skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a single app developer experienced unknown delays and attributed that to the fact that they launched on Android first... How's that anecdotal evidence going?
Risk vs. Reward. Even if you could argue some benefit from the "immune system stimulation" straw man, I guarantee you the benefits from eliminating the vector for debilating and in some cases fatal diseases far, far outweigh the risks.
What you are thinking of is semiotics, the study of how we attach meanings to things. If a landslide assumes a form to which we attach a meaning, Augustine would say that's a natural sign.

For example, when something burns, a natural sign forms which we call smoke, and the meaning we attach to the sign is that there is a fire.
>Your Vert juicer is interesting. Can you really do both apples and greens? Can you juice really dry shit like kale and wheatgrass?

Oh yeah it does it all. It's a fantastic unit. Picked it up on a 50% off sale for like $150.00.

One of my favorite mixed juices to make with it is: kale, green apple, lemon, habanero, cilantro, ginger. It's like drinking fire but it's invigorating and has a great flavor.
Best way is to google your phone model and see if it is in the list of affected devices list. Or you can get the chip's details by prodding with the adb shell.

If you are the adventurous type, this[1] comment has links to the blog post which has a PoC.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776192
>"Don't agree with this. Many Packt books are high quality. I have read several, including the one by Dusty Phillips, which is above Powerful Python. I do not share the same prejudice about this publication."

This observation about the poor quality of their books and their shady practices has been noted by many others as well. I am not saying all of them are bad but certainly the majority of them are. See these discussions:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-books-from-Packt-Publishin...

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/so-i-got-contacted-by-pack...

I have not read the particular Python book you are referring to but I have viewed many many other Packt Publishing titles and they are almost always poor and unacceptable quality. The reasons are what I stated earlier about poor English, typos, not spell-checked, bad grammar and often simply little more than paraphrasing official documentation.

I consider publishers like Pragmatic, Oreilly or Manning to be examples of reputable publishers. Packt comes nowhere near this level of quality or professionalism.

>"However, just as HN tries to provide value by best effort quality ranking, PythonBooks also makes a best effort attempt at judging quality. It is not perfect, but it's the best I could do."

I really don't think there's any substitute for judging a technical book solely by the content presented in it.
There are no circumstances in which it will turn around

Note that you used the passive voice, as though the circumstances are completely out of the employee's control.
Cue dystopian novel where all children are genetically manipulated to be light pulse controllable.
Terrible to lose such a notable person at age 40 due to breast cancer, diagnosed when she was in her mid-30s no less.
One of my friends from college has limited vision and the feature to read text aloud will be a game changing convenience.

He has a magnifier in his home, but it isn't portable and is limited to working only with documents and images that can lie flat.

edit: After speaking with my friend, he already uses a popular app called KNFB Reader that works very well on short text and documents, but costs $100. On the plus side, it works on Android or iOS.
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I am a high school graduate who has been tinkering primarily with React and Node since the past few months. I'll be majoring in Computer Science starting this Fall at San Jose State. Most of my classes over there are structured around Java.

I would like to learn more, advanced React and Node, and computer science concepts(data structures, algorithms, ML, AI etc). What are some tips / resources you guys would suggest?
Why care about some ppl in twitter?

I met a bunch of people hating on React and a bunch of people loving it.

No value in these tweets.
Your "pro" articles: Nature, and National Geographic.

Your "anti" article: Gawker.

Yeah, I think we're safe.
Propaganda is asymmetric, it takes more energy to communicate and rebut with Truth than it does to fabricate lies. Truth requires precision, clarity and subtlety; lies are a dead-blow hammer.
With laws like these, I don't understand why anyone would take a job in Idaho. It seems like you're just setting yourself up for a bad situation
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Well that worked entirely as expected, browser locks up, unresponsive and utterly slow.
She was absolutely brilliant in so many ways, what a loss.
Interesting, did not know about this. One article about the subject: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/thanks-anti-va...
So far I'm only convinced the author would have gotten longer, more verbose flow on Usenet or Mailman. I am not convinced the ideas contained in that flow would have been any more valuable.

