skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just not persuasive - here's a key point from it:

"If we put aside Joel's argument and look at the job market, there's incomplete information, but both current and prospective employers have incomplete information, and whose information is better varies widely. It's actually quite common for prospective employers to have better information than current employers!"

Ok, sure, maybe there are employers who don't know what they've got. But just based on the raw amount of information on either side, all else being equal current employers should have a much better idea of actual performance.
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That's a natural argument extrapolating from the phone, electronics and laptop market.

I think it is wrong in this case, however. As I understand it, the problem is "half-working" in the case of VR/AR/etc isn't something like less convenient that early adopters can simply put up with. Half-working VR has ability to sicken a person and injure the vision system.

See for example.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/health/virtual-reality-vr-dan...
Not OP, but I think I have enough of appropriate experience / friends that match your question.

> if it is possible to maintain friendship with high IQ people by a normal IQ people

Yes.

> Do the high IQ people find boring to maintain the thought process and conversation with low IQ people ...

Yes, but not always. High IQ !== does know everything. And usually high IQ people love to learn new things, from anyone who can teach them.

> ... and hence can not enjoy company?

No, it can be enjoyed regardless. Even when you ignore activities not based on conversation (e.g. Sports, games), sometimes you want boring conversation.
Are media organizations like 9to5mac (mentioned in Apple's memo) paying Apple insiders for the information they provide?

Personally, I wouldn't think that the leakers were getting paid. Even if they were, I imagine the amount that these particular online web sites are able to pay is very much -- especially when compared to the average Apple employee's salary.

This makes me think that money isn't the primary motivating factor, if it is a factor at all.
The interview is between Sam and Anne. I have no clue why the GP listed Anne's sister and ex in their comment and used that as evidence of some kind of lack of diversity. If you listed me, my sister and my ex and some guy who happened to interview me, you could make similar assertions of lack of diversity:

"Look, Doreen is a former military wife whose father was also career military. Her sister had the same father and ended up working for the US government as well, though not as a military member. And the person interviewing Doreen knows her socially because (insert connection). See? See? It's like a club or something!"

As far as I can tell, the list is completely cherry picked and I have no idea what the point of it was. Which is why I asked, which is looking like a mistake.
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> I believe you're putting words in my mouth.

You're the one who said you could describe "great" in two words that didn't include maintenance or quality. If it turns out those two words aren't enough, or need lots of asterisks and clarifying words, that's on you.
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>>> it also grows great hydroponically

you must be joking. A lettuce which has grown in some backyards, with time and sun (and a lot of fight against various insects, true) tastes so much better.

But maybe your hydroponics are better than mine.

I'm all for optimizing farming if it's possible but I don't want any compromise on quality (taste, nutrients, whatever).
I'm really sorry that I will not be able to provide any source to you at the moment because I'm very busy, but for what it's worth I'll write you what I remember from my readings (I studied Marxism extensively for a time out of interest but I never had a formal education in sociology, so I'm not an expert, I'm a regular software engineer). Also disclaimer, I tend to agree with Marx on a lot of issues so my ideas might be biased. My terminology is also a bit rusty.

