skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond the "work without distractions angle" think about this:

You online presence affords recruiters and hiring managers the opportunity to identify who you are before they make a determination to formally invite you to an interview (phone or in person). Even if you opt out of self identify, they can still figure it out if you have FB, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.

Thus, are you qualified, but didn't get a call back or request to interview email? It may be because of your race, gender, sexuality, etc.
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The only real hope for that is if we start directly controlling weather. The last 1,000,000x increase in processing power has bought less than a days worth of accuracy. In the very short term you can just model the momentum of the air, but the feedback loops quickly reduce stability.
It's funny how the title of this story, in optimizing for F-K score, looks exactly like most internet clickbait, but I suppose that isn't a coincidence.

I myself have found this to be a large problem in my writing. I'm an on and off writer for a corporate newsletter that my company distributes internally, and at this point I include online F-K score checks into my drafting process. This isn't a humble brag or anything, I actually think many technical people aren't able to express themselves well due to writing in a way that is very hard to intuit.

(comment f-k score is 12, btw)
The author of this article mentioned running a database server on raid 10 local ssds. I would whole heatedly recommend against this. There is no replication on locally ssd ( at all ). If there is a massive hardware failure there are still situations were all the the data on the local ssds can be lost.

( Disclosure: I would for Google Cloud Platform Support and have seen this happen on rare occasions.)
At a glance, the blog didn't give me the impression that you're trying to earn money (I feel like most blogs aren't). Do you have a products section or something?
You're welcome to assume anything you want about the account and its nature, I simply don't care.

If it's my personal belief that I am duty bound to try and get this person fired and find legal ways to ruin their life would you be supportive of that? None of this activity would be carried out at work.
I'm 100% against these in a serious shop. The reason? Most of my tools are dangerous. Bandsaw? Yup. Lathe? You bet. Drill press without a guard on the belt? Yeah, lost some hair to that, built a guard.

You get the idea, tools need to be treated with respect.

I don't like the idea that one of them, that is dangerous, is now not dangerous. That tends to make me let my guard down and I don't want that to bleed over (pun intended, sorry :) to the other tools.

If I could make them all safe, that's a different story.
So you have to run a querySelectorAll() across the whole document every time you want to update/upgrade your elements? That's not going to scale at all.
This article is about not being able to analyze problems and only being able to express shallow solutions in terms of permutations of existing solutions without actually thinking about the underlying problem.

Whether the author knows it or not.

Hence, this does not describe a good argument for switching to Go. It describes a good argument for better education, training and mentoring of developers so that they become programmers rather than "random assemblers of bits and pieces".
How high are the fees ? In France, even in public Universities you still have to pay something, granted it's borderline free, from the top of my head, 400€ per year.

I once chatted with a US girl thinking about going to college, IIRC one year there was almost the price a full fledged private school 5 year cursus. We both went silent for a minute.
How, please tell me. I'll pay you for that list. Do I have to sacrifice my firstborn for this?
Because you need to eat?
It's hilarious that HN conflates popularity with "best".

So even at HN, the most addictive content is considered to have the highest value. Seems…topical.
I can't even imagine buying an Apple laptop if performance was a critical issue.
TLDR: write at a lower grade level for more appeal.

It's a sales pitch for what seems like a multi-level direct sales marketing scheme dressed in a marketing copywriting school. The post is bait; the hook is the link at the bottom.
> "or after comes close."

What do you base that on?
Why would they? In the bigger scheme of things computer vision is still pretty much a clean slate. Nobody's making any serious money (yet). And Nvidia is still first and foremost a graphics company. Buying Nvidia for CV tech would be like buying Airbnb for its "trips" business.

Apart from that the FTC / US Justice would never allow that merger in the first place.
Same here. Although I never got pulled in by Facebook and only a little with Twitter, I did with Reddit and especially Hacker News.

HN is the one where I find myself checking several times/day and I constantly have 20+ HN tabs. The pattern is something like this:

1) "Oh, interesting topic!"

2) Open in a tab

3) Read existing comments & the link (I don't always do the latter, admittedly)

4) Come back N hours later, read new comments

5) Repeat #4 over a day or two

6) Close tab unless I haven't read the link yet. If I haven't, then they tend to stick around until I do or send it off into OneTab for ultimate procrastination.
"Diversity society will fail" --Putnam;
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...
Strunk & White!

