skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never run a company so this may be naive or uninformed on my part, but I get the impression that hiring and firing people, at least here in California, can be a costly process with regards to unemployment insurance, litigation for wrongful termination, etc. Again, I may be overestimating this burden on businesses so please correct me if I'm wrong.

One thing I've noticed over the years is that despite how good your interview/hiring process may be, you always end up with some hires that don't work out which lead me to believe that you probably turn away a near equal amount of applicants that would have been great employees. It's just very difficult to evaluate someone over the course of a few interviews. For entry level positions this is even harder since you may not have much professional experience or reputation to go by.

I've always thought it would be interesting if companies would run a kind of tryout phase of employment, say 1-3 months, paid of course, at the end of which the top performers would be given permanent employment. This way a company might be willing to take on more marginal applicants with the knowledge that it will be very easy to terminate them. I'm sure there are negative aspects of such a system that I'm not considering, but as a person working in aerospace doing manufacturing/skilled labor and without any formal education beyond high school to fall back on, I always thought such a system might be a good way for someone like me to get their foot in the door.
It does seem to be usable for purposes that are a bit chilling. Pinpointing the house where you think dissidents are meeting weekly. Identifying tenants that are breaking the lease by having too many overnight guests. Probably more scenarios I'm not thinking of now.

Edit: Less chilling, but maybe interesting that this opens up a free tool for competitive analysis. Using this to pick a location for a new business would give an edge that didn't exist before.
I like to tinker and build things. I still go to humans for value-added sheet-metal work and welding. However, downstream, mature manufacturing processes are ripe for replacement by automation.
This could works in short run as long as this type of service stay as niche and not too popular. Spammers always, always have a creative work around it. I imagined a counter measure from them by build a bot detector that will spam back the spambot and one hell of continuos email loop doesn't do any good to our internet traffic.
I don't think it's just the Guitar Hero generation, nor just kids, nor just musical instruments. There's a profound lack of discipline which hits often and early when somebody attempts to learn a craft. Most people rely on wanting to be good or motivation based on a fleeting image of some (form of) rockstar. When inevitably that image crumbles, they've got no discipline to follow through. Even good teachers can't always give that to them.
In all cultures. In some cases the religion is secular humanism or socialism. If you don't want to call it religion then call it a world view but it is essentially the same thing.
DHH is coming from the "10 hour work week" perspective, which I'm sure many people would be envious of, but it's not a reality most people live in.

That said, I do think mobile device usage outside of the office is more likely to supplement rather than replace time in the office.
> It's not just amount mounting as RO. It could physically be RO (or use e.g. dm-verity or similar)... which would be quite inconvenient if you wanted to add-site-specific directories under /. (Or if a distro wants to add a directory, or whatever.).

You could use two partition update scheme as ChromeOS. I am working on Linux distribution that have rootfs as a squashfs image and I want to have as painless updates as on ChromeOS.

> Also, wouldn't mounting /var, /home etc. RW on top of a RO-mounted / require that they were actually on different file systems? I don't think you can have a RW bind mount on a RO-mounted file system. (Haven't tried it, though.)

You can mount RW fs on RO fs. Distributions on Live-CDs do it all the time.
No, we have a problem with wage growth.

That isn't to say that the types of jobs have a huge impact. If McD paid $25/hr with full benefits, nobody would give a shit. Kind of hard to make that sustainable without clawing back real jobs from the 3rd world.

Germany seems to do a fine job with their auto industry, robots and all. I think this article is very flawed as that $8 task is but one of many and also one of the few perfect for a robot. "Spot welding isn't coming back to human manufacturing" is more accurate.
Excel Spreadsheets Are Alive and Kicking
The Ultimate Exit-Intent Guide to Convert Abandoning Visitors
Have you considered Softlayer/IBM Bluemix? There are Softlayer datacenters in Australia with great bandwidth to the POPs. By default your servers get 1G bandwidth and you can upgrade to 10G and up. You can bring your own subnets of course. PM me if you are interested in any details. Disclosure: softlayer engineer
Based on 4 of 5 of your points:

* An extremely polished OS that feels smooth and is rock solid

* An OS that doesn’t phone home with sensitive information regularly

* Flawless support for multiple monitors and virtual desktops / workspaces

* Unix(ish) based solution for all development related libraries and tools

Why the hell is "You can run Windows with a Linux VM approach similar to mine" a reasonable choice?
I've been using pip-tools for the last year or so. It does a similar job so far. I'd be happy to switch to something that's supported out of the box by pip, though.
he's a private citizen not sure why he wouldn't sue them into next week.
It's a strange world we live in that people the world over might well get basic internet infrastructure (even if only a cell phone with limited service rather than high-bandwidth cable) while lacking other portions of infrastructure many in the "first world" take for granted.
Wow, so you operated mail and IRC servers for use by dissidents pre-2011? I would definitely attend a talk about that! A blog post would be amazing too.

