skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does any of this have to do with hiring standards? Companies like Google can hire for passion, but most just want competent employees that can consistently fulfill their responsibilities in a happy team while providing positive ROI to the company.

Most people aren't inherently motivated by their jobs, and I'd say this applies even more in office settings. Work is work, "work / life balance" exists because work is the obligation that pays for life. If this is indicative of how America as a whole feels, then this has everything to do with remote work.
"Spending even more is whats unsustainable" - nationalized healthcare spends less for the same or better outcome, if your problem is price, then your problem is private healthcare.

'cost center' Vs 'profit center' <why would the profit center be cheaper? its the same as a 'cost center' with an added money drain and incentive to inflate prices..

'[denying treatment] because it can't pay if everyone used it' - This is just false, moneys going into a countries nationalized health system is high return (due to taxes), its also cheaper (due to group union prices). So long as its a healthy part of a healthy GDP (12%) it should have capacity for everyone in the country. compared to the US system which costs over 40% of your GDP and still does not have capacity for all your citizens.

'which drugs it will prioritize' - true, but this is done mostly on evidence of usefulness, not price.

I largely agree with your last statement, but whatever problems a socialist system has, they pale in comparison to the misery caused by Laissez-faire in our health system.
> The money is currently just sitting in a "bank" somewhere, collecting extremely low interest rates.

That's not true. It's not all cash and most likely is mostly not cash. They report it as being cash and cash equivalents.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-23/worlds-biggest-hedg...
Lately, programming for a company that does online surveys. It's not glamorous, but it is data analysis and intellectually challenging enough. Other than that, I've worked on the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. I help run a nonprofit wiki farm at miraheze.org, where I'm the security specialist. And I'm getting sidetracked in politics once again.

Too many side projects means I wasn't really focused enough to get a graduate degree, but hey, you have to live life as you want, and go after the things that make you happy.
Still, if it's a process as poorly understood as dying of old age, saying "made me wonder if any of her longevity can be credited to having a severely calorie restricted diet" seems like a reasonable response.
> The first-sale doctrine does not neatly fit transfers of copies of digital works because an actual transfer does not actually happen -- instead, the recipient receives a new copy of the work while, at the same time, the sender has the original copy (unless that copy is deleted, either automatically or manually). For example, this exact issue played out in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., a case involving online marketplace for pre-owned digital music.

> E-books have the same issue. Because the first sale doctrine does not apply to electronic books, libraries cannot freely lend e-books indefinitely after purchase. Instead, electronic book publishers came up with business models to sell the subscriptions to the license of the text. This results in e-book publishers placing restrictions on the number of times an e-book can circulate and/or the amount of time a book is within a collection before a library’s license expires, then the book no longer belongs to them.

Legally, it does get murky in the U.S. That has nothing to do with whether it's right or not, but it does mean it's not "making shit up about what you think makes sense". It's the actual precedent described in the very article you linked.
Nikola truck design uses a natural gas turbine to charge the batteries. Lower weight, longer distance, 6 wheel drive, better performance... I expect Tesla to beat this.

https://nikolamotor.com/one
Well, you know, it's a matter of taste :) For cakes I personally would always rather go to Vienna than Paris.
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In generic code, the generated layouts can't even be written in a universal way, because they can vary depending on those input types.
No, because you don't cost the govt anything. You don't use any public services in the USA, you use the public services where you live. You're paying for literally nothing but a passport.
A question is a wrong statement? Nice try.
http://anandtech.com is where I get most of my retail hardware news in the PC and portable space.

https://hackaday.com/ is good for hardware hacking, though it leans heavily towards Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms. Most articles that aren't about one of those platforms tend to be about retro-computing, 3D printing, repurposing hardware, and similar topics.

https://phoronix.com is great for Linux-specific hardware reviews, and is worth a subscription; Michael Larabel is one of the hardest working people on the Linux news scene.
Seems this issue also existed back in 2004...

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/197954-46-need-help-lost-f...
> Many also use the optical audio inputs and outputs, and would appreciate the return of the line-in jack.

Maybe some people want that, but real audio pros have dedicated hardware audio interfaces that connect over USB/FireWire/Thunderbolt/PCIe.
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Peter Thiel-Backed Austin Russell Launches Luminar, a Lidar Startup
I would guess the backward set up is to avoid mix-ups.

Maybe you have different classes of cards, like VIP, regular visitor, employee lost badge, etc. They all have different looking "shells".

So this setup makes sure the right data is printed to the right shell. Allows two different people to do the data entry and "printing" with less coordination too. No worries about FIFO, just print everything in the in bucket.
Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
Frightening Titanic Facts That the Movie Left Out
"The answer is simple. Eliminate the corporate income tax, and increase personal dividend tax rates to ordinary income rates."

