skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is as good as "new study finds cholesterol causes heart disease". We know that LinkedIn endorsements are only as good as the person looking at them. In the new UI, LinkedIn highlights endorsements from "people that are highly skilled at this", which, in my observations so far, is fairly reasonable. In my mind endorsements only matter when they come from people that I trust. I'll take highly skilled at this with a grain of salt, but that's a lot better than endorsements from random people. I don't know anyone that hires engineers based on endorsements.
Why You Need to Cross Half Your Prospects Off Your List
On a scale of 1-10, how hard is it to keep your dick in your pants at work?

I just don't get the mindset that results in someone thinking "yeah man, it is totally ok to make a pass at a coworker in a professional environment"
What makes you think I was being sarcastic?

I never anticipated anybody would be so moronic as to think that.
Yeah. But in this kind of tuned benchmark, I doubt clang will do any better across the board - especially not considering the fact that the current programs are likely to be at least somewhat tuned specifically for gcc.
"I'm all for effective use of taxes, but your effective tax rate calculation seems way off."

I apologize for already going beyond the bounds of politeness, as far as discussing finances go - so forgive me for not going into further details ... but my calculation is about right on.

"And if that's the case you are still taking home nearly $300,000 per year."

That, on the other hand, bothers me greatly - this idea that at some level of income, the proportions stop mattering. The idea that, if one makes X income, it doesn't matter if that was 30 or 50 or 70% of what we made ...

"It ought to be enough for you".
Biggest issue I've had is on the PC side you are still in driver-stability hell. (remember the bad old days of peripherals?) I'm not surprised VR is popular on consoles, as it sidesteps this whole issue.
Yeah, while not true on aggregate, on any specific instance a human driver can make the conscious decision to pay extra attention and drive more safely.

Plus, even if Uber's car recognized the traffic light as green, the fact that the cars before it on the other lanes stopped should be a clear enough signal to not just speed through.
SoftBank set to invest $3 bln in WeWork – CNBC
My Pocket usage increased significantly if I'm out of the house often. I use very little mobile internet to keep my phone costs down - using pocket offline works out great.

I don't read all of the articles I have on there, of course, but that's OK. It still works for bathroom or on-the-road reading. Admittedly, games get played during toilet visits more often than articles getting read.
Compile-Time evaluation in the Zig Language (a C replacement)
It's not hypocritical to want a small government and also want less taxation. These are harmonious goals.

Governments may wish to encourage male-female marriage (moms & dads => children and healthy environment => productive families => civilization). If that means less taxation for families, and thus a smaller and less powerful government, all the better.
Thanks, signed up. I used the info from Maass's novel to create a plot diagram for my story. In the end that's what we are - story engineers.
It's really slow. Someone gets interested, their interest piques someone else's interest. This goes on practically forever until some point where there are 2 or more VCs in a room together and then it becomes "I'll do it if you do it".

They've co-opted a word for this process: syndication. If you ask them what it means, they'll have some flowery language[0] for you. In reality all it means is that they're too chickenshit to invest on merits alone, and really want to know what other people think.

This process drives up pre-money valuations and thereby reduces returns. By opting out of the process, Andreessen has outsized returns. It's a bigger risk (he has abnormally large potential downsides), but he's good enough of a judge of merit to make it work out phenomenally for him.

[0] http://www.startable.com/2008/10/27/venture-capital-deal-syn...
Don't know about Hungarian, but in Russian I can think of at least four types of numerals:

- cardinal (what is the number?); for example, dva, tri, chetyre, pyat' (два, три, четыре, пять)

- ordinal (which position in a sequence?); for example, vtoroy, trety, chetvyorty, pyaty (второй, третий, четвёртый, пятый)

- collective (how many?); for example, dvoye, troye, chetvero, pyatero (двое, трое, четверо, пятеро)

- nominative (what is the number's name?); for example, dvoika, troika, chetvyorka, pyatyorka (двойка, тройка, четвёрка, пятёрка)
Does your little birdie have data?
>There are lots of reasons to hate Uber, but please do so with logical consistency.

Where have I not been consistent?
Dominos Australia uses a UUID instead:

https://internetorder.dominos.com.au/eStore/en/Tracker?order...

(That's a random UUID so it doesn't work. I've got some working UUIDs in my browser history, but not sharing them since they tell you my home address..)
I've seen this be the case in other places. We used to have a queue based system. Then we went to an auto-assignment process. One of things it has done is open up communication on our team, since when we did it, we implemented as a rule of policy that if you aren't familiar with something getting assigned to you, you first ask for help before trading (we have a formal mechanism for soliciting this).

