skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there's a path, but it's a very difficult, not at all guaranteed path. Compare this path to a guy with money in the bank, a college degree, a decent resume, and 60 hours of spare time a week saying "just study a little and start applying to jobs, anyone can do it", and you can see why this thread seems so condescending. And imagine saying "you've got nothing to lose" to someone like this with a kid. This isn't a contrived scenario, there's millions of people like this in America. You might say it's irresponsible to have kids in this situation, but it's not quite that simple.

There's no doubt that we live in a better world than the past, but I don't think it's helpful to spread this idea that anyone can succeed if they just try hard enough. That's the goal, not the reality, and it will never be the case that everyone has an equal chance to succeed.
this is very likely related to letsencrypt certs used with certain firefox versions
It's a problem with a lot of newer games. As someone who remembers playing on the old Atari 2600, the hyper realism gets tiring really fast.

It manifests itself, not just in the graphics, but in forcing me to watch yet another ladder climbing animation, my character not being able to stop on a dime and turn completely around, ad nauseum.

I vastly prefer games that don't go for realism.
"What is it with the hardware keyboard"

Just typing in a simple search with any words that don't autocomplete is excruciating. URLs, user names, passwords, anything that isn't a dictionary word, are impossible to type. The only things touchscreen is good for is infrequent single taps, panning and zooming.
Why the elites always rule
I was so naive when I joined my first startup. When we were purchased, it came to light that the main guy never got around to signing my stock option agreement. He is a fucking mensch and signed it after the fact.

Character buys a unique, abiding respect.
The problem is that address books pick up stuff out of "From: User <user@domain>". So if you now start sending mail with "From: User <no-reply@mailing-list>" you create a lot of chaos.
iTunes.
I agree. I think all reference datasets should be free and open source. Also, researchers shouldn't publish on datasets that are not free and open source. That is a basic requirement for repeatability.

As far as the TensorFlow API is concerned. This may be a tradeoff between speed and robustness. In order to have every operation checked every time would certainly slow down the code for general use. Probably better how-to / setup / use guides are a better solution for this (unless it is a flat out bug).
Gmail GeoIPTagger – tag email based on the GeoIP of the sender
>> Russia ... have no competing system

Russia has GLONASS, China has BeiDOU, India IRNSS, Japan QZ
In the scenario you mentioned Europe could turn off Galileo if deemed necessary, no need for the USA to shoot it down. The solution taken just makes it easier for USA to wage war against Europes interests.
How to Make Your Web Text Unreadable
It's actually fairly simple: basically change the metric of a trade worth taking from "one with expected profit > 0" to "one with expected profit > expected fee". It does limit the number of potential profitable trades, and hence fees are sometimes used as a way for exchanges to reduce trading volume. Or to divert it; some Chinese (non-bitcoin) exchanges for instance charge greater fees for intraday trading, to discourage speculation.
At Volkswagen, a Scandal Where Executives Could Pay the Price
> Why isn't "Let's Encrypt" a Mozilla project?

...because it already was? The whole thing started as a collaboration between Mozilla and the EFF. Its success allowed Josh to spin it out into an independent organization, and focus on it full-time.

There are many other fronts that Mozilla is fighting on, just less visibly: WebAssembly, Rust, Daala/AOMedia, WebVR, etc.

Having lived through the first browser wars, I can think of few things more important for the safety and health of the Internet than a vibrant, competitive browser market. And with the progress being made on Servo and Quantum, I suspect conceding to Chrome would be premature.
HSBC CEO Says Bankers Generating 20% of London Revenue May Move
Should have been titled "... in the USA" as tax rules are very different in other countries.

For instance, in France, you only owe money to the taxperson when you sell your shares, for a profit. If you sell for a loss, this is tax-deducible.
Imho without asking a lawyer, which should be an expert in this field, you will never be able to understand the value of the offered deal.
Google smartwatch reportedly packs a “Digital Crown,” launches 2/9
What most people forget is that mental diseases are associated with physical diseases. Depression is positively associated with Type 2 diabetes, oral cancer, psoriasis, arthritis [1]. Stress is positively associated with poor sleep. Anxiety is positively associated with coronary heart disease. When you are in poor mental health (stress, anxiety, depression), it will impact your heart, digestive system and immune system, and vice-versa.

