skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aha thanks. (Well, nothing can be removed from the web - still accessible via the WaybackMachine...)

Have you read Steven Pressfield's Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit? An entertaining read. Maybe will help you take it less personally that no-one seems to want to read/hear you.

>>There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this:

NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T.

Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional.

“When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with every sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?"<<
You actually kinda sorta can 'mine' HTTPS - as part of a cryptocurrency which incentivizes DDoSes! https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot16/woot16...
>1) Those are professional schools

And a computer science degree is deliberately, emphatically NOT a professional training regimen towards a career in software engineering.
It depends if you are looking for a job. If you are applying for jobs then you need to make yourself available by phone.

If you are trying to dodge calls from unsolicited recruiters then of course you don't want the recruiter to be calling you.... you want to deflect them with "send me an email with your opportunity and I'll think about it and call you back", which is to say "Go away".
What I find is a lot of people that complain about the California High Speed rail aren't aware how large a project it is. Some parts are expensive and technically challenging, like bores through the San Gabriels. Or just expensive, 13 mile Pacheco Pass Tunnel[1]. But there are other things, like the grade separation work in the central valley or the Caltrain electrification project that needs to be done anyways. These are also rolled into the final price tag.

And a big part of the system isn't about 2-3 hour train rides between LA and SF. More half hour commuter train service in the LA basin and between Morgan Hill, San Jose, SF. The fast rail between LA and SF is really about not having to expand a dozen airports which are near or over capacity. 10 X 2 billion ea is ~$20 billion.

Yeah so big project with a lot of facets with economic effects on people and other infrastructure that doesn't exist yet. Make it hard to do a realist balance sheet analysis. Even it is a bit of white elephant, better than the F35 or the Nuclear Weapons moderation program at $1T and $700M respectively.

[1] There is a water tunnel running through the same section, so frankly doable. Just $$$.
I went to a lecture recently by a researcher who is investigating the mechanisms of photosynthesis. The chlorophyll uses the energy from the photon to pump an electron, which (after a long and poorly-understood chain of reactions, which is what he was studying) creates an energy gradient which powers ATP synthase to produce ATP. Presumably if we understood and could recreate this reaction, we could create the electrochemical gradient directly, and then use it to power the ATP synthase and subsequent glucose-production mechanisms.
We run without swap, and haven't noticed an issue. Did you see any practical benefit to running swap vs not?
Well they exist and they list on airbnb. Forget where but I noticed a whole bunch of very similar looking listing and I thought it was spam at first but realized it was just an apartment/condo complex putting their unleased inventory to work. Kinda smart I guess?
I think number 1 could be done by making some changes to dishes and the way they are stored.

I want a robot that can clean the dust off my shelves without breaking things and clean spiderwebs. That seems really hard.
Really? You're fine with saying that people of this or that demographic subgroup should be systematically exterminated? We've already been down that road once with rather tragic consequences.

It's true, I'm advocating some limits on people's freedoms. I don't think people should enjoy the freedom to launch campaigns of genocide, for example.
I'm glad we agree as to where we disagree, thank you for being reasonable and civil.

> Limit your ability to speak in public.

I disagree. I don't believe Facebook constitutes public speech. I'm open to be being persuaded though.
That suggests an interesting question: if you issue a false alarm should you retract as soon as you can or can it be better to wait a while?

I could see retracting quickly leading to even more confusion as you then have a mix of people who have received (and believed the retraction) trying to resume normal activity and people who still thinking they have to get to a safer place right away. I could see this leading to some escalating tension and even violence.

It might be better to wait until a good majority of people have reached their shelters and stopped moving before you issue the retraction.
Funktronic Labs | Los Angeles, CA | Full-time + inhouse | compensate negotiate based on experience

http://funktroniclabs.com/about

http://funktroniclabs.com/works

We're a game development studio with a focus on VR/AR working on a new project with artistic vibe that requires skilled unity engineers (non-unity experience ideal).

Expected to be able to work on multiple project areas, and with some sense of game design or general aesthetic sense.

Initial project will be well organized but design process will be very dynamic as there is many elements requiring fast R&D and experimentation.

Relaxed and comfortable work environment, good work-life balance, friendly coworkers, interesting projects and work on cutting edge upcoming hardware.

What to expect:

> dive in and start working on game systems

> work on multiple areas of game codebase

> work with rapidly evolving in-development hardware

> find unusual solutions for unusual problems
"WARNING: This comment contains ideas known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm."
Get your name on mars
>"rent seeking interests"

I agree with you to a large part, but thats exactly what a host of AirBNB is after as well (seeking rent). I dont like how people try to use it as if its a bad word.
Sure, but who eats enough of those things to get enough to be problematic?

