skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't even have to like the people or even the company

This is a really big problem for companies. Trust is not something that you can fake or "present" in an etiquette sense of the word. When workers at a company do not like each other, they do not trust each other. Where they do not trust each other, a growing bureaucracy creates formal process creep to ensure that different interests are protected. Bureaucracy and formal process slow work down and prevent the organization from adapting quickly to changing market conditions. Organizations which cannot adapt in time with the argument lose touch, become irrelevant, decline, and eventually close.

The specific culture which evolves at the company is less important than its role in ensuring that the people in the company like each other and therefore can continue to trust each other.
I would also add shadow divers: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Eve...
Depends on the pain. If you're running and your muscles get sore, by all means keep going within sane limits.

If you get a stitch in your side there's no harm in pushing through, they're painful but not harmful.

If you get shin splints or your knees hurt, stop and figure out what's wrong before you damage something.
Just hypothetical. I'm curious about the perceived value of music versus news articles.
For the record I do actually see a downside to a trading tax and do not think we should have one. Trading is a useful activity. There is no need to single it out separately from all other forms of economic activity for a special tax.
The beauty of this approach is that it appeals to the true significance of the business--building the cathedral rather than hammering a stupid rock.

Being intentional about a company's culture and practicing it on a consistent basis, from top to bottom, is very valuable in attracting talent and getting focus on the key things in the business. In our monthly checkins with employees, we reference our core values during the conversations.
You realize the name Borg comes from the Attic author, Jonas Borgström, right? No one else calls it Attic as the two are different projects.
It's sure as hell not a cat. cat's aren't flat and don't have white borders. Well I guess it could be road kill.

Once you figure out it's a picture(or photo) of something then figure out what it's a picture of.
A Mind at Play: how Claude Shannon invented the information age. (book review)
That would be wonderful.

I'm not holding my breath...
I could have done a better job with my comment and it was sort of tongue and cheek.

Of course culture concerns existed before but it was way more spelt out if you will.

When I used to ask companies "hey what is your culture like" they would say...

Well:

* We work 9-5 but when something big is due people stay to get the job done

* Our dress code is blah blah

* We have a yearly off site trip to some where

* You get this much vacation and we encourage taking it

* We have a diversity program

* We have continued education programs

* We love families and provide such and such

* If you have any problems we have a unbiased HR teams

All of these are concrete!!!

Far more useful than the ambiguous stuff Stripe is saying that almost all companies would say regardless.
Even when you do rewrite, there has to be a clear benefit. Rust does not offer a clear one.

(No, reducing amount of bugs does not do anything when pitted against well tested mature software that already exists.)
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In what way is he incentivized? What advantage does he get from waiting till the last possible moment? He has no clue what the current bids are, so whether he bids at the start or the end he still has exactly as much information. He'll have more information after the bidding closes and the winner is announced of course, but by then it's too late, only thing he can do then is participate in the next round of bidding, but that puts him right back in the situation he was in before where until the close the only thing he knows is what the previous winning bid was.
This is very difficult. One thing when you should consider stopping is if the pain becomes chronic and never goes away. I remember seeing a lot of top fighters pretty much living on pain killers. That's probably a clear sign you should stop.

I got a lot of benefit from doing intense martial arts when I was younger but sometimes I wish I had been smarter and not just ignored pain. But again, it's a difficult decision. Some things make you tougher and some things cause problems later on.
Thanks for checking it out!

I decided to focus on email since it's something everyone already uses and I didn't want to introduce yet another platform people have to check.

I'd like to add additional ways that people can be notified when a check-in has been sent out (for those that aren't great about email), but no plans for anything to deeply integrated with Slack. Monitoring real-time chat can be stressful and distracting, so I actually want to encourage people to move away from that for these kinds of updates.
Sounds great! I'm presently using a curved 3440x1440 34" 95hz screen with TrackIR, full HOTAS and a quality audio chain (ZXR+ATH-ADG1X). I'm hanging for next gen VR with improved resolution, but meanwhile I find the immersion quite incredible as is - can't imagine it without the head tracking. The soundscape is worth an honorable mention too.
I prefer using a standard layout, because then I don't have to adjust when I'm using a keyboard that isn't mine. I wouldn't mind having better keys though. I had an old mechanical keyboard at home for many years, but I finally retired it when my wife told me she couldn't stand the noise. I've always felt my typing was better with the mechanical keyboard.
> IEX has a speed bump that prevents high-frequency traders from front-running ordinary investors.

