skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Similarly, I've also found that people who say "I'm too busy working to bother measuring what I'm doing" are the ones most in need of measurement. (Same with "Too busy to communicate" and "Too busy to meet")

There are reasons for coordination and trust, otherwise 100% of the workforce would be independent contractors.
It doesn't seem like more of a burn than leaving them in a position where they are regularly breaking things. Refusing to either move them into a position where they are more effective (read: less damaging) or provide the necessary training is worse than making up a new sidelined position -- it shows paralysis, inaction, and it's compounded by the negative effect such an employee has on his peers and subordinates (if he has any subordinates). Inaction on that matter can be crippling and reflects cowardice at the top.

The moved person cannot be compelled to accept the position if they don't like it. Move them out of the way, or if they insist, fire them (and this has happened to me -- I wasn't upset that they were trying to sideline me as much as I was that they were not straightforward enough for me to understand the nature of our disagreement until after the arrangement had already fallen apart (for the record, I didn't accept the sideline position)). Most likely the employee would accept the new position and start to look for employment external to the company if he/she was displeased with it.
>product requirements definitely yes

No matter where I've worked, most product is basically no one knows what they want until its built and sitting in front of them.
1. I lived in Marin and worked as a software engineer and then later a research fellow for ten years (still sometimes on and off when they need me). Then I got really bored and moved across the country to start an art commune with old friends from college. We did our thing, went separate ways and I decided to invest what I had left in some land by a river / waterfall. Well one of the people we met from the art commune's dad was an exec, like VP level, for Fiji Water and one day we were driving around and I showed them the land and they loved it and bought it from me for double what I paid. I used that cash to buy a house outright in a dinky little town with enough leftover to mean I only had to work like 10-15 hours a week to be able to retire at 47. I didn't want to program, didn't want to be a landlord or do more flipping, so I went on an acid trip to figure it out and my friend floated the idea as a "startup" as a joke, but it's funny because he was associated with the Body Actualized Center which was basically the same thing before it got shut down (there's a bunch of articles about it, probably the biggest one to get busted in years). So yeah sorry to ramble but essentially I wanted a really weird part-time job and so I just invented one.

2. I personally am not the biggest fan of ayahuasca, but am in awe of it. I respect it and let it do its work upon people but I rarely take it and I have a feeling I never will again. I usually just smoke a bit of DMT mixed with THC shatter when I'm coming up with the client(s) to get into a similar headspace but other than that I'm sober and there to guide and work with the psychonauts. I've taken it four times, each time was different and each time I found new words and new ways to express myself but I'm much more careful about it now. LSD on the other hand I do about every month or so. It is, in my opinion, the finest substance known to man besides cannabis. If you want to have a profound physical and mental experience that takes over your body and melds your mind, by all means drink the potion. LSD lets you have a little bit more control and is less, in my opinion, 'religious'.

3. Do them with people you know and love. Don't go into it expecting wisdom or enlightenment and don't be surprised when the work you create or the thoughts you write are inane and obtuse once you see them through sober eyes. Do it because the mind and body and spirit need to be explored and known in ways that some may see as meandering or even farcical (how many times has acid been the butt of low-rent sitcom gags?) but to the determined can be a wellspring of experience and, perhaps most importantly, a joy that is inimitable.
Sure, but if you're not part of the informal power structure, having some influence through an official structure is better than having no influence at all.

In my (somewhat limited) experience, you need a balance to get good work done: too much official structure slows things down and limits good people, but too much informal structure leads to the kind of place described in "The Tyranny of Structurelessness."
How Snowden Escaped
I agree. I've used Kratom recreationally. It kind of sucks. You have to consume a large amount for any effect (10+ grams) and it has the consistency of ground cinnamon, so you can't simply eat it.

The people acting like a capsule is similar to a narcotic have likely never tried it. The high is subtle.
> Gene drives function only in secually reproducing species

I don't see why this is necessarily the case. Couldn't you, say, slow yeast budding to the point of population collapse?
haha hats off to you MS.....except now I know your tricks.
Past comments give the strong impression that that is GP's goal. I suppose this may be deliberate deception, but I can't see why anyone would bother.
Your salience is delicious.

- A fan
Oh dear god. I'm working on a virtual math world video game, and so I was obliged to check out Active Worlds which you linked to.

It truly feels lost in the 90s.. I can't say I could appreciate the UX. I probably won't be dabbling there. :/

Still, it's pretty cool that it's the oldest online multiplayer 3D world and still apparently has a friendly user base! (They helped me out when I started spouting wwwwwwawsd in the chat whilst trying to move my avatar)
For what it's worth, I seldom use dynamic SQL in stored procedures, and then seldom for the purpose of changing the names of the objects used; usually it is to vary the criteria applied to a query.
Cats and dogs have virtually opposite body language. Cats greet by going face to face. Dogs, uh, kind of greet on the opposite end. If a cat is friendly or neutral, gradually moving your face closer to theirs is friendly body language.

