skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no way that they are using friction stir welding in a high volume line. It's a very slow process, visually it's horrible (big scar along the joint) and, though I've no experience with it I would have thought that pushing a spinning piece of metal at high temperatures through two thin abutting pressings would be highly unreliable.
Ask HN: How much ownership do successive employees typically get?
I'm interested in hearing about what the typical grants are for co-founder, employee 1,2,3,4,...

I know at some level this will be driven as a value proposition, based on the value the employee brings, but what is the usual range?
a bit of a witty comment there...upvoted. :)
I responded to someone saying Blue Apron for home meals seems dystopian. How is my comment not relevant or adding on to the conversation? Blue Apron for your home meals does not seem dystopian to me. I'm replying to that notion.

That answers both of your quite condescending questions.
Could it be harmful to install PowerShell on Linux?
Recently Microsoft offer solution to install PowerShell on Linux.
I would like to know if it could be dangerous for the Linux and derivative.
"The Hadza seek out the same animals and plants that humans have hunted and gathered for millions of years."

That's quite difficult, given that humans haven't existed for "millions of years" yet.
This is a phenomenally stupid title. It's like complaining that you never found a Mr Kandy in the phonebook, because you only looked under 'Candy'.
Other services have forced Blue Apron to advance a bit on these. It used to be you got to "pick" from 6 meals. I put "pick" in quotes here because selecting meal 1 meant you couldn't select meals 4, 5, and 6, etc. Now they've gone up to 8 meals and you can pick any of them you want. Home Chef is still a few steps ahead with 11 meals, including one breakfast option and 1 premium option (extra cost).
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NIPS 2017: Non-Targeted Adversarial Attack
To say that Oracle is no worse than any other profit oriented company is not quite true.

It is the worst company that we in the open source community know of.

Everything they touch dies. If it does not die, it probably should, probably even for technical reasons.
Thanks, I was looking for this info earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14448371):

>"In our case, 56 zygotes were harvested from six pregnant females bred to six stud males and injected with CRISPRCas9."
http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/23/154450

So they started with 56 zygotes, of which 11 survived injection of Crispr/etc. Of these 11, five and two mice showed some evidence of containing NHEJ/HDR cells, respectively.

In the case of NHEJ, they do not tell us what percent of cells were "edited" per mouse (or I missed it when I read that paper earlier). However for HDR it was only about 1/3 and 1/5 for the two mice they found. So this suggests the "editing" is occurring not at the zygote stage, but somewhat later (based on the percentages, perhaps at the 4 or 8 cell stages).

Assuming the edit/mouse rate is similar for NHEJ and HDR (somewhat dubious), it looks like 4x56 = 224 to 8x56 = 448 cells were treated with crispr/etc and ~ 7 got "edited". This gives ~1-3% "edits" per treated cell.
For some of these, having a mandolin slicer can really cut down on prep time.
> A bug might be as simple as a single character fix on a printed string,

which could be really important if that single character was a decimal point that was screwing up sscanf in a european locale :-)

obviously, impact of the fixed bugs should be taken into account. It's pretty easy to measure too, by things like:

* is this bug affecting many customers?
* is it affecting just one, but a really important one?
* is this bug release-blocking?

etc.

If you try to game it, it will become very obvious.

> Rewrites, infrastructure, code reviewers, mentoring

Infrastructure is a feature in and of itself. Besides, doing things like improving a build system to reduce build times, or streamlining code review workflow has clear measurable impact.
Every rewrite must have an observable measurable impact, otherwise it is simply not worth doing.
Your mentees' performance is an excellent proxy to measure your quality as a mentor.
Again, all of these can be assessed without much hand-waving.

Code reviews shouldn't even count towards your performance. It's just something that you have to do. (though arguably, if you have to do a lot of code reviews, then it's a clear signal that you're a valuable person on the team who knows a lot of detail about the system).

> There are no objective measures of productivity in the majority of cases for tech workers.

I think there clearly are, and I just listed some of them. Sometimes they're hard to boil down to a single number, but in most cases you can easily tell who's doing meaningful work.
The greatest benefit and main purpose behind electric vehicles is reduced emissions. In this regard plugins are a big step beyond cars with just an internal combustion engine.
An AWS CloudFormation stack to run a serverless password-protected photo gallery
I quite enjoyed the writing style.
All this post really shows is that you shouldn't hire people simply for diversity's sake, especially not when their primary concern is social justice related questions instead of skills and ability. The fact that a post like this, by a writer as delusional and out of touch with reality as this, is being upvoted is an indication that this community has completely lost its mind.
Magma – An encrypted email server daemon
Could it be they are not merely offering you help but also asking you to help others in this "buddy" program? Help can go both ways.
Maybe the "new" section should be the default one.

