skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another issue is, they don't seem to differentiate between which B12 supplement. Cyanocobalamin may or may not have long term effects, and probably should be avoided as a supplement ingredient.

Although, someone always pops up and says "but there isn't enough cyanide to matter"; we don't know what supplementing with cyanocobalamin does over a decade actually does.
I guess my point was that the "moral" aspect of academia (="pushing the limits of knowledge") has faded away over the last few decades.

Currently departments are pressing researchers towards output rather than long-term quality work - at least that was the key aspect of my post-doctoral experience.
If the universal constants change, we have far more to worry about than our measurements being inaccurate.

Also, we can view the past for many of these constants (gravity, for example) by looking in telescopes to places many millions or billions of light years away- and what we see reflects gravity and the speed of light being the same as it was then. Why would it change now? Occam's Razor applies.
hope you guys realize there's more to opensource than github..

show me freebsd or linux kernel contribution on github, for example
Waze error leaves São Paulo traffic (even more) congested
That's not the only reason it's a terrible analogy; Musicians are artists, developers are tradespeople. If an interview method doesn't make sense for a carpenter or an electrician, it probably doesn't make sense for a developer. That being said, I don't think there are any good proxies for whether a hire will be a good fit, so I understand the problem employers are facing.
What are some Big Data Trends that you just can’t miss?
Grad school dropout here. I never wanted to be a professor. I have no interest in teaching. I just wanted to research. My degree would have been in CS/ML/NLP.

When I realized that I would be out over half a million dollars in earnings over the time I was in grad school, I made the decision to leave. The fact that my advisor was a terrible researcher and a horrible person made it much easier.
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It was created for marketing agencies, but I think you might like it as well.
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Sharing my perspective isn't judging for others. Certainly each person has to find what works for them and their situation.

Still, I caution people to consider the possibilities they may be sacrificing.
Because there are instances where the customer cannot put an SSL certificate on their server. So, I probably should have said "almost no reason".
Some very good points.
> ...digital repatriation of cultural heritage...

So basically the university is going to block access to a valuable publicly owned academic intellectual property due to some sort of social guilt from the research team and may even turn over partial ownership of that publicly owned property.
My programming 101 teacher was exactly like this except instead of going home he would go to his lab. He was extremely disorganized and would spend the first 30-45 minutes of class making sure his java programs were working for the lecture.

A student finally asked him why he doesn’t come prepared to class. His response was he teaches he easiest class the can and only the minimum amount of classes he needs to. He wanted to work on his research and get grants not teach.

He was making 150k.
Honestly when hiring I think the exact opposite : I would only look to side or open source projects for an inexperienced candidate who would have no other way to demonstrate competence and a track record. In the case of a candidate with more experience, their having a body of work outside of their paid employment would be perhaps interesting and something to drive a discussion with them but it would also make me wonder if they were engaged in their day job.
Most models I've seen have at most a few hundred MB of parameters, have complex connections that can only be modeled as a set of many different 1 or 2D arrays with different sizes. Further, this DB stresses that it handles sparse sparse data, any most ML data is not sparse.

It doesn't seem like the best application. On one of their pages it mentions they ingest BAM records, which is for biological sequences. I'm guessing some DNA storage applications.
The way ledbat works is by measuring the derivative of round trip time with respect to a throttled receive bandwidth. As long as RTT is constant or decreasing, keep increasing bandwidth; if RTT is increasing decrease bandwidth.

The server has to give you an indication of round trip for that to work - although I suspect there’s some clever way to get it using Some kind of URG or OOB or keep alive even if the server doesn’t natively support TCP ledbat.
They are referring to the Core above - $5000 to start, $1000 for each additional sensor.
Just tried using the free tier to send an invoice - was pretty good. Have to say, the experience was a fair bit cleaner than quickbooks. Just wondering, do you render your PDFs on your server or in the browser?
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Super Mario Odyssey is a masterpiece of twists and turns
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I agree with that. When I say "take off", I mean become popular with or useful for the general public. It makes a great demo though. Also, I'm talking about the current generation of VR that involves strapping something to your face. Get rid of that and everything changes.
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>"we can view the past for many of these constants (gravity, for example) by looking in telescopes to places many millions or billions of light years away- and what we see reflects gravity and the speed of light being the same as it was then."

