skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It must suck to read the email, about how great the work you have been doing is:

Relationships are reset, all our work is about to pay off, customers are sticking with us, revenue is as predicted, and oh, by the way, 10% of you won't get to see it. As for the rest of you, please purge your self as desired.

Seems like the company should be handing out shares, instead.
In terms of social standing, below McDonald's is not going out to eat at all. You avoid going out unless you're with friends, and instead pack your own lunch.

In Budapest, Hungary, many of the kebab vendors have little seating room, so McDonald's becomes the cheapest place to sit like you would in a Starbucks (which also exists, and is considerably more of a luxury). I've seen the same phenomenon in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, and Russia as well.
It seems to me there's room to have mandated, policed labeling for certain things (e.g. common allergens, calories, certain nutrients) and voluntary, tort-enforced labeling for more moral or religious concerns. That seems reasonable, but maybe I'm missing some practical problems. Evidenced by this comment section, one issue could be categorizing certain things like GMO and antibiotic use.
I sure bat an eye about it. I won't use Chrome.

I also deleted all the Google apps I could find on my Android phone, and I avoid storing any of my personal data on it, because Google seems to believe it's their machine, not mine. I'd use some other mobile OS if I had any choice in the matter.
You are pretty much describing the liberal guilt trip that is keeping him from occasionally taking his kids to McDonalds. It's pretty clear it's not the healthiest thing you can eat. It's also probably true that you should teach your kids that if, once in a while, they eat something that is not optimally nutritious (say, on a road trip or as a special treat) they are not going to die.
Nope. It means that, should you ever be able to log in to HBO GO on your PS4 with your Comcast account, Comcast won't be able to do much to degrade the stream.

The authentication of pay services is outside the purvue of Net Neutrality.
You'll be definitely be allowed to stay in the UK, but the economy will definitely tank...
I wouldn't consider working for a company that offered only 3 months of severance when I first join them. I don't mind if severance increases by about 1 month of salary per year thereafter, but the initial amount has to be enough to actually sustain your life over the course of an average-case next job search, which includes possibly being forced to relocate, incur travel costs for interviewing, etc., and a need to not have to worry about how your insurance will be provided.

I'd say the minimum I would consider reasonable would be 6 months, maybe more in higher cost of living areas. That's just the cost of doing business.
Long overdue and very nice! I would like to filter by OpenType features, though (e.g., serif font with oldstyle figures).
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted; I think it's a great question.
said by someone who doesn't understand US immigration. H1B is a non immigrant visa, sure, but it can open the door to the immigration process via company sponsorship. I know because I did it, and many others do too. Applying for a greencard from your native country is counterproductive. Basically a 10 year wait for some. Why bother.
We spend $25bn/year to produce 1% of our energy usage by renewables.

In 2015, the total power generation in Germany was 559 TWh. Renewables amount to about 121 TWh, i.e. about 22%. [0]

Newbuild house prices have increased by 40% in the last ten years

That sounds like a lot. From what I can find, construction prices have increased by about 20% since 2005 -- that goes for virtually all kinds of construction, including road construction[1][2]. Must be all the heat exchangers in those new roads... I'm not sure if that figure is corrected for overall inflation, it doesn't appear to be (cumulative inflation in Germany since 2005 is about 15%[3]).

[0] https://www.energy-charts.de/energy_de.htm
[1] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Thematisch/Preise/B...
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baupreisindex#/media/File:Baup...
[3] http://www.zinsen-berechnen.de/inflationsrechner.php
Hover over one and you should see a slider to resize. You can then hit "apply to all."

That being said, I wish there were options to jump to some "standard" sizes.
Exponential growth doesn't happen in one discrete operation, friend.

Here's some more interesting info about the trials for s-ketamine as a tinnitus treatment.

The vision for the company that is trying to bring intratympanic s-ketamine to market as a tinnitus treatment was very interesting to me.

