skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also worked for a retailer with a very similar setup (I wonder if it was the same one). It was amazing how many terminals you could sling on to a 386/20 and still have the whole thing work. The retail software was custom-written C that used a UI toolkit/library for the screens, but the name of the toolkit escapes me. I was in support at the time and didn't actually code the software, so I have no problem saying that it was a hot mess. :-)

I managed to grab some SCO Xenix installation floppy disks when I left (they had moved on to Netware/MS-DOS at that point, so the disks were just going to get thrown out). I still have them around somewhere...
Main problem is multiple people starting to talk at once. VR could help but also school system where you have to signal if you want to talk and the head of the meeting gives you the voice could help.

Surprisingly there's no real pressure to introduce any solution
>but when Wells Fargo employees open millions of fraudulent accounts

Do you think forced prostitution and sex-traficking are equally harmful to society as fake accounts? I know I'm glad that authorities take this more seriously.

We need a Godwin's Law for random HackerNews threads that bring up alleged bank CEO crimes.
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What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? I get these buzzwords confused.
You're absolutely right. In fact, the formal review process - even though it seems terrible - is actually giving you plenty of time to find another job.
Salesforce took a horizontal turn when it bought Quip
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12627693
I remember back when Skype first launched. Very few of us were using it (few hundred, maybe a thousand?). Many of us were just calling people randomly, myself included. Trolls weren't even a thing yet thank god, and all of us early adopters were very pleasant with each other.
I know people who just don't make critical thinking a part of their daily routine, and they tend to be sloppy and thoughtless when confronted with any sort of mental exercise. If these "Brain training exercises" can get people thinking critically and dedicating time of the day to using parts of their brain they wouldn't have otherwise, then it seems like a good thing to me.
In addition to age discrimination (telling apart) via lecicon choice, one can also listen for heavy breathing, lethargy, etc. and come to conclusions which could be counter to proscribed hiring practices.
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Intel R&D office in Poland was opened in this way. There was a company that was shutting down (not relocating) and whole team was employed as new R&D office. Anyway, that was something like it.

My previous company also was relocating and we wanted to stay as a team. We sent few e-mails to companies that had similar profile. We thought about placing advertisement in national and financial newspaper, but because it was relocation and not lay-offs we were not sure if that would backfire. Few companies hired more than 3 persons each out of it and maybe one had small team afterwards.

You have to be lucky to pull this off.
The tough part about that shot is, imo, figuring out what you want to do. You've got a white church all alone with a black roof on a white background.

There's not a lot of information in the scene. It's way easy to burn out big hunks of the image and try to grab some contrast in the boards of the building or in the roof.

What I'm guessing he did -- and this is only a guess -- is take a multiple-exposure shot and then do some magic post-production. But instead of trying to pull more information out? He left it mostly a wash, with only the roof having detail. (I'm thinking he pumped that up a bit)

This makes your eye struggle to find information and meaning in the walls of the church, or the surrounding land. You see the roof, it is interesting, so you assume there are other items of interest there. But there isn't any -- which nicely tells the story of a remote community that's timeless, the gist of the writing.

He formed the shot in an original way to have the viewer's mind play into the theme of the text, while still making a nice image. Very cool.

ED: Actually the more I look at it, the more I like it. It's almost like he used a gauze of soft focus on one of his shots, with the church in focus and everything else just a little blurry.
The thing I noticed and nobody else seems to be commenting on is that these virtual realities were actually just 360 videos? Why was nothing actually being produced by a real 3D engine? I thought viewing 360 vids in VR could make people sick because you don't have the sideways motion of the head. I'd expected them to spend their time in actual virtual realities, not QuickTime VRs.
Are you willing to move down to Atlanta? If so, I know of some potential options here in town. Glad to make the intro.
It would be great if they used the Surface Pro 4 on the marketing page, not SP3. The keyboard on the SP4 is lightyears better :)
I'd be hesitant to call meditation a game in the same sense that other brain training exercise seem to be. Those games tend to have distinct end points (or multiple)/goals or something you are ambling towards. Meditation on the other hand, is based on focused observation of how your mind works. When done right, there is no goal or judgement - no end state that you are uneasily pushing towards.
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Calling it a 'skin on top of Safari' does not really do justice to all the hard work my team has been putting in Firefox for iOS.

Apple gives you (limited) access to WebKit. Basically: a rectangular area on the screen that renders web content. To 'skin' it, you have to build a browser application around that. A complete application that handles tabs, user settings, sync, history, bookmarks, reader mode, anything that does not happen in that 'rectangular view that renders web content'.
I would love OVH if they would finally implement automatic recurring credit card billing. Ive been asking them for years.
What a horrible single point of failure that is.
> Dejavu: [...] 1960s: Client/Server Architecture. Big servers and small clients.

