skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what was shared with me should be public knowledge or not, but based on how the numbers were come up with, I think most employees would've received high 5's to 6's. Not sure about early employees, or if there really are any. Marcus had already made it quite big already (millions per month in ad revenue) when he was just a one man show.
I've been reading the fantastic "Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/zones-control) recently.

Good stuff on everything from modeling counter-insurgencies in games to a history of Amarillo Design Bureau, who acquired the rights to Star Trek TOS in 1981. When nobody cared.. In perpetuity.. And have been creating an alternate canon for one of the world's most popular franchises since.
This is happening because Putin is a dictator, and so he hates the free flow of information, or anything else associated with democracy.

And for those who say in the US we have the NSA spying on citizens, I say yes, and that's bad, but the flow of information is still a hundred times more free.
Fastmail lets you write sieve filters. Not exactly the same but you could port them over, right?
Hardly. Not providing a web interface or allowing any SMTP relay at all immediately comes to mind.
I appreciate you taking BI supporters who are unable to rationally justify their positions to task.
My company hires tons of PhDs.
The forced part is. If you actually choose to smile, then it is not forced, right?

I'd like to meet a person who actually can "smile for themselves" most of the time.
One attorney I know pursued several claims against scam schools a few years ago.

Of the schools he had investigated, he said DeVry was unusual because it was trying to operate like a real educational institution.

Federal loan money has distorted for-profit and non-profit institutions. But it's depressingly uncommon to find for-profit trade "schools" that actually care about educating students.
Haha, the longer I stay in the software biz, the more I believe paula = "Brillant" to be a true story. The sad thing is, that there are tons of talented programmers out there who actually know what they are doing, getting rejected interview after interview because of "culture fit", while charlatans like paula BS and charm their way into job after job, trashing their projects and moving on to the next one as soon as their ruse is about to be uncovered.

Chalk it up to yet more evidence of how tech interviewing/hiring is utterly broken.
If you don't switch between them frequently enough it can be very difficult to deal with. For example, when doing a search in vim I often confuse what needs to be escaped and what doesn't vs a grep. And the escape syntax between perl compatible regexs and mySQL regexs are significantly different.

They are subtle but they can cost valuable time while mentally context switching between them.
It's really not about self actualization though. I think your therapist may have been a CEBT/REBT dabbler.

The authors of the REBT books I mentioned are at odds with most everyone other type of therapy. One of the books strongly critiques psycho analysis (searching one's past for psychological wounds) and concepts like AA. For this reason (being at odds with other therapies) the authors recommended therapists that specialize in cognitive behavior therapy alone to get the maximum benefit. Again there are slightly different therapies: CBT, CEBT, REBT, DBT - I don't make a distinction that I probably should.

In essence it's about getting in the habit of talking to your brain, interrupting a thought that can easily become a habitual pattern, and disputing what one thinks by default. It's a search for evidence for the thoughts we believe without question because they come from our own brain.

In a conversational sense it's a bit like separating yourself from your thoughts and telling your brain:
"That's an interesting thought. It's ridiculous because there is no evidence to support it and it's self-defeating because all it does is harm my mood - but it's interesting. In all the ocean of thoughts that are available you bring me that? How about you go back to the well and bring me something constructive, positive, or at least funny. I don't have time for nonsense."

What I find useful - and again I've only read books about these techniques - is that they can also be applied to negative people in my life. It works externally just as well as it does internally.
GMail's "perfect spam filter" is so bad that it is the reason my institution moved away from Google services. It's also the main reason so many people consider it 'impossible' to host your own email.

It's anything but perfect. It's a black box, with no user-serviceable parts inside. Completely useless for any organization with needs that deviate from Joe User.
A new biography of Jacob Neusner, one of the most-published authors in history
I had a Boox Lynx T68, which ran Android 4.0.3 (and now 4.4.x? beta supported by ereader-store.de). It had Google Play, which was generally convenient. However, there were two issues: the processor was so weak that the apps that I wanted to use (Google Play Magazines and Zinio) didn't run very well. However, the ability to run most of the Play apps was a good bonus.

I am looking at the Onyx Boox Max as well - it also has the same OS version support but perhaps a better processor. The price has kept me away but I window shop it often :).
"In the eye of the beholder", one might say ;)
This is a very serious moment for Docker the technology vs Docker the company. It's important that this discussion is happening, and I don't necessarily think that the only result is a hostile fork--a cooperative fork here is possible. Docker has done a lot and they should continue making great services around the core technology, but that needs to be balanced by the ecosystem it's part of.
All the stuff I mentioned has essentially zero application to writing a server script or a website backend or a commercial application, is the thing. It's like knowing car engines backwards and forwards, but never actually getting to drive one.