Cat purrs sound to a dog like growling. Meows sound to a dog like prey.

The easiest way to not get scratched by a cat is to leave it alone. If you want cat to like you more quickly, seriously get a recording of purring on your iphone and play it. Cats like to be scratched between the ears and eyes, and like to be petted on the nape of the neck. Anywhere else, you might get scratched.
Yes. They where only going to charge 1200$ to make it open access instead of their normal charge of 2,000$ to make it open access.
Getting worse at displaying the same webpage, while actual webpages become heavier. Here I am with 6 opened tab and 800mb of RAM taken by Firefox.
I don't suppose I really equate what I do with my wallet, and what I do in a bedroom or a bathroom. It's an interesting perspective, though.
You're making an assumption that "freakouts" is necessarily a bad thing. Freakouts can have some severe material consequences (including as we saw, death), but antipsychotics do not necessarily help. Humans have a normalcy bias such that, anything that is unfamiliar are to be considered with caution, fear, and even anger. There's a tendency to use antipsychotics to get someone to a state of what's considered "normal", but "normal" does not always mean healthy.

The shamans who are trained in the jungle and work with this stuff uses a variety of methods to work with those kinds of episodes. These are not fun, and they aren't really safe either. Some of the groups in the US are not trained or equipped to deal with it, and the more responsible ones will refuse to let someone drink if there are prior cases of psychotic breaks.

I do remember in one ceremony, one of the persons there went off on a journey. This was a group I don't usually participate with. To me, it wasn't unusual for someone to go into an episode like that. I've seen it happen in others and in myself. (And granted, I have heard of those who go somewhere and never come back but I have not seen it directly myself).

What was unusual in that case was that there no separate room set aside. Usually, the energies being whipped out of a person like that is intense enough to start inducing things in other people. What it usually induces is fear (fear of the unknown). As people started to get more and more uncomfortable, their own consciousness transmits feelings of judgement and censure ... which does not help the situation.

Ayahuasca is tricky like that. She'll allow situations like that to arise, and see if you're going to be mindful of things; or to facilitate an empathy exercise where you feel what it is like to be on the other side of those judgements. Freakouts like that can happen to anyone -- and likely, the more rigid, the more closed-minded, the more judgemental you are, the more likely it will be your turn next.
Instead of the government trying to protect their loans and end up doing the opposite, maybe the government shouldn't be in the business of lending money to individuals? Government + lending + a supposed social benefit = disaster. First it was with helping people own homes, and now it's with helping people go to college. It sounds nice, but by lending money the government can just hide the true cost of what their doing. (Meanwhile government loans for housing have gotten worse: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21705317-americas-hous...)
GE Seeks to Drive 3D Printing Future with $1.4B in Deals
I've been lucky to have had good HR recruiters, though there was a time when some routinely sourced me really awful candidates and resumes. It got so bad that I started sourcing them on my own. I was so successful that - to their credit - the recruiters asked me to train them on how I did this. These techniques later became standard practice across the company. It was awesome of them to be so open-minded and adaptable.
The set and setting is everything, initially. If you come up in a bad zone, you probably will be 'tainted' in a way - of course, people mellow out and come out of it but a lot of newbies freak out initially and it spirals. Personally I wouldn't take ayahuasca in NYC unless it was in a huge apartment with a garden or like maybe a house on rockaway beach, but with regards to, say, LSD or DMT, once you have, shall we say, marinated in a good environment and found your footing, the second or third time user can pretty much go wherever on it. When I lived in NYC for a spell I loved tripping in central park by the Met and walking down to times square. Some people call me crazy but i have never been so inspired and entertained in my life. That was back when there was this incredible cafe in an old ballroom, the Hotel Edison Cafe I think it was called and that was like my headquarters for city trips.

But upstate is 100 percent the way to go. The Hudson Valley is the most beautiful place on earth to me and there are tons of amazing amazing places to explore, like old mansions, crumbling stone forts, just like straight up lore-making kinds of environs to let your mind unravel.
Rather than a hard cutoff, you could have the colours of everything on-screen desaturate as time passes beyond the expiry date, eventually ending up entirely monochromatic.

I think that would get the message across quite effectively :)
Eh. At every large company I've worked in or with, even if there's officially one boss, the reality is it's a committee. Worse, when in the middle of a big organization, you're never really sure who has authority. Someone lower on the org chart might call their friend who is an SVP from some other branch of the company, they fly in to have their say... it's all politics, no matter what the org chart says.
Does age discrimination even uphold for remote work?
Giving your HR group the benefit of the doubt, in my experience, when the pendulum has swung that far to the "process" side, it's because the company has been burned in some way in the past.
‘Freddie Mercury was a prodigy’: Rockstar's Panchgani bandmates remember ‘Bucky’
raises hand

I don't feel loneliness in my gut; I feel it in my head.
I can be both not interested in guns, and not be comfortable around amateurs handling weapons (in any setting).