More style than grammar, but they intermingle the two.
Chrome internally dedupes <style> tags with identical text, and typically the style tag is generated by cloning an existing one from a template, so there's very little actual overhead here.
Trying to set up some mesh nets on the east coast
You want him to handhold you and tell you exactly how to make a quick dollar? Ha.
If you aren't worried about the quantity of books you're getting through, and want a challenge, read The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

The closest approximation might be Jorge Luis Borges with Tolkien with a dash of Neal Stephenson and Murakami.

At first I thought: I know what this is.

Then I thought. Wait... something's wrong here.

Then I thought. There is no way that is in the text. Can't be.

This was just the point where the rollercoaster is beginning the climb.

If you like complex and strange things, then this is for you.
I primarily visit HN for the comments. My usage is as follows:

1. Scan headlines for a topic I'm interested in, say, geometric algebra.

2. Rapidly scan the comments for people linking to other media (books, blog posts, libraries, etc.) that are related to geometric algebra.

I get vastly superior pointers to useful material this way than any other approach I've tried, and I'm extremely good at research anyway.
Take up a musical instrument. Music can be insanely difficult and challenging. You have to be 100% focused on the activity, it has a physical aspect to it, and successes are very rewarding. It's not as physical as extreme sports of course, but is similar to sports in that the more effort you put in to practice (workout) every day, the greater the rewards. IMO it's also good for keeping things like carpal tunnel at bay (I play piano, but most instruments have finger/hand things going on).

Like sports, you are never "there", you are always just getting better. You can take a break and play easier pieces just for fun, challenge yourself and practice difficult pieces, or focus on one specific area for improvement like rhythm/counting, switching from classical to jazz for a while, playing crazy orchestra reductions with way too many notes, improving your ear by trying to play along with pop music, etc.

The other nice thing about music is it's convenient to take a half-hour break from work, play/practice a while, then go back to work. It's funny: while I love playing music, I don't much like listening to it when others are playing it. I can spend 2 hours working on Chopin, but am bored after about 15 minutes listening to classical music, even if it's with someone at a concert. Just doesn't do it for me to listen. Played Fr Horn in a band and that was a lot of fun too, lead to friendships, etc.

If you're into it, music is a huge field that you'll never outgrow, even on a single instrument.
Our government already does support oppressive oil regimes (the saudis). You see those other governments as substantially worse because the only thing you read is american propaganda.
All eggs used by McDonalds in the UK have to be from free range chickens already?

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/food-quality/eggs.html#clo...
That is correct. I guess what I wanted to point out is that it would be cool if Linux could become this - a library that you can compile into your program, rather than a program in which you run your programs (an OS).
I read A Guide to the Good Life roughly once a year and found this summary a nice way to stay on it between readings:

http://becomingeden.com/summary-of-a-guide-to-the-good-life/
This is why I've stuck with single player games. Aside from a summer where I spent 12 hours a day on Counter Strike, I only play single player games enough to just finish the main story (don't care much about unlockables or anything crazy). I finish them and that's it!
Social media does one thing really really well. It makes the maintenance of weak social connections really really efficient. Secondarily, it makes the reestablishment of weak social connections and the establishment of new weak social connections very low cost.

Facebook is full of old people because they have more weak connections, while my boy doesn't use a social media platform because in his words, "I have high school"...I'd asked him about it just this week.

What social media might give the author is the ability to continue their relationship with their editor's assistant over the next twenty years as their careers progress and paths diverge and perhaps the editor's assistant becomes an editor in their own right. Sure, TANSTAAFL. But it points both ways.
Do you have access to an oven?

I made homemade breakfast burritos in bulk once. Pretty easy to make (1–2 hours of effort total), a cost effective breakfast, and quick to reheat and eat in the mornings. I made a dozen or so and froze them, then just thawed one per day.
In these discussions I think people often overlook one significant factor in delivering services to people in the US; population density. The EU and also France, have a higher population density than the US. The US is 33 per km, whereas France is 100, based on Wikipedia.

This translates to higher costs because maintaining hospitals in low density areas raises the cost of care per capita. This is also a reason that inter-regional train service has never been a good option in the US.

There are regions where it works, but coming up with a one-size fits all solution is hard. The metropolitan regions of the US have always subsidized the rural parts. We people of the cities have always paid a fee on our phone bills that helps reduce the cost of phone service in rural areas, as an example. I actually dislike this, because I think it subsidizes sprawl.

