skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea, but I'm having some trouble with it. Search results are only from this season, right? A search for Steve Nash showed a Steph Currey highlight as result one for me. More slang oriented searches like "dunked on" or "dunks on" don't really work either. Dunk/Dunks shows up in results, but nothing beyond that. Was looking for one of my all time favorite highlights, Baron Davis dunking on Kirilenko [1]. For me this type of thing would be pretty awesome with some sort of stats element. A 'visual box score' vs. 'highlights search engine.' ie show the box score for a game, and clicking in any particular field shows video of the plays that produced those stats.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYpwjB0IzoU
I liked xbattle even better because while it has a very similar mechanic is also rewards strategy.

So for xbattle if 100 armies fight the enemies 25 armies the losses are mostly on the 25 army side. Additionally if you attack an enemy from 3 sides simultaneously that's an additional advantage.

With generals.io it's always just even losses on both side, so it's basically about production and finding the queen. Not so much about defense, or more complicated strategies.
Wikia is the reason Wikipedia's constant begging for money really annoys me.
Curious, what kind of things are you looking for?
I prefer the Emacs environment: I love TRAMP, org-mode, and the simplicity of getting a fully-featured IDE just by adding a list to my spacemacs configuration.

Do you use neovim?
Tech skills are only one dimension of a multidimensional process that employers like me use to make decisions. I am here to offer contrarian advice that might be helpful to someone early in his career who might be a great programmer but may also be dismayed because he thinks the only path to a successful tech career is devoting your life to your job or going to an ivy league school and I am here to say that is not the case.
Upvotes help get great comments near the top of the page. It is not perfect but better than simply being in time order and a great comment getting lost in the middle.

Downvotes mean you can get bad comments towards the bottom. So that is good too. But if you people reply instead of downvote, then trolls know they will get lots of free troll food when they comment, so that will encourage them to post more.
There's definitely an effect, but from my intuition I'd guess it'd have to be fairly strong. But maybe if they're cheap enough to produce and easy enough to mass up, you don't have to even be that effective.

Here's where my intuition is anchored, and you can figure if it's applicable (because I worked in a very different field). In magnetron sputtering, you ionize a gas as it passes through a strong magnetic field (harddrive magnet strength). Once the molecule ionizes (since it's moving at sonic speeds in the vacuum), it whips around and slams into some target, blasting molecules back from the target like a shotgun to a pile of dirt. These sputtered molecules/bits of material may be slightly charged, and when they hit the substrate will carry that charge and deposit it onto the substrate. Over time an insulating substrate (like glass) will charge up a bit, and this will begin to repulse incomming splattered charged bits. It'd be called something like 'biasing' and slows down the deposition rate, since the incomming material may slow too much to properly embed itself on the substrate. The magnets behind the target also trap electrons (in what is often called a racetrack), which helps amplifies ionizing the gases (since a strong field may not ionize the incoming gas molecules, but plonking an extra electron onto it will).

It tends to be a game of small effects in big numbers. Any individual interaction can vary wildly from one interaction to another, but over many trillions of trillions of events it averages out like you'd expect scales similar to Avagadro's number to. So if we could fabricate stupefying amouts of these gizmos, you wouldn't need it to be completely effective; just enough biasing or field strength to tilt the odds a bit in your favor and a lot of the little chips could survive. And if you have enough, you win! Sure the solor wind may clobber a few chips, but if you have billions enough of them, perhaps enough survive to keep effective.

This is part of the approach to some MEMS gizmos, where you play the odds and make huge numbers of the gizmos with a cheap fast process and filter out the working ones. Ideally you'd be smart and just have a really good process, but if your fabrication process is messy or too hard to control and the gizmo valuable enough you can take the losses. (I mean, you don't do that - you engineer good processes! But... well, that can be expensive. And sometimes waste is cheaper.)

EDIT: I'm thinking of the spherical cow equivalent of a gizmo here, too. You prolly wouldn't make billions of little computers and hork them at another star system unless you could essentially replicate them chemically. But not with a photolithographic process typical to chip designs. You can get millions, not trillions of trillions. Have something that self-assembles in a beaker and then perhaps it becomes an option. But that's sort of like hurling a viral infection at another star system, and... well, kinda gunks the idea too.
Any way to use this without making a public post on Facebook -.-
MySQL Workbench. I'm actually looking for a web based one that I can integrate with. The best I've found has been https://gojs.net/latest/samples/entityRelationship.html.
Where are you based? Sounds like the type of company I would like to work for, because you figured out the almost lost art of vis-à-vis loyalty.
At JDA our hiring will vary, but my division in Store Operations needs people with SaaS experience, especially with GCP. Angular, REST, DDD, and agile thinking are a bonus. But also need C#, ASP.NET, Web API, and ExtJS for other teams. Have a few spots with strong math skills too, doing complicated forecasting and scheduling work alongside PhDs.

