skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem that has plagued Google News at least here in Australia for some time is the regular inclusion of headlines that redirect to paywalls. These links need to be flagged as paywall only, otherwise it's no different to the kind of behaviour Google claims to be against - links not accurately representing their destination.

It's about link integrity. Nobody wants to play "roll the dice" every time they click a news article, with some asking for a credit card, others not. No doubt the paywall services pay Google to include those links, but Google should be honest and correctly label paywall links on the Google News page, or stop including those news outlets that use these redirect tactics.

Apart from that, the redesign seems to be re-inventing link hover style. Mouse over a section and every link in that section turns blue, not just the link you're hovering over. I'd prefer if the main headlines stood out more for easier scanning, keep them always blue for example, and the other text black. Or just keep links blue and non-links black. Right now it all seems to blend in, without enough visual separation. I'll be visiting less, and might jump over to Feedly or similar.
I nap in my car. There's not a single nappable spot at my company. And my car is 20 seconds away.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, sharing files is still in an abysmal state. This wheel will be reinvented again.
Von Braun became an SS member when told he had to to protect the program. He was obviously ambitious and it suited his ambition well, but he was also protective of his team.

And Von Braun ended up being arrested by the Gestapo for perceived disloyalty. Hitler only approved his release after Speers entreaties that Von Braun was indespensable.
George R.R. Martin still uses wordstar to write his books.
Hmmmm

I have a degree, but not in a closely related field. My first job out of college was very much an apprenticeship for me, making the transition from having been a kid who could program, to being an employee who could write software that existed in a wider context. I left that job 20 years ago, mostly because my opportunity for growth was limited, and am now a Principal Engineer at Amazon, and am a little past the hammer/nail stage.

Having presented myself as a counter example, I do have some observations. One of the "leadership principles" at Amazon is "Learn and be curious". It feels like this has been lacking in your experience, while it is everyone's responsibility to look out for themselves, it is a particular responsibility of more senior folks to provide guidance and mentoring to help avoid these traps.
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Well he was arrested by the Nazis and could have been executed had Speer not interceded.
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Ask HN: Promised percentage of company, never received in writing
Throwaway for obvious reasons. I am a technical co-founder of a startup for which I was assigned a significant percentage of the company via verbal agreement. The owner of the company has assured me repeatedly, "Don't worry, you will get your percentage." This has been going on for two years now. I tried to explain why this is not an acceptable way of doing business, but his response is to question our bond of trust. He has always been trustworthy but I feel strongly that something like this should be in writing, with official shares perhaps, or something formal that I could, for instance, include in my estate.

While clearly I have good reason to be concerned, what should I do? I've already built the start-up and the executive team is involved in a long term sales process which could lead to significant valuation shortly. At that point I'd be putting blind faith in the owner to finally give me my percentage officially. However, in the meantime, it's just pins and needles.

Comments or suggestions?
"subgraphs are all the graphs you can make by deleting an edge or contracting vertices."

That doesn't sound right to me.
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Is the scanning engine sandboxed in any way, or is the stack protector all there is between a scanner bug and a remote exploit?
> My most productive, creative time was the hour or two in the late afternoon following the nap.

This has also been my experience. I often take naps around the same time and find that the nap calms me naturally and sort of distances me from any anxieties surrounding a problem I'm trying to tackle. This makes it much easier to work at it some more.

Separately I noticed that if I have any symptoms of depression (usually thoughts of despair), a nap like that can by itself often completely reverse the situation. Surprised, I did some research and was interested to find how much a lack of proper rest is associated with depression. So now the first item on my "feeling depressed" checklist is "try to take a nap".
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I wasnt being serious - in line with the headline "for fun and no profit".

Optimizing python with calls out to optimized c/c++ code has always been a thing. I think a large part of the interest here is novelty.
`watch-reload [watch dir] [reload domain]`, which watches for changes in a directory and triggers a reload for tabs matching a certain domain using a Chrome extension.

`watch-copy [copy to dir]`, which watches for changes in the current directory and builds and copies to another directory.

`set-lights [group name] [on/off/high/low]`, which posts commands to a Hue bridge.
What makes it awful?
Could you recommend some good sources for this?
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Interesting. I prefer to eat a home-made lunch at my desk or chilling outside with co-workers for 15-20m, then leave work 45m early. This reduces time wasted on commuting by avoiding peak hour and gets me home by around 4:30pm (after a 7:10am start). But everyone needs to find what works for them, and within the limits of their employer's tolerances.
A lot of couples don't watch porn together though. Lots of couples watching porn together does not mean they are the majority.

