skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't complain about standing if there are still seats available though ...

Also, you don't see that here in NYC. People are gonna sit down if there's space available. Unless it's next to a crazy homeless person, but I've only ever experienced that on heavy rail, not commuter rail.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/02/... explains the situation pretty well.

Relevant commentary, I think: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
Thanks! Time to build an ad-blocker-blocker-blocker.
FYI, this is what the ".io" CCTLD stands for.
Sroll is an opinion blog, not a news source. I am being serious, out of the articles on the site, ~80% are pure opinion pieces.
Is anyone troubled that the study found bias against qualified candidates (who happen to be male) in current hiring practices?

Is the objective to have hiring practices that are fair to all applicants (woman, minorities and even males)? Or is the objective to have a diversity quota?

FTA: "We found the opposite, that de-identifying candidates reduced the likelihood of women being selected for the shortlist."

The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview.

Adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door.
Not outwards behavior but things that used to seem like such a big deal became trivial. Again anecdotal so don't put any stock in what I'm saying, I just found this to be interesting
I saw a popup store at a local flea market with "pay with Bitcoin" sign. Use and knowledge can be increased with improved access and merchant use
May 12, 2016
No mention of effect size. N=200 is pretty small. Smells a bit like BS. Anyone have the original paper?
You're correct - animations should be used to convey some information, such as letting the user know something is happening if there's a high latency operation loading, but animations purely for visuals are incredibly annoying and a waste of time and resources.
Maybe get a job if you're looking for a guaranteed stream of work? Lol just an observation. If it's a big deal to you...maybe just try to find a remote friendly company to work for?
This will become extremely common in the future. We won't be able to trust any measurement (including photo, video, audio).

This is why we need a trust management system. Something that can be used to track people's statements, commitments and predictions in order to attribute them scores. Then, we'll be able to trust people's word without having to rely on expensive and unreliable verification processes.

- Imagine being able to hire people without needing to interview them?

- Imagine being able to let strangers borrow your car or get into your house with little or no risk?

- Imagine being able to predict the future with known accuracy thanks to the trust score of every contributing agent?

- Imagine a world where nobody lies because the currency is trust?
Better than just 1 corporation
Another (Post Einsteinian) Theory of Gravity
This is where we still disagree. There are plenty of big cities that are not along the Acela corridor where people do not own cars by default (e.g. people living in downtown Chicago).

I don't understand your argument anyway. People own cars because they need them frequently for daily activities like commuting or errands. Infrequent longer distance trips are not the primary drivers of car ownership at all. If you don't own a car for your daily life then you certainly aren't going to own one just for the occasional road trip; no, you'll take a train/bus/plane in that case, or even just rent one.

Also, I live in NYC, and most of the places I go to are too far to drive to anyway. So having a car wouldn't be helpful. I'm renting a car in Las Vegas next month for DEF CON, but if I owned a car here I certainly wouldn't drive all the way there. I go to DC regularly, but even if I had a car I wouldn't want to use it for that trip as I find long drives unpleasant and would much rather read a book on a bus for four hours.
This exists in the form of the foreign and trade (and occasionally military) policies of other countries toward yours.
Wow thank you so much for this. I'll be referring to this for things to learn (a lot). I started listening to this AWS podcast and the crazy amount of technology they have that's applicable here.

I also listen to a Go podcast and the "throughput? they talk about like 25,000 requests per seconds seems insane to me.

And regarding the big companies handling petabytes/hour man insane and probably redundantly backed up too.

My concern is cost (as you mentioned) in particular if you have no users yet, what justifies the cost to set all of this up except for the future-mindset of growth (where some companies have failed due to inability to scale).

Right now I've just been cheep using 1 VPS but it's good to know the proper deployment design for growth.

Dang, so much to learn haha. Thanks.
Anybody who believes that inhaling any smoke is harmless is fooling themselves.
What does it mean to be "one of the #1" of something?
I program R daily (admittedly mainly for statistics) but I don't feel this pain at all. To me, R feels like a more sane JavaScript. Are you missing type safety or better OOP?
This graphic is out of date and has errors in it. It implies the Huffington Post is owned by Time Warner, which has never owned it. In fact, AOL bought it two full years after splitting off from Time Warner.

Additionally, it should be noted that Time Warner recently split its entertainment properties from its publishing properties [1], and doesn't account for the fact that the print publishing world is quite a bit different. Six corporations may own 90 percent of the world's media, but they don't own The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, or USA Today. Hmm.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/03/11/ti...
Not if it’s based on known job history, personal connection, or other factors that make a candidate known to the one offering. Interviews are typically a means of getting to know a candidate. If you already know them, there’s no need for interviews. I personally know quite a few devs I’d call up to chat about a job/project and give an immediate offer to if they were interested.

