skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have similar contracts in the US, but employers hate that here so we don't. Thus neither side owes the other side anything and we are at a point where giving notice at all in many cases is the worst thing an employee can do. This is the situation employers have fought for. When I put it that way, the article becomes even more disgusting, trying to place a duty on outgoing employees that is not reciprocated by employers at all. No, if the two or four week notice period is not legally agreed to in the contract, employers have no reasonable expectation that anyone should give it. And if it wasn't to avoid burning bridges, I'd never give it. Hell, half the time the bridges are so weak, it's worth burning them behind you. But that's employment culture in the US these days.
I've generally been on the giving side of that, but I think people like that are generally used to people not sharing their (our) enthusiasm, so I think just being interested and asking questions is fine, even though it doesn't blow your mind.

You don't have to be super excited about everything anyway, just being interested in what the other person has to say already makes you a better listener than most people.
I'll keep that in mind, thanks
This page actually help me a lot in the past. Thank you for sharing!
You wanna see what happens when your kind takes things too far???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_(motorsport)

> CTRL+F

Japan was the birthplace of drifting.

(hey, hacker news, fuck your downvotes)
Who is being manipulated?
In what sense does it make sense to regard inequality as a causal factor here?
The whole story is in the link in my post above: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/avoiding-food-packagin.... The menu on the right side of that page is clickable for more posts.

The podcast link at the top is for my podcast, Leadership and the Environment, which is about people taking on personal challenges like this: http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast.
So what would you expect to see in a better reagent and reframe and renatal that would make you switch from React?
You're certainly right that in the mutable Rust land you don't have rewind/replaying state out of the box.
Yeah I actually couldn't believe what I was seeing when the other day I was actually thinking this about Red Lang, 'this actually could be onto something'...

It completely erodes trust and confidence when a project just bolts on a blockchain...it makes me question if they are in this for the long haul or just want to cash out.
Marketing is an interesting thing. Edward Bernays was paid by the tobacco companies to get more women to smoke and manufactured an entire fake women's lib campaign called "Torches of Freedom" that equivocated smoking with women's suffrage. He was also one of the earliest instances of made up doctors and studies to prove you should have a huge bacon, eggs and toast breakfast.

Bernays was the first to really push the emotional connection between ads and products. Prior to the 1930s, most advertisements were more descriptions of what they did, or compared themselves to other brands. There are some cases of emotional hooks here and there, but it didn't really pick up until Bernays, and later Anna Freud and the invention of the Focus Group.

Now we have tons of industries that have turned specific days into huge consumer pulls, like Valentines Day .. or .. well .. Christmas.

Merry axe-mass everyone! Stay safe from robo santa!
You gotta love his tagline "side by side we ride against the EDM hoard" so awesome!
Also a decent real estate investment for the banks long-term. I think there was an article linked on HN not too long ago about that.
People strutting their stuff to appeal to recruiters, and recruiters going for those who strut their stuff, probably summarises a lot of that which is rotten in the tech world (and one of the big reasons I stated well clear of it).
Isn't this the result of diminishing return on the military spending in the US and the now absent pressure form Soviet Union to maintain the paritiy on social benefits?
Don’t feel compelled to answer immediately. I have got a task for you:

Next time someone asks you a question, think “When is that true? When is that false? What are the ddpendencies of true? What are the dependencies of false? Is true and false the only option? Under what conditions?”

Once you have answered all these questions in your head, then you may answer

You’ll get faster and faster at it
From the article.

A final word about one-on-one meetings. Food is important. Getting away from the office is important.

Nope not going to do it. I hate to have the "Mike Pence Rule" but my reasoning is more practical. Why take the risk of something being said? I don't go to lunch one on one with anyone who reports to me.
In rust you can use either model.

Not really. Of course you can copy immutable data upon update, but persistent data structures (large shared state between data versions)[1] are hard to write without GC...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
In her case had she refused to answer any questions pending an actual arrest, they likely would have arrested her. This is the (famously obnoxious) “Am I being detained?” question. Once you’re placed under arrest you have the right to a state-provided attorney.
“Can’t protect” is weird language to use when it wasn’t DeepMind who approached the other party. The article says it was the other way around.

To me it looks like the NHS wasn’t really careful, threw a lot of data at DeepMind and they said yes. After getting burned like this I am willing to bet they will be a lot more careful in the future.
Many of the pesticides may be destroyed during combustion. Similarly with stomach acids. But in both cases of ingestion some pesticides can enter the blood stream. They also don’t have to enter the bloodstream to be harmful.
Call me cynical, but it doesn't sound like socialism to me. It sounds like an oligarchy anointing themselves the rule makers for a new segment of the population. Because it won't be "the people" making the decisions, it will be "these particular people."
Would it be illegal to take a vacation in China and pick the cool gadgets of China up and bring them back home?
When I started looking for wisdom, I found that often times I didn't like it at first, because it showed that I was missing something.

