skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problem is when the difference between technical leadership and management is not recognized. While titles can help, without a clear technical leader on top of that they are clearly not enough. And, most importantly, the titles must be in phase with the actual capabilities of people. Otherwise it is far worse than no title. And obviously, a good technical hierarchy can be quite hard to bootstrap in an organization where the culture was officially flat.
Things like this are done all the time, especially in the medical & insurance fields. Companies will buy up domains like diseasename.com & service-city.com and create a site, do some inbound/"organic" marketing/SEO and then rent it out for the purposes of lead generation.

Some companies that do this in the medical & service field will control the customer communication chain and supply their call center and appointment setting, too.

It can be fairly lucrative if you can get the right niche (medical, malpractice, etc) and are good at inbound marketing.
In case you would rather watch the talk than read the PDF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H6jd5yG7_A&list=PLH15HpR5qR...
Also ^| (as in, "control pipe") which is a synonym for ^\. At least for me, | is faster to hit than \

And since we're on this topic: if I write a for loop in bash that runs a slow command 1000 times (ImageMagick comes to mind), and I realise something has gone wrong, is there an easy way of breaking the outer loop?
Might be we have different chunking. In my preconceptions calculus is the first necessary stepping stone to the other stuff you mentioned. I have no idea how to approach Fourier transform conceptually for example than by the calculus route since the integral form is always introduced first. It's true linear algebra and calculus don't often meet at first - until one needs to do coordinate tranforms from e.g. spherical coordinates to cartesian.

It's true I don't need that suff in my daily work that much. But I recognise a lot of problems I might meet are trivial with some applied calculus. Like the newton iteration, which you mentioned.
Is the apology for posting something that should have been HTML as a PDF?
I agree it's a knee-jerk reaction, but it seems that study is warranted rather than just praise. Seems like an interesting plant.

From a November 2015 paper entitled "Following 'the Roots' of Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa): The Evolution of an Enhancer from a Traditional Use to Increase Work and Productivity in Southeast Asia to a Recreational Psychoactive Drug in Western Countries" [0]

Note: reference numbers changed from original, and where appropriate, non-working or functionally empty URIs were replaced with working ones,

"...findings show that regular kratom use is associated with drug dependency, development of withdrawal symptoms, and craving [1]. Many regular users declare their difficulty to abstain from kratom use and experiencing sharp unpleasant symptoms during abstinence periods [2]. Physical withdrawal symptoms include anorexia, weight loss, decreased sexual drive, insomnia, muscle spasms and pain, aching in the muscles and bones, jerky movement of the limbs, watery eyes/nose, hot flushes, fever, decreased appetite, and diarrhoea [3, 1]. Psychological withdrawal symptoms commonly reported are nervousness, restlessness, tension, anger, hostility, aggression, and sadness [4, 1]. Long-term addicts are described to become thin and have skin pigmentation on their cheeks, due to the capacity of mitragynine to increase the production of melanocytes-stimulating substance [4, 5]. Regular ketum use is also reported to cause psychotic symptoms such as mental confusion, delusion, and hallucination [4]..."

[0]: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2015/968786/

[1]: Search sci-hub for DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.03.017

[2]: Search sci-hub for DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.09.004

[3]: https://books.google.com/books?id=t6IvPAAACAAJ

[4]: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bu...

[5]: https://books.google.com/books?id=qJS4AAAAIAAJ
> you can't base national policy on emotion

Value propositions are all ultimately rooted in emotional responses to propositions which cannot be objectively supported, and all policy is ultimately rooted in value propositions; you can't not base policy (national or otherwise) on emotion.
Absolutely. I'm a picky user who will delete your app in 30 seconds if the setup path isn't obvious and reliable.
Linux on Kindle demonstration
I think its pretty funny that the word 'enormous' is actually being applied to a two-bedroom.

Outside of the cities and expensive suburbs, most people get a 3 bedroom house at a minimum, and people paying $2000 a month will get a 4 or 5 bedroom.
Feels a little like extortion specially if you've acquired a suitable domain name, but yeah, for a lot of businesses that aren't savvy, seems like a good idea.
HR should have no input into technical hiring processes. I don't understand the thought process by which they feel they should have this authority.

HR interference was a MASSIVE pet peeve of mine at a previous employer. I eventually was able to strong arm them into forwarding me all resumes directly, but it was a battle.
It's entirely possible that they used existing ROM dumping software on their own cartridge which would have appended the header.