To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what insight I would gain in this specific case from reading anything other that a) your post on diskless replication, b) the Stripe engineers' report, and maybe c) a few of the paragraphs of your response in this post.
I think you also perfectly described what has been happening on Reddit ever since the election.
And in general I agree with other posters that the success (3) is rare. In general if one gets on the "needs improvement" plan it is time to get out on your own. In theory it doesn't have to be this way, but in practice it does.
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Mediocrity cannot be remedied, unless you are a big company where you have dedicated departments to cater for these sort of people ( and by the way, they aim to accomplish the same outcome, just a little bit slower and more paperwork).
All I am saying is, an employee has no business performing a job he/she cannot do unless he is a trainee with a good attitude.
I leave this comment section with one last nugget of wisdom :

There are more skilled and deserving individuals looking for jobs that they can't get because a bad manager is holding on to a mediocre employee.
> Are there any which are known not to?

Are there any behavioral differences known not to have a genetic basis? Yes. When in Southeast Asia, I don't show people the soles of my feet (it's not considered nice, at least in some places). In Europe I have no qualms about showing people the soles of my feet. Behavioral difference. Yet my genes don't change when traveling from A to B.

> Why would you assume human populations to follow a pattern distinctly different from all the rest of biology?

What exactly are you claiming about "the rest of biology"? Are you confusing human populations that look slightly different from each other but belong to the same species with different species of, say, felines?
I'm not sure it's so much hiring managers not giving credit. Rather that, especially for relatively entry-level jobs, companies--especially larger ones--use a lot of cookie cutter heuristics to sort applicants. And "tried to start a company rather than go to college" tends to fail those heuristics.
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The intended process ends with the employee being fired. The only reason to do a PIP is to cover the companies ass when they get fired or encourage them to quit. This person frankly messed up by staying at the company.

The correct way to do this if they actually want to let the employee improve:

- Ask the employee if there is anything going on with their life
- Ask them how they feel they are doing and validate them
- Tell them about some of your concerns
- Let them explain their side of your concerns
- Propose a way to improve the situation where both parties are happy
- Reiterate that they are happy with the work otherwise

If the employee improves, encourage them and make them feel safe in the room. Repeat the steps if the situation does not improve. If this doesn't work start the official PIP, i.e. start slowly firing them.
In terms of efficiency, you're right. However because people get fed up of waiting and having to put up with their health issues and pay to go private instead, this reduces demand and the cost to the NHS. Think of it as a softer way of rationing access to some kinds of NHS healthcare to only those who don't have the money to pay for private care instead.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/13/kerberos_bug_dead_a...

https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DIRKRB/versions/1234...

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-11103

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11103

https://www.h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-07-11
Sheesh, what a perverse view of operation of companies. Non competes are silly beyond measure. I suppose the charitable view is that the legislators imagine that the employers have some magic beans which no one else could have beyond theft of the original beans.

In practice all this does is increase leverage of employers over employees while stifling growth by discouraging cross insemination of ideas between corporations.

The only winner is the employer who would fail to keep his employees through offering a good workplace.

Serfs were legally bound to the land on which they worked but could not own. Aren't non competes nothing but just a step towards serfdom?
I don't know.

Basically this means more or less that on the day your son (or daughter) becomes 18 you put on the table 2,000x100 US$ bills in a few neat stacks and ask him/her whether he/she likes it better to:

1) Study (hard) for the next 5 years (possibly in a remote city), living with one or more co-students in a tiny apartment and receive - say - some 500-600 bucks each month for petty expenses

OR:

2) get - here and now - all the 200,000 US$ as long as they are used ONLY in expenses related to the building of a new company, but of course with no particular form of control on expenses, as I trust you and you are big enough to make your own decisions.

With rigorously invented numbers (i.e. pure speculation or guessing), I would expect that out of 100 choosing option #1 70 would get after 5 or 6 years studying and a degree (without student debt to hunt them for the rest of their life) a decent, qualified job (and income), 20 a somewhat underpaid job, 5 no stable job/income and 5 (for one reason or the other) something else.

Of those that chose option #2, I would expect that 5 manage to build a "successful" company, 15 a more or less good company (anyway providing enough income to have bills paid and raise a family) and 80 either building a company soon going to Chapter 11/bankrupcy or building no company at all.

The good question would be how many of 18 years old would choose option #1 over #2?
What's especially intriguing is that this study reveals that people didn't like to see other people's fortunes reversed. So this isn't about selfishness or protecting what's yours.

This reasoning vastly underestimates human empathy and intelligence.
They more or less are. They've already decided they want to get rid of you. If they actually wanted to keep you around they'd have had a bunch of more casual conversations about what you need to do.
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Doesn't explain why Republicans freed the slaves and Democrats fought for 60 years to bring it back... but whatever floats your boat.