The Economist once changed their default comments view from "most recommended" to "newest". Suddenly the advantage of being the first to post a moderately good comment vanished. Design matters.
"Effectively twice the speed of light"

sigh

I wish people wouldn't use the word relativistic when they clearly don't know what it means.
So you hire more people to do the parking...? What's impossible there?

That's if we assume they don't just self-park.

The hard parts by far are actual production and getting in enough materials. If you can get in a thousand each of every single part, it's easy in comparison to get a thousand assembled cars back out.
Because, as far as we can tell, everything that is part of our universe is governed by physics.

Our brains are part of this universe, and conciousness is dependent on our brains.
> You seem to be viewing all these problems through a political and government lens. I feel it's a leap in logic to say "if someone doesn't support progressive policies then they don't care about mothers, families, and born lives".

> I don't know any pro-life people who feel a burning need to cut these things. (SNAP, WIC)

I definitely am looking at it through the political/government lens. And while it's possible for someone to be pro-life and support progressive policies, I'm not sure who they would vote for that could represent them. There's a huge political fault line over many hot-button topics. People that are voting for pro-life conservative representation are usually the same representatives trying to reduce healthcare and are against social welfare programs. It could be said that many people were voting against their own healthcare interests, which we're soon to find out.

I'm all about people standing by their principals, and doing what they can, but I feel like this is government's problem, and charity while good isn't nearly enough to cover the scope of the issues, and certainly can't fix them at the source. I agree with your (2) as well. The 'charity' and price fixing of prescription drugs has been really interesting, because the drug companies quote the "reduced" price, but then if you hear the actual price charged to an insurance company, you'd faint. The "it might only cost you $10" on TV commercials is totally a way to play to people's ideas that prescriptions are affordable for everyone. It'd be much better for everyone to just have a reasonable price than try to be "charitable" (at least to some, and then rip off whoever has money).

We have to agree to disagree about planned parenthood though. Birth control, abortions, and other women's health care (that isn't related to pregnancy) is still important care, even if you disagree with them on religious terms. I wouldn't say that it's pro or con mother (and I don't think I ever did), but I would say it is pro-woman and definitely pro-choice.

I think the only place that would be against mothers is when you're going to a place and they try to convince you to do something you don't want to do, which I've heard happens at some of these centers.

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/15/support-shams-anti-abortion-...
Sounds similar to me and my wife. If you want more variety, try a CSA if one is available in your area. Ours would provide an assortment of recipes with every box and looking new things up online is just so easy. Who knew roasted fennel was so damn delicious? (:
> Meritocracy is an idea, not a specification-- there is no one true meritocracy implementation. The discussion needs to start from there.

Im not convinced it does. If you want to say meritocracy says merely that we should try to hire the best people all things considered then no-one would disagree. The disagreement is precisely about which things it's appropriate to consider.

Typically meritocratic systems in practice make the assumption that it is possible to determine merit outside the context of a specific team. I think this assumption is highly suspect. Merit is not a fixed characteristic of the individual but rather an emergent property of them in their context and in relationship with those around them.
A few habits I've found that work well for me:

1. Start small, then extend.

2. Change one thing at a time.

3. Add logging and error handling early.

4. All new lines must be executed at least once.

5. Test the parts before the whole.

6. Fix the known errors, then see what’s left.

Taken from here: https://henrikwarne.com/2015/04/16/lessons-learned-in-softwa...
Methods for Using Micro-Interactions on Your Site
Please, everyone who thinks, "I just expect correct inputs" take note of part two. I've had so many discussions with colleagues about that "Why don't you check for null pointers and give an error message?" "I think it's perfectly fine to just crash with a null pointer, I don't expect null pointers."

That attitude hurts everyone who has to support what you write.

edit: Reformatted as a habit "Make sure whatever you write can be supported without unnecessary headaches."
I find this hard to believe, maybe on bank loans or something, but billions of funds transfer?

facepalm
Well done microsoft you have introduced yet another dissapointment. I guess my days of using skype are over now. Seriously what is wrong with this company...
'Forward Deployed Engineer' (ab)uses tactical military terminology meaning an engineer at the customer site, who works with his team to do anything and everything to win the battle (make the customer happy), whatever the cost shall be. In some rare cases, these engineers really are deployed to combat zones (e.g. with US airborne or marines in Afghan). The problem is they end up with very smart people doing mundane tasks, such as installs and data cleansing, without any specialization and division of labor. Most FDEs are massively overqualified for the job they actually do.
This was great reading. Sure brings memories to life. My first encounter with computers was an old Spectravideo SVI-728 which I tried to program.
Thats a great idea, will try that.
Some men

The gender war has nothing compared to the class war. A rich black girl has more privilege than a white trailer park boy.

Huge difference in network and in knowledge of what is available for education and financial investment.