Not likely, but possible.
"The Google user has a problem and is actively seeking a solution; the Facebook user fits what you believe is the demographic profile of someone that might be interested in your product."

That's all well and good, but at the end of the day I can Google "Maserati Dealer" and yet have nowhere near the income levels required to purchase one.

"Traffic from Facebook ads is notoriously difficult to turn into cash precisely because of this. Most of their advertisers measure ROI in terms of shares and likes, not new users or product sales."

As someone that works in the industry this patently false. We measure Return on Investment in dollars not vanity metrics. ROAS is going to be your most common topline stat which is used (stand for return on ad spend with return meaning revenue).

"Advertising products/services on Facebook is a fool's errand for almost everyone, except for those with an extremely broad target audience."

Again very very wrong. In fact the most successful campaign I've ever run (3 million+ in revenue that was 300% ROI positive) was a relatively small niche market that was less than 200,000 people.

Now if you want the real reason Facebook seems to not work. It's a few things.

1. The people that raise their hand up to talk about Facebook ads do so because they're frustrated so all the things you read tend to be very polarized and negative.

2. Mostly amateurs are buying Facebook ads. Professionals routinely do much much better even in B2B niches.

3. Just because you're product didn't sell doesn't mean that the platform doesn't work. It routinely works for thousands of advertisers of all sizes every single day. I would encourage you to ask if it's the ad platform? Perhaps your ads? Perhaps your targeting? Perhaps your product just hasn't found product market fit yet.
So terrible that I quit using them all together. My account got into a state were I could not buy any games, and after weeks of customer service emails which lead no resolution and only canned responses, I just gave up on the platform enterily.

I've never tried so hard to give a company my money and have them so actively refuse it.
Turning on and off
A Characterization of Authenticated-Encryption as Chosen-Ciphertext Security [pdf]
Music Artist CJ Stain Is Making Music That Breaks Stereotypes of Gender
Actor and R&B singer CJ Stain is known for his song remakes. His most successful to date has been his remake of Sage the Gemini’s song “Good Thing” featuring Nick Jonas. cj stain produces music that scrutinizes and expands society’s social paradigm and structure of gender as a whole. Stain’s work aims to target culture’s gender inequality and social stigma with women.
Through provoking lyrics that work to identify issues surrounding gender equality and the social stigma of gender. cj stain says experiences of self, we can develop greater acceptance for all. Not only will this create greater inclusion for individuals who challenge the norms of gender infact allow all individuals to more fully explore and be pround who they are. cj song daring is will be out soon cj stain can perview the song lyrics
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_BcWGtKrM at hopes to have a fan base as justin bieber.
Stain is currently looking for a new team to help him carry out his musical vision.
Similarly, it's ridiculous how they charge for checked luggage.

Now, wait, let me finish! I don't mean in the confused sense of "lol everything should be free!"

What I mean is, checked luggage is inconvenient for the passenger (less access, have to wait), while using the least scarce part of the cabin -- they can't sell tickets to fly in the cargo hold, while they want to allocate whatever passenger-usable space they can for paying passengers.

So, if anything, they should charge for carry-on luggage while making (some level of) checked luggage free.

The system we have now -- the opposite -- creates perverse incentives all around: passengers are encouraged to avoid using the perfectly usable cargo hold, and instead, cram increasingly absurd amounts into their carry-on allotment, testing the unwillingness of airline employees to say, "sorry, you're over your limit, you'll have to check that". And then people have more pieces to deal with, choking up the loading and deplaning procedures, and bringing more of their (potentially dangerous) items through a security checkpoint...

Every time I fly, I notice a sea of people toting enormous bags, as if to say "tell me can't take this on. Just try."
My Opinion on Douglas Crockford Nodevember Fiasco
I hope this works out well, I often see my firefox freeze due to heavy extensions, and would much prefer if it just froze one tab. For me, higher ram usage wouldn't bother me if it meant no freezing, but I imagine it does matter to most of the audience, and it's too much effort to develop two feature sets.
O'Hare Airport is considered inside the boundaries of the City of Chicago. That includes their various parking lots (deck and remote).

Chicago Police have been scanning plates for years and booting cars that have exceeded the number of allowable outstanding parking tickets or camera violations (currently 2, if they're more than a year old). They also issue City tickets for other violations like expired Illinois plates (ask me how I know this).

The plate scanners also know how long you've been in the lot, so if you lose a ticket and claim you were only there 2 nights when it was really 7...they'll know.