Interviews have practicals where you work on problems you'll see regularly with skills we expect you to have (like writing code, debugging, and task breakdown). Good communication, pairing skills, quick learning, and taking responsibility for your circumstances stand out.

https://jda.com/careers
Much more strategic, and less of a click fest.

Biggest differences are orders don't decay, so you only have to click to change them. Also the weaker size of a battle has more losses. Oh and being attacked from more than one side gives an additional advantage to the attacker.
I read it more as he doesn't really care as much about specific skills, and will hire for grit and some level of loyalty. He also doesn't seem to beat people over the head with their job.

I get this.
When I am hiring for Aha! (www.aha.io) one of the key things I am looking for are people who have shown an interest in software development beyond just a day job. The best candidates are those for whom writing code is a passion - something which is done for fun rather than just a way to make ends meet.

This shows up in a resume in lots of different ways. For some people it is a rich Github profile. For others it is that they paid their way through college by building websites or apps.

We primarily hire Ruby on Rails developers who work remotely. Seeing in someone's Github profile that they like to contribute to open source and know how to collaborate with other developers are really important.
Thanks. The more you know...
I am based in new york but not currently hiring
Does anyone actually prefer the new style low travel keyboards to the old ones? I'm guessing an extreme minority of users does. I can see indifference or thinking the slimmer profile is a good tradeoff, but not objectively liking the keyboard better. Most of the reviews seem to be an iteration on "well, I got used to it and it's not that bad!"

Who knows. I'm probably just crazy.
I think the biggest reason the Pentagon Papers leak was so much more impactful was that there was already a much larger fraction of the citizenry sensitized to the issue and inclined to act on what was revealed.

Someone else made the point that Ellsberg was also lucky in that the information he wanted to leak was already collected into a document. It's hardly Snowden's fault that he didn't have this luxury.

Anyway, for the record, I don't disagree with the argument that a highly placed insider could have leaked better-selected material and overall been more effective -- albeit at a level of personal risk that can only be described as extreme (and much greater than what Ellsberg faced). In the event, however, no such person chose to leak the most important material that Snowden leaked.

The thrust of your argument seems to be that Snowden should have said to himself, "I'm just an IT lackey; what do I know?" and not attempted to rise to this occasion. That would be where we disagree. Yes, in some hypothetical alternate world, there might have been a better-placed leaker who would have made better choices and been more careful. But Snowden had no way to know that any such person would ever appear, and neither do you.
Wise words of Carl Sagan
I used to be surprised but after witnessing this many times it doesn't surprise me anymore.
What did you switch to?
AudioKit Tutorial: Getting started
I can see why you would think that, but I see no indication that it's true. Keep in mind that a good player will remember where they first contact you. So if you take over another player they still know approximately where your queen is. Many players act like the queen is their center, often sending armies from there, and attacking in a direction from their queen. A fair number of times my first attack into enemy territory finds the queen. You do have a 3 square wide view, and guesstimating center of mass isn't that hard.

Next time you suspect it watch the replay and pretend you are the winner. I do wish the replay would allow you to be any team and still have the fog of war.
My site (http://eaganr.com/nba/) used to do this. But they changed up their video URLs, wondering how Matetricks gets the new URLs.
We have several products, each of which serves different departments within retailers.

The exact things we do depends entirely on which department(s) are licensing it. Basically, anywhere there's a product image (from their own inventory to mobile to social) and we can provide some kind of help, we do. Every department needs totally different things, so it varies quite a bit...but it's all leveraging our core automated detection + recognition + search APIs.
I upvoted you because you're right, now if ever is the time to stand up and fight for the cause you believe in. If anything, realizing what you are up against forces you to put up a much strong stance given you are aware of the forces you must fight against.
I'm fine with the article, just in case some of them do go there just to kiss the ring and ask for lower corporate taxes.

But I hope at least some of those CEOs will go there to change Trump's mind about a few things. It's probably better not to let Trump surround himself only by clueless people (as long as the non-clueless people speak out when needed). I could see Elon Musk try to change his mind about renewables and EVs by talking about how they could create many American jobs, for instance. Same goes with Tim Cook on the encryption issue. Or maybe I'm just an optimist.
Xbattle (X11 game), or Europa (similar, written in Java, not hosted anywhere I know). I think I still have the source.
Why would you link directly to this?

Anyway, anybody who's anybody knows that "Théorie des espèces et combinatoire des structures arborescentes" is what you should be reading, since the later English version isn't as good.
This works better than most streaming radio sites/apps. I wonder where they got the list of stations.