Admittedly, in the context of recruiters, it could be different, but doesn’t have to be. Personal relationships are a strong signal for many people.
Breaking language backwards-compatibility is one thing; breaking the extension API is less problematic, and breaking the extension ABI is better still.
It's easy to spot resumes typeset with TeX; they always make me smile.
Totally agreed that I'm willing to spend a little bit longer on a train over a plane. It is a more enjoyable and relaxed travel experience.
Somewhat-relatedly, an interesting story showed up here a little while back about single-hemisphere sleep in humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11545048
I imagine military should be very interested in this.
No mention of handling issues around liters of irritating acid...getting stung by ants is bad enough
I don't smoke pot (I'm middle-aged parent with shit to do), but I do favor marijuana legalization as general policy.

However, second-hand smoke is second-hand smoke. I wouldn't favor letting people smoke pot in any locations where they can't smoke tobacco.

It's bizarre (and hypocritical) to me that the same demographic most in favor of marijuana also tends to be the most hostile toward public cigarette smoking. Bottom line, you hate second-hand smoke in one context because it mostly comes from rural working-class people... and you're fine with second-hand smoke in the other context because you wanna legally get high (or at least thumb your nose at the rural working-class people who tend to oppose it).
Thanks for the explanation/comparison.

I keep hearing about "messaging" but not as in messaging each other but process messaging. When I looked up RabbitMQ I saw messaging.

At any rate thanks a lot for the info/your time.
Very rarely is there any effort in India to collect statistics. We don't know how effective welfare programs were pre-Aadhaar and we won't know post-Aadhaar either. All we'll get from either side of the political divide is rhetoric.
He's saying that it gets proportionally more harder to manage a large codebase in JS than it does in statically typed languages like Java. This has been my experience as well.
The washington post is trash.
Thanks yeah probably a dumb thing to be concerned about, are textareas like this one that I'm using to write with patentable? haha (joking)
I know the feeling. Four years ago I got done working on some truly terrible tech stacks and got to use NodeJS for the first time and it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders too. Then I left that company and I'm doing Java now, and I realized that leaving NodeJS behind has also lifted a huge weight off my shoulders, but of a different kind.
The Infantry are already Tylenol's biggest fans...
You're down voted but I agree. 200 participants split into A/B for yes/no drugs, 8 scenarios and 3 different tests makes the sample incredibly small.. would like to hear statistical arguments opposing my PoV
But it does mean "better than the current guy", though. So, he is better. Better than the man before (who started the wars in the ME, but in the countries who didn't plan and execute 9/11 oddly), and better than the man after (who pals around and holds globes together with the country where 80% of the 9/11 terrorists were born).
God damn there's some good ideas here.

pony: class Foo[A: Any val]
c#: public class MyGenericArray<T>
rust: fn foo<T>(T) { ... }
golang: none, because existing examples (outside of pony) too complicated

Which most obviously suggests a generic func? Geez, took us this long to just reach some clarity? Nice job, Pony.

More:
1 + 2 * 3 // wont compile
1 + (2 * 3) // will compile

yes! I have devs with college degrees who don't understand operator precedence.

Liking what I see so far. Nice mix of low cognitive load/high expressiveness/safety. Keep at it.
Actually, if it weren't for gerrymandering these districts would probably be more politically homogenous. The point of the gerrymandering is to split up a district that would have had a majority of some party. Now instead of having a majority in one district, they have a minority in several districts.
Ah, an old /. refugee I see!
Nuitka 0.5.26, a Python 3.6 compatible compiler
To be fair. I'm impressed it's able to do it at all.

I compiled a "hello world" in C staticly on my laptop the other week as a demo of how things have grown; to my horror it wouldn't have even fit in memory of my first computer.
So if it numbs not just pain but your empathy feelings as well, could it also numb feelings like depression or anxiety?

EDIT: After a quick search, the answer seems to be yes?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26357585

http://time.com/3825042/tylenol-emotion-acetaminophen/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091222154742.h...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201...
Fairly certain it's done using mayavi - http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/index.html
Anybody who believes that the only way to ingest Marijuana involves smoke is also fooling themselves.
Artificial Intelligence Will Make Forging Anything Entirely Too Easy
Analysis of a Master Boot Record – EternalPetya
This is one of the reasons why having an implementation that correctly handles tail calls is so important.
Gah, sorry for the brainfart.
Nowadays I never visit the actual article, just going through HN comments will often summarize the topic better.
I feel really bad for Chagossians people; I didn't know about their struggle. Deporting 1,500 individuals is simply crazy, who decided that simply didn't consider Chagossians to be humans. I hope the UK/US Army will leave for good.
This is exactly my question. We know that many painkillers work on the pain caused by heartbreak, for example. Does this effect have a similar root cause? If so, it would be reasonable to conclude that many painkillers would cause this as well. The advice in the article would therefore be at best useless.
Yes.

