skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being the bad guy is no fun.

People are not fungible, and depending on internal politics and procedures hiring probably only happens reactively instead of proactively. If you have to fire an under-performer, you're now short-staffed even worse until you can get another job posting approved and someone hired for it.

Lost productivity from being too picky is less visible than lost productivity from telling someone to go home.

Management is often seen as a career progression from non-management. This means a lot of managers - and especially the newer and therefore lower-level ones - are still figuring out wtf they're doing and aren't (yet) very good at it.
GOLD Remains Vulnerable but with Caution
Or if your "resume" wont get through HR, which isn't always discerning of talent.
I wouldn't be surprised if a complete shuffling could be solved — i.e., every pixel is given a new random location. (Source: I do research involving stuff like this.)
You're forgetting HN is serious discussion for serious people or something like that. Humour in a substantive post seems fine, but usually any humour on its own doesn't fare well here.
So are you saying that the embassy was bombed to stop the transfer of F117 parts? Because that will need a source
Is a round Minecraft world possible? [video]
It would be much better to soak some ivory in cyanide or something stronger and get it into market.
I didn't see anything in the manual about streams. If they do, I'm sure they'll be fine as long as you don't cross them.
You did make such a comment, and I've already cited it for you. And explained why it was offensive.

That you're not even able to admit that much is telling, lol
...apart from the bits they didn't fix. I give up.
Can you explain in simpler terms what "Projectional Editing" is?
The problem with Twitter, IMO, is that it's a fire hose. Let's say that I decide to follow John Carmack. I'm interested in his thoughts on technical topics and especially articles or posts that he may have written. Instead, I get all of that plus* the inspirational quotes he posts every morning, his political opinions, his thoughts on current events, etc. None of which I care about, and none of which (AFAIK) Twitter gives me the ability to filter.

*I don't know if John Carmack actually posts anything of the sort, just a hypothetical.
> At the same time though, when I used Chrome's built-in memory profiling I see a bunch of deopt-related strings, so maybe I'm way off base

In my experience, these add up real quick and are often indicators of a larger "instability" issue that remains well after the "deopt churn" appears to settle, but continues manifests in the form of some heavy GC.

Note: many internal structures related to the JIT (IC/hidden classes/code gen etc) can themselves cause sufficient GC pressure, as can the code you described as "de-opted permanently".

Interestingly it is also possible for the above mentioned GC pressure to itself cause some fun (even more GC pressure): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5456

This may not be the root of your issue, but I would be careful to rule it out entirely to quickly.

Anyways, best of luck!
I've just installed Sandstorm to test it: Created a droplet in Digital Ocean, logged in ("ssh root@...", and they had my ssh key), the curl|bash, and it worked. It was way beyond awesome for an open-source Linux app. So the EC2 problem exists only because someone advised to use Amazon for a hobby installation.

I love the concept, and I'm looking forward the day a facebook alternative could be built into it. And if it had existed when Google Reader ditched the internet, everybody would be on Sandstorm today. I've just experienced the feeling of browsing my RSS feeds of porn without feeling watched and without being afraid of hitting a "share to facebook" button: It's a great experience.
Which static site generator is based on a 20 year old unmaintained Perl CGI script?
I started my programming journey programming in AppleSoft Basic then 65C02 assembly language. Those were the only two languages I learned and used until college (1992) where I learned a lot of other languages but fell in love with C and then C++ and used that mostly from the beginning of my professional career until 2008 with a smattering of other languages (Perl, VB6, Rexx, Java, JavaScript, etc.)

I changed jobs in 2008 started using C# and realized that I was a good programmer, but a piss poor "engineer". I didn't know many of the fundamentals that he discussed, or unit testing, domain driven design, various frameworks (IOC, ORM's, MVC...) and didn't know how to manage a large project or even CI.

My algorithmic knowledge, and low level bit twiddling knowlege didn't mean anything in 2008 when it came to delivering real world business value.

I still like knowing the nuts and bolts, but it is secondary to getting stuff done.
See how people react to each moment of the debate; even if you're watching later
Why would it affect the lowest classes more? You can apply any per person payment you like to change the effective rate of any consumption tax. For example you could give everyone a $10,000 cash payment/ tax credit / call-it-what-you-like every year. This would fix any regressive consequences of a large consumption tax.

As for taxing assets directly, it is impossible to hide most of them (land and buildings are very hard to hide). Even things like shares and bonds are near impossible to hide. About the only thing that could be hidden are things like diamonds, but these are such a tiny amount of all assets that it would not be important.