Yeah, the "find my car" thing is nice and I've seen it offered to people, but that's a small aspect of a much larger revenue stream.
Video divertido
I never expected we'd have 30 years of house music/EDM.

(It's a big tent. Here are snippets of the current top 50.[1])

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuqM-5U9lBk
The transatlantic trade deal TTIP may be dead, but something worse is coming
I dunno if I'd say it was never used anymore. Try running `cat` (to bring up a basic termainal input) and type various control keys. Anything that isn't interpreted by the tty is probably displayed using caret notation.
If that exaggerated RAM use causes other more intensive apps and their data to be evicted, that can cause a much more significant load when the app has to spin up again and re-acquire or re-calculate its state.
Formally verifying HMAC in Amazon's s2n library
Constraints on subgroups of rows using partial indices in PostgreSQL
Big bad modifier order
I agree with ASN.1 and X.509.

Those two are part of my plaintext-offenders list, like SMTP. They make life equally painful for both man and machine.
The names might change, but that stuff will probably outlive "rock & roll".
Fewer taxpayers too and a much-lower per capita GDP.
you're absolutely right. If we came to a consensus on the definition of what a drug is, we wouldn't have that much confusion going on. If we were to consider coffee, alcohol, cigarettes and cannabis drugs, this falls into a similar category. Cigarettes can have a euphoric effect sometimes referred as a "head rush" typically for new users though the effect goes away for addicted smokers and coffee has that effect in the morning where it ever so slightly perks you up since it's a stimulant. Kratom is somewhere around those but it's mostly similar to coffee sensation wise, though slightly stronger, but can have that slight euphoric effect as well, however that euphoria reaches a plateau nowhere beyond the effects of THC and taking more kratom will not get someone beyond that sensation. Kratom is also much less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes, much like cannabis, but out of all of these, kratom does show signs of medicinal purposes, very much like cannabis. We have an agenda, and that is to spread awarness about having a say in how Americans choose their method of treatment, as well as having more than a few options. If someone does not feel inclined to use prescriptions drugs, or has and they have no effect, then they should have the option to use Kratom if they choose too. We also want to spread the correct information about kratom that avoids biases, but that can be hard for those of who it has helped so much. There's so much more info to go into, (but im doing this off the cuff and barely scratching the surface) but the point being I don't want your initial observation about our community to seem like we don't consider it a drug, it's just when people try to avoid that classification, it's because of the implication the word has had throughout history.
I assume the airline can happily fill the hold with paid cargo instead.
This assumes they don't make any money from selling space in the cargo hold for air mail couriers.
Isn't that what reviews are for? If you have substantive reasons not to like your boss then giving them a lousy review is easy.

A manager who is getting lousy reviews from engineers is going to face difficulties with the higher ups.
I recently went through a final-round interview process, and a large piece of the technical part of the interview involved handing me a laptop connected to the internet and the interviewer saying "Build a REST API that can handle these 4 curl requests and respond correctly. Use any technology you want. You have access to Google and anything else you can find. You have about an hour, I'll be back to check on you in 20 minutes. Go!"

I felt like this was SUCH a better test of my abilities as a professional programmer versus remembering specific algorithms or reciting "best practices" for X, Y and Z.
The article addresses that a couple of paragraphs down. Thats her whole point.To quote:

"The Nation at Risk report that started it all turned out to be bullshit, by the way -- grounded in another laughable statistical error. Sandia Labs later audited the findings from the report and found that the researchers had failed to account for the ballooning number of students who were taking the SATs, bringing down the average score.

In other words: SATs were falling because more American kids were confident enough to try to go to college: the educational system was working so well that young people who would never have taken an SAT were taking it, and the larger pool of test-takers was bringing the average score down."
> Money without a vigilant guardian

This is called the "board of regents" and "the state legislature."
Odds of being struck by lightning in a given 12 hour period: ~1 in 180 million.

(strikes have gone down in recent years: http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/odds.shtml )

The gun show risk is far easier to control than driving risk and lightning exposure risk.
I remember hearing stories that armonica players got lead poisoning from the glass, but perhaps the whole thing was a myth.
http://www.glassarmonica.com/armonica/lead_poisoning.php
There might be a problem, though. A person can be a go to for a subject because he filled a hole at one point, and then proceeds to kidnap the subject entirely and even obtains new semi-informal-subordinates to work on the kidnapped subject under their orders. Such maintainers are usually not bad, but they can at the same time make tons of dubious discretionary choices and lack random amount of theoretical or practical knowledge. Depending on the culture, the situation can stay like this during years, even decades. Bonus points if such people suffer from the NIH syndrome...
Do we need a payment system and chat client connected as a "platform"? Seems like an odd collection of things, and can't imagine that a startup would have reasonable expertise in chat AND payments.
Communication? It's easier to communicate to a crowd of people who speak the same language, if the need arises.
This is exactly something I could see low paid employees at a US regional airline doing to make some extra money.
They're waiting for VR. Half-Life 2 already spans everything cool you could conceivably do with a 'post-quake 2' shooter. Team Fotress 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2 cover all the neat online matchmaking, micro-transaction, user-created content stuff.

