skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3x is the low end. I try to keep my factory at 6x . When you try to run at 3x, then you may drift down to 2x or less. If you aim for 6x, then you survive fine when it drifts down to 4x, and you are doing great when it goes up to 10x.

I think that people who aren't employers can lose sight of the fact that some people are actually worth negative money per hour. Some people, even at $8.05 per hour, are not worth even that. Others, like the mythical 10x programmer, are worth 10x the high wage you pay them (or more). A huge variation.

Example. Joe makes $8.05 sweeping the floor. Joe is not very diligent with his work, and sweeps some aluminum dust and debris into a pile of iron dust and debris, accidentally creates thermite and sets the corner of the factory on fire. This now costs in one day what Joe would have made in a year (this actually happened to me, last month. Thanks Bryan for putting it out).

Example 2 (another true story! a good friend's company) Roy is drilling holes in a hydraulic press, actually in a dozen hydraulic presses that are all sold and need to ship. He breaks the 1" drill bit he is using, and undaunted and unwilling to tell anyone, he replaces the 1" bit with a smaller 15/16" bit and continues drilling. The presses ship out, all 12 of them, very heavy and with high shipping costs ($800 for the press and $200 for the shipping), and they get delivered to the customers. Yay! A hard busy week, but it all went out! Yay! bonuses for everyone! Then next week the phone starts ringing and it is discovered that all 12 presses are not unusable - the hole is too small to fit the piece that goes into it. All 12 presses come back, shipping borne both ways by manufacturer, and the presses are scrapped and replaced. Roy caused over $10,000 in losses for a very small company in exchange for the $300 dollars in pay. Roy was worth -$250 per hour that week. Negative $250 per hour.

Of course we want twice the skills for half the pay. I would settle for twice the skills for twice the pay though. It is just so hard to find the "twice the skills" part. I would be delighted to find 1x the skills, even that is hard. When you find the person with 10x the skills, I recommend making it so they never want to leave. Equity in the company (or a cage of some kind in the basement, LOL)
LibreOffice on the other hand is free and can actually be a replacement for Excel. I wish Numbers would be a reasonable alternative but it's missing all of the features that actually make Excel useful.
Getting tenure is a life accomplishment. Getting a plugin accepted in a wordpress directory? Come on, we're comparing apples and oranges.

If you look at some parts of getting a tenure, they are without politic as well. Example: studying a subject.
This is hardly new stuff, but it was a good article nonetheless.

Seen similar things with sales on old-ish products happen in stores where I live. "30% Sales on all our ( insert brand here ) products for a limited time!!!" And then they just blatantly and shamelessly leave those prices as they are even after the "sale" ends.

Not sure why such advertisement is allowed and why people aren't more outraged, but eh.
> Would a woman who lied about having been on birth control reasonably be said to have raped a male partner?

No. But birth control isn't the only aspect to the issue. As you stated, sexually transmitted diseases are an issue. More of an issue arguably.

Also, two women have reported the same behaviour (to my knowledge). Although not enough to be considered a pattern, it's disconcerting.
Maybe it's homeopathic. I've heard of water memory, but is there such a thing as olive oil memory?
The word "apogee" literally means the highest point in the course of something. Apogee Software and Apigee both play off the english word meaning.
Great write up, particularly building up towards parsing simple expressions.

One benefit - hinted at, but not explicitly said - between this approach and parser generators is that all of the user's parsing code lives in the same place. An ANTLR grammar that solved this problem would take about the same amount of lines - but that wouldn't be enough. You would still need to write the Java code that takes actions on the grammar rules, and that code will live in a separate place. Add in the complexity of setting up your build to deal with generated source code, and you won't want to go the ANTLR (or other parser generator) approach unless you really have to.

I only compare against parser generators because the other solutions are, to me, in different classes. Regular expressions are not arbitrarily flexible, so they're not a full solution. And rolling your own recursive descent parser is not using an existing library, but going the "hammer and tongs" route (as my compilers professor used to say).
> This Ruby 3 proposal says that Ruby 2 compatibility is mission critical

Matz has been very public about his fear of a "Python 3" situation occurring in the Ruby community.
Right! And this point is exactly why the comparison with video DRM in the article is a bit weak, because video will normally be split into a signal per pixel before becoming analog, making it impractical to access the full unencoded video signal.

This, plus the fact that most copyrighted audio will be playable and copyable through unprotected channels for a while (Spotify / YouTube on PC / Android) I don't think this move has anything to do with DRM.
> On iOS, strictly speaking, there is no such option

And more importantly, apple would shut down such an option.
The real issue here is this might be anti-competitive, and go as far as being an anti-trust issue. Apple can now limit who makes headphones for the iPhone and the ones that are "allowed" could end up seeing their headphones far more expensive than the Apple and Beats brands. This is all because 3rd party brands will have to pay licensing fees to Apple to use the port. So we could end up seeing headphones that are 20%+ more expensive compared to Apple or Beats headphone units.