I see, that's great to hear. I don't live in Tunisia, so I'm not familiar with the Tunisian tech scene. Judging by your Twitter feed, it seems to be really active, which is awesome!
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It has the potential to redefine what we think of as 'creativity', as happened with what we consider intelligence and what we think of as "AI Hard" problems.

Perhaps what these networks are generating can be labeled better as "Guided/constrained imitation" rather than real creativity.
Imagine what would happen if everyone put their own bolts in.
Generating Documentation for TypeScript Projects
And your data source for it is?
I won't link to the awesome guitar solo by Lil' Wayne, but it is interesting to see that guitars can be found on stages for rap and pop bands. It just isn't a front-and-center instrument anymore, but it still looks better than a piano on stage.

I'm also of the opinion that if you are learning music to become a star, you aren't learning for the right reasons. If you become good enough to make money at it, that's awesome, but I don't know many musicians that do earn any money.
The remaining people can try to create an economy around the resources that aren't also walled off and guarded by robots.
These claims by MS are not false. Recently MS has equipped Edge with hardware-based container. This is a plus point in comparison to any other browser out there.

Source:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/26/new-w...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3124225/security/heres-how-mi...

https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-aims-to-gets-tough-on-se...

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/microsoft-touts-contain...
I can't provide sources (for obvious reasons), but I can tell you that there's a power-law relationship between retail price and gross margin. The cheapest starter guitars are very close to breakeven because of absolutely vicious price competition. Mid-range instruments are less profitable than they used to be, but they're still the bread and butter of the industry. The "custom shop" level of instruments are outrageously profitable, but they're also rather difficult to sell. Buyers for $5,000 guitars are few in number and exceedingly picky.

Prestige brands like Gibson, Fender and PRS rely to a significant extent on the "rich dentist" market of collectors, but most other brands don't sell significant quantities of super-premium guitars. Top-shelf guitars are often halo products, used to elevate the prestige of more affordable mid-range guitars. Having a "custom shop" in America or Japan is often treated as a marketing expense rather than a profit center.
tons of videos on youtube/vimeo of either him or chris sharma (king lines), then reel rock series.

edu marin from spain is also very good climber, I've found mostly shorter videos for all of these.
Given that many other industries use psychological tricks and things to make you "want" the unmentioned product, I like their frankness and candor - "Buy our guitars, learn guitar!"
Yup. While the steel strings will leave you sore for a while, the lower action largely compensates for that. The classical, in comparison, requires must more finger strength, more exercise, and generally more soreness.
As others have pointed out, if this is the third time then it's pretty highly likely that there's more involved here than programming skill. Remember, we're only getting one side of the story. But let's assume for the sake of argument that it really is about a coding-skills gap.

Most code will be read far more than it's written. Somebody else will have to read and maintain this guy's code after he's gone, especially since he's a contractor. I think we can all agree that there are many ways code can be good or bad, and that it can be good in one way but bad overall. If this guy's code is hard to read and maintain, then in the most important sense it's not good code. Nobody will care that it's "intelligently decoupled" as he (and he alone) claims. Are there comments to make the relationships or interactions between these decoupled components more clear? Or external documentation? Decoupling is great in the abstract, but if it obscures intent or effects then it's bad code. Ditto for any other kind of "greatness" we might attribute to code. If it can't be maintained or enhanced efficiently, its greatness is transitory at best.

This isn't about "sticking out" so much as putting one's own interests ahead of the employer's. If the employer quite legitimately values code that is consumable more than code that is impressive, and you insist on making the opposite tradeoff, you're not providing what was paid for and you're also showing disrespect to everyone else involved. For that you should be fired.
Improve by itself doesn't imply a direction. It has to be inferred via context. Improving page load time by 500% is perfectly reasonable to say, the reader infers that improve means decrease in this case.

