skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the problem. It's normal for intelligent people to play these "what if?" games because playing out scenarios both in your head and by talking to others is how you improve. You don't do it by being an idiot, that's for sure. Also, she's not necessarily going to advance at her current company in her current role, so whatever say you think you have about her future is largely theoretic.
Myself and others have been deactivating Facebook because they have proven themselves untrustworthy with our attention. I would rather be disconnected from people than be subjugated to this nexus of annoyance and useless notification.
Very thoughtful comment, I really appreciate your pragmatism and ability to articulate such a divided issue. I absolutely agree that vulnerability should be rewarded (or at least, not avoided as if it's a weakness). I've often thought to myself that in tech, teams could benefit from vulnerability and openness to help confront underlying issues that may otherwise be ignored by overt confidence/bravado. Of course, it would take being aware of these subtleties and a willingness to acknowledge internalized expectations. I don't expect much based on my current experiences, but I am still keeping this idea in the back of my mind if I ever find a role/team where I don't have to balance both sides as you explained.
Challenging an idea is not a "take down".
among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last.

I have a lot of those soft skills. But no one is going to hire me as an engineer because I don't have the coding skills.

It comes in dead last because you have to have high level coding skills to get your foot in the door. Everyone has that. Getting ahead in that crowd means having others assets on top of being a good coder.

It is a little like saying "Height doesn't matter for success as a basketball player. As long as you are at least 6'6", what matters are these other attributes." Yeah, sure, cool. It isn't a strong differentiator for the in crowd because you can't even join the crowd without it.
Well, I also have occasional freezes (also probably once a month, typically it's when resuming from sleep) on my MBP but no more so than I had in Sierra and all the releases before. My iMac (5k) has been pretty much 100% reliable though, so I attribute most of this to the MBP hardware.

I'm not saying 10.13 has been perfectly reliable, but it doesn't seem less reliable than previous versions to me.
While i disagree that phones aren't status symbols any more (they absolutely are!), I agree with

How is a phone a status symbol? When most people say that, they are referring to iPhones. But when 40% of all phones in the US are iPhones how is it a status symbol? Even if you refer to the price, almost anyone can afford any iPhone - all of the carriers offer monthly 0% interest payment plans.

Once anyone can afford it, it's no longer a status symbol.
I see a lot of ThinkPads and Dells here, but how about hp? Are they good for Linux?
Thanks for your response, I understand it better now. Sorry for what must have seemed like a stupid question.
I highly recommend a decently modern Lenovo Thinkpad.

The T470 and T470s/p are pretty nice. I managed to get a good bargin on a T460 off Craigslist, and it runs like a dream. After some minute tweaks (mostly installing tlp), it's running Ubuntu 17.10 fantastically.

If you want something a bit smaller, the X series is the line with a 12.5inch screen. Downside is the latest model (the X270) only has a FHD screen, with 1920x1080 max. The T470s and T470p both have a 14 inch WQHD screen with 2560x1440 max. The 15 inch T570 has a UHD screen with 3840x2160 max, which is definitely Retina-like.
Mathematical basis for Bitcoin still compromised by "rubber hose" cryptanalysis.

Let this be a reminder that physical security is a necessary precursor to computer security. And I also hope that Exmo's succession plan executor takes the precaution of staying up late tonight to move all their reserves to new wallets.
You're right, I phrased it a little harshly. There's nothing wrong with promoting how much they help the startups that aren't doing as well. Providing that guarantee is like insurance, it allows all startups to move forward more confidently.
Sounds like opening a can of worms ... some developers will definitely opt for using a language which has "convenient" properties -- since the generator code is not running on the target platform, it has different constraints. And then one day, another dev team will face the task of porting rexx/perl/python/ocaml/you-name-it on a platform which has no capacities for that, or has no required depenedencies available, or neither.
Please don't insult.
* > (Separately: Don't get an undergraduate degree in business. What a worthless degree.)

Depends on the major. Accounting is a pretty legitimate degree with high-ish earning potential. Finance can be semi-legit, but most Wall Street jobs will just as easily take people with math or engineering degrees, often preferring them, and those degrees are way more versatile. Most others will not increase your career options. I made this mistake sadly.
It references the primary concept, and it also looks like much of the information from MMM is already distilled into this - which is not hard to do; MMM is a bit verbose if I recall correctly.
Yep! I've read The Effective Executive. One of my big motivators for writing the book was that there were all these great ideas that were encapsulated in business books or personal improvement books, and very few books that would tie them back to engineering. That's the gap I wanted to fill.
Hard to find a person/family devastated by marijuana use. At least devastated beyond what alcohol does.
This is the best Kaufman set I've seen:

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

My favourite bit is the deconstruction of the 'standard' comedy routine of the day where he does the entire body language and tone of a set (including audience interaction), but speaks Latka gibberish (from around 11:30)
> you're out of touch with just how much $130 of disposable income over a year is.

