skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than clicking the plus to add a person, I think a more intuitive action would be to double-click empty space. Whether or not you change that, the 'click + to add a person' doesn't work - when you put the word 'click' on a page, people will click that and not pay attention to the rest of the directions. Even if they did, it's a little confusing because 'click + to add a person' isn't clear. You need to be more specific. 'click the plus button to add a person' and then have the plus button move so people see it.
IQ is 50-80% heritable.

There is such a thing as a gifted child.
Guess what, Linux distros figured out how to sprint read everything that is needed into RAM and boot under 10 seconds. Windows takes more than a minute on better hardware by seeking the hell out of it.
This winter I got in the habit of running listening to books. It makes the run go by.

But after a couple of months I realized that I had lost something, the meditative effects. I've ditched the bluetooth phones and I like it better.
> “Any governmental assurances to keep your data safe have as much value as a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory.”

Remember this. I expect every piece of data given out to the government or to private organizations to sit in the databases of every major intelligence agency, and will not be surprise if it's all exposed to the public domain through data aggregation companies in near future.
Just a minor correction to that last point: Clinton lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by a total of just under 80,000 votes. That means that only 40,000 votes flipping could have changed the outcome, if they had flipped in the right places.

Of course, this is nothing compared to 2000, where the number was a mere 269.
I highly recommend Deirdre Barrett's book Supernormal Stimuli for a fascinating and detailed review of this phenomenon in its various manifestations in human societies.
In my view, we should avoid terms like "progress" and "intelligence" in these conversations, since they make implicit value judgments and tend to draw us irresistibly into certain unproductive patterns of argument. The topic of evolution has a similar pitfall.
>>Preferably, I would like to hire senior developers instead, but they are too expensive for my budget.

It sounds like you're trying to hire cheap developers, not junior developers.

If you really want junior developers, you have to do a crazy thing; hire people that are actually junior (have very little experience) but have potential. If you'd done that 4 months ago you'd probably have some decent developers right now.
Cool study, but it is my understanding that twin studies have a tendency to erroneously assume genetic causation since they fail to control for conditions the twins share in prenatal environments, which can (and do) affect behavior.

Some context: http://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/behavioral-genetics.html
Got a reply, fix is in the works! Love it!
They see he likes products x y and z. Another 20 customers like products x and y, so nudge them towards buying product z
Perjuring themselves can't be interpreted as a legitimate job function. Just as the city would sue an accountant to recover embezzlement, the individuals responsible for this liability should have reimbursed the municipality.
I'm a marketer in tech. My latest gig is VP Marketing at Turbine Labs (turbinelabs.io, check us out!). I prefer to work on products that would have been interesting as a programmer.

My qualifications at this point are just my resume, but at the point I made the transition, I had to no reason to believe I would be successful. There were 3 key ingredients that helped me out:

- I switched from dev to sales at a company that had a strong sales organization, but where my product was a total unknown. I could be a subject matter expert on day 1, which mitigated my total lack of knowledge about how to do sales.

- The product I worked on sold to developers. It wasn't hard to talk to people who were my former colleagues.

- I had a mentor within the company who pushed me hard to try to new things. He constantly told me things like "What's good for you is good for the company" when we talked about different roles.

For me, the biggest signal that it was time to switch is that felt there was something more "important" than writing code that I was always relying on to be successful. This was personal: I felt that I couldn't write code well unless I thoroughly understand why the problem existed and the backgrounds and interactions of the user. It turns out I really wanted to work on figuring that stuff our, which is somewhere at the intersection of Product Management and Product Marketing. Marketing just fits the rest of my personality better.
Maybe you should make the first step a small automated coding challenge? No longer than 1-2h and it's a simple filter.

Finishing the challenge on itself will be the first filter; then you can review the ones who finished it and interview the ones you like most.

BTW if you are looking for a remote web dev (front-end or back-end) drop me a line "public at francisco.io" <= my CV.
Isn't that still selection bias? Presumably CTE sufferers have a higher risk of dying — their healthy peers may still be alive and thus not included in that 1,300.
lol dude - you're paying for convenience - and that's alls there is to it - sit your fat ass down on a couch and blabber whatever you want at Alexa - then... THE SHIT SHOWS UP - this is why u pay more no??
I'm not that familiar with British laws, but what madness is this?

Owners of privately-owned public spaces (POPS) need not delineate their property boundaries, or provide any kind of indication when someone may be crossing from a truly public space into a POPS. Owners of POPS may establish rules of acceptable conduct for their space, but are not required to publish them. The only way to discover what those rules are is by breaking one, at which time they may be enforced without prior warning, and with no due process or appeal. The rules may be changed at any time, for any reason, with no notice.

