skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to describe that? Simple, describe how management was setting up cage matches between competing development teams. I'm not saying "Don't blame management", not at all. I'm saying "bad management" is an insufficient answer. How did they go wrong? Playing dev teams off one another is a different problem than, say, insisting on using tech that isn't up to the task (a situation I've been in before), or an unwillingness to say no to the customer (a situation I've been in before, too).

Hell, I've talked openly in interviews about the problems with a project that I got fired from, and blamed both management and the customer in no uncertain terms. I fault myself mostly for not walking out on it. I still get job offers when talking about how I got fired by incompetent management of an out-of-control project. But part of that is that my story leads somewhere - it leads to my lessons learned, conditions I will no longer tolerate in a workplace, #1 of which is the bottomless budget.

So I care less about how you screwed up, or who or what you blame, and more about what you learned from the failure. Tell me that, and you win my heart.
quality vs quantity is a very real qualification you need to think about. typically doctors are more concerned with quantity -- ie they have to "do something" if they can
There's not actually one disease called "cancer". Cancer is just the catch-all term for a large set of disorders where cells grow at an uncontrolled rate. Such a disorder can develop in different ways, for different reasons, in different cells, at different times, etc.

Honeypots only work when there is consistent attack pattern to detect, and a means to mitigate that attack. But with cancer, getting a tumor to grow in one kind of cell will not prevent a different kind of cancer from developing in a different kind of cell.
I was told that I would be allowed to stay part of the troop but would not be able to advance on rank any further due to being an athiest, and the people who made that decision are still involved with the organization.

Parts of the boy scouts may have moved on, but it is by no means an official change
From the website:

"About OpenAI: OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence."

At any rate, the bigger question is whether AGI is even possible. Why does no one even take a stab at answering this question? We have all these well funded research institutes that just assume AGI is possible, and we could just be throwing all the money down a hole.
Yeah, I'm not sympathetic to either side. And while I have very strong feelings about using eminent domain against private citizens, I'm much less likely to object to it being used against a corporation (though I guess that ship has sailed thanks to the deal with NJ Transit).

From a legal and due process perspective, I'm ambivalent as to how the situation shakes out. There's been enough foolish, lazy and/or shady behavior on both sides that neither has much ground to stand on.

As far as my personal feelings go, I'd rather not see a refueling station built there, but nobody asked me.
Wow @killion. Legit as legit can be! Thx for sharing your story, will add it to the knowledge base I'm putting together.
My first job in tech as a teenager (2007 or so) was doing blueprint analysis and WiFi Access Point placement for a US Defense contractor in the Midwest.

While working on one of the buildings with some missile guidance programs, I found a small room in the center of the building that had twelve inch thick concrete walls and a thick steel door. Determined to do my job, I experimented with placing several access points near this room until I found a combination that would force enough signal to connect through those walls. I had the telecom team pull wires, a month later I threw some WAPs in my backpack and installed them.

A week later I got an email marked urgent demanding that my team turn off these access points immediately. I complied, but asked what exactly the concern was. They mentioned that by bouncing WiFi signals, a van parked in the parking lot could monitor the activity in any room they wanted.

At the time I thought they were crazy, and at times I've told this story to demonstrate how paranoid that company was. Looks like there was some real basis to their concern.
Aren't mental effects like pain problems? From your problem paragraph 4:

> Depression, back pain, chemotherapy-related malaise, migraine, post-traumatic stress disorder: The list of conditions that respond to placebos — as well as they do to drugs, with some patients — is long and growing.
Didn't you get the memo (2016)? Corporations now write the law, and they don't even prevent for impartiality.
Samsung opens its Bixby assistant to developers
Saudi Arabia could already do LBOs in Western countries, well you think they can take out more leverage because of the restrictions on debt in Islamic culture?

I would say the Softbank entity shields them in case things go down, like after the things that went down.
Mostly yes, it came to a point where the teams had enough understanding to be able to make a mistakes that impacted customers without them jeopardizing the whole company. Bizdev and sales are a WIP still since it's a niche industry.
> well to anyone who is thinking of using Stripe Atlas and is not American

"Well to anyone who is thinking of creating a business entity in the US which is taxed under US laws without doing the proper research regarding US taxes..."

I fixed that for you.
Ask HN: Researcher vs. Engineer
After a Ph.D. in CS and three years of postdoc, I realized that academia is not for me.
However I love doing research. Now I’ve to choose between begin an industrial researcher or an engineer.

On the one hand, I’d like to be a researcher working on open problems but I’m afraid that industry won’t give me the freedom of publishing/working on interesting problems.
On the other hand, engineers deal with well defined concrete problems but I’m afraid that it won’t be as stimulating as doing research.