I don't see how the second in bizarre either. A majority is not the same as all here either. Married people can also watch porn when their partner is not in the mood, even when they would prefer sex. I'm not denying all of the cases you listed exist, only that they are not a majority of porn usage. I feel very confident assuming that there are lots of single people ages 15-30 watching porn alone and who would prefer sex, and that demographic alone would make up 50% at least.
I own this thing. From my experience it's pretty terrible. Inconsistent colors, horrible focus, open all the time if you throw it in your bag. Would not recommend.
IMHO, the affected sectors are specific because they are very hard to substitute. Ordinarily, when prices start to grow towards monopolistic price, the demand curve will shift (due to substitution) to counter this effect. But these sectors have demand curves that cannot be shifted easily, and so they seem as a special case, but in fact they are not.

Speaking of Nobel prize, I think Steve Keen deserves one (and maybe two), but he will never get one, unfortunately.
I find nap rooms useful for those days when I've been there all night and need to have a semblance of functionality for meeting the next day.
If people are leaving your company right after being trained, your company has some major problems.
I'm generally a lot more productive when I'm hungry. Eating, for me, leads to lethargy.
Same for me. Scheduling is crucial and takes practice to get to the "intuitive" level. But, once you've got scheduling, right there are almost no wait time (except for long cooking dishes, says 3 hours or so).

What bothers me a lot down in this whole thread, is that many people seem to forget that spending time feeding oneself is actually spending time taking care of oneself (and one's family if any). And that seems to me a very important part of life.
I tried at work to get some money to the maintainer of iRAP, an RNA sequencing analysis pipeline we depend on heavily at the moment. But business sees this as wasted money, it's there for free, why not take it? Reading this, I think I'm going to double down on my efforts again. We get so much value out of a huge pile of FOSS software, we should be donating. Meanwhile we have spend piles of money on Matlab for years and we aren't even allowed to run Linux on our Laptops if we wanted to.
I feel guilt for this where I work. It gets to 120f outside here during the summer. It's not great to run the car for just ac, but I benefit from the alone time.
Don't worry: your tolerance will eventually reach a level such that you would have to consume physically impossible amounts of coffee for it to have any effect.
You have no way to verify that the rendezvous server you're connecting to isn't playing the role of the client or server.
You forgot the /s, but it's pretty obvious;)
But... also email JGC... or me. ;)
Yeah but it is still sorted based on price and they have a lot of meta data on the products and the stores. I don't see any problem. In the end they link to the sites themselves so it's not like you pay more via Tweakers.
Vacuum still has the best lifting power of them all..
Despite what you've probably heard, restaurants actually fail far less than other types of start up businesses. In a booming economy there will be very few built out restaurants available to buy, and they'll probably have some sort of fatal flaw. Plus, you get TI money if you take over an empty space, and as you can build out how you want, the rewards are potentially better too.
> Cover a 20 x 20 km section of Libyan desert with ground mount 360W PV panels, there's your power source.

Sure, but first you need to find a desert in a relatively stable country, and then you have to account for the fact that the panels will need to be cleaned.

UAE is building lots of solar, if you've been through DXB or AUH you've probably seen the Total [0] ads for solar. However I know from personal experience that even in the desert you need to have methods to clean the panels or they will be covered in dust/sand after some time, and this significantly reduces their output. [1]

[0] http://www.total.com/en

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_event
>Companies, especially in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) industries, are shifting their recruiting process from “where did you study?” to “what can you do?”.

But are they really? Go look at job openings. You will find more often than not 'X degree required' (or at least recommended). If you don't have a degree, your application will often go straight into the trash, before the question "what can you do?" is asked.
They used a refill service drone?
Pet theory time: There's a lot of speculation about why human females have greatly enlarged breasts compared with other primates. These theories usually revolve around some alleged similarity between boobs and bums, which let's face it, is quite a stretch, especially when you consider other primates. A female chimpanzee's chest looks absolutely nothing like its butt.

However, humans do have much larger brains than other primates, and those brains grow very fast immediately after birth. My theory is that after the advent of cooking, human brains were able to increase in size thanks to the increased dietary energy density of our new diet. Human breasts then had to increase in size in proportion with the nutritional requirements of those infant brains, which had to grow faster than previously.
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While I definitely agree to some extent, I'd just like to note that those things can be learned without the need for a degree.

