skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard from a some friends on that career track that Wall Street hires physics PhDs not because the background is relevant (what they're doing isn't published in any curriculum - that's the point), but because it exercises the right set of cognitive skills, and they need the kind of people who graduate from top-tier physics PhD programs, even if they don't care about the physics.
It was an LLC in the US, but Japan (and/or the Ogaki tax office) wanted me to treat it as a sole proprietorship here. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Ogaki tax office didn't want to have to figure out how 法人税法 (the corporate tax code) applied to a small foreigner-run Japan-docimiled foreign corporate entity.
"What search terms are you using?"

Don't even remember. It was mostly technology, history, academic papers, games, movies, and so on. I'm someone whose good at working around search engines but has a bad memory. I'm unfortunately not a good test case for the input as I get good at unconsciously working around problems to make a better baseline. I did have to regularly switch over to Google, though.

"but well if you prepend g! to the term (which runs an anonymized google search)?"

I didn't know about that feature at all. Thanks for telling me. I was going to run search through DDG and Google next time I have trouble to document the difference. Now, I'm considering doing DDG, DDG w/ Google option, and Google itself to see what the per-user customizations bring vs anonymized Google.

"If the difference always comes down to google search personalization"

I didn't think about that angle with Google. Surprised I overlooked it. I don't think it was affecting my search as a lot of it should have a large number of searchers. The esoteric stuff definitely got better results in Google over DDG's default, esp CompSci papers. Before I had Search Link Fix, I would type them into DDGo to get an actual, non-Google link to the PDF. This usually worked but some papers didn't exist in DDG at all. Even though they probably should've indexed the site (eg a university). So, it was clearly a deficiency. Other times, it was an obscure site that's been around a while but maybe low traffic dropped it out of a cache or something. Google had it since they store pages & have been for long time. (shrug)

So, maybe I can collect these into a little pile of files to drop on the team for their debugging.

"so I filtered ddg on setuid about half way through my search there."

Worst-case scenario. It's happened to me on occasion when a common term, esp reported in any news outlet, flooded my results with garbage. Eliminate it hoping to filter the noise. Usually works but this time the signal went out with the noise. I'm not so harsh on search engines with things like that since people in support forums drop all kinds of jargon that may or may not be related during discussion of a specific problem. I think that causes the bad results.

Out of curiosity, though, I ran your example. Your example is weird. They get the same top result with next best on one being a StackOverflow answer while another looks at StackExchange. I don't know what you were trying to do where I can't gauge the effectiveness of the answer. Here's a pastebin with the top 5 results I'm getting as of today:

http://pastebin.com/c9VGrT87

Did one or both have the answer?
Hmm yeah that sounds like it could work better. Are there any disadvantages of using /etc/cron.d over crontab though? It seems that doing it that way would require root access on the client/minion, but I guess running as root is the most common anyway.
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"Inertial frames are the reference frames upon which the laws of motion and the conservation laws are defined, yet it is still unknown what causes inertial frames to exist or if they have any deeper properties that might prove useful."

"...we must begin a more in-depth experimental program using qualified and impartial labs, plus qualified and impartial analysts."

Maybe humans don't really belong in labs in the same way that they don't belong in factories.
It helps to have a way to erase your brain before going to bed. ;-)

For some, it's exercise, reading a book, working on a side project, cooking a nice meal. For me, it's playing music -- an activity that's intense enough that I simply have to exclude all thoughts of the problems at work, and engaged with people who don't give a rat's arse about my job.
Actual article here[0]... perhaps a better choice for the link:

[0] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2489440/satellite-spots-massiv...
This is a healthy way to critique it. I think the most positive element is not any of the tangibles he mentions, but that he's consistently found ways to pursue battles of his own choosing, and to artfully spin failures into the launchpad for a new adventure.

The hits he's scored are materially not so big, in part because he's avoided major commitments - and had he done more of the things he finds boring and stressful he would have more commitments, more hits, and probably be wealthier - but it's a sucker's game to get into comparative success. You don't get to have any of these experiences at all if you stick to the salaryman path, and that's the underlying appeal; the audacity of being able to strike out on your own and actually make it work for a while. It keeps a dream alive for a lot of clock-punching developers.
That's one of the hardest thing I do - leaving "fun and interesting, but not critical" stuff in the backlog for my developers.

As mentioned up the comments, I try to pick up some of the small and boring tasks. Or, as my test engineer is usually overbooked, I pick up test tasks.
And sadly, another paper about software with no source code whatsoever.
It's great to see a lot of agreement on this.

I agree with most of it.

Short commutes + some privacy at work would probably entice most people in.

Having 1-2 days a week at the office would be grand.