Have you ever found yourself in a similar situation? Any suggestions? Thanks.
SPARQL results DO have an inherent structure. Even more, this is why projects like Eclipse Lyo can automatically convert SPARQL results directly to Java Objects. So no, SPARQL it is not intended to be used directly but as a product for a library to be converted into objects or rows or graphs or anything the client needs.

On the other hand, GraphQL pushes its complexity (to worry about the "how") into the server's implementation. The complexity is still there. And it's impossible to be automatically browseable.

Semantic Web is only an application of SPARQL, not the only one.
Solomonoff induction is a way to quantify the human ability to induce general principles from limited observations. All the computable methods are unable to achieve this ability.
Service businesses get told they can't be scaled all the time. Thanks for proving it can still work!
I was mainly commenting so people interested in LISP verification knew to check it out to make sure they reap any benefits from a mature tool. I'd have been shocked if you hadn't heard of it. I was just a little confused since it's usually mentioned as prior work or something. Glad you're already benefiting from it.

Yeah, focusing on stuff closer to your direction of type theory makes sense. Thanks for writing up your work and good luck on your project.
The article portrays this as a success story, but was making “billions” the point or goal of Red Hat? If it wasn’t, then they have now failed. Because that’s all you get when you “exit” like this – you get money.
The senses are subtle, especially taste and smell. They also seem to vary more between people than the other senses. I drink soda pretty regularly and don't consider either very sweet, but I can't distinguish them.
man that was something!
Yes, it is unlikely that that’s true. At least, I can’t think of anything. Or at least, nothing that’s compatible. We do have features for 2018 that are incompatible with 2015.

? isn’t syntax sugar because it doesn’t desugar into other syntax, it’s a feature in its own right. At least, that’s what I recall. Regardless, I don’t think it really matters.
I don't see him gulping the water down. As a matter of fact, the water barely touched his lips.
The ISP is not creating the process by which the law is broken, only facilitating the transmission.

the ISP is like the roads that you take to get to the gun shop.
Yes the gun shop should prevent you from buying a gun to kill someone.

The people who maintain the road to get you to the gun shop should not decide that you cannot use the road.
He was really looking forward to downloading the compiler.
The usual definition of "crash" does not include "getting killed by the OS while behaving normally".
Coke also has a certain harshness when from a can or bottle. I absolutely love Coke, but do not mind getting pepsi. I will always prefer coke.
I should add, to get back to the idea of how a life scientist at Theranos would explain it... well, did you know you were doing something that couldn't be done? How did you feel about it? What did you do about it? Why did you stay/why did you leave? Did you feel your work was unethical?

Conceptually, Theranos was very exciting. I hope someone actually pulls it off someday. I can understand the attraction for a scientist.
This is probably the most content-free article I have ever read.
Weekend voting can be a part of early voting; But mail-in or smart phone solves the availability problem much better than a holiday (where the very people who don't have the flexibility to take off work now would likely still not be able to take off work (like thanksgiving, memorial day, and labor day)
It can also be argued that charities providing all those third world country with basic supplies, like food, clothes or drugs, actually ruin their economies. It's simply impossible for local producers of said goods to compete on price with charity organization that gives those away for free.

If a corporation would try to do that in US, it would be called price dumping and trigger antimonopoly lawsuit against them, but somehow, when it's done to poor African countries we consider it OK, and even expect them to be gratefull for it.

EDIT: I think that China does much better job helping them by making actual investments in their economies, building railroads, factories, etc. You might question their intentions, but you cannot question the results.
The prosecution of Aaron Swartz, a farcical tragedy, has nothing to do with this story.
The first step is recognizing there's a problem. We can discuss further remedies but they are unlikely to be implemented until then.
I assume the goal is to achieve something useful. If AGI is impossible, then much more useful than these incremental steps is to figure out how to most effectively combine human cognition and computational systems.
Sorta... Malcom Gladwell didn't really pinpoint anything. He asked an ex-Pepsi product developer.

>>The difficulty with interpreting the Pepsi Challenge findings begins with the fact that they were based on what
the industry calls a sip test or a CLT (central location test). Tasters don’t drink the entire can. They take a sip
from a cup of each of the brands being tested and then make their choice. Now suppose I were to ask you to test
a soft drink a little differently. What if you were to take a case of the drink home and tell me what you think
after a few weeks? Would that change your opinion? It turns out it would. Carol Dollard, who worked for Pepsi
for many years in new-product development, says, “I’ve seen many times when the CLT will give you one
result and the home-use test will give you the exact opposite. For example, in a CLT, consumers might taste
three or four different products in a row, taking a sip or a couple sips of each. A sip is very different from sitting
and drinking a whole beverage on your own. Sometimes a sip tastes good and a whole bottle doesn’t. That’s
why home-use tests give you the best information. The user isn’t in an artificial setting. They are at home,
sitting in front of the TV, and the way they feel in that situation is the most reflective of how they will behave
when the product hits the market.”

