skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main reason for preferring paper over keyboard is that I like to draw example graphs of everything. These don't need to be exact just give a visual idea of how a function acts.

I also heavily annotate equations (color code, add description, etc)

How do you get around this?
The core players of the last two World Cup-winning teams played in their home leagues. It helps a lot more to invent a style that confers an advantage. Foreign exposure in top leagues is useful to smaller (in footballing terms) countries making deep runs. Those countries never win the whole thing, though.
My point is that if you're at the top of your game in tech, you always have choices. Yes, if you're starting out you'll have less leverage to negotiate no matter what. But even in those circumstances, if you're resolved to walk if things don't move at least a little in your favor, it gives you great strength no matter what. Having options, and competitive offers is always preferable but not a requirement to employ this strategy. As I mention in another answer, treat the negotiation as if you're doing it on behalf of a friend who has given you carte blanch to kill the deal if it doesn't improve. Be dispassionate - the more you get wrapped up and invested in making the deal work, the less leverage and strength you'll present in the negotiation.

As I said in the initial post, you should always be considerate and reasonable, but be firm in what's most important to you.

Good luck!
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A Stampede of Meatless Products Overrun Grocery Store Meat Cases
This looks very useful, but it does concern me that this is even possible. Simply starting chrome with a `--remote-debug` flag allows you to run JavaScript in any tab? seems like it could easily be exploited somehow; read passwords, copy userinfo etc.
It's nice to see an hour old project pop up on HN.

So essentially this project is:

- Collection of two-color SVG icons

- JS library to allow changing one of the colors programmatically

What about splitting these two features into different projects? There's already a database of millions of monochrome icons at https://thenounproject.com/ and https://icomoon.io/app/. Is there a way to leverage that to somehow produce two-color icons from monochrome icons?

Instead of combining your JS library with your specifically-designed SVGs, why not invent and advertise a technical SVG standard that icon designers can comply with in order for them submit them to your two-color icon curration project that I'm proposing. Then, the JS library would simply implement the ability to change colors assuming the icon follows the SVG standard. To promote openness, note that I'm not proposing a design standard/language to be accepted into a database but a technical standard just for allowing the JS to function. The icons in your own collection should follow your own design language (which looks very professional), but the database should include all design languages.
Tesla’s ver. 9 software update is coming in August ‘full self-driving features'
I don't think you can equate me leaving an employer "early", for some definition of early, to theft. As long as the contract is "at will employment", which majority of American job offers are (sorry for my America centric view), then the contract is AT WILL, in both directions. In my mind there is no ethical, moral or legal lapse.
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For some projects, "amount of change" is either hard to quantify, or mostly constant between two versions (eg. Ubuntu, Firefox, Chromium)
Hmm.. well, that same guy also wrote about how and why Uber migrated from MySQL to Postgres back in 2013 https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub...

Guess they learned from their past mistakes.
"Not yet published or documented, but you can do "make sqltclsh" from the SQLite source tarball and generate a TCL interpreter with SQLite built in. If you also append an SQLite database to this interpreter, it reads its scripts from the database. Use this to build stand-alone Tcl/Tk/SQLite applications."

Holy shit. This will be a godsend. I've been searching for an easy and robust way to package Tcl scripts into executables independent of a full-blown Tcl installation (I've tried a couple different approaches, but they all tend to have issues on some platform or other). This answers my prayers rather thoroughly, provided it can be documented and made relatively easy to do.
Discussed here (19 hours ago, 156 comments, 113 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17276059
I think that pure subscription is the only sustainable model. If the incentive for a new customer is the same as keeping an existing customer, you aim for the right product. I find permanent license models are pyramidal and/or foster featuritis.
> special means without accelerated reference frames

That's something a lot of people say, but it's not strictly true. Special Relativity is fully capable of describing acceleration in a flat (Minkowski) spacetime[1].

General Relativity is only really needed when there's curvature in the spacetime (gravity).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration_(special_relativi...
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I don't know the extent of what you're going through, but it can always get better.
Cavers will use natural rigging when it is available. Many pits are bell shaped since they form from the bottom up. So they are quite easy to rig an rappel. You tie off to some breakdown or perhaps a tree if you are on the surface and one is convenient. Your rappel rubs for maybe a few feet on the way down and then you are completely free. To get back up, you often use a system called a frog with ascenders (jumars). Trad rock climbing out of such a pit would be impossible and do far more damage. There are often formations on the walls and it climbing such an overhung situation would be impossible for most mortals who can't handle a 5.15.

But sometimes bolts are unavoidable. You need to rig such that your rope won't cut itself from rubbing as you ascend. Or perhaps you need to avoid a waterfall. You set a bolt and redirect or rebelay in situations.

