skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often have this feeling -- but it is because it's impossible to explain a mass of technical background to connect my current work to buisiness goals (assuming there even is such a connection).

That's a process problem. Teams I was on with this problem needed to get better at spreading such background knowledge (e.g. by having code review).
The 'std lib is where libraries go to die' was invented by Python. The libs are shallow, don't break backwards compat and provide a substandard experience. Things that continue to improve provide an out of tree alternative package name. Python codebases that are resilient don't use much of "core", arrow for time, requests for http, simplejson, etc. Using core is an antipattern that will get you stuck on a version of the language which is ridiculous.

Linking the language and the libraries together is a mistake.
It is possible that that query is kicking off some extremely resource intensive search although that it really just a guess.
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Ahh yeah good point. FB's scale is very interesting, it's like we solved scalability then FB came along and was like, ah crap we need to resolve scalability. And different teams are solving their own problems different ways.
Status emails are not a "Potemkin supervisory framework". They're a scalable way of communicating progress broadly in a way that can be referenced later, rather than an ephemeral way to communicate to one person.
>>The only real solution is electric cars plus significantly reduced speed limits.

Which isn't a solution as it would be like saying "the only real solution is no automobile (cars/vehicles)", because people will want ever more speeds.

So I guess, we must look for other better solutions. Somewhere I read that some chemistry researchers (AFAIK at Purdue university) are trying to improve the road building material/tyre surface material such that the noise caused by the impact of tyres on the roads is reduced. They claim that the noise caused by the impact of the speeding tyres on the road-surface is a very large noise cause.

Sorry for not being able to provide link.
They're great to make sure the zipper doesn't unzip during transport because of handling.
>For instance, I just fit out my apartment with Phillips Hue lights, and when I walk in the door I ask Alexa to turn on the lights, and the whole place lights up. Give it a try

Yeah, but that's hardly different than the clapping to open lights thing though, is it?
Watch out for over-generalization, especially when the thing you're generalizing is a geographic shape.

(In GIS, "generalization" is what you might also call "simplification" - reducing the vertex count of the borders so you have less data to deal with.)

Take Scarborough Reef (aka Scarborough Shoal) for example: #6 on the list with a Roundness of 0.9. It only has four vertices, a simple squarish quadrilateral. Is that what it is really shaped like? You be the judge:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarborough_Shoal_La...
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There is less than a year of data about the amount of energy put into the ocean by the Juan de Fuca ridge [1], and only classified data about other oceanic volcanic hotspots (this was collected by the navy's submarines). I think the certainty expressed by advocates for anthropogenic climate change is not justified.

[1] http://nytimes.com/2016/01/12/science/midocean-ridges-volcan...
How about YKK zips. They sell 7 billion a year. Not bad for a branded & non-edible product.
I suppose they COULD be, but there's no current reason to believe they are. And Sweeney ran this story previously right before Build, and Microsoft's response was to show Steamworks running in UWP. Microsoft people directly responded to Tim then on Twitter too. And I actually tweeted with Tim Sweeney after the announcement as well, I'm pretty sure he knew what they announced at Build: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/715240126897590272

So it's weird this post is becoming a thing now, after he demonstrably knows they're not (currently, at least) trying to do that.

Reading the parent post: "The risk here is that, if Microsoft convinces everybody to use UWP, then they phase out Win32 apps. If they can succeed in doing that then it’s a small leap to forcing all apps and games to be distributed through the Windows Store."

That's not a small leap, it's a huge leap. And this is an inherently fallacious statement. It's equating a technical one, swapping an insecure app format for a secure app format, with a policy one, blocking third party apps. When, as a closed platform, they could block third party Win32 apps if they wanted to just as similarly. They could make Win32 apps ship through the Windows store, and I believe they discussed it at one point. It's silly that he's particularly equating UWP, a security feature, with a platform lockdown, when the platform lockdown could easily come with or without that security feature.

And even if this imaginary reality of Tim's became real, we currently have two viable OSes that Steam works great on that aren't Windows. So Microsoft would have to weigh their perceived gain of a lock-in against the potential loss of the gaming community. Ubuntu wouldn't have a hard time attracting gamers if Steam support was solid, and was kinda broken on Windows.
HTML doesn't do anything for JS other than provide a way to create visual interfaces. It might be comparable to the role that `tkinter` plays for Python's stdlib, but HTML alone is emphatically not a standard library.
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Because, in the end, it's still an invasion. I always assume it will happen, but there's some small comfort in knowing this time it didn't.

Especially, as it is, that I find the security theater of the TSA both absurd and to be a gross and unnecessary invasion of privacy. But I am faced with the alternative of simply not traveling, and being forced to choose between the two... well, like I said - to me, anyway, there's some small comfort in knowing this time, at least, some dignity remains.