Source [1]: http://outcomereference.com/outcomes/5-Depression
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Testifies in Oculus Rift Lawsuit
Show HN: I talked to 917 ecommerce software users. Here's what I found.
TLDR; Evidence is piling up that the male brain / female brain concept is nothing more than a myth.
Figure of speech, I can't take long walks, swelling occurs for various reasons. I used to move a lot run, job, etc, I know well the effects of physical activity and right now I just cannot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_pest
Tin forms whiskers, small hairlike growths on the metal that can cause short circuits. We've already lost a satellite to this phenomenon, although I would hope it's not a problem anymore with current metallurgical techniques

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)
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Growing Startups When the Product Sucks
I got used to the syntax pretty fast, to the point that I actually kind of like it. My complaint about streams is how slow they can be. If you're doing collection transformations often, the time spent turning your objects into streams can kill your performance. I'm worried it's going to reinforce the old myth that functional programming is implicitly slow.
‘I don’t intend to go crawl under a rock’: Tom Wheeler
What does this comment have to do with the one you replied to? Instead of adding to the conversation about Cook using what he learned as COO under Jobs, you're complaining about software updates.
> A metaphor compares two things similar from a certain aspect

When I said "the metaphor compares two similar thing" I didn't mean metaphors in general, I meant your metaphor specifically compares two things that are similar. The relevant differences between NY and the moon do not exist between NY and Illinois.

> For the same reasons that it's needed elsewhere

Metaphors are often of dubious value. They can be used to clarify unfamiliar situation, where the bounds of the metaphor are clear; or, perhaps as in this case, encourage similar thinking about two related concepts.

But you provided a metaphor here without providing clarity on what the point was. When I think "why would I build a city in Illinois, when there already one in NY", none of the answers I come up with apply equally to the moon. e.g. land is cheaper/convenient (not on the moon), the scenery is better (maybe true, but not to outweight other more pressing concerns) etc.
Search result priority is largely irrelevant for rare or specific files, since there are going to be few results (at least, few clearly different torrents) and each result is going to be inspected by looking at the file list.

Indexing file names is the search quality improvement you need most. For example, I tried searching for "Pretty Polly", by the Poison Girls; moderately popular niche music.
There are 0 results for "pretty polly" and 2 results for "poison girls", one of which is a complete discography collection containing that song. Imagine the results for more popular and prolific authors.
Females produce one gamete per month for roughly thirty years. Males produce 1,500 gametes per second for, roughly, their entire adult lives.

The idea that these two radically differently supplied halves of the population would have no major psychological differences is an idea so patently stupid that only a modern academic could take it seriously.
If whatever the USA are planing to do is in Europes interest, they can ask to turn Galileo off. If it is really in Europes interest, they will do so.
The US has already leaned hard on European officials to abandon the €1.1bn (£772m) project.

Last year, the EU press spokesman for Galileo, Gilles Gantelet, declared that under the strain of American pressure, "Galileo is almost dead".

While US pressure has not killed off the Galileo project entirely, concessions made by European officials mean Galileo will now be a much weaker rival to GPS than the system they had envisioned.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/08/world.internation...

Galileo will lead Europe into conflict with the US, which has security concerns about the building of a navigational network to rival its own system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1893022.stm

The United States has security worries about the development of Galileo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3121682.stm
Being a non profit, their numbers are out there for anyone to examine. Go ahead and compare their development costs with their other costs - the board of directors in particular.

(not a popular opinion on HN, so goodbye useless digital karma).
Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier
So what else is new? It has been coming since 2001. Get over it.
Doesn't apply to Canada, either.

Well, unless the options are for shares in a non-Canadian controlled private corporation.

Got bit by that little loophole in my late stage startup when facing options expiration...
why would someone think it was "compact disc"? even if a hn reader was somehow completely ignorant of continuous delivery, the context and usage should be a guide.
I wonder if they discussed the phase Apple is entering right now though. I agree with you that Jobs probably understood 100% what Cook at the head would mean, and did it willingly; IMO to ensure a long and smooth ride of the previous era successes. Now did they have plans in mind for long term ..
Thanks a lot for your advice, this is great. Former academics / PhDs are good pool of people with wonderful skills (I didn't finish my own PhD, but I know the environment). Some PhDs might hopefully also be more attuned to the social problems like the ones we are looking into, so we will definitely be considering that.

The challenge we could have is more on looking for usability and frontend expertise, considering the type of tools we want to build, and these are not necessarily in the programming skillset you grow during a PhD (generally more about data analysis / engineering, but of course it depends on the line of work).

Anyways, thanks for the suggesting though.
Non coding tips every coder should know
I did read it at 19 and it did rock my world.
Europe isn't a single entity. Imagine a conflict in Eastern Europe that the US is part of. The rest of Europe has built its infrastructure on Galileo and shutting it down means major economic and infrastructure issues for Europeans not involved in the conflict. The US asks them to turn it off, but Merkel says no. Or Greece says no because Putin promised them $200m in aid. EU decisions have to be unanimous. Now what? Lets stop pretending European nations, even members of NATO, all care about each other. There's no polite discourse here. Just naked self-interest that's easy for the enemy to game.