Sometimes there is nothing to rig to as far as breakdown goes. Or you are on the surface and there are no trees or breakdown nearby. Finally, sometimes you reach a dome in a cave which is only seen from the bottom. So you need to do a dome climb up it. This typically involves setting bolts as well, though sometimes trad gear can be used.

The impact of a bolt isn't very great. Cavers typically remove the hangars just leaving a hole when expedition caving. After all, they will hopefully need the hangars for something new shortly thereafter.
This has existed for a while: https://www.bountysource.com/

It hasn't been a tremendous success story so far - but these things take time.
Amazing stuff.

Vernier is correct, hands off should have been handed off.
Now apply my analogy. All that armor around the battery cells contributes to Teslas setting fewer people on fire. We must compensate for it to see if lithium ion is a net benefit.

Which... doesn't really make sense. The safety features are part of the package. You can't get the dangerous part without them.

No cars are sold with a big blob of naked unprotected lithium ion cells. And no cars are sold with autopilot but not high-end crash protection.

A feature being dangerous in isolation is not enough to show that it lacks net benefit.
Sorry, you're right: TO me, either there's a fit or there isn't. I guess my point was that no perks will compensate for a bad fit.
There are a couple. But people don't just want any old GUI, they want a GUI that is marketed toward them and stamped with official approval.
There are some studies - I'll have to do some digging to find them - that show that even if you "feel rejuvenated" the next day, you will still not be performing at full cognitive capacity. I think this makes much anecdotal evidence invalid.
I think for the Clinton campaign it was used to make decisions about where to spend campaigning time. Arguably miscalculations/bad data on this point contributed to Clinton's loss.
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> But sometimes bolts are unavoidable.

I mean you can avoid it by not caving if it's not possible without permanently defacing the rock.
I disagree. I’d never subscribe to an app whose value isn’t directly tied to the subscription nature. I’d subscribe to Dropbox for example, as it’s an ongoing service, but a text editor? No.

I realise there are some small ongoing costs like support, but customers know when the value doesn’t align with the pricing and they don’t like it.
I find myself in the same boat. I've programmed in Objective-C since 1995 on NeXTSTEP. I love Objective-C, but realize it has quite a lot of warts.

My problem with Swift is my feeling that the people who developed it don't like Objective-C. It really feels like the Java direction Apple tried to take in the late 1990s. You can argue Nil messaging but its part of the landscape.

Plus, I really find weird way they adapted message passing to the C++/Javascript like syntax. A simple obj.(selector: value selector2:value) would have made it much easier to go back and forth. This is mismatch affects things. Never mind the added punctuation that need not be there.

I should be much more productive, but I'm not and that sucks.
Do plants have a sense of self or references to its own "body" (my instinct tells me no, but honestly I have no idea). They interact with the world and stimuli around them much like animals do, albeit on a slower time frame.
That means that biology uses the same idea of having "background jobs" and worker queues that get more relevant while the main function has a bit less to do: many IT systems will schedule some tasks during the night when there is not much going on, so they can prioritize them because otherwise they wouldn't get a chance during the day.

I wonder if there are universal laws that transcend biology and technology, all following the same rules that we haven't figured out yet.
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How so? Cavers will bring a change of clothes to avoid getting mud on a sensitive part of a cave with pristine formations. When entering virgin passage in dry caves like Lech, they very carefully plot a way through the room. Some rooms have been left untouched for future generations because they are so fragile, beautiful, and impossible not to disturb.
Yes, the sanctions are a result of the invasion. But in their goal of ousting Saddam, they destroyed an entire nation. There are better ways.

They were UN sanctions pushed for by the US but many involved spoke out against them during the period and afterwards. Many more are involved in the sanctions process than the ones who decide on the sanctions...

I'm not saying that Saddam wasn't bad, but we did more damage to Iraq than he could have ever done. We fucked up in Iraq.

No sane Iraqi person is happy that the US got it's hands in Iraq, only those in personal opposition to Saddam who lied to the US in order to support an invasion. Dude, even Republicans have started to see the Iraq war for the abosolute sham that it was.

What, you think the US is a big cuddly altruistic bear trying to free people all around the world? Just don't talk about subjects you know nothing about or speak for the Iraqi people you are not a part of. Congrats, number one stupidest comment I have ever seen on HN.
Dr. Mona is an amazingly courageous individual. I live an hour West of Flint and watched the whole thing go down in the state's capital of Lansing.

Dr. Mona was mocked by the state. The state's two major universities were silent. It must have felt like the weight of the world was sitting on her shoulders but she didn't buckle, in fact she became more outspoken.

But quietly at her alma mater of Michigan State one of her mentors convinced MSU's then leader, Lou Anna Simon, to provide the resources to look into her claims. When Dr. Simon called a press conference to support Dr. Mona's claims the dam broke and within days everyone acknowledged she'd been right all along.

