skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employers are interested in grades, just not directly. The higher education institutions from which they hire from are the proxy for grades. The target schools for attaining employment at certain firms and other graduate schools do the job of weeding out those with low SATs or grades or the wrong type of background.

An invididual's letter grades are not important, but selecting from a cohort of individuals that outperform others is important (also why it's important to be from that cohort). You're not aiming for every single hire to be successful (probably not practical or possible to invest enough resources to be able to evaluate that), but you can make the odds tilt in your favor.
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i don't think the problem is really lack of interest, but form in what is information delivered. if you give me 200 pages text document ful of numbers, nobody will bother to read it, if you make simple infographic based on this document you will see people are interested
I know everyone keeps saying this, but the fact that this type of thing is happening and it has almost become boring is just fantastic! We are on the cusp of the most ground breaking time in the space industry. I cannot wait to see what happens next. Space-X makes me wish I was 18 again so I could change my field of work.
The standards for what qualifies as "learning" appears to be very low here. A low endurance memristor would qualify here.
No one condones it.

However, the solution that was well developed in the 20th century, the "iron curtain" between the advertising and news departments of a publication, worked reasonably well (with editors being put into difficult positions periodically, though). Up until, that is, advertising dollars for news publications dried up almost entirely, creating an existential threat to the news organization.

Now, we are back in the pre-20th century world, where every publication is owned and published by someone with a particular viewpoint.
So with your feedback in mind, I've reworked the onboarding/signup process and you start with a sketch first and sign up to save it, give it another chance if you have the time. :)

https://www.sketchdaily.io/#get-started
I recommend writing a memory allocator. And then throwing it out and never using it because there are better off the shelf solutions, but now you'll understand why. Or read one of the white papers that accompanies new memory allocators. There's a couple good ones but I'm on mobile and can't pull them up.

I did so once, in my confused and reckless youth when I thought I could do better. I was running a level loader for a game, in 30 to 40% of the load time was being spent in memory allocation. How hard can that be I thought?

Turns out there's a whole heap (hah!) of trade-offs to be made, and a frightening amount of edge cases and performance concerns to be had with general allocation strategies. There is a wide spread belief that it is near impossible to design algorithms that scale horizontally with added cores. I'm convinced this belief started in academia with people writing memory allocators. The real takeaway I learned was to avoid memory allocation whenever and wherever possible, which actually works quite well.

Edit: Also the speech to text I'm using wants to transcribe memory allocator as memory alligator. I almost let that one stand. You should touch the allocator about as often and with as much caution as you want to touch an alligator.
If I were black, or Jewish, they would be direct threats of violence against me. A reasonable person would be expected to react violently to them. The sole purpose of that speech is eliciting a violent reaction from the recipient.

This is not a theoretical problem. There have been ~50 hate killings in the US this year. (And we haven't even had a mass shooting.)
"Big Fucking Hammer", I believe.

Not recommended for killing possums BTW.
Because it is an unnecessary and ugly abstraction.
How We Put Slack on Steroids – 5 Hacks and Integrations
Great stuff!

It isn't mindblowing, but insightful enough to take a look. "Focus on nascent greatness" is particularly a great section, because tries to solve some misconception about bizplan and ideas
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I can get similar results with my current (UK) residential banking for anything up to 25kGBP.
Please share any other integrations we could include in this workflow
I think the line is a lot clearer than that.

Incitement to violence, slander, false statements that result in public harm ("fire in crowded theater"), that sort of thing is where the law should be involved.

But there shouldn't be laws against bad manners.
Gates at least was notorious for working non-stop.
Would be great to hear from other startups who use Slack for their operations
Why doesn't this lady own a dog. A terrier would be delighted to defend the chickens from predators and would be happy to feast off the chickens who don't make it.
The author's logic would be much improved by attending one 4H meeting.
Maybe because this behaviour doesn't actually matter?

Imagine a scenario where your child is sick and will likely die. There's a handful of doctors in the world capable of treating him/her, the best one frequently says the "n-word", and the rest are 50% worse. Which one will you pick?

Most rational people would pick the one that's better on the metric that matters. The "n-word"-speaking one probably wouldn't get picked to do PR, but if he's a better surgeon, he's a better surgeon.

That's also how investors act. Someone is "better" if they make more money, all things considered.
Change into what exactly?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk... has overlap
Will nuke. Firefox is at 55 currently.
Did you choose GitHub because (most) repositories there are public? If that's the question, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be insider trading, because by definition it wasn't inside knowledge.

(Unless it required other, non-public data to know that the bug was important)
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You do not have to look at healthcare systems as a package. Each incorporate good and bad ideas that can be studied separately. I think overall the article was quite lacking in discerning the features of each healthcare system, especially considering that each is its own market with different market dynamics.