And guess what part of the working world has given the most opportunities to get out of the gutter the last 3 decades? Tech. So when trust-fund people start complaining on behalf of women, it can feel like class warfare.
After his message exchange published by Business Insider in 2010 (http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...), I think people have a hard time taking anything he says seriously.

Just print and distribute that article to ruin any campaign of his.
"Don't surprise me". The best code doesn't make you double-take when you're reading it.
I wrote the post because I've seen complaints on community chats. Lots of things that seem obvious to you and me aren't obvious to others :)
> they remove themselves from consideration at organizations that don't share their values.

Not necessarily feasible in all situations. Sometimes a seasoned professional is only able to find out about culture fit after working there for a while.

Like Chris Lattner recently found out that he didn't belong at Tesla.

https://mobile.twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/877341760812...
Tencent undoubted rule the Chinese market and according to the graph
Understand the tools and languages you use day to day inside and out.

If you know how these things work internally you'll be 3x better than most programmers.

Fail as much as possible in an environment that is okay with failure. My environments have been side projects at home and professional work as well. Make sure you know why it failed and what you can do better next time.
> are you sure you're not yourself requiring me to adopt to your communication modalities?

They are. That's the whole point. If someone comes to try and convince you of their point, you can either listen and engage in a discussion, or if you believe that isn't going to work out, you can refuse. Both are valid options and necessary at times.

Likewise if you want to convince someone of your point and they refuse to listen to you, you can either change your approach so that they do, or declare them a lost cause and move on. Both are again valid options and necessary at times.

The problem is when you keep trying the approach that the other person doesn't want to listen to. That will just alienate them further, and can easily turn into harassment.
My daughter was born tonight.

As I sit here holding her while her mom tries to get some sleep after an emergency C section, this was a terrifying read.
Maybe she is right, but I've never in my life seen a form that explicitly asks "Are you transgender". So I don't agree that this is a 101 mistake. Most forms ask "Male" or "Female", and that's it.

The fact that Github asked "Transgender" in addition to this shouldn't be seen as offensive, as I am sure they were doing this simply to make sure transgendered people felt included too. Sadly a good deed is not always appreciated.
As you say, the thinness craze was enabled by lower-power CPUs that performed no worse than previous gens. They need smaller batteries and less extreme cooling which means smaller sizes. Alternatively, keep the same size and you can enlarge the battery. Either way, perf/watt gains have enabled that in a way that's visible to consumers. With a plugged in PC, that's not visible.
I find it interesting that none of the discussion here has been around CSAs. Are these less of a thing, even in other cities? In the D.C. area there are tons of them. They provide really great variety and I suspect many also include recipie ideas with each box (the one my wife and I used did). Most will deliver to nearby farmers markets and in our case they had enough customers in our apartment building to deliver there directly. We learned so much about different types and combinations of ingredients in that time. It was a lot of fun and made for some delicious meals.
From what I've read, in some parts of America it seems okay to shoot at intruders running away from your house, which I find unreasonable.

A farmer here in UK stirred up a whole load of shit when he shot two burglars [1] trying to escape from his property.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)
Yes, if you make a mess and bring in some accessibility compliance people that have to suggest all kinds of shitty workarounds it will cost you money. If your devs don't know why those shitty workarounds are there they will break it all again in a next release. If you just use semantic HTML from the start you'll have a more robust product and less maintenance in the long run.

Oh, and ARIA rule one: don't use ARIA, use the native HTML equivalent.
Rule two: Only use ARIA if you can't express your intent in native HTML and make sure you know what your code is doing, don't just copy paste some ARIA example from another project or random site, lots of ARIA in the wild is wrong.

I'm a blind developer and accessibility consultant. Accessibility consulting is a good business to have these days, but I hope my work will be obsolete one day :).
Congratulations, I hope both baby and mother are doing okay.
I wasn't even born back then, so all I have to go by are the articles about it ;)
The "developer on fire" podcast closes out each episode by asking the guest to provide three tips for delivering more value.

Some that occur frequently are:

* Take care of yourself. Get enough sleep, exercise and healthy food. Have hobbies.

* Constantly learn new stuff

* Practice communication skills. Building stuff fast and well doesn't help if you're building the wrong thing, and you need communication skills to prevent that

* Think about the context that your program will run in (related to the reason above)

* Practice empathy
A guide to Cassini's remaining orbits
Collecting Vintage Serial Terminals (2006)
This one?
http://businessofsoftware.org/2012/02/professor-clayton-chri...

I can also recommend the HBR article mentioned above.
Just to say that this is exactly experience too. I am amazed that US grocery stores don't offer it as standard especially as Asda are owned by Wal-Mart.
The more I think of it, this whole thing is like something out of Portlandia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(TV_series)
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Monitor and instrument your applications with Prometheus
I wouldn't call them uppercase and lowercase numerals. That suggest a functionality of those numerals that isn't true.

