skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I find it interesting though that you'd put off long papers– why not do those early too?

The expectation on those was that you would write a long paper about what you learned from the course. Therefore, there was no clearly defined starting line.

I also hated writing. Grading always seemed subjective to me. If the teacher liked you, you got high grades. If the teacher didn't like you, you got low grades. It wasn't like math or science. With those subjects, there's a single, provably right answer. The opposite of those 'creative' courses like literature.
> What is truly holding back many developers is the above cargo cult that the path mentionned in android.developer.com is always the right one.

Yes. I sometimes think we need to embrace an "Android-free Android programming" approach where we use builtin Android components as little as possible and better written 3rd party components and libraries for everything else.
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> which just never happens. So that nonsense aside, I honestly do not know what the opposition to at-will employment is.

You don't understand it because you have declared that the argument of the other side to "never happen" and declared it "nonsense" to begin with.

But if you think it never happens, you are being naive and wrong. I have over the years had first hand knowledge of plenty of people being fired for reasons which have nothing to do with work performance at multiple companies. I've managed to stop some other attempts in the companies I've worked at, others were entirely out of my control to do anything about.

> I believe if you're bad at your job, your boss should be able to fire you. That day.

Even if we were to stipulate that no boss ever abuses this to fire you for unrelated reasons, this is also a strange attitude to me.

If you're bad at your job, your boss did a bad job interviewing you for the role and/or did a bad job providing adequate training. Also, if an employee is that bad at hiring the right people, I have little reason to trust that they are not also bad at ensuring they only fire people that are objectively bad at their job.

A process that does not give the employee some degree of recourse to argue their case and/or try to redeem themselves seems to me to be inherently one sided, unfair and abusive.

That does not mean I believe that an employee should be allowed to coast forever, but there is a massive gap from firing instantly to letting some coast forever. Such as e.g. the typical UK process, which usually involves raising a concern and formally drawing up a plan for improving performance together with the employee, followed by warnings if targets are not met, and finally termination. Yes, some people takes the piss and uses this to collect a paycheck a bit longer, others take it seriously and improves and become valuable employees; others will decide to leave on their own accord once they realise they will fail to meet requirements.
This is a good list to start with but there are a lot of things that can be added/updated.
For example, I do not consider using Telegram or Skype as an act privacy cautious people do.
I had a similar 'secret language' experience, though not at all related to AS. I have a diabetic pet, and the vet was explaining how to use insulin. Naturally, one of our concerns was cost. He kept mentioning how he'd seen many people use insulin for months after it's expiration-date. He was clear that you should "always follow the instructions", but that occasionally he'd seen people use old insulin, and, as long as they were consistently checking their glucose, it worked fine for them.

We finally figured out his message: The insulin expiration date might or might not be valid. Testing is better than going by the bottle's expiration date, within reason of course. He couldn't tell us to ignore the date, but he could tell us about when he'd seen it work past the date.
Is Ontolo the fastest crawler, parser, indexer?
A bug bounty acts as a legal agreement (read: implicit contract). The CFAA doesn't void contracts between two parties.
Paul, are you doing this for your own needs? Where are you located?
Absolutely, but at the same time it depends on what you value in a language. That is kind of what this whole conversation is about, after all. English is garbage from any compative measure of language quality, its grammar is irrational, it has thousands of edge cases, it does not even use the entire range of human auditory sounds. But that constitutes a linguists evaluation of it - for probably 99.9999% of human beings, language is there to facilitate communication, in which case all the grammar breaks and eccentricities go out the window for the singular overriding and essential value of - do you and the other person speak the same language?

That is why English is so important now, since about half the world knows it, and the difference between knowing it or not could be the difference between perpetual poverty and improving standards of living.

In the same way, the cultural aspect cannot be considered relevant as much as the grammar cannot be, because the importance of having a language to communicate is overwhelming. There will always be people that like languages and learn them, language diversity will never die, but I also would wonder how you could ever hope to replace English with something better. It is the kind of thing that logically should seem obvious - a university department of smart people, or a global consortium, could come together and try to architect a language optimized for everyone, that has firm grammar rules and uses all the auditory notes of the human voice range, and prioritizes making common words short and such. But once you make that language, how do you teach it to the world? And in between, are you proposing people learn English and Earthish at the same time?
Honestly, why invest time re-writing an ES2015 transpiler? Hasn't this area already been sufficiently covered by existing tools (especially since the author explicitly "limits [Buble} to ES2015")?
the web is often better without javascript. I keep a hotkey ready to enable/disable it, best hotkey in my browser.
"The old argument was that unsupervised pretraining helps get proper weights faster, but this has largely been disproven."

