skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you get to a certain size, if you've got the right culture, referrals will be a huge stream of applicants. For me, about 80% of our candidates are referrals.

I view referral rates as a trailing indicator of culture — if you enjoy working at company X, you'll refer your friends to work there, too. If you hate it or don't believe in its prospects, you won't.
Yep. They had dragon vocal effects which were fine but this extra effect was played at the moment of each attack - the incongruity (no obvious cause) + recognition (from other films) broke immersion for me.
In well-funded or established businesses that's entirely right, but for seed-funded and bootstrapped businesses I'm not sure Thiel is right. If you've only got a few months money in the bank you don't get to make mistakes 2 through 5 because mistake 1 is enough to shut down the company. That's one of the reasons why seed funding raises have been going up. When I started my business (which failed due to a single very obvious mistake[1]) a typical seed round was $100k. Now it's upwards of $250k. That extra money gives you room to make more than one bad call.

[1] We spent so long making the product "perfect" we ran out of money before we had any customers.
New Approach to Corporate Tax Law Has House G.O.P. Support
When we compared to third party appraisals we got on our homes vs final sales prices, we were more accurate than the appraisers
Depends how much bandwidth you need and what the distance is. A pair of Unifi Nanostations (available in 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz, 900Mhz models), will give you 100Mbit, a pair of Nanobeams will give you up to 450Mbit.

I use a single Nanostation 5Ghz out on the front porch to bridge back to my Unifi Wifi node
> No computer vision behind-the-scenes magic, unfortunately.

Theoretically, it shouldn't be terribly technically difficult to attach a few sensors to each player to get a relatively hi-res 3D representation of each player's position throughout the game, should it?

Annotating the action accurately, not so easy, or might there be some trick?
I live in an apartment with probably 15 wifi networks visible at any time. Plus my xm radio has recently started cutting out in the parking lot of my apartment, it's either the microwave radio tower or noise coming from the high voltage lines/electrical substation behind my complex. I "upgraded" last Christmas to a Linksys AC router, it was awful had to reboot it daily to get wifi to work, got annoyed and picked up a router and put the Linksys in wireless only mode. Still didn't fix it. So I bought a UniFi AC Pro and it has been rock solid. I can also pick up my wifi network from an incredible distance from my apartment now. So it may not be as good as some of the enterprise stuff, but it's also reasonably priced. I'm extremely pleased with it.
Can be automated 99%. Predict from paper the names of reputable researchers in the same sub-field and request reviews from them. The reviewer selection process should be random / fair.
> Despite the bad press it is actually a pretty freaking great place to work.

So, how many hours a week do you drive? Oh, I'm sorry... those aren't "workers" -- they're just being nice and sharing their cars in their free time.
On what grounds do you find a refusal to consent to an executive's appointment to be unconstitutional? As someone who's been studying the constitution for five years, it seems eminently constitutional to me as well as every lawyer or law professor I've discussed the matter with.

Washington Post has asserted the claim that it is unconstitutional as a "3 pinocchios" falsity[1]

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/...
Certainly. Conversion skyrockets when we get fees to price parity for the least risky homes. Over time I hope we can get there for all homes
In my experience, every private company does this and every public company does not, due to sox compliance.
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CloudFront was giving me troubles. Thanks for pointing out my malfunction!
OP made no moral claim, just stated unreferenced facts.
The difference in opinions is interesting. The keyboard (and the speakers) are my favorite aspect of the new mac. I'm a very light typist though.
For something just as awesome but a fraction of the price take a look at MikroTik/RouterBoard Hex GR3 and wAP AC.
It is a Java thing, but I have no complaints, I have one running on an AWS instance that 8 Wifi nodes across 2 offices connect to, and it's been running fine for a couple years with only a few code updates (every 6 months or so). I have no complaints about it. It was easy to configure, and adding a new node is as simple as plugging it in, ssh'ing to it and pointing it to my management server, then adopting it on the management server. Done. The management server will upgrade firmware (if needed) and automatically apply my wifi config to it.
This is awesome. I have learnt very recently about these alternate voting systems, and as a result I have had many discussions with several friends over the pros and cons of each, and the impact they could have on our society. I absolutely agree with the article that this could help with many of the problems that most democracies face today (polarization, rejection of the establishment, low voting turnout).

I am surprised that our voting system hasn't evolved much since the 18th century, despite its many problems. It is high time for some disruption.