1. It encourages everyone to be aware that we're here to help

2. It encourages learning, the number of request for help decrease over time once the experience and familiarity ramp up

3. It exposes everyone to different types of work.

There are exceptions of course. Our P0 bucket has a dedicated set of people that handle that, and they are hand picked because those are house on fire situations that need the experience. Its also the one we put the juniors on when they know the ropes and are ready to take on the critical tasks so they can advance themselves (its good experience for career and personal growth I feel).

The other thing i like about this is that as a manager, I can actively encourage behavior by claiming a ticket, or helping someone with a ticket. I really want that culture effect to happen from the top down.
Downvote all you want, but these witch-hunts will put the final nail in the coffin of the American economic leadership in this century.
Behind the Scenes at Jungle Disk – Using Ephemeral Keys with ScaleFT
Feel free to define whatever however you want. This is a virtual DOM, because that is what the expression means; who's most popular right now matters not at all. And the only reason you feel obliged to drag the discussion down to this level is because it makes you feel insecure. You would do well to learn to like that feeling instead, that leads forward.
They are rockstars.
I used that as an example of a bad idea; I don't have details on this bad idea but you could have an instruction looking at an init, bound and increment registers and a constant telling where the loop ends and voila, the processor runs for loops without needing lower-level increment and branch instructions, and it shaves off one instruction (not a cycle, necessarily, but an instruction):

FOR counter_reg, init_val_reg, bound_reg, step_reg, END_OF_LOOP
...
END_OF_LOOP:

...instead of:

MOVE counter_reg, init_val_reg
START_OF_LOOP:
...
ADD counter_reg, step
BRANCH_LESS_THAN counter_reg, bound_reg, START_OF_LOOP

I was saying that this obviously not-so-good idea is not much different in spirit from building hardware for quickly creating and applying lambda terms, which is what the Reduceron does. Lowering lambda calculus to simpler operations so that lambda expressions are not represented in a runtime data structure at all much of the time, the way GHC and other compilers approach the problem, is a better idea.
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Are you arguing that agricultural controls at land border crossings are ineffectual and should be dismantled?

That seems to go against (what appears to be) global scientific consensus that controls like these are helpful in slowing the spread of invasive species.

Or are you just arguing there should be exemptions for small amounts?
Tips and Tools for Optimizing Android Apps
To be fair Thunderbird is awful. Every single time I try to find a better client I see someone suggesting "oh Thunderbird has gotten way better; give it a shot! I love it!" and every time I fall for it and it's the same slow, horrible application that I've tried again and again.

I'm all for them killing it.
It's more like a mile and a half from Caltrain to FiDi.
Ask HN: What are your favorite tech podcasts?
I'm a big fan of podcasts, but I wonder if I miss some cool tech podcast.(I follow a16z, The Twenty Minute VC, Changelog, Developer Tea)

What are your favorite tech podcasts ? (anything related to startups, coding, vc, marketing in startups, design etc...)

Thanks
Hmm, do you think article 50 would further reduce GBP/USD ratio? I have some money in GBP and I am considering selling now.
He specifically asked about same-sex marriage. These examples involve something else - the first one is about requirements for medical insurance, the second is about anti-discrimination laws.
Both of those examples are infact not examples of infringement.

Imagine a world in which any healthcare provider could arbitrarily decline coverage for anything on the grounds of "religion". Have a genetic illness, sorry that's founded on the "theory" of evolution we're not going to cover you, etc. Allowing healthcare providers to pick and choose coverage is a nightmare for consumers .

Your second example is a similar issue. Allowing businesses to arbitrarily deny service to minorities (the case would have been different if the couple asked for a custom cake with a phrase the Phillips found objectionable) is not small gov or freedom of religion. It's just plain bigotry.

A citizen's freedom of religion ends when the next citizen's rights begin. If you take that away you might as well be living in a Theocracy.
It isn't all that obvious how the offline function works - which is a shame. I've been caught without offline availability for some articles I saved.

The main thing with the work-around is that you need to start Pocket on your phone while you have a data connection so that the articles are on the phone. There may be an option to automatically download the articles, but I've never found it. After the one-time data connection, it comes up offline.

This is the case when I save from the computer and view them on my phone (or different device, I guess, but I've not checked a different computer). Your luck may vary.
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If you were going to take the credit card info, why couldn't you just MitM the whole order and ask the restaurant to spell out "9 to dial out" with some anchovies?
Yeah I'm running into issues with this using a mid 2015 MacBook pro w/ Nvidia gpu. Looks like it only supports OpenCL 1.2.
RCMP commissioner warns IT failures will have 'catastrophic' consequences
‘The American dream is not working out here’
Whatever happened to the Release Notes
I was recently looking for desktop email clients and there is literally not a single free alternative? Cant be that awful if it's the only one.
I want to hear this. Please elaborate.
I suspect all languages without exception use some standard library functionality in at least a few of those sample programs, and most "standard" libraries aren't constrained to be self-hosting - so all of em use some native code, probably written in C or C++. I suspect that's true of rust too.

