skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of roundup is that you can use it earlier in the growing cycle, when weeds and non-GMO crops are more vulnerable. This should mean that farmers can use less chemical so long as they're using GMO crop.

"Buy our product, you'll spend more on inputs" would be a fucking stupid USP for Monsanto.
It was always everything/nothing. Because back then websites usually had some kind of purpose or category which usually was reflected in the domain name as well. But then sites like Stile Project and others mentioned there came out just talking about whatever the author wanted to rant about (IE the modern internet). So the category was everything and it was about nothing really important.
And I might add, the book is worth reading!
> Mind your own business.

Speak for yourself, champ. Not everyone's dream is to become rich, or wealthy, or anything of the sort. Some people just want to work on cool problems, be around interesting people, and be paid relatively well to do so.
How gamification increases user engagement in banking apps
In the banking sector gamification is particularly interesting in terms of creating incentives to save money. For example in Outbank (www.outbankapp.com) gamification finds use in the illustrated transaction graphs. Since a red outgoing transaction bar grows longer and gets closer to the green one with every Euro spent, it creates a gamified incentive to save money in order to see a shorter red bar and larger difference between both graphs in the future.

But there are lots of other examples how to include gamification in banking. To find some interesting angles we’ve browsed the web a bit and found this great list of gamification examples in the fintech sector (https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-examples-of-gamification-in-banking). From rewarding users when they check in at a bank branch to offering badges for successfully reaching saving goals, you can find everything in that list.

Whole article on:
https://outbankapp.com/gamification-in-banking/
I'm currently working remotely and found many good positions on stackoverflow's jobs page.
It seems "being yourself" is poorly defined, which to me makes it kind of a useless piece of advice (unless of course you define it first)
Hey HN! I've built a tool to combat Fake News in a semi-technical way: LeftRightCenter.io allows you to check out the latest news from multiple sources. It shows the coverage of a single event from multiple news outlets from the entire political spectrum. The same issue may be portrayed in a completely different light, depending on the political orientation of the source. You can get to the bottom of what really happened by comparing the reporting from different news organizations, while being aware of their political leaning.
In some rare cases like L4D IIRC. However it's highly unlikely for the simple reason that most of Linux GPU drivers are inferior to Window's.
A function can return void and still throw an exception. (Like one I wrote today, "insert row into table", which throws on failure and return nothing on success.)

A bunch of functions that all return void all being called in a row, though? That's a much smellier smell. What happens if their order gets mixed up, for example.
where is SEXPN ?
> L4D IIRC

This was not using WINE.
There is this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-...
It's possible, and if I recall, it has been known to for some games (this was a couple of years ago when I was more interested in Wine and gaming, and even then not the most recent titles). Depends on your graphics drivers, etc. but there were some operations that were more efficient through the translation layer and OpenGL than DirectX directly (probably version 9 at that point).

I have no idea whether that's the case for modern DirectX and more recent games though.
But it can be used to persuade other customers to give out their personal information: "See, everybody before you said their phone number".
I'll offer a counter amnecdote: I submitted a friend's resume, he was interviewed and my boss liked him, but his boss didn't (I don't know about other feedback). Some time later, we had a new opening with some urgency and my boss asked me to see if he'd like to interview again; he was hired after that round (boss's boss did not interview him)
I started shortly before that, and also have not been exposed. Judging by the reactions, I'll choose to remain blissfully ignorant.
Unsealed documents show Monsanto ghost wrote research papers on RoundUp
I've heard these change to design tradeoffs that occur to increase testability, test induced design damage.

Enterprise craftsman I believe
How to minimize content latency with AWS LambdaEdge
The reason folks here are downvoting you is because you can favorite a submission or a discussion and see it in your own profile. No need to comment so you can come back. :)
"People that call 'whiteboarding' a skill don't really get it. If you have irrational fear over people's judgements and this manifests when you're being interviewed, you can't merely expose yourself to this fear often to lessen it. It is very difficult to change how your mind and body react to uncomfortable situations.
"

I disagree on a few levels. I can't back anything with data but I'll point to where you can find many people who will offer their anecdotal stories of desensitizing themselves.

Being able to talk and interact with people is a part of the role. Software is not written in isolation - it is done best with a lot of collaboration and critical review of work. Being able to communicate and give and receive critical feedback are cornerstone traits. Good code is not written in isolation and giving and receiving critical feedback is not comfortable.

If I interview for those traits and qualities, I hope that I'm not discriminating against social anxiety but I spent 5 years in toastmaster's throwing myself in uncomfortable situations until I could come out of it.