I believe the ACA is a good step (personally I'd like to see Medicare offered as on option alongside all state insurance plans), but it does need fixes. Whatever the solution, it's going to look different from Europe and France in particular.
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The people who use encrypted messaging, while greatly increased in number, are still not the target demographic who would click on FREE VIAGRA ads. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a small niche industry arise around unsolicited encrypted bulk email sending for tech recruiters...
Perhaps that is because it has been declining for the entire 6 year period.
Paul Sellers series of videos are an engaging introduction to woodworking, focusing on why we have certain hand tools as well as the surprising amount they can accomplish.

His woodworkers bench project is a great place to start when planning an entry level tool set.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v
sorry but that boat has already sailed for US. the problem is not just an insurance one. The global tax-payed healthcare of EU could never pay the declared hospital costs of US.
EU's public healthcare works because hospital costs (what the state pays instead of citizens) are still reasonable.
Maybe it's the discipline I've learned from years of power lifting, but I don't have any issues with social media. I'll often skip FB for days because it's not something I think about doing. I do like games though and will sometimes play one for an hour or maybe even 2 hours if it's the weekend. After that I start feeling like I need to do something productive.

As far as comments, I always try to act online as I would in real life. This means I try to avoid snark online since it is so hard convey sarcasm online. I also always think about if I was having a real conversation how would I act. If you read my comment history, most (all?) are calm, and I think are how I have disagreements in real life. I try to follow the thought process that you can shear a sheep many times, but can only skin it once.
OP seems more concerned with liability protection than tax advantages.
Not the OP, but the typical conclusion would be "effective altruism indicates I should stay in tech and give money to helping fisherman transition to seaweed farming."

It's very hard to pass this analysis, since "high tech" is almost universally more valuable to humanity, per unit, that something low tech like farming.

If you're already in tech and you want to "help the world", giving money is almost always the best choice.

http://www.givewell.org/ is a good resource for where to give effectively.
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Isn't there a lot of work that goes into post processing the data? It wouldn't matter if you just want an awesome background image, but using the data for some kind of actual work... there is a lot of calibration to be done. I was working with some ESA Sentinel data several months ago - not fun.

Edit: For those who don't normally work with this stuff, I'm talking about not only correcting geospacial data - but also bringing the sensor data in line with a bunch of other sensors and past datasets. It quickly goes from "Oh, pretty pictures!" to "Do I really want to do this anymore? Can I ever trust data again?" That said, doing your own ground segment is cool - just know that there is a whole lot more work to do beyond actually receiving the radio transmissions.

https://earth.esa.int/web/sentinel/level-1-post-processing-a...
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Same in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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It would be nice if we could actually judge people accurately based on the ideas and opinions they promote, but that's rarely what happens.

Usually people are judged based on the ideas that those who oppose them hold.
I wrote about this last year, your online persona in relation to your personal career.

Quitting social media for personal usage is a pretty good idea though if you're always checking it.

https://sosuke.com/creating-and-taking-ownership-of-your-per...
Agree 100%. And even if you progress to power tools, using a plane teaches you about tearout and grain direction. Everyone thinks "against the grain" means "across the grain", but it doesn't.

If you look at the side of the board that you are planing the grain (unless it is super straight) will tilt up to the face you are planing. If you are planing in the direction such that you sheer off the fibers, that's with the grain. If you are planing such that the blade digs in and tries to lift the fibers up, that's against the grain and causes tearout.

A jointer is just a plane with 3 blades running really fast. It can produce tearout just like a plane. So you need to know how to look at the board and turn it so that you are with the grain. Hand tools teach you that in a hurry.
It's not impossible. Seaweeds are rich in prebiotic polysaccharides that could theoretically alter your gut microbiome to something less odoriferous. But it could also have the opposite effect. Understanding of the human microbiome is still primitive, and most attempts to manipulate it aren't much different from hitting electronics when it's not working.
> If they are pleasant at work

I don't think being pleasant has anything to do with this. Perhaps you meant professional?

Assuming that, what if someone is professional at work, but often says at work that they believe black people should be lynched and are subhuman. Is that ok? If it isn't acceptable, why isn't it?
Employers in California are in fact legally obliged to tolerate political opinions in their employees.

Quoting from http://volokh.com/2013/08/06/lawsuit-over-firing-based-on-em...