I'm not actually saying it's much or it's out of reach. I'm saying few people are willing to spend that at a restaurant, not because they're poor (I'm talking about doctors, for example) but mostly because there are so many cheaper and very good restaurants that those expensive ones look like they are just meant for other occasions or other people. The aforementionned doctors sometimes get invited there by pharmaceutical compagnies trying to sell them things, for example.

Around my homeplace I know quite a few restaurants with Michelin stars (two-star Coutanceau in La Rochelle for example, from where I came back just this week) and honestly most often the people there seem to be foreign tourists.
The fs of choice for a database workload in centos 7 should be xfs because it's one of the defaults (specially in public clouds) and because it can be grown online. I suggest you add it.
Perhaps rather than spew vacuous insults, you could describe specifically how effective engineers differ from the descriptions in this post.
Ever used Skype? Spotify? Trivago? Those are EU tech products many people use everyday, just goes to show that intervening from time to time doesn't necessarily mean that we live in some socialist, repressive regime.

You're welcome, by the way.
Great reminder link. Always interesting to review past predections. Maybe they now both agree.
I was hoping this was tokenize as in compiler theory, and was about interpreting body language with ML or so. Disappointed :(
not everyone can afford it, and not everyone can pay to subscribe to every website with a paywall that pops up on HN.
> Only check emails/texts once an hour at the top of the hour.

As an iPhone and gmail user, I used to think that not having gmail push notifications in the stock mail app was a drag. But now I realize that it is actually a blessing in disguise. Sure, one can manually set the mail app to check for new mail via a "fetch" schedule (or not at all), but something about there being no option for true push is quite nice.
You can test this easily within a single day.

Get up a little early and go eat a decent breakfast one day. An easy way is to go to a five star hotel and eat breakfast at the buffet, they always have an out-of-hotel guest deal, heaps of fruit, salad, etc. Ignore the cost, this is an experiment.

Check your energy levels and achievements in the late afternoon and see if you don't feel noticeably more awake and energized versus regular diet.

Secrets of the illuminati, #18283: breakfast is non-negotiable.
Seriously, you went from osx to Gentoo? It's like going from using computers to designing your own cpus...

Just install Ubuntu and be done with it
This is great news.

Although, hyper-vigilance on this topic is warranted because there is no safe dosage of lead, and there's still communities that have high levels in their water.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead...
"Theoretically, is not another growing peril of indexing that it removes incentives for companies to behave well or outperform, since if they're part of an index their shares will be bought automatically by retirement plans and investors anyway, irregardless of performance or competency?"

You don't have to look far to find this ... a great example is Restoration Hardware, which very recently borrowed money to buy back roughly half of the outstanding shares:

"The move has caused the company to consume basically all of its available cash balances and debt to increase by $500 million. In consequence, stockholder's equity has swung from $920 million at the end of the company's last fiscal year into slightly negative territory."[1]

This squeezed the shorts as well as (to the uninformed) bolstered their EPS dramatically as there are half as many shares now outstanding.

Nobody but an industry insider or other market-specific trading desk would have any interest in a disaster of a stock like this, and yet RH is in the Russell 3000 and is therefore auto-purchased by savers and retirees everywhere.

"if everyone is indexing, it surely must lose it's efficacy because it is no longer efficient, will indexing then not underperform?"

This was explained, I think, very succinctly in the Dave Collum "year in review"[2] wherein he explains:

"In his must-read book The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki posits that a large sample size of non-experts, when asked to wager a guess about something—the number of jelly beans in a jar, for example—will generate a distribution centered on the correct answer. Compared with experts, a crowd of clueless people offers more wisdom. I submit that this collective wisdom extends to democracies and markets alike. A critical requirement, however, is that the voting must be uncorrelated. Each player must vote or guess independently."

And that is precisely the issue we are worried about facing with index funds - we are buying indexes so as to access the (real, efficacious) wisdom of the crowd. However, if nobody actually makes a best guess - if there are no participants in the "guess voting" the wisdom of the crowd is lost.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4104757-shorts-restoration-...

[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-23/dave-collums-2017-y...
> All of those operations people should be immediately trained in cybersecurity and deployed literally anywhere in the country.

As someone with background in "cybersecurity". Most "cybersecurity" is automated now. Also, you need heavy background in math/computer science and programming background for cybersecurity. Something most Operations/IT people do not have.

> If you’ve seen the latest password dumps and how bad they are, cybersecurity is getting worse if anything.

That really has nothing to do with "cybersecurity". It's just operations "best practices".

> Also, as of 2015 the Chinese had 60,000 dedicated cyber security engineers. This year the US I think has 9,000, maybe less, and they can’t even protect the US, much less the rest of the world (unlike the globally deployed US Navy).