In fact, many people with degrees in those areas skirt by and never actually develop a deep grasp or understanding of the material. Not saying this is true for everyone, but I'm just pointing out that a degree is no guarantee.
"Congratulations you have reached complete habituation + crippling dependence!"
That's one of the main reasons I signed up for the gym. The other being the showers. I can bike to work and take a coffee nap in a hammock after lunch.
Margin is more like 10-20 percent if you're not overpaying on rent...
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Another reason to prefer working remote, at least part of the time!
> It seems like if you're so tired while you're at work that you actually want to take a nap, then maybe there is another underlying problem.

There is: tiredness. Often, but not always, due to lack of sleep. A nap is the solution.

If you need 8 glasses of water a day to be at peak-performance but for whatever reason only manage to drink 7 in the morning, why not have that final glass sometime during the day? Same with sleep.

In fact it's absurd to think everybody can store energy upfront and power through 9 hours of activity without falling off towards the end.

Naps are natural.
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This is constructive and honest opinion. Why downvote?
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Reminds me of aspartame. It's probably the only drug that's been studied more than glyphosate as a result of bad science causing public outrage.
Also take a look how strong and abuse-resistant cross laminated timber is: https://alexschreyer.net/engineering/much-abuse-can-cross-la...
Yes, this course is very good: https://youtu.be/2uiulzZxmGg

In addition, you can try to work through a serious project related to computer vision to help you solidify concepts. I worked used Style Transfer as my motivating example: https://harishnarayanan.org/writing/artistic-style-transfer/
Cars consume very limited amounts of fuel idling so you shouldn't feel guilt for that anymore than you should feel guilt for driving to a restaurant on the way home.
No, sorry, it's completely wrong "tldr".

Instead, the author presents the first ever counting of the cells in the different parts of the elephant brain using a new method, different from the previous attempts, which results in the different numbers for the different sections of the brain. The new result shows that the elephant brain has indeed more cells than the human one, but that the distribution is different.

To those who don't know: cerebellum is the part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates, in humans it's in the lower area of the brain.

http://brainmadesimple.com/cerebellum.html

Look at the brains compared:

http://natureinstitute.org/pub/ic/ic5/Images/IC5_page13.gif

The Cerebral Cortex of the elephant looks bigger, but, according to the author, has 5.6 billion neurons, compared to the 16 billion neurons in human's:

http://brainmadesimple.com/cortex-and-lobes-of-the-brain.htm...

This is new, as the estimates of the count of the cells of in the different parts of the brain of elephant varied before.

See
nickledave's post for the link to the scientific work about the the method.
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No, not really. People leave work early for all kinds of reasons, people work late / from home for all kinds of reasons. Everyone is expected to carry their own load. I'm at Microsoft now, but this was the case at my previous two companies too. Granted, nobody ever says "I ate too much and am useless now so deal with it", more "I have something to take care of this afternoon". (Which is often the case anyway if you have kids / house.) So long as you eventually put in the lost hours and hit the deadlines, that's all anyone cares about.

Though still, don't do this often.... That's kind of the whole point, right?
Oh, I'm sorry, I misread that title as "up to", because I viewed it right after a slightly older headline saying "IAB Study Says 26% of Desktop Users Turn On Ad Blockers". So go with 26% as a possibly-high number. I very much doubt the number is under 10%. It's a lot of people.
Who said people want to do "foundational work"?

The just want to write some specific software they enjoy writing together.

The question rather is: after said software has been proven valuable and widely used by companies, and when there remain some hard and/or non-enjoyable parts to be done to complete it/enhance it (specific drivers, documentation, advanced features, etc), why don't any of the users donate some money to help?
Exactly. The part where the owner raises the rent and eats the profit is a horrible thought. But it made me think. Take a look at the World's 50 Best Restaurant list Top 10 [0]. 4 out of the Top 10 are located in cities that I expect the rent to be below national average. I myself have dined at Azurmendi, which currently sits at a hill top somewhere in the Basque countryside, really remote. Maybe they can afford to be remote and pay less rent because they are on this list or strive to be on there.

[0] http://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50-winners
Did you forget footnote number one?
Electing somebody and then not having any control over the decisions they vote is not 100% democracy... More like 1%.
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http://www.edn.com/Pdf/ViewPdf?contentItemId=4433411

Details above. Looks like you can get 3.5ps resolution with an off the shelf PIC after calibration which is pretty impressive!
Get the promise in writing via email, chat, or text message. You can be casual/nonchalant about it. He doesn't need to know why you're bringing it up.

Next, give him a better reason to get it in writing than, "You might screw me." Tell him that you do trust him, but your lawyer friend says that there are lots of specific details that aren't in your verbal contract (this is true!)

