skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it you are mainstream politically for silicon valley? You won't see the colored tint of the politics of the media culture if you're already wearing spectacles of the same tint. New Ghostbusters absolutely has opinions about what you should believe and who you should vote for. Hollywood is drenched in it nowadays. It can't hardly produce anything without it. Recent Star Wars was full of it too, yes.

I'm not sure why you think Ghost in the Shell was about the nuclear bombing. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone take that angle on it before, and I've read some stuff about it. It's primarily about technology, most of which doesn't exist yet. And if it differs, it is that it doesn't necessarly take a stand and tell you what to believe, like Hollywood does so much today. I guess that's my primary line-draw on philosophy vs. politics. I see so much less "cartoonish buffoon with obvious badthink vs. righteous, all-virtue rightthinker" in anime.

If you don't believe me, you can easily put it to the test, if you're on social media. Just try posting that you'd like to see some bit of media that reaches across the aisle and treats a Trump voter with some degree of respect, in the interests of human brotherhood. Warning: You may lose friends if you do this. I've posted this challenge three or four times to people before now, and nobody's reported trying it, because on some level... you know.
This is awesome.

I'm working on something that would VERY much benefit from open access journals:

https://getpolarized.io/

With Polar you maintain all your research in one place and can annotate and share with other users.

One thing I want to add is the ability to sync up with open access sources to fetch PDFs, get metadata for them, find related PDFs and research, etc.

Going to go heads down into this today.
state income tax is laughably low
Was this legislation to avoid situations like the tyrannical Prince John of Robin Hood fame who just taxed and taxed to line his own pockets?
back in the days, I was interviewing over the phone with the hiring manager of a large startup in SF. Basically doing live coding on a shared note pad. The guy started chatting with his colleagues and completely forgot about me. 10 minutes in the exercise I had a bunch of clarifying questions to ask. I kept yelling and calling him over the phone, he did not hear me and kept talking with people around.

15 minutes into the interview I hung up. 15 minutes later he tried to call me back on my phone (apparently he took him 30 minutes total to remember I was interviewing). Got an email from the recruiter mentioning a "connection problem during the interview". Then the day after I got another email from that recruiter saying "I wasn't a great fit for the role:.

I think startups really win the #1 spot when it comes to horrible candidate experiences.
Physics Is Not in Crisis
Yea, I get she is ok with a divorce right now. But once her friends and family start talking to her they will convince her to talk with an attorney to “protect” her interests. Frankly I would totally encourage you to do so too.

Divorce seems so simple on the face of it but I promise it gets complicated fast.

My ex and I had everything negotiated too until her mom and a friend got in her ear. We even had what was fair child support setup and already working. Than it turned into a battle after she talked with them.

As for earning a divorce. It means different things to different people overall. But to me it means you both have exhausted all practicle means to fix things and have put forth real effort for a sustained time. If you do this than that is when divorces usually are pretty easy because both of you know you put your all into trying.
The first explicit reference I found was the Norwegian Scientific Index but I believe other countries have a similar system. Literally, each journal article is worth points, the points are divided among the coauthors, and then the points have a monetary value which is given in grants to the respective institutions.

http://blog.boletsis.net/level-1-level-2-publications-norweg...
Lol, that would actually make sense.
Ask HN: Why does Spotify not let users disconnect from Facebook?
I have an old account that was created using facebook. Unfortunately, Spotify's answer for disconnecting FB from my account is to just create a new account and cancel the old one?!?

https://support.spotify.com/us/account_payment_help/account_help/i-want-to-use-spotify-without-facebook/?ref=in_top

Doesn't this seem ridiculous? They have my email as the username, why not just set a password on the account and disconnect from FB?

This just smells like it was designed on purpose, as they don't want you to disconnect from FB.
Reminds me of AudioGalaxy back in the day, nothing else came close to finding anything. Eventually it shutdown and Grooveshark was ok for a bit but that heyday in the early 2000s of music “streaming” was really something.
Facebook Is a Deeply Inefficient and Parasitic Company and Here Is Why
I'm sure this is true but let's not let this strawman detract from the fact that none of us really know that much about GM foods
I've been married (or the common law equivalent) three times, each about ten years. (edit: no biokids either) I can definitely relate, and you have my sympathies. That said, what you've said doesn't sound like a very bad situation to me (perhaps because mine seemed quite a bit worse).

Regarding "friends", you don't say it, but are you having regular, reasonably enjoyable sex? If not, and it's due to her refusals, I'd leave. If so, she's a friend, or perhaps an adult child, not a wife. One can imagine medical exceptions, etc., but if she's not at least giving mercy handjobs, it's over.