One small piece of important information that wasn't much discussed in the article: a big advantage of these systems is that they make primary elections obsolete (because they are immune to the spoiler effect). The reflection on the 2016 US presidential elections would be more interesting when considering all the candidates of the primaries, all competing in a single race.
You jealous of Elon, right?
I said it "isn't a bad choice", not "there is no other alternative".

Of the 5 alternates you provided, can you name me an app that runs on major platforms that people describe as a good user experience? Not just that they work, but that they serve as good example of how to design a user experience. The only one that I can think of that I use on an everyday basis is the JetBrains apps which are built in java, although what UI implementation they're using I'm unsure. Beyond that, all the good cross platform apps that I can think that aren't using something webkit based (slack/atom/discord/etc) use native OS GUI implementations. I'm sure there are others, but it's hard to completely discredit the browser-as-an-app approach.

From what I gathered from the project, it's aim is to go beyond being just another terminal emulator and provide a certain amount of bells and whistles through its interface. Turns out interface bells and whistles is something that HTML+CSS+Javascript has nailed pretty well while remaining cross platform compatible.
I've been debating getting the USG, why did you pick the edge router? Would you get the USG if you had to do it again? I currently have a UAP AC PRO.
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I spot checked several of these books on Pirate Bay and they were all well seeded and many uploaded today, touche Hackernews! Not that I would be interested in downloading them or anything.
If you're really worried about the radiation, I'd be more worried about beamforming than no beamforming -- If you use a mobile device, the Wifi beam forming will try to maximize signal to your device, which will expose you to the most radiation.
And then know, there is NO documentation for their RouterOS, but rather a wiki (the users are meant to fill ...somehow).

Interestingly, wasn't the case with earlier versions of the s/w.
But, the catch is that ARC reactor is smaller, cheaper, faster to build and could possibly be developed by industry, which would speed up the research cycle.
But they may not like it when you have 73 active cards/names - so making this a mandatory thing would affect banks' processes. Also even if you're being literal and can do it in 17 seconds (i.e. after opening a new tab, 30 seconds from now you can have a card in the name of Mary Smith on its way to you) I and I think most people using online banking don't have it so smooth.
In what way has it come to an end? In this article, I see only experts deciding on whether it is a Leonardo or not.
Vote with your fingers and delete the app
So ironically that's a feature my cofounder/CEO at Opendoor Eric Wu launched while he was at Trulia after they acquired his last company.
Am the only one around here that doesn't care one single bit about the fitness aspects?

My Pebble Time Steel broke (actually just the band), just before these announcements and I got a refund (spendable only at the company I bought the Pebble, but that's ok.) But I miss it! I miss the the notifications, I had gotten completely used to putting my Phone somewhere, anywhere withing BT range for the duration of the day. 99% of notifications do not require immediate attention (I also strictly filter what was allowed through to the watch) but some do and the ability to see that on your wrist is gold to me.

For now, sadly, there is no replacement that even comes close. I really want an always one screen and at least 5 days of battery life.
To Lewis, Narnia was a world that was never possible. As fantasy, it was literary allegory, intended for the entertainment of children, nothing more.

But even in fantasy, Lewis felt obliged to invent a Christ figure (Aslan). So even in his dreams he was bound by the surly bonds of his faith. His dogma was truly inescapable.
I'm just stating a fact about people locked up in isolated rooms against their will and how that's institutionalized. Is it OK? Idk. Is it true? Yes, it is physically true. We shouldn't avoid stating facts which make people uncomfortable. We should not avoid stating facts without any emotional connotations, otherwise, people would tend to think about things which made them comfortable -- and they have a confirmation bias.

For example, if you were to say that the average Indian penis length was 4.7 inches, maybe that would make me uncomfortable, because I am Indian myself (which I actually am). Maybe it wouldn't make me uncomfortable because that doesn't say anything about me specifically (which it actually doesn't). So, yeah how can we make you uncomfortable?

A murderer (killed two people and shot up a school, did 20+ years in prison) once threatened me while I was smoking pot with him. We ended being cool with each other anyways. Turns out, he was an incredibly fucking smart guy -- and he probably didn't need to be in prison for 20+ years. Of course, I'm not trying to say that all people in prison are like that. Of course, not. But, it is what it is, nonetheless.
These sorts of explanations are very neat and educational, I think, but to me they aren't that effective in actually bringing us closer to using a new voting system. All the discussion here is an example of what tends to happen, which is people arguing over what the very best voting system is. But it's so easy to construct argument for or against any particular system.

I think a better tactic to actually use a new system is to share a vision to the general population of what voting under a new system would actually be like. Once the public at large is in favor of the general idea of moving to a new system, actually picking the best system should be more of an implementation detail.