I wish you best of luck to your trip to Mars. Hope it is one way.
Oh no :/
Such a terrible loss..
Yeah it's less because of places where news spreads among the savvy like Twitter (and Reddit, and niche communities like HN) and increasingly more about the "last mile" of news -- the increasingly fragmented and ethically unconstrained ecosystem where people actually hear news from.

Facebook is, in my mind, much more culpable, being at the point of the spear for the radicalization of last mile news delivery.
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Get involved and produce.

This is broadly true for any area of study.

Intern if you can do it to understand how and why things work the way they do.

Join clubs or start a new one. The ability to organize people and communicate well is generally useful.

Identify the needs of family members, friends or anyone and create something useful for them. Give it to them for free.
True, was thinking about this last week, if these companies were to try and cash out, BTC would have a flash crash.
Besides the Swing/AWT support which isn't very interesting to me how do you compare to teavm?

We currently use TeaVM and it's pretty performant/small.
This should show if you have a BCM43xxx device:

$ lspci | grep -i BCM43
The problem with ARIMA is that it's more of an exponential regression rather than deep learning. We already have added weekday,weekend,month variable to it but its more of regression than deep learning.

So you are saying that RNN won't be suited for non-linear sales forecasting?
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It's interesting that people who come on these threads to argue that bootcamps aren't effective, scams, etc. say, 16 weeks aren't enough to teach you everything about programming and that programming correctly requires constant practice and learn new things. Well, duh. That's true even if you spend four years majoring in CS, self-studied for a year, or got an associate degree in programming.

And yeah, that's because there's too much to know, especially in web dev where the frameworks and standards are changing all the time. And yeah, I think that a 12-16 intensive program backed by 3-6 months of pre-study (which was what my bootcamp was) is definitely sufficient to produce competent junior web devs. How do I know that? Because, again, I see people from my cohort and prior cohorts succeeding at their jobs.

You can keep saying, but! but! they need tons of support and hand-holding! They can't possibly know how to write clean code! (Because of course, new college grads are writing Code Clean-approved code from day one) They need months of training before they can fix a CSS issue!

C'mon. Yeah, if you hire a recent bootcamp grad and tell him to rewrite the whole backend, you're setting him up to fail. But if you hire him as a junior software engineer and give him tasks that are appropriate for that role? And what new hire doesn't require training? You think brand-new plumbers, air conditioning repairmen, accountants, salesmen etc. don't require training and mentorship?

Yeah, bootcamp isn't a magical potion that turns everyday joes into Linus Torvalds. But so what? It's an innovative program that's produced thousands of successful engineers in the Bay Area and beyond. The sauce isn't for everyone, but it's been a great way for many people to prep for a new career.

Edit: And what's even more amazing to me about the anti-bootcamp screeds is that this is an industry that celebrates self-learned programmers! Very often I see posts that say, bootcamps are scams, don't do it, you can't be competent coming out of it, just go study on your own for a while. Okay. So studying and making stuff on your own can make you a competent programmer, but intensively programming for 12-16 weeks with other people who share your passion while under expert guidance, is somehow not good enough? Never understood that one.
I've lived abroad all over but make my home base in San Antonio, TX. I can speak to this somewhat. Part of it is definitely the weather, but a bigger piece is a general lack of walkability.

For instance, in most places I've lived abroad I can walk for 5-7 minutes from my residence to a handful of places to eat lunch. In San Antonio, the closest restaurant (which I don't want to eat at for health reasons) is a 17 minute walk.

In other places I've lived when you're walking you are surrounded by something worth seeing, something interesting. Parks, interesting architecture, public artwork, other people, etc. In San Antonio, from where I live a walk would be nothing but highways, cookie cutter houses, and cookie cutter apartments for hours on foot before I got to see anything interesting. Prague for instance has a little bit of art in everything, which makes it interesting. Even the sidewalks themselves are patterned on opposing sides of the street and change between districts and sections to be artistic.

In other places I've lived for longer distances it's a simple and quick matter to access public transport on foot and then to continue on foot from where you get dropped off. In San Antonio, I'd need to walk 17 minutes to the nearest bus stop, then I have a long bus ride with multiple transfers to get to anywhere near a walkable part of the city from my residence.