This is already the case for many, many businesses.

"S Corps" (and other passthrough entities) are widely, widely in use and behave just as you suggested - the business pays no taxes, the monies flow to the owners, and the owners pay personal taxes on those flows.

It's very simple and it works very well.

It is not a fringe practice or a weird setup - almost every business you transact with is set up as a passthrough entity.

There is a catch...

A passthrough entity needs to pass all that cash through, more or less, inside of that tax year. You can't just sit on funds or store them up in your bank accounts or save for future R&D, etc. - you need to pass it all through this year.

And so if you are a mega-corp, that is a problem since there are many, many reasons you might want to store funds across several years ... and that is the class (C-Corp) that gets taxed.

So what you suggest is here, now. We, as a society, have decided that there is something negative about corporations slowly building up cash troves year after year without taxation and so we don't allow that. But I see they are doing that anyway, offshore, so perhaps it's time to rethink that...
Indeed, there are quite a few trolls and toxic folks there, some of whom I've seen here as well. There's one guy in particular who trolls any article about the Raspberry Pi, calling it the "Pee" and droning on about how terrible a platform it is even though he owns several of them.

That said, I've seen (and participated in) some great discussions in the comments from time to time, especially the ham radio related ones.
No it is not matter of taste. I dont have anything against $ in php, perl, or most other languages. But it is not consistent with C++ syntax at all.
A new authentication method for mobile devices. Forget the traditional passwords
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"If we actually had a system that was based on compromise not dividing, bribery and wealth then this would probably be a good deal."

Please see your sibling comment, authored by me - this already exists and is in wide usage ... almost every (small) business you have ever dealt with works just like that.
or ethernet(avb, dante)
> He was probably guilty, they just couldn't get their case together.

That's why there is such a thing as a statute of limitations. If you can't get your case together in an X amount of time that is the equivalent of not having a case.

So, given that he wasn't convicted, not guilty. You can't say that he probably was guilty and not say that about every other person that ever got acquitted, which is nonsense. So that claim simply does not hold up.

I agree with you that the law (or rather, justice) isn't correct and that this goes both ways. So if you are already of that opinion then why negate it after that by saying that he probably was guilty?

That's after all what courts are for.
Ask HN: How Can I Prepare to Use the DeepMind / Blizzard's StarCraft II API?
During [1]BlizzCon's 2016 opening ceremony Blizzard's CEO Mike Morhaime announced a partnership with [2]DeepMind to open AI research with StarCraft II. Which included the ability to build AI to compete versus and teach players how to play. This is what interest me in learning more to play with this "API", and not necessarily for AI research.

Experience wise... I'd say I'm at zero on the number line. I've only dabbled in programming. Being only familiar with the fundamental constructs (variables, conditionals, loops, and functions). For math-y things, I'm comfortable in arithmetic and algebra. But nothing really beyond what I've listed.

Additional information:
- https://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/20751114921
- https://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/20751934997

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV8mu4HbpdM&feature=youtu.be&t=13m50s
2. https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/
This is possible on a Windows host in a hackish sort of way, though I imagine it's more seamless on a OSX host, being Unix.
I've never used any pro audio equipment - wouldn't Ethernet be more of a pain than other connectors? You've normally got less Ethernet jacks than any other port on a machine.
Note that this is not a color display. If you can see the colors on the badge are already there when it goes into the printer and only the middle black and white part (black and light grey, really) changes. So this is not a color printer.

I wonder what's so innovative about this. E-ink displays consist of 2 parts. The actual display is essentially a bunch of bubbles with liquid in them. Below them is an electrical grid that can create small localized magnetic fields.

When developing these things they are often made separately for testing. The display is a card, I saw a laminated card approach, and you simply put it on top of the electrical grid. Add some tape, and the display works. This is simply someone realizing, hey, use that test process and we have a "printer" and has long been foreseen as a potential application. Issue is that the chemicals are expensive.
> In order to pay dividends and not pay taxes, Apple has actually gone the route of borrowing money. So, they borrow money in the US and pay a low interest rate while their cash sits overseas.

Wow really. That's clever but also weird. Don't they sustain themselves US being largest market?
Does Google hire people without post-secondary education?
Super good programmers right out of high school but don't plan on going to College nor University.
And I got news.ycombinator.com. Thought I had mis-clicked at first. Maybe I should post a link to this comment now.
I guess you've never heard of Blue Zones?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
Ask HN: Review the concept of my project
My team is at the Angelhack hackathon now. Our product helps you create animated onboarding for your app without programming.
Here's the link to the landing page: http://www.onboardme.xyz/

We’ll complete most of the features in one day. But I need your feedback right now to correct our vision. Is this product relevant to you?
Yes i already search on EdX, and found David's Introduction to Computing using Python interesting.
I just don't see it as reasonable to exclude payroll taxes from the measurement of progressiveness, that's all.