I feel like interviewing is becoming this PC thing where we try to form to evaluate people in the way that is comfortable for them, where we live in a world where people need to break out of their comfort zone and learn to shape themselves into their environments. Go to Toastmasters, speak in front of people, keep going and you'll improve your skills - yes the soft ones too. You'll become comfortable - you will - ask anyone who stands and speaks confidently in front of you in those rooms if they were always that calm and composed while speaking in front of people. They were not and they learned to speak 'off the cuff' on topics they were not prepared for or subjects they didn't expect in there.

Maybe I'm alone in my thoughts but I'm looking for people who will grow. I want someone who will stand strong if I give them a critical code review - I want someone who will hang their ego at the door and be able to talk about what we're working on objectively.

If I'm still coming off too hard on this, what if I say that it's a consulting company that I'm hiring for and that the staff will be in front of customers who will interview and drill them every day?

Ultimately, we can grow and change. I know we can because I have grown and changed. I want my staff to have a growth mentality, not a fixed view of themselves.
Amazon Makes It Free for Developers to Build and Host Most Alexa Skills Using AWS
Being an MIT professor doesn't impart credibility if she only started doing GMO 'research' 6 years ago and is an AI scholar.
Literally the first repository in that list is their kernel: a 3.14.26 tree. The 3.14 tree was tagged fully THREE YEARS ago. 3.14 is not a LTS release, and its last patch version (.26) was released in December of 2014. It's likely missing a bunch of important fixes that went into the 3.16 LTS tree since. I don't see anywhere on that site where they're maintaining a more recent "development" or "upstreaming" kernel either. They just have this one tree.

So given that, tell me what you think the likelihood is of these Sitara changes ever reaching the mainline kernel tree? Zero? I'll put my money on zero.

"Much better" than Rockchip or Allwinner maybe. Not "good".
@richardlong: I'm not even talking about expedited GCs. Even the normal GC process is horribly broken for people who are born in India.

Look up "Green Card backlog India" related searches. Currently it would anywhere from 15 to 35 years for a H1-B from India to get a Green Card after their Perm is filed.
if you can find a Sony DPS, just buy it. If you are thinking about buying one, you should get one.
>Can't do that with "gifv" (seriously, I had to use curl just to get the video file from Imgur), and definitely can't do that with Twitter.

youtube-dl works with basically everything that matters, including imgur gifv and twitter videos.

youtube-dl https://twitter.com/Footballogue/status/841905302438043648

youtube-dl http://i.imgur.com/te50Z9W.gifv

youtube-dl is the best thing since sliced bread.

thanks to youtube-dl it is simple to download videos in a nice format instead of as gif.

gif as a format has served it's purpose. let gif die.
There is such a thing as "erring on the side of caution", you know.
>"It's not disrespectful for a company to ask you to write a little code for them. "

Except in practice it seems that its not a "little code" its a 4 hour project that is usually closer to a 6 or 8 hour project in reality.
As an old account with reasonably high karma, I would certainly be a sock-puppet for Monsanto if they paid me enough.

Just putting it out there, guys. Reasonable rates for reasonable arguments. Rhetorical trickery will cost just a bit more. I am almost certainly not joking about this.
Is This the Single Most Pointless Reason to Buy a Home?
And what is to stop those consumer information companies taking similar bribes. Especially without any regulatory agencies. Or do we just need another free market for consumer information on the consumer information companies.
https://blog.codepen.io/legal/licensing/

Public pens are MIT licensed.
http://www.bash.org/?434593
I interpret the phrase "be yourself" to mean "don't be afraid of being judged". People are often preoccupied with managing the guilt or shame that they experience when they face social disapproval for (otherwise innocuous) natural inclinations.

This is good advice for someone with social anxiety, and not as good for someone with narcissistic tendencies.

Also, I think the author only talks about external rewards, but "being yourself" is largely about internal rewards: it's about being comfortable with yourself, which allows you to feel at peace.

I've met plenty of super-successful people who work every day to be exactly what the successful people around them want them to be. These peoples' "high-maintenance" approaches to life have allowed them to achieve some status they desired, but these people are often unhappy anyway, because they optimize for rewards that matter to other people, and not to themselves.
Aw man, that was so awful. I remember there was even a meta site of people showing goatse to other people and taking a picture of their faces.

It's so awful it's seared itself into my mind. I now think of OMG as "Oh My Goatse" and OMFG as "Oh My Farting Goatse".

Still it gets worse. There's 2 girls / 1 cup and 1 man / 1 jar. Awful, NSFW, don't go there for your own sanity.

I was forced there by my younger brother.
I don't like the switch design for people using a mouse.

What is the behaviour? Should I click the switch? Where do I click it: where it is or where I want it to go? Or should I drag it?

And usually only one of those actions work and I seem to always miss toggling it on the first try.
My opening sentence, which some hothouse flower apparently was triggered by, described myself as belonging to the group of borderline aspie nerds. I stand by it.