Do you hold that to be true in general, or only when using dropout?
Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Devices [pdf]
Was expecting this to be about Paypal's API.
> "Is soldering this even realistic? How long did that take?"

Disclaimer, I'm getting old. In the old days we soldered our S100 computers, and something like a 18 slot backplane had 1800 connections, and generally worked. Not unusual for a single card to have maybe 500 or so IC pins, 50 decoupling caps (100) and lets say 100 pins for jumpers and connectors. So it would be equivalent to making an entire S100 computer. I would estimate many tens of hours total.

Also I never did it but no small number of people soldered up IBM PC clone motherboards. There were also clones of Apple-II and TRS-80 model 1 in kit form.

Surface mount is a lot easier because once you learn how (and after 1000 or so components you'll be pretty good) there is no more flipping the board upside down over and over or snipping off wires. After 0204 RF chokes and microwave capacitors its nice to slum with giant digital logic parts so big you can pick them up with your fingers. Why some of the larger IC packages are so large that the device is no longer affected by solder surface tension (around say 100 pin TQFP size)

You rapidly learn tricks like using the same brand of IC socket thru the whole board and keep a wooden board around the size of the PCB so you can stuff and cover and flip and solder all the IC sockets simultaneously. Another trick is to always remove the flux, not because it electrically matters but because you can't do it without 100% inspection of each joint, and you'll probably find one or two to clean up per board. Because you probably don't own a wave solder machine it also saves time to solder bypass caps on the solder side but beware of clearance issues the board might not fit anymore LOL.

On my infinite list of things to build is the transistor clock around 2700 soldering joints. Totally doable. That might be a good place to start.
8200 IDF intelligence unit graduates team with Arab entrepreneurs
People really, really shouldn't be driving under those conditions, either.
That is true, but like the article stated, there is much more relation and science affirming the connection between BAC and an impaired ability to drive than there is due to pot. And I'm sure that there are plenty of people that simply don't get caught, and more that would otherwise not get caught if it weren't for checkpoints.

If we don't have the science, technology, nor a fair way to test, I'm not sure how making pot-specific laws is going to help do anything other than make people feel like something has been done.

At least with better controls and better general laws, it makes everyone safer. People that can't drive accordingly, regardless of any drug, probably shouldn't be driving at all.
I have such mixed feelings about the open office plan.

On one level I agree with every complaint that comes with this article and all the pro's of having a quiet closed off space.

On the other hand, there have been many occasions where someone overheard a conversation and injected something useful, or where I was able to do the same. There are some times, where being able to work AND talk with folks is a HUGE win for your collective productivity. I grant that this may come at the expense of others productivity, and that is the downside.

Some of the most productive projects I have worked on, have been when small teams (3-6 people) have taken over conference rooms as work spaces. We had the benefit of being "open" with each other, without the ambient noise of everyone else. The disinclination to speak out loud for fear of disturbing a whole office (its just my team members) went away. Headphones became effective with quite music (or a good set of over ear headphones blocked out people without music). I can think of one experience with a team where I didn't enjoy the company of 1/2 the team members, yet still managed to be highly productive in this setting with them.

My last several employers lacked enough conference rooms for meetings, never mind having spare ones to take over. It isn't just open offices, it is a lack of enough "Private spaces" that compounds the issues associated with the open office and makes them far worse.
Nvidia is doing a pretty damn good job at staying the only viable choice for machine learning. Or amd's lack of action is, anyway.
Fair point. They make things simpler, not easier
> There are lots of conforming C programs (just look at the huge list of software which compiles on a huge list of platforms).

And look at how much of that list breaks when a new version of GCC introduces a minor improvement in optimization.

> just look at it this way: If you want to write a program in a language, and you pick C, your program will run on more platforms than if you pick Python.

That is the question to ask. And your answer simply isn't true. It will (in the overwhelmingly likely case) run on more platforms if you pick Python. Certainly if you hold costs constant, which is surely the only way to compare. If you're willing to spend unlimited time and effort on portability then your C program will run everywhere, but so will your Python program (since you can just port the Python interpreter).

