skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Boss refuses to answer by email, everything is him calling me in his office and yelling at me for not finding the list of things he wants in the program.

Your not sending the email to get an answer, you're creating a paper trail. You might want to BCC yourself on it as well for any type of unemployment claims or other legalities. We call this covering your ass and it's a good skill to learn.

> It is supposed to be used by a law firm and I have a boss that doesn't understand this stuff. We already had a few people quit over it and I was not told about it until I had signed the NDA and been there for a few weeks.

How long has the project been going? It sounds like a pretty straight forward task apart from the data collection.

Edit - If you're under a lot of stress from this it might be worth seeing a therapist as well, before things get worse. Remember that jobs come and go, going back to food service for a while isn't the worst thing. You aren't your work either, if the boss is insisting on doing something in a crappy way that's no reflection on you personally.
That just means that the way of restricting the degrees of freedom is, itself, a degree of freedom, but I wasn't the one arguing that the problem could be solved.
A Cyclone IV GX is something like $25.

And it can run a NIOS II embedded processor (which is 32-bits) at almost 200MHz.

I would be stunned if that FPGA isn't fast enough or large enough.
NoScript includes a toggle to disable exactly this behaviour (meta tags within noscript tags). meta refreshes in general are pretty annoying as a user though
There's an order-of-magnitude difference here: Ancient Greek was alive 1500 years ago, while the last Ice Age ended 12000 years ago.
No, that doesn't follow. Students coming from the top 5% can have loan debt. The top 5% includes many (mostly?) families that could not afford to pay out of pocket for MIT, and even those that could may choose not to.
U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing Away
Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
If your job sucks, just leave your job. That's what I did and I am much happier now.

I was at a place that paid me very well but had very low standards for hiring. The interview was incredibly easy and, in retrospective, that was a big red flag that I failed to see. After that, if I get an easy interview I will pass on the opportunity. An overly easy interview means you will work with people that don't know wtf they're doing or how to recognize your talent/contributions.

You spend a lot of time at work, try to work at a place that doesn't drain you.
>The US is a large country with lots of empty space in it.

Yea, and so are Russia and China. The problem is the US chooses to hose its taxpayers by subsidizing rural living.

Just as an example, if we had Japan/Korea's urbanization rate, that's another 30+ million Americans in cities and out of the boonies...
It's a weird context. The Bose shares can't be sold, they receive dividends. So one would want to separate the types of donations for clarification (all cash, restricted stock terms, etc).
Sorry for the late reply. A new roof, assuming you mean premium shingles and new paper and removing the old crap where I live is $5k +/- 2k. I've gotten solar quotes for about 10k for my house. That's way out of line with the Tesla roof.
> But one of the claims for this argument that a huge donation suddenly doesn't turn a bad school into a good one is a strawman argument. Things don't have to be so extreme. There are plenty of middle tier schools specially state schools

Yeah, but it sounds like you're also making the assumption that state schools don't get endowments either. I'm from a state school and the last campaign we had raised ~$20M. Admittedly, it's not even close to the pledge, but it's not like state schools are getting absolutely no funding either.
I had this as the essay question on a standardized test (ACT). A ...loaded... question no doubt.
How did you know that the donor didn't do the same?
The U.S. is not a monolith–registered Democrats in West Virginia have very different priorities from those in Massachusetts–so geographical boundaries actually serve a purpose in electing a representative who is (ideally) aware of local needs and committed to fighting for them.

In contrast, those with a common birthday or name have no distinguishable political desires in aggregate, so the likely result would be 538 generic congress members.

Furthermore, if we assume people exhibit a bias toward candidates from their home state (they do, on average), grouping by birthday or last name is actually a net negative choice since it would likely result in overrepresenation of Californians in congress (assuming first-past-the-post).
> As a manager, if you have a clueless 20-year old making an inappropriate proposition to one of your reports...

This is the hypothetical example people often give; but that is probably the easiest imaginable case. Fowler's report is regarding a manager who'd been with the company for several years -- not twenty years old unless they started in their teens -- who was a hardened and repeat offender. That seems to be more inline with what actually happens.

Clueless people can be corrected. What we're talking about here is very different.
I assume by looking at the command and control ips and looking for what is common. (IE that they were from satellite ISPs)

You can read the original post here: https://securelist.com/72081/satellite-turla-apt-command-and...
and somehow, neither of these strategies are "making your own seats more secure"
From Echopraxia by Peter Watts:

> Even DNA computers, custom-built for a specific task and then tramped carelessly into wild genotypes like muddy footprints on a pristine floor. Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it was even money whether the base pairs you read would code for protein or the technical specs on the Denver sewer system.
I think you are moving this up with ranked choice. Approval voting allows you to vote for every option either ones or not at all. So you either approve of the option or not. If you want you can vote for everyone. However, that's the same as voting for nobody. You could however also vote for everybody except for one option. That would be the equivalent of voting against somebody. Example ballots could be:

Voter one:
Green - yes; dem - yes; rep - no.
Voter two:
Green - yes; dem - no; rep - yes.
This would result in the green party winning in the above example.