Sounds anti-competitive to me....
I would not be so quick to assume they have "given up." Merely that they have so far not had large success.
The problem is that it is. Any such rule of thumb is discrimination. Even if you had some magical way of knowing whether given guest will destroy your apartment with perfect certainty, using that to filter guests will still be discrimination.

Trying to eliminate discrimination always ends up by removing any kind of ability to choose your customer.
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I sort of agree.

To be clear, I don't think they should be charging extra and calling something "truffle oil" if it's got no truffle molecules in it, or "olive oil" if it's actually some other kind of vegetable oil. That should be prosecuted as false advertising.

That said, we keep hearing news like this, where what we thought was high-end "gourmet" food is actually the same as the stuff on the middle or bottom shelves at the market. And yet, we've been eating and enjoying this stuff for years. As long as it's marketed and priced honestly, I've got no problem buying and eating the cheap stuff.
I think that or something like it would have to be the mechanism. I don't really know a lot about research in that area, but I know I'm not the only one who finds that closed-back headphones produce earache after a few hours, and noise-canceling ones in less time than that.
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It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
It's rare lea ever wrong.

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I am shore your pleased two no
It's letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
3Scale got acquired by IBM, and now APIGEE by google.
Time to buy Layer7 shares?

API Gateways are big deal in API first initiatives.
I don't see truffle oil specifically - it has truffle aioli which would obviously be a different condiment/ingredient. Their reaction in that clip seems to be in response to a few things:

1. the assertion there's no actual truffle in white truffle oil
2. that it's pungent and the contestant was pouring it on

I imagine Ramsey is not opposed to truffles, per se, but certainly to fake scents manufactured to smell like truffles and using the flavor to excess.
I am under the impression that the food term "extract" is generally not very well regulated and says nothing about when or how it was extracted. At least in the US, I don't think the FDA regulates the terminology that heavily, but I may be mistaken.

I believe there are some well known flavor extracts that were chemically extracted decades ago and since have been maintained as artificial cultures in various ways (certain types of banana extracts used in candies, for instance). I don't know if truffle extract is one of them, though. I guess more accurately, I don't know if we can tell from just an ingredients list which sort of "extract" it might be, if it's a recent "fresh" extract product or some form of a longer term chemical extraction process.

(I think the US FDA, at least, does regulate what constitutes "Natural Flavorings" and so the lack of the word "natural" in packaging could be a sign, maybe.)
What evidence is there that instant booking guests are more destructive than others?

>The fact that the author of your parent-comment does go through and approve individuals means that this policy would hurt him/her.

How, exactly? It sounds like he talked to his destructive guest before the rental. So that particular guest was not an instant booking.
I played around with InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana a while ago, and it worked very nicely for the basic stuff I tried.

One thing in Telegraf where I didn't figure out a good solution was a way to parse arbitrary log files and generate data points and/or annotations from them.

There is a particularly annoying log file format from a proprietary application containing data I like to monitor which contains time series values in a multiline format as well as error messages. What I'd like to do is to have Telegraf tail the log file and pass it through a script that generates actual influxdb data from that. So something similar like the telegraf tail plugin, but with a data transformation in between.
my point is, an os can check whether an analog jack is authorized to work or not, an analog jack is an analog jack. On the other hand, a DRM system can be implemented with any digital accessory.
There is more problem with means testing than with needs testing. The government can subsidies wheelchair-adapted vehicles to cost as much as a normal vehicle.

Why someone that doesn't need a special vehicle would use the subsidy? The normal car fit their needs for the same price! And it's not even accounting the more probable situation in which the subsidy doesn't cover all the cost difference.
A large part of taste IS smell.
This is genius. More proof that Apple is the greatest innovator in the world.
I got my first job out of undergrad programming device drivers, having never programmed a single device driver before in my life. I skimmed whatever the 90's version of "Device Driver Programming for Dummies" was, on the flight to the interview. That scenario must seem ludicrous to job applicants today.

Today, unless I had 5 years experience programming device drivers and could traverse a binary tree on a whiteboard, I wouldn't have the slightest chance at such an entry level programming job.
Chomsky nails politics and 'how the world works.' It is easy to understand why he is censored out of the news media. Not to go off on a tangent, but a brief opinion: I have made it a hobby for two decades comparing the coverage of specific news stories in different countries. I have noticed the censorship in the USA has become a much worse problem in the last few years.
I don't think Lenovo has ever had a laptop with good battery life, outside RT Yoga 11 (12 hours?) and Yoga 2 Pro (9 hours).