That system is so arbitrary and capricious, and so broken, that I can only conclude that it is entirely incompatible with liberal democracy. It is the very soul of plutocratic, pseudo-libertarian oligarchy.
So it renders it two times and compares the results?
Which device are you using? With U2F, the browser doesn't send the name of the site to the authenticator.
For some the vote was simply an expression of their hatred for centrist/liberal/media elites and pundit class who look down on them. If you look at polls, lots of Trump supporters voted for him because of political correctness. If you listen to them, you hear about gleefully reveling in "liberal tears". Plenty of people voted for him exactly because him winning hurt people they hate and really little else beyond that.

And I think you underestimate the pure hatred for Hillary Clinton. Far more voted against her than for him. When your life is miserable and your community is dying and a rich lady you've hated for decades tells you "America is already great" (this was actually her slogan!), well....

Imagine being a truck driver and watching this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttscNOoAjA

Finally, at the end of the day your rank and file republicans are just going to go to the polls and check the box next to 'R' like they always do, no matter what. Religious republicans will say a prayer when they do it, poor ones will convince themselves he'll help them, moderate ones will convince themselves Hillary is worse. You'd sooner convert one of them than convince a lifelong fan to change their favorite sports team. Similar with democrats.
I might be missing something but isn't “Police Chief Says Dylann Roof Was Taken to Burger King Shortly After Arrest.” wholly false? Where's the element of truth?
Writing code in leisure time has given us some really great FOSS applications. But like many things, it's a double-edged sword: it's also given us Gnome3 and a lot of today's unnecessary churn. However, unlike little 1-man projects, Gnome3 isn't just a leisure-time project, it's largely led by paid developers at Red Hat. So honestly, I'd say that the volunteers really aren't the problem, and if you eliminated the salaries of the Gnome devs working for RH, maybe we wouldn't have some of these problems; the volunteers aren't going to sustain all that effort on their own. The commonality I see with UI churn across the industry (proprietary and FOSS) is that UI people are being paid to do UI work. That means they have to justify their pay and their existence by doing more such work, even when it isn't needed and it's downright bad.
Good grief, which London do you live in? I've lived here for nine years, mostly in Brixton and Bermondsey.

> Drug dealing and use

Barely visible compared to virtually every other city I've been to

> prostitues loitering

Haven't been a thing in London for a decade, from what people tell me. Certainly never seen it. Evidently that business has moved wholly online.

> homeless people begging

A fraction of what it is in any comparable American city -- but certainly on the rise in recent years due to Tory policies.

> women being catcalled and harassed

This is definitely an actual problem.

> groups of youths congregating

Good grief, how is this even a problem? They're citizens and that's their right. A city which helps young people to congregate is doing its job. More power to them, provided they behave well.

> littering

Yes, that's sometimes a problem. Not so much associated with youth, in my experience: yobs come in all ages.

> Many of these 'pseudo-public spaces' (think Granary
> Square, More London, Canary Wharf) are enormously popular
> with families and businesspeople precisely because they
> have security personnel who do a good job of tackling
> these things.

There's nothing that prevents public servants from doing the same -- except of course that they're underpaid and diminishing in number, thanks to austerity policies. The bargain which is making here is:

1. Reduce taxes / enforcement of taxes on large corporations

2. De-fund and generally decrease the quality of public service

3. Shift the burden of responsibility for providing said services onto said large corporations, who now provide a facsimile of the commons, minus inconvenient concepts like civil rights (right to assemble, speech, etc).

4. Use people's growing discontent with public services to argue for lower taxes. Go back to 1 and repeat.

This is then propped up by a "Broken Britain" narrative like your own, which is, forgive the bluntness, tabloid-fueled bullshit. Despite the the government's diligent efforts to undermine public services, London remains one of the cleanest and cities on the planet, and is certainly doing better than at any point in its history.
No one has the right to presume that the future will be similar to the past, neither Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg or Nostradamus.

The definition of AI in public discussion has become so loose that it's basically a religious war. AI can mean anything from, "deep learning enabled by neural networks on graphical processing cards," to "software tools that seem intelligent in some way," to literal Lt. Commander Data type technology.

What does anyone mean when they accuse anyone of having a dim understanding of a poorly defined concept? To may they are basically saying, "look at me, pay attention to me and my companies."
> they can't hit the lowest price segments

That's a lie right here because the laptop in question not low end, definitely middle one.

> Various manufacturers sell underpowered computers with Win10

That was always part of Microsoft deal. You get your computer from a manufacturer other than MS and they still have to deliver experience, and they've failed that one.
I'll second HTDP. A close read of the preface is worth your time even if the deliberate pace of the rest of the book isn't your cup of tea. The data-first approach to design is a breath of fresh air.
I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to get hold of an intel gallileo at launch as a gift from intel.