>>Dollard says, for instance, that one of the biases in a sip test is toward sweetness: “If you only test in a sip
test, consumers will like the sweeter product. But when they have to drink a whole bottle or can, that sweetness
can get really overpowering or cloying.” Pepsi is sweeter than Coke, so right away it had a big advantage in a
sip test. Pepsi is also characterized by a citrusy flavor burst, unlike the more raisiny-vanilla taste of Coke. But
that burst tends to dissipate over the course of an entire can, and that is another reason Coke suffered by
comparison. Pepsi, in short, is a drink built to shine in a sip test. Does this mean that the Pepsi Challenge was a
fraud? Not at all. It just means that we have two different reactions to colas. We have one reaction after taking a
sip, and we have another reaction after drinking a whole can. In order to make sense of people’s cola judgments,
we need to first decide which of those two reactions most interests us.

Which is to say: essentially one guy's (informed) opinion which even he doesn't seem to commit to that strongly.

This is then followed by about two pages talking about branding/sensation-transference concluding with the punch line no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind

The difference in flavor isn't really considered cut and dry by either of them and Gladwell focuses on branding.
Looks like you can:
License keys may be used on multiple computers and operating systems, provided the license key holder is the primary user.
https://tabnine.com/eula
More recent examples are of course Wikipedia and Open Street Map, both huge software and data projects.
kudos to you.. how do manage time between all those tasks?
Yup, but I’ve had some issues pop up using that before.

I’m a longtime emacs user and this seems to be a common theme for me. I try some feature in emacs, it works great but breaks on some edge case or something, and then I have to find a workaround.

The advanatage of emacs of course is that you can basically always find and implement said workaround if you try at it.
Ah, that could be it. It's intercom.io - which is fairly ubiquitous on the internet.
Lummox thought so too. Now I must get back to raising John Thomases.
I’m pretty sure the original intent of ico’s was to figure out a way to rip off investors by issuing unregulated securities.
Many Apache projects are written in Java. Java seems to have a culture of overengineering.

Many Apache projects have originated in corporate environments.

I have a theory of how the incentive structure in such an environment is pushing towards overengineering in many parts of a software projects, as opposed to an open-source project which is usually much more cohesive as a result of the stewardship of a single person. When a larger team is in charge of developing a project, there's an incentive on each member of the team to signal ability, competence, and their contribution. As such they will try to make use of their piece of the project/their responsibilities as a means of presenting their knowledge, by sprinkling/making use of various techniques which in most cases are not needed for the project at hand => overengineering. To read more about this effect in other fields as well, there's a recent book by Robin Hanson, you might want to check that out.

Also, keep in mind, that even in a corporate environment, it is not uncommon to have a project started by a single person, which usually leads to a more coherent and less over-engineered design.

Also, beware that the above is a mere anecdote, armchair philosophising of mind, which has not been tested at all. I still expect it to be roughly true though.

So that's why indeed some of Apache's projects seem overly complex, IMVHO.
Alacritty, a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
Citation please. America has very diverse pockets. There's places where the average person wouldn't dream of missing church weekly, and there's others where people have never seen the inside of one.

Stating that "most young people" grow up in a spiritual environment means that a kid who isn't spiritual must have been raised in a cave is disengenous
At https://www.chessable.com we manually, line by line, imported a full chess book to our digital format! Takes ages... later, after some validation, we built a tool that automates most of this.
> Because democracy only works when the voters are good. If a large majority of voters were Nazis then a Hitler would be elected. Similarly, I wouldn't want people who are proven to do something criminal to influence who becomes my leader.

Bringing up Nazis is a little more then ironic in this context. Considering the Nazi's passed laws to remove citizenship and prevent voting for a large portion of their population.

On September 15, 1935, at a party rally in Nuremberg, the Nazis announced two new laws that changed who could be a German citizen. The Reich Citizenship Law required that all citizens have German “blood.” As a result, Jews and others lost their rights to citizenship, which not only stripped them of the right to vote but also made them stateless. This meant that they could not get a valid passport for travel between countries or acquire a visa to leave Germany.

Allowing everyone to vote is fundamental to democracy.
Same, I always figure it's the leaf they use.
OP here. You won't find a word in my comment suggesting that ANYONE should be barred from voting, that there should be any kind of test or filter. What I said was that it's legitimate for someone to arrive at their own decision that they are unable to make an informed choice, and that they'd rather abstain rather than make a choice.