Merkel might decide that she wants nothing to do with Russia taking Estonia, Romania, and Bulgaria. This is why we need technical solutions, not political ones. Banking on Europe being nice to each other is hilariously short-sighted and ahistoric.

Note, Europeans are free to leave NATO whenever they wish if they don't like our defense posture and technical requirements. I imagine letting the Russian military loose is probably not within Europe's self-interest, so enforcing technical requirements that protect all of Europe makes sense. It leaves less room for cowardly players like Merkel to appease expansionist dictators like Putin. If anything, the US did European security a favor with this policy.
I can't afford it, and I live in a rural place that doesn't have a lot of the fancier kinds of doctors.
Depends on the kid, the family and the market. Willing to move for the job? No? Why not? Willing to work in a related field until you can get into your first choice? Why not? Willing to switch jobs 3 times in the first 5 years? Why not?

Folks have unequal chances for sure. But a significant fraction of the differences are, what they're willing to do.
Sounds fine to me...

https://blog.cagedmonster.net/deploy-ghost-blogging-platform...
Startups are a great way to get rich - if you're a founder.
That's slightly different though, better imagery makes it possible to resolve more features.

With the improved positional accuracy it's a 2 meter circle vs a 1 meter circle. What tactics does a 1 meter circle enable that the 2 meter circle does not enable?

Also, DigitalGlobe only has 30 cm capability:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-4

Who is downsampling (DigitalGlobe/GeoEye was downsampling earlier 40 cm imagery for Google, to 50cm)?
Exactly what everyone should do. If someone is obsessed with these kind of topics I think he should start his own startup and be a founder/co-founder.
Let me save you some reading: bargain down the options and go for the increased salary instead. I suppose that's not true if you're planning on staying long enough until you can exercise them, but I've been very happy doing that at the last few places I've worked at.
>They need an effective government and socialized medicine. Charity is not a workable solution.

Whether the charity comes through government or private organizations is not relevant to my point. The point is that they need someone else to pay for it, and not via a normal market transaction.

>Sure it is, that's exactly why it's there, hence the subsidies.

Allow me to rephrase: The health insurance market is not there to ensure everyone is able to afford to pay for their own health care needs. It is not broken because some people are not able to afford to participate in it. That is not its purpose. Judging it to be 'broken' or 'insane' because it doesn't do something that it's not intended to do is ridiculous.
When I look at the documentation, I find the section with forEach to be so much noise. Ditto for autocompletion in an IDE. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre....

When does manual composition not work well? The article's examples seem easy enough:

map.forEach(1, (k, v) -> "There is " + v.size() + " articles about " + k, System.out::println);
map.forEach(1, (k, v) -> System.out.println("There is " + v.size() + " articles about " + k));
ContinuousIntegrationCertification
> If I was the NSA, I'd certainly be looking to launch a VPN company or two

not worth the trouble when you can just compel existing VPN companies to send all traffic to you.
Former Microsoft Executive Vice President Qi Lu Joins Baidu
My SWAG is that it's not a clock problem, it's a power supply problem.

All the satellites probably use the same clock power supply, regardless of which clock they chose to put into the satellite.

That would explain why you have the Indian clocks by the same manufacturer all working, and why two completely different clock technologies (hydrogen maser and rubidium) are both failing.
I was one of the first people to do inter exchange arbitrage.

It ins't necessary extreme speed, in fact for me it took more than a month to settle.

I would first wait my program notify me there was a 20% or more profit opportunity (due to the slowness and risk).

Then I would buy btc with credit card on some usd exchange (usually mtgox, not always), then I would sell btc for brl on a Brazillian exchange.

I would pay the credit card with my brl when the bill came... this could take more than a month, and I would pay lots of taxes, but I would still turn a profit.

The reason I stopped doing arbitrage was that to me was too time consuming, because every month the payment methods would change (for example someone one month accepted paypal, then only cc directly, then only paypal again, then some paypal competitor where I had to register...)
Isn't this a little like saying that men and women are different due to their differing precious bodily fluids?
This is why it's important to wait and test your model against out of sample data. I.E. if you back tests up until today, give it some time and test it against what happened from now until then.
If you believe in the company, be like David Choe (painted Facebook murals) and take compensation in stock.
JIRA is not that bad. It was pretty stagnant for a while but they've been improving it. I think JIRA is an invaluable knowledge capture tool, particularly when you're tracking down a difficult root cause and you want to keep a bunch of people in the loop.
Yeah pretty much since android studio replaced eclipse, things got better on the android side. Though I still find android a pain from an ecosystem perspective.

