Up a Training 'Gym' to Build Artificial Intelligence
The article's author does not seem to understand what React is for and why people use it.

The article is full of sentences like: it's true React is fast, but basic Javascript is even faster. Duh? It's true React is quite small, but if you don't use it, your site will be even smaller. No sh*t Sherlock?

React was invented to simplify the program structure of medium-to-large applications by replicating the successful data flow of the Web itself: namely, the state of the application is in one place only (the URL in the Web, the state object in React); HTML is generated from that state using one set of reusable and composable templates; and crucially, user events only affect the state, not the HTML itself.

Personally, I'm going back to basic HTML + progressive enhancement, for a variety of reasons. But React is the sanest of all the client-side architectures I've seen so far, including bare-bones web api.
The Cult of the Higher-Order Curves would be a great band name.
You are building a straw man and then arguing with it.
Deep Learning Accelerator brings supercomputing on a stick for neural networks
Computers Might Just 'See' Like Humans After All
But the board hire the CEO. This would explain highly-paid board members, but not highly-paid CEOs.
... But who had dial-up. Seriously, same with AOL. 99% of people had never even heard of the Internet until the late-90s. As much as we disparage them now, they really were ahead of the crowd back then.
Could you also make it work without JavaScript enabled? I'd like to be able to use it with text-mode browsers.
It's important to note that Yahoo's board did not give her a 69% raise this year or decide that her performance over the last year was worth more than $42M. This is the compensation she agreed to as part of contract when she joined as CEO.

Ever year we see a multitude of articles highlighting CEOs of poorly performing companies who had a huge increase in compensation, but they completely miss the point. There is no "news" here, per se. It's just like a professional sports player who signs a very large, guaranteed 5-year deal. It doesn't really matter if the payments each year are equal or if they are backloaded so that the player gets a huge "raise" in his final years. Just take the total size of the contract, divide it by 5, and call that his effective yearly compensation.

Now, it is certainly the case that we can debate whether the board overpaid for Mayer, but that's completely independent of this "news".
I think a reasonable compromise would be to request job posters to link to their /.well-known/hiring.txt [1] at the bottom of their posting.

[1] As suggested here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600376
Amazon Web Services Launches 2016 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge
I meant to fight the limitations that the laws of nature place on human action. I thought that was clear. Obviously, technology can't actually change the laws of nature as they are (assumed to be) immutable. But in that sense, we "fight" them (i.e. their effects on us) with technology to the best of our abilities. Social laws, however, can and constantly do change by human action, and yet SV culture seems to fear putting as much as a fight against them as it does "against" the real laws of nature, and even shows some aversion to studying them in depth (i.e. beyond tallying them with data and statistics, akin to how the early astronomers studied the heavenly bodies centuries and millennia ago).
Because that is what the job is worth and it's a miniscule amount of what the company earns and pays out to the rest of the employees (in total).

Nobody seems to complain when their favorite sports athlete or movie star gets paid millions so why is a CEO any different?

You have to put aside the amount itself (which just seems large since it's such a big number for many) and realize how the economics of it workout.
> windows still 90% of the market

Of all the people on the web, or target audience of your website, or what market?
For paid products, Google is being silly. The easy way to fix it is throw a wad of cash at people plus replace. For the Revolv they should have proactively offered a $200 apology credit in cash and a Nest voucher for a similar product. The cost of that goodwill is less than the negative reception they've gotten elsewhere.
Still, instead of wearing out the cheap & quick to replace break pads, you wear out your transmission.
Quite a few add-on authors say the direct opposite, that an WebExtensions only future will kill their add-ons and that there is no way mozilla will be able to provide enough APIs to stop that from happening.

Some examples:

- https://github.com/hultmann/multifox

- http://www.chrisfinke.com/2015/08/21/my-future-of-developing...

- http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/

PS: It goes without saying that Giorgio and NoScript due to their popularity and because Giorgio is very well networked within mozilla get a lot of special treatment an add-on that has only a couple of hundred or thousand users will not. This isn't a bad thing, for NoScript at least, but does not help other add-on developers.
Superfetch – Nodejs HTTP Client
"for a variety of reasons"---care to share in brief?
Doha meeting complete success, oil market declared stable and infinite
Why Should Landing Pages Be Simple?
Google has access to huge haul of NHS patient data
Even when you do well on the tests they still might not move forward. They won't tell you why. They just say "we're not moving forward" and stop communicating. Guess who I'm never responding to the next time your stupid recruiters spam me.
>much cheaper than a Western Union or SWIFT wire transfer

But in practice, even when a user moves bitcoins between their own wallets its results in that transaction getting registered in the block chain. Which is very unnecessary, costly, inefficient and also may compromise the user's privacy. That's why IMHO some kind of solution whether it is lightning network[1] or sidechains is needed.

[1] https://lightning.network/
Note: Title intentionally changed to be more informative given that expiry is less than 24 hours away.

Angry rant: DigitalOcean is retroactively rescinding promotional credit that was issued prior to their updated terms of service—credit that previously had no expiration date—and did so with only 30 days notice, affecting approximately 280,000 customers in the process.
Settings -> accounts & privacy -> toggle "open web pages in app"
Maximizing Performance [for Linux]
This was one of the first sites I remember finding, in the late 90s. Back then it was hosted on the personal website provided by the author's dialup ISP, eskimo.com, as I recall.