You buy thinkpad for the great keyboard the red-dot-whatsitsname-thingy. And the fact that it can stop bullets. But not for the battery life.
The ArsTechnica coverage of password cracking is eye-opening and informative about how high-speed password cracking is done. And this was 3 years ago!

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-mi...
> However, I'm loath to continue working on it because there are few tasks more tedious, filled with annoying edge cases and thankless than this.

That, in a nutshell, is the problem.

> Plus I know it would never make it into pip because "it's not pip's job".

There are good reasons it wouldn't make it into pip: something like that is more the realm of setuptools, rather than pip.

> The only one I can think of is to packages like libpq-dev and libjpeg-dev and even the C compiler installable via pip and get the maintainers of pillow/psycopg2/whatever else to remove all their horrible hacky code to look for these dependencies on the system itself.

The 'horrible hacky code' is autotools 90% of the time, and while I'd like to see if die in a fire and for pkgconf to replace it as far as library detection goes, it's not going away any time soon.

Also, there is next to no chance of what you propose happening: you're essentially proposing a parallel system package management system, and at that point you'd might as well just propose that the Python packaging toolchain integrate, I don't know, maybe pkgsrc into itself.
> Person A can only read document X because they are performing duty b on project y.

How is this _not_ a binary can/can't read scenario? The person can either read it because they're performing the duty, or can't ready it because they're not.
I'd love a settings checkbox saying something like "Disable user-installed fonts".
If you’re writing Elixir w/o drawing diagrams you're doing it wrong. Here's why
I see a lot of Truffle Aioli... which could be truffle oil, but could also be truffles mixed with oil, garlic, etc in the production process. (Or, perhaps more likely, it is truffle oil and his restaurant is just marketing it )
The 4S was fast when I bought it. It is no longer fast and I have no way of restoring it. Apple intentionally designed newer features where older devices would be woefully under-powered and intentionally made it so that you cannot rollback to a previous iOS build which was fast.

All you've done is agree with me. What was your point?
I recently acquired an old sailboat and have a couple of 1st gen Pis looking for a job- would be very interested in reading more about your system!
Someone did make this. It didn't go all that well.

http://get.pressybutton.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/22zqao/the_pressy_...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2016-New-High-Qualtiy-New-Bu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2900bp/i_stuck_it_...
Take the cynical view and recognize that this isn't a totally free market. Everyone has an incentive to kick back and let someone else solve the problem.

Paying for training is usually a crappy deal, because someone else can use the same money to raise wages and steal your trained workers. You can address this with things like repayment-required contracts, but that's ugly and difficult for most jobs. Plus, you've got a better option: get it for free!

So yes, you operate at slightly lower efficiency, but it's not because you're dumb. Instead, you're hoping that someone else (a competitor or ideally the government) will train up some employees you can then hire. Ideally, you get the government to push a career-training program in your desired field, producing a glut of specialized workers who not only don't need training, but keep wages down because they're only skilled in one specialized field.

In which case, the management is perfectly sensible and 'sticky' wages in the face of a hiring gap make total sense.
Cross-platform Mokes backdoor OS X exists and is spreading in the wild
The last 9 times it was submitted: http://goo.gl/mVSi7W
I use this:

grep --perl-regexp '^[a-z]{5,8}$' /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 5 | tr '\n' ' '

There are about 31000 words.
Bah, you're right, missed that example :(
There is the excellent Mini Profiler (http://miniprofiler.com/) by Sam Saffron. It originated while he was at Stack Overflow, I believe.

There is also Glimpse (http://getglimpse.com/) which includes a few more things but has similar goals.
If we're comparing our own training and education systems to the Cult Mechanicum, then I think we need to train everyone to a higher level in everything. In fact, more radically, we need to reform intellectual property law in a way that incentivizes making institutional knowledge into publicly recorded knowledge.
The movie industry has not given up, and videos also produce audio.
Wouldn't that what the Drive API can be used for? I may be answering my own question here, but I imagine that would be the most useful part of this Box/Drive partnership. :D
We have something similar in Japan (and probably other places) - something that fits in the earphone plug and has a decorative end (a character or something shiny for girls, etc...). They act as dust protectors as well.
If we were to take everything religion brings to the table seriously we'd be in a big mess.
It's a longer story, with summary is in "My story" from http://p.migdal.pl/2016/03/15/data-science-intro-for-math-ph.... Since it had some turbulent nature, it was hard for me to put it into a coherent narrative. And it may be even harder to put it in a way that is beneficial for others (involves my particular situation, skillset, network of contacts, personality).