I should mention, also, that our programming exercises were in C++ exclusively, on the campus Unix system exclusively, and the only development environment we were ever officially taught was vi. Not even Vim. IDEs, debuggers, webcode, and GUI libraries were never mentioned. Hell, they didn't even teach us anything about CLI or vi beyond the absolute minimum needed to create a file, compile it, and run it. I spent some time trying to figure out how to just get a C++ compiler on my desktop so I wouldn't have to mess with vi anymore, with no help whatsoever from my classes.

I have never had to use C++ in my entire career since.

I've heard the same complaint from a lot of my classmates. The ones who were successful right out of school were the ones who were working on their own projects outside of class, and learning that way--which some people will say that I "obviously" should have been doing myself, but in my teenage naivete I assumed that the curriculum I was paying so much to receive would actually teach me what I needed to know.
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I think the intuition is that we want to focus on the edges of the box (where the lengths sum together like the answer we're looking for), not the volume (where the lengths multiply together and cause problems). So we expand the edges until they completely dominate the equation.
This may be confirmation bias but I feel like since the Megaprocessor thread[1] I'm noticing an increase in hardware-simulation related posts. Can't think of them all off the top of my head, but see also:

* Nand2Tetris[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12317217

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888705
Do you live adjacent to a GA airport? Where else could one expand the wings, accelerate, and take off with their flying car?
Many smoke detectors/alarms still use it. In Australia smoke detectors now have to be wired to the house but have a backup battery in case of a power failure.
Are there any good email servers which aren't horrible legacy messes? No UUCP support, no M4 macros, no ancient C code?

I once looked at writing an immediate email forwarder in Go, a mail forwarder for servers that don't receive mail. It would, upon receiving a message via SMTP but before replying with a status, open a connection to forward the email, and return the status of the send to the input SMTP connection. No local message storage at all. Runs in a jail. It's not hard to do this as a minimum viable product in Go. But all the anti-spam stuff you need today makes it a far larger project.

It would be interesting to write both that, and a pure SMTP to IMAP server. No local mail access, just pure IMAP. Together, the two programs add up to a mail server much simpler than most today.
"If it weren't for a systemd-related bug..."

I've started so many sentences with those exact words, and it kind of saddens me. I'm still hoping that the problems with systemd aren't fundamental to its architecture, and it just needs some more polishing. It certainly is incredibly ambitious as it aims to replace on the order of a dozen different pieces of software, so some hiccups are to be expected.
I found flights to Milan on Where we fly at 67 €
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Thanks. A bit like how a 10% investment loss in year one followed by a 10% gain in year two leaves you worse than even.
He only had to forfeit the proceeds? Wow, that'll teach 'em!

Note how he started and grew his business right in the depth of the recession, starting in 2008.
How do you define it is better, how do you validate it?
No. I have seen very bright people who really suck at coding and require a lot of hand holding. They are good general problems solvers and good at math but simply cannot get the engineering mechanics of coding right. Software development, especially large scale software development is a combination of engineering, design and crafting with long hours also put into rework and testing. It appears not everyone is suited to this process.
Several immediate things come to mind:

- this is a mechanism for sharing files and directories (e.g., zipped csv files), whereas noms defines its own structured data model that is much more granular

- noms has versioning built-in, you can track the history of a particular dataset

- this is firmly based on bittorrent. you could maybe run noms on top of bittorrent, but it's more intended to be run like git, where you talk directly to a server that you want to collaborate with
Yes, but it's not likely one will be able to get sufficient amounts from natural sources each day. That is, the typical approach is to supplement with 8mg, 12mg, or even 16mg/day for 12 weeks (to saturate the body), then with 2mg or 4mg/day thereafter.
Look for another job.
I currently use a Kobo Aura HD (same display as the Onyx Lynx T68 but no Android). Replaced the Kobo firmware with Kobo Start Menu and KOReader [1] and I now have about as perfect of a barebones reader that I have been able to find in my quest so far. I was very unhappy with the stock Kobo firmware: the scanning on startup to build a sql-lite DB of my books was insane when there are 15+ GB of books to scan. The alternative firmware provides a file manager and an excellent e-reader application and that's all I have ever wanted in a basic e-reader. I have yet to see an "indexing" solution work well and I dread seeing them in action now given how absolute time sinks they have been for me over the years.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/3h83ls/how_much_does_...
I don't think the parent comment/thread was correctly read. The point is that an ideal OS would consume no resources leaving them entirely for the applications to use. The OS caching frequently used applications is different from the OS itself needing resources.
It'll be a cold day in hell before that idea flies. But how do you balance the mob voting themselves bread and circuses, against the wealthy voting to let the mob starve?

