skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those free meals and free gyms at Facebook and Apple are only for the alphas, the epsilons are there simply to cook their food and clean up after them.

Apple, at least, charges all employees for food and gym. And staffing the dining center has become hard enough that they pay a thousand dollar referral bonus.
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> or at the very least provide peer-reviewed scientific analysis on how it will be fixed

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1011

There you go. Read it then make your arguments against it. If not, then shut-up.
Intel is so big that they need 3 CEOs and one of them has to be a silicon genius. That a company with so much talent can't bring dynamic products to market is a tragedy for the American economy. x86 doesn't need to die it just doesn't HAVE to be the only future.
"And we never go looking for companies to invest in. They always come to us."

Unless you're one of the ~10 most well-known VCs in the world (or in your region/niche) it stands to reason that proactive search could yield additional high quality leads. Why forego this?

There's a parallel in recruiting: applicants on your web site might include many, many candidates who don't meet the minimum requirements of the role, such that even the top 10% include some that don't warrant a phone screen. So companies target passive candidates via LinkedIn, to find the gems who aren't currently even considering a new job.

(And it's not just small companies that do this. Even companies with a top-tier employer brand, which receive many thousands of applications, will actively source candidates this way.

Why doesn't the same apply to the VC firms with which you work (wrt potential investments)?
Well sure, but that's why I prefaced with "downtown." The five-county Greater Austin metro area has its own transportation issues that need solving as well, like much of the country.
Not really.. the article explains that energy relies on natural resources while google relies on human capital.
'The Japanese must ultimately be accountable for their leaders actions as we are.'

Who is 'we'? Most if not all countries have done horrible things to people, directly or by sponsoring others. Are you accountable for those done in your name?
That's true, but different companies have different standards of manufacturing. Apple, for example, exert extreme control over their products, right down to the silicone. Short of a potato, they offer the highest degree of certainty and protection.

Meanwhile, Qualcomm has several programs running below the OS level that track users "anonymously" in various ways. Such systems can much more easily be co-opted by other parties such as governments.
> We represent a lot more power as money now.

I'm not sure that's true. While, as I said, the disparity in wealth between Bill Gates and the poverty line is much greater than that between a king and a serf in feudal times, the power disparity between Bill Gates and a person at the poverty line is a lot less. A feudal king could command all sorts of things of serfs and exert all kinds of power over their lives that Bill Gates can't command or exert over anyone. So Bill Gates' money does not represent power the way a feudal king had power.
I have a CS PhD from Stanford (graduated 2014) and it is definitely worth it. The thing it actually buys you is freedom to choose your own research, which you can't do with a bachelors or a masters. I now work at an industrial research lab where I get to set my own research agenda within some reasonable bounds of interest of my employer. I pick the projects I work on and am compensated based onto how valuable they are to the company. Importantly failed projects can be just as valuable to the company as successful ones as they can show the product groups what NOT to do. The PhD is effectively a license showing that you've been trained to conduct research. Most companies won't give you the freedom to pick your own research topics without it. For someone that cares a lot about what I'm working on, that freedom is more valuable than money.
One thing that skews these numbers is what counts towards the denominator. Facebook has tons of contractors working inside their datacenters doing breakfix. Do they count towards the 'employee' count?

The other bit is how much of SV's employees are paid in stocks; after 4 years of RSU granting cycles and appreciation, you may well be earning more in stock vests than base salary.
The traditional method I thought was wiring cash through Western Union.
Where I live, programmers make far more than cabinet makers and electricians.
Awesome software, this is totally something I could see myself use regularly.

Heads up: on my Mac, browsh isn't properly resetting the tty when it crashes.
It's a lesson everyone learns the hard way, which is why everyone who says it didn't do it, because you bet they'll try very hard to follow their own advice the second time around.
Electric cars give the same control that a manual transmission does.
please add any developed thoughts you may have on the matter!
The airframe dictates the missions.

The F-16's airframe is fine, but not stealthy. Stealth is crucial when it comes to taking out the tracking radars of most "strategic level" SAM systems (like the S-300 and S-400). The F-16, with its inability to carry stores internally, shines like a beacon to these SAM systems and can't get close enough to take them out without huge amounts of support.

Thus, the F-35.
I got a lot of responsibility quite quickly so I would say I am in this situation. There are a few things I try to do to overcome the problem:

- You can't do everything and you can't do it perfect every time but you can try your best every time.

- People you work with are older, smarter and more experienced. So make use of it, ask questions and make it clear that you are willing to learn everything where you lack knowledge.

- Look out for people who have certain capabilities which you would like to adopt. For example how they interact with a customers or how they organize tasks. Observe how they do that and what their workflow is. Try it and figure out if it fits you too. You can also ask for tips as these people had to figure it out too.