> This is true, regardless of any other argument you might raise, simply because Python won't run on a platform until C runs on that platform (since Python is written in C).

Not actually true (Jython exists and could run on platforms that don't run C), but it doesn't matter. It is overwhelmingly likely that the Python interpreter will run on more platforms than your C program will.

> We've been over this. Ad nauseum. Please stop trolling.

I'm not trolling. Maybe you are?
Self driving company
"Everything that we found in this study is consistent with the
notion that the perception of creepiness is a response to the am-
biguity of threat. ... We are placed on our guard by people who touch us or exhibit non-normative nonverbal behavior, or those who are drawn to occupations that reflect a fascination with death or unusual sexual behavior. People who have hobbies that involve collecting things that we are predisposed as a species to fear such as spiders or snakes,
or things that can only be acquired after something has died (e.g.,
skulls or bodies to be stuffed) seem creepy to us as well. We are also wary of individuals who have a preoccupation with monitoring the
activity of others.

"While they may not be overtly threatening, individuals who
display unusual patterns of nonverbal behavior, odd emotional responses, or highly
distinctive physical characteristics are outside of the norm, and by
definition unpredictable."
recommending a product from a company you work for without disclosing it is icky
An Admin's Foolish Errors Helped the FBI Unmask Child Porn Site 'Playpen'
As far as I can tell, nothing. You're basically just saying a crowd-funded mutual fund would be possible, which seems correct provided the company filed the proper paperwork for it. I'm not sure why investors would go with something like this over just putting money into Vanguard, though.
Understanding caching in Postgres – An in-depth guide – Madusudanan
I don't know, but I remember reading from the involved Sun people that this wasn't the plan. Bonwick and Cantrill I believe. In the end what matters is the result more than your intention, when it comes to legalese. Sun could have gotten back to its former glory, but the lawyers somehow decided, maybe knowing they'd like to sell the company, that they needed a new license (CDDL). Or, you know, we're all just speculating and have no idea anyway. The end result for the wider tech ecosystem is painful. Had BTRFS been liberally licensed, it might be shared just as the graphics DRM bits are between Linux and the BSDs, and we would have a more mature BTRFS, maybe...
In addition to being misleading, this article is also two years old (April 4, 2014).
Yeah. And "ImageButton" is a subtype of "ImageView" so it isn't a "Button". But it has button states.
Not sure why Buffet decided so late to invest in apple. Returns will not be as high as pre iPod or iPhone era
ETF still have different replication strategies. To the customer they guarantee to track the index, however they might buy completely unrelated stocks or options to achieve this. The replication strategy should be an important factor when buying an ETF.
Well I'm certainly not littering my code with SO links. But when there's some particularly hairy problem that SO provided a solution, or an odd looking piece of code that I got from SO, I'll throw the link in.

If the code is self explanatory or not particularly interesting, then there's no link. If its worthy of a comment, its usually worthy of a SO link.
The key point in the article is actually the tests used. THC stays in the body long (days/weeks) after you're no longer impaired.

If a breathalyzer test on Tuesday picked up the beer you had last Saturday, there'd be no correlation between that test and accidents, either. (and no one would approve of using such a test for law enforcement).
they just forgot that only the paranoid survive.
My company is participating in the new regulation crowdfund rules via WeFunder. It's been a more rigorous process than I expected. To raise over $100,000 we needed reviewed financial information. For an absolutely new company this would be easy (and a reason to note higher risk for an investor) but we have been operating for two years, making it a bit more rigorous.
I wonder how hard it would be to add these targets to the game DEFCON. At least on my Mac Steam install, there is a main.dat resource file (really just a RAR) that contains citites.dat TSV data. Latitude, longitude and a mystery boolean value. I wonder if the mystery bool indicates that the location can launch missiles? Either way, I think every city in the list is a potential target, probably weighted by population.
This feature is planned to be compulsory, therefore the web apps responsibility to disable it if their audience is sensitive to such errors.

The bug in this case is in English, so the English language has to be fixed to reflect better to the times we live in. Tools like nlp_compromise are reflecting to the current state of English, not the other was round.

In theory, language is a tool that you can replace if you are not happy with it. People who feel offended by the gender-aware languages have to option to use a gender-neutral language, such as Hungarian. ;)

(Side-note: I more than happy to support a curated version of English, but only if it becomes a phonetic language. That would make billions of people's life much-much simpler.)
Running maybe (and I say that as a runner myself) but even then the jury's pretty much out.