I think I still like the Starship Troopers, "Service guarantees Citizenship" model better.
It's not a conflict of interest any more than accepting any other public service, like fire protection, is.
+ a $5000 upfront deposit.

We* do the opposite and offer a 100% refund if the student isn't employed as a developer within 6 months of graduation.

As for the original comment, some coding bootcamps are starting to publish stats on graduate rate/outcomes (a few of which are also 3rd-party audited). The industry as a whole still has some bad eggs, but it's getting better.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/25/students-are-demanding-the...

*https://www.thinkful.com
You are overlooking that all the residents gather together each day. Once a visitor has said something nontrivial, after that the new information each day comes when the residents gather, and discover who did or didn't commit suicide the night before.

Also:

> For instance, if the number of blues is 25, and the (merciful) stranger says that the number of blues is not prime every day, no one ever has enough information.

This is not correct. Saying "the number of blues isn't prime" just once would be sufficient to start the process, as would "there is at least one blue", etc. It doesn't matter that it's not new information to any one villager.
If you combine this with studies about the tipping point of ideas starting at about 10% of the population [1], it means SV already has enough of the programmer population to create self-sustaining trends in software.

I don't know whether to feel glad or be worried :-)

[1] http://news.rpi.edu/luwakkey/2902
This is a big deal. One of the weaknesses of NNs is their time/memory complexity. Having to store every previous state and iterate backwards through them to the beginning of time, to learn. And if you want to learn "online" then you need to do that at every single step. It's unlikely the human brain works that way, and that has been one of the big arguments for why the brain can't use something similar to backprop.
When I first started college in 2012, I probably spent the same amount, if not more, on access codes to submit homework. A lot of the justification I've heard from professors is the fact that now we get access to the terrible, terrible, so called "eBook". As a CS major, I thought this was great, because I wanted to be on the next "evolution" of books and higher ed. I was thinking how great it would be to have vocabulary words and important ideas indexed throughout the book. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case.

What you get is an expiring version of the text that forces you to deal the the absolutely horrendous UI of this "book". The menus and header take up well over 50% of the page and then the actual text is loaded into an iframe which loads up a flash player.

My last year, many of my professors have moved away from this and started doing their own thing inside of Blackboard. I never would have thought I would be happier to use Blackboard but in this case it is so much better and there is no extra cost.

I guess it comes down to the question of why educational software must be terrible to use. I'm thankful my professors eventually realized this and solved the problem in other ways. Of course towards the end, I was in higher level, smaller courses but I still think there should be a way to open source these classes and the technology required for them.
>I think I still like the Starship Troopers, "Service guarantees Citizenship" model better.

Agreed, sign me up. Power should always be balanced with direct responsibility. If you want to vote for the government to do something, you better be able to pay in blood or treasure to see it done.
10-15 hours per week is your max?

Do your clients understand that playing / trying out new things leads directly to you building the finished product?
Or is your playing truly separate from any of your client work?
Oh these were great!

I didn't know about them though. My project's inspiration is due to the fact that I love JS and had a computer system architecture course wherein I learnt VHDL.

I felt that the NodeJS Events API could probably help me simulate a `signal` driven system and thus, I started experimenting :)
"Last year, it enrolled 45,000 students and reported $850 million in revenue". That's about $19k/year/student. Just to put that in perspective, a 10 day Cisco Network Engineering course from Unitek in the Bay area (last time I took one, great school, at least in network engineering) costs $8,200. The issue isn't the cost, honestly, $19k/year isn't that expensive, the issue is whether they are delivering value for money.
Many studies have shown 5-HTP is about as effective as SSRIs for depression and OCD. Memantine has also been shown in studies to work well for OCD (and sometimes even depression or anxiety), and that's mainly because it's an uncompetitive NMDA antagonist first, then an Alzheimer's treatment option (as it has been pigeonholed into being).
>It's not a conflict of interest any more than accepting any other public service, like fire protection, is.

You are correct, voting for a public service while being unwilling or unable to pay for the service is a fundamental conflict of interest. You ought not be able to vote if you aren't able to pay for the policy.
> stack protector providing any sort of guarantee makes me chuckle.

Why? stack protector prevents overwriting returns and it works. It won't stop overwriting data and that's known. Would you turn it off when compiling anything?
I worked at a game store in high school, around 1987 to 1989. This was before Magic: The Gathering was released, which really up-ended the game world. We carried the full contingent of Avalon Hill games, including a big war game selection with a whole library's worth of ASL books. You could always tell the guys who were coming in for Squad Leader stuff. They stood apart from the D&D nerds.