- Reflect. After some time look back at your work and figure out where things went wrong. Change your workflow to avoid that it happens again.

- Everyone wings it on an everyday basis, so you can do it too.
"Sorry, the latter piece of the patch does indeed appear to call the NSS SSL_SetURL which should trigger the SNI."

So, according to your own link, yes it should support SNI.
The constraining factor in this case is CPU throughput. The CPU cannot execute instructions fast enough to keep up with the data being read in from memory.

Of course you are right that this is not the whole picture, it is possible to be bottlenecked on neither memory bandwidth nor CPU throughput.

With respect to memory, two additional considerations are read amplification and latency.

Read amplification:
Read amplification basically means that you are reading data but not actually using it.
Suppose we have a table stored in row format with four columns C1, C2, C3, C4 which store 8 byte integers.
Row format means that the values for the columns are interleaved, so the memory layout would look like this, where cn refers to some value for column Cn:

0x0000 c1 c2 c3 c4 c1 c2 c3 c4
0x0040 c1 c2 c3 c4 c1 c2 c3 c4
...

One property of conventional memory is that we can only read memory in blocks of 64bytes (the size of a cache line).
So if we have a loop that sums of all of the values in C1, we will actually also load all of the values for columns C2, C3, C4.
This means we have a read amplification of factor 4, and our usable bandwidth will be a quarter of the theoretical maximum.

Latency:
Suppose we also don't have any read amplification and make use of all values for each loaded cache line.
Then after we finish processing a cache line, and load the next cache line, we might have to wait a long time (100s of cycles) before the new cache line actually arrives!
So then we would actually be stalled because of memory latency during some parts of program execution.

One of the big advantages of using columnar layout (which stores all values for a column sequentially) is that it all but eliminates read amplification.
Similarly, by accessing data sequentially we make it possible for the CPU to predict what data will be accessed in the future, and have it loaded into the cache before we even request it.

Of course there's a number of reasons why things might not work out quite so perfectly in practice, and those may why performance in this benchmark starts to degrade before the (usable) memory bandwidth reaches the theoretical maximum memory bandwidth. But as you can see it still possible to get very close, so it's safe to assume that queries which read much less data than the maximum bandwidth are constrained on CPU.
What Is ObamaCare? Emperor, King, Queen......
Obamacare is the only one phoenix body Emperor Liying Zeng original in having attract those hackers are a force for good. She made not only U.S.A more prosperous and powerful. It's about the whole World put into effect the Obamacare(policy) of better staff and sampler by her accomplish the sacred task of unifying the World. That's her autocratic monarchy you all looking for emancipating all mankind since last empire hide the secret into modernize. It's not their country's Presidents, Chapters, and other Leaders how smart. It's all about her. She realized four modernizations and all.
This is basically how it is in Japan. Just bigger sidewalks. Bike mostly welcome. Of course this forces them to slow down a bit.
I think what you’re missing is that the entire Earth is the reaction mass.

I’ve had a bit of fun doing the maths on space launch systems that function like this — if I remember right, you might even be able to do it… if you can make a monocrystalline superconductor, of whatever the best critical current density was about five years ago, about ten times the combined mass of your payload and cooling equipment.

Unfortunately there are limits on which direction this force can act in that make it even less useful than I’ve just made it seem.
Except the network admin that makes the hush-hush employee website usage reports for the boss.
I've been through (and hell, am going through) interviews that were stupid trick questions. I distinctly remember one startup in NYC that gave me a simple JS whiteboard question, then some super difficult Google question that required backtracking, memoization, etc.

After thinking about it, and getting berated every 2 minutes with "Do you have a solution or not" I gave them a generic overview of what I would do (eg. Brute force would be to do this, a recursive call to obtain these subparts, then memoize those, etc.) but said I could not do it on a whiteboard.

I then met their asshole CTO and got berated for working for the defense industry ("What good have they ever accomplished with technology?" was I think a rhetorical question, not a trick one...) and asked to see myself out. Good god that was the worst interview I ever had.

Anyway, the interviews I have had recently are mostly just talking about specific language details, or HackerRank challenges. Which while sometimes has annoying "gotcha" problems, are mostly FizzBuzz type deals that I can live with.

So I try to imagine myself as the nervous interviewer and stick with basics. Do you know what debugging is? Can you eliminate possibilities? And I try to get a sense for how they approach coding. Keep in mind I have to make a decision after a 30-60 minute phone call, and then a 30-45 minute interview.

Yeah it's super unscientific but my boss would rather we just "talk" to them and hire them just off that. Which explains many of the problems our company has...
For those who aren't familiar, Gerrit (the code review system used by Android at this point, think GitHub Pull Requests but better/worse) uses "Anonymous Coward" naming for those users it doesn't otherwise have a good name for.