Unfortuantely the experience of using it was mediocre and am not the least bit surprised about this news.
Ah, so like the omni-present webkit view?
First of all I can't believe that there was not even one decent junior dev among 400+. Last year I was in the same position as you but received far less applications (15-20). 3 of them was decent, one of them we employed and he turned out much better than on paper.

Main thing is to give them homework: not more than 2 hours project that they will solve at home and commit to private repo. Make it unique enough to avoid stackoverflow copy-pastes. Do not give them academic problems, ask them to create real world examples. For example: create CRUD that does something specific like file uploads with resize or similar; access unreliable API and do something with it; create calendar that allows multiple tasks per day (UI/UX); scrape data from the website and put it in to DB.

Those are just examples, but they are easy enough to do in under 2 hours and you can test results in under 2 minutes. Out of those 400+ applications, half of them will not even bother spending 2 hours on a task, then in a day or two you will restrict that remaining ones to about 50-60 just by checking results of the task. Rest are just personal interviews. Just remember to write a feedback email even to those unsuccessful applications.
I love Musk. He is brilliant and I think he has truly shaped the future.

But he is wrong.

Artificial Conscience(what he is referring to) is NEVER going to be achieved. I repeat NEVER. Its impossible.

Conscience is in the form and not in the matter. In one word, there is never going to be an AI with free will.

However, eventually we may build a super intelligent system with great power over our lives, that goes wrong, has bugs, or misbehaves. But, since the fact that such as system will never be conscious, we are always going to have power over it.

So yeah, Musk is being an alarmist, and I believe he is the one with a limited understanding of AI.
Ask HN: What next after burning out?
After 10 years in Silicon Valley and several very early stage startups, I've burned out. Worst of all, I've completely lost all motivation and desire to continue doing what I've always done and loved.

I have a new job that is very low stress and low commitment. I hate it. The company is poorly run and I don't have the drive to do anything about it. Every time I talk to a new company about positions I lose interest at the thought of going through the process or onboarding at a new company.

I've considered and pursued other positions outside of engineering such as PM, eng manager and similar positions. But because I've spent my entire career at early stage startups my experience on paper is limited to engineering systems so even progressing in my career is not an option as companies want experienced managers and people with proven experience for other positions. Essentially 10 years of experience is worthless even though I have been doing those things. Just not as a my official job.

My past experiences at startups has almost entirely soured me on every company I come across. I'm now negative and skeptical about everything. No company sounds interesting. I think every founder I talk to is full of shit. Every product is crap and a waste of time.

Maybe even the worst thing is that I don't even have motivation to do my own project. Every time I sit in front of a computer to write code I stop almost immediately stop. I've been burned by Silicon Valley so much that I don't even want to try anymore.

I don't know what to do next.
Indemnification just means that they don't have to pay out civil judgments against them. It doesn't mean they don't lose their jobs, though I'd definitely push back against "all the time" even there.

Here's a law review article that reports the results of a national study on police officer indemnification: http://www.nyulawreview.org/sites/default/files/pdf/NYULawRe...

My study reveals that police officers are virtually always indemnified: During the study period, governments paid approximately 99.98% of the dollars that plaintiffs recovered in lawsuits alleging civil rights violations by law enforcement. Law enforcement officers in my study never satisfied a punitive damages award entered against them and almost never contributed anything to settlements or judgments—even when indemnification was prohibited by law or policy, and even when officers were disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for their conduct.
Measuring once every 30 minutes, and waking up once every 5 minutes isn't a lot. What surprises me most is that the sensor uses so much power.

My Casio CMD-40 smartwatch has a calculator and programmable TV remote. The CR2032 coin cell inside is enough for it to last about 2 years. The display is always-on, and I use the calculator often, although admittedly I rarely use the IR transmitter. So apparently sensors use a lot more power than an LCD and calculator.
I'm not sure why people continue to persist in the idea that AI will magically leap to human and super-human levels of intellect when we have a hard time engineering them to see patterns that it seems the average person can recognize with little training. I'm not suggesting that no such AI can exist but I'm suggesting that we're not at the point of comprehending the components that goes into such an AI (because I think we'll never directly create it but rather build its foundations which then will converge on their own accord and probably by accident).

In any case, I think the key legal problems of current AI and machine learning by extension are related to privacy. We've let such services invade various parts of our lives and we have no legal barriers sufficient to ensure no one's civil rights are violated as a result. So, let's work on those issues before we worry about making the next Colossus or Ultron.
That seems to me rather basic - like being a software startup but not being able to get beyond "hello world" in node.js.