Regarding "goals still in life", everyone differs, but I think later in life, those goals won't seem very important, compared to family. I had such goals, and even some minor successes you might have heard of. But ultimately there's no there there. Everything technical that you work on will be dust very soon. Read Ecclesiastes and absorb the lesson. (The common versions are hard to read, but there's a modern paraphrase that's very readable: Nothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes by Adam S. Miller.)

Beware that there's almost no limit to how bad a divorce can turn out. Two of mine were very unpleasant. The third almost killed me, and arguably ruined my life. Your wife might turn vicious in a divorce--it happens. I work a full time tech job, and after alimony and taxes, I'm left with about US$4000 per year to live on. I supplement this by drawing from retirement accounts, with the 10% penalty. I'm not rich, so this stings. Other parts of the divorce, harder to describe here, are far worse.

Regarding interruptions, can you just go to a library or something and work there for a few hours at a stretch?

Finally, someone mentioned "earning" a divorce. I don't think this frame is productive. If your marriage is not working for you, and there's no reasonable chance that will change, you have the right to leave.

Good luck.
Your question pre-supposes that the GP evaluated Debian and decided against it. While this may be true, he/she never said that.

In my case tho, I found Debian to be moving at a glacial pace. Fedora OTOH is always fresh and current. There's nothing wrong with Debian, and sure some people don't mind running Sid. Fedora is my favorite flavor of ice cream tho.
It's a 9 year old database.

Can you be more specific about what makes it immature ?
I think offsets are a scam, even if they are not meant to be.

If you want to say "Come to our music festival, we bought carbon offsets, it is good for the Earth!" that might be worth it for you.

If, for instance, people say they will preserve forest or plant trees there is no guarantee that 30 years from now the trees will still be there. Many of these schemes involve countries with weak institutions and who knows what will happen.

"Green Energy" is similarly problematic. If the money you spend on electricity goes to building new windmills or solar panels than maybe it is a good thing. If it goes to people who built windmills 20 years ago it has no impact. Even though institutions are stronger in the developed world, regulators with no skin in the game are no match for companies that can feed back a large percentage of their earnings into lawyers.
in the book Disrupted (about the author's time working at Hubspot), he posits that the free beer offered at startups is to soften the blow of the long working hours and relatively low salaries.

In this case, the free beer might be an intentional way to take "loud room I can't work in", to "laid back atmosphere I feel home in". The latter is false, but it's not as bad as being stuck with "loud room I can't work in".
The first part of your comment might be true, but regarding the newsworthiness of the post: there is always someone reading this from today's lucky 10000 [0]. It's generally great if complexity theory gets more coverage, here and on company's blog posts. Even if you know this inside out, your colleague might just hear it for the first time, or they might just want to read it up again because they didn't pay attention in class. Which is good for you too. Also, tomorrow you might be one of those lucky 10k.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
>Why would a WeWork object to paying Neumann's rent? WeWork is bascially Neumann anyway! Why would Tesla object to buying Musk's other companies? Tesla is basically Musk anyway! Why wouldn't levandowski just employ his own company to supply components he was procuring for Google? Why wouldn't Shkreli pay his hedge fund investors back with cash from one of his other companies?

Don't forget Michael B. Rothenberg:

>The SEC’s complaint alleges that over a three-year period, Rothenberg and his firm misappropriated millions of dollars from the funds, including an estimated $7 million of excess fees, which Rothenberg used to support personal business ventures he claimed were self-funded and to pay for private parties and events at high-end resorts and Bay Area sporting arenas.
Mr Musk's company SpaceX has brought down the cost to orbit by a factor of three. That's a big deal. Not as big as Edward Jenner & Louis Pasteur (vaccines) or Isaac Newton, but still pretty big.
The quotes are on pages 56 and 59 of the full document linked to by NYT.
I think that has more to do with competence than passion. If you are good (and good at interviewing) getting a new job is easy. If you have passion... losing your current job over differences in how to do things is... common.
Edward Jenner & Louis Pasteur (vaccines)
Trust me, if a truck has medical supplies, Britain will respect whatever stupid piece of paper the driver is holding.
In Spain it is the State: there is a subscription covering all public universities for quite a few journals (at least in Maths, my job).

I really do not want to know how much we are paying for that.
The "which apps are using battery" feature is easily useable by novice users.

However most phone vendors incorrectly assume "background connections" will drain battery life despite evidence to the contrary.

Phone vendors have a vested interest though in forcing developers to use their proprietary "push" feature for syncing to phones, they say it's for "battery life" but really its about vendor lock in.

