skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't race but I have noticed this with my "normal" car, i've always driven a hatchback though which are quite common in this country. If I force myself to drive very steady I can almost feel the alertness drifting away, I become less aware of vehicles around me and their bearing. If I speed up to a threshold just between the bored comfortable zone and racing it's enough to give heightened alertness, I can easily preempt drivers making careless moves that would otherwise endanger me and I notice pedestrians and other things around the road more, it's a strange balance, but i've no doubt that sticking dead to the limit on a large road will decrease alertness in any study.
Brilliant. You must be reading my mind.

> Inspired by YAML, Scheme, and TCL. Based on ulithp. Converts YAML to s-expressions then evaluates using ulithp.
Dispute?
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I’m suggesting that “performer” and “not performer” is entirely based on the context. Someone who is useless at debugging may be brilliant at theory research or what have you. Very few people are all the time performers or non-performers in every category. This seems so obviously true to me, I find it weird to suggest that the problem is a line of communication with management. The issue is that ranking people on a single dimension of good/bad is a dumb exercise.
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For those unaware: Peterson takes you on a scientific journey through the the Bible from the lens of a psychologist. It's always very insightful, even if not always agreeable, but you don't have to take my word for it. See for yourself:
(his channel)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_f53ZEJxp8TtlOkHwMV9Q
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I have not experienced these problems.

I have a Bluetooth mouse that I alternate between a Mac and a ThinkPad running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s flawless on both platforms.

I have a Bluetooth keyboard paired to an iPad, again it works flawlessly.

I have Bluetooth headphones that I’ve paired to a variety of computers and iDevices and they work flawlessly.

In all honesty, I’m actually shocked at how well it all works given the horror stories I’ve heard.
How I wish there was a session manager for Firefox Mobile, or just any Android browser in general.
Ford files a patent for an autonomous police car
At my last job they were constantly asking me to create symbols to represent abstract concepts. They wanted them to be instantly, universally recognizable at 24 pixels by 24 pixels with no text.

This is sometimes easy, often impossible. I ended up finding a simple rule of thumb to cut through that work quickly, if I couldn't think of one clear symbol for the concept in 10 seconds then I would never find one that fit all the requirements.

I passed that rule on to my project manager and he got a lot better at not making impossible symbol requests.
> Somebody has to guarantee that the the USD are actually there to perform a trade.

That's what kids in my day called "a risky click".
The safest computing platform is an airgapped 386, that doesn’t make it useful.

In the same way, iOS may be safe, but entirely useless for many people’s use cases.

And additional, safety is entirely orthogonal to restricting choice. You can have a walled garden that is insecure, e.g. the Amazon Kindles, or you can have an open system that is secure, e.g. OpenBSD.
I’m not sure how much Apple uses it internally, to be honest.
Indieauth.com does just that: https://indieauth.com/pgp
There’s no email in your profile, just FYI
My sister’s reaction to the story was along those lines, but started with, “Why did she go back to his place on a first date if she had no interest in fooling around?”
I think this is a bit of a false dichotomy. You can investigate, coordinate and herd cats without micromanaging.

I don't see construction managers telling brickies how to spread mortar, but they will keep an eye on the rate of bricklaying and ask what's happening when it falls below normal.
The key insight in this piece, I think, is that the moderation (manual, algorithmic, or otherwise) is the fundamental mechanism that shapes a platform. Reddit rewards upvotes but punishes "controversiality." Hn rewards upvotes. Twitter, Facebook are mostly secretive, and definitely account for advertisement dollars in their selection.

If we accept this piece's premise, that moderation can negate wide swaths of free speech (by deleting it, or even simply hiding it) I think the question becomes "Why am I putting my ideas into communities that have the final say, with no transparency, over who if anyone, sees what I say?"

Imagine how different twitter would be if you could see tweets not based on how big a tweetstorm they caused in the last 24 hours, but rather you could make a dashboard based on your custom criteria (e.g. net positive sentiment, non-political, in my city, accounts that are non-bots)

I don't mean this as a proposal for twitter specifically, but rather a proposal we start asking whether a platform should have exactly 1, private, attention-distribution mechanism or whether the two should become disconnected.
Desalination has high capital costs, but the energy usage isn't really a problem at all.

A modern plant uses 2.5-3.5 kWh/m^3 [1]. My household uses something like 9 m^3 per month, so that would be about 27 kWh per month. At PG&E's rather high peak rates, that's $10/month, which is less than the marginal cost of that water. Of course, to the extent that energy costs matter, desalination plants will not use retail power at peak times.

[1] https://www.amtaorg.com/wp-content/uploads/7_MembraneDesalin...
Ultimately, it's because the advertisers don't trust Google or other middle men and insist on running code from third party vendors that grabs more information and promises better metrics, or to determine if the site or user are in some way fraudulent.
> when was the last time Twitter ever told you about something local?