They don't want to make Half-Life 3, the expansion to Half-Life 2. They want to make something new. They created something new with Portal, which required them to hone their ability to introduce players to an entirely new game mechanic, but now they have to wait for VR to put it all together.
GitHub public code search limited?
Not sure if folks here browse github without logging in, but if you try to do a code search it seems like they might be experimenting with limiting public code search?

Example:

https://github.com/search?l=Dockerfile&q=from+python&type=Code

Response:

"We could not perform this search

Must include at least one user, organization, or repository"

Maybe this is only an intermittent thing as they rebuild their search indexes? Maybe it's a new 'feature' being rolled out?

This also seems to come and go for me as a logged in user.
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Thank you CiPHPerCoder!

That link to NodeJS was a good read, I'm fairly convinced that we should ditch RAND_bytes from OpenSSL for something more secure, we'll look into LibSodium.

I've caught rumours of a possible RAND_sys_bytes which operates over the systems CSPRNG? We like to be conservative on the libs.

We'd like to tip you for your efforts, do you have a Bitcoin (or ShadowCash) address?
Where are those improvements reflected in the graph?
Why The New York Times Sent It’s Readers 1.3M Google Cardboards
Valve's "flagship" software product Steam is full of bugs and terrible usability. (The ability to change font size went away when they switched to HTML rendering, and has never come back. Font size. A desktop application which is extremely likely to run on high DPI monitors where you can't adjust the font size.)

I've had a customer service request in for about 4 days now. I know that if/when it gets replied to, the person who replies won't read what I typed and I'll have to explain it again and wait another 5-6 days to get any action. (Before you ask, it's about a DLC that isn't part of their refund policy, so I can't simply refund it.)

Based on Steam's example, I'm not a fan of this concept. They're popular because they have a lot of network effect, not because Steam's any good.
Fluent Bit v0.8.5 have been released
Deductible, or out of pocket expense.
Hard to believe but most of the engineers I've worked with were actually adults, and didn't need to be treated like children.
> Also ^| (as in, "control pipe") which is a synonym for ^\. At least for me, | is faster to hit than \

How? Do you have a keyboard where | isn't Shift+\?
It's great that people are trying to make these simple jobs better. I like this, it is sophisticated. But I think vidir[1] is still quite sufficient for my personal needs.

[1]: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
As long as you don't hit space you can do the same thing with ^W, as ^W will clear out the last 'word'. I use it all the time at password prompts, and more comfortable to hit than ^U.
I think this title is a panicky incorrect reaction to someone noticing the word 'fingerprint' for the first time in a Disney document, and not knowing that (a) Disney has been using fingerprint scanners with their tickets for maybe a decade (b) you can still opt to present ID instead of using them. You can even see it in the text behind the posted link, if that's your entire exposure to Disney information:

> Are all guests required to use Ticket Tag?

> If you don't want to use Ticket Tag, you can simply carry and show a photo ID that matches the name identified with your ticket.
Directly after reading the title the question "what does ^D do" was fired at a Old Unix Beard friend of Mine who happens to be here for coffee.

Instant reply Without any latency: "It originally was meant to terminate the Tape drive"
G.E. Offers $1.4B for 3-D Printing Technology Companies
That's reasonable, but hard to enact without inviting retaliation. I'm not sure if the resulting retaliation would make the overall policy a net win or loss.
I think the problem is with the javascript mentality and not the language or runtime. Simply put you don't put time into fully understanding the problems and implications of a particular implementation, you either download a third party library off npm with minimal inspection (which pulls in a dozen other libraries that get NO inspection) or you write a new library with what you think is a solid test suite but because it is a new library by its very virtue it is not battle tested in any way shape or form.

Compounding these observations together you get an environment where you don't know what's going on which is something many developers wish to avoid at all costs when building large, complex, high-performance/scalability, systems.
In Canada? Roughly 15%, which doesn't include much (no dental, no vision, etc).