This is right and wrong at the same time. Right, because the Cloud reuses some basic concepts from the mainframe era (e.g., virtualization), which had been neglected for some time. Wrong, because writing your application to run efficiently on a mainframe is totally different from writing your application to run efficiently on Cloud infrastructure. Also, there is no thing such as small clients anymore, mobile apps and Web frontends are nowadays as complex as the usual 1980s fat-client software.

IMHO this is a very good example for technology not making circles, but evolving in spirals.
I have not seen this particular exchange, but it is typical of people who have missed the point. Yes, of course the EPRG paradox doesn't work. That's the whole point. It's a straw man, designed to draw attention to the fact that there is something wrong with QM pedagogy.

The thing that people who critique my work generally miss is that it is not about physics, it's about pedagogy. It's about how the physics is explained. Everyone agrees on the physics. It's the explanation that is at issue. The whole first half of the talk is the problem statement.

(God damn this is annoying: "I'm afraid I won't have time to critique whatever it is he says in the second half of the video." Well, the second half is where I explain why the EPRG paradox doesn't actually work. By the time I gave that talk I already knew that people got this wrong, so I went to great lengths to highlight the fact that EPRG was a straw man. And then people jump into the middle of the video, see the story out of context, and say "This is wrong." Well, duh, of course it's wrong. That's the whole fucking point!)
Once you edit the file (left panel), you can still click on left item "+" signs, it disappears, but nothing is added to the file (left panel).
The management in one branch likely socializes with the management in near-by branches. It spreads through drinks and "Yeah, it's dumb; we just do <sketchy behaviour> so we can get back to work".
The person you're replying to is from the UK.

Why the anti-American sentiment?
Well. This is trippy.
>> Really early versions of Xenix would run on an actual 8086, with no protected memory whatsoever. I don't think any other UNIX ever managed that.

Minix?
calm down cowboy and read it again. nobody cares about your emotionally charged confused reaction nor does it make for any good conversation
>I have anecdotally surveyed a few users and none of them was sold on VR.

How long ago was this? VR advances very quickly.
The thing is, researchers commonly put in throwaway lines like your latter quote to avoid themselves from being embarrassed by some new study that comes out in the future. The key to comprehension is appreciation which portions are fundamental to the message and which parts are throwaway.
Could you argue that developers using HTML 5 are violating human rights because not every browser fully supports it? Developers are fully aware that not every feature is available on every browser -- yet they willingly use those technologies anyway. It's clear we should drag developers in front of a UN Tribunal to account for their willingness to deny the world basic human rights.

This has gotten beyond absurd. I can't remember when I voted to make HTML 5 a human right. I can think of a lot more important things that might ought to be addressed (and enforced) first.
Just to be clear, I quite liked Lister's note as well. I'm a language nerd myself, and always appreciate having more opportunities to cheekily overload some entendres.
I applaud your pinpoint application of the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy.
It appeals to a certain kind of everyone.

But this always happens in anything that starts out as counter-culture. Always.

First the freaks and the true believers invent something that appeals to other freaks and true believers. Then it gets bigger and becomes a mainstream business. Then eventually it crashes as it starts to feel sterile and commoditised, and it becomes more about management and money than expression.

Then the cycle starts again elsewhere - sometimes with the same people.

(Any similarity to software is intended. Although sadly I think we have too few real freaks and true believers in software. Certainly not too many.)
Just for clarification, your position is that the only class of services that are immoral to exchange currency for are sexualy oriented services. Is that correct?

I currently hold very different views from you on this issue, but some of your arguments are certainly giving me some things to think about. They all seem to assume the above point, which I have a really hard time accepting.
> Things like YouTube, Google Docs, most Google properties work better in Chrome.

As someone who has never used Chrome, I'd love to understand what exactly "works better" means. I've never had problems with any of those sites using Firefox and Safari.
Thanks. Currently we are trying to stay in Chattanooga.
GCC is very close to the 30-year mark (0.9 released 22 March 1987). Linux turned 25 this past year; Firefox (the C++ parts, at least) is very close to 25, depending on what code you want to count. Apache is 20ish years old. Even LLVM, which I think of as a relatively young project, is getting close to 15 years. Maybe (hopefully?) very little code survives from the initial versions, but they've all withstood the test of time.

It's certainly pleasing to be able to sit down and write something from scratch or nearly from scratch. But it can be equally pleasing to extend a multi-million line codebase to do something new, or to enable the codebase as a whole to do something new/better.
I'd argue that these could also be used to illegally discriminate against potentially disabled (including invisibly disabled) candidates.
I sold my Surface Pro 3 because of the bad keyboard on it :P. Went with an ultrabook instead as I just used it for typing notes anyway.
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> The Apache Foundation doesn't "make" projects successful or failures, it provides a home.