The vote would be very close if not identical to approval ratings we frequently see for various candidates. This would have probably gotten us Bernie, since he was the only candidate running at all with favorable approval ratings. Both candidates who made it beyond the primaries were disliked by the majority, which is unfortunate to say the least.

As an added benefit we could completely leave off primaries if we want. There is very little spoiler effect in this system.
> But ultimately, what political needs would a community of last-name-starts-with-C need?

None, which is why that grouping would only make sense in a society of extremely generic robots.
Gerrymandering is self-limited.

The party in power (in a State government) can either maximize the number of seats it has, or make seats safe. It cannot do both at once!

Maximizing seats -> minimizing the margin of victory in each district -> increasing likelihood of losing its majority in a future election!

Making seats safe -> maximizing margin of victory in each district and minimizing the number of seats by concentrating the majority's voters -> minimizing margin of victory in the popular houses (of the State legislature and Congress) -> increasing likelihood of losing its majority in a future election!

That is, no matter how you redraw district borders, as long as population per-district is roughly even (in each State), then you cannot get a long-lasting advantage.

This will probably be surprising to some here, but it's clearly true.

This means that Gerrymandering is a much smaller evil than one might think.

I would further argue that Gerrymandering is not an evil at all. It is part and parcel of the Republican system of government in the U.S.:

- the Senate, especially when Senators were selected by State governments, and still now due to its 6-year terms and staggered elections, modulates the popular House

- first past the post leads to a small number of parties and reduces party power (you vote for a person, not just a party as in the case of proportional representation systems)

- gerrymandering also modulates popular will

- juries modulate law and prosecutors

- the president is selected by the Electoral College, which also modulates popular will

- the States have police power, which modulates Federal power

- the Courts modulate Congress and the Executive branch

These things were well thought out by the Founders! They were arrived at by compromise. They weren't accidents born of ignorance of mathematics or science. This system has served us well. Changing it requires broad consensus, which requires strong arguments. So far I've yet to see any decent arguments against this structure.
ETFs are free to trade on Vanguard, but you can't buy fractional shares and there's slight differences in how values are calculated.
Precocial young don't necessarily imply a difficult time, it's simply one of several strategies for successful reproduction. Do you minimize the chances your young are preyed on in the nest by A) Building a very well hidden nest and guarding it well or B) Ensuring the nest is only needed for a few days?

Additionally, altricial species tend to be much more intelligent so that's another factor to weigh in on which evolutionary strategy is optimal for a given species.
Hi developers.

This is the dev team of Coren.

In our team, we publish our react app to cdn in order to cache the HTML and make our website faster.

This is the tool we constantly used for serverside render. It gives us flexible way to define what we need in ssr HTML.

Any feedback will make us better!

Thanks!
Anthony Burgess's lost dictionary of slang discovered
I ran into this dreck yesterday: https://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal...

If anyone can find the actual article, let me know.
I think this would work, but university prestige is often based on scarcity so few universities do. This is the same reason that Harvard has almost the same number of undergrads as they did 50 years ago, despite an endowment 20x the size.
Here's what bothers me. Ten years ago I was still in school and came across Malkiel's 'A Random Walk' book. Then I started reading Graham's 'Intelligent Investor' and was like "dude I'm not going to spend hours a day trying to potentially beat the market by 2%. lol I'm not Peter Lynch". I concluded that if I wanted to park my money somewhere, it would be all in Vanguard index funds.

Now, it's 2017, and everyone has the hots for these products. Feels like a bubble. I've always had this possibly irrational feeling that if everyone is recommending something, I should probably look into alternatives. Since I graduated and started working in 2010 all my dollars went into rental real estate, but recently I get jealous of how low-maintenance (mentally) having these shares of index funds is, and I dream about getting qualified dividend income and capital gains.

Can anyone offer a viewpoint on this? Am I being irrational? All my life I've been doing stuff differently from everyone and it's worked out pretty well. Meanwhile had I started buying up these funds I'd probably have the same exact networth as I do now. What other passive options are out there? Dividend aristocrats? I also entertained buying AAPL and Wells Fargo and 3M and putting the rest in a Vanguard small cap index. shrugs
That's a good description for how things feel right now (meta-broken). I'm past agreeing or disagreeing with whoever's in charge- right now it feels like no one is in charge, or if someone is in charge, I don't know who it is.