Yes, it's a skill, but surely you hire people or contractors who can actually do it properly?
Ah I see, so it basically enables a parallel run of webrender to gather compatibility/correctness stats.
I disagree with you and take the extreme absolute property rights view.

I believe that only through strong property protections can we experience liberty: when one's ownership in property is secure, then one may plan for the future. Conversely, when one's control of property is subject to the arbitrary whims of the state, then one may not plan for the future, and economic growth is not possible.

Many poor nations, for instance, have terrible land title systems, and the land may be taken from you by the local magistrate if you are not the proper color / religion / race or have not paid the proper bribes. Such is not a good environment in which to experience liberty. Sure, your empty field will always be open for the public to play football, but there will never be a factory in that field providing jobs and improving the general prosperity.

I won't attempt to tackle "the public good" or "actively harms society" here.

(I'm assuming that when you mention property that you mean "outside, unenclosed spaces." Do you also extend your view to the buildings on property? Offices? Private homes?)
> As far as I know there's no word for something we like too much.

Supernormal stimulus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
>I'm sure you can guess what he looks like.

Homeless?
Jeff Baxter, one of the great guitar players who played with Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers, is now a defense consultant and chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense.

Talk about a radical switch.
We use Bugsnag for crashes, and Fabric for general usage analytics and adoption rates. Fabric also includes Crashlytics but Bugsnag has a better direct React Native integration. This includes source map support, version grouping, and issue assignment.
I have worked professionally in this space.

IMHO I can't imagine a technology that is closer to production that the Arduino, it gets you 90% and more importantly instills the limits of the technology before it goes to a electronic prototype house.

Prototypes are easy. Production is hard. This is the current issue with the Tesla Model 3, a few is easy, a full production line with all it's perils that's a massively harder proposition.

and there is always the Pit of Despair: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/909
Long term ownership of services is always a problem.
Sure there is: As with other professions with potential for high liability, police could be bonded. This would price high-risk individuals out of those positions.
That's not what the Chinese government wants you to think. :-)

For nationalistic reasons, China views those as dialects, or did when John DeFrancis was writing about the issue. In the other hand, they share more of a culture (IIUC) and government than Italian and French do.
Discussion on React-Native style management scheme
One of my biggest hurdles was trying to figure out if microservices were right for us (a small distributed team) and then communicating/selling the benefit of them to my team and bosses.

This involved creating a mutually agreed upon definition of what we actually meant by "microservices". I literally repurposed paragraphs out of Sam Newman's book to do this.

As a small team, I also didn't have examples to support my argument that microservices would benefit us.
I understand where your coming from and I'm sure theres a happy medium. Doing just money or just enjoyment wont work as well as a proper balance.

But, to play devils advocate... Having worked in a high paying, crap job and moving into a job with lower pay but much more aligned with my passion I am MUCH happier
Work in progress but: https://github.com/hatstand/gacertsbot/blob/master/appengine...

Currently relies on a fix to the appengine go SDK though: https://github.com/golang/appengine/pull/82
"It's pretty naïve to think that the things you enjoy in your free time are the things you enjoy doing for paid work and vise versa. I absolutely hate cleaning around my house, I hate everything about it, but I don't mind cleaning for paid work at all."

I fully agree. There are lots of things I'll do for paid work that I don't really want to do at home - and I'll do the stuff happily. It makes money, and the time at work passes along. When it is somewhat easy as well, it gives me lots of time to think - and that is a serious bonus. It also makes it really easy to disconnect from work.

Alternatively, it makes it easier to define myself by what I choose to do with my time. The most interesting things about myself aren't tied to my job at all and I rather like that - and at this point, a seemingly interesting job is just a bonus.
Again.. Amazon is like eBay on crack .. you can and will come across quality - you will - and when you do - you'll be that much more apt to go back for more - no??
Why West Coast VCs Won't Fund Your Business
Renewing/replacing certificates, especially with App Engine, is the bane of my existence. I couldn't possibly imagine doing this every 3 months.

This being said, I appreciate the tutorial.
> Why then is the explanation of Trump's rise often presented as a reaction to the cultural oppression and disenfranchisement of white people exclusively,

Two reasons: because the liberal left has made simply 'being white' and 'being male' as something to apologize for (check your privilege?), and because working-class white folks have been disproportionately negatively affected by the economic shocks of the last three decades -- this while blacks have been making wide gains in income [2].

The liberal left has been pushing identity politics based on race for a long time. It should surprise no one when poor white people accurately see that they are fast becoming a minority and they should use that type of politics for their own ends.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/05/news/economy/working-class-m...
[2] http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2015/african-amer...