skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, a word of advice, if people are consistently getting the "wrong impression" about you, then perhaps you should work on hacking their perception.

Danger, Wil Robinson, danger!

If you start down the path of trying to project yourself to somebody as what you think they want to see, you are taking on a big risk, as you never really know what the expectations are. You're probably just as likely to screw things up by trying to be perceived differently, than by just being yourself.

To build a big business, you're going to need to sell yourself to potential employees, customers, investors, etc.

Right, but you have to sell yourself not some alternate-reality, fictional version of yourself. Of course you want to present your best self to people, to the extent that you can know what that is. And maybe that's all you're really saying. If so, then sure. But if it means actively molding your dress, behavior, mannerisms, speech, appearance, etc. to something artificial in order to cater to someone's whims, I'm not so sure.
It's funny, because my advice is basically the opposite for getting an Econ PhD. You get paid very little during grad school; it seems to exacerbate depression, etc. and is bad for relationships (no formal data to back those up, just my experience and observations); you work an ungodly amount if you want a prestigious job, and peer pressure will probably convince you that you do no matter what you believe entering the program; most likely you're not as smart or as good as you believe; etc...; an MA/MS in econ is nearly worthless, since it's widely known to be a consolation prize for failing out of a PhD program (and most top programs don't even offer a terminal masters); etc.

And the only benefit is that you get to spend all of your time learning about economics (or, in my case, econometrics), and, if you're lucky, get a job where you're expected to do that for the rest of your life.

So, that had better be one big fucking cherry to compensate for what you're giving up. And my thought process is, if my discouragement is enough to stop someone from going to grad school, they probably shouldn't go. Which is why I tell everyone not to go to grad school, even though I'm very grateful that I had 6 years to learn about and think about econ and wouldn't trade it for any other job experience.
Well yes. Plenty because even one human is plenty. But plenty compared to how many people died in WWII? Or WWI? Or any real war we had before?

Compared to what happened immediately before, the cold war was incredibly peaceful.

So I suspect this new cyber war will continue the trend and keep real killings to 0. I do believe we will have a real internet hacking and protecting and counter hacking "war" if you will. But I suspect, and obviously hope, no one actually dies from it.
Too busy playing spin the pizza.
>in the world of calibration in macroeconomic models, the creator of the model is now testing data against theory by tuning parameters to values they think are good. It is completely backwards.

This is a little inaccurate, the purpose of these macroeconomic models is either to make future predictions or run simulations to see what happens when exogenous shocks occur. They're not "testing data against theory", the data is used for parameter estimation and then verifying the accuracy of the models. It's actually very similar to the way certain AI models are developed and trained.

I do agree that these models are usually pretty inaccurate and somewhat useless though.
San Francisco’s Tar Sands
Probably not if plan to live and go around the city, parking is not that easy in downtown.

I don't own a car, and don't know that many friends that own a car. You get around with BART, MUNI, Lyft, Uber, taxis, biking & walking.

Usually I only need a car when visiting South Bay, and then I take Zipcar.
It looks like people don't like this being pointed out. My comment went from +5 to -2...
Using natively compiled apps like that over a slow SSH connection is a painful mess.
I don't think it's ferromagnetic.
Just as a humorous aside, in Ye Olden Days, when no one but a prostitute knew the going rate for a condom, the ice cream trucks only rang a bell.

But the tunes bring "attention-getting" to another plane. "Jingle Bells" in July? That's when you know the person who picked the songs needs a bit more instruction in American culture or they work for a large retailer.
No product and a few weeks on a logo, what is this exactly?
I've really dumbed it down, and horribly mangled it.

Read the link I provided, he does a much better job there. If you don't want to read all of it just search for "Now, remember I said the third thing you have to do in science is show that this is not just some quirk.", and read from the top of that section.

'slush' is onomatopoeic. Is 'axe'? How about 'milk' or 'mother'?
Within a mile doesn't matter - the OP is measuring by census tracts, which are quite small. For example, if you zoom in on this [http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map], you'll see that the Mission BARTs' census tracts (201 and 209) extend to only within a couple of blocks from the stations, which seem from my daily commute to be the poorest and most run-down parts of that area. (The tracts are even small enough that there's a separate tract - 208 - for the stretch of Mission between the two BARTs.) While some of the tech workers I know do indeed live between Van Ness, Valencia, Cesar Chavez, and Market, a lot live a few blocks east or west of that line, e.g. on the west side of Valencia, or in the area between Folsom and Potrero.

A side question, though - is there a specific year when the shift of tech workers to SF picked up steam? I'm finding a wave of articles complaining about the Google shuttles in 2012-13 (about when I moved out to SF), but I don't have a good feel for how far along the process was at that point.
That is not true. The iron ring has nothing to do with the law.
Well, "thou" also had a use for a period of time as an intimate form of "you." The intention behind the use of "Thou" to address God in the Bible is not to place distance between the speaker and God; on the contrary, it is to indicate closeness and intimacy.