Your failure to provide pointers to incidents of actual ad hominem attacks, straw men, and non sequitors is noted.

I think we're done here.
ffmpeg is not the issue here, it supports several 444/alpha/lossless codecs quite well, proes is not special in that regard.

Browsers only expose a small subset of codecs that ffmpeg supports. gif and apng are now the most compatible format in browsers for this kind of content.
it is amazing. it is lightweight ereader that allows you to read and annotate PDF documents and take notes. To be it is worth the price.
Do you use a Google api or do you send http request and scrape the response html? As I understand the gogle search api got deprecated some years back. I am a few days from my laptop so can't properly read it for myself :-) thanks!
in japan, they put plastic bags on fruit on the vine/branch, but in the US that would require far more exploited immigrants, so that's not perfect either.
I’ve read War is a Racket. It’s a great piece and raises issues we all should think about. I also read A Bright Shining Lie, About Face, The Best and The Brightest and other books critical of the military [1, 2, 3]. Like I said in my previous comment, I have many issues with the military, but I’m also concerned when the elite of society no longer feel the need to serve, that makes me think of the Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire [4]. War sucks, but we all need to play our part, either in support or protest, but just pretending like it doesn’t exists and going about our day is the worst of both worlds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bright_Shining_Lie
[2] https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Odyssey-American-Warrior/d...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and...
Except Novella's critique is entirely reasonable...
AP Source: Russian hackers charged in massive Yahoo breach
> Be ready with canned answers for as many as you can and practice them in front of a mirror.

Practicing algorithms for a whiteboard interview sounds a lot more fun.
Curiosity seared an indelible image into the kitten's eyes. It wished it had been killed.
A lot of great topics are covered in this.
I'm building a tool that does exactly what you said -- it creates all the HTML and CSS from designs, saving immense amount of time doing the rote work of transcribing the designs into code. With design tools supporting reusable abstractions (Symbols in Sketch), we're even able to create reasonably factored React components straight from the designs. https://protoship.io/tools/uipad.html.

There are quite a few challenges in this approach. We have to work with a static snapshot of the design and infer things like whether a container is auto-width (fit to content), a percentage of the parent, or fixed width container. Unifying multiple states of a component is another problem. Designers draw the same component multiple times to show different states (disabled, focussed, active etc.).

The way we're approaching this is to identify the extra information required to take a static design into a responsive representation and ask the user to annotate it before generating the code.
If someone brought along an notebook full of problems they'd experienced and how they'd solved them to an interview I was conducting I would be very impressed!
Great reply, thanks! :)
Look forward to seeing the upcoming posts
Sell some great cars that "cheat"? Slapped down. Sell poison the world with and cover it up? Nothing will happen.
Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC
But also importantly, it is allowed in New York state, just not the city. Very weird.

NYC should secede from NYS.
The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Frederick Brooks

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company - David Packard

I have read countless books and articles and have attended countless discussions and talks on software engineering and business practices and it never ceases to amaze me how many of the principles tie right back to these two books. Each is short and can be easily tackled together in a day or less.
That's funny; once I gave it to a local grocer and watched the cashier's eyes grow in astonishment.

I asked if everything was okay and he said he'd never seen so many entries using the same phone number.

Couldn't help but laugh when I realized he had no idea why so many people had used it.
Stay away from the front page, but Rotten Library is a pretty good read (and mostly SFW). All sorts of weird topics and macabre historical facts.

http://www.rotten.com/library/
> Monsanto is just a red herring

Can you clarify this at all?

My primary objection here isn't to glyphosate, which appears to be in the same fuzzy territory as other chemicals (e.g. food additives) which are legal in Europe/America but banned in America/Europe.

The thing I'm deeply upset by is the rather clear evidence that Monsanto worked with the EPA to prevent a planned review and create misleading evidence of safety. Even of glyphosate is 100% safe that's still frightening regulatory capture with ugly implications for other products, and in that Monsanto isn't a red herring.
...or you could hire contractors when you need to do bulb replacement? Then you have full utilization while you're replacing bulbs, no one is idling on your payroll while you're not, and no one gets pulled from their existing work to do replacement.
How do consumer IoT devices typically enable Internet connection?
Early in my programming career, I got a whiteboard question where, after being asked my hobbies, I was asked to diagram an electric guitar on the whiteboard. I don't know that it was a particularly good question. But all this sabre-rattling against the whiteboard in general just seems like a silly distillation of a legitimate critique down to its stupidest form.

Even when it comes to CS algorithms questions. Yeah, asking someone to whiteboard quicksort might be bad, might optimize for the wrong things for the actual job.

But should it be a red flag that someone expected me to be able to do a more basic operation, that I've more or less purported to do professionally and efficiently, on a whiteboard on the spot?