The question was about the latter, not about the former.
What If Evolution Bred Reality Out of Us?
I can't totally hate Tron 2: it gave both Emacs and a Real CLI screen time. But neither that nor Olivia Wilde makes up for weak writing, and a nonsensical paint-by-numbers excuse plot, to say nothing of choices which undermine the aestetic, in the sequel to a movie that lived on aestetic, and actually had a less paint-by-numbers plot (somehow).

I don't want to hate it, but I don't feel like I was given a choice.
I hope that's not true.

Surely if the "leak" is the result of an employee acting unlawfully, i.e. maliciously leaking their employer's intellectual property in contravention of their employment agreement, then the leak does not constitute a disclosure.

If it did, then IP-based organisations would have an absurd level of exposure to the bad actions of any employee, and would have to impose equally absurd security measures - cavity searches at the exits, anyone? - on every employee with access to IP.
"When you say those are the programs that they're "supposed to run", I ask, who gave them that mandate?"

Congress, elected by the people.

Most Americans are supportive of the USA's actions as it relates to spying on Putin etc.

As far as snooping on Americans, it depends on the type.

If Snowden is a 'whistleblower' - he should be talking about things that are clearly out of bounds. When he talks about normal espionage activity - he's committing a pretty serious crime.

The 'whistle blower' who blew the lid in the Abu Garib prison scandal was well protected by the US.
GOLD Rallies, Eyes Further Upside Pressure
> they have to be bought over and over and over again for any new hardware.

Nintendo is just absurdly bad at anything to do with "online".
Compile-time checking the existence of a class template
This is the dark truth about education that no one likes to talk about. It's almost all about what happens in the home. What happens at school is irrelevant by comparison.
Who are your competitors? I'm not a nomad so maybe some other service would be better for me, even though it looks like you've got a lot of cool people registered.
I probably was assuming that. What about the grid makes it so you can't have transfer power outside a subdivision? I thought this stuff would just automatically be two-way, but I'm far from an expert and would certainly like to know better!
If you're around Hudson I'm sure I'll bump into you sometime. The code phrase I use is "Will no one help the widow's son?"
just carry some catnip in your pocket and you'll be the life of the cat-party everywhere you go.
The adjective word order we all follow without realizing it
Why would it be a ton of extra work?
here is another option -

https://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/nodej...
> unwilling to budge

I respect explanations, not assertions, nor titles. Maybe that's why I have trouble with large companies.
Yes, but my phone was remotely disabled and I don't live in front of my computer.
Bank fraud, medical fraud, and Ponzi schemes are not typically committed in the open with government and public support.
We've reached a point where a lot of consumer hardware simply can't be upgraded. The ideal of just adding more RAM isn't possible (or perhaps practical in many cases). MBPs can't be upgraded at all these days. My Lenovo laptop can, but going 16 GB -> 32 GB requires far more than $30 since I'd need to buy 16 GB SODIMMs.

That's also a bit beside the point. I have a workstation with 48 GB RAM. I left a browser running in the background and had one tab consume 20 GB on its own before I killed it. Many of these leaks seem to just be unbounded memory growth, so that hypothetical 2 GB you add is going to be eaten up in short order anyway.
Good spot. Following that link, there was an "up next" video of what looks like a trade-show demo of an "Eigenharp" - in which they describe "Touch 3D": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9qPf31xYnY

Not quite "3D Touch", but it makes you think!

(Amazed to see that the company behind this "instrument" appear to be still in business: http://www.eigenlabs.com/
Good point. It is also technically correct to say "that it seemed likely not to be true"
> It's never used anymore, I suppose, except for the old school people who still have enough muscular memory built up to write it that way. I know I do; I learned it from some computer magazine in the 80's and have a hard time letting go.

I was born after the 80s, and I use that shorthand (although I suppose this probably says more about me than it does about the shorthand itself). I didn't even understand the original comment until I read through the whole thing because I mentally read it as "Ctrl+D"
Tron 2 was more of an extended Daft Punk music video than an actual movie.
But you should definitely listen to Reason.
Babies sometimes cry loudly.
Yes, it does. Not sure why, but:

http://i.imgur.com/vvQNuQX.jpg
If you get the chance or you are guided to it, you should try Ayahuasca with someone who carries strong medicine. Here's what I mean by that.