FFI is a fact of life. I can imagine it would be perverting the intent of the game if you explicitly used FFI to delegate the actual core of the benchmark program to C as opposed to using "standard" building blocks, but the distinciton is necessarily vague.
I'm not surprised because someone just did
Occam's razor surely is with him, and not the Dark Matter/Dark Energy people.

Just would loved more current criticism on his theories.
I think they have added a port to the mainboard which can be used to try and salvage data if the mainboard is fried.

But it's still unbelievable that they soldered the SSD to the mainboard.
I'm quite fond of Tabarrok's quote about bets being a tax on bullshit.

So, what are we supposed to learn from things that don't affect 99.9% of people? What exactly are you hinting at? If you've learned something from history that others haven't and that is germane to the situation, are you willing to bet money on it?

I'm sure someone will take the other side of the bet, that way we don't have to deal with the "kids these days" type of rhetoric that doesn't really prove anything about anything.
You can say that about any "investment" currently at an all time high.
>But within a year, rather than do good, Singhal had gotten a top job at Uber.

Heh. A not too subtle burn.
BLUF: A good one will help your résumé navigate the often opaque and misaligned fiefdom that is corporate HR.

Long version: If they have significant and current experience with hiring processes (especially in your industry), they'll be able to help you with everything from how to word and structure it to maximize your odds of getting through the automated filters nearly every big company uses these days, to figuring out (based on job postings) what the hiring company's HR department is going to care about. Which is often different from what the person doing the actual hiring will care about, but you need to satisfy both.

They also have visibility into other aspects (salary, titles, mobility) that recruiters often can be helpful with, too, but I've found recruiters sometimes have their incentives somewhat misaligned with those of their clients (e.g., like a real estate agent who makes more money if they focus on turnover over deal size, so the homeowner isn't happy to get $15K less for their house than they could, recruiters make their cut when someone gets hired for anything, at any salary, and a small percentage of a salary that's 10% lower is less of a concern to them than being 10% underpaid is to you), whereas a résumé consultant's job is to do their part to ensure you get the interview.

I run a couple businesses and therefore don't really have a résumé myself, but I've probably referred a total of a half people (friends, relatives, and people moving on from my employ to better things) to a close friend who is a résumé consultant, and they in turn have referred many multiples of that, given how happy they were with the results. Virtually all got interviews with the companies they wanted to. (Of course, a good résumé consultant will also tell you when you're completely on-paper-unqualified to enter that job via traditional means.)

I consider myself a fairly capable person, but seeing the work of a highly talented résumé consultant made me realize that that's just not an area I (or the vast majority of most people) are adept at navigating.

It's sort of like hiring an attorney to handle a legal matter one could technically handle without being an attorney. Sure, if you already have a talent for that kind of thing, and are willing to spend at least hundreds of hours working in that field, you'd probably be able to take care of that one task fairly easily, but anything short of that and it's far better to pay an expert.

A few hundred bucks to put one's résumé into the top few-percent of applications is money very well spent.
On the contrary, the point I'm trying to make is that you can study the processing done by whatever's in your skull (mind, brain, GPU, nanobots, whatever) while being totally agnostic about the underlying hardware. You can develop theories about this, test them, falsify them, and revise them.

Returning to the feature integration theory, it says that during singleton search (red vs. green), reaction times should be constant regardless of the number of items, while reaction time should be a linear function of the number of items when the search involves combining information from multiple feature channels.

You can test this with a junky laptop or even some drawings and a stopwatch. In fact, if you really want, I'll send you a script so you can test it yourself. You can falsify this: just fit lines to the (item count, RT) data and see if the slopes match the predictions. People have, in fact, done this, and have shown that this explanation of visual search isn't quite complete--weird things happen when the target is very rare, for example.

Can you explain exactly what some neuroscience data would add here? Look, I'm not some hardcore dualist. I work in a systems neuroscience group and completely agree that brain-based theories are more interesting than phenomenological ones, which is why I put up with the hours, pay, etc. However, this doesn't make those psychological theories any less valid, nor does it make psychology less of a science.

Anyway, there are lots of other processes that are not directly observable. Gravity, for example, wasn't directly observed until last year. Evolution can't be observed directly either.
Measuring how deadly our daily activities are
It's great that Kalanick moved quickly but between this and the other incidents, I don't think it's going to be enough. Kalanick himself may have to resign. Given a good competitor in Lyft and the relatively low barrier to entry on the core business, it will be difficult to weather this storm.
I think the final answer to your question might be that they're going to argue you in circles using irrelevant tangents until you get tired and stop challenging them.
Very hard apparently.
I'm late to this thread, but quite surprised to see nobody mentioned Mozilla's Ubiquity addon [1], which I think best demonstrates the idea of "composability" in a GUI you're trying to convey. I think adding a description/screenshot of Ubiquity or explaining one of its use-cases would explain your idea more clearly and actually put someone on the right path if they accept your call to action.