It depends on what a "cyber security engineer" is.

> Ops people are so important.

Sure. But it's also a highly automatable position too.

> NOTE: I actually am an AWS Engineer and I like moving to the cloud, but still.

AWS engineer? Do you mean you work for amazon or you work for a company that uses AWS?
Gotta say, I've used a fair number of thinkpads across the last 10 years, and I've never seen any blotching or ghosting.

I will admit that the older models had fairly crappy resolutions (I mean 1366x768 and 1600x800 was crap, and Lenovo held on to those resolutions far longer than they should), and pretty dim (I could barely use my X200t and X201 in the shade outside), but I feel most models in the last 2-3 years have made plenty of progress in that regard.
Why are you relying on strawmen?

> Data can "prove" that a theory is wrong (if your theory has falsifiability, as it should), but they can never show that your theory is all that there is, nor your maths.

Where you got '"prove"' and 'all that there is' I am unsure

My wording was:

op> how well different theoretical models express experimental data

Which mirrors your own reiteration of that point

> the idea is to check your predictions with the measurements from more and more precise experiments

Which is literally what I was asking for: measurements from .. precise experiments

> predicts a precession of the perihelion of Mercury that agrees with the experimental result

Right, where's the experimental data on the orbit of Mercury?

If you are unable to answer the question that's fine but as is I fail to see what you are trying to accomplish with your ire and misdirection
There are index funds that track the Russell 2000. This is a smaller-cap index. I suspect that it has some tech in it, but I also suspect that it is less tech-heavy than the S&P 500.
perhaps i'm uncultured swine, but the first i've heard of 'michelin stars' is when a few of these sorts of articles popped up. does it really matter?

how much do the stars impact a restaurant's business? i usually just talk to people (even strangers) and ask for personal recommendations.
Your argument has obvious merit, but the standard is to report on the preferred price, not the common price.
Great. Though one of the complaints I have here is the same I have with Drucker, and the same that others have given: "Impact" is ill defined.
In the realm of spinal cord (and nerve repair) this work also struck me as extremely promising: https://www.twu.ca/news-events/news/twu-graduate-creates-nan...
I've got a little 13" XPS Developer Edition and it's a really solid option. The build quality is perfect and I've yet to come across any issues with it. Use daily for web development in work and for personal projects.

With an i7 it runs really smooth. I opted for the FHD option for the longer battery life, but would have gone UHD if I didn't mind about battery life.

It's really nice to see Dell make Linux part of it's line-up. Part of me bought it as a little heads-up to Dell that Linux laptops are a good thing. I've always just installed Ubuntu over existing windows laptops, but it's nice to see it somewhat as a first class citizen with Dell.
Consumer psychology.

Instead of $10 a month think of it as $120 a year. If a theater charges $12 a ticket (just to pull a round yet realistic number that means less than a movie a month at $10/month) then an annualized MoviePass subscription breaks even at 10 tickets per year.

As somebody who likes to go to the movies, how many times did you go to a theater this year, really? Six, seven times maybe? Maybe once in the late winter or spring, two or three times in the summer, once in the fall, whatever Star Wars movie comes out in the winter, maybe another time with your family during the holidays?

The truth is that people don't really change their media consumption habits, in aggregate, when they're presented with unlimited subscriptions. People just like to feel like they could get anything they want and that they don't have to look at the price tag anymore, but they don't actually consume more in aggregate. Sure, you get some binge subscribers who exploit the system, but they're not enough to bring down the entire enterprise.

If the industry could transition from $10/album to $10/month unlimited music subscriptions, from $10 eBooks to $10/month Kindle Unlimited eBook subscriptions, from $10 DVDs (actually, usually more than that) to $10/month Netflix subscriptions, then why can't the industry support a transition from $10 movie tickets to $10/month theater subscriptions?
> And stop forking OpenSSL; you’re just making things worse.

I strongly disagree that forks are making things worse. The solution to a project that is too difficult to fix due to baggage or a bad community or bad maintainers is to fork.
What do effective engineers do then?
> I’m not sure how you say they are bloated

Evidently you're not an iTunes user. But agreed on the fact that most Apple applications are pretty decent, with the exception of iTunes (bloated) and Pages (not bloated enough).
What happens if you need to repudiate a particular public-key? If the Public Key is tied to your identity then you have a real problem.