Isn't this circular? The concept of a light year (and the determination of how far you are looking into the past, etc) assumes a constant speed of light.
Yeah, mine hangs on the wall, unused. The pay would have been half what I made just doing software development. Oh well, I enjoyed my 20s and poverty was hard at times but didn't scar me.
My thoughts when reading that (in order):

- With as many pivots as Flattr had, it should be called Flattr 5.0 (after reading the headline)

- Hmm, actually looks really interesting now, and they seem to have tought about the major pitfalls (after reading the blog post)

- Nope, not gonna touch that! (after finding out that flatter was acquired by the makers of Adblock Plus)

(Oh boy have I made many dismissive comments today...)
id has always made opengl engines. They get to deal with endless driver breakage. When Rage came out I believe AMD cards didn't work at all for over a week.
I'd be interested to see how the institution at which you studied effects the probability of a successful career. If you're a masters student at a top uni, do the numbers change significantly?
I've started to distrust Seeking Alpha on Tesla news. They're an investor-oriented site, so every article (no matter its position) feels like it's designed to move the market one way or another. They have both pro- and anti-Tesla contributors, but lately the biggest attention-getters have been the anti-Tesla contributors.

I'd prefer to see this published by actual journalists or some approximation thereof. Tesla has a lot of fans, yes, but they also have a LOT of enemies, and this is the sort of outlet I would imagine they would publish in.

Does anyone have a reputable source for this?

Also, regarding the content, most of these stipulations seem designed to tamp down speculation and scalping among reservation holders. I mean, that sounds like exactly what they SHOULD be doing. A very uncharitable interpretation of that is what makes me distrust the rest of the article.
Confused it with: http://www.getwalnut.com/
Soda cans are in fl-oz. Generally 12, though energy drinks are different.

Soda bottles are in fl-oz or l. 20 oz, 1 l, or 2 l are the common values.

Alcohol is similar: beer is in pint bottles or cans, hard liquor in 750ml bottles.

Car engine displacement tends to be in l. Power is hp and gas mileage is mpg.
Facebook is in danger of becoming the new AOL.

There's no new thing in technology, just variations on themes.
Things are different for those doing theoretical science where the main instruments are pen and paper. External funding is often not required at all. This might not please the department, but the tenured professor would be just fine.

When I did my PhD I worked in Math and CS (plus had friends in Physics with similar observations): many professors on the theoretical side had no need for and were not interested in getting grants. They would get some minor travel money for conference expenses and pay themselves over summer so they would not have to teach then, but even if they got nothing they would be just fine on a base salary. And I am talking about reasonably well known full professors, not some young researcher at the end of a rope (career-wise).

Things are different when you have experimental labs to run. That is when you need external funding and have to do all that is involved in getting it (proposals unlimited, etc.)
To be honest it doesn't sound like you have any business writing shell scripts intended for anything in production.

You want to lament a unix shells inability to introspect
across problem domains the way a glue language can|does
you are going to be talking to a relatively inexperienced audience for sympathy.
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I would like to point out two things about Flattr:

- Whenever other people send you money, Flattr keeps 10% from that money.

- When you make money with Flattr, Flattr expects you to give this money back to other authors you like. And they will send them back to other authors. As the money are sent back and forth, and 10% are removed at each step, Flattr is the only one actually making any money.
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this, but it seems a bit simplistic. CEO's are also in the position to be thought leaders, public advocates, build hype, and internally, guide the company to specific results.

At least the first three of those are different ways of setting culture. The last one is so loosely defined that it could mean anything.

The sum of all actions of all actors within a company is its culture. If people act in an obsessive way about UX, then you have a culture of obsessive UX.

The CEO has the power to shift these cultures. There are many tools, as you point out, but the biggest one is setting appropriate goals, with the proper aligning (dis)incentive structure. These are set on his subordinates, who then filter it down and specify it for their subordinates, and so on down the entire chain.

> Also, I'm not sure that enforcing unit tests is exactly a "cultural" issue. How many unit tests you write is a decision that weighs current development speed against future development speed and reliability. That is of course influenced by culture, but not exactly culture itself.

If you supposedly have a culture that values writing unit tests, then that should be reflected in action. The idea of tossing unit tests should be met with disdain, the same way we value not murdering people and murder is meet with disdain. It's not about tradeoffs, it's about stated cultural values (talk) versus the actual culture (walk). If there's nothing holding you to the stated cultural values, that's a management failure.
Floating points compress poorly, though.
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Seems like a lot of hassle. Why shouldn't creators just keep using Patreon? None of the buzzwords in the post would convince me to switch.
The vitamin industry is scaring people to prop up sales. Eat a more or less varied diet and you'll be fine, unless you have a very specific condition (pregnant for one).

Less Vitamin X today is not going to kill you. It's probably better than, "oh I need 1000mg so I'll just take 5000 and let the body handle it."
That is all good to hear! I look forward to seeing how the project evolves.
How useful is the JavaScript Set
The containerised terminal toolset is really nice idea.

