skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Performance Review advice
Hi, manager here. We've got this horrible internal performance review process using Excel sheets and hope that people do them properly.

Has anyone seen a better way to do this?
I should also make sure to mention that most popular controller models are now supported by the Steam Controller configurator, so if the main thing that appealed to you was the configuration, you can get that with a DS4, an XBox360 pad, an XBox One controller, or basically any XInput device. There's also some experimental DInput support, too.

But if what you want is just exactly the Valve Steam Controller model with more heft, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
In my personal take on all this, it is those people who have wrecked this entire country. They bear incredible blame for many massive failures that cost billions of dollars and millions of jobs. It is that level of a tragedy. But somewhere, some few people pocketed billions of dollars.
Reducing growth by 1% is huge. The projected growth rate was 7.6% but was revised to 6.6%. That 1% is a percentage of the economy, not a percentage of overall growth.
At least in europe wire transfer via SEPA should be a viable alternative.
> Biggest lesson for us: Avoid putting all your logic into Jenkins templates. You're not capturing your CI/deployment logic in version control, and this can cause problems down the road (we backed up Jenkins regularly, but versioning was a weak point).

We've found the Job DSL plugin pretty useful for backing jobs up. https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Job+DSL+Plugin
Mozilla is a non-profit. Mozilla has been publicly committed to an open and free internet since 2007 when the Mozilla Manifesto was introduced. Here is the earliest version captured by Archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20080812000547/http://www.mozill...

There is a download button on the upper right corner of the page.
Just a precision about this "shitty camera" that Ars Technica loved so much. When we (Mozilla) did the development, we had reference devices from the SOC vendor (Spreadtrum). For sure this was not a high end sensor, but it was taking good pictures, not blurry or out of focus. So what happened? Well, one of the OEMs decided to save pennies by using a different sensor, but forgot to make the driver changes... (they also cheaped out on the battery which ruined the autonomy).

The lesson here, and where we failed, is that if you don't have control over the full stack you're shipping (hardware and software) and can't manage the QA and sign off process before shipping, you expose yourself to bad surprises.
I use Firefox as my primary browser but I use Chromium for the Yubikey integration on GitHub, which either Firefox or GitHub does not support.

Edit: another advantage of Chromium is that Google has put so many resources into securing it; reportedly as a direct result of this, vulnerabilities in Firefox are easier to find (and cheaper in vulnerability markets).
A decorator that enabled TCO makes sense to me. Kind-of like the Numba project, it'd be a specialized JIT-compiler invoked only on some functions.

What's stopping that from being a 3rd-party library like Numba?
But why should that be a result of legalization?
You would need the same number of teachers if the day was 4h long unless you had some students start with community centers and then swap. Now, if population density was high enough your model might work, but you are going to sacrifice a lot of time busing people around in the middle of the day.

Unless, these are simply different building right next to each other. Which is fine, but you could do the same thing in one building.
I would actually argue that what we have today is worse than 1984. If you read the book, the protagonists have economic security/stability, even if in a totalitarian government. We have both nightmare spying AND economic insecurity.
I think completely separating them and not marketing them as X build on Y would be the better move. At least according to positioning theory from marketing.
Obviously I wouldn't look at this as a recipe for success, but the author does provide some pretty interesting insights. I do think that it is easy to look back at sparse events like acquisitions and try see patterns, whereas in fact there is a fair amount of luck, timing and personal connections involved in the acquisition game.
You must be running Windows. I'm the Mozilla developer who is responsible for that. You'll get e10s on touchscreen in version 52.
Occasionally Firefox has had terrible performance problems on macOS.
Yeah I think the most important thing I am hearing from everyone on HN (and it is very much appreciated) is that we need to do better on our pricing page.

I love the feedback though! I always feel like I want to keep adding details to try to make it more clear, but I can see that we've come to a point where it may be having the opposite effect.
Bugs don't hide in variable names or white space.

Compiler errors do. But you catch those first run.

If tab vs 2 spaces vs 3 spaces can induce a logic error that is a purposely obtuse language.
Scandinavian countries. And the UK, for now.
Yeah, it’s actually something that we played with already. I have a basic prototype of it working and might be able to get it into the app in the next few months. It should really reduce the friction of adding new items. At some point we’d like to start recognizing packaged products but we’ll need the data to make it work.