Wednesday, when I saw a plume of smoke on the horizon and then the local police department tweeted to avoid a certain intersection and a local journalist tweeted about the apartment that was on fire.

Granted, I had to find and follow those accounts- but I’m pretty sure that twitter suggested them to me.
To be fair, a lot of tech companies these days offer unlimited PTO. Then again, taking more than 6~7 weeks is still somewhat taboo.
Everything comes down to each parties BATNA [0]. If the employer values on site employees more than remote then they will offer less (all other things being equal), if they value remote workers as being more valuable then they will offer more. The same applies to the employee.

The cost of living of where you live is not the employer's concern. Everything comes down to supply and demand.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
> Eventually you'll be firing good people.

Not good enough to be in the top 98% though!

I think the issue here is that we don't have a good way to even assign ranks. It's either a social game of politics, or some sterile metric based system that no doubt prefers short-term gains over long-term investment. Thus there's no eventuality about it, you'll be firing all sorts of good people right from the get-go.
Cheers? No thanks Low- and no-alcohol lifestyle booms
Bulletin sounds like Google might be considering competing with Craigslist?
When you're evil, the first thing you lose is trust in everyone else. After all, if you can stab in the back, what stops others from stabbing you?
Per bank though right? Like if you have several different banks you could get multiple $250k?
I use cloudflare as well. And they are one of the most performant. Feels too good to be true. I wonder if the offer and it performance will last...
Shouldn't admit it? It's my most recent blog post!

http://designbymobi.us/turn-it-off-and-on-again/
Maybe, but the fanciness of the pyramids has something to do with it; I was thinking about corpses on the floor with body posture and facial features denoting pain and anguish from the last moments of their lives.
From the link

At least two peer-reviewed medical studies (Fergusson 1982, Vernberg 1984) have suggested that Mr. Yuk stickers do not effectively keep children away from potential poisons and may even attract children.
https://www.iab.net/vpaid

Similar things exist for older ad types, they're just less standardised.
I took them in Sabi Sands.
I am not sure where I suggested ranking anyone on a single dimension or that the problem was communication with management?

What I have suggested is the data for ranking is contained within the employees of the company, but that it is not accessible to management.
“Idk why people think Jack Welsh had good management practices...”

Prior to Mr. Immelt GE was headed by Jack Welch. During his tenure at the top of GE the company created more wealth for its investors than any company ever in the recorded history of U.S. publicly traded companies. GE’s value increased 40-fold (4000%) from 1981 to 2001. He expanded GE into new businesses, often far removed from its industrial manufacturing roots, as market shifts created new opportunities for growing revenues and profits. From what was mostly a diversified manufacturing company Mr. Welch led GE into real estate as those assets increased in value, then media as advertising revenues skyrocketed and finally financial services as deregulation opened the market for the greatest returns in banking history.

Jack Welch was the Steve Jobs of his era. Because he had the foresight to push GE into new markets, create new products and grow the company. Growth that was so substantial it kept GE constantly in the news, and investors thrilled.

That’s why.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2015/04/15/ge-a-tot...
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I'm at Pivotal, it's where I first learned of the distinction in roles. If I was at MS I'd happily call that person a project manager, so long as I knew someone was focusing on that facet of the problem.
Go/Ruby/whatever--tons of good options, and I still regularly see startups posting PHP jobs (especially Laravel).

It's funny, because with so much happening in the front-end, the back-end largely seems like a "solved" problem. (Even if that isn't strictly true, and I expect the pendulum will eventually swing back, along with more efforts aimed at complete integration.)
I'd argue that for Tesla, at least right now, ME's are what software engineers are to other companies.

Software engineers are paid well because they produce work that can make a big difference and are in demand.

If Tesla is limited by it's manufacturing line... (insert obvious conclusion)
Probably. Getting oauth2 to work with Facebook and Twitter is dead easy, and far more secure than rolling your own email auth.
Most people, sure.

I'm in DuPage - highest property taxes in the state (closing in on 2.25%). So a $400K home will easily get you up near the 10K mark...and that's not even counting your income taxes.
I'm a member of the team that works on eager execution.

When eager execution is enabled, you no longer need to worry about graphs: operations are executed immediately. The upshot is that eager execution lets you implement dynamic models, like recursive NNs, using Python control flow. We've published some example implementations of such models on Github:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

I'd be happy to answer other questions about eager execution, and feedback is welcome.

EDIT: Just because you don't have to worry about graphs doesn't mean that graph construction and eager execution aren't related; take a look at our research blog post for more information if you're curious about the ways in which they relate to each other (https://research.googleblog.com/2017/10/eager-execution-impe...).
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The fact that almost all the traffic to my personal blog are just one-hit wonders from google actually made me feel a lot less pressure to "grow" the blog or to even keep to any kind of coherent theme.