I realize it may be illogical, but emotions often are.
"the cost of food is a good proxy for the cost of the inputs to that food." An "organic" apple probably has a lower energy cost than a factory farmed one even though it costs much more. It is more likely to be harvested by hand instead of by gas powered tree-shaker and net, it is more likely to be pesticide free than have a gas powered plane spray it with pesticides, etc. I don't see any evidence for "cost" and "energy required to produce" being as correlated as you claim. Also it doesn't matter because, at wholesale prices, $5 in beef is ALWAYS fewer calories than $5 in apples or carrots or lettuce or whatever plant you pick.
> It's another thing to completely ignore the fact that
> the libraries and community _are_ the language, in the
> only ways that actually matter.

I'm unclear, what is this aimed at? Who's ignoring anything?
seven for the Dwarves, done. 10 to go. And the master of them all.
Vizio designs products and has other companies make them. They have ~400 employees, all in the US. They aren't making TVs themselves.
The typography and music composition both communicate volumes for this show. The band (SURVIVE) behind most of the compositions is totally stellar too... https://survive.bandcamp.com/
It can happened with a small team spread across a number of projects too.

Or sometimes you just really don't care.
There's the important question of what the state does, rather than just how much state you have in absolute terms of people employed or percent of GDP. Most of the world's "big governments" have fairly small deep security states (little surveillance, no secret police, no arrests without evidence, etc.), while the world's premier "small government" society has the world's most massive security state.

This is not a coincidence! The more social hierarchy you wish to maintain with your state, the more violence your state must wield. When you want to eliminate systematized violence, on the other hand, you come to understand that you need to actively combat social hierarchies and inequality.
If "iPhone" is a single product, I bet that one could find a group of Nokia phones similar to each other that sold a billion pieces. Single Nokia models sold 250 million alone.
This show was a great watch for me, and I think the typography and music were absolutely key in doing so. The entire feel of the show was a reminder of my youth, and I had a lot of fun with Stranger Things.
Thoughts on Managers Too Preoccupied with Being Liked
They would not go buy all of this in proof.
We also have Spidermonkey and JavascriptCore, nothing has changed.
Proof shows it's not included to html5. But including to something. I have show proof about who owned HTML 5 company and logo. It's William who owns it! The other one!
My team adopted Geekbot as we transitioned from in-office to primarily remote. We tried a handful of tricks and tools early on, with Geekbot the stickiest. Spending 30 seconds submitting my report while getting up to speed each morning is an easy routine. Nowadays, I prefer Geekbot to in-person standups (and definitely don't miss the interminable ramble that they too easily fall into).

I think you're right to wonder about alternatives, though. The aspects of Geekbot we use would be fairly easy to replace with a bot of our own. Geekbot pricing has a very narrow sweet spot, which I imagine varies significantly by team.
"Send me your status in an e-mail" is a way for a lazy, un-engaged manager to dot his i's and cross his t's. If you're doing a good job managing your direct reports, you'll have a good pulse of what they have been up to at a resolution of at least one week, without being a micromanager.
The US military is doing this with its personnel.

The US military got stung very badly in Desert Storm I with people coming home sick with no way to see what went wrong. They decided not to repeat that mistake.
This show was the complete package and one of the most entertaining shows I've watched in some time. It had something for everyone. I can't wait for season 2.
No, mostly stolen by robots :-) Seriously though, most of the reduction in US manufacturing labor is due to guys like us: we automated the hell out of it.
Amazon has 1 page per product, with all sellers listed, even "used" iirc - nice. eBay is indeed a mess.
There's some truth to this, but "can be optimized" is not the same as "there exists a compiler that optimizes".
Your statement gets repeated a lot (and similarly about the JVM: it has run-time information that compilers don't have, so can optimize better), and yet C++ and Fortran continue to come out on top.
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Hey @antoineMoPa,

Sorry if that rubs you the wrong way. That expectation applies to only one career option, the "I'm really smart" option. We put this in because we want people who want to join Vase, but do not see themselves in any of the positions currently offered, to pitch us what position they want, and why they're a really good fit for it.

Given the nature of creating a position specifically for a candidate, I think it is a fair expectation on that candidate to prove why that position is necessary in Vase, and also what value they bring, hence the "Expect no pay until you prove your value."

That being said, the position that @amagnasco expressed interest in, Operations Intern, is definitely paid, as are all the other defined positions we have.

I'd love to pick your brain if there is a better way we can do this though @antoineMoPa. We want to attract great people, and know that sometimes they may not see themselves in a software engineer/sales executive/data analyst role, (which is what we have on offer), and this seemed like the best way to attract driven people who will create their own role in the company.