For example the way each system delivers primary care is quite different. In some systems, GP visits are free but very bureaucratic. You have to make an appointment a week in advance. Does not matter if your appendix is bursting. If you go to the ER they will send you to get a referral from an emergency GP clinic. In other countries GPs are just private clinics and it works just fine without any insurance.

I particularly do not like how employment is sometimes intertwined with health insurance. It is just a bureaucratic mess.
In other words, if you do the analysis and the work, and provide the opinion and results for free?
From what I hear from my stateside friends, e.g. american utility companies often charge extra to pay by credit or debit card.

From a UK POV, this is completely alien to me as a concept.
I think in 2003, NYC was a swampy Dutch trading post. I was born around then - I'll never forget it.
Sounds like you're describing AWS Lambda / serverless architecture. But maybe I'm not understanding your use case?
First I'm hearing of Hack! Didn't realize HHVM had under it's wing two languages.
That sounds awesome, but I don't understand much of DNA, so I can't tell, if this is really a breakthrough, or rather a good step forward ... (I suspect the latter)
Just curious here, what OS can do millisecond boot times? How many milliseconds are you talking? And the constant boot time of the OS is so much less than the OS responding to the web request that this is actually worth it?
No OSX support? :( :(
animal cruelty committed with no remorse, empathy, etc... - pretty much textbook picture of a psychopath. (note that while pest status of animal does grant the right to kill it, it doesn't grant the right to torture.)
Self-plug: I live under Bortle Class 1 sky in New Mexico. It's absolutely amazing! We are in the process of building a small cabin on our land that we plan to rent out starting in 2018 so we can share this experience with others. Keep an eye on http://darkskycabin.com ...
> Same when philosophers use and abuse Gödel's incompleteness theorems...

Except the most popular abuser of Gödel's conclusions by far is a physicist and mathematician.
Finally a great-great-grandchild for my 380XD
Project navigation for the way you work
Which happens to be tomorrow.
Since cancer and cardiovascular disease are by far thelargest killers, early detection coupled with survival rates would be the two most important factors with cost the third. Narrow the problem down to something much more measurable than most comparisons attempt.
> At the end of the day tech companies don't give a damn, its all about the money.

Do you know any $90Billion+ worth company that has impeccable ethics? It's the incentive structure of American capitalism.
Local agriculture is one of the most ethical practices around. For one, it's far better for the environment, for a wide range of reasons starting with the improved living conditions for the chickens vice a Perdue chicken factory, and ending with a dramatically lower carbon footprint.

In addition, it erases the curtain we as a society have drawn over where food comes from. Society cannot make ethical decisions about what to eat, how food should be produced, where it should be produced, and whether/how much waste to accept - because most people have no idea how the food gets from the soil onto their plates or into their refrigerators.

Erasing our connection with the land and farming is what is unethical about this situation.
Just listen to the podcasts (Accidental Tech Podcast, etc.) that talk a lot about the Mac, they all want updated Mac pros, and before the 2016 MBP, MacBook pros. Not to mention the poor old Mac mini with Haswell CPUs.
The world could use more of those for sure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel
And american signature-less swipe transactions and now the contactless sub-30-quid payment thing in .uk seem to make it pretty clear that below a certain amount, consumers really don't give a shit about explicitly approving things.
But who would ever take a C-level position then? Since they're the face of the company they're fired ceremoniously as a PR move whenever the something bad happens.
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aerospace engineering?
I don't disagree with the authors point that expecting massive hours without corresponding extra compensation is wrong.

But I can't believe the blanket assertions I've seen that working 40 hours a week is the proven output maximization limit. If I work 40 hours from monday to friday, and I have nothing to do on Saturday, and a strong desire to implement a an important customer request, how is working 4 or 5 hours on my day off going to result in negative output?
If you're concerned about cost, AWS is almost never the right place to host to begin with.
> it's very difficult .... [to] shoot the life out of a wild creature.

As others have noted, it depends on a lot of things, but most of all the energy of the cartridge in question.

While farming in rural Missouri, I found myself needed to end the lives of a number of animals over the years. In that pursuit, I always used this cartridge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-06_Springfield

This is suitable to kill any creature found in North America, except for perhaps the largest of bears. Unfortunately, it is exceptionally loud and not something to be used outside of very rural environments.

Disclaimer: some people will find the following story very uncomfortable to read. (It's rather uncomfortable to write) I relay it only to emphasize the fact that in all matters related to bullets and damage, there's an enormous amount of random chance involved.

A friend of ours was retired, but she raised a fair number of goats for milk and profit. Her financial well being waxed and wained over time, but she happened to find herself with no extra money, and a very sick and dying goat.