Virtually all of the trehalose in food products is synthetic.
How can this keep getting reposted?
This coref thing [1] is great, the visualization is handy. I'd love to see it combined with NER [2].

[1] https://goo.gl/JnS95x

[2] https://goo.gl/k5YRjN
There’s frequent times where I’m eating, about to wash my dishes, and something comes up at work (PagerDuty for example). This happens more times than I care to admit, and as a result I end up just chucking them into the dishwasher. Or if I have to leave in the morning and I’m running late, or if I had a large gathering of people.
Any that worked when the power went out.
And people have learned not to eat them, through trial and error. Just as we're learning not to eat trehalose ;)
Is there any way for someone not particularly knowledgable about all this stuff to just trade identically to some reputable investor? To just hook onto his or her wisdom and experience? (Maybe at a small fee?)
Preparation is a huuuuuuge part of being successful in the workplace[1]. Simply showing up just doesn’t cut it.

Part of interviews aren’t even testing skills, but testing prep. Of course, you want to test for innate genetic talent as well.

Good interviews do that, but as with gattaca, we see that desire and sincere interest counts too over genes.

Preparation, sincerity, and genes. That’s what I like to see in potential employee, in that order.

Sometimes, of course, one attribute really outshines the others - but its order in priority should always be factored in.

1. Source: individual who tried just showing up for 75% of his 20 year career.
But there can be multiple governments involved.
I don't think adding half lifes here has any point. Fission is (as you mentioned yourself correctly) initiated by an external agent and half life (to my knowledge) has no relationship with "fissility" (as it relates to chain reaction)
Another thing that irritates me about these forms is the assumption that the whole world has a "First Name" and "Last Name", which is obviously not true [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(...
G O O D
牛: How static is enough?
Is it really that surprising that a convention whose whole focus is new and experimental technology would have lots of things that don't work very well?
If it were me, I'd still put in someone who'd been an actual manager - even if it were from 4-5 years back - there's a few questions hiring managers ask about what you were like to manage that can only be answered by someone who's managed you - things not related to your current skillset, but more about thins like attitudes to authority, curiosity, adaptability, teamwork, willingness and speed of learning - stuff like that.
I like ethresear.ch for technical discussions about scaling etc on ethereum
Ok but maybe it’s worth having a two stage system? In the event of the apocalypse..

Also a high school will have massive water heaters and a chiller..
Throw out most of your clothes and dishes. Not necessary.
In fact to create weapons-grade Pu, you need to remove as much Pu-238 as you can, because if Pu-238 is contaminating your Pu, its high fission rate means the bomb explodes too early in the implosion process.
The reality is the majority of tech interviews today are filled with questions/tasks that have little or nothing to do with the actual job you are going to be assigned. In fact an average programmer doesn't actually need to know a single piece of computer science or math (almost all such stuff is abstracted by common libraries and frameworks, whatever is not can be looked up on demand) nor to memorize anything (thanks to auto-completion and all the docs and Q&As being just a couple of clicks away), let alone to have skills in solving puzzles. Yet every other interviewer will ask you to write code on paper and give you puzzles on computer science, physics and everything. They will also ask you about your previous salary and the reason you have left the previous job (both matters are purely private IMHO), why have you chosen them (ridiculous, I just want to earn living in a sound company and have sent the CV to a number of companies to land the first one that feels fine and wants me), what do you want to achieve in n years (never thought about this, just want a job) etc. And a funny thing: a friend of mine (an experienced developer with history in multinationals) has once told me he was rejected told being "too unsociable", "talking too little" which is the perfect opposite of what he actually is (dozens of his friends would undoubtedly confirm). Puzzles are fun, intelligence is reasonable to be benchmarked, nevertheless the interviewing thing is done at least slightly wrong usually IMHO. I just hope some scientific research is going to emerge in this area in near future to help rationalize the hiring process. As for myself I ask nothing but the candidate's opinion on some relevant subjects (the opinion itself doesn't really matter much but it can indicate certain degrees of awareness, understanding, intelligence and motivation, also the talk can somewhat demonstrate the personality) and their GitHub profile.
Getting involved with cryptocurrency is by no means a prerequisite for learning those things. A fairly basic understanding of world financial markets will get you that.

> you go to a regular shop down your street, and that shop keeper says "If you pay in Bitcoin, you will get 5% off". At that point, will you still ignore it?

I'm not the parent poster, but nowhere did he say he's going to ignore it forever, just that, for now, his lack of interest hasn't been a problem for him. There's nothing wrong with ignoring something until it becomes relevant and useful to you, and things often become relevant to different people at different times.