Do you have any ideas?
Lua's lack of a stdlib is also a curse. I can't imagine how many incompatible versions of string.trim and OOP libraries are out there in the wild right now...

Things have been getting better lately because of Luarocks but its still an uphill battle.
Oh are they? Then explain to me, why it's always white men If your argument would be valid, it would be a random selection of the author's gender/race. So either we live in the most amazing statistical anomaly or you are full of shit.
Right, noone should. Except people who decided not to be obnoxious ignorant douchebags.
Languages that have Zero knowledge proof are not necessarily a subset of languages that have a PoK, for example Graph Non-Isomorphism is a CoNP problem, and so unlikely to have short witnesses. The classical protocol for GNI is not PoK, I believe.

PoK is a stronger condition than soundness.
You have NIZKs that can do this efficiently.
https://home.idonethis.com/ for remote teams.
The headline here is in the 10-Q (http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/2510477685x0x901...)

2016 Q 2015 Q 2016 9mo 2015 9mo
Net Income $7,796 $10,677 $36,673 $42,270

They dropped 2 points of margin and with it nearly $3B of net income compared to this quarter last year. ouch!
But you're only setting yourself up for disappointment by expecting them not to look. They are very explicit that they randomly screen bags so getting upset when they actually do it is pointless.
Electric scooters have a much smaller tire surface area, which is probably a big part of it. Wet roads, too, caused by that -- more area to slap water.

I don't even hear the tires on the little Google Pods they're driving around Mountain View these days, which seems to have little bitty tires like a smart (wise for efficiency), but the drive is quite audible. As an aside, it's oddly futuristic, though; I think they did that on purpose because when it goes by I get confused and think I'm in Star Trek for a minute. It genuinely sounds like background foley in Hollywood future movies, and I'm not sure I really mind it.

I'd laugh if Google put all this money and time into self-driving cars, a big executive-involved project at a behemoth, and in the end the engineers gave it the Star Trek background-whirr noise on purpose.
your intuition is wrong. first of all, inspections are recurring, usually unannounced.

second, new restaurants buy used equipment. if they didn't inspect upon opening, what do you think would happen?

third, there are such things as turn-key restaurants, meaning a new operator simply takes over a kitchen and re-opens it under a new name/concept. nothing is shiny or new.
The music reminds me of John Carpenter e.g. Escape from New York, Halloween etc.
Another way to be sure is to carry a gun:
http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/232/how-can-i-prot...
>I wonder if this is just coincidence, or if the recent explosion of Islamic extremism is a new variation on Fascism.

Several authors have studied the connection and found that the earliest Islamists (as we currently know them) actually cited the European fascists openly and approvingly, being contemporaries!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_and_Liberalism

http://eustonmanifesto.org/the-euston-manifesto/
Nothing to do with being blissfully ignorant. They are explicit in that they randomly search bags. Going through all of this effort to say, "ha! Caught them doing what they said you would do!" seems like a fruitless exercise.
This is nice, seems like it is trying to distract from the quarterly results (13% drop in net income from the same 9 months last year) though.
Well Panasonic literally owns big parts of the factory (and will be the ones making the batteries!). They are going to be partners for a very long time. In my opinion it's actually a lot more likely that Tesla goes bankrupt and it becomes a solely Panasonic factory than it does a solely Tesla factory.
> That market would be much better served by electric trains

It would be, except for how difficult (right of way) and expensive it is to expand the rail network, and the extra work in moving between modes (since the last mile will be truck anyway).

Adding pantographs or inductive or something to for trucks to use on existing highways would be a lot cheaper and quicker to scale up than expanding rail.
I feel you regarding the last half of your comment: the historical cul-de-sac of the post-9/11 years.

But I am appalled by your blithe assessment of Trump's possible first term. I think you are failing to appreciate how easy it is for the right person to whip up resentment. It has happened elsewhere. We are not immune. The downside could be huge.

From an Adam Gopnik piece, referred to upthread:

"Those who think that the underlying institutions of American government are immunized against it fail to understand history. In every historical situation where a leader of Trump’s kind comes to power, normal safeguards collapse. Ours are older and therefore stronger? Watching the rapid collapse of the Republican Party is not an encouraging rehearsal. Donald Trump has a chance to seize power."
That's unfair. LastPass has always been transparent about their problems, much more so than other companies like Dropbox.

And there's nothing in their response that tries shifting the blame: https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/07/lastpass-security-updates....
Xiaomi isn't explicitly mentioned in that article and I have no doubt they put backdoors in their products for the Chinese Government. I guess my question is, would you feel differently if they were a US company and it were the the US Government holding the keys to backdoor?

There's a reason China has been investing in developing it's own CPUs and telecommunications hardware and it isn't so that it can more easily spy on others. It's because they themselves no longer wish to be spied on... and maybe so they can spy on everyone else a little too.