I think the point that's being made is that a home in a neighborhood full of foreclosures and zombie properties winds up losing a lot of its value.
True. Spotify is also a leaky abstraction. For example there were all albums of Atrium Carceri on Spotify and 6 of them were removed more than a year ago. I asked AC what happened and he told me that they are "reprinting" the old albums. I don't know what does that have to do with Spotify but now I'm in the limbo of sometimes navigating to bandcamp to listen to an older album and then navigating back to Spofity...I won't buy his albums because of the promise that he will put them back sometime but it haven't happened yet.
Hm … I flew pretty much exactly two weeks ago in a couple Airbus A320 every damn airline seems to use to fly across Europe (I flew e.g. Amsterdam to Frankfurt). I wonder if that’s a recent change (to no longer mention the Note) or they just say it on certain flights (which to me would make little sense).
When I have time later, I might feed it some images from the Magnum (the agency) corpus and see what feedback I get.

Once upon a time, in certain newbie photo critique forums, pranksters would upload a renowned photographers image for critique... Hilarious feedback from new photographers showing off their critiquing prowess.
It's preposterous other people want to live in different places?
> To your last paragraph, CS majors are a very poor proxy for competent management, and using previous make up is only useful if you assume that was not exhibiting the same bias you are trying to correct.

And what bias is that? That 20% of woman in Yahoo, actually reflects very well the percentage of woman with expertise in the area, because that's also the percentage of woman that actually took the effort to learn about the subject trough college and in faculty?

Please let me know exactly where is the bias in expecting that an IT company reflects the same ratios between sexes that you actually see in college for an IT area.
I read the comments before reading the piece, as one tends to do, and I started out on the side of the narrator being pretentious, if that's the best word to describe enthdegree's feelings on the conveyed tone. Interestingly, however, I am now most the way through the piece and am strongly identifying with the narrator, have warm fuzzies, and completely trusting of his or her good intentions.

Maybe I should start reading posted content more often, rather than reading only the comments?
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> Meditation at its core is nothing but practicing focus and self control

You nailed it. Mental acuity is all about the ability to remain focused. Probably most of what gets written off as stupidity is really just an untrained mind that can't stay focused on a subject, task, conversation, etc.

Meditation has the benefit of being restful as well as enhancing focus. Intensive game playing, while not necessarily relaxing, does inspire a greatly increased measure of focus. I am not convinced that brain games are ineffective. Weren't there recently numerous studies asserting that video game playing provided cognitive benefits?
That is a very counter-productive and shallow view of language. Language is always changing — semantics are no exception. Words don't mean the same today as they did 100 years ago, and even then they didn't mean the same as they did 200 years ago, and even then... You get the drift...

It's arrogant to think that the language that we're speaking right now is the pinnacle of linguistic evolution and that it's only downhill from here.
That's right, sarcasm is a particular kind of irony. And it's not the kind that the OP was employing.
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Mine did. But it was a smaller company with about 500 people, who were mostly older with families. We had maybe 1 full-time remote worker (who was actually pretty good), and the rest of the people would simply work from home one day a week. But after hearing about Marissa's crusade, they killed that off. Didn't change performance, but it did kill morale.
Gladly. That is one of the favorite simplistic spins of the supporters of the FARC-Santos deal, when in reality it has little to do with the victims and a lot to do with internal colombian political structures. Most maps you will see supporting this idea mix together 'victims of conflict' without separating them between paramilitary/FARC or drug trafficking victims, so it would be inaccurate to conclude that the most areas affected by FARC violence were in favor of the deal. Add to that the states where Santos mobilized his political machinery to buy votes, which coincides more precisely with the states supporting the deal (http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/colombia/proceso-paz/noticia...). For example, the state with most victims (Antioquia) voted overwhelmingly against (62.00%). To say that Antioquia, Santander, Norte de Santander, Risaralda, Caldas, Quindío, Tolima, Cundinamarca, Huila, Caquetá, Meta, Casanare and Arauca states saw little violence is just a lie and affront to their victims.
Well, you just further explained pjc50's first explanation. I don't see anyplace where you disagree.

Besides, CMOS ensures there is very little current going through the circuit when it isn't switching. What increases the differences between a fully cut or saturated transistor and a switching one.
Meditation is about focus, that's it. A person is born with some innate intelligence, but, thanks to things like television, email, Facebook, etc. we are far from our full potential, because we are constantly distracted. Once you regain your focus you hit the ceiling of your possible IQ. Meditating further will not do you much good past that point.
So, it seems reasonably dplyrish and I like that there's a pipe-forward operator available (and I do like the look of the F#/Erlang style |> more than I do the %>% one R gets).