The founder was looking for new uses for drugs that are currently approved and with long safety records, that could be tested on animals.

I thought it was interesting criteria for a low-hanging fruit search of the problem space in medicine, considering regulatory realities as well as financial ones.
Where was Sacks when the macro was running?

Could Sacks have executed this strategy without the macro having been created and run?
Amazon certianly has the power to better enforce what people are selling on their platform and they choose not to. I don't know if it's their business model or they are just dysfunctional. There's been a whole bunch of articles over the past few years about Amazon listing for illegal products. Even if you buy sold and shipped by Amazon you aren't guaranteed to not get a counterfeit because third party sellers are allowed to comingle their products with all other sellers (including Amazon's)
> You could do much worse.

How?
T-Mobile is allowed to do that due to zero-rating, which the FCC is still investigating. I'd expect T-Mobile to be OK (their only requirement is technical; streams need to be TCP); but some of their competitors (AT&T's advertiser-supported model, Verizon's own video service) will probably run into trouble.
> This tries to imply that having a VM is a bad thing.

What net value add a VM (appart something more to handle) ?

> Should this suggest that Java doesn't have trings?

as long as you stick with basic multilingual plane you can consider that java strings are ok

> It is questionable whether this is good or not. There are a lot of good concurrency libs for the JVM.

Concurrency in the JVM is hard to have right
E-voting machines are already generally internet accessible though right?
I see why it seems nuts, but then holding a position for less than a minute seems nuts also.

That kind of trading is not primarily providing liquidity, its primarily skimming and front-running. IMO, it should probably be banned.

However, I think that providing a 95% tax rate is a lighter touch, and allows people to do it if they can find sufficient profit.

I also mentioned being open to tuning the amounts. What rate would you think would be good for such short term trading?
As a side note Wendy's doesn't use frozen pre-made beef patties, instead they get fresh ground beef shipped in and they form the patties. That's another reason I like Wendy's compared to other options.
Why building a data science team is deceptively hard (2014)
You can select a size for a given font by hovering over it to reveal the size slider and other options (desktop version at least), and then applying the size to all.
Are there any course videos available anywhere?
McDonalds is the master in orchestrating food. I love McDonalds and I think their hamburger is the best hamburger, their french fries are the best and all the other menu options have this typical McDonalds design--everything, every single piece and ingredient is meticulously thought through and the final dish has a perfect taste. The taste you get for the carb in-take is unmatched.

It's cool to hate McDonalds, I know and I don't care. All my friends would never take their kids to McDonalds. They even don't take their kids to the movies. This is our generation, all they want is 'organic', 'low fat' and 'please don't hurt' stickers on their overpriced crap food without having a clue how nutrition really works. Especially here in Europe, it's about positioning yourself as healthy and smart when educating others about McDonalds. All obesity in this world is caused by McDonalds, yes sure.

It's true that most of McDonalds' customers rather belong to the one end of the spectrum but who cares? I still think that it's in particular the lower middle class which hates McDonalds and which wants to put themselves above even lower classes. They cannot stop telling others that McDonalds is bad and they have to get now some authentic burger at an underground burger place or a healthy Bircher Muesli for their little ones. Btw, the same folks don't go to Starbucks for the same reasons--because they know a better non-franchise place for their ridiculous fair traded organic flat white.

Actually, it's not McDonalds those people don't like--it's their desperation and urge to be something better than they really are, the fear that people confuse them with being white trash instead of middle class. This is the main reason they buy overpriced organic food at 'upscale' locations. The upper classes do not care at all what others think and go from time to time to McDonalds. They don't need to pretend anything and are aware that going to McDonalds from time to time does not mean that's their daily diet. They understand that's about what you eat, that especially the total daily carb in-take and the right balance of carbs, protein and fat is crucial. McDonalds offers everything to eat well and balanced but it's often the lack of knowledge and education if people cannot manage this balance.