Lets get away from taxing productive activities (i.e. income) and start taxing consumption and hoarding.
"stuff moving in space at the speed of light, move literally zero on the time axis"

No, on a Minkowski diagram with the x axis as a one space-like dimension coordinate (e.g. radius in metres) and the y axis as the time-like coordinate (e.g. -ct, where t is in seconds and c is the speed of light; - because of the sign convention[0]), something travelling at the speed of light traces out a 45 degree angle.[1]

This is a fundamental property of Minkowski spacetime, the spacetime of Special Relativity (and the spacetime in local sections of the fibre bundle in General Relativity).

Indeed, in a hyperbolic solution in General Relativity, everything moves at one second per second on the timelike axis measuring each object's proper time. This is one of many properties of time we do know very well; what's unclear is whether the property is emergent in the behaviour of systems of small objects, or whether it is fundamental to physics and applies to every object everywhere.

General Relativity requires that the manifold be infinitely differentiable, and thus continuous, rather than discrete. Anything that seeks to explain gravitation and the observables from tests of relativity will have tremendous trouble introducing discretization on the background while retaining compatibility with those tests. For all practical purposes, that's true for everything outside the event horizon of a black hole and more recent than the first 1e-38 seconds after the big bang.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_convention
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minkowski_diagram_-_photo...
Well, there's only been 44 presidents. So top ten is the top 23%. I'd wager she's barely even in the top 50%. There was a shocking amount of corruption during the gilded age.

Also, she's really not that corrupt. So she takes campaign contributions from wall street financiers. So does every other political candidate. She's released all of her tax returns, so we knew what all her financial connections were, even before the emails were leaked.

Don't get me wrong. I don't like her, I don't like her Wall Street connections, and I don't like most of her politics. But I'm still going to vote for her. I at least recognize that she can be a competent president, which is more than I can say about any of the other candidates (and yes, that includes Gary Johnson and Jill Stein).
Why's nfs an anti pattern?
If you depend on P2P to avoid centralized servers, you're just moving the data security issues to devices that are much, much harder to lock down. That can make privacy much worse in a practical sense.

Not to mention the difficulties of reindexing and fast retrieval over P2P. If I need to add an additional index on my centralized servers, the development cycle is much shorter than forcing every peer to reindex itself.
Citizens "should" be able to vote their tax allocation. To compensate for "bad user input" a certain percentage would be designated as "pool" which would just mean the government allocates as it deems best.This could be 10 percent or something. I know people have distrust in government but the truth is some policy makers are simply more aware than the common citizen and that body of understanding should be respected - to a point.
Why are you so convinced that lower income people wouldn't also find ways to avoid taxes if theirs were higher?
Thanks for this. I loved this show and had no idea. Can't wait either!
I took a 8% pay cut to work from home when I accepted a new position. The company said they couldn't match my currently salary but living in NY and being able to move to a lower priced housing and not having to pay for the commute more then made up for the loss in income. Not to mention the peace of mind and flexibility of working and not having to deal with the NYC commute, I think it's been well worth it personally.
You can run a $100,000 a month business on your own if you choose the right area. Even if you think this is beyond you, then aim for $10,000 a month.
Good, I didn't know about the "take all" feature, taking note.

In advenjure you can get a similar effect with the autocomplete. If you enter "take " and hit tab you will get suggestions for all the items available in the room.

Either case still requires the game scripter to try to guess what the players will attempt and write specific responses for that, otherwise they'll get the frustrating generic responses.
Back in the day using CVS, and subversion later was a constant struggle. Before switching to git i used darcs for several years and tried mercurial. Git was clearly better than any of them.

So, how can you tell that git is no good, if it is the best of the tools available?
In ES6 (and earlier, in E) you can write variable_name`string with ${expression} in it`, where the value of variable_name must be a function. The function gets called with an array of the substrings between the ${expression} parts, plus the values of the expressions. The function can return anything, including a non-string value. (So e.g. you might define dom so that dom`<p>Hello world` returns a new DOM node.) If you write just `string with ${e}` then there's a default for the variable_name part which does simple interpolation, like Python's f-strings.

So it's a powerful way of embedding other languages in the host language, where f-strings are not. The quasiParserGenerator library I linked to shows some of the potential.
Good point, my post was intended to spark off a conversation on how to reward individuals for abstaining their consumption of bad things. Not to funnel their habits towards worse things.
Agreed. However, it is far more effective to get professional pictures - high quality, one in a suit, one with a Pet, one with some friends / somewhere exotic.

You can go on Craigslist and get a 'professional' photographer to do a session with you for $100 or so (relative to COL). You will still need to put in effort with getting some fitting clothes, asking friends for help, etc. Professional, in this case, usually means someone that has a high-end camera and knows enough to use it.
Not OP, but medical technology (think MRT, CAT, ...) and GIS are both "serious" fields that involve a lot of complex graphics stuff.
> Much the same way as we motivate development of Windows, Linux and Wikipedia.