Edit: I just noticed it still is hosted by eskimo.com, it just has its own domain now.
I'm not sure what point you've made.

Print media does have more costs, but its advertising also costs more. Print also has subscriptions/purchases to actually get the material in addition to the advertising it contained so they have 2 revenue streams, allowing the advertising to be simpler and not carry the entire cost. And it still wasn't a great business model with many outlets just breaking even.

Regardless, there were never "millions" of advertisers or publishers like we have in digital which is why selling direct does not work, unless you only want the top 1% of sites to make any money...
yes this what I was curious about as well. Interesting the simplicity of creating snippets with markdown makes it easy to use for posts as well sharing code snippets ala gists
Steph Curry proves what he is worth weekly. I've stopped trying to figure out how American companies decide what to pay CEOs, especially new hires.

It seems like the hire, and pay of most CEOs is more akin to running for a political office?

I've been close to two BOD CEO hires. They were just small non-profits, but both were very similar. They looked at the usual resume, but there was a lot of "Do we like this person? Does he/she look the part? We all don't like X, let's give this Y a shot?"

In other words it was a popularity contest. The way CEOs, I saw, get the job, made as much sense as the way we vote for a president.
There is no reason to use bullshit here.

I think you're completely wrong, maybe you dont know what youre talking about (by not being at exec mulit m position). You judge compensation from your perspective.

My argument is: you forgotten (financial) starting point of her. Jump to yahoo didnt increase her situation x7 (capital) and this is currently widely believed change which must happen to individual to have permanent happines increase because of financial change (inducing financial backed motivation). She for sure is aware of how it works.

That being told your argument against that success and image is not important to her is wrong. It is much more important to her than money compensation.
Assorted pointers:

http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/ on the speed of modern persistent storage and the need to get the OS out of the way for best performance

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/02/custom-stack-it-goes-to-11... on the speed of modern networking and the need to get the OS out of the way for best performance

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/12/19/safe-native-code/ and the rest of that blog on Microsoft Research's Midori research OS, based on C# and type safety rather than traditional process-based (i.e. Memory Mapping Unit-based) security

https://sel4.systems/ for a proven-secure (with many asterisks) native-code microkernel

MirageOS (OCaml) and similar (often Rust-based) unikernels

... and of course, the rise of the heavyweight microkernel under the name "hypervisor"

Each of these ideas has very serious downsides, but each also has earnest proponents.
I use a modified version of the pomodoro technique in combination with David Seah's Emergent Task Planner [0].

The problem you describe is familiar to me - once I am in the zone I can continue there for hours, and taking enforced breaks every 20 minutes would force this streak to end early.

To work around this I just made the breaks optional, and use blocks of 15 minutes (as described in the Emergent Task Planner).

So, my timer goes off every 15 minutes. This breaks my concentration for a couple of seconds so I can reset my timer and tick a box to show I have completed another 15 minute block, and then I jump immediately back in to my task. A couple of seconds is not enough to take me out of the zone, but it lets me keep track of my progress on tasks and see where my time has been spent throughout the day.

Personally speaking, my biggest procrastination problems arise when I lack clarity about exactly what I should be working on at this precise moment, or when I finish a task and need to think of what to do next.

My bastardised pomodoro technique solves this problem for me by always making it clear what I should be doing right now. If my mind wanders for a moment, or I get distracted by an urgent task, this list allows me to immediately refocus without any mental effort. When a task is complete I might take 5 minutes as a break, and then jump on to the next task.

If my procrastination problems sound familiar I highly recommend the ETP approach. Print out five of them, grab a timer set to 15 minutes, and give it a try for a week. Make it part of your morning routine - plan out what you want to achieve for the day, write it down, and start the timer!

0: http://davidseah.com/productivity-tools/
FWIW, I recently bought mikrotik hardware, and my god... it's so much better than the regular stuff I've been using for years.

You need to be rather technical to use it IMO, but they're such a step above the rest you'd be mad not to buy one.

e.g. model to get at the moment for home use: hAP ac. it's a 5 gigabit port router with ac wifi.
A long time ago I was interviewing with Facebook. They told me exactly what to expect from the process. I was actually shocked that they were giving away so much information. I studied for the interview and did very well in the first half, and then horribly the second half. Overall I enjoyed it because of how honest they were.
Not a straightforward answer, but this reminded me again of the "RISKS Digest", or "Forum On Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems", a long running and still active free e-periodical about various computer-related incidents to infrastructure in real world. Highly recommended!

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.risks

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISKS_Digest:

"RISKS is concerned not merely with so-called security holes in software, but with unintended consequences and hazards stemming from the design (or lack thereof) of automated systems."
That is not true, because every free software is open source, but not every open source software is free. (this is me oversimplifying to make a point)
Lawyer leads Double Life
> going to trial obviously wasn't a realistic option considering the plea deals he was offered

And that's why plea deals are an injustice. The honest are intimidated into felons, and the criminals never face a judge.