At some point in my tenure there, I traveled up to Baltimore to go to Avalon Hill with my boss. They had some sort of distribution center there, with a lot of miniatures, and I went to pick through their bins of random stuff and select the things that I thought would sell well. It's a great memory.

For any 40-something folks from the Washington DC suburbs out there, the store was Dream Wizards, in Rockville.
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Would they do that or just become more aggressive at debt collection?
My attempt at the Perl 6 version of the example:

rx:i/^^
[ <+ alpha + digit + [._%+-] >+ ] ** 2 % '@'
'.'
<alpha>** 2..*
$$/

Notice that this avoids the repetition of a pattern.

Of course, it'd make much more sense to write a grammar:

grammar Email {
token TOP { <name> '@' <domain> }
token name { <valid_char>+ }
token domain { <valid_char>+ '.' <alpha>** 2..* }
token valid_char { <alpha> | <digit> | <[._%+-]> }
}
They should have consulted their lawyer before making that "press release," as they call it. Perhaps she could have explained to them the difference between libel and slander.
pmichaud is likely referring to just the market place of technical schools like ITT/Phoenix etc. and not comparing them to competing with public/private colleges.

The ecosystem for HVAC schools is a competitive one where the winning HVAC program gains on the losers through a marketing advantage, not a teaching advantage.
Employee: Fired by IBM because he “didn’t use MS software of any kind” [PDF]
Wait a second. Anyone else see the 'The Tick' pilot? Wasn't this the opening sequence, Superion falling to earth and killing a bunch of reindeer?

That aside, this must have been one heck of a lightning bolt. I've been within few meters of one with no ill effect. It must have been nothing compared to this monster. Or could it have been several bolts?
To further this point, it is much faster to get a green card if you possess a Ph.D. rather than a Master's degree. Not only can you apply for the outstanding researcher category, but I believe you also get priority for the regular process. For Master's holders, the process in 5+ years now.
VHDL is really verbose compared to Verilog. Some people love that verbosity, but I prefer to see more "action" in a screen of code.
The maintenance sold me. As in, there is none. It's freaking awesome.
I would like to get some feedback on the implementation.
That's quite good considering the speed and that you also go more direct line compared to a car.
They probably aren't that different.. For profit schools are going thru the ringer now precisely because they don't deliver an education. Could a PhD program or law school face the same scrutiny? Possibly. It will be interesting to see how the legal arguments against the for profits unfolds.
gaze tracking is not eye tracking
True. I had VHDL in my 5th semester and it was easy to get started with it.

Let's hope the community shows some interest in my efforts to make this library the best of both worlds - verbosity with action :P
I was very concerned there, but for more than one reason.

He started out volunteering to replicate the study and also helping the researchers out a LOT with the experimental re-set-up. Then, when his research is found to be suspect, he starts to throw doubt on it.

Or at least that is what the news article author wrote. Both groups, the new author and the researchers, have incentive to recast what the results of the re-do say. One to sell ads, the other, it is implied, to keep tenure or something, I dunno.

Looking at the redo, there are many good reasons the original researchers have to continue to say their research may be 'good' still. Reasons that the rest of the field entertains and to some extent, believes.

Still, to your point that they may think it is impossible to replicate: That means that no real research occured in the first place. If they are seriously arguing, as the news author implicates, that a research team cannot ever replicate a study, they what they are doing is not 'science' or even psuedoscience. There then is NO POINT to doing any of the research in the first place. If you can't prove an effect, even with large errorbars or something, then you are wasting your life and the money of others.
Leaf tires tend to last a little longer than ICE tires b/c they are over-inflated, low rolling resistance tires. Handling suffers of course and an educated ICE driver could get similar results pretty easily.
The sizes you quote for B5; are those per episode or per disc?

Also, using a 3d denoiser on B5 will drop the bitrate a huge amount without trading off much quality. There is significant grain in those (though seasons 1-2 were worse than 3-5 IIRC).
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The observable consequences of PhDs are higher salaries and lower unemployment than Masters, Bachelors or lower [0]. PhD students also spend 'the best years of their lives' working deeply on something they care about. Where's the fraud?

[0] http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
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> If it weren't for a systemd-related bug, I'd have a one-command way of getting a Kubernetes cluster booted

Damn, could you explain what this is specifically? Running a Kubernetes cluster on NixOS was next on my list of architectures to test.
Pomodoro technique is just a tool to force you to concentrate in your work. Personally I use both pomodoro and org-mode. Sometimes it works for me sometimes its not.

I would like to suggest another tool or option for you to try though this is not about pomodoro technique but if you wanted to be productive, you might want to read this book:

The Power of Concentration

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Concentration-Theron-Q-Dumont/d...

There is a free audiobook in librivox:

https://librivox.org/the-power-of-concentration-by-theron-q-...