Incidentally, Aza Raskin, one of the main developers of Ubiquity is the son of Jef Raskin who led the work on Apple's Macintosh.

At one point in college I was fascinated enough with Ubiquity to try to continue the work on it (since the project was shelved), but my programming skills were just not up to it. Perhaps I'll get back to it sometime soon :)

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_...
A 20 minute mile doesn't include waiting for walk signals at pretty much every intersection on the route, and the Manhattan distance between the Caltrain station and his office might be larger.
you're avoiding the question. Name someone else that has done more impressive things than what Elon has already accomplished.
As someone who hasn't built a PC in a decade, I appreciate a site that stack ranks components. PC Part Picker still seems to require quite a bit of selection. While most enthusiasts are willing to do a little more research to optimize things, I think that there's room for a site like this for less knowledgeable consumers who don't want to do more research or want a simpler starting point for researching a build.
> This is a really difficult situation, in that lowering regulatory overhead would mean getting automated solutions to the public faster,

Never lower regulations when life are on the line.

There is a reason planes and cars don't crash every day, and it's because of these annoying regulations that force tests and QA. You'll never see a summer intern just come in and commits anything he wants and breaks everything. This shit doesn't happen in this line of business.

Regulations is good. You don't want devs being involved in your car with zero regulations to back them.
My advice would be to look at the pricing of CreateSpace versus Lightning Source/Spark before choosing one. And keep in mind that LS is the only one which lets you control the Ingram discount, down to 20%.

Here's the LS pricing guide: https://myaccount.lightningsource.com/documents/LSI/files/pr... and here's the CS pricing: https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/Royalties.jsp

For example, I sell a very short book via LS. The MSRP is $2.99, I set a 20% Ingram discount, and the print charge is only $1.56 (though the pricing guide now says $1.72; I think it's increasing soon). So I make $0.84 per book. With CreateSpace the lowest possible print charge is $2.15 per book, and given their fixed 40%/60% sales channel fees, it wouldn't be possible to sell the book for as low as $2.99.

LS isn't always cheaper though; you should do the calculation for your particular book size and page count.

Working with LS does make things a bit harder. You have to buy your own ISBNs, spend time waiting for certain manual processes (like for them to review your account application or a new book), and deal with their clunky website. But for me, it's worth the effort to be able to publish short books much more cheaply.
So do you mean he is even above Albert Einstein and his achievements thus far are even bigger than the likes of theory of relativity, invention of airplane? ABSURD. Once-in-a-century is going too too far here.
I read Decline and Fall by Waugh, and it was delightful. It recounts the continuous comic misfortunes of the main character throughout his life, and ends with an extremely memorable metaphor. I assume if you're reading this comment thread you're at least somewhat interested in Evelyn Waugh's writing, so I'll just paste the passage here even though it's not quite on topic:

“Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats all around, and in the centre the floor is made of a great disc of polished wood that revolves quickly. At first you sit down and watch the others. They are all trying to sit in the wheel, and they keep getting flung off, and that makes them laugh too. It's great fun.

You see, the nearer you can get to the hub of the wheel the slower it is moving and the easier it is to stay on. There's generally someone in the centre who stands up and sometimes does a sort of dance. Often he's paid by the management, though, or, at any rate, he's allowed in free. Of course at the very centre there's a point completely at rest, if one could only find it; I'm not very near that point myself. Of course the professional men get in the way. Lots of people just enjoy scrambling on and being whisked off and scrambling on again. How they all shriek and giggle! Then there are others, like Margot, who sit as far out as they can and hold on for dear life and enjoy that. But the whole point about the wheel is that you needn't get on it at all, if you don't want to. People get hold of ideas about life, and that makes them think they've got to join in the game, even if they don't enjoy it. It doesn't suit everyone."
I think that your parent commentator is noting that people pretty much just stopped writing desktop apps altogether, at least relative to webapps. In my childhood I downloaded desktop apps left and right for everything, but nowadays I only download apps in two categories: developer tools and Steam games. E.g. something like http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/ would have invariably been a desktop app only a few years ago.
I have anecdotal evidence that endorsements are useless. I endorsed myself for "Rocket Science", "Brain Surgery", "Smooth Jazz", and "Yacht Rock".

I've received several endorsements for each.
> I'm curious how that changes from the first book to the twenty-first?

For your answer, compare "The Right Stuff" (1979) to "I am Charlotte Simmons" (2004), both by Tom Wolfe. The second book, apart from being unreadable, seems not to have been written by the same person.
Glyphfriend 2.1 Released! Find Icons in Visual Studio Easily
Pocket will become FOSS, so yes. Follow [0] for status updates.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=open-pocket