Africa = Africans

Europe = Europeans

Asian = Asians

Americas = ?
Well "muhfukuh", I can't believe that Amy Adams didn't win the Golden Globes for "Arrival" this year.

(I mean, if we're just latching on to a word or phrase in the previous post, to talk about things irrelevant to its point for cheap upvotes...)
> He got 6 offers from those 70 interviews, which is over a 90% rejection rate

That number is alarmingly accurate from the other side of the table too. I can't speak for any other companies, but from what I have personally observed, from 100 interviewed candidates we hire about 9. (Which translates to >90% rejection/non-hire rate.) The anecdotes from around the London tech scene imply that our numbers are not that different.

Basically, every company struggles with the same problem.

I even wrote about the experience as an interviewer some time ago: https://smarketshq.com/notes-on-interviewing-engineers-a4fa4... ; interviews are not easy. Regardless of the side of the table you're on.
On an Apple TV you can access DPStream pretty much easily. So let's ban Apple TV ?
All programmers who have heard of the Curry-Howard correspondence are mathematicians.
On the other hand, this would be the only reasonable explanation for that.
Turn on the Adblock Warning Removal List and Anti-Adblock Killer in uBlock Origin.
I also remember reading that there was some evidence that acetaminophen (and possibly other NSAIDs) helped with anxiety [1] - the idea being that social pain and physical pain are similar.

It seems like reducing empathy might be the same thing - a more general dulling of emotions. On a personal note I've found Aleve works really well (better than Tylenol) when I'm feeling anxious, but maybe that's just placebo. I originally read about the Tylenol affect after feeling surprisingly less anxious when I took Aleve and searching around.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/tomorro...
This looks something I've been looking for. Are there some products (commercial sw, or libraries) in this space?
Related: Opioids reduce feelings of loneliness.
Not quite... the real point of gerrymandering is to concentrate your political opponents' support, so that they have a small number of large majorities, and to spread out your own, so that you have a large number of small majorities. This will presumably tend to make some areas more homogeneous and some less.
Surprising there's no comment on XMonad yet. Well, it needs a replacement as soon as Wayland is going to become established.
AIDA64 https://www.aida64.com/

MemTest86 http://www.memtest86.com/

HDDScan http://hddscan.com/

GPU-Z https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring for Software Engineers in San Francisco
There is one. It's called: just disable javascript.
Mods, this is a repost from (2016).
Also, it doesn't "kill kindness", it reduces the empathy of test subjects, but actually what they measured is estimations of the pain experienced by others. Which doesn't seem exactly like empathy, and definitely isn't kindness, because kindness is action.

It's total clickbait, and misleading too.
I'm fascinated by how cashflow (student loans, mortgage, family, etc) affects compensation. Given two equally skilled individuals (including ability to negotiate) but one has a bigger mortgage,y hypothesis is the the one with the bigger mortgage will get paid more.

I believe cashflow requirements make negotiating easier (provided there is room for negotiation). I'm not even going to entertain your offer for $120k. Not because I know my market value is greater than that, but because I cannot meet my financial obligations at that point. Even if I'm a clumsy negotiator, I'll get closer to my max compensation in that situation purely because I have a higher floor.
Edit isn't allowed any longer, so here are some extra informations.

Joe Duffy's blog about Midori

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

Joe's blog entry about what was known as M# at the time

http://joeduffyblog.com/2013/12/27/csharp-for-systems-progra...

Joe's presentation at QCon 2015, "Safe Systems Programming in C# and .NET"

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/csharp-systems-programmi...

Channel 9 presentations about MDIL compiler for Windows 8.x

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-005

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-an...

Channel 9 presentations about .NET Native

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native

https://channel9.msdn.com/events/dotnetConf/2014/-NET-Native...

GC Improvements on .NET 4.6, including memory guarantees for performance critical sections

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.trysta...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/alphageek/2017/01/24/signif...

C# roadmap for 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0 with more memory friendly features

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/docs/Language%2...

Joe is presenting a keynote at Rustconf, about memory safe systems programming.

http://rustconf.com/program.html#joe
After the Bezos acquisition, the Washington Post abandoned their already lowered standards. They're now racing to the bottom to become BuzzFeed 2.0.
High vacancy rates doesn't necessarily mean slower hiring, it can also mean new buildings came on line at excessively aggressive rates.
> your comment applies to you and possibly the company you work for

Very true. As always, your mileage my vary.

> Companies foster career development less and less, and employees recognize this more and more.