Talk to other executives about this, too. Tell them honestly that you aren't clear on the details of your contract.

If they all refuse to give you a written contract, it's a safe bet (in my experience) that they plan to screw you.

Talk to a lawyer either way.
Patiently waiting for Animats to tell an interesting story about this code :)
Yeah, I said that's what it _was_ supposed to be ;)
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> maybe there is another underlying problem.

The problem is that sometimes I am in the zone from like 10pm - 1am.

So naturally I am tired during the day. A few minutes to nap for 3 hours of "in the zone" ain't a bad trade off for a company in my opinion.
Without alcohol we wouldn't be here today or have any civilisation. How about that?

http://archive.onearth.org/blog/beer-saves-human-civilizatio...

(Not to mention how much good poetry -- e.g. from Rubayat to Baudelaire's, rock music, and such we would be missing. Nobody cares for tee-totalling rock bands...).

>the fact is, every time you drink something that's not water, you have the opportunity cost.

And every time you miss on something fun you also have an opportunity cost.

Now, if you legitimately don't like the taste or effects of wine, beer etc, more power to you. Or if you like them too much to drink in moderation. But if one likes them, to avoid casual drinking also comes at a cost.
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Our premium is $1300/mo for a family of four. In the beginning, the ACA kicked us in the nuts. Prior to the ACA, it was cheap to insure children. After the ACA, children cost as much as adults. Pretty rough, and we made too much to get a subsidy.

Last year was pretty lean, so we did get some money back on the subsidy. The whole Obamacare thing has been a wash for us.

In spite of that, I wish they'd just leave it alone. Good system or bad system, if it stays the same, I can factor that into my prices and it will all come out in the wash. When they just randomly change things in the thoughtless and adversarial way that lawyers/politicians tend to, I no longer know what to plan for.
May be. TI BASIC was also limited in a lot of other ways. It didn't have ELSE and the THEN clause didn't allow for anything other than a line number as jump destination. Only one statement per line. So doing something as simple as
10 IF a=1 THEN v=10 ELSE v=50
would have to be written as
10 IF a=1 THEN 40
20 LET v=50
30 GOTO 50
40 LET v=10
50 ...

This was IMHO the worst restriction of that BASIC.

The only feature on the plus side of that BASIC was that it used the BCD floating format they also used in their calculator. So 13 digits precision with numeric range of 10^-99 to 10^99. When I switched later to the Apple II, I was shocked at the ridicule binary floating point format that couldn't even add 2 simple numbers correctly :-)

The TI-EXTENDED BASIC was an absolute must if you wanted to do serious programming. It enabled the sprites, had fancy stuff like named subroutines (that could even be called recursively) and a lot of restriction of the original BASIC were lifted.
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Personally I find that there's a dynamic balance that forms. Any less caffeine and I'm a zombie, any more and it just feels physically repulsive. You make a cup take a sip and your mind is like Just No.

For me that balance is at about 400 to 500 mg of caffeine per day. Stays stable for months and months, then I tend to reset a bit during a vacation of or 3-day weekend of some sort.

Don't need caffeine at all if I'm not mentally working. Barrly crosses my mind.
"It's noon in Texas, and it's midnight in Texas." is also self-contradicting. That's not enough for a paradox.
Chimpanzees have war, none of the other stuff is required for that.
If you're looking for a chart of the breakdown, I made one with Canva here: http://i.imgur.com/nK56ERu.jpg
This is a field of active research -- the increase in hominin / human cognitive capabilities, particularly as reflected in the anthropological record.

Sander van der Leeuw, of the University of Arizona / Santa Fe Institute, is among the researchers looking at this. Part of the process is tracked through the complexity of stone tools, which (he argues) is related to short-term working memory and the number of items that can be maintained there.

As to causality:

* Fire, cooking, and food preparation: increase food availability, decrease the uncertainty and energy required for food gathering.

* Tools, language, and simple structures: cooperative and complex arrangements. Possibly not so much the cause of mental development as a selection filter: those with better brains can work together in more complex societies.

* Agriculture, writing, cities: This pretty much sparked like a fire and took off immediately, throughout the Asian-African-European supercontinent, and, somewhat less spectacularly, in parts of the Americas.

* More recent developments may not have occurred over a sufficient period of time as to be profoundly evolutionary, though I wouldn't dismiss the thought. Still, the process is clearly cumulative.

You might also like to poke around at the History of Information website:

http://www.historyofinformation.com/

Also David Christian's "Big History" concept:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_History