skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am, now and on occasion, a hiring manager. Naturally, every freelance recruiter wants to be my friend.

They often start cold calls with a description of a person's technical abilities, and then ask if I would be interested in interviewing that person.

When that happens, I ask them to define one of the buzzwords that they have just used. "Could you tell me what 'big data' means?" or "What's the difference between AWS and GCE?"

I don't do business with technical recruiters who aren't familiar with the meanings of the terms that they throw around. They have never been more valuable than a regex.
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I used to hold this very view but now I don't watch the news. The reason why I don't hold this view is in the very name and nature of the news, it's "new". Everyday commonplace events even horrific ones are not new and therefore are not part of the news. Choose to not watch.
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“If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side”

The way I see it, the Human Brain increases its efficiency (Assuming the 10% Brain Efficiency Myth is true) in such cases, to be able to do all the work that otherwise an entire Brian would have done.
I'm curious what would happen if we were to somehow gradually disable parts of the brain, ensuring all functions of the Human Body are still intact, and then suddenly bring all of it back.
There has been a reply from Ian Harry - a postdoc within LIGO who was involved in the data analysis for the discovery - on Sean Carroll's blog. To quote the blog:

"In Creswell et al. the authors take LIGO data made available through the LIGO Open Science Data from the Hanford and Livingston observatories and perform a simple Fourier analysis on that data. They find the noise to be correlated as a function of frequency. They also perform a time-domain analysis and claim that there are correlations between the noise in the two observatories, which is present after removing the GW150914 signal from the data. These results are used to cast doubt on the reliability of the GW150914 observation. There are a number of reasons why this conclusion is incorrect: 1. The frequency-domain correlations they are seeing arise from the way they do their FFT on the filtered data. We have managed to demonstrate the same effect with simulated Gaussian noise. 2. LIGO analyses use whitened data when searching for compact binary mergers such as GW150914. When repeating the analysis of Creswell et al. on whitened data these effects are completely absent. 3. Our 5-sigma significance comes from a procedure of repeatedly time-shifting the data, which is not invalidated if correlations of the type described in Creswell et al. are present."

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2017/06/18/a-respon...
Calling that a contribution is retarded. grow up
More apprenticeships would be better but there's also a tendency to overestimate their ability to solve economic problems that colleges failed at.

First the good: if we just look at apprenticeship in isolation for its curriculum content, this will be superior for many students because they learn material that's more closely tied to the jobs they will do. The apprenticeships will probably cost much less that 4-year colleges. (I asked my heating-air-conditioning technician how much his "apprentice" schooling cost and he said $15k. He's age 25 and still paying back the school loan.)

Then there's the bad: the overestimation of positive effects to the employment economy. There are 2 separate factors: (1) zero-sum game of job opportunities mapped to job seekers, and (2) social rank

I previously commented about (1).[1] Basically, there's an underlying tendency for humans to "rank" other humans and whether you make "college available to everyone for free" or "emphasize apprenticeships over college", it doesn't change that underlying sorting mechanism. There will always be a gradient from the very desirable apprenticeship programs down to the low-end apprenticeships that people only take because they don't want to clean toilets. Those unequal preferences forces a sorting mechanism on society.

I also previously commented about (2).[2] Essentially, the new apprenticeships will not command the same social prestige as traditional colleges.

But that said, if we ignore (1) and (2), apprenticeships may be an overall net gain for society.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10561911

[2] my 3 replies explains Jeffrey J. Selingo proposed remapping of "degree" to "apprenticeship":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520826

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13521075
Re Easier way to create local packages, you can use dh-make[1] to populate the packaging with some templates that might make your job a bit easier :)

[1] https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/dh-make
> It's time to admit that not all problems are amenable to market solutions.

...to put it mildly. Applying the market law to medicine encourages the most inhuman behaviors.
Very much doubt the company has any opinion on the way Uber operates it's business.
I have had my foam mattress for going on 10 years. Its great.

Very important not to go too soft. You need more dense foam after the top few softer inches. Im not sure bed in a box can ever fit this dense of foam. My foam mattress is 300 pounds and would take a really big box.
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Scala does. It's annoying in pattern matching clauses.
"In practice, the forced revelation of information makes individual privilege and power more important. When everyone has to play with their cards on the table, so to speak, then people who feel like they can be themselves without consequence do so freely -- these generally being people with support groups of like-minded people, and who are neither economically nor physically vulnerable. People who are more vulnerable to consequences use concealment as a method of protection: it makes it possible to speak freely about controversial subjects, or even about any subjects, without fear of harassment."