In other words, walk the voter through a simulated ballot casting and show them what the results of the election might be under such a system.

I gave an effort to do this here: http://asivitz.com/voting/
I'm not sure how well I succeeded though.
Pro tip: If you want a reply to your application, try to avoid cold emailing hiring managers your resume. Often my inbox has a lot happening, and I'm not inclined to spend time copying your resume into our hiring software unless there is something spectacular about your email or background. Emailing hiring managers out of the blue also will not help you bypass any steps in the hiring process.

By filling out the application form on our website, you load all the information into the form for me, and are guaranteed that a recruiter will follow up on your entry. If you want to send an email to the hiring manager as well to explain why you are so awesome, that's fine, but it's probably not going to help your chances of getting a job any more than just applying.
> The image of Uber being a brogrammers haven just isn't true anymore.

Maybe -- I don't work there or know anyone who does. But you have to admit that a company that would even think of creating something like "God Mode," then actually do so, then show it off, is seriously twisted and out of touch. AFAIK most of the higher-ups who were around then are still there now. You shouldn't be surprised if "I swear I've changed, baby" is met with a bit of skepticism.
Intelligence. Tenacity. Ambition. Judgement.

Bonus points for recognizing the bullshit parade that is the current startup world. e.g.: NodeJS has value, but it's mostly the same wheel we've had for 20+ years. Or that MongoDB's changelog has consisted of standard SQL features for the past five years and that pgsql would have been just fine (had people read some boyce-codd anyhow).
JavaScript is single threaded. This wasn't an intentional choice of Node.js, unless you consider @ry picking JavaScript as the basis for your claim. "Non-blocking" code however was the original claimed benefit of Node.js for the reasons you mentioned.
Ubiquiti is getting some golden press on HN lately.
More than 50% of the MVNOs around the world fail in the first year from launch
He went to jail; it's true. That doesn't make his writing any more or less good. If you have a critique of his writings or books, it would be better to lead off with that than to make ad hominem attacks.

Oscar Wilde, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Sir Walter Raleigh and Thoreau all spent time in jail or prison. Should we discard them as well, or should we evaluate their works on their individual merit of those works?
https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/unifi/UniFi_AC_APs_DS.pdf

UAP-AC-Lite & UAP-AC-LR: 6.5 watts maximum

UAP-AC-Pro: 9 watts maximum

UAP-AC-Edu: 20 watts maximum, but it does have a speaker for doing announcements
That's very interesting case. In my company, we would also like to optimize email marketing campaign using RL. However, based on my little experience using RL, (please correct me if I'm wrong) wouldn't it take long to iterate and update the V and policy function (or Q function if we use Q-learning), so I'm a bit skeptical if it can be used for real world case where we need to wait days to get the email response as feedback from the environment.
It's not interpreted vs compiled, it's static/strong vs dynamic/weak. These just usually happen to fall along the interpreted vs compiled dichotomy.

But, for instance, IronPython and IronRuby are compiled, yet dynamic, and GHCi is a Haskell interpreter that runs an extremely strong/static language.
I tried like 8 queries and none of them yielded a single relevant result. Most of them didn't yield a video at all. Granted, they were difficult/obscure, but didn't make a great impression.

If this needs some special syntax or keywords, you should let the user know.
https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS
Comments like these.
This is why I read Hacker News
It doesn't matter 'why' something exists, what matters is what those things that do exist are actually useful for.

Screw drivers exist to turn screws, but you are perfectly justified to use them for whatever you need should you find one in your hand.
As I can't edit this comment any more, let me apologize for the "obstruction" bit. It was a cheap blow, not a meaningful contribution. But please do pay attention to the "checks and balances" bit, then go read Federalist 51[1] (if men were angels...) or at least a decent summary of it[2]. This notion of government being designed to pit power against power in an effort to avoid what Trump would be if he governed unopposed is central to conservative belief, and it's why we keep banging on about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution.

[1] http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

[2] https://mises.org/library/if-men-were-angels

The money shot:

"The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."
Insert relative access times chart here.
Citation? Also, it's worth pointing out that the question was not "do they predict success", but "do they predict success controlling for pedigree". Ive been thinking for a while on how you might actually measure the effect of pedigree, beyond the identity of university. I believe that the specific research group matters, but that's a lot harder to prove (smaller N, harder to get reliable data about counterfacuals).
At the point where you realise the sw + fw + hw package you bought doesn't do what it is supposed to I'd say you should strongly consider returning it; if for nothing else then to teach them a lesson :-/
When you finally decide to pick a username, you pick that monstrosity xD
Net neutrality faces extinction under Trump
That popup is standard for any app that is approved to potentially use location in background and you don't use often. I think it's meant to discourage apps to ask location in background altogether
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One of the worst possible things: to get a sense of what the hell Hyper is, you need to scroll down and find it.