With kids it's even better, McDonalds is the rare example where kids are welcome and it's a pleasure with them. Kids hate long sessions in any restaurant and all money left there is wasted when all kids want is a bowl of fries with ketchup. At McDonalds they love every second and usually they eat more than just the fries. This make the total experience a good and healthy one.

For the record, I am super thin and live a healthy lifestyle as my kids do.
I took this class and it was taught by students. It was really good, but I believe our TAs were above average. Definitely agree about the mixed results of students teaching.
Farsi has four additional letters: : پ [p], چ [t͡ʃ], ژ [ʒ], and گ [ɡ].
Who says we won't figure out how to reprocess it and safely burn the fissile waste in the next centuries? :)
If you want to be boring, try writing purely functional data structures (check out Containers in the Ponyo source via ponyo.org). Otherwise, do something interesting like writing a web server from scratch or a wrapper to FastCGI. These are the kinds of things I do in every new language I want to learn (OCaml, SML, Scheme, etc.).
>Also per the comments the "product" is $10 at the hardware store and this person is selling it for $40 at Amazon so that is an interesting business.

This is pretty common. Amazon buyers who have prime almost never comparison shop. That allows rare/niche items to go for significantly more than anywhere else.
> Because, sure, I mean, everyone I know in software security and pentesting tells me "my first career choice is to go work in IT for the DNC and the GOP", but somehow along the way Google manages after a mighty struggle to outbid the 70k/year cost-center IT organizations offer for security talent.

There is no security talent at google, only fuckboys.
It's Siri and Alexa's World Now
The interesting question is, if this is a sign for an achievement of McDonalds or a failure of the society?
I'd so try a ketamine based product, despite the fact that its regular use is for general anesthesia ... If I remember correctly even SSRIs were "accidentally" discovered by observing metabolizing effects of - and I hope someone corrects me here if I'm off - cough syrup.

Dicking around with the chemistry of ketamine to make it safe and therapeutic as well as pre-cursory enough for consumption to generate the desired effect could take years though, and there still might be issues even then that would prevent it from general use....

Bit off topic - if there's one place where I am for patents, it's for pharma - takes years to find something that works, and when they finally do, it's only natural that they would want to recoup the money.
Correctly Bundling Assets for Faster Sites Over Http2
For a given size transistor the GaN element will switch considerably faster than the Silicon equivalent. We have an enormous amount of knowledge about the Silicon based process though and it's a bit like trying to come up with a better combustion engine: it may not be the best material to begin with but it will be very hard to catch up with 50 years of materials science and process technology on Silicon. It's a huge head-start, but I'm happy that people are looking at alternatives to Silicon. Bismuth based compounds are interesting as well.
From start to finish, bringing a nuke plant online is a 30 year proposition, assuming there are no snags along the way. There are no shortcuts in the offing.
Your edit is the most important piece, and lets T-Mobile spin it as a network optimization program instead of paid prioritization, regardless of how it may actually work.
if you want to start with something simple, have them install Node.js https://nodejs.org/ and learn to use Express (it's a simpler version than Glazed) at https://github.com/expressjs/express (see examples folder)
Look at his post history, he only posts about how German Energy policy supposedly doesn’t work, and lies about facts to accomplish that.

In other words, he’s a troll.
Because you're entitled to their content.
It's popular for display fonts and large headlines, there's been an influence of Swedish graphic design into the web lately and that's a common combination. Pretty effective for titles and headers with bold fonts.
Wow. This isn't a 9% layoff. It's 9% plus an offer for everyone else to step out. It will be interesting to see what the final # is. 20%? 30%?

I'm not a fan of testosterone talk like everyone has to be "All In" when a company is more mature. The only way this helps is if engagement is a real problem, and you need to sort out who is on the bus and who is off of it.

I will say that 3 months of severance for folks who involuntarily leave, and 2 months for folks who voluntarily leave is very generous for a company that is in trouble. It's very close to industry leaders like Netflix and Zappos, and much more than they would need to do.
In my experience, between McDonald's in the US and eastern Europe, the food tastes largely the same, but in Europe it is better prepared.