This seems like it's written for someone who has a bit more of familiarity with Julia than I possess, though, so is anyone able to give this some context? Why does this need to be implemented with the @query macro rather than just being implemented with functions like dplyr is?
Had they worked out the MS-DOS compatibility, it could have.

The other issue was performance. UNIX systems at the time needed a far faster CPU and graphics, and far more RAM and disk space. Faster = much more expensive. Which is also why Windows systems were 1/4 the price.
Mainly in the marketing. If it were called "ground-state quantum resonance" (which is what it is) no one would care.
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They fired thousands of people for creating accounts without permission. It's hard to say they looked the other way.
Well, okay, it's not literally called Lisp; it has the "Common" in front. On the surface, it seems to be sticking to the letter of the wish. Does it conform to the spirit, though? Is a common English adjective enough? Is "Common" a sufficient qualifier?

Yes. Yes it is.

("new" is more common than "common", but not incredibly so: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=common%2Cnew&y...)
I see your point, but I think we have to account for the traditional business culture of software developers.

I think most in this culture lean toward informal speech, and toward stating your argument first and mentioning your credentials last, if at all.

I wanted to send him a private message with suggestions, but couldn't be sure it would be taken constructively and not be hurtful.
I'm pretty sure shen has limited type inference. There might be ADTs.
Practicality wins pretty handedly here. Technology will always improve and web based applications will become more and more feasible as a result.

The flip side of that equation is that poor practical choices never improve because there will only be more platforms to target.

If we made development decisions based on technological constraints alone, how is it supposed to improve?
Its a media show... The drug in question only applies to 3000 people, has no patent on it (anyone can manufacture it), is currently the lowest price in its category, costs $20 if you have insurance, is free if you have no insurance.

They are talking about impoverished women with AIDS in Africa - and the drug company only has a license for the US, the drug itself has nothing to do with AIDS, and is free for half the patients and a $20 co-pay for the other half.
Hence Pixie [1], which builds a Clojure-inspired language on a JIT VM. I'm not sure what the status is, but it appears to be active.

[1]: https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
"Virtual" being used here quite frequently when there is quite a bit of Hyper-reality influences too.

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

Virtual Reality describes the apparatus, and the merging of reality with simulation, or even simulacra of our physical sensoria.

Hyper-reality describes the meta nature of our culture, media, and society. Imagine this: consuming a video of Zuck talking about VR headsets whilst wearing a VR headset, whilst inside Facebook headquarters, all inside your Facebook timeline.
Maybe they should have figured out that their incentive structures were wrong when they had to fire 5000 people over several years. But the very act of firing thousands of people shows that they were discouraging it, strongly.
Time to spoof!
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From reading your other comments in this thread, it seems like you have misunderstood what the AGPL does. If you modify RethinkDB and run the modified RethinkDB server as part of a public-facing web app, you must release the code for your modified RethinkDB server to the community. But you have no legal obligation to release the rest of your web app to the community. Writing a web app that connects to RethinkDB over the network doesn't count as "modifying" the RethinkDB source code, so most RethinkDB users would never have to release any source code.

You've probably heard that the difference between the GPL and the AGPL is whether they apply to access over a network or not; but you seem to have misinterpreted how that works. The GPL says that if you modify GPL-licensed software and distribute compiled binaries to users, you must also distribute the source code under the GPL. The AGPL says the same thing as the GPL, except that making the modified software available over the network is treated the same as distributing the modified software as a compiled binary.
It means nothing of the sort. People socialize with coworkers all the time, and workarounds for dumb metrics is exactly the sort of thing that get gossipped about.
Oh OK. Yeah, I assumed quantum did reals for probabilities. Might not apply if using complex numbers.
Heck yeah anywhere in TN vs. SAN Francisco. There's about a zero homeless epedemic(it's very sad to see/experience how many suffer on the streets there) in Nashville and elsewhere compared to the Mecca of that SAN Fran. Cost of living is great.. mountains.. fresh air.. no people shouting crazy stuff with a megaphone and more.

Note I live and am from the D.C. area and graduated from MTSU.. visited SAN Fran many times for meetings with Google who stomped on me, a reality tv show and others startup adventures. Not my cup of tea even growing up close to D.C. And Baltimore which the same suffering isn't occurring on the same scale... maybe it's the weather... hoping in the next ten or more years SAN Fran changes/helps those in need.
What the hell, was this arduous, tedious article all about?!
Interestingly, this is the primary explanation for the Flynn effect, and why culture-loaded questions do not show the same improvements that completely abstract, non-culture-loaded questions do.