I'd imagine that spending the few hours it takes to walk 10-20 miles sitting instead would be far worse to long term health.
It's common for a company to pay less/more depending on the candidate, ie DOE

It's not common for a candidate to accept less/more depending on the job.

As such, it seems more reasonable for the recruiter to state a range "$X-$Y" that they'd pay. No one can assume they'd pay $Y, because there no stated criteria for which level of experience they'd pay that much for.

On the other hand, a candidate that specifies "$X-$Y" will likely get an offer of $X, because they've stated they'd be willing to go that low.

Another way of stating this is - a candidate only has one product to sell. There's no expectation of getting more for paying more.
> The biggest protection a worker has is his ability to quit and find another employer.

That's only ever a protection as long as your skills are valued and in high demand. Which means it's only a temporary protection, and only for a minority of the population.

> All other "protections" usually end up costing you someway or another.

The "other" is misplaced here, if all you have is the ability to quit, you have no stability[0], you have limited bargaining power (and are pretty systematically in a position of weakness), and the cooperative incentives with coworkers are very different, and arguably lower.

[0] and things get worse if you own property (now your "protection" is tied to property markets), a partner (now your "protection" may be tied to fucking them over) or dependents
I took a couple labor management courses in college. One of the things the professor said has always stuck with me:

"Management gets the union it asks for."

Almost every union in the US and the UK was formed in the face of withering hostility from management. It's not surprising that the union would be antagonistic in response.

EDIT: typo
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Yes, all those things affect your ability to drive. You shouldn't text and drive, but people do it, etc. I would say being stoned is a lot worse than the other things you listed though:

- When you're tired, you can have a cup of coffee and wake up a bit and regain some of that focus. You can't drink a red bull and suddenly be way less high.

- If you send a text or two while driving, you're not paying attention to the road for a few moments (which is admittedly still crazy dangerous). If you drive stoned - you're driving less safely the entire time you're driving. The combination of the two is even worse.

- Having a heart condition doesn't mean you're going to necessarily have a heart attack every time you drive - there's just a higher risk that something might happen. Even in that case, you may be able to stop/pull over. Once again, if you drive stoned - you're driving less safely the entire time you're driving.

- You can have a backup pair of glasses, you can pull over, etc.

But my main point - just because there are other things that can make the already insanely dangerous activity of driving more risky, doesn't make driving high less bad.
A great analysis of the Mukherjee article referenced in this article.

"...the word “epigenetics” isn’t just being abused in the wider press. It’s been abused by scientists as well..."[1]

[1]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/05/12/epi...
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That's correct, Google save provides similar features. Klart is targeted towards makers/developers/designers and the features will be tailored for them (and me :)) such as color extraction, organizing etc.
Oh, I'm quite sure it wasn't public. I had an OkCupid profile at one time (thankfully deleted, and even then it had no identifying details and was linked to a dummy email), and the only reason I agreed to sign up was the site's assurance that absolutely NOTHING was publicly visible unless you had a profile.

So, yeah, at the risk of breaking my attempted objectivity, I'd be personally thrilled if the guy got sued.
Give me my late 20s any day! Loved 'em!
Sometimes you aren't even consciously aware until after the fact, it feels like a direct ear-fingers connection without consciousness mediating it.
This could be interesting. What does this mean for hostile take overs though?
Driving while high should definitely be banned, but it kind of seems like they're making a big assumption here.

>The percentage of drivers involved in fatal crashes who recently used marijuana more than doubled from eight to 17 percent between 2013 and 2014.

How are they ruling out the fact that since it's been legalized, more people in general are using marijuana?
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The main issue here is: Intel doesn't want to work on stuff with lower margin(even though it can make money and it's strategically valuable). That's common to many businesses.

Isn't there any financial engineering trick to enable companies to solve this dillema that often leads to their death?
Team-shared Responsibility
This is true, don't immediately after waking up, when very tired, etc..
A big company that is profitable is invariably found to have evolved from a small company that was profitable. A big company created from scratch is never profitable and cannot be patched up to become profitable. You have to start over with a profitable small company.

With apologies to John Gall ;) I feel there's some truth to it.
Blockchain tech used to improve transparency in clinical trial research
> The person had bags under his or her eyes

This makes me wonder, are we all destined to become creeps?
car companies OTOH ?
Robert David Steele and the Open Source Intelligence Paradigm