She could not bring herself to shoot the goat herself, so she asked me to do it as a very unpleasant but needful favor, since she (at that point in time) lacked the money to take it to a vet to have it put down. (That's a rather expensive thing, even in rural areas, including disposal.) She also didn't have a large enough property to leave a carcass out for natural consumption. I had plenty of isolated, forested acres.

She lived about 10 miles away, so I took my pickup over there. The goat was laying on the ground, writhing and screaming. Goat screams are awful. I put the goat into my pickup as gently as I could and drove back home. It was already a pretty unhappy set of circumstances, but it was going get worse.

I drove to the back side of my property, in the woods, and gently laid the poor beast on the ground. Chambering a big .30-06, I put my foot firmly on her neck, took careful aim right at her head, and fired.

To the uninitiated: this is a big, powerful round. Fired into the ground, it will leave a good sized pit behind. It passes right through 1/4 inch steel.

I expected a big mess and a completely dead goat. Somehow, it had blasted away most of the goat's skull above and including her right eye, but it left her brain completely intact.

She twisted, directed her remaining eye at me, and screamed again.

The second shot went directly into her exposed brain and that was that.

I'm not sure why I'm sharing this sordid story, except that, once again, when dealing with objects at high energies, almost anything can happen.
They're very much more likely to face consequences from the stock sales than they are to face any sort of 'negligence' charges due to their security practices, sadly. If Toyota got acquitted in their 'unintended acceleration' criminal negligence case, no one can ever be penalized for it. Toyota was exceptionally egregious in their negligence, even worse than most companies are as part of their daily practices. Their developers didn't even have access to a bug tracker. So whatever Equifax was doing, the courts will just look at it and do what they always do, say 'huh... computers, huh? NOBODY knows how they work. Acquitted!'
> The vast majority of philosophers don't advance the field in any meaningful way.

The vast majority of people in any field don't advance the field in any meaningful way.

(Agree with both yourself and the OP: with great respect for philosophers, comparisons of 'relative smartness' of one field over another is not helpful or particularly meaningful.)
I see the point you're making, but I have to disagree. I think a part of mastering any area of expertise is being so good at what it is you do that it becomes second-nature to you. This allows you to use your skills on demand when you need it, whenever and wherever. No prep required. And since it's second nature, you can tweak it as needed to make it fresh and interesting to yourself and other people.

A good example of this musically is Lady Gaga. She has performed the same set of songs so many times, but she has mastered her musical ability and skills so well that she uses it to her advantage (and the audience's) in a performance.

She improvises on the spot, harmonizing lyrics with herself and backup singers, changing lyrics to make them relevant to the crowd or show she's doing, and if she's on a piano sometimes changes up an entire song and adds parts to it which never existed, and may never exist again.

The result is an engaging performance that is never the same a second time around, and it leaves a lasting impression on the audience.
Maybe this will inspire cities to create a web page that anyone can use whether or not they have an iPhone instead of making apps that are simply a wrapper for a website.
well done. Apluade this measure...
My favorite scrabble word. My friend thought he blocked me from a triple word score by putting possum in front of triple word square. I put "box" on the triple word score and connect it with opossum and won the game. We had a huge argument that opossum wasn't a word. We didn't have a scrabble dictionary so we had to confer with a couple of dictionaries before he conceded.
Tufte is focused on his sculpture garden (http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hogpen-hill-farms). At an event I attended he got frustrated with someone asking questions about data visualization, replying, "That's my old life, I'm an artist now."
Tools to market your product
Canyonlands NP is great. Same with anywhere near Stanley, Idaho.
So this is how the open web dies.

Can we fork the W3C into a non-corporate puppet now?
Web Components solve a number of problems with other component libraries such as React.

React components are brittle. The brittleness comes from the global nature of HTML, CSS, and JS. The DOM tree inside a React component isn't encapsulated from the rest of the page. This lack of encapsulation means your document stylesheet might accidentally apply to parts inside the widget; your JavaScript might accidentally modify parts inside the widget; your IDs might overlap with IDs inside the component; and so on. This means React components cannot be safely reused.

Web Components solve this problem. What's more, you can use JSX with Web Components (to implement Web Components as well as to use Web Components). See here: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
I grafted two varieties onto the tree in my backyard this past year (Fiesta and Honey crisp). Fun to see them both "take", although it looks now like some insect or perhaps woodpecker has bored some holes into the branches, so we'll see if they survive.

I got the scions via a local home orchard group, and it was pretty amazing to see all of the varieties they had available. I also got a new tree grafted onto rootstock from them - Spitzenburg. They have a tasting in the fall and I liked that one the best.
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> I think many people have an allergic reaction to subscriptions of any kind.

Many people? I don't think it's a lot. Look at the subscriber numbers for Netflix. Or consider how many are willing to sign a contract for their cell phone. People will pay if the value is high.