Being able to focus for long periods without interruption is quite important, frankly, I have no idea how software gets written in those cramped open workspaces with all the noise etc..

Granted, different types of software for different types of things.

I can imagine a deeply technical problem requiring more thought than say a lot of dev-ops, scripting, code reviews, bug fixing, etc. etc..
>> Bathroom breaks were consider unproductive, talking to co-workers was considered unproductive, and doing any kind of research was pointless unless we could bill a customer.

That is simply bullshit. Don't take anything they say seriously except the broadest interpretation of what the project is.

It sounds like the writer has something north of basic competence. In that case, just do your job mostly your way and don't give a fuck what the others think. If THEY don't think you're worth your price they won't keep paying you. It's really as simple as that. And if you do find yourself out on the street then you can sit back and try to decide how to partition the failure between yourself and the company. If there's any blame you can clearly put on yourself then work on that. Otherwise just assume it's them and move on. The longer you work in the field, the more you can assume you don't suck regardless of what people appear to think.

In other words, actions speak louder than words or even company policy. If they're keeping you it's because you're valuable regardless of what they say.
It's not that you escape liability, it's to limit liability to just the company without extending to your other personal assets. However it's not that simple in the US either and there are many ways for someone to pierce the liability protection shield offered by an LLC, especially a single member LLC, and even more so in situations where you aren't very diligent in maintaining a strict separation between your company and personal finances.
On Cherry Browns, my managers believed that I was more productive because they could hear lots of key noise.

I have Cherry Blues at home but wouldn't dare use them in an open-plan office environment - far too noisy.
Not OP, but I did. It worked out quite well for me. I've paid back the class 7x at this point, a few months after launching my first product. "Well" is all relative, of course. I'm not making enough to quit my job or anything, but I'm quite happy with where I am. I now have a system that works, and something I can continue to grow.

You insinuate that 30x500 is a scam or something. I can assure you it's not. But it does actually take work :)
When they became less fashionable and calling yourself a "hacker" because you use social media became fashionable.
All sorts of things are possible from this post as from any other that one isn't in a position to personally verify. It's possible that the entire post was created by Mossad as an experiment in memetic warfare; not that that's likely, but I can't disprove it. Thus, as usual, my response has the implied precondition 'if things are substantially as the post suggests they are'.
Guess it happens for the same reasons that company hires consultants (easy to get rid of) but does fire fighter consultants exist? Ergo understaff and pay overtime rather than adequately staff the station. easy to cut down on overtime.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll need to investigate further. Right now, under the hood Tile38 uses an 3d rtree. Each node clusters 8-16 objects together. I'm always looking for a better way.
This is a very good comment, and it seems pretty reasonable. I don't think police are the right agents to enforce societal change though. It seems like a lot of criminals, start off rather young charged with crimes like shoplifting etc, and that record haunts them forever, by shutting off a lot of opportunities forever.

I don't know what the solution is, how to prevent so many American youth who would perhaps have been contributing members of society and culture. I found it rather surprising that such kinds of conditions exist in a developed country like the US; its usually something you find in less developed countries.
Vanguard target date funds (moving into Admiral funds when your net worth permits). I had tens of thousands of dollars at Betterment and felt their fees were not worth it. All at Vanguard now.

EDIT: @ Silasx
I don't disagree! Although, its cheaper for me to use Vanguard than to start my own index fund company. Not the hill I want to die on.
This is wrong on multiple levels. SE tax is 15.3%, not 30%, and 12.4% of that is social security, which is capped at 118k. Beyond that, you're just paying 2.9% Medicare (plus normal federal and state income taxes).

Assuming that $80k is a reasonable salary for a solopreneur business (which seems iffy to me and probably to the IRS), you're saving 15.3% on $38k (80k to 118k), then 2.9% above that. Your profit distributions are taxed at ordinary income rates, so zero difference there. So on $250k, you'd save about $9k total, in return for higher audit risk and slightly more hassle and expense in maintaining the S-corp. Not crazy to say that's not worth it for some people.

It's also not an option in some locales (NYC doesn't recognize s-corp and taxes them as corporations, negating any benefit).
> If they get their work done they shouldn't feel guilty leaving at 5:00.

Close but not perfect. My correction would be "even if they don't get their work done, they shouldn't feel guilty leaving at 5:00."

The reason I say this is because one could easily argue that there's always more work to be done. That's always been the case for me anyway. But tomorrow is another day. When you've put in a full workday already, nobody should make you feel guilty for leaving just because there's more work to do. There's always more work to do!
The chilling stories behind Japan’s ‘evaporating people’
If it does, I think that would be detectable. As the device gets into higher orbits, the magnetic field will get weaker and the force will drop. I'm not sure how much the orbit would have to change to make that apparent though. It might take a very long time.