The Wikipedia article on thou explains this briefly in the introductory paragraphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
Not sure where you work, but I negotiate my hours just the same as the rest of my compensation package.

8-9am start time? That'll be an extra $10K-20K/year. Same for dress code, etc.
Probably because it's extremely rare you change only the visual element of a site. Total graphic redesigns are often accompanied by more traditional upgrades and feature requests.
We measure a small sample of AppStore and Play Store searches. Since the sample size is small, we can't really nail down exact search counts, but we can give relative estimates.
Hi!

Search for "Big O notation" on Google.

In this case, the O refers to roughly how complex an algorithm is, or how much time it takes to compute the answer.

n is the size of the input to the problem.

For example, if we are searching for a word through a large Charles Dickens book, we are working on an O(n) problem, where n is the number of pages in the book. We say that this problem has an "order of n" time complexity.

This means that if we double the number of pages in the book to 2 * n, the problem will simply take twice as long. All O(n) problems have this property. If you multiply n by a constant size (e.g., 2), the time it takes to complete the problem will be multiplied by that same constant size.

Some problems are harder. For example, we have two long books, and want to see if there is a sentence in Book 1 that also appears in Book 2. Since you have a tech background, you'll realize that an easy solution to this is to write a for loop nested within a for loop.

This type of problem is O(n^2), because the time it takes to solve the problem scales with the square of the problem size. If I double the number of pages of each book (n), the problem actually takes four times as long!

So this problem is O (order) of n^2 (number of pages).

If you read up on Big O notation, you'll learn that some problems can be solved really fast. We call this O(1) or constant time (since 1 is a constant). For example, if I ask you to tell me if a number is even or odd, you can tell me in constant time, no matter how big an integer I give you (i.e., you just look at the last digit and ignore the rest of the ginormous number).

Some problems are harder.... O(n^3) or even O(n * (n-1) * (n-2) * ... * 3 * 2 * 1).

Good luck!
<3 this!
This is correct. I graduated from UBC as a Software Engineer and have applied as an EIT with APEGBC. I haven't followed through to apply for P. Eng. status though as the process is a little more difficult for software folks.

You are supposed to submit work experience under supervision of another P. Eng. which are not very common place in our industry. I believe you can apply for exceptions to this rule though.

I personally haven't bothered following through with my P. Eng. status as I am not yet convinced it buys much in our profession (vs. the other fields of Engineering).
Depends on how you define "luck" I guess. In a strictly pedantic sense, I agree that you "can't create luck" as there is no such thing. Luck is just a word we apply, in retrospect, to describe what did or didn't happen.

But I would argue very ardently that the expression "the harder I work, the luckier I get" contains a great deal of truth. Work, intent, and focused will can do a lot to shape the world we live in.

I'm reminded of that post that showed up here a year or so back about "how to date a supermodel", which started with something like "move to where supermodels live and go the bars where they go". Yeah, that might not be sufficient, but there's a lot to be said for the "create my own luck" aspect of at least taking the actions that are needed to move you towards your goals.
I've been monitoring the development of pixi.js mostly because it uses WebGl but automatically fails-over to canvas if Webgl support isn't available.

I was even contemplating using pixi for some experimental web-animation things (non-game related) since I didn't find any other webgl-with-canvas failover drawing APIs.

Good to see two.js filling this gap!
I wear mine despite not doing professional engineering work. It actually serves as a great reminder of my ethical obligations beyond my personal comfort. I'm sure not everybody needs as constant reminding as I do though ;)
That doesn't really mean anything. Of course you can draw conclusions from data.
Seconded. I have experienced huge benefits from not using an alarm clock. My sleep schedule is now very erratic (I'll wake up anywhere from 7-10), but I'm almost always refreshed during the day, and have a much easier time focusing and getting work/fun done.
Ask HN: Why is Amazon's HTML crazy?
If you view the source on any product page you have around 100 lines of whitespace and the <title> isn't found until line 3,500-ish

Not to mention all of their CSS is inline

Why is it like this? It seems to me it is far more complex than it needs to be
He didn't take into account the law of supply and demand...
I believe this is the reason. The accompanying article highlights socio-economic issues, not mass transportation problems.
You may be interested in Professor Bogost's analysis of this: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6595/persuasive_games_...
Are you familiar with the extreme effect to which sunlight affects human (and other mammals) systems biology?
This seems like a great feature, and sadly missing from Chrome.

I have thought of two types of insidious activities on sites today, the onclick popup and the confirm on close.