In your hypothetical scenario, I, too, would probably start taking an interest in Bitcoin if a decent number of shops I frequent started offering discounts for paying in BTC. I just don't see that happening, and even if I did, I wouldn't expect it for quite a long time. BTC is way too unstable a currency for most vendors to accept it, let alone really try to encourage people to use it by offering deals.

> And if so, how safe are those numbers on your bank account?

Probably pretty safe, barring some sort of financial collapse. I think you underestimate the stability of the world financial system, and vastly overestimate cryptocurrency's chances at supplanting fiat currency. Maybe in 50 years the situation will change a bit (doubt it, but maybe), but still... there's no rush to get into it now for the sake of anyone's financial stability. On the contrary, significant "investment" in Bitcoin today is a guaranteed ticket to personal financial instability.
Then what does the feds 2% interest rate target? Nothing?
I'm also glad you're leaving SF and so is everyone else who likes living here
I was able to get Adobe to let me out just a couple days ago. I was pretty harsh about Adobe to the person I was speaking with but made sure they understood I appreciated them. Took me 45 minutes but it can be done.
I feel this cycle of hype of several technologies (not just robots) has a larger-than-ever component of the MBA culture wherein pseudo-understanding and handwaving are rewarded. It has the same smell as reading crackpot imaginings about "the body electric" from the 19th century or "quantum neurology" from the 20th.
As talent enters an area, couldn't it lead to other tech companies following, then VCs, thus creating a new ecosystem and industry hub?
But not with Webrender that's coming in Firefox 59 I suppose?
> why not just rent it for cash flow?

Depending on the jurisdiction, letting go of a tenant--or dealing with a problem tenant--can eat up months, if not years, of expected profits. Two ends of a spectrum: India, with squatter rights, versus most American cities, with speedy courts and contract law.
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Cliff Hayes successfully went down that unsanctioned road, he published some videos [1] and a PDF [2]. We need more scientific studies [3] to figure out why undercorrection works for some people.

When it works, the key seems to be relaxing the eyes and surrounding muscles while viewing objects at a distance which causes just enough blur. Within a minute or two, the brain's visual cortex figures out a "software compensation" for the signal coming from the eye, which lets the eye stay relaxed instead of straining to focus. More info on Vision Therapy is available from behavioral opthalmologists, but it takes time, motivation and may not be covered by insurance.

[1] https://youtube.com/user/cliffgnu

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5REdzibAJQ4VFJuWnZCU3dLcHc...

[3] https://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/105363
Among all the other things mentioned in the comments, AFAIK this is the rendering engine for https://flutter.io/ too
I also use glasses that block blue light. The difference for the eyes is amazing. I should have started sooner wearing them.

When nobody is around I swap the glasses for a pair of geeky plastic amber lab protection, which block more blue light than any other solution. Sure, the OS or flux, for example, can block some, but a physical solution is reliable.
Sure. But at work, I know what I need to prepare for. Interviews don't exactly give you the questions ahead of time allowing you to prepare. So, preparation is not something they are testing for.
You can see the table here, it's not a lot of code: https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/index-baselines/blob/.... Each bucket just has 8 keys and you want to test whether one of them is equal to the key you're searching for.
I do too, with the help of scrubber with detergent (https://www.amazon.com/Cleaning-Scrubber-Dispenser-Dishwash-...) it's a 10 second job. Being single means my plate and bowl can simply sit in the rack until next use. It's not a significant time sink, I spend way more than that cooking meals in the first place.

Similarly, washing clothes is not a significant time sink, 99% of the process is done by a machine unattended, I only need to collect the clothes, transfer them from the washer to the drier and put them away afterwards. Or put them on a hanger to dry if they require ironing.
Aseprite switched to Skia a year or so ago (https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite).

Regret it. Google doesn't care to maintain CMake support for it, so there goes pulling it in via source and building as a library dependency. https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/1598#issuecommen...

You may ask, "why don't you just write your own CMake module like everyone else?" I've tried. I think the build system changed a bit since, but back when I last tried, it required grabbing depot tools, checking out a source tree and a ton of other dependencies.

I am the original person that got Aseprite building on FreeBSD - but now I can't build it on any platform at all. Skia has too many points of failure in the build process. (Here's another issue where I spend hours trying to figure out what's going on https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/1081)

Every other graphics library (SDL2, Allegro, SFML) can work with CMake.

Another pain point: Skia isn't on any package managers to my knowledge. Here's the debian RFP https://bugs.debian.org/818180.
> Driving Kids :- Taxi, bus, chauffeur, again have been around for ages, auto drive cars are not that far away, but will you be willing to abandon your kids to the machine?

Are they willing to abandon kids to the machine?

iPhones, iPads, Nintendo's, dvd players, netflix?