Yonatan Zunger, former chief architect of Google+, writing after thevservice had rescinded its Real Names policy.

https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/WegYVNkZQqq
5 books that really helped me when I started learning Data Science
I don't think DuskStar was claiming it was a false-flag protest, just that it made the people doing it look bad.
React Out of the Box: React for Newbies – Getting Started
I was going to write at length about my concerns on this topic, and then I decided not to. Because it's entirely possible that one day many years from now, a prospective employer/insurer/whatever finds such a comment and flags me for it.

That's the cooling effect in a nutshell.
GM’s Cruise driverless car unit gets into high-definition mapping
What do you mean? Perl did have support for the (several) standard Japanese encodings.
"Daily coffee habit"? How much coffee per day?
Show HN: Reactive x react = xreact
Or Archer: http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/The_Double_Deuce
> borrow to someone

lend.

I think some European languages have the same word for both lend* and borrow (German?): is that actually the case?
Or the simpler answers, something on your computer reveals it, like malware.

Or the person who sent/received money to/from you revels who you are, or information which helps identify who you are.

Or there are warents authorizing authorities to take your devices and then they have all your identies.

Also when you send Bitcoin from a wallet that has received money to multiple addresses, you can't be sure which coins are being sent. As such they can also associate multiple addresses together by which coins they sent.
> This is the world of Linux software installation.

Homebrew and Macports are OS X, not Linux.
I used a daily-updated unstable for a while, and every so often, like once per 18 months to 2 years or so, I'd hit an early boot (grub/initramfs) bug that rendered my system unbootable. Early boot is dark magic to me, and without internet access (because my system wouldn't boot) it would take me a few hours to fix. By the time I did, someone else had filed an RC bug report which would have prevented that package from upgrading, and it was generally fixed a few hours after that. But that didn't help me fix my broken system.

That was the risk I accepted. That's what unstable is for. And you need somewhere like that to find those bugs.

But that's what you need to be able to handle if you run unstable. So I never recommend it to anyone; if anything I warn people off. If you can't make do with stable+backports, try testing. But don't try unstable unless you know enough about it to understand why you shouldn't, and still want to anyway.

Definitely don't run unstable because someone on the internet told you it was a great way to get up-to-date packages.
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Definitely agree on the downside.
Another problem is that such hearing protection doesn't work very well against the human voice or similar sounds such as throat clearing, sniffing, etc.
I wish there was a jenkins variant that would reject because of architecture violations.

PullReuest was Rejected: No Singletons in this Component. No Singletons in this project.
Have you tried free or Premium Version ? There are many more options with Premium Version.It's better to talk to experts before forming one's opinion.
Adding to that, allowing pseudonyms enables people to commit such heinous crimes as Hate Speech, Blasphemy, or even Promoting Homosexuality.

Can you imagine a world where those Godless Nazifaggots go unpunished?
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I've found that writing React render methods in plain CoffeeScript is actually pretty pleasant, too. I gave it a try not long ago and it came out looking pretty similar to Elm.
Learning and discovery. The satisfaction of scheming and realization. A less trodden path. Not having to have a mortgage, be stuck in one location, to tow a cultural line, or dress up or follow schedules. Knowing that you are leaving the world a slightly better place.
I love the idea that one of us might be an example of a high performing "tiny brain".

What if it's you? Or me? How would we know without a brain scan? Would it matter? Would it change the way you think about yourself and stop you trying?

Probably best to never find out!
> who gets to serve a city with emergency services?