The 80% you break out there is contributing a lot more than $65 billion to Social Security and Medicare.

I mean, those programs are explicitly designed to not be progressive, that's why there is a cap on income considered for social security (Medicare became progressive under the ACA, a little bit).
There is one.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/configure/...

Microsoft conveniently lets individuals access it for $7 a month - no volume licensing required anymore!
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-non-graduates-2...
I think the idea is to detect when different URLs contain the same content. That defends against duplicate entries like example.com/?foo and example.com/?bar (which are the same page).
It does but no value is created.
Nice suggestion, any resources on Vim? Resources i mean which can be cover within a week. Its okay if it contains only basis things.
"After years of looking at the data, Google has found that things like college GPAs and transcripts are almost worthless in hiring. Following these revelations, the company is hiring more and more people who never even went to college."
I absolutely agree that the JS platform is large enough to have both!

That said, I think doing a fair comparison is going to be difficult. Although OCaml and F# share the same background, I think the OCaml and F# communities care about quite different things - and this can be seen in the difference between BuckleScript and Fable. OCaml compiler is very fast and produces efficient code and so it feels reasonable to expect the same for BuckleScript. F# is often slower, but people tend to care a lot about making interop nice. You can see this with the React bindings and Elmish tooling.

Those different goals are exactly the reason why there is room for both. I think Fable vs. BuckleScript mirror the philosophy of F# vs. OCaml with respect to .NET and native.
Give me four weeks, $5,000, and I'll find at least one viable exploit. Considering the audience here, I don't think this kind of joke is really too far fetched. "Every solution breeds new problems" as one of the Murphy's Law axioms goes.

Not saying this channel is a bad idea! I'm just the kind of guy who likes breaking things to see how they work. Criminals are almost always one step ahead because they see things in ways others might not imagine. Those errant use-cases are the ones to try to bulwark against...better when for fun than when the stakes are really high, know what I mean?
Inmates built PCs out of ewaste, networked them, and hid them in a closet ceiling
I am 100% in agreement with you.

(I'm the person who made the slideshow)

:)
Allowing a very generous $100,000,000 for R&D to make a laptop and then what with the other $245,900,000,000? They have an almost unimaginable amount of money.
Imagine being a person so old that all people on earth ~7 billion people are younger than you.
Great, so we'll count you as a "yes" for term limits.
With avb/Dante you get up to 128 channels of audio over Ethernet. If that isn't enough, you can add quite a few more give ports via thunderbolt.
Bring back NuBus!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuBus
> On the contrary, they are the only tool that demand a structure — just by the nature of e-mail messages

Newsgroups also have this structure and they have the advantage of easily doing an archive search (by being able to download part of or the entire message archive of a given group and using the search features of your mail/news client).
They don't seem any worse than typical badges used today. It's just replacing printed info and lamination, which is just as hackable. That's how I would hack this...print something that resembles the epaper display with suitable clearish plastic over it and something for a slight bezel effect.

These would still need whatever separate RFID or NFR tech is used to swipe and open gates, doors, etc.

Edit: Here's a higher res version of the product image: https://wuqqf55242.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-i...
This. All of this. I will never stop coding if I can help it. Every coder I've ever met who got promoted to management (not hands on) ended up having a terrible time finding work after that role ended. No way. Not for me.

That said that's just my experience. Obviously there are no absolutes and managerial roles are necessary for a medium to large company to function properly. It's a shame that things are the way they are in that regard.
Consumption drives demand. Which drives the economy.

People with 2 million in bank are not going to spend that. It's sitting there. After a point there's on so many investments that can be made.

contrast that with people who need cash to buy things right now.

The second stimulates the creation of work.
Fault in Hong Kong Air Traffic system caused by exceeding 5500 user settings
Did you read the story?

This is an alleged comment made in a private mtg in 2015.
When in private do you make full statements with nuance every time you speak?
I would not be surprised in the future to see a lot of countries attempt to ban foreign social networks. Basically, with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, the US government has defacto access to a treasure trove of who knows who, who influences who, and want skills everyone has. This information would be very expensive to collect by intelligence services, but with these US companies, is just handed on a platter.