The meat isn't greasy and never burnt, the wrapper is pristine. The fries are fresh and crispy, never soggy. Service is usually very fast; many places have timers that show how long the order took to be fulfilled.

Overall, it's a more polished experience in Europe.
People hate on Starbucks but it has brought halfway decent coffee to the masses. Yes, the locally owned specialty coffee shop will be better, but Starbucks coffee is not actively offensive the way McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, or office drip coffeemaker (or worse, vending machine) coffee are. Back in the 80s, "cappuccino" was a signal of rich-toff status. These days anyone with $5 in their pocket (so perhaps excluding the absolute poorest) can have one. Plus they really put effort into making something resembling the "upscale café" experience available to the masses. Which means that small town cafés, in order to cater to young hipsters with money to burn, have had to up their game.
We accept the unbounded authority of law to dictate the terms of the internet, or we accept the unbounded authority of Comcast to dictate the terms of the internet.

I have at least token influence over the behavior of my government. I do not have even the illusion of input into Comcast's iptables configuration.

In a truly competitive market it would be different. And I'd love to see a truly competive market. But as it stands, the alternative to government isn't freedom, it's unbounded and unchecked power by the cable monopolies to decide what the internet is and isn't. If someone's going to make that call, I'd rather it be someone I can vote against.
For anybody that's looking for more discussion on this topic:

This is a reddit post with more information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4nxlwi/where_did_phpfm...

and this is the pull request to update the packagecontrol.io reference to the new sublime phpfmt plugin:

https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel/pull/5593
CUDA is generally considered a better API and more optimal (likely because of NVIDIA's driver support). Google's RenderScript is a close competitor that actually looks a lot like CUDA (probably for those reasons) as well as Metal (though not as much).
No, I Farsi fonts are a little different
The title rather than the content spurring the interest is pretty much the point of the 'no clickbait titles' guideline. The content itself is hardly in the 'gratifies intellectual curiosity' category.
Their french fries were even better when they fried them in beef tallow.
It's yet another argument that insists on ignoring the existence of the Tragedy of the Commons phenomenon. It's just invalid to argue that regulation is never necessary.
In the early 1970's, after seeing the kids off to school, my mom and dad would get a cup of coffee at the McDonald's at the edge of the neighborhood, and sit and talk. The employees eventually told them that they thought mom and dad were having an affair; why else would they arrange to meet away from home?

I only tell this as an off-topic fond memory, but perhaps it also serves to support the community idea through being a safe, cheap 'third place', and through the notion that the employees and customers treat each other as relationships, not just transactions.
"Knowing that we have top talent in every vertical reinforces my pride and confidence in Theranos"

Facepalm.
Hi!

I read the description (did not watch video) and wanted to know more about the actual hardware (chip used, GPIO, power consumption, etc).

Project look great, btw. :)
Gotcha, well that's a great point but it's lost in your original post. I agree with most of your examples, except about Apple in regards to both their new AI work and the iPad Pro.

As far as AI work, I personally really appreciate their emphasis on privacy, and that kind of work seems like it would be a lot harder (or nearly impossible) if they were collaborating with another company. I'd rather have a subpar experience and my privacy than a great experience and my data being sold, mined, subpoenaed, or otherwise being made accessible to systems/organizations that I'm not aware of and don't consent to.

As far as the iPad Pro, I don't own one but when I replace my aging iPad I plan on getting a Pro with the pencil and keyboard because 1) these are features I wanted and I don't mind if someone else implemented them first and 2) all the reviews I've seen about them say they nailed it with their own implementation. I don't think they could've done that in collaboration with MS.
He's not talking about once in a while - he's talking about several times a week.
I'm on Edge, scotth, can you unblock my browser?
Or you just use geocoordinates like everyone else. This project is aimed to make addresses more memorable for humans, machines do not have such a problem.
The germany decision is not at all stupid once you read up on the Asse II nuclear waste storage site (or, a more fitting name, Asse II ground water contamination site).