Your identity is one thing, you ability to authenticate is another, your ability to encrypt is another still. Experience in other fields tells us that conflating different things and purposes into a single thing is generally a very bad move.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

AFAIK, Gentoo is the best full-control Linux distro out there, possibly only rivalled by arch. It's not for everyone, but I do want that level of control. Using OSX I constantly run up against annoying irritations and have to spin up special VMs, which is tedious. I gave it a good go - almost seven years. Enough. IMHO ZFS root (snapshots and rewind) goes a long way towards resolving the worst irritations in using Gentoo as a desktop OS.
Ask HN: When will natural language interfaces (e.g. chat bots) be usable?
I admit I am slightly confused, I would take that comment as an indicator that I should give her more opportunities to sit in on how business decisions are made since she may be far more valuable as a computer-savvy business person. I suppose if she was very negative about the actual work of computer programming I'd be biased against trusting her with long-term projects since she might abandon them. So I suppose it could equally well be somewhat tactical disclosure to get out in the air that she'd like to try some more business-focused work.
The NewYorker article mentioned above explains some of the reasons, ranging from misleading marketing to more nefarious tactics. The article is worth reading.
Is a book review a derivative work? The author of the book is in here politely answering questions rather than crying "you copied!" so the nice summary of his ideas must feel ok to him...
Very interesting to read, but I can't seem to find a "year" when it was written. The Mental Procrastination has a publicised issue date of 1987, but I guess it was written before then?

Both remind me a bit of Jordan Mechner's "The Making of Prince of Persia".
The number of times this exact mistake is made on headlines about Uber makes me wonder if it isn't being made maliciously.
This is a toxic generalization and is unfair to anyone who put in the work to earn and then take advantage of a business degree. Are you honestly arguing that the entire discipline of marketing is worthless? What about project management? Process improvement? Human resources? It's flat wrong to say a business degree is "worthless".

I have an undergraduate business degree and I have done very well with it. Your mistakes are your own, don't blame the program.
My 10 Best Days of 2017
That will be Tesla's next big announcement
tl;dr: it's a transpiler, not a compiler. The programning "language" only supports four operations: Add, substract, multiply, and divide. On integers only. No control flow operators. No parentheses to group expressions. No possibility to define functions.

If it didn't have such a clickbaity title then it would make for a good, educational reading.
A Year in Twitter Missteps and Apologies
It says 1.7 million square feet each, not percent.
Docker-garby: managing garbage collection of Docker containers and images
Anyway, it's pretty disheartening to see an incident that is heavily colored by gender expectations related and acknowledged as such but then interpreted as a story about a one-dimensional spectrum from expressiveness to guardedness.

Maybe you have said it already in the above but to ask directly: do you think the author or their colleague would have treated Lisa’s remarks differently if she were a man?
The question is why you would quote that number if preferred stock isn't 100% of the capital structure.
Some C++ example code to demonstrate how to perform code similarity searches
The only SEO tip I ever needed for my blog
I've heard decent things about the HP Spectre, but it was fairly new, either a 2016 or 2017 model. Some minor quirks with Ubuntu and older kernels, but I think they got 16.04 or 16.10 working well.
I would love this split especially since being unable to specify a default app for many actions on iOS is a pain IMO (one of the big reasons I don't use an iPhone right now).
I don’t know. It might be just me, but when hiring, I fall for honesty. Corporate talk fools no one.
I don't know what biases there are in the distribution of such neutrinos, but the basic idea still holds, which is that they have a specific source of neutrinos they're looking out for and neutrinos of other origins will only look like they're from that source very seldom. They can infer the origin of the neutrinos based on the direction from which they entered the detector and how energetic they are.
The idea of using inflatables for space habitation has been around for a long time, but was seriously revived by NASA in the late eighties. A group at Johnson Space Center designed inflatable lunar habitation back then, including building test articles. And there is currently an experimental inflatable module on the International Space Station.

http://www.nss.org/settlement/moon/library/LB2-303-Inflatabl...

https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/gotomoon.html
FCC tries to make Miami pirate radio station walk the plank
At Quip, we run one coding interview that happens on a laptop, and where your conversation and discussions with the interviewer, including how you handle suggestions and feedback, matter a huge deal.

For experienced hires, we'll do deep dives on technical projects that they've worked on. Sometimes, I'll frame these as "Suppose I'm a new member joining that team. Bring me up to speed." These interviews focus on whether the candidate can clearly articulate concepts, explain the big-picture motivations, defend decisions they've made, understand complex technical problems, and stay humble and share lessons learned.

For manager interviews, we'll also do interviews that are one-on-ones with engineers on actual issues that they're facing.
In the extreme situation that these services somehow killed traditional public transit, we'd figure it out. This is not a hard problem to solve. Imagine an iPad inside a bus stop.
"The direction is unimportant, the volatility is absolutely important - and there is an awful lot of it(volatility) at the moment."

I am not sure what you mean by this - the asset market in general and the stock market in particular is historically non-volatile right now. Almost all asset classes are in lock-step correlation and fear indexes like the VIX are in such permanent languish that shorting the VIX has been one of the more profitable strategies for trading desks over the last few years.
Does it feel like macOS has become a cost center to Apple?
Once these are working well will factory workers be able to attach a third and fourth arm for extra productivity?