Isn't one of those things rather unlike the other two?
I just last weekend revived a Jekyll site that had sat dormant for 3+ years and experienced exactly what you're describing. Not a fun afternoon. I do feel fortunate it was only _an_ afternoon, though.
I did some of the UI art myself, but for the character art and gear I hired artists to do that. I directed them but they made the magic happen. If you're interested in making a game but don't want to do the art or can't do the art yourself, consider using a game engine like Unity where you can then use their asset store to buy the art you need. There are also open source art sites out there with free art you can use such as OpenGameArt [1] to get you started. Start with free (or cheap) art assets to test your game ideas and learn, and once you have a fun design and game you can consider hiring someone to make better looking art or something more specific to the style you had in mind.

[1] http://opengameart.org/
Companies have too incomplete a notion of the value of training and a positive environment to retention and productivity. People really do think skill is innate and people 'are who they are' more or less.

It's probably not true in 80% of cases, is true in 20% of cases, and the 10% of cases where people got burned by a poor candidate who couldn't improve are the ones they remember and say "never again;" likewise the 10% of cases where they are amazed by a highly skilled candidate and think all of them should be that way. They're missing the majority effect that impacts the productivity of 80% of their workforce.

This is why it's crucial to have an innate sense of human variation and psychology, a la W. Edwards Deming. So, in that sense, it's not the employees that need the training, but the managers.
"See? Joel Spolsky knows the secret to hiring Great Developers. Not only that, he knows how bad things can go when you hire the complement of the set of Great Developers, namely honkin' bad, can't-solve-a-brain-teaser about-pirates-and-blindfolds and-poisoned-bottles-and-buried-treasure to-save-their-life† Mediocre Developers. Therefore, you should buy consulting services and/or products from Fog Creek. Because you know Fog Creek only hires Great Developers."

Was the trojan horse message behind Joel's now-infamous Great Developers meme, which we are currently about midway through the second decade of. And that's really all people should have read it as -- part sincere opinion; but part pure and simple marketing shtick for Fog Creek.††

Yet it's taken on a life of it's own, as we know all too well by now -- with no endpoint in sight.

† Such brain teasers -- and the ability to solve them right there, on the spot, with strangers staring you, and your career hanging in the balance -- being, according to JS's unequivocal belief (until it finally became woefully unfashionable), if not absolutely necessary, at least fantastically useful and effective in telling Great Developers from Mediocre Ones.

†† A great, or at least an okay company, by all accounts (aside from this single, unintentedly onerous piece of marketing shtick from the early 2000s).
I'll post to this thread to simplify a lot of our discussion, tptacek also has good insight here. Listen to him as well.

Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields.

- General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use them as proxies.
Using IQ is effectively illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy.

- Work sample test. NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing. Try to make it apples-to-apples comparison across candidates. Also, try and make accomidations for candidates not knowing your company shibboleth.

- Integrity. The first two won't matter if you hire dishonest people or politicians.
There are existing tests available for this, you can purchase for < $50 per use.

This alone will get you > 65% hit rate [1], and can be done inside of three hours.

There's no need for day long (or multi-day) gladiator style gauntlets. Apply this process to EVERYONE, including that elite cool kid. You don't want to exclude part of your sample population!

[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

[2] Technically IQ tests aren't "illegal", but the bar courts have decided companies have to climb is so high it effectively means they are. I have spoken to a lawyer about this. You should speak with yours too, before you decide to try IQ testing.
The Neo900 sandboxes the baseband, our best hope for a secure phone and last I checked they're busy arguing with PayPal to get their account back, very sad.
The very first paragraph of the abstract details the first direct observation of GW.

An important part of a scientific theory is to predict new phenomena, and GW are a prediction of general relativity, a theory that has been put to test experimentally countless times. Many talented people have worked for many many years to detect experimentally GW (replicated simultaneously in two detectors), and now that they achieved experimental confirmation of this prediction you accuse them of being a "sect" and not doing proper science?

Exactly which part of the whole process is not up to your standard?
Thank you for that. After five solid years of professional web development, I have to say that I only have to implement or think about algorithms exceedingly rarely, while naming and organization consume the lion's share of my time.

My view on coders who insist so vehemently that "performance ALWAYS matters!!" dims more and more every year. At this point they sound more like basement trolls than real craftsmen.
but know little about contemporary Taoist sects or popular Taoist religion.

The first time I entered a Taoist temple I was shocked. They didn't teach me about Xi Wang Mu in my college classes!

I'm just curious if the suffering aspect comes from Taoism......extreme asceticism and suffering is certainly a part of Vajrayana and Mahayana sects

Good questions. Ideas certainly have intermingled over the millennia. When I think of Vajrayana suffering, I think, "I am going to sit here and let leaches suck my blood so I can clarify my mind" or "seek out that which bothers you. If graveyards scare you, go sit in a graveyard."