I mentioned this here as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5ol7od/d_w...
It only draws attention for paying who willing to think critically. Lots of Trump supporters are perfectly content with the notion of "alternative facts."
At least in my case, the time to mature was necessary. While I could have passed most of my college classes as a freshman in high school (at least the ones I took freshman year in college, unsure that I could have passed the higher maths I took with just an understanding of basic algebra/geometry), there were a lot of social lessons that I desperately needed. I can think of specific experiences throughout my high school that taught me how to (not) interact in various situations.
Trump seems pretty unstable if you believe the leaks from the White House: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-tru...
Being unconstructively snarky about a concept that another member of this forum has presented is both poor manners and defies the guidelines linked in the bottom of the page
Ok, I better understand the point you're making. You're not arguing against special treatment for the gifted; you're saying that, in practice, we should raise the standards of regular students to what is normally provided to the gifted, since the gifted have better education provided to them. Then we'll see improvements across the board. Sure.

My point about regular students not being able to benefit from a compacted K-5 curriculum in two or three years comes from the fact that gifted student can move through academic material faster than a regular student. A regular student may be able to move faster than is currently being done, but not as fast as a gifted student.

> In any case, the "compacting" of the K-5 curriculum is just a hack. The real solution is to get rid of such constraints to begin with. That way, students who are "gifted" will naturally just go to the next level.

So ability grouping as opposed to age grouping? Yes, I agree it would help a lot, though as I'm sure you know, the gifted prefer to be around themselves rather than older regular children. Gross' book shows a trend that the more satisfied the kids are with their education, the better they do in life, which is why a separate school makes sense to me. The gifted population is small enough and funding is small enough that I think it will make a much greater positive impact on gifted students than a negative impact on regular students.
I would say leave. You have given them notice. Places that are poorly managed don't improve if you stay for a bit.

I was the sole developer of the GUI control system for some hardware, with another guy doing firmware etc. The project was poorly specced, poorly managed (overran by years) and my colleague would be dogmatic and argumentative whilst at the same time writing poor quality code and taking long lunches (yes we do have a deadline) and doing errands during work, or sitting laughing at his monitor all morning.

I did my best and did what I could to meet deadlines (yes of course I'll stay up til 4 in the morning writing software whilst on holiday with only a week's notice for a show) but in the end I had to fight for pay, fight to get my lost holiday back, had to interview my replacement (interviewed a load of people, that was odd), and as an act of thanks was kept working late on my last day with no formal goodbye.

So in the end your current employer won't care (they might be under more stress for a bit). You may have personal pride in work and want to help out due to the kind of person you are (helpful) but you are just a number to them, sadly. Obviously some employers are better (I worked at a great company once that truly valued me and were really great) but in general, they won't reward you. Were you ever rewarded for staying late? Did they put more pay in your pay packet?

Leave.
No. Who said anything about BS results? One party is now actively erasing information they don't like -- information that is accepted by virtually every scientific body in the world. The Democrats as a whole will accept the results of science. Like anyone with a belief system, those results may disappoint them. They may not like them, and they may see if the conclusions are controvertible with respect to other studies. But they won't pretend they simply do not exist, and try to make them not exist for anyone else as well. They may grumble, as you might if you see the value of your stocks decline. But if your stocks decline, you don't declare them not to have declined, then outlaw historical stock charts, call downward movement of stock prices to be a conspiracy theory, and move to destroy stock markets around the world.

The EPA, for example, is not some partisan claque of Democrats looking to vengefully squeeze cash flows and lower the value of Republicans' businesses. These are career staffers in their subject areas, scientists, policy makers and implementers -- people doing their jobs and coming to conclusions based on supporting data. But to the current GOP, the existence of an EPA itself is a partisan threat. It's worse than just removing studies they don't like. They want to remove the ability to do the science at all. And of course it's more than just the EPA in the crosshairs. They are presenting themselves as unwilling to accept scientific conclusions that do not align with their ideology. That's starting to look like a lot of banned science.

With the current GOP, there is no "lessons learned" phase where policy is adjusted to meet scientific reality.
Credit cards are widely accepted in all major cities. I used to carry exactly ₹100 (equivalent of less than $2) with me in cash. My salary was paid directly in the bank account - India has a pretty good electronic fund transfer system and it's pretty instantaneous - unlike ACH or even clearXchange where you need to wait 3-5 days. All restaurants accept cards. All sizeable supermarkets accept cards.
This breaks down when you start interfacing with the informal economy - taxi drivers, road side stalls, small markets, street vendors, ...etc. And quite unintuitively for people here - large businesses - real estate, automobiles, big vendors (like the marriage vendors quoted), contractors ...etc.