I think the truth is most people don't care very much about the news. Time is scarce and people have a lot of choices about how to spend their time.
I'm waiting for GCP to support preemptible GPU instances. Would love to be able to spend ~50% less on GPU instances when running a batch job that can be stopped and reloaded.
> it means, still producing a correct result, even if the integers exceed the values which can be represented by machine-sized integers

To clarify for people alien to Common Lisp: In lisp, by default, integer numbers can be as big as they need to. From the Common Lisp Hyperspec, the entry on the
integer data type says:

An integer is a mathematical integer. There is no limit on the magnitude of an integer.
As fredemmott said above, we're hoping to build replacements for the various PHP builtins that we want to be a core part of Hack. I think that replacing the functionality provided by PHP builtins will be a less confusing transition experience than retrofitting them with modified behaviors would.

Once we do have a compelling and comprehensive Hack Standard Library, I wouldn't be surprised if we dropped PHP builtins in favor of that.
There's a difference between doing it occasionally when you desire to, and being expected to do it every week against your will.
I would hope "GNU Taler (one-click cash payments)" would've survived because it took a subtitle from the page rather than editorialising.

I sincerely doubt you can draw an accurate line for what's editorialising and what isn't though and I think I'd prefer the mods to continue to err on the side of "nope" simply because I think the failure modes are less annoying overall. But it's always going to be a trade-off.
I wish that there was a calculator out there that would allow you to build your own healthcare system, so to speak. You could tweak attributes such as funding mechanisms, etc. I imagine this hypothetical calculator could function like this [0].

[0] http://www.crfb.org/debtfixer/
That's a pretty weird story. His "expert" ability at picking funds is what was being tested. He then goes on to give his "expert" opinion on why his expert opinion failed.

Yes, it's totally possible that Buffet just got lucky. But of the five stocks, over the 9 year period (45 data points), there are only 9 data points where a fund beat the S&P for the year. They all beat the S&P the first year, then for the next 8 years there were only four instances of a fund beating the S&P, and the S&P won for the other 36 data points.

If we were to assume that the funds vs the S&P was an equal playing field (each side had a 50% chance of winning), then there's just a 20% chance that Buffet just got lucky. But the point of actually paying a fund for advice isn't to just have equal odds, the funds are supposed to beat amateurs, and by a significant margin.

What we consider "significant" is obviously open to interpretation. But the most significant win a fund had over the S&P was in 2015 where fund C beat the S&P 5.4% to 1.4%, almost a 4x higher return. But the S&P had larger than 4x returns than the funds 12 times. I'm not exactly sure how to work all of that into a probability, but it's looking like the odds that Buffet just got lucky is pretty close to zero.
Not sure if it was something that I was linked to here on HN, but I read an article recently that showed the average worker is productive for 3 hours per day - and one of the most popular non-working activities is searching for another job.

I'm a firm believer that success is defined by balance. Balance in all aspects of life - balance between family and self, balance between pursuits in which you are driven and those which you enjoy, balance between being social and productive. I regret to say that I have only achieved this on rare occasions. I am a work-a-holic, and frankly I think that's a bad role model for my children to see.

Well rested, happy people with healthy social lives can accomplish twice the work in half the time as a constantly stressed work-a-holic. When crunch time comes, they can spend the extra hours and put in that extra effort. Somebody who is already run down when crunch time comes not only has less to give, they have other priorities fighting for that time - because those other priorities are ALWAYS fighting for that time and losing.
Agreed - just check cloud comparison, AWS is rarely at the top: https://www.cloudorado.com/cloud_server_comparison.jsp
Not blocking would cause them to get censored; as a result FB would gain more market share through Instagram stories.
Yeah we should all - at he miminum - outperform a mathematical giant.
We should simply start doing new standards through other organizations. There's no fundamental reason to float new standards through W3C rather than some other organization.
> If CoffeeScript added an (optional) type system I'd switch back in an instant.

The home page talks a little about achieving this by using Flow annotations in Coffeescript source and then having the build system pass the Javascript output to Flow: http://coffeescript.org/#type-annotations
Space Explorer?
As much as hacker news frowns on humour replies. I really frankly laughed out loud when I read

"To end Framework Churn once and for all, .... Thankfully, there’s an answer: Web Components. "

I was expecting something like "Plain Javascript!" or something fundamental.

This is a content free reply, but I can't help but think this is the beginning of another churn.
When I went to college I took Computer Science as my major and Philosophy as a minor. Beyond the first year, the first day of every class was the same. Everyone introduced themselves and when I said I was a CS major everyone looked at me and wondered if I was in the right room... I love philosophy! For a CS person it is extremely relatable.
Colonist?