Just as you can improve a golf score, or a marathon pace, or your BMI.
I'd add the disclaimer that while Python for Data Analysis is a great resource for learning pandas, which itself is invaluable for data science in Python, the book doesn't cover machine learning or statistical inference in any great detail. That's not a criticism, it's just (mostly) beyond the scope of the book.
Site slow for me, here is an imgur mirror http://imgur.com/a/J2957
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13007610
This is pretty awesome looking!
Not true. They've repeatedly said they will happily accept patches for lldb. There was a thread on the devel email list just a week or 2 ago. No one has stepped up yet.
Skipodium reforming the ski teaching industry
SaaS and booking system for ski schools, ski/ snowboard lessons meta with real-time booking capability for final users, Skipodium has launched around 2 months ago and already counts around 60 resorts worldwide.
Eve aims to be a general purpose language [1] to really replace your "entire programming stack" except for high performance, real-time applications. So, don't be sad :)

[1] http://witheve.com/deepdives/whateveis.html
And, contrary to when they started being produced, they're of comparable quality to regular Fenders now.
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https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse#help-synapse-eats-all-...

I launch my instance like this:
SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR=0.01 synctl restart /etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml

I run synapse on a machine with 1.5GB of total RAM and have had zero memory issues since limiting the memory usage with the above command.
They just recently changed their name to Riot... (from "Vector")
I half-fell for one of these once. I was a teaching assistant with my contact info posted on our department page, and a woman in Africa wrote seeking a tutor for her son who would allegedly be doing a summer program at my university to prepare for enrollment in the fall. It all seemed reasonable until she wanted to wire funds to my account. I told her to have her son pay me in person, and she never wrote again! This was a pretty good scam because there were no millions involved, and she'd done her research to match the pitch to the mark.
You do know you could be on your way to a poor country to help sick people there right now? Don't you care about sick people dying? You could have prevented several death of loving fathers and mothers by now, and - let's not forget - their children! Instead, you decided to post this. Are you a terrorist?

Reminds me of that joke about U2 singer Bono. At a U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, Bono asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies." From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet …
"Well, fuckin stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!"
As a non-climber: who drills these holes into the wall with the carabiners in them? (AND HOW???)
Surely the opportunity costs of attacking an unsecured crowded bar over a secured sports stadium are favored toward an unsecured bar.

Recently there were posts here concerning unethical practices in software development.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-code-im-still-ashamed-of...

Google somehow gets a pass on these practices for some reason. They have a lot of power and influence over the things they decide to do with the information they are volunteered. I think they should be cautious with releasing real time data on where people are congregating.
And this was published under the banner of MIT without 'editorial' or 'opinion'.

This is fact! /s

Reads like another partisan puff piece griping about the election to me, which is a shame because the underlying concept (automation) is interesting to me, but the conclusion (manufacturing is doomed) is hyperbole.
Each time I see a mention of commuting, I'm reminded of a possible (perhaps likely or inevitable) interaction between commute tolerance and self driving cars. Self driving cars may increase commute tolerance substantially, by 50% or 100%; And make ultra-long commutes more feasible for those who don't live a long narrow train court orders.

A couple of decades from now, it's quite possible that a 2+ hour commute will be routine and normal, rather than worth of a special word "super-commuter", for people working in the largest employment centers. (Which sounds extremely unpleasant to me, by the way.)
If that would be that easy but if you want really easy introduction to category theory then check a book "how to bake a pie" by Eugenia Cheng have a good read
Finally an actually useful application for AI!
No perfect result is required and this is also not something you want actual humans to do.
I climb, but I'm not 100% familiar with the ethical considerations personally. I think there are different viewpoints. I think these cover some of the views.

Some people think that bolting a wall "spoils" it ecologically, damages it's pureness. Once you've run a line of bolts up a route you can't un-do it. There's always going to be at least bolt holes or bolts there.

Some people don't think "sport" climbing (where you clip into quickdraws on the way up) is "real" climbing, but "trad" (where you place "pro", or protection, on the way up that you later "clean" or remove) is.

You can still trad climb a route that's been bolted, you just ignore the bolts, but some people might consider it less pure as a result I guess.
Article seems to read a lot into what the average person wants. I don't know a single trump supporter that knew he advocated lowering corporate taxes and taxes on higher incomes.

- lowering health care costs

- tariffs to bring back manufacturing(probably won't work but that's a different issue)

- push out illegals to increase wages(again not going to help)

- infrastructure spending(although didn't point out he's just giving tax breaks to companies with already scheduled projects)
I checked linked study:

> A human welder today earns around $25 per hour (including benefits), while the equivalent operating cost per hour for a robot is around $8 when installation, maintenance, and the operating costs of all hardware, software, and peripherals are amortized over a five-year depreciation period.