Tying one station to one location might be a mistake though - I wouldn't necessarily go to Grafon to find Raw FM [1] which has a tonne of rural sites.

1: http://rawfm.com.au
Sure. In practice it's just a spin on the boycott.
I objectively prefer the new keyboard. I've got a light touch and in my opinion any travel beyond what you need to be able to tell you've hit the key is wasted effort.

I've got a laptop keyboard on my desk (https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Compact-Keyboard-Trac...), and would have one of the new macbook keyboards if they made a standalone one.
I guess my goal is a version of this: all my textbooks are sitting on a shelf outside my bedroom, and I want to get back into them until I feel I've mastered them. I wasted university with that idiotic determination of "look how little work I can get by with", which of course is also "look how little I can know while still surviving," an idiotic goal if ever there were one.

My job will probably be 60 hours/wk for the next year, then up in the 65-80/wk range for the following three years, but after that, I'll be back down to 40 or even fewer. And I'm going to take advantage of all that free time a lot better on the second go.

Who knows where I'll go from there. Realistically, my wife and I could get along perfectly well on her working part time, and in medicine that's not too hard an arrangement to get. Neither of us particularly trust the economy on its current (last 70 years) trajectory, so we'll probably aim to put ourselves in a partial homesteading setup closer to home in the next ten or so years.

Wow, I don't know where that went. TL;DR -- I want to read my textbooks and start gardening.
Please make the yellow player display army numbers in black. White on yellow is rather hard to read. Or even better let the local player pick his color, not like the colors across clients needs to match.
As of that commit, Emacs now contains threading primitives. It doesn't change anything visibly for a normal user, but it should now be much easier to build extensions that don't hang the entire editor while performing certain long-running operations.

One of the features a lot of people are hoping for is to have Gnus no longer block everything while fetching emails from the server. Of course, Gnus needs to be updated to support this.
One thing not mentioned: Opendoor absolutely does not have to carry the balance sheet risk of owning the homes forever. They can chop up those assets and sell them to anyone (hedge funds, banks, individual investors, etc) at any point. At scale, they'd be able to do this and still maintain most of the upside.

At some point, Opendoor will be able to let businesses that simply manage financial risk for a living (i.e. banks) spread the downside risk out over the entire financial system, while Opendoor takes advantage of its customer acquisition and data advantages to capture the bulk upside. It's not a perpetually risk model if they don't want it to be.
I've found it's still pretty difficult to integrate with Webpack because pretty much all of the components use bower instead of npm. I've been having success with https://github.com/aitoroses/vulcanize-loader although re-running vulcanize every time components change is not fast, and I can't get it to work with Hot Module Reloading. Maybe the Webpack story will get better with Polymer 2.0
System capacity isn't always limited by resources within your control e.g. seats going on sale for an enormously popular concert, you're immediately throttled down to the sales abandonment rate. Everyone else needs to enter a queue.

More broadly, it's super easy to find yourself in a situation where throughout is constrained by an external resource. Especially common in any business that has partners (i.e. most of us) or has some kind of fulfilment to do.
It did scheduling magic to keep the UI responsive and media from skipping even under (at the time) heavy load. This was on single-core processors in the two or low three digits of MHz, mind you, with 128MB of RAM if you were really lucky. The OS itself also seemed to be snappier than its competitors.

Windows on the same machine? MP3 playback would stutter when you hit refresh on a webpage (bearing in mind those were one hell of a lot lighter than the ones today) or any number of other minor actions. Hourglasses constantly.

Linux? Window-smearing-on-drag as far as the eye can see. Even worse media performance than Windows(!), though maybe with some ricing/tweaking it was better.

Macs at the time? Oh god. I don't know how they got a reputation for being more stable than contemporary Windows machines. Fewer system crashed maybe, but apps crashed constantly. Multitasking performance mediocre. Disk swap all over the place.

BeOS? Buttery smooth UI and MP3 playback while running the Teapot 3D demo and browsing the web, all at the same time. It was awesome, and had the Unixy bits coupled with a good and consistent UI that we wouldn't see again until OSX. Faster booting than the competition. Neat extras like a built in web server (Poorman, IIRC) that could be run with a few clicks, too. I think BeOS was known for having an unusually pleasant and sane API in addition to performing so well, though I never wrote any software for it personally.
I think the calculator is out of wack for the anything but the coasts in the US. A GS-12 government worker (entry level tech position) would make more than Lead with Lots of experience in Cincinnati, OH; and a GS-13 would make more in most places.. with a GS-14 (what would be 'lead') completely blowing the scale.

I think the issue is their base salary is completely off.. Especially when the 'rent index' is based in NYC. A Junior Dev w/average experience would make 87k in NYC. A comparable government GS-13 position (average experience) in NYC would make 95k.. that 8k difference compounds a lot when multiplying.