It's worth noticing that most of ambulance services in the world are run entirely or in a good part by volunteers and no-profit organizations to ensure honesty and quality of the service.
Curiosity, and fear.
Having worked with both I found the MRI codebase very clean and nicer to work with than CPython.
That I need money and this is my best choice. I would guess 90+% of people who say theres anything more to it than this are lying to you and probably themselves. There are people with broader aspirations, but actually just saying you have some deep passion is a part of the culture, and in most cases, I don't think true.
I do agree that candle formations like head and shoulders, bull flags, etc do not work in the market (at least for me), but I don't quite get your point on why QT is a waste of time, since there are a lot of systems and people big and small beating the market on a regular basis, so let me give you 1 quote from Warren Buffett:

“Ships will sail around the world but the Flat Earth Society will flourish. There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace, and those who read their Graham & Dodd will continue to prosper.”
It depends. A friend knows for certain it can happen.
There basically never was 'before drugs and alcohol', beer dates back to at least 9500 BC, and coca leaf chewing shouldn't be much younger. As for coffee, according to heart.org, "moderate coffee drinking (1–2 cups per day) doesn't seem to be harmful"
For what it's worth, I've found that F# has a similar 'feel' to what I'd expect from a typed CoffeeScript. I'm not sure exactly why; it's probably just the look and shape of the code, along with the lack of brackets.

Writing React apps in F# using Fable is pretty nice, too.
because-it-makes-you-read-it-faster?
Why use java if not for the performance? If you dont care about speed I would never touch it.
Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
Absolutely. But I think that, when those programmers do decide "hey, now I want to write some custom code for Emacs", they don't then think "but not in Elisp".
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Hm, I usually see Ruby ahead of Python in benchmarks and head to head with Perl.
Someone has to.
Pssst: since you mentioned mbp, you might know ;)

Is mbp retina supported? All my attempts to get things to look right (using XUbuntu) failed :( Any cheat sheets?
Honestly, using ES6+ syntax with Babel and ESLint is a good experience. A comment above recommends Flow for type checking. I haven't tried it so I can't comment.

Static type checking is great in theory but it's just not worth it if you can't get it to play nice with npm modules. I haven't been able to do so reliably in my year of using TS, among other issues. However, don't necessarily take it from me: if you can get it to work, then great, maybe you'll like it more than I did.

If your project has a simple build process, you could still try TS with vscode; it works far better than with VS2015/2017 (that's not to say you won't encounter issues, but it won't be as hellish to diagnose).

Although, IMHO, I would argue that Types just don't fit JavaScript; TypeScript is very OO while JavaScript is not. My TS code is all classes and interfaces. It's quite Javaesque and a departure from the non-TS part of the codebase. It feels a bit too enterprisey and unproductive for the JavaScript ecosystem. This last part is just opinion, though.

This, in addition to the relentless bureaucratic weirdness I encountered, has driven me away. For instance, it doesn't polyfill Promises, Maps, or Sets, even though its front page says it's an ES2015 transpiler. You have to polyfill them yourself, and then you have to get TypeScript not to reject them by providing typings (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30019542/es6-map-in-type...). You also have to set a config flag in tsconfig.json that tells TypeScript that you're providing those polyfills, i.e. {"lib": [ "es5", "dom", "es2015.promise" ]}. Good luck finding all of this information in one place.

I think TypeScript is secretly the enemy of JavaScript.
I think in this case the sarcasm tag is implied.
Nothing I guess.
I think I missed the point. The other one might be that providing free online access to already published scientific papers, all of them from the beginning of the time, it's kind of ambitious project.
A solution would be to create 2 new categories on HN. "Tech talk" and "general topics". Then we should be able to subscribe to categories directly.

Unfortunately, user feedback loses its powerful when a product is already "successful".
To get acknowledged for my skills and effort.
It is the particulars here that are unbelievable to me. Normal after hemespherectomy - sure, depending on the lobe, you will have fully intact language, hemiblindness but probably can regain motor function on the effected side after some time (depending on age). No cerebellum, nbd, cerebellum does not plan, initiate, or stop motor movement - it only corrects errors and has some putative cognitive roles.

What we have here is far more extreme: massive cortical tissue loss and compression, bilaterally. His striatum looks completely gone. There are many well studied and documented patients with far less tissue loss who suffer major cognitive and learning deficits. That makes this case here remarkable to me.
Yes, Ruby is my favorite language but they really messed up the module system. Ruby basically has no module system at all and everything is in the global namespace.
Where does that say they're removing them?
BigQuery vs. Redshift vs. Athena simple benchmark
Should Apple Buy Netflix? First in a Series
As other people have pointed out in the gist, the syntax for tagged template literals gives an additional way to invoke a function

foo`abc ${bar} ${baz}`

This will call foo with the arguments

[["abc ", " ", ""], bar, baz]
You have no clue what you are talking about..
There is a limit to the flexibility of the brain. In a compensated brain, it is very likely that an injury that would normally not have any effect on function would have devastating consequences.