Maybe my wording was poor, but it's a simple fact that you can make your own problems worse, no matter what they are. Therefore, the opposite must be true. No matter what you problems have, you can improve them.

I just found that after having people around me destroy themselves and other people I had to start looking at why. All of them talked about themselves and their own problems. All of them. There was no exception.

I think that if you are truly honest with yourself, and in the midst of your deepest depression you analyze "what am I thinking about right now", you find it's yourself.

When I put a gun in my mouth, it wasn't to end my friends pain, it was end my own.

I was getting straight F's in school, so I was dragged into my school's counseler's office for evaluation. And the advice this trained counseler gave me was "You need to be more selfish." Even in the depths of despair, with no hope in front of me, as a kid, that advice seemed worthless and stupid.

It took me decades to work out of depression (where my answer in some part in my head was suicide) and anyone who tells you they have a quick answer is either selling surgery or pharmaceuticals. And the entire time I had to tell myself things like "don't go down, there's nothing there that's good." Even if I didn't want to believe it, and I wanted everything end, I kept repeating it because it was true. I had been at the end multiple times, and there was nothing good on the other side.

So, yes, my statement was simplified, but it's true. Find the thing you can tell yourself that you will believe, even in the darkest times, that will remind you of where you need to go. For me, it was to stop thinking about myself. Because it only made things worse. And I think that on some level, thinking about other people, and not focusing on yourself, has a usefulness for everyone.
Corruption is not only present with relation to government officials.

It's not uncommon that small companies bribe employees of large companies so they award them contracts for services.

Bribes are whenever person has decision power larger then income from making correct decissions. Then he can be bribed to make incorrect ones but beneficial to the one who bribes.
Nevermind. I found the bug with the “browse subjects” button. Will fix soon. Thanks again for letting me know.
Originally via: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6i1fu2/webext_equi...
All That Glisters (don't always use latest technology)
> it mostly likely means slowing down progress outside of the new focal domain.

IIRC, at the end of last year they promised 1.0 by the end of this year.

Then they missed a 0.6.x release by four months. Now they don't even talk about a 1.0 and even minor releases no longer have a due date [1]

So yes, all these additional endeavours will definitely slow an already slow progress to a halt.

I also wonder if they finally fully implemented integers and floats...

[1] https://github.com/red/red/milestones
I think it's worth considering that her work environment may have conditioned her to compliance with authority.
This: https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...
It's true in the US. It's not true in some other countries - it's not true in the UK for example.
Yeah, this was a strange post, and it's strange that it's risen so high on HN. I'm not even sure what argument it's trying to make.
Yes, please pick those low hanging fruits wherever possible. If you do and I have to maintain your code later I'll send you a bottle of your favorite dram out of gratitude.

But the article (and my criticism) is about the rather high hanging fruit of mathematical purity - of which "side-effect free" programming is just a side-effect (pardon the pun).
Or in other words... just because you learnt about that amazing new JavaScript framework on Reddit a few days ago, doesn't mean you should redo your entire website in it for the hell of it. There's nothing wrong with going with an old but trusted technology you know how to use instead of remaking the thing with the newest and shiniest tech available.
I think the new ones have tires all the same size. Regardless, yes, ‘vettes go fast, which why I used them as an example. Because I imagine a hockey stick on the tire speed rating/price curve. We can get you to 180mph for a reasonable price ($1200 ‘vette tires). You want over 200mph? Ooh, that’s going to cost you because that’s very hard to do, and there aren’t a dozen street-legal cars in the world that need them.
> but for once, I actually know what the tokens will be used for

Do you seriously believe that people will give you the benefit of the doubt when you are repeating the exact same hype and promise that almost all blockchain/ico projects have done in the past?
also, documentation seems to have be an after thought. I want to like Red, but the documentation has been so scattered, unorganized and limited, I felt more slowed than I needed to be.

Will still keep an eye on Red though, hoping it will improve on that level
> With [...] mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides

Huh? You mean on Windows or what? I never had to write a config file to use mpv (on Linux).
Yeah this has been the answer for me. Although my online only credit union has partnerships with local credit unions that have physical branches I can visit, it is much more convenient for me to visit a grocery store. I get charged a nominal fee - ~20 cents per roll - but in the end the convenience wins out.
> When you are at a party and are thrust into conversation with someone, see how long you can hold off before talking about what they do for a living.