Capital starts by explaining commodities. This is because: (1) Marx tries to explain some bit of the terminology of his period's economic terminology so he needs to do some ground work; (2) commodity production is an important aspect of capitalism that he refers all throughout his works. My main point is that the force that made capitalism possible and the force that sustains capitalism is one, which is the accumulation of value. As Marx explains in later chapters, a things will have different types of values. For Marx, nothing has any intrinsic value and its money-value is determined at the moment of trade. That is the force that generates value inside economy is the act of selling commodities. The same force causes the distinction between bourgeousie and prolateriat (c.f. Marx's definitions of social classes) and the same force caused the transformation from earlier economic system to capitalism (which answers your complaint). Now this brings us to the end of capitalism, which Marx very insistantly argues that end of capitalism is the seizure of value generation which is equivalent to saying society being moneyless. E.g. one misconception people have is that Marx was also against labor-vouchers, but this is not true, as explained in Critique of Gotha's Programme, since labor-vouchers do not generate/accumulate value, their value is not determined at the moment of trade. Anyway, this also relates to Marxist criticism of anarchism. For anarchism capitalism --> communism is the seizure of capitalist state. But Marxism thinks this is fundamentally wrong because capitalist state is generated by capitalist mode of production. So, you will want to eliminate the capitalist mode of production instead of the state itself, because as long as c.m.p exists there is no way to kill capitalism, so state will revive. For Marxism you first need to eliminate the economic system that makes capitalism possible, i.e. accumulation of value, and then ultimately kill the State and class society as they're caused by capitalism.
> It is like when a skin care company cites that «9 out of 10 said this is the best skin cream (in a survey of 30 people)

After throwing out the all but three of the original 100 people saying one of the other 9 were the best skin cream.
On one hand, having the fresh eyes of an objective third party review code feels like a great idea.

What I'm stuck on is mostly the legal implications.

1) Do companies want a relatively unknown poking around in their secret sauce? Ages ago, my father worked on a number of projects at Bell Labs where parts for custom prototypes where sourced to different vendors so none knew exactly what was being built. Yes, now is not then. None the less how will this risk be mitigated (beyond contracts and background checks)?

2) And what if something does go wrong? The reviewer(s) miss something and eventually the shit hits the fan. Now what?

No show stoppers. But friction enough to be curious how they fare.
I am guessing the pitch went "It is like Uber for code review" /s

Seriously though, I am curious if the quality will remain high as they scale. I wish them luck. I would bet one of the big players acquires them within 1-2 years.
The design doc talks some about how this works: https://docs.google.com/document/d/131vjr4DH6JFnb-blm_uRdaC0...
I think I'm not able to go any further than what I already wrote, I'm sorry.
Logistic regression is doing classification not regression. That is, it's assigning/predicting categories of data points instead of predicting some continuous value on some interval. Maybe this is splitting hairs but the way you evaluate a classification model is totally different than a regression one.
The site is in alpha, at https://www.sparational.com. it has links to my GitHub, and to the site engine on S3. It started as a simple Node project to host a blog and a few random pages. Now, the goal is a single-page application, in more than one sense.
> The W3C has many more member companies, and it can get them to sign off on patent rights so there's less likelihood of some one of Adobe's patents on page layout in InDesign suddenly being infringed by web browsers due to something in the spec.

The patent policy only has commitments from members of the WG who developed the spec, so only have coverage from Adobe patents if Adobe is a member of the WG. (As it happens, Adobe still has one representative within the CSS WG, who happens to be one of the chairs.)
I have a 2-line shell script using only sed and curl (or equivalent) that obviates any need for youtube-dl, python, third party websites, etc. Unlike youtube-dl it will not download videos where the uploader is some commercial media outlet that wants to prohibit downloading.
Well that is disheartening. I figured if it was from Amazon I could somewhat assume authenticity.
>>> We probably need to eliminate most farming

For a start we could just avoid wasting so much :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_waste#Global_extent
Is Sam Altman a blood relative of Anne's? If so, I missed that detail.
Yeah sadly true.

1) Australia, but we started it in Canada.

2) Again true, lots of friends opted to buy houses etc, but i felt it was going to limit me so i avoided this form of debt, and thankfully so as servicing it would have probably prevented me from starting the company.

3) Affluent co-founders in my case.

4) I was 24. Just old enough to know enough, young enough to be dumb enough to try + have the freedom to try.

I'd also add a 5th) You need a solid chunk of savings (Ideally a year or two worth). I dropped my income by 76% to work on the startup and saw no increase from pre-startup income for a while thereafter. But 6 years later my salary income (forget the buyout portion of money) was up 1191% from where it was before i left my job.
If we define "pyramid-Ponzi scheme" is that the value goes up if more people talk about and buy it, then every asset is a pyramid-Ponzi scheme. Startup shares, lottery tickets, stocks, US dollars, oranges, everything.