[Edit: At my company we don't really do whiteboarding. We pre-screen with a time-limited open-book, open-internet test in advance. This helps account for candidates knowing how to quickly read/research/apply openly available information.]
Your untrained eye took the # for comments, but I'm not sure that generalized to anyone's. Plenty of languages use # for other things: Smalltalk uses them for symbols, Clojure uses them for reader macros, OCaml uses them for method calls, Haskell can use them as an arbitrary operator, Lua uses them for length, C and C++ use them for compiler directives. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#In_computing for a list.

Admittedly, Python, Bash, Perl, and Ruby use # for comments, so you do have a point, especially since Python is such a common teaching language.
What does that have to do with solving problems? If you can't do it off the top of your head, a quick search will give you the formula and then you plug it in. Questions like this make me not accept a job offer for a place.
I think I would reverse the question. Why does there have to be a UserService interface? If it only exists in order to be mocked in yet another place of the code you've added even more unnecessary layering in your codebase.
IMO there's no right to be accepted, but any country capable of supporting a person has a moral obligation to do so. Every human deserves a decent life, or at the very least an okay life.
That doesn't really count. A dozen tabs in Firefox might also give you a rash, the solution is to probably stop using Firefox not to convert videos to gifs.
> realize that there are better options than tech.

What would those be? Tech is relatively easy, relatively highly paid, it involves no hazardous work conditions, and it can be done from almost anywhere in the world with good internet connectivity.
I like your app. That said, the landing page's example of 10 minutes saved on a <120 minute drive (~11%) by going only 7mph faster sort of undermines the point that you don't save much time by speeding, especially if that 7mph faster barely brings you above 70mph in absolute terms.

I can agree with the observation that speeding only saves you insignificant amounts of time if your total commute time or absolute speed are rather low. But once you're driving anywhere for an hour or more and at speeds above, say, 60mph or so, it appears to be more up to interpretation about what "significant" means.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if people who are already inclined to speed were encouraged to do even more by your app, though I suspect there'd be a sampling bias in that those people might not download it in the first place.
Whatsapp vulnerability sidesteps message encryption
To be fair, I found the Zen in ZatAoMM to also be more pretense (whether this was intended by Pirsig or not)..
Taking that one step further, maybe if someone wrote that kind of tool, basically an API for your personal data that you can run locally, maybe they could scale it up to what you're describing?

It would require a massive paradigm shift in how the internet works in practice, but image a world where:

1. You sign up for some new social network/thing that requires your data

2. You point it at your own personal (or hosted) info server

3. The service promises/or the use of the personal info server stipulates states that the data should never be stored longer than the lifetime of a relevant transaction

4. The social network queries your data maybe once a day (or more depending on whatever kind of work it does), announces itself, and can be cut off when you want.

Of course, things don't sell these days with just privacy these days, but there's some upside to a service like this ironically due to it's centralization -- you could sell the user on "only enter your address/personal/credit card info once, have it available everywhere with one click, no long login forms"
Around 10 years ago I would sometimes see higher framerates in games like HL2 but I'm pretty sure it was b/c I was running Gentoo and had all the cruft removed and had custom compiled everything for my hardware.
Minecraft in WebVR with HTML Using A-Frame
Regardless of how much your software has made me sweat, I still think it's great software. My comment was more about the interview process, not your software. Good job creating it. I wish it was free... Haha...
Well, for a random employee of a random company there is no motivation to not haze people on the whiteboard, it's mostly a power play for them and oversupply of candidates permits it. They really don't care how good of an engineer they hire and how much value he can bring to the team or to the company.
Will this make it into Ubuntu 17.04?
> if something is "required."

Allow me to play Freud here for a moment. Perhaps that question more points to anxieties about not knowing 100% of the material (which, I think we can both agree is ok. nobody retains 100%. But the student may not realize that).

So maybe they ask that question seeking approval, hoping to hear "No, thats an advanced concept for advanced students wanting to learn {special advanced concept}". Obviously thats not the case, but I could see a student asking that to soothe their worries that they understand other things, but not the difficult concept.
Poor password policies are always worth pointing out.
Also the lack of trailing comma means often editing two lines to add new elements to lists or objects. I've actually experienced multiple outages at different companies where someone helpfully added a trailing comma to a JSON config.
Reddit not Reddit, a good pun is always appreciated by intelligent people. GP was fine.
If they want to drive in Germany, they should surely know the local driving rules (including the green arrow sign), otherwise there'd be little point in a self-driving car. And since there is no way of not going right at this point there should be no problem.

But I don't think there is much self-driving in city traffic yet. Especially rules about who has to yield where are not always governed by signs visible directly to every driver (e.g. Verkehrsberuhigter Bereich).