Another way it might work is by freeing atoms from the backplate of the resonant cavity, like an ion thruster. I hope they include a method of measuring the degradation of the backplate.

I suspect it just won't work, though.
Thanks!

I'm not sure how much to extract from this article but it seems a leap to state definitively that "the notebooks have been selling extremely well" and that concerns are mostly bullshit. I have no dog in the fight as I am fine with the MBP overall, but this article cites no hard data. And the sole quote from Apple references only initial sales at their online store. That's good news but it doesn't speak definitively to overall initial sales, let alone multi-month/longer-term sales. The only other quote is from an MBP supply component company and is encouraging but ambiguous and isn't about actual sales but its own internal forecasts.

MBP sales may indeed turn out to be great and these are apparently good signals as to potential, but it'd be premature to conclude from these reports that it is selling "great", relative to either historical periods or to particular expectations, let alone that it will continue to do so if it is.
For electrical VTOL the Joby is probably the best bet, one big question mark is, the 16 motors how much will weight even at a very low weight of 15kg each you get 240kg/52lb in motors a similar complete two person glider weights around 300kg/661lb.
Okay, but then it's important to understand your problem is not actually a technical one of bugs in the software, it's a political problem of your boss being a sadistic bully willing and able to ruin your life, plus a financial problem that you can't walk away from the job. Framing the problems correctly doesn't make them go away, but it does help focus your mind on things that have a chance of solving them.
They (the families in charge) own most of the ivory themselves and this is just like promising to be good. Remember when Xi's entourage stocked up on ivory on an official trip to Africa?

http://qz.com/292268/chinese-officials-allegedly-smuggled-iv...

Like they need convenient access to organs for Guanxi oriented transplants, they want nice ivory to decorate their villas. The fact that they aren't subject to Chinese law (until they are expelled from the party) anyways makes this very easy.
I also never pulled an overnighter. I also never studied for more than 2-3 hours. In fact, I never studied for more than 15 minutes nor go to classes! (Semi) unrelated, I failed a lot of classes, dropped out and got a real job paying well doing something I love, ahead of many of my 'classmates'

Learning and study, along with their career path, is different for everyone.
And it's effective because 1) it brings in a lot of money which goes towards conservation, and 2) it economically incentivises conservation.
And here I have thought hubris was one of the most important qualities of a good developer, along with impatience and laziness. Having a belief you can do it right is important to getting it right.
If it can accelerate forever, thats proof enough for everyone. However violating the conservation of momentum is a Big Deal. Mathematically that shouldn't be possible due to Noether's. The bar to proof is therefore very high.
There are so many factors to consider in a laptop: CPU and TDP, memory, disk, screen size and quality, size and weight, keyboard, track-pad, maintainability, OS, price ...

Different people give these factors different weights according to their resources, needs and preferences.

There is one more factor - the image the laptop projects. To each his own, but if you give the image a high score compared to the other factors - be honest about it.
Thanks. Weird, I didn't find that model on Asus' site.

Shame about the keyboard not coming in different variants, though. I am sure that some people like numeric keypads, but ever since my first PC cirka 1992 I've always hated them. It's the last thing I need on a small laptop.
i searched for freezing eggs (for cooking) and then saw ads for fertility clinics for the next few weeks.
That problem is trivial to solve if you have money and don't mind having some post-hangover guilt.

The harder problem is getting laid and feeling some dignity afterwards.
Also, I'd like to be able to clear my completed list, or something like that. That's gonna get cluttered real quick
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Wikipedia blocks T-Mobile's entire IPv6 /32 from editing
I'm young (24), so I guess I'm coming from a different mindset (entitled millennial here!), but the thought of working at a single place for life gives me nightmares.

Sure, companies 'evolve' (for better or worse) and theoretically your job changes as you climb the ladder, but surely you job learning and loving work if you do the same thing for 40+ years?

I guess this is the difference between people who see work as an obligation vs an opportunity.
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So, in our lab we do bio-optics (fiber-optics to shine light into a mouse brain and drive it around a cage, that kinda stuff). We tried using Slack in the lab, a few grad-students were really pushing for it and using it.

It failed miserably. Other users echo some of the reasons better but we could not pay for it (not in the budget)so our data got 'locked up' from us after ~6 months when it auto-deleted. That was not a good lab meeting to be in.

We 'siloed' ourselves and it became just a crappy online lab-book that your boss could look at. So, then you have people just typing to seem like they were doing stuff and never talking to one-another. That is to say: useless. Again, not a good lab meeting to be in.

Still, to the point I am replying to: We are scientists, not 'programmery' people, so that that into account when I ask these questions:

What is a config? How do I set up a mailing list and then take people off it too? What is a mail filter and how do I use it? What are IRC and Zephyr?