If you mail me (my website's footer), I will send you a quick&dirty summary of my path & projects. In any case, some answers:

> Do you do blind calls?

Never! But if there is an opening for a full-time position sometimes I mailed them anyway, if they are interested in some specialised contracts; sometimes they were.

> Do you use a freelancing site?

No. I followed a mailing list with freelance projects in data viz. (By far the easiest place to start, as they can SEE my previous projects and current progress.)

> Do you work remotely?

Almost entirely. But for the last few weeks I am a bit more related to a particular company, and then I prefer to be on site (easier to talk etc).

> What is the typical contract, how much do you bill?

Since it varies a lot (and I want to increase it a bit), I am not comfortable to put in publicly. Expect for things I do it is also dependent on place in which I live, particular projects, negotiation skills, project uncertainty (data science is not webdev - each project has a research part).

> Does one have to do public talks to get recognised?

Yes. I mean, maybe it is not strictly necessary, but public talks (meetups, conferences, etc) and other public activity (blog posts, running communities) helped me a lot! (But I love it anyway.)

> How much do clients value your having a PhD?

A wonderful discussion starter, never a deal-maker.

> How do you animate the networking?

(Answered above.)

> Do clients find you, or do you find them?

In the last year (or more) it's only clients who contact me, and I accept (/follow up) or decline projects.

> Why are they buying, FOMO on a marketing dataset, or just plain curiosity on the subject?

?

> If you had to specialise in one niche market, what would be, what would be your approach?

If you were an animal, which... ;)

> Basically: what would be the steps you would take should you start only with the data science technical knowledge?

http://p.migdal.pl/2016/03/15/data-science-intro-for-math-ph...
Except the insight of the answer is that the bottleneck is in a different program than suspected. Running the suspect program under a profiler wouldn't yield any answers.

Sure, anyone can find the answer if they already know where to look.
> Weaver and Osterman offer a more industry-specific explanation: The manufacturing industry has become so specialized that companies are looking for hyperspecific skills that few outside workers could be expected to have. But companies have also become less likely to offer training for new hires.

I would argue that it's not specific to manufacturing. This sounds pretty similar to a phenomenon found in software development. Sometimes the principal developer on a project leaves the company and no one can read their code. Even if you match the laundry list of technology buzzwords perfectly, their code could just be unreadable.

Going deeper, maybe the problem is even more general than that. If you have manufacturing equipment that no one in your company knows how to use, is that still considered capital? If so, what is that capital worth?

What about code no one in the company understands? Patents? Excel spreadsheets? Is it still intellectual property? Interesting times are ahead.
Look pretty nice. Anyone else thought they are trying to be the next Portland ? ;-)

Maybe unpopular here, but I for one, like suburbs next to a big city. I can have access to the city once in a while, there is a potential large job market if I want to jump ship, but also have a garden and quiet streets. This is basically an ex-rural town with a history, but it just grew suburbs and tech offices around it.

I rationally understand that it is unsustainable and I watched all the videos about death of suburbia and all that. Yet, am I going to uproot my family because I watched those videos and read a few article on HN? Probably not.

I grew up in a city, in a small apartment, with noisy neighbors, piss in the elevator, being flooded from upstairs, getting pick-picketed in transport. So there is nothing romantic about that for me.

I have also seen farming life and living in the rural areas, getting up at 5am in the cold and rain to feed the animals, worried about crops being eaten by pests, nope not for me either.

I think if more places accepted remote work, and job market would be more stable, there would be a great opportunity to places like Billings.
This Wikipedia article talks about cultivation of truffles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle#Cultivation

I can not attest to the veracity of the sources however. It also makes no mention of a "gentlemen's agreement" to artificially inflate the prices of truffles.
Related question: where can I buy real truffles? I've had them in the past, but I have no idea where I can buy them from, online or in person, that I can trust the quality of. Anyone have any leads?
> Sweden has a particular definition of rape that is far more encompassing of conduct that in most jurisdictions constitutes fully consensual activity. Since the claims against Assange would be considered claims of consensual sex in the US, it's hard for me to take them entirely seriously, yet the label of "Rapist" persists. This phenomenon is truly bizarre.

What's truly bizarre is the crowd who's first to invoke "innocent until proven guilty" is so opposed to the proving part.

You don't really believe that Swedish inquiry is a part of due process, do you? I really doubt if the charges were incriminating whatever constitutes U.S. edition of rape, your position would be any different.

What it come downs to, you guys really really are attached to this fella, simply because he was saying all the right things and going by all the points you read in Cypherpunk Manifesto. You are willing to excuse him things that you'd find inexcusable to anyone from the "establishment".
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