This is also a cultural thing:

When I prepared for my first trip to Brasil I was told that I shouldn't ask people what they do for a living and that it was considered rude. I still don't know if this is really true but one thing I remember sure enough: Wherever I was in Brasil, I got asked about my family a lot.
The people who capture the gains are the people who got in fifty years ago and sold & moved, or the landlords who got in fifty years ago and are still renting the property.

Yes. Silicon Valley's land baron is John Arrillaga, who bought Silicon Valley farmland in the 1960s. He owns about a square kilometer of office space.
This happens quite often to me! I ask someone a question and get a super enthusiastic answer!

If it’s something I’m also interested in then we go to town, otherwise I tend to listen to the other person for a short while, perhaps ask them one or two more questions on the topic, then bring the conversation back to something else. It could be about that event or place we’re in, or some kind of tangent based on what has been said earlier in the conversation.
Java's == is not used for equality for objects either, so it's a valid comparison because Java's behaviour is equally unintuitive here. It's the same behaviour as is for objects.
This is what I found to be the worst part about depression, sadness or feeling bad in general. It actively prevents you from solving the problem. No other issue seems to do this. It's like depression affects the "take action" part of your brain.

For example, if you slipped and twisted your ankle, you wouldn't ignore and think there is no solution. You sit down and hold your ankle and then limp to bed, get rest and stay off of it until it was better. Even if you didn't want to.

But problems of the heart, our feelings and our minds, they seem to get in the way of doing things that would actually help you get better.

So, maybe you just have to believe other people and try something new. Because just maybe there's hope, and doing something different for awhile can make something better eventually.
Troublingly, the skeptical explanations section does not resolve the thousands of eyewitness reports from people claiming to see the UFOs. The reports describe a low flying object visible before the F-16s took flight. The helicopter explanation put forth in the section hypothesizes the eyewitnesses mistook at least 3 different models of helicopters as UFOs. While possible, I don't believe it likely that a fleet of helicopters could be flying in the area without the air traffic control nor the Belgian military being aware of it.
Try this: https://www.braveclojure.com/multimethods-records-protocols/
“I’m not answering any questions, and I want to speak to an attorney.”

Repeat as many times as necessary.
Understandability is more important than conciseness in a team environment. In a team, you're not writing code for you - you're writing code to be reviewed by other people, integrated with other people's code, and maintained by other people in the future.

In the example from this article, all developers I've ever worked with would understand what the "good old C" example is doing within seconds. Most would understand the Python example. Most of them still working in the industry today would be able to figure out what the functional python code was doing without much excessive effort - it would take them longer, which is bad, but if they were working in it every day I'm willing to believe that they'd parse simple examples like that readily enough.

None of them would understand APL. J is even worse. I stared at the J code for a full minute without any comprehension of the language syntax or what was being accomplished. That code isn't readable or maintainable. It is bad code.
I worked with a project manager who loved large long status meetings and requirements meetings. It was getting to the point nothing was getting done. Most of the people in the meeting were contractors. 8 people at $100 bill rate was $800 each meeting. I had to put a stop to it. I started a virtual status meeting. I opened a slack channel at 10:00 and everyone posted their updates. If the PM wanted to know anything else they would have to go to the individual dev.

Anyone was free to leave the slack channel after they posted their update.

I told them unless the meeting request was coming from me or someone higher up in my management change, that all meeting requests were just that "requests" that they were free to decline if necessary.
Python with numpy has a pretty concise solution

np.exp(np.mean(np.log(a[a>0])))
This is really fascinating stuff. I had no idea that Sigmund Freud was married into the family that pioneered emotionally-based marketing!

How did you learn this stuff? Do you have a book recommendation?
It is Miranda-tested in the US.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and the only form of wit I possess. Just one of the many character flaws I possess which make me such pleasant company, especially at this time of year!
Merry x-mas!
I don't get why this comment is being downvoted? There's nothing that suggests that blockchain is seeing mass adoption other than the people pushing it.

So far it has proved to be a fantastic vehicle for transferring wealth from unsuspecting investors in the hands of the few who promises the world but will not actually deliver because you know, regulation is a thing of the past.
I can't agree more. I would never believe this if I hadn't started running myself. People who have never run think it's foolish until they do it, and are amazed by the results. Also, I didn't see this change for a long time, you don't get it right away.

But I think doing anything at all to change your place in life will make you feel better.
Exactly. This is one of the reasons I hate talking to salespeople, too many of their lines are just canned responses learned from books and seminars
Yes, I agree with all that and pointed it out in my first answer.
Anyone found their whitepaper for ICO? Looks pretty interesting to me.
Most people don't know how to use the internet without Google.

I'm sure many industries are supported with the likes of "Just Google it"
Wow, this was an unexpected forum to find out about a mystical place in my country. Interesting reading though.