It's not a very useful definition.
That’s who wrote it. The people who passed it could neither like nor dislike it, because they are on record saying they don’t read bills as that would “slow down the legislative process”.
And then there is the occasional upstanding citizen.
Thanks,

There are so many hits on the site that it got throttled.

I just upgrade the hosting plan to hopefully solve the problems, but I won't take effect until 2AM PDT.
^ THIS!
Thanks for the parenting advice, 21savageaf. I think you underestimate how big YouTube is for the average person. It is pre-installed on most android devices (2B+). Outside of the US and a few european countries, there is no HBO Go/Amazon Prime/Hulu.
WRT to the Max Howell thing, if you can't swap the left and right branches of a tree, I have a hard time believing that you're a great developer.
When I learnt programming, i was confused by x=x+1;

After I understood what it really meant, I wondered why they didn’t use some other symbol to capture this semantic. Say something like x <- x+1 ; Which implies assignment rather than equality - That way this would be unambiguous and I feel is more clear. I now guess the choice of using ‘=‘ was probably an attempt at making a (compromised) choice given the limited symbols that were available back when High level languages were first written?
I find it very unlikely that an OEM will emerge that will suddenly cater to us “tinfoil hat users”.
If you have links to the segments mentioned I'd like to watch. Tia
Personally I enjoy yogurt that is more drinkable. Anyone here try Beijing yogurt before? Wondering what kind of products are similar here in the US. I've seen some comparisons to kefir but I haven't yet gotten to try it.
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This looks like two or three sentences mashed together. I can't figure out how to parse it.
> If browser makers would actually participate as editors

Microsoft tried that, investing in easier to use GitHub tooling to allow a wide range of people to submit pull requests to update/fix bugs in the W3C HTML standard. "If you build the field of dreams, they will come...."
Nope. "They" had all gone to WHATWG ballpark, and all the W3C editors do is cherrypick (that's the actual word in the HTML 5.2 Recommendation) WHATWG's specs. It made a LOT more sense to just join WHATWG for HTML (and DOM).

> > The W3C actually does do some good work in other working groups

Right, W3C as a whole does a lot of good work. CSS is a good example, Web Payments, Web Authentication, Web Assembly come to mind as groups where a broad group really does come together and build consensus on how to solve hard problems. The HTML and DOM communities, however, have moved to WHATWG for reasons that happened long ago and apparently can't be un-done, even if a company with Microsoft's resources tries.
The Thinkpad T440 and newer are easier to work on than the T400 thru T430. You can do a heck of a lot more while removing fewer screws. than in older Thinkpads.
I use python and R for all of my research. Why would I pay for anything when those tools allow me to do these tasks for free?
Long posts are only part of the solution. What's needed is the full ability to moderate a given feed.
Google home works as an audio Chromecast target, so you can play MP3 from any app that supports Chromecast audio playback.

Personally I use Plex.
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> Are you sure we're not debating pedanticisms here?

I'm not sure. Maybe.

> Clearly he delivered _something_ that let you derive those gains.

> to me those are all forms of delivering a result.

But then by shipped you simply mean productive over the course of their employement - that's a pretty context sensitive metric to hire by.

For example I've found through my own failures that being highly productive at a big corporate does not translate to being highly productive at a small startup.

I mean I went from top 5% to middle of the pack.
> Great developers, more often than not, get bored. If they have any sort of intellectual curiosity, they will leave.

This is a good point. When you're skilled and have a good network, there's no point in putting up with a bad manager or an uninteresting or underpaid role.
In what way is sales and marketing spend related?
I think your list is mostly correct, but I don't think there's any reason it needs to stay that way. Technology is about lowering barriers to entry, and digital goods and services have high margins and very little (if any) marginal cost.