A well engineered app can sync over its own TCP connection just fine and not hurt battery life, but then such an app can work on any device, not just blessed Android builds that have access to GCM.
Why hasn't there been a (prominent?) class action civil suit by the parents of all those who died from this? We know the government is going to be corrupt and bought but surely some smart lawyers can see this as the new tobacco. And for that matter why are the states suing like they did for tobacco?
Nearby Stellar Explosions Could Have Killed Off Large Animals
Are there any rogue doctors who don't fill out paperwork?
I've been all over. They're all corrupt.
When those vc's sell the company to your mutual there is a phrase they use as they light a Monte Cristo with a 1000 dollar bill in an infinity pool: "That guy from the mutual? We ripped his face off."
There’s a bigger effect: context.

I don’t want to buy beef jerky when I’m reading about a military strike in the Middle East, no matter how much my profile indicates I like beef jerky — but I might be open to a book on politics.

Because reading about content is self-selected disclosure of interest, the NYT already has all the information they need to target me — they know I read politics, and when I’m in that context.

The only thing Google can provide is slight refinements on which political book to suggest — which isn’t far enough above the noise floor to matter. Anything else is just them giving the NYT statistical fuzz to pretend carrying their ads on beef jerky isn’t an all-around negative so they can fleece advertisers.

Targeted advertising isn’t about efficiency, it’s about raising the number of places they can (uselessly) place beef jerky ads so as to increase their cash flow.
And my 401k topped a 15% loss.
Explain to me how an X11/Posix desktop application is better for a Windows user than an Electron one.
Actual retargeting (= targeting a previous visitor/buyer of your product) works, and in some cases works very well. Reactivating a customer vs acquiring a new customer can be up to 10x cheaper, depending on how well you do it. And if you know how to do that, then you can have a much higher initial CAC, which is often the hardest thing to optimize.
6 to show or exhibit; reveal; disclose:
an unfeeling remark that betrays his lack of concern.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/betray
I was colocating in that DC. At least till my final visit a year ago the 2 IA racks were still there.

I've also been to the library of Alexandria in Egypt where the IA has much more racks IIRC.
Also, you get more from the taxes than just healthcare. Free education, eg.
Page scraping is generally frowned upon by the host. Its seams like the volume of people using youtube-dl is just so low comparatively its not on the "radarr" at youtube.
What happens to that statistic if you subtract the areas where this is not legal (the entire city of Chicago - actually looks like all of Cook County, and I haven't seen any of these machines inside the county)? My guess would be that stat goes up quite a bit.
ADSL2 is max 24 mbit. You probably mean VDSL2. If you can get fiber, Xs4all's 500/500 costs only 3,50 EUR more than Ziggo's 500/50. VDSL2 is max 200/20 and that package costs 58,50 EUR. Which is 4,50 EUR a month more expensive than Ziggo's 200/20 which is 54 EUR. If you want TV the comparison becomes terrible (for Xs4all) but the interactive TV is KPN's anyway.
Not to detract from the main take-away of "GM food extremists have poor and poorly calibrated knowledge" which seems reasonably robust, but the questions themselves are interesting and knowledge is harder than they give credit.

One of the questions was "the oxygen we breathe comes from plants" (true). This one gave me pause and sent me down a google rabbit hole. I know a huge amount (most?) of the oxygen we breathe comes from the oceans and algae, but I don't know if those are considered plants. Googling around, it's still unclear. Some sources group it all under the term "marine plants," but those sources mostly seem to group cyanobacteria under the term "plants" which is stretching it, so they aren't quite trustworthy. What about green algae? Well they aren't part of Plantae either, but sources seem even more conflicted there.

I feel like I'm more likely to get this question "wrong" the more I know, or the more precisely and scientifically I treat the statement. Elementary school me would think I'm sure of the answer they're looking for, and I'd probably get it marked right. Current me? I know the answer they're probably looking for, but don't know the right answer.

Knowledge is weird.
Because humans haven't been engineered to be pesticide resistant. I don't think we should increase our intake of pesticides.
The "right answer" would have been to simply reject the candidate if they didn't meet expectations for position and, if the fraud was truly egregious (and not just a guy trying to get a foot in the door for face-to-face), blacklist them within company from further consideration in the future.
By hard to sell to, I mean, it's hard to get in front of the right person. The people who control the purse strings are not necessarily the most knowledgeable about the problems at-hand either.
Most of the site seems broken (clicking on the demo and then going to subscribe opens https://subscribe). But it's a great idea.
This looks great conceptually but the UX on my first run through was awful.

The prominent "Best new music" part had an Earl Sweatshirt album review, so I wanted to listen to it, but you can't click the album title... only the artist name. Then I had to sift through 30+ album covers (no titles... not ordered by release date) to find the one that looked like the one I saw on the previous page (it had a slightly different cover).