The place is still there it seems, with its own TripAdvisor entry: https://www.tripadvisor.com.br/Attraction_Review-g303322-d23...
Edb is a cross platform x86/x86-64 debugger inspired by Ollydbg
500 copies!
Just wanted to chime in and say thank you! I've enjoyed reading your blog a lot!
You might want to flash a custom rom. LineageOS is quite popular these days.
"The criticisms above are not matters of taste" Actually, yes they are.
Let me see if I can find it.

Edit: Found the discussion and link. Not exactly the way I remembered it but interesting nonetheless:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547575
Can you elaborate on this? It sounds really interesting. In retrospect what did they do to disarm you?
I learned it from Mission Earth. L.Ron Hubbard one.
I've now met several, and they've all been a real treat. Charlie Duke, Ken Mattingley, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Al Worden, Alan Bean, Tom Stafford, Eileen Collins, Scott Altman, and more.

In some sense they are very similar, and they all give credit to the men and women on the ground who made it happen. But they really do make it happen, and are amazing people.

Among them, Bruce McCandless was one of the best - an absolute gentleman, a brilliant speaker, and fascinating.

I'm sorry to see that he has passed from us.
Among academics, terrorism is defined by The Revised Academic Consensus Definition by Alex P. Schmid [1]. The source I normally refer to (terrorismanalysts.com) is down at this moment.

Whether that is used by the Japanese or not, I don't know.

I share your curiosity regarding the Japanese scientists.

[1] http://www.internationalsecurityinterest.com/index.php/resea...
> Of course arriving at the Mathematical formula is the hard part, that's what it means to actually solve the problem.

Most business problems can't be solved with a formula, or with a thousand formulas, or with a million formulas, especially if the problem is “our organization is an illogical clusterfuck” or “we don't even know what we should be doing”.

> I consider the fact that you can't code your solution in this style until you have done so as a feature

It's a feature of programming discipline and intellectual honesty, not of functional programming.

> As opposed to imperative style which (...)

Functional programming doesn't prevent you from implementing “half done solutions with hidden bugs, not covering all corner cases”.
All hail YAGNI, the god of code.
> The ultimate criteria to judge a language should be how efficiently (concisely) it expresses the concepts of the subject matter.

Some might say that the ultimate criteria to judge a language should be how quickly an inexperienced user starts to be fluent in it.

I studied math (so the syntax isn't really an issue), but I think functional programming is completely inappropriate for general purpose programming tasks (e.g. writing a website, writing an iPhone app, etc.).
His main point in the article:

"
Why do such meetings happen? There are 2 main reasons:

1. the manager is lazy and undisciplined and so invites everyone rather than thinking hard about who they actually need to speak to

2. the manager is an egotist who likes to force people to listen to the manager’s words
"
A friend bought franchisee location for Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory at a strip mall. Previous owners were from the baby boomer generation and had no idea how to run an effective "online" campaign. or so he thought.

8 months down the line, the sales are bad and rents are too high. He says, one of the reasons this is happening because the mall is mostly empty. People are shopping online and the foot fall is decreasing year on year.

So, while I agree on Amazon or online shopping in general. I disagree on the 2nd point. Bars, coffee shops etc. will also face the same dilemma, especially if they are not in the right location. In which case, rents still play a large role.
I asked Bruce how accurately the simulator matched the reality. He replied that it was amazingly close, with the exception that the real thing "Chattered loudly" when it was working. That caught him by surprise, and the simulator was subsequently changed to include the noise.

An intelligent, thoughtful, hard-working, humble, charming man.
I'd recommend the BBC documentary The Century of The Self. It's a multi-part film by Adam Curtis.
I came to the conclusion that area under ROC is pretty much garbage. What you really want is two separate steps: estimate the probability that instance A belongs in classification X, and then a decision step where you decide how to classify A based on a loss function (this varies depending on how harmful a false positive is).

Area under ROC forces you to conflate these two.

Why not evaluate the probability estimation directly, using Brier score [1] or something similar?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier_score
The biggest holdout is non-Edge IE https://caniuse.com/#search=wasm

The story with Rust compiling to it is still younger; it works well at the moment, but is very fiddly. The early adopters and enthusiasts are working on making it all smoother. So for most people, it's still a bit young. Just depends on your temperament.
I wonder for a long time now: what are underlying factors for societies to be less corrupt than others? How come that many western states fare better than other countries?

It’s gotta be related to what’s mentioned in the article: people valuing a larger-scale cooperation higher than a smaller-scale/immediate one. By why? Ideas/hints anyone?
When you search for something, once you selected on the left which part of store, you can select at the bottom left the seller.
Here you go: http://www.muffintech.org/blog/id/7/
It's a somewhat competent chess player too.