Haven't done a lot of straight up native apps, but I use the tools for react native & cordova stuff.
I hate it because it feels incredibly crusty. Nothing seems to update without hitting F5, there's annoying amount of jargon and poorly named fields everywhere, and in my company it's also tied into everything from client billing to asset management, presumably because it's sold as something that does everything including breakfast, and all that noise seems to permeate into every ticket type (I can't search for a ticket type or field anymore, there are over 400 types so the autocomplete is useless, I just ask PMs to make them.)
Drug Overdoses Turn Up on Facebook and in Obituaries, Defying Stigma
Are you using some sort of leverage (haven't heard about leverages for btc though)? Looking at btc price movements, it seems that you need either 1) very high bankroll or 2) loads of transactions to make it work, as minute/hour price movements are rather low, and even lower for smaller time ranges. (maybe that's a lame question, I have no trading experience, just curious and reading a bit about it).
Prosecutor Makes Case Today for Putting Samsung Heir in Jail
Seems like this project doesn't offer much at moment except cool name.

I use flat files in markdown since 2010 with Sublime Text with extensions: MarkdownEditing, Table Editor

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There was interesting attempts before...
http://www.acuriousmix.com/2014/09/03/designing-a-personal-k... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270759
This was helpful if for nothing else than to illustrate how nuanced the remote work conversation can be. I've also seen companies with a publicly strict on-site policies that are "remote friendly" (remote tolerant?). I agree completely with the author that these are jobs to be careful of.
What's the name of the non-profit? So maybe people from here could apply.
Let's Encrypt was founded by a group including Mozilla, EFF, and the University of Michigan. Mozilla is also a platinum sponsor. So yes, it is a Mozilla project.

Source: I am a Mozilla employee and a board member of ISRG (which operates Let's Encrypt).
Has been shit under everyone. I really think there are core issues with that product not a question of leadership.
I think recommending LSD is a bad idea. If it works for you, great, but even the best doctors can't agree on what drugs are helpful most of the time. I have friends who have used LSD and other drugs in the past and have experienced many negative side effects.
Once, I needed to email something to djb. I tried, and his email system sent back a challenge which was dumped into my spam box. I never did manage to get an email to him.
That's pretty funny. The entire bike was gone in a few days once the water bottle and seat went MIA.
You forgot to account for one case, which is what applies to me: my heart rate "jumps" from 160, during peak physical exertion, to 230+ BPM, when I get this tachycardia, and then "jumps" back after a while if I sit down to relax. At that rate the heart doesn't have enough time to contract fully, like you said.

I got prescribed verapamil, and there's also this trick of trying to breathe out with mouth and nose closed, to use the lungs to put pressure on the heart. This can trigger some kind reflex (I forgot the name) that slows down the heart rate.

> The silver lining here is that in all likelihood your heart was/is fine. Anxiety has also been proposed as a risk factor for CVD but my understanding is that this is still debated. So don't go thinking your history means you'll definitely have an MI.

From what the cardiologist told me the 230 BPM is abnormal, but OTOH, my heart rate maintains a regular rhythm, so it's fairly harmless, and I'm likely not in any high risk group.
NordVPN is torrent friendly provider, I know many people do use them just in case
Go's entire selling point is "faster than python, no need to learn anything new". In terms of language features it's again living in the 80's - Java got generics in 2004 and Java was way behind the times. In terms of speed it's worse than Java and Rust, maybe comparable to Haskell.

This is not true, go is generally slightly faster than java (while using less memory_ and slightly slower than rust. The garbage collector is slower than java's default collector but has better latency but java's gc can be tuned and go gives you better tools to bypass gc partially or entirelly.
Toshiba eyes stake sale in chip business as writedown looms
I particularly like the idea of using the Squads.com model in existing organisations. I'd love to run an experiment with that.
I work in a area related to this: neural aging. Many of my collaborators are constantly looking for gender differences in the basal brain and WRT the aging process.

They are encouraged to do this by a semi-recent NIH policy strongly encouraging experiments to include both genders because of a perception that females were being left out of biological research. I don't think that is true, because for example NCBI GEO samples are virtually equally balanced between M/F, but hey, NIH has to play along with politics to some extent to get funding.

So once investigators have gone to the trouble and expense of including both genders in an experiment, they will naturally do the analysis comparing genders. They will perform lots of comparisons, sort the p-values, and declare some differences. And to provide a fig leaf for readers concerned that our time is being wasted, they will say these differences which are probably often statistical artifacts, are "important" for some nebulous, rarely explained reason.

This is not to say there are NO differences. In the context of aging, female humans live several years longer than males on average, and there are some biological reasons for that. It's just that it beggars my imagination to think that core biological processes unrelated to reproduction would have vast differences between genders. Evolution, it should be remembered, predates gender by a long time. More importantly, if we are trying to understand core biology, we should be focusing on the main effect IMO rather than the relatively minor gender differences.