Maybe in the next 10-15 years we can convince high schoolers that if they spent their free time programming they could be capable of creating a revenue generating asset at 18.

The combined power of a nation of kids that could create rails SaaS sites or reusable 3D models would be an awesome sight to behold. It's a skill they would keep and even pass on.

Tech is largely new, and we really haven't bothered to teach it yet.
Gmail intentionally deviates from the IMAP spec, forcing email clients to either become Gmail clients or work poorly with Gmail. They refuse to support IMAP push, instead saving push for the Gmail API. Recently they introduced AMP for Email, which happens to work via emails that only Gmail can read. Now they introduce another feature which happens to work via emails that only Gmail can read.

I think it's pretty clear what's going on here.

By the way, FastMail's work at the protocol level - http://jmap.io/ - is open source, and being standardized by the IETF.
What do you believe is so special about swapping branches of a tree? Couldn't you just as easily say "if you can't make and maintain something more than a few thousand people use reliably, then you're not a great developer?"
I've posted this a few times before (taken shamelessly from tokenadult), but I'll post it again:

There are three main criteria for hiring (in knowledge work environments):

1 General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
2 Work sample test (of real, representative work, no hazing!)
3 Integrity (Because 1 and 2 don't matter if you hire a psychopath or narcissist(cough) ).

For 1 and 3 there are well known tests and you can find psychologists to administer them. Apply these tests evenly to everyone, even the people you're sure you want.

The other approach you can take is the IBM/60's corporate approach. Which is apply the above approach to the "office girls" EI: general population and train the smart ones for the job. This can work surprisingly well if you have good people in leadership.

http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Schmidt-and-H...
Speaking of automating the process, "Learning From Large Codebases" https://www.srl.inf.ethz.ch/raychev_thesis.pdf won the Honorable Mention for the 2016 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award; www.deepcode.ai is building on the technology.

From their webpage: "We automatically learn from millions of available software programs and use this knowledge to make key suggestions on how to improve your code"
This comment precisely illustrates the point that any discussion that includes the concept of the "great developer" is meaningless.
The JS code in question:

console.log([1,2,3,4,5,6,7] ^ 2);

This produces 2 because ^ is the bitwise XOR operator in Javascript. Arrays are not numeric types, so they appear to be coerced to 0 for this comparison. In short, they are effectively logging "0 XOR 2", which is 2.
Perhaps rephrase, not sure the question is clear
Homogenized is OK. Better UX that is evidence based than betting the farm on an art project.
I assume all versions do not have the fix until told otherwise.
Why do you mean by “mix”? It is not very natural to use the same system for both as you end up with non actionable data (notes) clouding your todo lists...
The article notes that yogurt has some requirements on temperature and that it probably arose every place humans harvested dairy and had the requisite ambient temperature to accidentally discover it but a Bulgarian was the first the uncover the bacteria responsible - the predominance of dairy currently is a result of industrial scale production and not a reflection of the bespoke whatever dairy was available yogurt that originated in Bulgaria.
.. by increasing risk to the extent that you can lose more than you invested, yes. Leverage is quite dangerous for retail investors.
SORRY, YOU NEED TO ENABLE JAVASCRIPT TO VISIT THIS WEBSITE.

I was expecting something more than text and images?
Reheated story (March 14): https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/tesla-manufacturing-high-vol...
Your secret sauce is your sales team and ability to get customers to use the features. Outside of dropping secret keys etc, your actual implementation in source code is nearly irrelevant. If you depend on keeping your code a total secret you are in for a world of hurt. Ex-employees certainly have copies laying around that could be leaked intentionally or just nabbed by some malware
I wonder if there is a market for indie developers looking for a code review for their side projects?
I did drugs on company time and that excuse didn't work.
Other than it's one of the simplest transformations of one of the simplest data structures?
You understand that The Post is about the Pentagon Papers, and takes place in the 1970s, when Jeff Bezos was like 10 right?
Friendica has events, and can federate with Diaspora.
As one of my better former managers put it, "Nobody gets a promotion for reducing the size of a tire fire by 50%"
I agree. This sounds to like a way to get almost none of the benefits of code review at a marginally lower cost.
Counterfeiting isn't even the worst thing on Amazon. Low-tech, low-skill, low-capital entrepreneur forums like /r/flipping have recurring posts about people dumpster diving outside retailers, some of which have yet to lock their garbage cans. They look for discarded consumer goods, primarily cosmetics, toiletries, and electronics, but sometimes even packaged food. The posters go on to brag about their profits selling this stuff on Amazon or eBay.