Whereas Daoists will break their legs and suck the marrow out of their bones, or chop their arm off to show they are sincere about learning. Buddhists typically won't starve themselves to death.

I'm not sure what part of extreme asceticism and suffering you were referring to, but if you'd like to discuss it, I'll hear it.
Of of course. The government should run itself as a business. Just shut down other businesses that are profitable, and take over their market. That worked in the past right.

And the lower taxes should encourage business growth, even despite the fact that the government could come in and take over at anytime.
Then mentorship and teaching need to be taught also.
>Surely it is clear that if anything the build up of troops on the Russian border acts to position NATO in an overtly aggressive posture, regardless of any predilection for defensive contrivance.

Seriously?

I feel like I'm reading something Putin wrote for the Russian people.

Wasn't it Russia that annexed Crimea? Wasn't it Russia that shot down MH17? Wasn't it Russia that invaded eastern Ukraine? Wasn't it Russia that is bombing UN Convoys and Hospitals in Syria? Wasn't it Russia that has openly invaded the Airspace of Baltic Countries?

Everything Johnathan Frances has written reeks of the Kremlin Propaganda Machine.
You have no idea what that person's situation is from their income. I know retired people with a lot of money who pay hardly any income taxes because they don't have much income. I also know people who could make a million this year and not be out of debt.
Well, he's partially correct. You don't study the philosophy of science (or philosophy for that matter) because of some utility it has in relation to something else (here, empirical science). You study it for its own sake. That's what theoretical sciences (including philosophy, though ethics is also practical) are about, truth for its own sake. That philosophy may have a beneficial influence on the practice of science is not negated, but it's important to understand the primary aim.

As far as quotes are concerned, here's one from Feyerabend that explicitly names Feynman:

"The withdrawal of philosophy into a 'professional' shell of its own has had disastrous consequences. The younger generation of physicists, the Feynmans, the Schwingers, etc., may be very bright; they may be more intelligent than their predecessors, than Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Mach and so on. But they are uncivilized savages, they lack in philosophical depth"

In other words, the ignorance of philosophy so prevalent among scientists has rendered them a class of boorish technicians. And it seems to be getting worse. Just look at Lawrence Krauss and friends.
Knowing the bubblesort is useful because it is the naive solution and isn't that great, so it leads you to dig for better options.
Good to see this here! I actually wrote a paper analyzing this architecture for one of my bachelor classes, been a few years but:
http://simonwillshire.com/papers/efficient-parallelism/
Article seems to be mostly an ad for interior design company/service Modsy.

Am I missing something? I didn't really find any real explanation as-to why "midcentury modern design" is so popular...
Using k-NN in Production [video]
I completely agree with this. One should never plan to change database engines -- it just happens so rarely and it's such a big deal that planning for it is a waste of time.

It would be like coding in Java in such a way to make porting to C# easier in the future (or vice-versa).
Don't forget that for email to get popular, it had to be mostly centralized (Hotmail, Gmail, etc)...

I'm not so sure. Before Hotmail and Gmail, every ISP provided email accounts to its customers. Desktop POP3 clients were the norm, and email was as popular as the Internet was. Centralization wasn't needed for email popularity.

Hotmail, Gmail etc. have now taken over, perhaps partly due to the economy of scale in dealing with the spam problem. But the smaller players are still present and working, so I'm not sure that email would fail without today's major providers.
Personally, I would treat the chat like a forum post and take more time to confirm that what I was posting was accurate. I have never used chat as for business purposes though, so thanks for the insight.

I do wonder though, should IRC evolve to be like Slack or should it evolve idependently? I feel that the new features should be more vital, rather than "neat"... like maybe more focus on privacy and/or anonymity. Undoubtedly, I am just resisting change...
That's been the solution since at least Roman times. It doesn't actually work. People with a lot of money are a lot more mobile than the rest of us.
As the article suggests near the end, I think you could delete "midcentury modern" and still convey the same point. When form follows function, similar forms will emerge and endure for similar functions.
SNL ahead of their time... http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/old-glory-insur...
I used to use all caps for keywords before the invention of syntax highlighting. Now my keywords are highlighted in another color just as they are in every other language so I no longer all-caps them.
Craftsmanship is about delivering a well crafted end product to the customer. More often than not, that's some sort of boss or product manager. And more often than not, they don't understand which design has a better total cost of ownership. But a good software craftsman does.
Here's the state forms for PA companies:

http://www.dos.pa.gov/BusinessCharities/Business/Registratio...
> My company has been very generous in giving me two monitors

That's a terribly low standard for generosity that you have there. Basic equipment to get your job done.