One of our largest nuclear waste storages, and it’s all leaking into the ground water.
Political jargon already has a term for this. When someone claims to be a member of political demographic A, but his ideals are more closely aligned with, or he secretly supports political demographic B, he is said to be a crypto-B.

For example, liberals might hyperbolicly call Trump a crypto-fascist, and Sanders supporters might call Clinton a crypto-Conservative, or a crypto-neoliberal. Granted, it's not used in mainstream political discourse much, but I hear it more on the fringes, and it probably has some academic use.
Or he gets downvoted because he thinks healthy food has something to do with calorie counting or those nutritional information printed on the package.
I have, and I like them. They're extremely crisp. You know exactly when they've been actuated, and they don't "roll" in the corners. I've got a very light touch so the lack of travel doesn't bother me.
> I am pretty sure the cheeseburger, apple slices, and chocolate milk are not much worse, and probably better, than the typical fare on a slapped together kids meal.

Sounds like a false dichotomy. Why not prepare actual healthy food, and not 'slapped together kids meal' ?
How Airbnb manages to monitor customer issues at scale
This is a really good tutorial series. If you're just getting started learning about this stuff, I can also thoroughly recommend http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ by Michael Nielsen.
I Fooled Millions into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How (2015)
Satya Nadella and Jeff Weiner memo's to their staff
Congrats NI!

How did you come across this problem/solution?
> By tech standards, this is an extremely generous severance. And, in the Bay Area, 3 months would be more than enough time for a young (under 30) person to find a job.

Wrong on both accounts. They say to factor about 1 months of job searching for every $10k of salary you seek, and I have found this to be highly accurate when searching in New York and in Boston -- certainly also true in SF. Keep in mind that most SF start-up jobs are ludicrous start-up bullshit -- yes maybe you can easily hop to these jobs, but they don't actually provide enough compensation to support living there. Being able to hop to these jobs isn't a reasonable backup plan, despite how many deluded folks try this for a while before moving away.

> I have to give the CEO credit. He's probably had to fight his CFO and board tooth and nail to get that package.

This is not how companies work. The CEO isn't some champion for the people. This was a careful decision with forethought by all parties, planning ahead for how it would be perceived in media, what impact it might have for future recruiting. If you think of the CEO as some kind of chivalrous champion of the common man, you have a very naive understanding of how companies work, and how bureaucracy in general works.

> Most tech companies, when they lay people off, don't offer severance or even announce a layoff.

In part this happens because of the taboo created to make it "bad" to talk about failure modes, like someone's tenure ending. Most people are too scared to negotiate this because they are afraid it will make them look like they're already thinking about how to leave or something, which is silly.

But in general, this is just false. My experience, at least, and the experience of many tech colleagues I've had, contradicts your claim.

> This is also a way for CEO Sacks to distance himself from the Y Combinator way of doing things. YC would advise him to do the standard sleazy startup thing. He's not doing that.

This is a bizarre comment. While I agree that Y Combinator is sleazy, I think it's clear that Zenefits is awfully sleazy too, and that this severance arrangement is pure sleaze by Zenefits.
It requires enormous sums of money to start. But it is also enormously profitable. Time Warner has a profit margin of 97% on their ISP business. Which sounds about right.

When profit margins are that high capital finds a way. What capital can't do is chop through red tape, burdensome regulation, and noncompetitive system.

Your investors aren't crazy. You challenge titans! But your difficulty isn't going to be technical. It's going to be those titans doing everything in their (significant) power to stop competition. They want to protect their 97% margin after all!
Intentionally or not, taxes are a way of discouraging an activity. If you tax solar, then there is less economic reason to use it. At least until the benefits become higher than the taxes.