Basically, the formal economy exist within a thin margin of every day purchases. Everything above and below is in black.
This is exactly my experience. In some medical domains its even worse - I think I have never seen a good dentist. Can you even build up passion about staring at random human mouths ?
Trello grew because it was very KISS. The features were so-so but everyone could use it easily. Atlassian just purchased the bottom segment of the project market, the segment that would never use JIRA in a million years because of it's complexity.
I use FF as my primary. There are so many more really nice plugins for Chrome though that FF doesn't have. So, sometimes I just have to use Chrome.

I've installed "Chrome Store Foxified" and it's hit or miss on if a given Chrome Plugin will actually work in FF.
Why not Bitpay? I'm not associated with them, and have never been on the merchant side of the transaction, but it seems like a 'safe' bitcoin option. And based on my quick read of their merchant TOS[0] bitpay shouldn't (in theory) have an issue with the nature of FetLife's business.

As an aside, it's fun to watch a bunch of old, technically-illiterate and conservative financiers unknowingly sow yet another little seed of their own destruction. I guess being at the top of the heap can make one feel invulnerable...

[0] https://bitpay.com/about/terms#merchant
I actually took those paddles off for the same reason! Don't forget that you can remove them :)
How to reduce your sales team's congnitive strain and increase effectiveness
>Just because a relatively well-optimized PostgreSQL database on a regular workstation takes 5 minutes to run a query doesn't mean you can't get special hardware to run that query faster than you can type.

This is actually my biggest complaint with the article. He used cstore_fdw with Postgres, which doesn't allow much real indexing, and as far as I can tell (knowing only a little bit about it) he didn't really use any of the benefits of cstore_fdw.

I'd be interested to see how plain Postgres, possibly on a compressed filesystem, with properly-indexed tables stacks up.
Note to self - open a shovel and ladder factory in Mexico
Frankly: speed. As a web developer it notice it all the time. Chrome (using Canary) is faster in every aspect; Firefox renders slowly, becomes unresponsive over time, hangs often when using web sockets (webpack); the developers tools seem to have problems with large files and so on.

I actually love Firefox' dev tools and I really would like to use it - and it's not a bad browser at all- but as a developer all the small things add up (same reason why I cannot use Safari as my daily browser).
Correct. Another thing it does is "merging" the incoming connections into the current bash session, so you can see each other type, the idea here was to work on the same machine together kind of like in Etherpad.
That process was too heavy for most business needs and far too expensive as a result. It could never last. I do think developers were more respected back then. Today, developers, like all non-managerial (and to a lesser extent HR) people are completely fungible. For various reasons, we let our expertise be commodified. And as a result, we cheapened the entire field.

The way to get it back is thus: No non-developers ever manages a developer. This is how doctors keep their scam going.
I missed that. Well still, I don't see this as something he will keep up. I still think it's mostly a temporary publicity stunt.
Well, actually what we are seeing with the CLR, LLVM, ART is an increase of adapting the mainframe model of JIT/AOT compilation with some form of bytecode as distribution model.

In that regard, what JVM is missing are new ways to adapt to said hardware.

Interesting enough, Java is ahead of Go, Swift, Vala, Nim, and Rust in supporting GPUs, for example.
It can be, since Python is a higher-level language, but it isn't necessarily easier. For one, the state of decompilation technology is much more primitive for Python - the decompilers I've used are more like pattern matchers and break if you even slightly tweak the bytecode or use fancy constructs.

Second, although Python by default outputs plenty of symbolic data to assist a reverse engineer, these can be stripped (just like a C/C++ binary can be stripped), leaving you with a bunch of duck-typed method calls and operations.
Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well”
I don't think the author used Jira. Stopped reading at "Trello created a cheaper, simpler, and smaller version of Jira."
Lovely. Sounds like Sweden 20 years ago :-/
Firefox doesn't support U2F natively yet, but there's an addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/u2f-support-a...

Not sure if that will actually help you though, lots of sites are using user agent sniffing to only allow chrome instead of detecting it properly.
Sharing state in a Symfony hybrid with Twig, React and other JavaScript apps
Are any popular Bitcoin apps using their APIs? I don't really see how an API marketplace paid via Bitcoin is better than a credit card bill at the end of the month based on API usage.
In the actual world, though. This is why we don't perform lobotomies or think atoms are a plum pudding.
Hey, Brett. Thanks for your work :-)
There's an example of this kind of classification in the Faster R-CNN paper. Microsoft's implementation actually give a fridge as the example:

https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Object-Detection-usin...
What is your customer acquisition strategy? Who is your typical customer? I am curious how, as a single founder (initially) working on this on the side, you were able to both build and market your service?
This, the debugger is so extremely slow compared to chrome that it's unusable for me. It chews through ram, even with all plugins disabled on a clean build.