As for Lou Anna Simon, well the Dr. Nassar sex abuse scandal broke and she was forced to resign. Dr. Mona's star however has risen and I think she should be included in a future version of the book profiles in courage.
I could be wrong here, but as I recall, there's a psychological effect where an offer of money can reduce the value a developer assigns to their own at-will effort because it shifts the paradigm from noble to economic ends.
My Co-founder got his EB1 while in PostDoc. Not a Nobel laureate but he has 50 peer-reviewed publications. Went on to become a Faculty Research Professor in Physics Department. He has PhD and MBA when applied for EB1. He actually has helped other great researchers get their EB1 as well, part of it has to do with the petition and how genuine and how strong of a case you make for making an impact on USA. Also, things like being an Editor or reviewer for academic journals, establishing a track record for guiding MS students on way to PhD, strong publication record, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder

Please, please, please consult a professional
"The scene shows a young Sweetback (played by the director’s son Melvin (sic) Van Peebles) having sex with a 30-year old woman."

The son is Mario Van Peebles, and to call rape "having sex" is spin (even the Wikipedia article on the film calls it rape). This author later waters it down to "statutory" rape, but would he do the same if the genders were reversed?

To miss such an obvious name goof makes me wonder if Salon bothers with any fact-checking anymore... or if anyone there reads their own content. This basic error remains in place after 2.5 years.
Faster than ObjC? Unless your objc code is written using nothing but id and reflection, I’m not sure how can this be the case...
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"Cavers" is a surname; these people are "spelunkers". :)
Read Bryan Caplan’s The case against education and consider how his cynical quantitative model applies to your specifics. (Or find his spreadsheet online, but the book’s arguments are worth thinking about.) My guess is that the high school diploma is worth the annoyance, unfortunately (though I skipped it myself back in the 80s. Different time.) College more likely not if you can get a foot in the door as a programmer without it. Also, if you can learn math and CS without being forced to.
The question is whether cab drivers get paid enough more than Uber drivers to offset that.
This is just like all the bad actors buying all the fast computers with BitCoin
If you actually read this article in full, it seems quite inane to me.

>Now you have actual Nazi groups being in favor of Bitcoin. Weev, one of the biggest Nazi leaders worldwide is into it. There's a great Twitter account that tracks Weev’s Bitcoin wallet, every transaction coming out of it, along with those of some other neo-Nazis.

It doesn't seem important that someone you dislike, nazi or not, uses a currency. Many of the world's worst criminals and killers use the US dollar. It doesn't matter.

>that “the world will ultimately have a single currency,” which to me is a conspiratorial belief.

It doesn't have to be Bitcoin. I don't think anyone important seriously thinks Bitcoin in its current state can be a world currency. But you might be surprised what happens in the next few decades or 100 years from now as far as a world currency goes.

>There is at least a hint there of “illegitimate/parasitic profit takers interfering with an otherwise-honest transaction,” which is a classic form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

At this point I don't think this article is worth taking seriously. I'm not sure how you can read lines like this that imply rent-seeking is an "anti-semitic conspiracy theory" and continue on thinking this article is worth your time. Even if other points of the article are better than this, I still expect better content on HN
As opposed to doing nothing because of some kind of epistemological catch-22? How do you plan to start with a tested hypothesis, as opposed to an untested hypothesis? How did you test it before you conceived it?

It's not an ideal solution but it's a practical inevitability to make some assumptions to get things moving. The best of us come back and check the assumptions as soon as they are able to quantify them and perform an empirical experiment, and as a backup we have others independently verifying people's assumptions by trying to replicate experiments and seeing if the predictions line up.

Nobody has magic powers to divine truth from nothing. Science is a filter which gradually strains out the misinterpreted and the biased and the just-plain-wrong, but it still starts with subjective observation and reasoning. As does all human experience. The important part is that it moves away from that instead of stopping there.
A friend of mine have been working with porting to iPhone some Android and web apps. I recently asked his opinion of Swift. He said he had no idea as the essential libraries the apps use are in C or Objective-C, so there were no choice but to use Objective-C for the apps. This was surprising, as I thought that calling Objective-C from Swift should be transparent. But it turned out it was not as many small but important details make the whole thing rather messy. So I also wandered what exactly Apple wanted to get with Swift if it lacks even in Objective-C interoperability.
Is that commonly done? I would guess this means the withdrawn paper contains an egregious error. Does anyone know?
But you have to admit, it's possible that these cultures have "learned" their behavior, not been "born with it".