TLDR: don't stop anyone from voting, but also don't pressure them into voting.
I doubt it's the business model. I would bet that they just haven't figured out a good way to deal with external storage on a device like that. The best approximation I've seen is storage cards on Android devices and even those aren't great.
Unfortunate naming. This is not to be confused with OWL or OWL2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
In America; a lot of people work on Saturdays; and less, but still many people work on national holidays.
The compatible PasswdSafe app:

https://sourceforge.net/p/passwdsafe/wiki/Home/
Sure. But it's not intellectually honest to justify downloading terabytes of the latest Hollywood blockbusters on the grounds that it's unfair that those downloads are treated the same as century-old texts. You're smuggling in an irrelevant grievance.
Bread even 100 years ago was a far different beast than it is now; historic bread flour was far less processed, and often was padded out with other cheaper grains.

On the other hand, the availability of corn and sugar has exploded. I wouldn't be surprised if the base metabolism of most people 100 years ago burned 1000 calories a day more than the typical westerner as well, just being on their feet, moving around and doing the work that was required for daily existence.
I'm still learning about how much of a problem that is in practice. I have less data on analyzing infinite-state systems. What both real-time and functional developers said to do was this:

1. Design the main computation or loop to operate on a fixed chunk of data in a way that can be verified in isolation.

2. Design a component that either streams in new data or says there is none. Verify it in isolation.

3. Compose the two. The result will take X proven timing multiplied by Y amount of streamed data for as long as it runs or do nothing if stream is empty.

Shouldn't this handle what you describe in the general case or does that simple strategy fall apart even on common stuff with event loops?
Vcpkg – C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
CIOs at my last 3 companies have each had a "get rid of Oracle" as a top 5 strategic goal for the year.
Is it satire? Are they being facetious? I honestly can’t tell if they’re serious. They don’t make an argument against permanent DST.
thats an interesting product!
While the article did a lot of pointing at men not working, it did little to show what the Hole in the "Hot U.S. Market" was. Maybe the people they were talking about would benefit from that information.
Similar story here.

In terms of scalability, my takeaway has been this: in every company I've worked since, I've fought tooth and nail to make sure that the engineers are the ones handling the level 2 support and up.

Support is invariably happy because they only need to triage and process the really dumb questions. They offload the time consuming stuff and end up cutting their budget needs.

The engineers, on the other hand, invariably get extremely annoyed by the deluge of UX and/or recurring questions that swamp them. Oftentimes it's to the point where they spend so much time on them that they've no time to build new features anymore. And then, magically, they aggressively prioritize and fix the more time consuming/support intensive issues to get them off of their hands.

Everyone is better off. Clients are happier; support is happier; marketing and sales are happier; finance is happier; and so are the engineers. The latter are less happy initially, but they rapidly get a better feel of (and end up appreciating) how their work impacts end-users.
Will the lost hour disrupt the time-space continuum?

Curious to see a Californian writing for (supposedly) tech-savvy publication echoing an old English superstition: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Give-...
The problem is that that leaks information about your viewing habits on one site, to another.
I took an OS class and wanted to learn more afterwards so I hacked together a small kernel mostly using info from the osdev wiki. I got decently far (managed to have a shell running, had VIM running), but ran out of steam years ago (that and the code needing a massive amount of cleanup and auditing).

So I misremembered (it's been 6+ years ago) but it was the AMD PCNET driver I wrote that triggered the crash, not E1000. Excuse the code quality, but the driver I wrote is located here: https://github.com/blanham/ChickenOS/blob/master/src/device/... (Note the comment about it not working in Virtualbox) Attempting to boot my kernel with that driver activated would cause a hard freeze of the host OS, requiring a hard reset of the host machine. I replicated this multiple times, in Virtualbox for both OSX and Windows.

Thanks for actually replying instead of downvoting, I guess I shouldn't make off-the-cuff comments and then forget to follow-up until the next day.
I doubt it will achieve much. Actual, professional journalists don't seem to be able to refrain from spreading bogus viral claims on social media so long as it fits their biases. It's surprisingly hit and miss as to whether they even manage to catch the ones which are outright disproved by the very source being linked to.
Yep! Famously called "Collison Installation"
Great hack! Thx for sharing
Handcrafted Bamboo Keyboard and Mouse (2013)
I know a bunch of beautiful, accomplished women with great jobs who can't find good men to start a family with. Young mens' failure-to-launch is becoming a big problem....
I think really the goal was replacing the top row in the first place - the function keys are generally useless except for ancient legacy compatibility, advanced user's macros, and media control.

But the sides of the function keys are the escape and power keys, so the row itself couldn't go away

I wish the Touch Bar was farther offset, 50-100% taller for a better display area, and that the escape and touch id/power buttons were distinct. I also wish there was a standard way for applications to advertise functions for it (I have some really useful tools that are third party, such as mic mute).
Amazing. Talk about "making it happen"!
Against hustle