Also I don't believe the rent index. Who cares where your employee lives (at least country by country) - if they want to live in the midwest, why not pay them the same as somebody who chooses to live in California, especially if you are an entirely remote company.
Is it possible that some people are just not cut out to program?
I'm not talking about not being able to write FizzBuzz here; what are some traits or learned behaviors other than sheer programming ability individuals might have that make them less (or more) suited to working as software engineers?
I hope you do, too! Other than the last two. I don't think it's come to the point where we need the last, and we need people who are passionate and want to change to stick around :)
Sure. For the near term that is not an issue. Longer term at least the company is offering more of a service
I suspect that the root is different purchasing agents writing different contracts based on different specs with different manufacturers. Each of which is optimizing locally and perhaps with an eye on their performance review and bonus. Just because nobody calls Apple 'enterprise' doesn't mean it ain't.
Samsung's first iteration of the Gear had a camera, IIRC. I also recall the picture quality was reported to be about as good as you would from a device that size.

(Ah, here we go: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-gear-camera-sam...)
Yeah, that survey was incredibly lackluster. Also felt some of the questions were pretty leading.

Questions like implying online voting would lead to higher electoral costs or that a more mixed representation in the house would immediately slow down government. While some of those effects may occur, it seems disingenuous to pick out one random negative effect to single out in a questionnaire like that.
Searched for "Kobe pass"

0 results lol
I'm a larger guy and it's outrageous to me. I have had 2 Wear watches and both were too large. My Pebble Time is the perfect size... sadly I won't be getting my Time 2 to replace it.
The client is in the best position to manage the handoff because it knows which aps it can hear and is configured to connect to. I've seen some APs that will disconnect clients with low signals strength, but the AP doesn't know if the client can actually see something else. Zero handoff addresses this by having all APs listening to the same channel, with synchronized security parameters; whichever AP receives the packet gets to send replies. The down side is you end up with a larger coverage area but the same channel capacity as a single AP.
I didn't build this, it's a site that's been trending on my news feed. Two people in my network built it over a weekend.
When I call these top leaders — of course, it has to be off the record — I get a running dialogue in dulcet tones about needing to cooperate and needing to engage and needing to be seen as willing to work together.

Silicon valley firms know a lot of information about a lot of people. I have extremely limited faith in their willingness to protect anyone's privacy if push comes to shove.
There has been quite a bit of discussion about this over the past eight years, I've seen numerous videos and discussions about it. The main proponents are the people that are sick of the two party system in general This result will surely cause some upset Democrats to care more about it, but there's a good chance Trump's presidency will also cause Republicans to care more as well.

The system is broken, each example will bring more people to the group that wants reform. Yes the losing side will run faster, but both parties have a large contingent of members that would like more options.
New Audi models know when the red light will change
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Highly recommend Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” on this topic

Correction, the Pink title I was referring to was "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"

Pink does a great job unpacking research that demonstrates how this type of 'affect my pay' dynamic backfires for engineering.
Blackstone will definitely be eager buyers at opportune times (I believe they are currently divesting their considerable stakes in low to mid market real estate that they'd been accumulating since 2009).
Would be pretty hilarious if the only result was the 81 point game.
Being way more immune to gerrymandering should be reason enough in my opinion. And besides, most of the things on the "con" list are only problems in some kinds of proportional representation I doubt we would ever use in the US (party list system).
This article merely re-reports this source: https://www.revealnews.org/article/uber-said-it-protects-you...

Mods should probably change the OP to link there.
Exactly. In a way it's worse, because at least before you could tell what a cable was compatible with by looking. HDMI, ethernet, USB, all easily distinguishable. And power cables generally worked with the thing they could plug into (not always, but generally. A lower powered Magsafe charger could at least charge a higher powered MacBook, even if it would drain if in use.)

Now we have a mess of incompatible cables AND you can't tell the difference by looking at them.

They should've called USB-C, USB 4, and said "Right, there's one type of USB 4 cable, and it works with everything it can be plugged into."
I agree this is a tough nut to crack, although I've seen success in EV chargers on the street in Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen. It can be done.

Renters or condo owners can elect to buy solar and or wind from their utility without having to install their own hardware. They can still install Powerwalls to be part of the distributed virtual demand response system (while receiving the benefit of avoiding demand or time of use charges).
there is already a project for replacing the pebble store
> I've finally been entertaining about getting another laptop/tablet for consumer non-dev use, and none of the options I'm considering are Apple.

On the tablet front, unless something's changed while I wasn't looking, you might want to consider Apple over Android. Android devices going from well-charged to dead while you're not using them gets really old really fast if you're used to iOS' nearly-miraculous levels of battery use while idle.