Basically, if you are a geopolitical rival of the US, you would have to be a fool to allow your people to use these American services.
The SA forums were so amazing from 2000-2004. I spent some of my most formative years posting there (no regrets!). It's pretty crazy to think how many people who were active on SA around then went on do Big Things:

- CliffyB

- moot

- notch

- deadmau5

- llamaguy (guessing most people here don't know who he is, but he created a Gamefaqs spinoff called Luelinks/EndOfTheInternet, and was one of the first 100 employees at Facebook and is now a 9-figure millionaire)

- vilerat (aka Shawn Smith, one of the Americans who died in Benghazi)

- garry (of garry's mod and rust fame)

- Yahtzee

Stuff that can trace back to SA around that time:

- 4chan itself

- Memes ("image macros")

- Let's Plays

- Weird Twitter

- That shitposting/shittexting ironic writing style that is now beloved by modern middle/upper class American teenagers everywhere

Nearly everyone that I met as a teenager and still keep in contact with is really successful.

Sadly, I think Lowtax is the most incompetent businessperson I've ever encountered. It's frankly amazing how badly he mismanaged the SA forums, and how much he took all of that amazing talent that was creating free content for him for granted.

I think the best example is how he initially offered Yahtzee some insultingly paltry compensation for doing Zero Punctuation. IIRC it was like $100 per episode. Zero Punctuation alone could have kept SA relevant, I think.

The stuff that went down in 2005 and beyond drove all of the best posters away, IMO.
My grandpa who still legally drives turned 100 last year. He loves to eat meat (rare to raw), rich foods, and wanted to share with me his stash of liver pate in the refrigerator on my last visit. When I asked him about how he could hook me up to connections while he bragged about his successes he replied "They're all dead!!!". He's said that happiness is a racket and myth; that success is different for each person; that you should never say you are sorry; that you should put your track shoes on early, run like hell, and never look back. There's more. But I think, the long-lived, are not the best sources of information on how to live long.
By your reasoning, open source projects should never be able to onboard new contributors or maintainers.

You seem to be suggesting that "collaboration" and "interactions" are things that necessarily can only happen synchronously and via richer media than text. Even if you want to move away from OSS as an example, I'd point towards the centuries of intellectual discussion that took place via hand-written snail mail letters.

Is in-person communication faster? No question. Is it the only way to effectively communicate ideas as part of a two-sided discussion? I should hope not.
It's not a long haul from the Nevada lithium mines Tesla has signed contracts with (or rather, evaporation ponds) to the Gigafactory. Tesla even got the Nevada DOT to change a truck route for them to shorten the route.

A Tesla semi need not go far at first, only far enough.
SA lost lots of good people to 4chan, mainly because a bunch of them were banned for loli on a Direct Connect hub (Raspberry Heaven). All of the original 4chan admins, mods, and posters were also SA posters, including moot himself.
"To add to the difficulty, it’s not always clear why certain attacks work or fail. One explanation is that adversarial images take advantage of a feature found in many AI systems known as “decision boundaries.” These boundaries are the invisible rules that dictate how a system can tell the difference between, say, a lion and a leopard. A very simple AI program that spends all its time identifying just these two animals would eventually create a mental map. Think of it as an X-Y plane: in the top right it puts all the leopards it’s ever seen, and in the bottom left, the lions. The line dividing these two sectors — the border at which lion becomes leopard or leopard a lion — is known as the decision boundary."

I am not sure I buy this theory. Moving an image across a nearby boundary shouldn't result in the image producing a higher confidence value, should it?

I'm thinking of the panda/gibbon example in the article.
Yeah, I think it counts, though make was designed for general purpose jobs and not just compilation, so it gets a lot of credit for being a solid and general tool. Being able to resume jobs is awesome, and free concurrency is too. I've done the same thing and used make for batch downloads and batch image resizing and batch frame rendering, etc. etc. I did it enough times that I generalized my makefile so I could easily schedule resumeable parallel command line batches. I called it "mbatch" and was getting ready to publish it... but then I discovered gnu parallel. :P
India it is very poor. What Evan said was India was'nt an appropiate market to invest in. India is poor, that is a fact. You shouldn't be offended by the true. Everywhere you find richs and poors, but yeah, India is a poor country, deal with that!
Is the point not about tax evasion?
> I think, the long-lived, are not the best sources of information on how to live long.

Yes, my great grandmother died at 101, smoked until 90, and generally didn't have much positive to say in her final years (she may have been suffering from dementia or other old age related disease).

I agree, advice from the long lived doesn't seem particularly useful when compared to scientific study
Not directly related to the Mac Pro, but my 2014 MacBook Pro has annoyed me only having 2 USB ports.

It feels like I need to plug in more than two devices every day. So I end up carrying around a USB hub. Which is just annoying.

What is the benefit of having those sides of the computer be empty?