These days, I post about whatever I feel like. With greatly varied degrees of quality. All knowing that a small handful of posts on some oddball niche will continue to garner tons of Google traffic while the vast majority of pages lay fallow.
If the format works for you, I also recommend the audiobook. The guy who reads it is one of the most evocative and characterful readers I've heard.
And on the flip side a movie lime "wolf of walstreet"
Just in case you didn't know, he also wrote a followup book Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery which was a bit more introspective.
Which is why it’s important to share intentional junk accounts with random strangers, forging a pool of vagrant hobo accounts.

Doing so renders burner identifiers more burnt than if one were to abandon them in a non-reusable state.

Sometimes such accounts will be hoarded or closed off by vigilantes who might opine that this behavior is somehow immoral or ethically reproachable, even though it isn’t, but so what?
Right, but the mantra in the personal finance circles is "Mortgage Your Retirement" because you are borrowing all the money you will need to retire -- say $2m, investing it in the S&P 500 and paying that off over time. If the market goes up than you're that much closer to paying it off and retiring.
The authors recommend only 2:1 leverage so only a 50% decline would wipe you out. The problem I personally have with this is the declining marginal utility of money. Losing everything (or a large portion) to squeak out better returns isn't worth it.

There was someone on Bogleheads who posted about trying this, exhausting their student loans and credit cards, but unfortunately when they started it was Fall of 2007. The guy had pretty bad luck, but I'm sure it's worked for other people especially those who don't know it (e.g. "I bought options on Google in 2006!")
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5934
It would truly be great to see the actual texts of early cryptography like Trithemius and John Dee.
E: They're the unlucky one who got hit first by a cracker trying out his a zero-day.
This looks like a service we could recreate, and sell to employers who don't want to be responsible for handing over their employees' data to a firm that risks creating embarrassing PR for them. There are obviously network advantages, but you could bootstrap it if you got even a single employer on board. Is there some other complexity I'm missing?
Not enough people know about this config, bash/zsh compatible.
being nitpicky, turning the handlebars makes the front wheel go the direction you turn it. So to turn right at speed, turn the bars left a bit so the wheels move out a foot or so to the left and you're lent over, then turn it right so the bike turns right hard enough to stop you falling over further.
OpenID. Stack Overflow / StackExchange does an excellent job of this, IMO.

Even some of the major "social" providers support this; e.g., I think Google does.
The difference is crypto is a chance to get in at the top
for once.

Not if you buy other cryptocoins like Bitcoin or Ethereum that someone else created for nothing to sell to bagholders. All you're doing there is becoming a late adopter and you must pray you're not too late in the pyramid that you'll be able to sell to some other speculator at a price higher than you bought meanwhile you're at a 1000x-10,000x disadvantage to anyone who acquired the coin for pennies/fractions of the cost to you. Simple game theory.

Anyone who wants to just needs to create their own crypto-asset and market it like the others to convince "speculators" it's worth purchasing.

Notice how bitcoin/cryptocoin advocates tell others to "HODL" - psychological manipulation is needed to maintain the artificial market scarcity as there's no real demand, use, or acceptance from retailers. [1]

If you're genuinely concerned about control of the money supply, you would voice concern about how cryptocoins are majority owned by only a few hundred people [2] and because of how tether [3] has been marketed and used on exchanges it's essentially like the federal reserve of cryptocurrencies except it's just 2 guys and it's alleged to be backed by nothing which could mean they're stealing large amounts of cryptocoins. Given all the theft in the cryptocoin system, one might wonder if regulations and security standards exist for a reason. What happens if thieves become the majority wealth holders of all the cryptocoins?

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-inequality-2014-1

[3] https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/
> Based on some surveys I did within the general US population, a significant number of people (around 30%) haven't even heard of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies and most (60%+) have heard of it but haven't put money in it.

I hope these numbers aren't in any way accurate or representative, because they are absurdly high. If 40% of the population has invested in cryptocurrencies, that can't be anything but dangerous.
That monitoring function is neat. I just tested it with my USB mouse.
Also I find a lot of instructors are bad at physics, especially in skiing. 'Copy me' tends to work better than trying to follow a somewhat off explanation.
tldr: he set up computers to participate in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search; obviously the computer result has no relation to that person's religious role. In other news, the NYT are minor-league trolling.
It boggles my American mind that you are willing to work for half of what I make in trade for a couple more weeks vacation time. I'm sure we could both find more snotty lines to throw at each other if we try, but what's the point?
If a key was indeed stolen, they must have stole the keys to the exchange's wallet, not a user's wallet. I heard in the press conference they don't have a multi-sig wallet so all it took was one key and not multiple keys.
The culture wasn't really any different at SpaceX from what I can tell. I can tag a few friends to elaborate further, as I'm only operating on hear-say.
Only if you have multiple devices... it would be nice if they supported this optionally (it would be nice if they supported any kind of end-to-end backup optionally).
Random tidbit: back when Mac OS X first mapped these bindings to Cocoa, it became possible to use them for evil -- to exploit OS X to grant access it wasn't supposed to. [1]

For example if you had a screensaver with a password prompt, you could type some characters, then:
1. ctrl-a
2. ctrl-k
3. ctrl-y
...repeat steps 1-3 several times and hit enter.