Anyone care to explain, in precise terms, how a high-frequency trader front-runs ordinary investors on a typical exchange and how putting a delay on all incoming orders prevents it?
A/ I live mylife in emacs
B/ I'm'a french citizen quite aware of this calendar
but I never knew about this command. Thank you, you've made my day.
Whenever I see these IEX articles, I think it is useful to point out that they generally describe 3 types of traders:
1) Retail - you and me, who make money through asset appreciation
2) Institutional (IEX's client-base) - big Wall Street firms, big money managers, big pensions, who make money by charging fees
3) HFT - small technology firms, who make money through trading
Here are some numbers. 0.5% of a $50 stock is $0.25. So to break even on the tax alone you need to sell $.50 higher than you buy. That alone will blow out the spread any market maker is able to quote at. The other problem is that now scratching (you buy at the bid and now it looks like the price is going the other way so you aggress and sell back into the bid for no profit) is also extremely expensive (you lose $.50 per share on a $50 stock just scratching). That's going to really kill your profitability. Maybe someone could figure out how to make it work, but it would be an extremely painful regime for market makers.
Really good question.

Just wrote a lengthy reply to this concern up above, but the tl;dr is that we sit on all numbers for at least 2 months and wait until there's an acceptably low amount of inbound traffic before releasing them back into the available number pool.

Would love to hear how you're using us. Will drop you an email. (And thank you!)
In my own experience, as I have not found a way to transfer other people's physical pain unto myself, there are two types of pain: the pain from working your muscles, and the pain from doing something wrong.

The first thing that you should learn when doing a new exercise is what the difference between these two pains are. Then, when performing more rigorous forms of the same exercise, you can establish where you can push through the pain. Is the pain you are feeling exhaustive? Push through. Is the pain something foreign? STOP IMMEDIATELY.

This, I think, is one of the reasons why it is suggested to do a lighter exercise before engaging in the intense stuff. As well, you don't run the risk of learning the difference between the two pains too late into the exercise. In general it follows along with the trite quotes: "You have to learn to walk before you can run," and "Start slow to go fast."
You have to rank for "language" in " location" first having a purty site one the punter lands on it is all very well and good.

I suspect job ads might go the way of price comparison sites where its now pay to play - its why relex (Elsevier) sold all its job businesses a few years back
Such as "in the bathroom", which was the experience at Google I/O a few years ago when a quarter of the people there had Google Glass.
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The article says that a high skill, high knowledge, safety critical task performed on expensive machinery saw productivity gains of 10%.

It seems for low knowledge/low skill tasks the gains would be less (because there is likely less need for operator to switch their information context during the tasks).
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/012716/four-big...

This article has a lot of the reasons. I think loss of confidence in Market Integrity is the most important one.
I just wish that PocketCasts web player would also sync playlists.
There are actually lots of very exciting GP applications! One of my favorites is "Fixing 55 out of 105 bugs for $8 each", in which GP is used to automatically repair code: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/p/weimer-icse2012-genpro... . They've also achieved better-than-human level results in antenna design for NASA ( https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1244h/1244%20(Hornby).... ) and in discovering novel quantum computing algorithms ( http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/pubs/GP-quantum-GP98-w... ).

I'll also shamelessly hock here my GP framework for Python, in case you're interested in experimenting: https://github.com/hchasestevens/monkeys
There are lots of other forms of information in the world other than the orders in a closed auction.

Serious question: Why do people always forget this? This comes up ALL THE TIME when people talk about quantized auction times.
Indeed, but unlike a rewrite, you can refactor staying in the same language at your leisure, piece-wise.

Plus the argument was mostly pertaining to new code.
Real source: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/07/google-introduc...
SendGrid engineer here.

We have a similar challenge in working with the fixed number of IPv4 addresses we're able to get our hands on. We offer our customers dedicated IP addresses for outbound email, but there are sometimes situations where a customer doesn't want to hold onto one forever.

We want to make sure mailbox providers (like Gmail and Hotmail) have time to realize the IP is not in use, rather than mistakenly associating it with the old customer. It makes sense to hold onto it for a while after the customer releases it before allowing another customer to purchase it. We call this the "cooldown period."
Your medical records would be far more secure on Google's servers than almost any hospital server.
I honestly prefer to not use pay walled websites. I also run adblock but in a whitelist mode, sites i often visit, find entertaining and worthy of any money from my activity, get whitelisted.
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When politicians keep their campaign promises, that is democracy working properly.

President Trump is keeping his campaign promises to reform lobbying[1], cracking down on illegal immigration[2], cracking down on ISIS[3], and he's making America no longer be the world's police officer[4].

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-sets-5-year-lifeti...

[2] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/economy/sd-fi-b...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/15/us-mother-of-a...