You'd think a "new" album would be at the top.

Then I double clicked the first song twice, then realize there is a popup that has a "Play Now" button on a SINGLE click (unlike Spotify or Google Music). I clicked that and it only added it to my "queue", I thought it was downloading for a couple min, but nope I had to click "Play" at the bottom to actually start it.

I went to another album, clicked "Play Now" on a song and it froze with the logo pulsing fullscreen, and I had to restart the app.

This is basic stuff.
This raises an important issue. The megadeath weed killer that you are likely referring to is in most cases round-up, also called glyphosate. Glyphosate is considerably less toxic [0] than other pesticides used in the past, such as paraquat. In general, I agree with your statement, but I believe that it needs some fleshing out Food Evolution [1] touches on the topic of pesticide use and relative safety issues. I find the idea of BT crops more compelling than round-up ready crops as well, however my reasoning here is more on a feel good basis and the desire to avoid breeding resistance. The topic of resistance I have not fully explored and am not sure where the field stands on since it rather distant from my expertise.

[0] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/does-glyphosat... (popsci with links)
[1] https://www.foodevolutionmovie.com/
By reading the OP's comment here, I think it'd be better to update the article with some description on the requirement and why you choose a linear scan initially. Without this understanding, it's really easy to say "why not hash table?".
This is exactly what I was thinking. Even the network admin would probably be like, "well, I don't think so but I'd better not mess with it, just in case it's how the CEO is getting internet". Unless of course they engineered the network originally.
Passionless developer here. Can confirm. All that matters is that I'm the best available option. I grew up with the Linux community and agree with Stallman on pretty much everything, but I still generate a mountain of proprietary software for pay.

Feels bad, but I gotta eat.
I gave a git talk at work recently and what I found works was teach the graph from the beginning. This includes a lot of diagrams of what the graph looks like as you commit and branch:

- show what happens as you add commits to a branch
- show that branches are just pointers to commits
- show what creating new branches looks like, i.e. creating a new pointer
- show what merging looks like (a new merge commit is added, or else fast-forward merge and that the branch pointer just moves)
- show what happens if you don't rebase (i.e. "ugly" non-linear graph) ... then teach what rebasing does (i.e. creates new nodes and moves the pointer)

I found that building up from the ground up and illustrating graphs allowed people to conceptualize things much better. There was still some confusion once merging was introduced (what happens to those earlier commits? do we need them?) and mostly because people hadn't thought of the graph before.

Git is one of those tools where you can totally do your job just by knowing the basic commands but not really know what is happening under the surface, which I think is a testament to the tool. But, that leads people to conceptualize their own idea of what is going on... and getting it wrong and being confused when they want to do something outside of their basic toolset.
No Nobel Prize for you!
I may be naive, but I never got the buzz around Airbnb. I had been a user of vrbo (vacation rentals by owner) for a long time, well before Airbnb. I continue to use vrbo, as I rarely see a better deal with Airbnb. Infact even the booking UIs look very similar.
That's the big lie about GMO. I always heard that they would use less(!) pesticides because the plant was more resistant but when you look at Roundup it's exactly the opposite.
> I'd take it as a lesson learned to shore up screening before flying anyone in.

Yep. Whoever made the decision to fly them out in the first place is now going to live with that on their track record, and rightfully be questioned whenever they want to spend money on a candidate: "Remember the $xxxx we wasted on that other candidate? What did you do differently this time to be sure we don't repeat that situation?"

Assuming this is a company of any size, the fact it was an actual tangible expense (and not just employee time) will probably make this scrutiny come from more and/or higher places in the management chain, because now more departments are involved.
Unless the software is firmware or an OS it rarely directly touches the hardware. It only knows of the hardware available because the firmware or OS provide that information. I have seen a lot of organizations fake this with an array of VMs or when that is not enough they have a bunch of spare hardware to test against, like a whole bunch of different models of Android phones.
> I read somewhere (can’t remember the book name unfortunately) that Tesco in the UK faced this problem when they started sending out personalised coupon booklets based on loyalty card purchases. People were freaking out. Then they started adding coupons to the booklet designed to be irrelevant - say if they figured out that someone was newly pregnant, they’d send a few pages of baby stuff, but also inject lawn mower coupons and stuff only men would care about. That achieved the whole targetted effect and avoided looking creepy for just a few pennies more.

It was Target in the US:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

> As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy.

> ...

> “With the pregnancy products, though, we learned that some women react badly,” the executive said. “Then we started mixing in all these ads for things we knew pregnant women would never buy, so the baby ads looked random. We’d put an ad for a lawn mower next to diapers. We’d put a coupon for wineglasses next to infant clothes. That way, it looked like all the products were chosen by chance.