Yes -- which is why we care about career development; it's something we view strategically. And yes, while some job functions are being commoditized, people are not. This is true across the industry, whether other companies choose to believe it or not. We take that seriously and make a commitment to those who work with us.

> this industry is actually much larger than you suggest, and I think your "2-3 degrees" claim is a bit extraordinary. There is far more software development going on outside the tech hubs than I think people in these hubs appreciate, and in many ways under the radar of the like who frequent HN.

When we recruit, we do so on a broad level and will look where others don't as a way to get a leg up on our competition. As a result, our staff works out of multiple locations nationally, as well as Canada and the EU.

I have colleagues in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis, Nashville, Ft. Lauderdale, Atlanta, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Charlotte, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Kansas City -- that's off the top of my head. My network is sizable.

The point of my comment is this: don't assume that if you reach out to me, I won't have any connection to your background through mutual relationships. I can't speak for others, but I doubt I'm so unique in this respect.
Probably not the best idea. While they do tend to summarise well, comments tend to be filled with opinion - generally a better idea to ensure you form your own, rather than rely on a potentially biased third party.
How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
Indeed. Here's a fascinating article with (some of) the back story of the islands and the TLD: http://citizen-ex.com/stories/io
I wold be a good idea if the USA did something similar having 52 state plus local City Taxes is very inefficient
IBM to Provide Wimbledon Highlights Using Artificial Intelligence
This + the fact it feels like every other article being posted on HN is behind a paywall
Pretty standard for this type of research
Have you tried building a new rail line? Hint: adding a runway to an existing airport or building an entirely new airport, is simple, cheap and easy by comparison.
On HN, you'll sometimes even get domain experts weighing in with commentary, and links to other relevant material.

Here's the original article, with weighting[1] and in fulltext[2]:

1 = https://pubrank.carbocation.com/pmid/27217114

2 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015806/
Just curious for people who are advocating for email how they deal with the following situations:

1. The user gets a new email address. Instead of updating the email address on their existing account, they create a new account. Then they are confused when none of their data from their old account shows up when they login to the new one.

2. The user gets a new email address and no longer has access to the old one. Then they forget their password and are unable to reset it because the reset email is going to a dead email address.
Free food :). The last Fortune 500 I worked at the number of meetings with food provided was highly correlated with how well the stock performed durring earning.
Which is good, because he's been primarily a manager for the last decade.
Absolutely. The value of media is solely in distribution, irrespective of the original source. Distribution is kind of baked into the definition.

A term like "media filter" only has value in distinguishing between "traditional" media and companies like Facebook. But, strictly speaking, Facebook is as much the media as traditional outlets and, in this context, those outlets are merely sources for Facebook.
Making up a name "Hydrozine" instead of just calling it "formic acid" makes this quite confusing. Maybe it works for marketing.
I’d be in favor of two changes to the HN title:

1. s/This popular painkiller/Acetaminophen/

2. (2016)
"The" topic? Are there not several topics?
Straight from the paper:

> we determined sample size based on previous research which indicated that a sample size of about 40 participants per cell provides sufficient power to detect a behavioral effect of acetaminophen (Durso et al., 2015). For Experiment 2, a power-analysis based on a power criterion of (1−β) = 0.80 and effect sizes obtained in Experiment 1 indicated that a mean cell size of n = 54 was sufficient to replicate significant findings
The Centre already shared its revenues from all Central taxes, including income taxes with the States before this reform. They shared 32% earlier and increased that to 42% just before GST. Centralising all taxation isn't necessarily a good thing, at least not for all states. Before GST, taxes were levied at the point of manufacture. This helped states with strong manufacturing bases to raise revenue and set up infrastructure and encourage even more manufacturing. A virtuous cycle. States could be mostly self sufficient, using Central funds to augment their money.

If the Centre collected all the revenues, the states would be entirely dependent on the Centre. Sure, 42% of the revenue needs to be shared with the states, but the proportion is at the Centre's discretion. I would expect that the party in power at the Centre would funnel funds towards states which are electorally important (UP, Maharashtra) and away from ones that don't play much of a role in national politics (TN, North Eastern states). That's great if you live in UP, not so much if you're Tamil. In such a situation, I foresee that it could actually fuel resentment in states from where wealth is taken and cause the Union to weaken. We see this happening in Catalonia in Spain, for example.

I agree with everything else that you said, that there will be short term contraction but this simplified tax code will be helpful for businesses in the long run. Simplifying it even further and making it a central tax only would be a boon for businesses, but possibly not for the Union.
Not for the people trying to save their money with it.
> configurable using Lua,

Oh, brings back memories from when I used to have Sawfish installed.
Life is harmful
The Brave New World of Gene Editing