I've tried multiple times to switch, but the performance problems were just so bad I had to stop.

This was on a 2015 mbp, 10.11.6, 16gb ram.
Am I the only one who read this as Ben Horowitz giving $20 to each person who contacts him?
There's decompilers and deassemblers.

Code is not hidden or protected by being transformed into a binary executable format. Companies that believe/rely on that are disillusioned, not paranoid.
It's slow, and has very non-native UI on macOS.
Time to switch to DDG! It's come a long way in just a few years. It's my daily search engine and I have never looked back in reget.
Oh my gosh, that's all I've wanted for years: a boss who knew at least as much as I did. Trying to persuade -- to be an agent of positive change or even just get anything done -- is all but impossible when you have to explain everything to someone before you can even begin a dialogue.
Even though diagnosis is only one piece of the puzzle, what I would hope is that this becomes part of the answer to the high cost of healthcare.
Meh, seems majority of older folks say the same BS.
> How widespread is the use/acceptance of credit/debit cards?

About 15% of estimated Indian transaction volume happened online or by credit or debit card in 2015 [1].

[1] https://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/29/online-payment-india-account...
Too bad the US uses this ability a bit to liberally.
Learnings from machine learning conference NIPS 2016
I wish I knew how to find an occupational psychotherapist who specialised in working with programmers/sysadmins/engineers and who practised either in London or over video/email.
New clues on the base of Parkinson's disease and other 'synucleinopathies'
Have you looked in Pilsen, Humboldt Park, or West Logan Square? I live in Ukrainian Village and live alone in a 2BR I pay $800/mo for.
That you bring some core competencies to the table that are actionable [1]. That you can calc the ROI on data-driven paradigm shifts [1]. That you can ensure there are enough boots on the ground to manage customer expectations. That you can peel the onion on our go-to markets and incentivize monetizable synergies leading to win-win solutions [2].

That you have become an irreplaceable employee, that you're a girl who gets up early, a girl who stays up late, a girl with uninterrupted prosperity, who uses a machete to cut through red tape, with fingernails that shine like justice, and a voice that is dark like tinted glass.

She is fast and thorough and sharp as a tack. She's touring the facility and picking up slack.

A girl with a smooth liquidation, a girl with good dividends.

A girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnng jacket [3].

[1] MBA jargon watch, pg 1, 2: http://www.johnsmurf.com/jargon.htm, http://www.johnsmurf.com/jargon2.htm

[2] 89 Business Cliches That Will Get Any MBA Promoted: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/06/19/89-busine...

[3] Cake - Short Skirt and Long Jacket : http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cake/shortskirtlongjacket.htm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aDstrDMf0
1. UI (More UI overhead than Chrome)
2. Speed (Noticeably slow than Chrome)
3. UX (Moving tabs out of the window looks and is bad)
4. Extensions (Missing some essential stuff I use)
5. Breaks some Website (One of my regular websites doesn't work correctly in Firefox)
The DoJ was going after gun shop merchant accounts also. Gun shops or Fetish sites should be just as protected as any other legal business.
They did, and saved Nelson Mandella from death in prison in '91! ;-)
It is no different than going to the urgent care clinic for a strep test. Doctors do not perform those either. Most diagnosis will be done via software administered by lower paid and more easily replaceable low skill labor just like urgent care clinics do with lab testing.

There are fewer accountants today because of tax software and Excel spreadsheets. They are still needed for more complex and unique situations, but there will be a lot fewer of them. The local H&R Block uses lower paid "Tax Preparers" instead.

There are a lot of research done about Walmart and about when the store moved into town there were not fewer jobs, but somehow the area got poorer. What they found was that the local community leaders(small business owners, lawyers, accountants) were automated away and/or moved to Walmart headquarters.

http://aese.psu.edu/nercrd/economic-development/for-research...

Is one I could find, but that also references other papers in the field.

This leads to me understand that like Walmart, the simple human physical labor jobs will remain long after the more skilled positions. The main reason, I believe, is that software is simply cheaper than hardware(robots) so highly skilled positions which require software not hardware to remove will be the first to go. This is exacerbated by the fact that the software replaceable jobs are the highest paid and therefore the most profitable to remove.
Can't login to comment here. It may be one the following extensions 'pocket', 'ublock origin' or 'pushbullet'. That said, I do switch back and forth between firefox and edge as default browser, depending on activity.