[4] http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-congress-...
You can't send a bank transfer (EFT) with a credit card.
>> I'm not saying the instructors are bad or irresponsible people

Isn't the most common criticism thrown at Crossfit (beside the cult mentality thing) that their training/certification process for their instructors is woefully amateurish compared to other, typically more responsible, programs?
You can read the comments (and the linked papers) first. This is an advanced algorithm that could take days (or weeks) to fully internalize the details. One can't expect to just read the code and build a mental model of the program in one parse, no matter how expressive the variable names are.
The Model F only registers key down events, and can't report a key-up. I don't want that ever again. Unlike many other aspects of old computer peripherals and designs, there's no tangible advantage to this limitation.
To say it's dead is a bit extreme, but it's not like 2008 when anybody kinda fast could find success.

Speed doesn't make money by itself anymore, so a lot of players whose only trick was being fast and not-so-smart are having problems.
I'm glad people are contacting the FDA to try to get them to extend drug expiration dates, but this article gives me the impression that after the FDA fails to reply, or replies non-committally one way or another, people give up. Have any of the efforts involved tried to move up the chain of command to Congress? The FDA might not seem to be willing to move on the issue, but if one could get one's senator or representative to care, that congressman probably has more means to get the FDA to act than the average person.
I've worked DOD project funding in a past career, probably one of the more restrictive venues for reallocating federal funds: and this isn't limited to casinos.
Many people said this on the initial run/introduction of Glass. Industrial applications are definitely where they should have started. I'm just glad they've made a comeback and will hopefully get broader use in the medical field and military as well.
What is the value of trading at increasingly marginally more accurate prices? And more importantly, what is the cost?

You seem to take it at face value that trading at accurate prices is an unalloyed good. But for the extremely overwhelming majority of retail investors — whose only sane strategy is buy and hold — buying at a few tenths of a percentage points closer to the most-accurate possible price is worth nearly nothing (and has negative worth half of the time, practically by definition).

On the other hand, Wall Street has been raking in tens if not hundreds of billions in profits from this service. What value we get from more accurate pricing may very easily be offset by these costs a hundredfold.
Are there really people proposing a 0.5% tax on trades? Jesus. That's 1-2 orders of magnitude bigger than I thought we were talking about. That's crazy!
Cheers, appreciate that. I've lost the physical installers for all my old games but will try to check it out. Looking forward to it!
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High frequency trading is basically capitalizing on inefficiencies in the market. Ideally, those inefficiencies would be addressed directly, and the benefit of a lower friction marketplace would be distributed among all participants. Then all the energy going into HFT could be redirected to something more productive.
LinkedIn has a PDF export and I see plenty of exported LinkedIn profiles when doing candidate interviews.

Seems to work for a lot of people.
1) You only get to see and make a potential buy/bid for last hour's bid/asks, only.

2) The system itself resolves it. Either it prevents you from making a buy/bid for something that was already "fulfilled" (though this would leak information). Or it accepts them sequentially, and refunds you at the end of the hour.

3) We're not taking that away from you. We'd be taking it away from everyone. You are welcome to see last hour's trades and try trade on it.

Additional points:

2) Another option. If your order didn't make it, the system can simply let it "stay" on on the system to be fulfilled in the future. If someone wants to take you up on the offer you made, they'll do it in the next hour, or any subsequent hour.
I said nothing about corporate customers. I'm talking about individual accounts, and individual devices. Google knows where I go, who I talk to, how long I'm at places, how long I spend in the office, and on, and on, and on. And at an aggregate, they know how busy every shop is, the types of people that visit, etc. They're quite forthright about this. Through personal accounts -- which Google quite openly mines -- Google has an astronomical amount of data about every business.

Google knows more about worker habits than employers. They know more about your city than your municipality. Etc. Etc.
"Make a system any idiot can use and any idiot will."

The floor in user capabilities is low.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

Also: http://wiki.c2.com/?IdiotProofProcess
You need to realize that none of them leave without state permission and all need to report regularly while they are away. They are told to not mingle and at least one of their number will send reports back to their home school who is following the rules and who is breaking away. Can't give citations because there are real consequences for them if names start getting out.
All you did was move the goalposts...

> but people called the Senator crazy for proposing it.

Who called him crazy? That is my question. And the corollary to that question - why do we care about this party, and why is it relevant to the point? A lot of people say plenty of idiotic things, but that doesn't mean they have any real authority in the matter.

I'm looking for precision and an understanding of why it's relevant.

> Shortest terms I can put this is: our country needs the money that Wall Street siphons off of the economy.

This is an emotionally loaded claim, and it's also not axiomatic. How precisely does Wall Street "siphon off of the economy" without providing value in exchange?