To answer your question, I'd imagine that it likely depends on the timescale. People with TIAs have decrease in function that lasts minutes to hours, and on return of proper bloodflow, might take days to fully recover. You might see this as people who completely lose speech during the TIA, and then have word hunting for several days.

A brain that adapted to gradually diminished function, say as a result of microvascular changes, over the course of months to years would likely experience the same debilitation if there was a sudden permanent change.
Blockchain: a Game-Changer?
Haskell totally erased types and has a mechanism to recover that information as values. Both are way safer and easier to use than Java's versions.
Considering there are several hours of video uploaded to YouTube per second, this is nigh impossible for someone without Google-level resources.

And that's just the last two points of your comment.
The first requires a nation state.
Unlikely. These articles may be being spurred by some research from two years ago on modernizing tontine pensions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine#Tontine_pensions
If your intrinsic motivations, which probably map closely to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, are not aligned with your startup's strategy and goals, then of course you are going to experience a feeling of being unmoored. The answer is to deploy massive amounts of patience and energy in figuring out who You are. In the immediate term, recognize you are not the only one with this conflict and perhaps develop a set of "motivation management" tools to help crystallize and make manifest your personal journey.

To help with understanding your place in the grand scheme, I'd also check out this lecture by Michael Dearing from Reid Hoffman's Blitzscaling class at Stanford:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vCdfa_aeI8

Although nominally about Creative Destruction and the capitalist work ethic, it gets at the root of our entrepreneurial ambitions. There is a reason the mission statements of the Erie Railway Company from 1857 and Facebook's circa 2017 sound so eerily similar. Their duty isn't to build train tracks between cities or link nodes in the social graph. It's to spread knowledge, commerce and communication deep into places that have never known it before.
The Port Augusta coal power station was demolished. There are two gas power stations in Adelaide. One was mothballed, but the state government forced the owners to start it up again after a statewide power last year. The government plans to invest in a new gas power station, plus they have a 100 mil fund set up to invest in multiple energy storage solutions to help capture excess wind power.
This. As much as I love coding and tech, the kind of projects I care about would not pay the bills. If I didn't need the money, I'd probably spend my days learning hard academics and working on projects I find interesting. I think there are well paying jobs that would probably satisfy this, but they are rare and hard to get.
Like everyone else, I sell my labour to capital in exchange for a living.
I want to make life better for people who are often marginalised.
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By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct.... Under necessaries, therefore, I comprehend not only those things which nature, but those things which the established rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest rank of people.

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...
1. Freedom to use my time wisely.
2. Fulfilment of my potential.

I try to visualize the end days and if I don't do 1 and 2, I will regret it. That is what drives me to do whatever that I do today.
Instead of downvoting maybe you can answer why it's wrong? I put "naive question" since I presume it's wrong and would like to be lectured.
1. Life is short and there's so much to do.

2. I'm building a business and I have competitors who want to take my market share.

Either of these two thoughts are enough to galvanise me. #2 in particular can snap me wide awake with blood pumping and ideas firing.

Ultimately I am guided by the principle of least regret, although I find that more useful as a decision making construct than a motivation tool.
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I don't have a fear of change, I have a fear of staying the same. I have a fear that I will be stuck in the same job for the next 40+ years. I don't want that, I don't want to work for someone else, to have all my hard work on their projects do more for them than it has for me. I am hoping to quit my job soon and go off and do my own thing or die trying.
These aren't breaking changes. This isn't even the first time they've added bytecodes. (Java 7 added invokedynamic.)
"absent improvements in microarchitecture they [CPUs] won’t be substantially faster, nor substantially more power efficient, and they will have about the same number of cores at the same price point as prior CPUs. Why would anyone buy a new CPU?"
Rainer Weiss, Remembering the Little Room in the Plywood Palace
I strive for balance in my life, so what motivates me is the combination of being able to solve complex problems using computer technology coupled with the ability to properly care about my own physical self and the ones around me (family, good friends).

I have been one of those workaholic people that only cared about amassing money. No more.
Also how would it work if everyone is anonymous? Don't you need to know when people die?
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OMG a multinational doesn't share my precise political bias