I'm not saying it's right. I don't know what I'm saying actually. I'm just going to grab some tin foil...
This technically already happens
Hey @amagnasco,

I was hoping you'd consider the full-stack developer role actually, given your clear interest in infrastructure. To clarify, that is a paid position, without the "expect no pay until you prove your value" condition, as we just really need good tinkerers right now.

Also, given your background in PoliSci and your current interest in R and machine learning, I could also definitely see you in an analyst's role. We don't have that up on our careers page yet, but as I've mentioned above, we're open to creating a role for you if you are a good fit. :D
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I think JavaScript is used extensively in web development but almost not at all anywhere else. TIOBE places it at 7th place:

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index

RedMonk with its more web-centric focus places it at #1:

http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/01/14/language-rankings-1-15...
The difference of course is that one is discrimination based on law, while the other is a minority of bad actors acting illegally.

>It's not so easy to hide that one is black.

Sure it is. Wear a burka every time you are in public. This suggestion is also as ridiculous as suggesting that people hide the fact that they are gay.
Anybody else notice in the first episode that the automatic dishwasher in the diner had red and blue PEX lines?
Also depends on your experience. Junior/Entry-level positions _can_ be harder to come by in SF. Then again, I am just biased since I've been looking since February.
Xen-like paravirtualisation has always seemed to me as more of a convenient way to run multiple well-behaved guests on the same hardware than any sort of real security/isolation barrier, because of the cooperation that has to occur between the guest and the host. It's sort of a leaky abstraction. I think full virtualisation or even emulation can provide stronger security/isolation, although the tradeoff is performance.
Agreed! Instead we use a Slack channel called #todayiwill and people just enter a few bullet points when they get in.
To accomplish the same thing in awk:

$ awk '{if ($3 < 36) print $1; else print $2}' data.txt
doe
jane
jack
bob

Python has a lot of strengths and is better than awk at a lot of things, but one-liner column based text processing on the command line is literally awk's bread and butter.
That's kind of the point I was trying to make when I said that sending weekly stats is valid. I'm not saying that status emails are implicitly bad, I'm saying that they're poorly implemented.

The problem is that status emails containing substantive subjective summaries of the challenges faced by the person writing them are often used by incompetent managers as a replacement for constructive dialogue between them and their direct reports. At least, this was the case at the two companies I worked at that had a required status email as part of the weekly drumbeat. And I've heard a fair amount of anecdotal evidence from friends at other places that the problem is widespread.
I liked how this show was set in the eighties, but wasn't about them. It could almost have been made thirty years ago.

One of my other recent title sequence favourites is 'Halt and Catch Fire'[1], again set in the 80s, in no small part because of the nod towards Apple's advertising fonts[2].

[1]https://vimeo.com/97089384

[2]http://i.imgur.com/xuCBYgZ.png
Haha! I don't know how you intended your comment, but I just had a funny thought of filling out a 1099 for blackmail.
The computer requirements are exactly the same, what, did you think the Vive came with a GPU onboard?
This "clever" security measure would be annihilated in case of a well planned attack targeted against a single individual.
I wonder if JavaScript just doesn't show up as much in their sources because it's implied?

At least when I've been job hunting for web-related work, your typical job posting lists the back-end language and the front-end is just assumed. (Things might have changed with all the heavy-duty front-end JS frameworks out there now.)
Ah, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
We have something similar internally as well. Everyone messages the IRC bot their yesterday + today + blockers, and it sends out an email midday to the team. Much more efficient.
I actually liked the linked article about the art of OKR more. While I've been exposed to SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Timeframe?) as a missionary, for some reason it didn't ever really carry over into the real world.

I do feel like OKR has a fair amount in common with GTD as well, though I'm not actually familiar enough with GTD to assert that, though from the outside they are similar.
>You'd find a huge sampling error because of epigenetics.

I'm skeptical that, just now that we know of epigenetic effects, they will invalidate all previously existing roughly-Mendelian genetics. It's not like people's eyes change from brown to blue if they're stressed in childhood.

So, you wouldn't necessarily find huge sampling error, you'd find sampling error proportionate to the epigenetic effect on that particular gene. Is that large? I suspect not for many genes we'd be interested in.

>Does it matter that I might have special tolerance genes which protect my brain lead fumes?

I don't think this is how epigenetic effects work.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has rewound just to watch the intro again. It's typographic pornography.

Stranger Things is one of the best shows I've seen in a while. That 53 seconds is still the best part every time though.
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i use and love Google Cloud Datastore, but it also falls into this proprietary umbrella.

Though honestly you should never write your app directly against a database schema. ORM or FRM (functional relationship mapping) is how it should be done.