Others point out this usage probably finds its origin in Slashdot culture, which is likely true, but also probably a ternary relationship in this instance.
It's funny, even though I've known about Scoot for a while, and I see their vehicles sometimes (relatively rarely, and in random residential neighborhoods), I've never had the slightest interest in trying it. The electric push-scooters were available for a much shorter time, but I did try them.

I wonder why. Perhaps Scoot just looks like a much bigger hurdle? If I'm going to rent this big thing, put on a helmet and everything, then I might as well just call a Uber and call it a day? I don't know.
They have a lot of money, I just don't know if that is enough.

The thing is Saudi Arabia has tried to diversify its economy many times before... it hasn't gotten it done. They have a huge gut of workers entering the workforce soon and it seems they are they're not educated enough to compete.

A nice man I met from SA noted that education in SA was still heavy on religion, and all his friends aspired to comfortable government jobs that are easy, and pay well, as that has been the place to be for decades.

I'm not sure you can fix that in say 20 years....
Yeah, fair enough. It's more like it could be more fun, if you're obsessed with the field, and your advisor isn't terrible, and your program doesn't encourage cutthroat competition (by e.g. admitting more students than the faculty can realistically support), and you're willing and able to live a Spartan lifestyle (in particular, no financial dependents), and ...

I'm lucky in a lot of ways and I sometimes forget that.
Also, don't forget countries with draconian currency controls, like Venezuela, produce demand for money transfers even if difficult and expensive.

And I think the hidden story of the "war against terrorism" has probably been a sustained effort to crack down on informal money transfers, and something like cryptocurrency is an inevitable response to the decline of traditional methods.
Why, it’s really good?
I was going to make the same suggestion, but to compete with Paperspace they should offer an image that comes with all the course dependencies preinstalled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Zz-Nkkaxc
Revenue is a terrible metric. For example, drug distributors have billions in revenue, but they are just middle men who make a fraction of a percent in profit.
I thought the Bussard ramscoops on the warp nacelles were explicitly mentioned on-screen, not just in the show’s technical manuals?
Personally, I use LastPass across browsers in multiple desktop accounts and my mobile browser, with no issue. You create a LastPass account, presumably with a very secure password, that you can log into elsewhere.

As for the password strategy, I imagine you could be vulnerable if any two important accounts - say, email and bank - both used the same password. Are you confident this is not the case?

I assume certain emails associate with certain types of accounts, which could flaw your strategy. If you're able to remember ~15 different passwords with random emails, congrats on your stellar memory!
LOL. You still need middlemen with cryptocurrencies in all those cases because the middleman is now run across computers that don't scale whatsover (hardcoded limit in processing which is the worst type of scaling possible and scaling is the main reason software is a profitable industry). To make matters worse, you have no way of funding the developers to build the software required for the decentralized software outside of "buy our coins and hope they rise in price forever".

How is there still this much FAD in cryptocurrencies considering their terrible scaling technology and economic solutions?
I just close anything that asks me to log in or use an app. No big deal.
A warning for anyone thinking of doing their cross-platform GUI this way: GTK only supports accessibility tools (such as screen readers for blind users) on Unix (via AT-SPI), not Windows or macOS. I'd suggest using wxWidgets or Qt instead. Of course, both of those use C++ as their native language, so creating bindings to other languages isn't as easy as for something C-based like GTK.
I saw (on TV) a guy who charged to walk "with" you.
Or, you know, use a password manager.
This touches on something I've been grappling with. How does one measure/quantify effort? From personal experience, keeping track of hours spent on a project isn't ideal as it encourages inefficiency.

One of the things with limited success is writing down a tally every time I push myself.

Do an extra set of crunches? Tally.
Read through two extra research papers? Tally.

Does anybody else have suggestions for quantifying effort?
Loads of ideas! So well first I need to identify what people want and are willing to pay for.

I like the awards for lo-fi websites, I could have a showcase section of the website.
Truth be told to get an actual answer to this you’d have to ask the partners. I do know that there are different funds within the VC and they may go seeking investments. I honestly don’t know.

What I am sure of is that they don’t go looking for investments in the part of the fund I consult for. Those potential investments come to us in huge sets that many analysts have to narrow down into viable investment options.