This doesn't feel like different teams playing a game, so much as it seems like failures in the social fabric that allows the games to happen in the first place. This isn't a music festival with shitty bands. This is the Fyre festival and you're just wondering where to sleep and how to get home; it's already a given that there will be no bands.
Yeah, therapy has done wonders for my ability to take action instead of letting frustration build up. For me, your emotions are your emotions, you can't just leave them behind. But you can often release them in a constructive way or at least vent them a bit :)
Noob question? Always wanted to know is possible to build a functional web app without JS and what would be the approach ?
Puffing a cigar is little different from puffing a pipe. If you're inhaling into your lungs, you are doing it wrong. In either case, you are pulling tobacco smoke into your mouth and throat and related cavities. Risk of cancers of the throat, mouth, tongue, etc. are all greatly increased. It's not as bad as a cigarette habit, but far from harmless.

The fellow in this video lighting a cigar was probably getting more cancer exposure from the cigar than any radiation from the bomb test.

It probably wouldn't be done this way today (though, it wouldn't shock me, with a novel new weapon), but the guys in this video were never in any real risk. Building those planes and bombs took some damn good scientists. They knew a thing or two about radiation exposure. Certainly more than was known at the time about tobacco exposure.
I'll take a quick moment to share my favorite web app which uses WebRTC: Instant.io [0]. I use it all the time to transfer files among local devices, or to send medium to large files to friends.

[0] https://instant.io
It's just adrenaline, so try to spread it somewhere, somehow
The main drawback to going with an ASIC is the initial costs are much higher than an FPGA. If you can sell high volumes of a chip, this initial cost can be spread out without damaging the affordability of the chip, so what works out as cheapest depends on the number of units you can sell.

Just in case you weren't aware, there's already a C64 SoC (a C64 in a single ASIC), that was designed by Jeri Ellsworth for the C64DTV. It's not got the processing power of the C65 but it does have the capability to run most/all C64 software.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
It will probably be colored somewhat grayish-green, since most reptiles are small animals that benefit from being able to hide in foliage. I doubt it will give better insight about dinosaur coloration than just having the illustrator who made the image also do the coloring (and they at least have the option of including fossilized pigments into their educated guess.)
With health care, I have a hunch that it's so expensive because the system is such a tangled web of business entities, that we have no idea where the money is actually going, or what anything costs. As a result, everybody can accuse everybody else of gouging us.

I wonder if infrastructure is the same way. However, one difference is that infrastructure, while expensive, costs all of us more or less progressively, even if it costs too much. In a sense, I like that better than the health care system, which is designed to place individuals at risk of ruinous costs.
NIMBYism exists because home ownership is basically the most accessible mechanism to grow personal wealth in the US. People are not willing to risk their financial stability and future by allowing basically anything they view as a threat to their primary wealth generation asset in life. More housing, bad views, whatever all challenge people's bottom line.
I think this is important for universities to understand: online education doesn't mean that traditional education systems are obsolete. It means that, one can utlize the best parts of the online systems to make quality education available to many more students than would otherwise have been possible. Gatech seems to have done just that: not cut down on their TA's/Classes, but added more to serve the growing online community, and used Udacity as a platform for content sharing.

I was finishing my Masters when Coursera, Udacity exploded on to the scene and my Advisor remarked at the time "In a couple of years, we probably won't need to teach Calculus anymore!". Somehow that one thing really stuck in my mind: what really helped me learn personally was always being able to ask questions, explore and find answers when I was stuck; if I'm unable to do that, I lose any sense of progress and quickly lose interest. I'm really hoping what my advisor said then doesn't really happen.
> You have to go out of your way to find a language where "tea" deviates from those patterns.

Well, there you go:

Lithuanian: arbata, https://translate.google.com/#en/lt/tea

Polish: herbata, https://translate.google.com/#en/pl/tea

Aymara: pulu, https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulu
Application neutral WebRTC rebroadcasting becomes a commodity this way though, so it should become quite cheap.
I second this. I've seen both therapists and coaches of various types a number of times over the years, and have found it to be tremendously helpful in getting me through a number of rough/challenging patches.

It's really nice to have someone to talk to who has no vested interest in any part of your life. You can vent to them without having to worry about pissing anyone off or it getting around to anyone. A good therapist or a coach can offer a fairly unbiased outside opinion and even strategies for dealing with things that come up in your life.