The shamans who train out in the jungle are trained directly by the plant spirit. Each plant carries an energy, a consciousness, and a host of insights and realms connected with it. The icaros of the Mestizo tradition will call upon those plant spirits with whom the shaman has gained a relationship with. And by "gain a relationship with", usually means ingesting and working with the consciousness of that specific plant -- some requiring cycles of years to establish a powerful relationship.

So when such a shaman sings, that plant spirit is brought into the ceremony space while your consciousness is open. In a group setting, it will express itself in a form that somehow blends what you need with what the group needs. This means that the medicine coming through in an Ayahuasca ceremony facilitated by someone trained in a lot of plant medicines will not just be bringing Ayahuasca to the table -- but also specialist medicines that Ayahuasca enables as a "master plant".

It's also not just the material you are using. The relationship you have with the Ayahuasca spirit will inflect and influence your own experience. Ask her about this next time you decide to try it at home again.
In my experience XFS is rock solid. We use it almost everywhere at work. I've never had an issue with hard reboots with it. Only recently started playing with btrfs, so can't speak to it's reliability from personal experience.
I would also add that practicality definitely comes into play. For example, there's a GBC emulator for the GBA that is written entirely in ARM assembly because that was the only way to make it run fast enough. There is a certain amount of accuracy that was sacrificed to make it work, but the fact that it actually runs games at playable speed is notable in-and-of-itself. It probably could have been done more accurately, but that doesn't really matter to most people if the games run at completely unplayable speeds, accurate or not.
I think that's a really good synopsis of Stephenson's style, which is in part why I like his writing. There's always these little gems of actual knowledge buried in there. I find them delightful.

I'm not super fond of the way he ends things, but the journey along the way always has fun side trails to explore.

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I find it hard to believe that this does any more damage to peripheral nerves than jamming a steel wire into your fingers over and over (aka--playing guitar).
Ha, I never knew! Thanks for adding this; who would have thought my 20 year old anekdote would get a refreshment. :-)
One of the interesting things from the slide shown in the article is that they're extracting the azimuth and elevation of roof based satellite dishes from aerial imagery presumably to cross correlate with the satellite orbits and whatever comms they're eavesdropping on.
I think you are right, and I've at times struggled to explain why I enjoy his books as much as I do. I think ultimately he leans regularly on a facet of SF that in that genre, ideas and abstractions can be the equal subjects of character development. Cleverly developing an idea (e.g. mind virii) and circling back on those ideas, exploring how different facets connect in different ways, is the kind of thing one does with a human character, but can also do with an "idea character" in SF.

Obviously the craft and virtue of that kind of thing is in the relationships of the concept to other elements of the tale, both human and non-human. This I think Stephenson does very well, but I can appreciate that for someone who doesn't extend subjectivity largesse to abstractions, it can be tedious to read wikipedia-like explositions, no matter how well done. :-)
The hardest lesson I learned my first year as a Product Designer
The entire concept of a corporate death penalty (in this case enforced by ITT no longer being eligible for federal student loans) is something that is not implemented nearly as frequently as it should be.
You shouldn't worry about software being late. Work at a good clip with the time you have. This is just the norm for this industry and the only managers who presume otherwise are themselves novices.
It is frustrating that Firefox makes it so easy to delete recent history, but difficult to remove old stuff. I really only want the last month or so; why do I have to clear it manually?
Or type ~? for a list of escapes.
I'm pretty sure lead poisoning is a myth.

As a teen I used to habitually chew on lead solder while I worked on electronics projects.

No adverse effects so far that I'm aware of.
Dosages are not standardized. They are customized. The point isn't to try to get you to fit into a mold; a big part of this is to come into a wholeness of being.

The day we try to standardize Ayahuasca dosages in order to create a map of causal effects ... that's the day we missed the point of this.
Sure, evaluating that someone is respectful, tactful and approachable is best done with a few hour interview. Riiight.

Anyone who believes that should be immediately fired. Those things come out in a few months at earliest, as does lack of professionalism or competence. Even a good judge of character needs a sample in non-contrived circumstances, which a hiring interview is not.

I'd actually like to see hard research data on this... What I have is soft data on how people are in general horrible judges of character. In that plain old days mining is often more accurate.

"You do not truly know someone until you fight (with) them."
I liked the original thesis of this article, which sounded like it was going to talk about why we would never have another Rock'n'Roll genre, but instead the article spent a lot of time talking about why Rock was never great to begin with. I'm not sure I'm convinced as I still love a lot of that music and I am what you would call an early Millennial (to reference another comment on here). Rock is/was great and its idiotic to dismiss it because of the lyrical content.

But anyway, I do agree that there will never be another Rock genre in terms of popularity. Music is just way too segmented. Even the power of popularity that will get the masses to listen to a hit only has a fleeting power in the face of choice. Sure I could enjoy this Taylor Swift song since its on the radio every day, but I could also easily turn on Alabama Shakes on Spotify and enjoy that.