The onclick popup can be managed (to a small extent) in Chrome by holding the CTRL key and clicking when you have a sense a popup is coming. It doesn't cover all of them, but if you're familiar with a site's actions, you might catch 70% or more of them.

I'm not sure what creates the confirm on close, but I see it on sites that auto play video advertisements (among others). Once you try and close the window/tab - Chrome displays a prompt - requiring you to close the prompt, and then close the tab. Annoying.

I thought of one simple idea in Chrome - have a key combination (perhaps CTRL+SHIFT) that we can hold down while clicking on a link or possible popup, that will (a) open the link in a new tab and (b) NOT load the page or any elements. It simply presents an empty page with the url that we could copy or a tab we can close.

This would add a measure of control and hopefully doesn't break anything.
It bugs me that apparently, everything I'll ever host can just be "owned" at will by some random bunch of hackers doing whatever they feel like doing. Is it feasible for a "mere mortal" to stay safe?
So I did a back of the envelope.

If you start at a $120,000/yr job at 22 and retire at 65, with increases of 2% a year, you will earn ~$8.3 million nominal over the course of your career.

If you start at a $250,000/yr job at age 30 and retire at 65 , with increases of 2% a year, you will earn ~13 million nominal over the course of your career. That doesn't include the (modest) pay during the second half of medical training.

The estimated cost of attendance for the most expensive medical schools top out at around $60,000 a year for four years. Assuming you meet the requirements, the federal government will lend you $40,000 of that at 6.8% and the rest at 8.5%. If nothing is paid off until after one's residency, that means our doctor would be starting his career with $330,500 in debt and a $250,000 salary.

Meanwhile our petroleum engineer(?) would be earning $140,600 at that point. If the doctor put away the difference every year until his debt was paid off, it would take less than four years.
If you will wake up 2 hours earlier and wreck your long term performance for $40-$80/day...
Wow. It just goes to show how immune I've gotten to startup pitch ideas and their templates. The text that I copied and pasted is obviously a joke ("EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP") and yet my brain mentally skipped over it as just being thats-what-all-apps-said and tried to evaluate the technical part of an app.

I'm going to blame it on the all-caps throwing blinders on my brain this morning
So strange to see this popping up on Hacker News. I always thought of it as a sort of obscure Canadian tradition (even many people within Canada have no idea what my ring represents, and ask me about it occasionally).

The ring is a great tradition, it brings engineers together with a sense of obligation and identity; however, in the effort of full disclosure, non-Canadian HNers should be aware that some people decide not to be ringed on ethical grounds, citing possible sexist and elitist connotations in the traditional and the ritual itself.
Meh... I used to feel that way, but over time I've realized that life is too short to stop and waste the time to put "I think" or "I feel" or "in my opinion" in front of everything I write. If I write something, it's implicit that it's my opinion. It may or may not also be a fact. In either case, if somebody disagrees or has a counter-claim or wants to present evidence to the contrary, then let them do it. But bitching because people don't load every paragraph with qualifiers, weasel-words and cop-outs is just silly.
Submitted several times already--submitting the canonical URL helps make clear whether a story has been submitted before or not. There were lots of comments on this previous submission two weeks ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5616462

including some suggesting that the story is off-topic for Hacker News or that the source is not a reliable source.
> humankind will always enjoy subjective perspectives and interpretations of reality

Sure, but that's a bit different from Keynesian economics being taught as gospel for decades.
The thing about morning people is you just can't trust them, because a part of them will always believe that night people are lazy; they just can't get over it, no matter how rationally you explain your situation. And you can't trust people like that, because they'll never understand the difference between something they just happen to like or believe and something that is universally Right, Good, and True. To them there's no difference. Every Dystopia was a morning person's idea, I guarantee it.
Very nice! I'm also working on a similar scene graph (Canvas/SVG, WebGL soon), which also has bounds, DAG-support, and implicitly inserts the needed layers for performance (http://phetsims.github.io/scenery/).

I look forward to seeing what other performance optimizations I may be missing!
This is truly impressive.

What are the advantages of using this against c++? It's for performance reasons?
In the IPA: /gyf θæːm menː ˈældan ˈθisne fyɹ/

In rough English approximation: güf thæm men ÆL-dun THEES-nuh für, where ü is as in German and æ is the vowel sound in 'cat' in most dialects (i.e. not in the dialects of Scotland or New Zealand.)
Family friendly social network - yay or nay?
Is there enough room in the world for another family friendly (8+) social networking site?
Google's Transparency report showing the same thing: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/explorer/?r...

found via: https://twitter.com/therealfitz/status/331867408102993921
What is the difference between a disorder and being a dick? What if I have Assholegers? Is that less acceptable than Autism? Why?