The biggest thing to remember is that it's important to find someone who is right for you. There are a lot of people out there, and each has his or her own personality and style. Finding a therapist is a lot like dating in certain ways, so don't be afraid to move on if it isn't working for you.
You click "favorite". It's right there next to "flag", "discuss" etc.
florentia is where its at.
> we have no idea where the money is actually going

This is what auditors do. If anyone in government really gave a shit some auditors could get to the bottom of it in a matter of months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA - it looks like scientists gave up hope of retrieving dna from amber, but there are recent examples of extracting dna from ~ 1 million year old specimens...
World on verge of four simultaneous famines
I'm dyslexic. Have you noticed this being a problem for your cofounder? With spelling and grammar checkers that are frankly rather brilliant, I haven't had a lot of trouble in years. I still make mistakes (read back on my comments on hn and you'll find examples). I even occasionally make mistakes in important business settings. I generally just explain I am dyslexic and then correct the mistake. It has never caused a problem.

When I was in college (I went to law school) I wrote a lot. I learned two things from this. First, as a dyslexic I can practice spelling and writing just as I practice my coding skills and improve on my skills. Second, if something, like a legal document, matters a lot, have it proof read by a lawyer. Most documents, emails, etc, do not need a massive amount of proof reading. Even non-dylexic people make mistakes when writing!
"Squirrel" is in fact a very difficult word to pronounce. Too many consonants squeezed into only two syllables -- sometimes even pronounced as a single syllable -- with a weird diphthong in between.

The ancient Greek version would have been much easier to express in Japanese: su-kyuu-ro-su.
Not mine, but I know that one of the main bottled water sellers in Chile dropped lots of empty bottles regularly at different kinds of trash containers in places where people that looked at it could associate the brand with "successful" people. It worked very well.
Pure liquid mercury is not especially toxic so you're probably fine. That said it is damn stupid for kids to play around with it.

Lead is probably worse. I did a lot of soldering as a kid (like, from age 7 or so) and my ventilation/hygiene practices around it were far from ideal. I would not allow my kid to have that kind of exposure. If he needs to solder, then he needs to get a bench with proper ventilation and be scrupulous about clean-up and hygiene. Leadless solder is another thing but it has its own problems. Probably better is to do any electronic stuff in a format that doesn't involve soldering at least until more mature. These days it is not so important, though I expect it to be a useful tool indefinitely. All about proper balance.
For some Californians, it's bring your dog to work day every day
Reposting the deleted comment for people who don't have showdead on:

> Right. So I civilly answer allegations that uber employees are somehow unethical or complicit in harassment or unethical behavior, and the perpetrators of this libel are safe, and I'm the one that's banned. Got it.

> You may not agree with what I wrote but I stand by everything I wrote as being respectful. Except to Mike Isaac who has an agenda against Uber with his reporting. Besides that, can you point to a single comment that was "uncivil"?

Reposting because frankly, there hasn't been anything uncivil. Just dang's agenda, as usual.
Uber executive fired amid reports he obtained rape victim's medical records
This article came up today and highlights quite nicely my unease about GM plants a. [0][1] If I stretch a bit, also kind of explains my unease about extending patent protections to plant life. The petunia flower with GM color change could be under patent protection. [2] Here we have a case of GM petunias growing outside a lab and quite likely breeding. What are the patent implications of patented plants going to seed? Does the landowner where the plant grows owe somebody money? If I'm a landowner, how do I identify and prevent patented plant life from growing on my property?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14511660

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/how-transgenic-petuni...

[2] https://www.google.com/patents/CA2930494A1?cl=en
That a history of trauma and lack of stable attachments in my life has but one likely outcome: The eventual end of my life by my own hands.

I see a therapist regularly, but I've always had this sense of being a broken individual who is always a few steps behind everyone else. It feels hopeless and definitely keeps me up at night.
I am a programmer and I use Pandas quite a bit. While I agree that it's a little counter-intuitive at times, I have found it to be an extremely useful and important Python package that there is just no reasonable substitute for.
If you are using uuid generation that uses MAC address and time stamp, then you can have problems with multiple processes generating uuid for the same system. There are other uuid generation algorithms though.
> What changes when your principal is in the 7 figures?

Tax, liability and estate planning become more complicated. Also, at those scales, you can start taking risks someone with less capital would be imprudent to.
There's an extension to NIMBY where if people are interested in something they'll want to endlessly meddle with it and make changes to the thing constantly which drives up the costs.
Good engineering requires good bean-counting. Figuring out what you can do with infinite resources is not good engineering (except perhaps when funded by DARPA).

As any good civil engineer knows... “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”

The essential characteristic of engineering is making mindful, appropriate tradeoffs between various costs and benefits, including features, risks, externalities, financial costs, etc.
Depending on what causes the emotions, you need new job, new position or different way how to deal with whatever causes those emotions in the first place. You should not be in such highly emotional state.