The link in the answer shows the correct distinction between them http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-3/ but a only slightly incorrect TL;DR is oldstyle figures are for numbers in a text flow and lining is for mathematical use of numbers like in tables or technical papers.

OTOH there are true uppercase and lowercase numerals. Roman numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerals_in_Unicode#Roman_nume...
What sounds dystopian about it? Honestly, I think the amount of takeout that would be involved is more revolting to me than Blue Apron. My ex and I subscribed to Blue Apron for several months (I think 3 meals a week, but maybe it was only 2). In all that time, there was only one meal that we didn't particularly care for, and I think we might have screwed up preparing it. We found the recipes to be top notch and the ingredients to be very good (although the amount of garlic they ended up sending us got excessive after a while).

It was a great experience for us. I would recommend it.
But most of the premium of iPad is branding, the extra money you pay is not in the hardware, and Apple products also break so you pay a ton of money(you would need to be rich or really a big fanboy to justify buying an Apple product in countries with a lower economy like Romania where you also have taxes and pay a lot more then someone in USA would pay). My point is you buy a super expensive Apple product but you don't get 5 years warranty even if you spent 2-4 medium incomes on it.
Focused mainly in massive commands execution at Unix/Linux/Windows, generating a report that can be filtered.

for a brief description about CollectNode, check this entry:
https://collectnode.com/what-is-collectnode/

I hope it is useful, and please don't hesitate to comment anything about the tool, good or bad is always welcome. thanks!
Why Israel's Courting India's Prime Minister Modi
Tutorial – creating space backgrounds using inkscape and the blur filter
Here is another requested tutorial in the space series. This easy to follow step-by-step tutorial on creating the various elements to make a space background with nebula, stars, planet and asteroid uses the free vector tool inkscape.
I agree with throwaway_ldn.

I work in the front office of an investment bank (strat) and earn 120k after 5 years base (pre bonus).

Admittedly it's the higher end of the scale vs. years experience but it's not uncommon.
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You're right, gitg doesn't work on macOS. But since I'm only using Windows and Linux it works for me :)
Nothing. I mean, crashing browsers with a client-side DoS is possible in many ways.

With some horrible WebGL code I've crashed the macOS compositor before.
I meant specific to this issue given Oracle's wording in the post (and am not disagreeing with you).
Does node need another enterprise vendor?
Software Architecture Premises
If you mean, if it could harm your system, then no.

It's as safe as any other app you can install.
> that means you can't use a cheap cooler.

Actually, air-cooling is marginal with these CPUs, even at stock frequencies. There is no air-cooler which allows them to sustain their frequencies under load.

Water-cooling is pretty much required, and an AIO does not cut it. Still, even with water-cooling you can't really overclock these. They are pretty much at their limit out of the factory.

This could conceivably solved by Intel switching away from silicon TIM to e.g. solder, since the Rth(jc) of the CPUs is much worse at ~0.3 K/W than the thermal resistance of a big CPU air cooler (~0.1 K/W).

The overclocking problems wouldn't be fixed though; there is no easy fix for a CPU that jumps to 400+ watts.

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An entirely separate issue is that you need to get the heat out of your office. A human dissipates around 50-100 W; you can imagine that a small office crowded with half a dozen people is not pleasant in the summer.
s/admission/omission ?
Dude must have at least 3 clones to handle all the stuff the does. Amazing person.
> fastest chip in the world

Impressive for a x86 as this is, some POWER and SPARC users may disagree with this assessment. In fact, some Xeon users will doubtlessly scratch their heads too.
Journals should not be given the power to implicitly decide what research gets done and conversely they will never accept to be forced to publish all results because of the vast amount of research that goes nowhere.

The whole value for a journal is to be able to select once the results are known because that's how you build prestige.

All you are doing in effect is to lay out a good case why journals should and probably will simply die because this level of transparency would be a great thing to have but is incompatible with the publishers model.
They are suggesting a blockchain to prevent mutation of the publication (pun intended) after the fact.
I think the point on how mathematics is incrementally built is the main take away.

My issue with many of the maths courses especially in early primary classes is that they lack rigour. It seems to be about solving practical problems (calculating grocery lists totals etc.) rather than really understanding what happens when you do arithmetic. There are some things that genuinely help when memorised (e.g. the times tables) when you're doing arithmetic but that's looked down upon.

I'm trying to remedy this with my own children but it's a bit of an uphill battle. This article is definitely something I can use in my attempts.
She said in Twitter that she inadvertently signed away the right to release after 72 hours.
UI lag and stuttering audio is still mostly caused by bad IO scheduling.
An a-class company (size/influence wise not niceness) like Oracle adopting Rust is quite big news!