There's some value in using a hybrid approach with a lightweight laptop though the iPad Pro offers a pencil and probably better battery life.
> - Nope, not gonna touch that! (after finding out that flatter was acquired by the makers of Adblock Plus)

What's wrong with Adblock Plus? I use it. I thought it was supposed to be good. Is there something I've missed?
>> It is not that I am a great talented writer, only that I care about it.

This is what's missing - we only need to care about what we say before saying it for communication to improve.
> He wanted to work on his research and get grants not teach.

Working on research that's worthy of grants is extremely taxing, and is the part that makes universities function. Teaching undergrads is a chore.
Depends on field.
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In the early years of Android Studio, I generally preferred IntelliJ. I have since converted our application and main library (SQLCipher for Android) to use Gradle. I have Instant Run disabled, but otherwise I haven't run into many issues with Android Studio. We still coordinate our library build with a Makefile.
This is interesting but is tangential to my point: compensating NIMBYs isn't a viable strategy.

OT, but:

"Taking actions toward increasing property value are only rational with intention to put the property into market"

No, even if you intend to die in your current home, increasing property values are great if (i) you can borrow against the value, to fund current expenditure and (ii) property taxes don't go up as a result (yay California).

"lifestyle of changing home every some years based on workplace location, family size, etc. one is always in the market and increased real property value is quite favorable"

I think that depends on whether you're trading up or trading down. If you want to buy a place double the size of your current one (e.g. to raise a family), then you'd want prices to be lower. As the differential between the sale price of your existing home, and the purchase price of the new one, would be lower.
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SAS Supports R, so simply write R scripts and replace the proprietary crap piece by piece.
Then use cost and security issues to kick them to the curb (A newspaper article about wasted Millions usually works if you can't get management to listen to reason and a researched cost-benefit analysis)
This is one project: https://livingtongues.org/
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Teaching is a distraction to the real work that goes on in universities. Just because you don't see professors teaching, doesn't mean that they aren't working extremely hard, on very important and stressful tasks (i.e. tasks that are fundamental to the university being a viable organisation)
I didn't see an account, but it wasn't exactly a rare event to force the issue. The other possible cause for caution is the recent backlash against Universities' interaction with the tribes. The biggest culprit is using data about the tribes to write grants to provide services on the reservations without input from the tribes (or finding out if they are stomping on the tribes or tribal entities own requests). It has instilled a sense of caution in a lot of organizations.
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Flattr expects you to give this money back to other authors you like

What does this mean?

By the way, apparently the full fee is now quite higher: https://blog.flattr.net/2017/10/our-new-fee-structure/
I think the problem is that it's really not that unambiguous. There are general rules to the order but it's not explicit, and being second author doesn't explain in any kind of detail what was done.

I'm quite a fan of explicitly tagging authors for what they did. That way you avoid deciding whether the person who did the stats did "more work" than the person who did the code, etc.
Though this would mean, if I'm trying to hire a developer and their salary requirement is 1000 more than the set band, I either have to employ them at a level too high and pay them more than I budgeted, or not hire them at all even though I could afford the additional 1000 and they were a good fit. I really dislike inflexibility like that. Do some employees get a bit on an unfair deal if they don't negotiate? Yes, they do, but who really cares, as long as they are happy? I much prefer being in the dark about others pay and being able to negotiate terms of employment than shoehorning everyone into the same mold.
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Thanks! QuickBooks was something I used as well before I got tired of the slow interface and terrible payments integration and lack of project management.

The PDFs are rendered in browser using the pdfmake library. I did need to modify bits of the lib to get it to do what I wanted, but on the whole it's pretty decent.
They charge advertisers to unblock ads. So actually you will see ads as long as Adblock Plus is making money. They are generally seen as untrustworthy compared to something totally free like uBlock Origin.
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> have never seen an excellent application that died

Really? Lots of companies with better/faster/cheaper products go under... I feel like most do. Very few products are so good that they sell themselves.
That—more specifically the fact that he wasn't an employer—is a technically accurate legal argument that he didn't do anything for which he would be liable for sexual harassment.

OTOH, “sexual harassment” also is used to refer to the acts creating employer liability even when committed by coworkers and third parties.

So, Scoble, though with imprecise phrasing, states a reason why he would not be the legally liable party for sexual harassment claims based on his alleged conduct, but not a reason that the conduct would not constitute (or be a component of) harassment.
The bitcoin example is an especially clear one. You could generalise that even more, and say that the reason why companies exist is because you can make more money by working together with other people than to try to do everything yourself. In other words, the fact that a company is more than the sum of its parts is why this kind of centralisation happens.