It's an innate human trait to burp and fart. Some cultures have place a pressure on people to not do these things.
Swift has changed a lot since v2, which was before it was open sourced and honestly before they had sufficient tool quality for medium and large projects.
How can I do this while I am working in an IT company? Peer reviewing and similar work? I work in Enterprise Software (BMC Software)

Please guide.
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> Unless your objc code is written using nothing but id and reflection

That's how all Objective-C code is written–every method call goes through objc_msgSend.
The key difference is that it is NOT a twelve month cycle of adding features. The features are added throughout the year, and you get one year's worth of new features from whenever you buy it.

This helps with two things; one, you don't have to have all the new features released at once. You can release them as you go, and people (who paid) will get them as you release them.

Second, it stops the timing issues that you have with the traditional once-a-year upgrade. If you are a consumer, you don't want to buy the previous version if the new version is coming out soon. And as a seller, it means all of your sales are packed into right after you release the new version.

This seems like a good way to smooth out that cycle, for both buyers and sellers.
Excel's pseudorandom number generator is weak: Agreed. The claim that someone, presumably a well-situated person in the Canadian government, might be able to put their finger on the scale for this applicant versus the others seems reasonable. Otherwise, the notion that a bad PRNG, even the one in Excel, will "favor" one group over another, or one person over others, seems a stretch.
Coordinating "not feeding trolls" on a large scale is very difficult.

Also, it is difficult to ignore people who can attack you offline. I think these fanatical students (seems to me they are usually students; students are most susceptible to recruitment in all kinds of cults) constitute pretty much zero danger to me... but they can be quite dangerous to their classmates, so if I had children in university age, I would probably worry a lot.

If you told me that when I eat pizza that it is a cultural appropriation, I would just tell you to f.off. But when a student is surrounded by militant classmates, this can lead to bullying. And even worse, when a teacher is a part of some social justice cult. So... not feeding the trolls is sometimes not an option, unless you want to give up on your diploma, and the time and work spent so far studying.

Not feeding trolls also assumes that people are mature enough to recognize who is a troll. But there is a continuum between people who sincerely believe that political correctness is simply the usual politeness applied to politically sensitive topics... and people who throw a hissy fit whenever someone disagrees with their latest pseudoscience. Try to make a line somewhere, and people who are under the line but quite close to it are going to object.
> This. Even then Swift (the last I really looked like v2) was full of special one offs and smacked of design by committee.

How so?
> This may sound obvious but if you don't do things the Rails way then you'll have a harder time taking advantage of what Rails gives you

> Lots of magic...

The same is largely true of Django as well.
awesome. I always love free and malleable icons :D

(also, 'with a blaze' is slightly awkward, i think.)
While not disagreeing with your thesis, I took "Argument and Applied Logic" in college and found it to be a low-point in my academic career. It was less fun than it sounds.
It works well and I like the overall design. Why'd you make it?

The default keyboard shortcuts are a little awkward; using tab or the up/down arrows to navigate the list would be more intuitive. Also, it would be easier to distinguish tabs if the title were displayed before the hostname.
The terrain in some caves is so varied it seems like current state of the art robotics would have trouble. You might have to crawl for an hour, climb up and down breakdown, then rappel 600 feet into a pit. While a drone certainly could handle many pits, getting it there would be non-trivial.
I have to wonder what the legal ramifications of using one of these things to defend oneself would be.
When we were looking at buying a house one of the weirdest things we encountered was that it doesn’t seem to occur to people to repaint or wallpaper houses they’re buying.

I literally heard people saying they weren’t going to buy a house because they didn’t like the wall colours. From our realtor we found that all agents will prefer to repaint all houses to a plain pastel/beige interior. As a matter of course. It was very strange.
Computer: Boostnote - it is open source and nice.

I also use paper to draw things, preferably: whitelines (seriously nice, easy to scan, not expensive IMO)
Oldest bubonic plague genome decoded
Forget reusability, aim for perfection: New lessons from mandoc in OpenBSD [pdf]
Liking something doesn’t mean you have to partake 100% every time the opportunity arises. I like chocolate cake but I don’t order it every time I sit down to eat. What’s more, a lot of us are very skilled at things we don’t particularly like.

Ultimately what you’re keying into is skill and interest - most people aren’t very skilled at driving and they don’t really care to be.
I was thinking about this recently, maybe FOSS isn't quite ideal for the developers.

As long as nobody is compensated, it is very fair system. But if somebody gets compensated for their work, then if their work depends on other people's work for free, the other people not being compensated is not fair.

For example, consider somebody producing Youtube videos using FOSS. They are compensated, yet the authors of the tools they use are not (necessarily).

FOSS basically started as a radical revolt against copyright system, which is somewhat dysfunctional, but its purpose was to make compensation fair.

But maybe a better copyright system would actually help. Say limit copyright to 5-10 years. The short term would remove the huge gap between doing copyrighted work and doing work for free, and make them more compatible with each other.