> High frequency trading, unlike traditional investment, is not a "mom and pop" thing, it's a tool only accessible to the wealthy to enrich themselves.

High frequency trading is a very small industry compared to all the types of trading that occurs on Wall Street. It has outsize publicity for a variety of reasons, many of which circle back to FUD.

Moreover, every single type of trading firm is only accessible to the wealthy - that is very nearly what defines institutional trading. You are no more going to start a discretionary hedge fund than you are going to set up colocation and an FPGA for high frequency trading, which means that HFT is not nearly alone in being inaccessible.

You're not actually explaining your point here. You're just repeating claims without defending them. On the contrary, market makers (who almost exclusively use HFT these days), provide liquidity to the market, just as the institutional investors in charge of endowments and pension funds provide value for retail investors' retirement savings.
For the manufacturing example, why is this better than having a simple 7-10 inch tablet? For the doctor example, why is this better than a simple body cam, or even a camera that is wall or desk mounted?
It seems that a law simply allowing private testing of drugs for efficacy, the same way the federal government is allowed to, would go a long way to saving money here.

Hospital systems and HMOs are large enough to save millions for a bit of testing, and once enough data is gathered they can easily and safely adjust their retention policies.
> The findings surprised both researchers: A dozen of the 14 compounds were still as potent as they were when they were manufactured, some at almost 100 percent of their labeled concentrations.

What kind of reporting is this? Anything less than 100% is not "as potent as when manufactured", and the sentence implies some of those dozen weren't close to 100%.

> The idea that drugs expire on specified dates goes back at least a half-century, when the FDA began requiring manufacturers to add this information to the label. The time limits allow the agency to ensure medications work safely and effectively for patients. To determine a new drug’s shelf life, its maker zaps it with intense heat and soaks it with moisture to see how it degrades under stress. It also checks how it breaks down over time. The drug company then proposes an expiration date to the FDA, which reviews the data to ensure it supports the date and approves it. Despite the difference in drugs’ makeup, most “expire” after two or three years.

That seems to be the problem. There was a procedure in place to set expiration dates scientifically, and it was ignored for some reason, limiting the legal shelf life of even the most stable compounds to a few years.
Just plug it to the wind turbine's output for a couple seconds :P
Here's a comment from a couple of months ago that pointed out a silent mechanical keyboard. Despite my exclamation I haven't picked one up yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14394268
OSHA[1] recommends keeping knives sharp to prevent restaurant and kitchen maladies from occurring.

The Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation[2] recommends the same.

The Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics[3] cites dull knives as a common cause for injury, and recommends keeping knives 'sharp and in good trim' to prevent accidents.

In short, "a sharp knife is a safe knife" isn't hokum. When you're pushing a knife into something, you're storing and releasing kinetic energy. A sharper knife requires less kinetic energy to begin cutting the object, which is ostensibly dangerous, but not as dangerous as a failure to cut, which releases all that kinetic energy in uncontrollable fashion.

Past that, in the event that you do get cut by a knife, a sharper knife makes a cleaner cut, which means easier healing, easier care, and (if dire enough) easier reattachment. Oh, and less scarring to boot.

[1] -
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/restaurant/knives_foodprep.h...

[2] - https://www.bwc.ohio.gov/downloads/blankpdf/SafetyTalk-Preve...

[3] - https://books.google.com/books?id=W0M4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA190&lpg=...
I think there's some low-ish hanging fruit here for Rails to not run validations for fields that were not changed on updates.
Please don't.

We want people to vote for or comment on a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because they or a friend have something to promote.
I suspect this debate was/is largely conducted by uninformed parties.
There already is a small fee imposed on every trade due to gov't regulation.
https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerssec31htm.html

At best, there could be a meaningful debate over increasing the appropriation to the SEC and adding new regulation mandates for them.

The question over whether we should have transaction fees should already be settled by the fact that the SEC is currently funded by such fees.
That makes me want a pair that's installed with an app that shows relevant stackoverflow answers as I code.
Blue Cherry MX switches have a pretty low actuation force: they're lighter than most rubber domes and scissor switches.

If you had wrist pain it sounds like your keyboard is too high indeed, but it's not a tall keyboard that is the issue here (and we're talking about 2-3 cm tall...), lower your desk!
Wasn't that the point tho? Basically Google went:

"We have this cool thing, but we're not sure were it's most applicable. Lets just put it out in the world and see what people do with it!"

Which is what they did. The data they gained from that experiment no doubt led to this.
I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure wherever you put the wheels, you aren't going to get the drone to rotate about any point other than its center of mass.
I worked with Taurie at Househappy and learned a lot from her. She's an incredibly talented designer. Kudos on the redesign!