I really don't understand why their first line isn't: "Hyper is a ..."
Would be great if it could learn which were most likely to be highlight plays based on the number of times they were clicked. And then give those priority in the results list. Also, maybe prioritise a player's involvement in the play.

e.g., if I search "westbrook dunk", I probably don't want the normal dunks first, or the time he passed to someone else who then had the dunk. Show me the great Westbrook dunks first, then the normal ones, then the assists to other dunkers.
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You may still keep the company alive if copying the code is not instantly making it possible to replicate your business.

Ref Non-Imitable competitive advantages
I use it to memorize Latin (and some Greek) vocabulary. What I use mostly is Q-A. Typically it looks like this:

Q. lat. adj. black (shiny)

A. niger, -a, -um

And the other way:

Q. niger, -a, -um

A. black (shiny)

So when I enter the knowledge, I write in a .txt file the first form, and the script I run generates the second. (I read on Supermemo's website it's good to test the reverse case too, so by default I do this for all knowledge items). Over time I found it was useful to prefix vocabulary with the language (lat.) because you'll typically have the same words in another language (grk.) and if it's an adjective or adverb to append (adj./adv.) after the language prefix (I wanted a single database). For verbs I found it's sufficient to write the English part as the infinite to .. (e.g. Q. lat. to kill, A. neco (1). I will occasionally write the word with macrons in brackets after the word if it's weird, e.g.

Q. lat. adv. daily

A. cotidie (cotIdiE)

I wanted to separate the two because real Latin literature does not contain the long/short macros and I wanted to condition myself to that from the start.

I use cloze mainly for grammar.

I use Supermemo daily and it takes about 20-30 minutes to memorize what is currently ~6500 items. My daily workload is between 70-100 items and my recall is about 85%. I will admit that I'm extremely hard on myself and will only score a 5 if it's absolutely perfect.

Whatever I've looked at before of Supermemo -> Anki import did not get it right 100%. I don't want my repetition history or workload screwed around with. I also want the ability to go back to Supermemo if it doesn't work out. Unless I feel comfortable that I can switch between both systems seamlessly I'll probably never switch. I run my Supermemo on a Windows VirtualBox in Linux so it can stay that way forever.

I would probably never use Supermemo for a "live" language. It would be a waste of time, imho. For languages which are not really spoken like Attic Greek or Latin, it is indispensable.

My only real problem with Supermemo is that there is no way to access it over the Internet. The database lives in that Virtualbox Windows. It would be amazing if it had the ability to spawn a little webserver that you could do your drills from.
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Ask HN: Is Udacity's AI nanodegree worth it?
Do you think Udacity newest AI nanodegree priced at $2400 (3x800/trimester) is worth it, for someone who wants to change careers from software dev (full-stack web) towards AI/ML but with no formal compsci education? I'm currently going through some other AI/ML materials like their older and cheaper ML-nanodegree ($200/mon+50% off if finished <6 months, now at ~40% through it). Right now I really care about this money because of complicated life situations, so even if I can easily make this, I don't feel like burning this cash on something of dubious benefit.

Will most jobs in the field go towards PhDs and MScs anyway, and such a nano-degree would mean nothing, so I am better of learning on my own from cheaper resources? Or is a much cheaper nanodegree + other courses that I'll probably get certified from Coursera be the same thing. Or do you think there would be somthing of value in this nanodegree they offer that would help in getting a job after it, even lacking a formal education, being in Europe, and not really having an interesting? My goal is to land a job or paid-internship at some company doing cool real world ML and hopefully also with access to a tons of data.

(More on me: good at learning on my own, above average math & physics background despite being a uni drop-out from an unrelated field, I'd dare say I'm a decent software engineer (but with not that much to show on resume and github because I made bad decisions and wasted years working for either failed startups or "dubious" clients under strong NDAs). I even dare think that I have some truly original ideas about solving some tough AI/ML problems (though this is probably wishful thinking, there are too many way smarter than me folks grinding on this in academia), especially around explainable ai, and around using current technologies to build "common sense infused human-like agents". But I also tend to get lazy and lose motivation for stretches of time so maybe more strucutre would help me.)