In 1937, “the California Legislature, recognizing that employers could misuse their economic power to interfere with the political activities of their employees, enacted Labor Code sections 1101 and 1102 to protect the employees’ rights.” Labor Code section 1101 provides: “No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy: [¶] (a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics …. [or] (b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees.” Labor Code section 1102 provides: “No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by means of threat of discharge or loss of employment to adopt or follow or refrain from adopting or following any particular course or line of political action or political activity.” These sections are designed to protect “ ‘the fundamental right of employees in general to engage in political activity without interference by employers.’ ”
Every president pardons a ton of people at the end of their term. Obama will do it, and it's likely Trump will too:

http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-pardons...
I'm sure it's great ... in France.
Because here in the province of Québec (Canada) it's hell on wheels. Granted we have 'free' access to healthcare, but waiting 24 hours in an emergency room is not uncommon due to the shortage of Doctors and low incentives for them to work in the public system. I think it's only marginally better than the USA because it's cheaper, but the actual care you get is scary bad in most hospitals and clinics.
Couple that with an ageing population, it's a nice recipe for the shitstorm we call healthcare in these parts ...
About half an hour on Sunday mornings and 10~ mins the second session, but I'm slowly making that as close to 0 as possible.

One thing that's helping is Lobsters. Lobsters is super slow so if I do make a full switch from HN to that I only need to check it a handful of times a week.

But to me, it's not so much about how much time I spend on the time but rather the why. I simply don't get as much value out of HN as I think I do. Most news are irrelevant and unimportant, and I haven't really learned anything too insightful like others said they have (sadly). Simply put, tech news boards apparently just aren't for me.
They should release a MacBook Fat, without the thin mindset, even with a bit of Panasonic rugged line influence. The Titanium industrial design added to the pro feel.
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Japan has undergone massive changes in the last ~20 years due to their "missing decade." But their culture for forty years before that included employment practices that would surprise many USians.

For instance, until recently ir was unusual for a person to have more than one employer in their lifetime. You entered the workforce just after high school or college and stayed with that employer for the rest of your career. People didn't quit and get a different job. And employers didn't fire people.

The elderly person standing in front of the construction fence warning people to be careful because of the danger used to be construction worker. Maybe they worked their way up in the company until they bumped into the Peter principle or until they physically or mentally couldn't do the job. Then then moved over, around, and down as their abilities declined. The folks who made it high enough to earn a retirement retire. The folks who didn't build a nest egg or spent their egg on Grandma's hospice care, or whatever, depend on the company to keep them in the mail room or sweeping the front lobby or something that will pay the rent and buy groceries.

I have seen many US companies that created Mission Statements and formalized a list of Corporate Values that included Loyalty. But I have seen very few US companies that are loyal to their employees. I suppose there are a lot of ways to be disloyal, but Japanese companies have generally been loyal in maintaining some level of employment to even the least competent of their employees.
I'm basically going to run my 2008 Mac Pro desktop until it completely seizes up. It's been constantly upgraded since then, and is still going strong. When the day comes, I'll have to make the decision on whether to continue with MacOS, because nothing is going to replace this anytime soon apparently.
It is not a law of the universe, but it is somewhat more than fashion. In California, it is the law.

Quoting from http://volokh.com/2013/08/06/lawsuit-over-firing-based-on-em...

In 1937, “the California Legislature, recognizing that employers could misuse their economic power to interfere with the political activities of their employees, enacted Labor Code sections 1101 and 1102 to protect the employees’ rights.” Labor Code section 1101 provides: “No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy: [¶] (a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics …. [or] (b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees.” Labor Code section 1102 provides: “No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by means of threat of discharge or loss of employment to adopt or follow or refrain from adopting or following any particular course or line of political action or political activity.” These sections are designed to protect “ ‘the fundamental right of employees in general to engage in political activity without interference by employers.’ ”
This type of setting-a-straw-man-ablaze comment is not good for Hacker News because invariably the rest of the thread catches fire. The bar for civility and substantiveness on sensitive topics is higher, not lower.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998777 and marked it off-topic.
So I take it they're a professor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor.
This is great. I worked on the ground processing systems for this satellite. I left before my own algorithmic systems went through final review. Was good for me to leave career-wise but I wish I could have seen it through to the end.
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"Will wearing a t-shirt with "I heart America" get you fired at GrubHub? It's on Matt's list of no-nos: nationalist."

Nationalism and expressing love or pride in one's country (patriotism) are two different things, I think. They can be felt simultaneously but can also be expressed separately. Nationalism focusses more on cultural background, language, and heritage, which "I ︎<3 America" doesn't necessarily convey.

I don't know how all of this will shake out at GrubHub. The most I've heard of the company has been around this incident. There's a lot of close and sometimes purposefully uncharitable parsing of language and cherry-picking going around in general.