What's one more "machine" taking care of kids?
With a $5 folding board it would probably take less time effort to do the folding myself.
At that point you could start washing your neighbors’ dishes as a service.
Sorry to quote this here, not sure if you mind. Maybe emailing would be better than being so 'off-topic' on HN.

"I spent a lot of years hoping that if I did something good for other people, it would come back to me somehow. I am currently realizing this was a really naïve idea"

To me, it doesn't sound naive enough! Sounds selfish.. Isn't knowing you are doing good for people enough? Isn't that something coming back to you? I've noticed a similar thing in people who say they believe "what goes around, comes around" as a reason for being a good person, without noticing that, well, it isn't really ethical behaviour then, it's an indirect way of being selfish. Christianity is infected with a similar thing re getting to heaven.

edit: ohh, also I guess I assumed you are new on here (like me), I see you are very far from that.
This course doesn't require any degree or work experience at all, so... yes?
We sure are guinea pigs. Maybe this kind of shit caused my thyroid autoimmune disease.
He said he wasn't being pedantic, and now look what you've done. :)

Spiel des Jahres is a prize for Germany in the same way the Nobel Prize is for Sweden.
I think the OP is implying through that this is creeping into top American university curricula. Having a Stanford degree in Comp. Sci. should correlate with interviewing success at relevant job openings for new graduates. This kind of "teaching to the test" and time spent on "job preparedness" is typical of community colleges and trade schools. They serve an important function, but it's distinct from the mission of a place like Stanford. As for the other aspects of job hunting school's career service department can and should handle the soft skills and referrals.
Sure, you could argue that, but you'd lose the argument every single time.

Interviewers don't share the questions they are expecting you to prepare for.
Take note, we're near the peak of froth.
Could you link me to where it says GDAX has 0% fee on limit orders? I couldn't find it.
had the same issues and now i always either check for the sops encryption keys with a sops wrapper script before encryption or decrypt to a git-ignored temp file that is immediately deleted after use.
Stanford?! This is typically seen in India. Memorize and vomit!
Well, I think I'd take a sledgehammer or pneumatic bolt to the brain over being hamstrung, disemboweled, and eaten alive by wolves...

Nature is no less cruel.
The irony is Amazon is helping put a lot of small retail out of business, and that should be of more concern to these mayors - there's way more local employment in retail than this HQ can offer.
Think of all the time savings of putting dishes away that’s what keeps me excited.
Are candidates expected to derive solutions to coding or engineering problems themselves from first principles as their day to day?

Maybe not, but the ones who lack the ability to do so will also tend to be the coworker who constantly asks you and others inane questions, dragging down the team's productivity as a whole.
We'd love to hear about the size of the payloads used. With the code we posted, larger records take 10-15 more ns per query, which is still faster than the numbers in the paper, but of course YMMV based on the table implementation and other factors.
Yes, that word is extremely important. With that, intrusive data-structures really are great in a lot of cases, it's unfortunate that most languages can't really handle them. That said, for languages with a GC they aren't really as useful from a programming standpoint (They may still be useful from a speed standpoint). Still, they allow you avoid tons of small allocations, as well as avoid the extra 'hop' necessary when you store the node information separate form the data.

Another great part about intrusive data structures is that you can place an object on multiple structures without having to allocate any separate data for them. So to give an example, `std::list<person>` will actually create an 'intrusive' list - it will store the node information along with `person`. However, that `person` is completely tied to the list. If you want to take a `person` off of that list and place it into another one, you can't, you would have to either copy it into a node on the other list, or make the all the lists `std::list<person *>` and then store a pointer to the same person in both lists. With intrusive structures, you can instead use the same set of node information for every list, so you can detach a node from the first list, and then attach it to the second one without having to do any allocations.

As a note, the Linux Kernel makes fairly extensive use of intrusive data-structures, which is an area they particularly shine in since you really want to avoid all those small allocations if you can.
This is what you get when you can borrow money for zero or negative interest rates for ten years, and every "investment" looks like gold. Thanks Uncles Bernanke/Draghi/Kuroda.
what's your Skype handle ?
Quantitative finance is quite similar in this regard. Maybe I don't fly high enough to meet people who wouldn't get a technical interview, but I assume that Jeff Dean wouldn't either.
What a joke, but I'm completely unsurprised. Prep for the SAT, prep for jobs, prep on the job - minus the whizkids, Stanford grads make great corporate drones.
The scrubber wand changed my life. Dishes went from being a complete pain to being tolerable and quick. It seems like such a simple thing, but it really does change the game.
16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus). My bad - worked ok
Yup over half of recruiters or HR I've dealt with have wanted a current manager as a must have.
> This news was confirmed fake.

[citation needed]