Could it be better? Maybe. I mean they aren’t the largest VC in the world. Nor are they the smallest. But for a small number of partners they do quite well. I guess they like their methods. They would probably say if you have a different idea and the funds for your VC, by all means go for it.
Do you mean in the middle of the sidewalk, or to the side, against a wall? The former seems overtly malicious, the latter is a completely normal place to park a bike in cities where people ride bikes.
Great approach, thanks for the suggestion.
If you're only interested in serialized content I can see how it might be easy to exhaust HBO's offerings. But any time I just want to grab some popcorn and watch a nice old fashioned 110-minute-contained narrative HBO Now has my back with 100+ movies, almost all of which I want to watch. Sometimes I spend several minutes deciding which movie to watch cause they all sound so good. If I do this 3 times a month it's easily worth the $15 to me. I also spend a long time picking movies to watch on Netflix and Amazon, but that's because even the stuff that sounds good has a non-negligible chance of being bad to mediocre and there is such a huge swath of options that just sound (and are) terrible.

When it comes to in house content Netflix's best attempt so far (House of Cards) barely reaches the quality level of HBO's B-roll.

I could probably lose Netflix or Prime without missing a beat, but I will be chagrined if ATT fucks with the format of HBO Now/Go.
Most password managers provide apps and syncing, and are often integrated into your browser, so everything is a click away. Having to juggle 4 emails, remember which of 5 passwords a site uses, and figure out your exposure in case of a breach seems a lot harder than the above.
We lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume.
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All I can say to this is they are rather arrogant. They like the success they have with the methods that they use I guess. Ultimately, I think every VC is arrogant in their own special way!
We are accountable to those people who we need stuff from, are we not?
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Arguably you could say the same about Opera's "wrapping" of the Chrome libs.
In practice the great linters and refactoring tools are kind of a package and it's nice to have them integrated (there's the "I") into your development environment. I find the IntelliJ emulation of Emacs key bindings good enough for me.
I couldn’t really bring myself to read their post because of this title. I would argue that the buzz words are actually a detriment to their marketing.

If you’re from Oasis and you are reading this: please think of a better way to sell your product - unless your target market is ignorant business types who live for this stuff.
> But the company loses money when its customers use a pass, because it must pay theaters for the tickets.

This is some dotcom bubble 1.0 level stuff, "we'll sell at a loss and make it up in volume".

> Previous SEC filings revealed that the company was burning through an average of $21.7 million every month operating MoviePass. In May it blew through $40 million.

With zero growth to their customer base another $1.2 billion would last them 30 months. But if all goes according to plan they could lose this much faster:

> The service recently passed 3 million subscribers, and is trying to draw in more as part of the plan to stay afloat. Executives want to reach 5 million members by the end of the year, a number they say should help make the business profitable.

Who would be crazy enough to invest?
Yes, sorry about that. I'm still getting used to Golang. So I need to consistently catch panics and I ensure the right ANSI escape sequence gets sent to the terminal before it finally exits.
What's with the Virus warning with the windows binary?

Comes up with BrowserModifier Win32/Unwaders.B!ml detected.
I am still intrigued by the idea of a CS PHD but I stopped after my Master’s. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding an advisor you mesh well with.
Sorry, it's just I was on mobile. And as someone below pointed out, it was a pretty emotional response for me. Apologies for the unsubstantiated and harsh allegation.

I just really object to how casually OP waved off people losing their jobs.
“World’s most efficient” bicycle drivetrain unveiled at Eurobike
The linked article basically restates the original NYTimes article, with less detail: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breas...
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I have two years of professional experience, primarily working on RESTful API's in PHP (Laravel) and Python (Flask). I'm in a rough spot and I am looking for work. I do not own a car and geographically distant from other options. I'm more than willing to send a resume and share other details if requested. My schedule is fairly open and flexible.
how does it know how to convert a webpage to a ascii?
Ovis self-driving carry-on luggage
Inuit whaler's leftovers from four centuries ago are still detectable due to elevated nutrient levels in the ponds that were next to where they butchered their take.

http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/101/6/1613.full.pdf

Genuinely surprised me when I first read about it.
LinkedIn not using its own developed feature
Cash and barter require trust that your counterparty won't club you and take your stuff, since you have to be physically present.
... which was discussed on HN yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484206
I think this is a crucial question every entrepreneur should ask his or herself before taking money with a liquidation preference - and that includes long term debt (the ultimate liquidation preference).

Whenever you take on leverage, you have to deliver a return to investors (or lenders). How long will that take? Do you really want to do this for another X years? And ten years is not a bad guess for preferred equity.
I think it's "Item 12.6" on the agendas for the WHO assembly, so you can find lots of WHO group statements/reports regarding it but I can't find the text either.
This is enough time for companies to wind down their R&D + investments in internal combustion engines gracefully.

If you want to spend money on ICE engines now you need justify how you get return in max 22 years.
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That Apple number does not include the slave wages of Foxconn workers, other outsourced labor or contractors for which Apple avoids paying benefits.