These cities in the US are fundamentally built with cars in mind first and foremost, have almost no public transport, and have zero attempt to make them even remotely walkable. The weather is just a small piece. I could wear a hat and get over the heat since it's mostly dry heat here, but you can't get over the fact there's nothing to /do/ or /see/ or /get to/ on foot. Walking has no purpose here. I didn't walk everywhere just for my health when I was abroad, I did it because it was useful and efficient and fun.
Compare with indentured labour:

> An indentured servant or indentured labor is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed period.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude
The problem with using this as a template for solving the US healthcare problem, of course, is that proposing that Americans should have access to less treatments and put up with worse healthcare outcomes in order to improve value for money is a complete political non-starter.
To be honest I guess it's most likely a combiation of their bing speech and vision apis, so as there are android sdks for all of them, you could easily reproduce this as an android app.
Can we get a black bar for this?
This is untrue. It usually will not turn around.

About 15 years ago I was put on one, and it wound up working out. I've known a couple of other people who have beat the PIP as well. In the vast majority of cases though you are right. As time has gone on I've realized that the chances are so low it's not worth someone trying to beat it.
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Is there a startup named Hwæt yet?
What Antirez describes is magnified on Twitter but no means isolated to it. Cherry-picking and un-charitably attacking someones statements is a human flaw that everyone should seek to suppress. And it happens for a couple reasons

* Weak egos on part of the listener. They want to _take down_ or show their superiority by besting a famous or popular person.

* Over Criticality. Instead of waiting for the entire argument to jell, and trying to charitably [1] understand the persons argument, you find the first perceived hole and attack. Often arguing about things that aren't germane to the discussion.

* False Drama / Celebrity Association. This is the bullshitter who wants to be "involved in the argument" but doesn't really care about the argument or the outcome.

People forget that debate, as practiced in meat space is about winning, not using logic to present cogent arguments. So when Antriez gets beaten on Twitter, he losing the debate due other's rhetorical skill. Your mom.

[1] http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html
There is no such thing as a wise monkey. Take everything you said and remove the possible upside, and that is the truth.
Probably because you or your family are already established in Idaho? Grew up there? Elder relatives to care for? Spouse offered a hard to come by research position at a university?
He's probably being pressured by the US to test this out in Australia, in the same way that McDonalds uses Australia as a test market.
I daresay the experience of hustling and trying to build a company is a valuable form of education even for the 80 who fail
Peripheral, but I found it funny that a salesperson would get "Trust No One" tattooed on themselves in a place where clients could read it while she talks with them.
I'm sure the part about Apple punishing you for launching on Android first is rubbish, but the second claim is true - App Store rules are that you can't mention the word 'Android'.

Rule 2.3.1:

"don’t include names, icons, or imagery of other mobile platforms in your app or metadata"

And here is a case where they actually enforced it:

http://bgr.com/2015/05/21/app-store-rejection-android-ios/
Non-American businesses and corporations which depend on intelligent manpower should be more worried because of the proposed changes, not less. The entire point of immigration reform is to make it merit-based i.e. the most promising candidates would be prioritized.
I don't understand how the american voters allow shit like this and the ridiculous "at will" law. etc to fly in the US.

your country seems to not want to ditch the slavery concept...

its astounding to watch a once great country eat itself alive like that.
Thanks for the links. If the first link is what they're referring too, then it's a pretty dumb headline.

That article is a non-peer reviewed perspective on some recent research. To provide background they make a throw away comment about some work done in 2007 [1] and say it's kind of similar to what you see in 4 year old children (in another study).

The original researchers don't seem to have made that statement, or attempted to support it. So... par for the course for New Scientist I guess...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17314979?access_num=1731...
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Well, I am from China too. Unlike some of my fellow countrymen, I don't find it offensive at all because I know the speaker is a true patriot who cares about basic human rights for every Chinese and fights for the cause until his very end. This statement is more about the weakness of Chinese citizen than an actual call for China to be colonized. It is brought up during an interview[1], and for some reason Liu may be speaking with a hot head and a big mouth. Let's stop attacking Liu's character with just one careless sentence.

May him rest in peace.

[1]: The interviewer's clarification of context (in Chinese) http://www.open.com.hk/content.php?id=44#.WWoeRjcRWrw
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When an employee isn't working out, it's almost always because the role is a bad fit and not because they have deficiencies as an engineer or as a person.

That's why performance improvement programs are so degrading and insulting. The person doesn't need to change, they need to be in a role that's better suited to their abilities, temperament, or whatever is causing the mismatch. Often that role is in a different company and if so then great because everyone is better off and that's a good thing.
Maybe the message is already in the Tardigrade.
You have to request access to on demand P* instances so I suspect some people can't get as much allocation as they need and end up turning to the spot market.

Makes sense in constrained supply regime.
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Well you certainly don't have the right to make me use modern medicine or take vaccinations. Just as I don't have the right to spray herbicide on your lawn. Even if there are weeds.