Their rationale is that these items are perfectly good and were discarded due to slow sales or being discontinued. That's objectively false: most was discarded because it is either expired or defective. The "good" stuff is sold to Marshall's, Ross, NewEgg, or the rest of the multi-billion dollar "off-price" ecosystem. But people don't want to hear that and any attempt to caution them is downvoted to oblivion.

To be fair, Amazon has taken steps to ameliorate this. Certain categories are now restricted to large volume sellers, which weeds out the dumpster divers.

...until they find a different category or a different website, or a way to lie or cheat their way back into the old one. If all else fails, they go on /r/DIY and learn how to make children's furniture out of poison soaked pallets they can steal from their local hardware store.
^ is XOR. The author’s “translation” to JavaScript made inconsistent changes in the notation. Here we’re XOR between 2 and a non numeric value, which is coerced into a Number (NaN I think here), and NaN bitshifted with anything gives that thing.
I can't think of a single time a mechanic or shop has given any details about the manufacturer of a part, just "do you want the expensive shit or the cheap shit". Of course in the auto parts world virtually everything is aftermarket not OEM and there isn't a monopolistic manufacturer trying to enforce their bullshit on repair shops.
Sure. Voluntary hard labor vs involuntary institutional daily rape followed by bunking where it happens until you're too old to sell. Maybe the customer doesn't know the provider didn't want this lifestyle, but it's still an unwilling participant situation.

They are both unfortunate, but not the same.
Diners are wonderful, and very very much a metro-NY thing in this incarnation. (There are other diner types, excellent in their own ways, but they're sufficiently different as to be out of scope.) They build communities, too, and "Diner regulars" are a pretty ecumenical bunch.

Nearly everything I miss about NY has to do with food, and nearly all the food I miss is diner food: mystery meat gyros, the diner hamburger that's slightly too wet for the bun so you can't put it down once you pick it up, the right kind of natural-casing link sausages that snap when you bite into them, and above all, the matzoh ball soup: cure for everything. For dessert, rainbow cookies or a slice of pie from the glass rotating case -- and don't forget the weird chocolate mints on your way out.

A half-decent bagel, good pizza, and any bodgea's sausage egg and cheese on a roll round out my list of foods I atavistically seek out every time I'm within 40 miles of central park.
How to Make Star Wars Snowflakes with Paper, Scissors, and the Force (2013)
This kind of bias is a prime example of people valuing their own preconceived notions of how the world works to the point where they are incapable of updating that belief with hard data.
I'm not trying to argue the respective pros/cons. OP just asked for an example of when RTBF would be a good thing excluding in the case of criminals.
That is a pretty bad article about VR that might have been excusable in 2013 but is not on firm ground in 2017 much less 2018.

Broadly, almost everything in it has been either not born out (vision concerns) or less of a problem then first assumed (motion sickness) once the limitations of different users were understood.

Many people using VR find that the vestibular concerns are not an issue over time as long as the framerate of the system is high enough (90fps+). People actually do get their "sea legs" over time and many (largely gamers so far) ask for locomotion systems that were considered terrible ideas even 2 years ago.
It also used to be called "anti-design". The concept has been around for a while. I really get annoyed when terms like "brutalism" are co-opted as yet another buzzword/trend/fad.