So human cost does not include total cost, just labour. Comparable cost would be around $100
Have you tried these search engines? These are proxy to Google's or other's results. You will not feel lock in with this for sure because it is bare bone.

https://www.startpage.com/

https://duckduckgo.com/

http://ixquick.com/

https://searx.me/
Nobody knows if Haskell's design is great for software development, and if it is, by how much and whether it justifies the costs. That's precisely why we need data.

> Haskell just happens to have come from academia and is still heavily used in academia.

Haskell isn't heavily used in academia at all. My guess is that most CS professors -- like most developers -- have hardly even heard of it, let alone used it. It is heavily used among researchers who's job it is to study the design of languages like Haskell. Languages that are heavily used in academia are C, Python, Java and maybe a few more.

> There are many experience reports published all the time at conferences and in academic journals,

Where? I've looked. If you want to see what a good report looks like, take a look at this one[1]. It's got some background, and then lot's of analysis of pros and cons, with plenty of numbers. I found it so convincing that I tried the language it advocated, and ended up adopting it. I'd seen similar (even more comprehensive) reports for Java back in the early '00s before deciding our team should adopt it. I haven't seen anything similar for Haskell. And again -- the more costly the adoption, the more information required before trying.

> going back decades. None however will give you the quantitative metrics you seem to be asking for, because it is almost impossible to do such a comparison.

I don't want a comparison, and what I'm asking for has been done at some point for nearly every language that has gained widespread adoption. I just want to know how much time and effort has gone into a single project, a breakdown of costs, and a subjective analysis of pros and cons. You see such reports being written from time to time about other languages (although usually with far more adoption than Haskell).

[1]: Slides: http://tla2012.loria.fr/contributed/newcombe-slides.pdf

Report 1: http://glat.info/pdf/formal-methods-amazon-2014-11.pdf

Report 2: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-43652-3_3
Those gains are not equally spread over all demographics. The decline in some groups can be masked by gains in others.
A Mathematica package for parallel symbolic regression using Monte Carlo
To be honest, i've been living that future on my desktop with Opera M2 since roughly 2001. Aside from Inbox no other email client i know has ever replicated this feature.
thanks for the tips! Indeed, a good hiring process might find the right person at Upwork.
Also agreed - that extra ~$100 buys you a lot of consistency and quality. It has to be said that the defects you do see on low-end guitars are increasingly cosmetic and superficial; I don't see very many warped necks these days, but I do see a lot of bad finishes and sharp fret ends.

Some brands are far better than others in this respect - I've seen a fair number of unplayable Squiers and Epiphones, but I don't think I've ever seen a genuinely bad Yamaha Pacifica.
It's probably more interesting that it is self made than it is interesting that it is made out of IKEA bags.

I find making it from the bags an odd choice, fabric with particular chosen qualities would probably be $10-$20 a yard.
Bolts are re-used between climbers. If someone bolts a route then other climbers use it. You never end up with a wall littered with bolts.
I would also suggest giving the spammers more intense work to do. Like a pdf form for new suppliers that they have to download, fill out, sign, scan back in, and return. Or maybe submit to a form page with a horribly difficult captcha.
Workforce participation numbers are also rather low.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/labor-force-...
My God. There really is nothing new under the Sun...
I don't know the answer to your specific question but I want to mention unemployment may be a misleading number. Unemployment only counts people who are actively looking for employment. It doesn't include those who have given up and dropped out of the labor market or those who are underemployed. It's only one metric of the health of the workforce and shouldn't be looked at alone.
true, only those who tried climbing for at least few times do know how much difference the shape of the hold and the angle of the wall makes the difference.

layman can see me climbing some easy overhang in the gym (say 5c) in amazement, but it's basically a series of pullups with some stamina required (yeah, I am not a very good climber). on real rock with similar surface angle, or on some proper route I wouldn't last there for 2 seconds
In Rust, it's very common to put tests right next to the code; all functions tagged with #[test] will be run as tests, and examples within the function documentation comments will also be run as tests by default.

For instance, randomly looking at the first file in that repository, cache/cache.rs, you can see at the end a submodule tagged with #[cfg(test)] (meaning it will be compiled only when running the tests), and within it several functions tagged with #[test].
Thanks for the share. Appreciate it.
Also try this material I mean aforementioned blog by Bartosz Milewski and go through it but do it really SLOWLY and then things start to make sense and in all honesty there is no easy way to mathematics in general
Even more context here:

http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/48551/discussion-on-ques...

"I already made a full documentation and more than 6 hours in meeting to explain them the architecture. On the moment, they enjoy, but in their mind, it's too theoretical for them, besides numerous examples"