(Aspergers is no longer a disorder, it got rolled into autism.)
Fair enough. But then a REST API isn't a panacea since browsers(or content parsing apps) need go through a new iteration from rendering content "as-styled" to "as-meant" for a semantic web. We don't have that yet and it doesn't look like vendors are going down that path any time soon. Then there's the question of text-only browsers like Lynx.

A semantic web as you describe isn't the current web at all, but a new completely new layer on top of it.
It's an interesting question of how that shakes out! Here's the map of police districts: http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=868

You'll notice the Tenderloin (a high crime area) has its own station partitioned off from the rest of the districts. The others are also interesting. The Mission station for instance, serves a really broad community which includes both the Mission District (currently undergoing gentrification) and the Castro (gentrification complete). On the other hand, districts like Bayview, Ingleside, Taraval and Richmond are just larger, generally more residential and less in the center of everything. The Park and Northern districts on the other hand, are mostly affluent with a few outliers.
May I ask what sort of position this was for?
really? he struck me as a genuine pizzaficionado
I've used CSS Zen Garden as a powerful example what CSS is capable of. I did a lot of teaching, preaching and evangelisation for the fellow developers stuck in old ways. I've used wired.com, espn.com, fastcompany.com as an example of "serious" sites employing CSS and Zen Garden as a showcase for flexibility. Good times…
I'd be very skeptical of this as well. I am Albanian, and expect mother (mama), and father (baba), the rest of the words just don't sound the same at all.
Albanian is a separate branch of Indio-European languages (so is Greek, Latin, etc), so it should have some words that are similar to these ultra conserverd word.
>>Whether he misdiagnosed himself is kind of irrelevant

I never claimed the author misdiagnosed himself or was lazy-

>>What exactly is "willpower" and why would a lack of it need to be rationalized... To insinuate that someone needs to "rationalize a lack of willpower" implies that willpower is some sort of moral resource...

Assuming the people in question do not suffer from a legitimate disorder: Willpower is the ability to make yourself do things you feel must be done when you don't feel like it. It is an extention of self-control and lack of it IS a moral deficiency.

>> "Morning people" don't need to exert a lot of mental effort to be wakeful in the morning

Now is getting up at the crack of 8:00 AM easier for some people than other? Yes it is. However we all face things that are harder for us than others in some area of our lives and become able to overcome that is important.

>>If they're not interacting properly, and you can organize yourself so they interact better, then it would be foolish not to.

I completely agree and did not say otherwise.

>>But all that's in there is hormones and neurons and flesh and blood.

A disorder is when a persons biology is so abnormal/dysfunctional they require treatment. If you have a sleep disorder I would give anyone a free pass in this department, but for anyone else I expect them to master their biology. The same way we must master our biological tenancies and 1. control our tempers 2. control our sex drives 3. control our desire to over eat 4. control our desire to be "efficient" and not exercise. Unless you have a disorder, sleep is no different.
I'm curious how they get that data. Does Google release it?
There are plenty of "stolen" inventions, you can start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions

Talking about and "government supported IP theft", the "They" in "They took the crops and silk production infrastructure, and deported all the workers to Palermo" from the excerpt I quoted refers to "the Norman king Roger II of Sicily" and "Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos". Those were surely _govern sponsored_.

My point is an easy one: history repeat itself.
Ah. Nice to see when unethical die-hard piraacy enemies behave like assholes. Fortifies my prejudices. Fuck yourself, motherfucker.
Isn't that what you'd expect? There's a factor of ten difference these days between the poverty line and a fairly typical white-collar income (call it $120K.) Is it really surprising, or telling, that at the tract-level you'd find a factor of ten difference in a major city? Is there a major city where you don't see that?
Looks wonderful, great job!
I feel as though it is fair to note here that if you are not satisfied with this book, you are able to get a full refund for it. $39 may still be too much for a speculative buyer, but at least you aren't throwing away money if it's not up to your standards
Well, this is weird. I'm taking the exact same course and here's what I see for the first programming assignment:
http://i.imgur.com/GyEwcUG.png
(same with review questions)
I think the point made above is that sleep patterns are not 'natural' but 'flexible'. I also have experience where a long-term need to wake up super-early for something that was very important for me made it easy for me to turn gradually into a morning person.
Maybe you should have to pay to avoid grill smells?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
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Create a Mock Rest Service and API Documentation with Apiary.io (currently free)
Still in beta but looks interested. Ties directly into github (and it's currently free).
CNN Anchors Pretend They're Not Having A Satellite Interview
We were instructed that the ring was to be worn on the dominant hand so that it could rub on the page while writing or drafting and serve as a reminder of our obligation. We were also told that the beveled design and iron metal was meant to cut into and destroy gold rings.

There wasn't ever any talk of left-handed married engineers, I assumed that this edge case was not thought of by Mr. Kipling.