The screensaver would crash to desktop, or on the logon prompt, you'd crash to the console mode available by entering >console as a username.

I think these were largely patched by 10.3.0.[2]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/mac-os-x-screensaver-security-cras...
[2] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/03/07/05/187203/screensaver...
Why hasn't anyone made a real Google Reader replacement? Google Reader seemed so simple. Maybe it wasn't?
I can relate. Luckily for me most of the code I write is .net so I’m not messing with Xcode for anything other than hobby projects.
I'd imagine that possibility would be very low on a long list of hazards associated with living in a lawless war zone.
Stack rankings other problem is it really puts a damper on team building. Why be on a team of amazing people when it very likely can cut your earnings or get you fired. Make sure your team has people who will get fired. Collaboration doesn't make a whole lot of sense in that environment.
The stolen 101m xrp moved into an account that already had 3billion xrp? That seems odd to begin with. Is it another exchange or coin tumbler or something?
And not all 300k employees are doing the exact same job so stack ranking breaks down.

You also get people gaming the system ie at Microsoft deliberately taking some one to a team to let them go.

And I have heard terminally ill people being selected using these systems.
You gotta make that $3,000 rent somehow
Wasn't he disgraced for having a gold plated shower on his company jet?
Personally I’m kind of torn at this point. I definitely don’t like the potential driver issues that often come with Linux. But in my recent experience, macOS is now less reliable than most Linux installations I’ve had were.
In another life I want to be a surgeon.
Or it would be if it stayed this way. It was this way for a while with extensions. You could install extensions you wanted freely. Then there was a config bit to make it so you could install extensions without Mozilla approval. Then they decided grandma was more important and completely removed the ability to install extensions not approved by Mozilla.

The only way around it is to run a beta version or use the unpackaged unbranded versions manually.

I wouldn't count on power user features remaining for long given Mozilla's current target demographic.
And 100% of those keyboards can have simple keys remapped
I thought that was illegal in the US? How exactly are they getting around the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act?
Id check basic stats before saying that once you cut the bottom 10% once your no longer dealing with a normal distribution curve.
Other discussion on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16240874
There are very few companies that give four weeks paid vacation. Can’t be more than 10%.

Two week is the status quo, and that’s after you earn it. Silicon Valley is an anomaly.
Just like every single other article about scientific discoveries.
Morality has nothing to do with it in this particular case. When something is unsustainable it will eventually stop one way or another.
Kind of like CTR displays but in 3D.
I don't find it clickbaity since it includes meaningful context about purpose and scope.
I think they’re ambiguous on purpose, so that there’s no way for the plumber to hook it up backwards. It’s just a mnemonic device that helps you remember which way yours is set up.
That promise is only for the Python API, not C++/Java.
It pretty far away, compared to capslock. Especially on modern laptops.. lile touch bar macs that actually remove the the entirely
Maybe they're polling for input?
Facebook reactivated my account and posted my SMS rejection against my will
Please take a look at these images and explain why Facebook reactivated my account and posted my "No" rejection to my feed contemporaneously? I deactivated my account for a reason!
https://imgur.com/a/UTecw
That's configurable. There's tokens where you want it to be centralized and able to change post creation (mutable) and then immutable ones.

Companies using NEM really like the mutable ones.
Everyone with bitcoins need to just start buying land. That would be great. I want to see all the make believe money get turned into big swaths of land the banks can't touch. Start buying up areas that are prime development sites or rich in resources then do nothing.
I think the fallacy here is that if you want a blog, you need a full-blown CMS like Wordpress (or Drupal, or whatever). If you have some baseline technical skills, you're probably better off using a static site generator like Jekyll and hosting it on GitHub Pages or something like that. Then you just don't have any security worries at all. If you really want commenting, you can embed Disqus or FB or something.

I certainly wouldn't recommend this for your average non-technical person who just wants to write a blog (hosted WP is a fine solution there), but for most of the people who post on HN, it seems silly to go for a CMS.

(Yes, I know that a static site generator will not give you a lot of the dynamic features and whatnot that a CMS will give you, but I'd expect that a very small percentage of the "I want to write articles and publish them" set of people really needs any of them.)