My prediction would be that we would see this centralisation overturned at the same point that companies disband as people realise they can do just as well, self-employed. (Which is happening a little bit, actually.)
Replayability and long playing times are praised in reviews by both press and gamers. So Minecraft isn't considered an addictive game but it is.
If you do lots of console works (e.g. script shell, Linux system stuff), learn emacs or vim.

On the other hand if you're a front end Web dev or an Android dev there is probably not much point except from a curiosity point of view
Not always poorly -- especially if you preprocess by calculating running diffs of consecutive values.
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Chrome has removed support for tail recursion (it was briefly enabled). Does anybody know if there are plans to reenable it? Or are they still lobbying for an explicit keyword approach?
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Why would you really need physical machines for linux and windows, you can always virtualize clients and run dual boot mac/windows or single thinkpad with win/linux dual boot.

If budget is tight used servers are great value, for example del R710 is cheap with plenty of horsepower. Downside being space and sound.
I was initially very excited to see this post. I have always believed that flattr's subscription/contribution model could be so important for supporting creatives and grassroots efforts.

So I'm disappointed that it seems I can't signup and contribute without installing a browser plugin that can read and change all my browser data and browser history... nope.

Flattr team, please fix that and I'll consider giving you another chance.

P.S. I've been keeping my eye open for someone trying to implement this subscription/contribution model using blockchain. I haven't been able to find anything -- anyone seen that yet?
I challenge "one of the MOST influential people" as vigorously as is posthumanly possible.

Off the top, how many people here who are both under 30 and hack on something (hardware, wetware, anything) know who scoble is? I only vaguely remembered his name with effort, and even that may have been by analogy to somebody else.

In fact: the more I look into him, the more the expression "never-was" (as a more extreme form of "has-been") comes to mind. Just step through his wikipedia entry⁽¹⁾ and it'll be hard to disagree with the assessment:

> 4 Appearances
>
> In November, 2013, Scoble was co-keynote speaker with
> Shel Israel at the 2013 Telstra Australian Digital
> Summit. Scoble and Israel talked to their book titled
> "Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of
> Privacy".

read: noise.

> On April 1, 2008, The Register ran an April fool’s spoof
> claiming Robert Scoble was actually an IBM bot.

read: a stumbling, college newspaper-esque exercise⁽²⁾ in retrofitting a disposable assignment (april 1) to trash-talk scoble openly. unambiguously dripping with disdain, really.

> On November 14, 2007, he was a contestant on a game show
> at NewTeeVee Live […]

at what now?

> [f]eaturing other internet celebrities such as Veronica
> Belmont, Casey McKinnon, Cali Lewis, Kevin Rose, Justin
> Kan, and others.

who? there are two tech names here, and zero celebrities.

> On November 6, 2006, Scoble appeared as a panelist on a
> Chinese Software Professionals Association event called
> "The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing
> on Media and Marketing".

read: noise.

> 5 Milliscoble
>
> In September 2008, Follow cost, a website which
> calculated how annoying it would be to follow anyone on
> Twitter, invented the milliscoble unit of measurement
> defined as: "1/1000 of the average daily Twitter status
> updates by Robert Scoble as of 10:09 CST September 25,
> 2008." At that time, Scoble was averaging 21.21 tweets
> per day, so a milliscoble is 0.02121 tweets per day. A
> person with a milliscoble rating of 1000 will be as
> annoying to follow as Scoble.

read: further open contempt of scoble as shitposter incarnate.

So what do we have? A guy who had some kind of readership as a microsoft evangelist 13+ years ago, then circled the drain of ~web tv~ for a decade, then landed an Entrepreneur in Residence gig — read: unpaid internship⁽³⁾ — ultimately just circling a slightly newer, slightly shinier drain (VR).

One who, along the way, consciously uncoupled⁽⁴⁾ from all the content streams and personal branding whose maintenance constitute the entirety of an independent writing career. The blogger's own site, at .blog no less, is a contentless placeholder now.

We're left with some sorta phantasm of a now-defunct, still-not-tech personality: a never-was.

If the Ghostblogger of Milliscobles Past can kill your startup, your startup almost certainly didn't need to exist.

____________________

¹ http://enwp.org/Robert_Scoble

² https://theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/ibm_scoble_nano

³ https://scobleizer.blog/2016/05/17/mental-blocks-resource-co...

⁴ https://scobleizer.blog/2012/07/02/scalable-livin