Ok, also, look, I am NOT going to make my PI or other lab mates into programmer people, most of them never took calculus nor know formal If-Then-Or-And logic trees. They do mice and cells and DNA and stuff, not electrons and motherboards and stuff. At last check, my PI has 120,000+ emails in her 'inbox' on Outlook and I don't know for certain if she actually knows what counts as spam or not or how to delete an email. If I can't explain, teach, and implement these tools in less than 45 minutes in a single lab meeting among all the Windows and Mac versions out there simultaneously with the other lab members, then forget it. It will not happen.

Is there any hope? Because Slack seems so cool (and was for ~6 months before out data got deleted), and your ideas on how to implement it with email seem like they could really work well, but I mostly understand nada about it.
While facts like that may seem rather startling at first, I don't think they necessarily reflect a degradation of society and values (the obvious implication); rather, it is a simple indication that society and culture have changed a lot, and our existing system of incentives and laws have not been able to deal with it. e.g. the natural reaction to this is to increase police presence, be stricter and harsher in punishments etc. But the root causes remain unchanged: rise of single parent homes, the failure of the war on drugs, economic inequality, changing views w.r.t marriage, children getting mature faster etc.

I guess my point is that we need to have a more holistic approach to resolving this issue than to simply be harsher with punishments and policing.
Surprisingly, they don't actually need to be all that inefficient.

The rolling resistance of a typical car is 0.01 to 0.015 [1], so the effective lift/drag ratio of a car's suspension is about 70 to 100, for just the wheels themselves. Missing from this number are the parasitic losses of all other unsprung mass, aerodynamic drag, and the costs incurred by traveling along roads which are neither level nor straight routes between your start and your end.

Small aircraft have L/D of 10-20 [2], and electric craft will probably fare slightly better if anything because of packaging advantages vs big ICEs.

I might do a more in depth analysis later and write up a Medium post, but my point is: Even just looking at the rolling resistance of the car and the whole L/D of aircraft, the difference is only an order of magnitude. Rolling resistance is one of the smallest contributions to drag in a car, so all up electric cars are probably only 3-6x more efficient than electric aircraft, and combustion cars are probably have a far smaller advantage.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance#Rolling_res...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-to-drag_ratio#Examples
Some discussion: https://discuss.openai.com/t/research-a-deep-hierarchical-ap...
description for those puzzled by the title:

> Travel booking systems are among the oldest global IT infrastructures, and have changed surprisingly little since the 80s. The personal information contained in these systems is hence not well secured by today's standards. This talk shows real-world hacking risks from tracking travelers to stealing flights.
This is pretty standard for any wifi connection in Ubuntu for me over 3 machines with 3 different wifi cards in 16.04

You get to restart network manger so it will do things like list wifi networks or reconnect to a network after suspend, it gets fixed for a few weeks, and then the issue comes back a few patches later.

sources:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+b...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+b...
1. Don't take anything personally.

2. Always remain calm and patient.

3. When people make bad decisions against your strong advice don't feel the need to make their bad decisions a success.

4. Don't own the failure of people who don't understand software development. You'll always be doing the best you can with what you're given.

5. You'll be remembered for your grace and professionalism.

6. Never tell a lie. Never get hand wavy.

7. Never use the word "should". Normative speech has no place in software development. It will embarrass you.

8. Always protect your team from the bullshit that rolls down hill. They'll notice. Then one day when you have to ask them to do something ridiculous they'll know you fought like hell before you had to bring it to them.

9 & 10. This goes without saying but don't write checks (make commitments) you can't cash. Projects will succeed or fail no matter how easy or hard they look at the outset.
HTTPS, Mixed Content and Why It Matters: [pdf] including how an example exploit
Amazon reveals plans to make deliveries using incredible airship drone base
>"the 5 μg/dL figure was set because 97.5 percent of young children fall below it, not because blood lead levels at that threshold result in permanent harm"

What is the point of such definitions, and why does the medical community keep doing this type of thing? Using their method, 2.5% of young children will always be "exposed", no matter what is done. It is an automatically moving goalpost.
Astronomer is working on building the platform for data scientists and data engineers to be able to pipe any source to any destination.

Some of the technical complexity comes from the sheer diversity of data sources and sinks. The infrastructure is also non-trivial.

This is somewhat future looking because most large startups have a data team that builds their own in-house system eg Airbnb, Yelp. However a lot of companies don't have that luxury and extracting value (patterns and insights, for example) from your data is useful for many businesses.
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You're right! Suicide is very extreme. That's kind of the problem that's being discussed.
There's patterns and then there's design patterns. The latter is more high-level, as you're thinking.
Can you prove that ivory is ivory? Why not ceramic or plastic or something that feels like ivory but isn't?