skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long answer yes with a but. They will eventually take up the mantle from devs who age out or die. We might have something totally different than Git at that point but it's not good to dismiss them either. That is how projects die.
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So the whole Doctor's Plot purge in the fifties just so happened to target mostly Jews and people with Jewish names? This was the most overtly antisemitic episode in Soviet history. Just because Jews were overrepresented in the Bolshevik Revolution, it doesn't mean that antisemitism simply disappeared overnight. Remember, the most prominent Jew in the Bolshevik Revolution was Leon Trotsky, who became Stalin's enemy.

As for Stalin's initial support of Israel, well, he initially signed a secret non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany as well. One can read too much into foreign policy decisions.

Stalin, despite being non-Russian himself, targeted non-Russians in the Soviet Union in purges and deportations on the pretext that they were politically unreliable and potential spies. You can choose to take these excuses at face value, but in the end you have to recognize that in effect they suffered largely because of being the wrong ethnicity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Unio...
If they are a non-profit they should file a Form 990 with the IRS, which is a publicly available document. So, it might be enlightening to read the 990, which details how much money comes in, how it is spent, how the top officers are compensated, etc.
2 weeks is considered pretty standard for professionals in most of the U.S. I think. Many of the professionals I know have that agreement, and some of the companies I used to work at offered that for the starting point. You could negotiate higher if you came in with a lot of experience and your hiring manager wanted you badly enough to justify the extra expense.
Thank you! It was an incredible trip - Japan is so beautiful and unique.

Glad you enjoyed the flat escalator! For some reason it caught my eye. The vertical parking garage was neat too (and only a few blocks away in Kanazawa)!
Bill Nye loses hands down.
You are wrong. You have the evidence of the past five years in front of you. The UK and the USA pursued money printing and it has not resulted in any disaster. The eurozone is a hairs breadth away from deflation, much of the eurozone is at or near recession if not outright depression and youth unemployment is high and getting higher.

And this is in a region that suffered nowhere near as badly in the initial financial crisis, it has been brought about by an incompetently created currency area and an idiotic central bank.
OT, Love your train ride through japan, cool ending with your reflection showing when going through the tunnel!
"Preventing burnout is part of your job. Staying well rested is part of your job."

More employers need to understand this. At my last job I felt like I was close to burning out. I was getting involved in management duties, customer service, hardware design(not area of expertise at all), maintaining a back-end and front-end, dabbling in some networking, aiding in negotiating airtime rates, and looking up new parts to cut costs.

For the first few months it was all fun as we were trying to give legs (and profit!) to an offshoot business from the main business. I was the only technical person with the flexibility to to juggle all of those tasks and keeping costs low was a priority so I was happy to help this fledgling business by giving my time and energy to all these different areas. I never learned as much as I did during that time but there came a time when I felt the burnout coming on. I was getting less done and was losing interest in going to work.

I decided to take a 'staycation'. I filed for a week off where I planned to just stay at home and do whatever I saw fit for that week.

I got teased about taking time off just to stay at home. "Why don't you just come to work if you're planning to stay home? What's the point of the vacation? You sure are lazy."

All of these comments were light heartedly and in jest, but it seemed like most people really didn't understand the concept of taking some time off just to catch a breath.

I took the time off and came back fresher than ever and pushed through my todo list faster than I had been before I took time off. All I did during that week was manage my finances, watch netflix, clean my apartment and run some errands that had been piling up.
Yeah, but with HTTP API access, it's much more like someone who goes up to your apartment, knocks on your door, his knock is answered by your butler, he asks the butler for something, and the butler gives him it. It's not his fault that you hired a cretin for a butler.
The two examples you gave were about maximizing your returns by tricking your customers into buying things they don't need, not "maximis[ing] their returns on using your product" or "pric[ing] on the basis of value".

edit: typo
I personally like Bentonville pretty well. People from larger cities often complain "there's not enough to do" but I'm a bit of a home-body myself, so that doesn't bother me. One nice thing about this area is you can get a house with 5 acres of land for between $100k and $200k that would be comparable to houses easily twice or three times as much in someplace like Seattle.

I know a little bit about JB Hunt's IT. They use COBOL and Java. They might have some other stuff, but they seem big on those two from what I've heard.
I wanted to 'not get paid' instead of going negative on my PTO. (I don't like any form of 'negative' debt) I was told I couldn't do that without quitting and coming back because the benefits system was all wired up wrong. This would of course reset everything in the system.

If I had an ACA-based health insurance policy, I would be covered there, but any other benefits via the company would be canceled for the time period.

I think there needs to be a bigger push for benefits that we select and maintain ourselves with companies just contributing some sort of minimally mandated stipend related to salary level.

I value the freedom of my time over wage (salary, but still) slavery the older I get.
Both physical and psychological withdrawals would constitute addictions, but the word "addiction" alone is ambiguous. Dependency specifically refers to physical withdrawal.

Some addictions don't even have withdrawal symptoms at all, but are practiced largely due to inertia or some lack of motivation. Internet addiction is often one of these.
No Objective-C was not dead before iOS. A thriving Apple was supporting Objective-C in every way possible, and moving from Carbon to Cocoa.

Objective-C is used to build applications for Apple software. It's not a threat to Java, but that doesn't mean Objective-C is dead. Objective-C will be around for a long time to come. It's a modern language that powers all of Apple's most recent technology. They have no reasons to change, and there are no signs that Apple is on the verge of disappearing into the aether.

Vim is shitty software. I like the UI, but the thing is single threaded and everything runs on the UI thread. There's no hope for async, or an event loop, or even a settimeout like feature. The code is full of globals and trying to add new features to the thing is going to result in inexplicable, unfathomable seg faults. Vim uses shitty regular expressions in the UI thread to do syntax highlighting which is why that's slow for big files and why the syntax highlighting breaks.

So the code matters. There will never be powerful IDE like features as long it's this single threaded thing that only ever does anything as a response to user input. Given the state of the code, changing this does not seem ever possible.
Cash advance APR by whatever you withdrew by however long it takes for you to pay it.

There's no single answer to that question.
Are you sure that you work in software and not cotton plantation in 18th century? Have you thought about coming over to Europe? I have 52 days off
When Will We Have Robots To Help With Household Chores?
Why are we so surprised the NSA is spying on us? Why are we reacting now?

Think about all the data we have voluntarily injected into the public sphere - thru Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr... Everybody is famous now. We are our own papparazzi.
High fat diets boost endotoxin absorption and catecholamines. It's also very difficult to eat high fat without getting too much unsaturated fat, which accumulates over time causing inflammation and aging. High protein diets boost catecholamines.

The long standing conventional wisdom that you want to be a sugar/carb burner is correct. Your cells function best on a steadily available supply of glucose backed with plenty of glycogen. Fructose is protective against stress, so a decent amount of sucrose is desirable.
I did this a few times when I was a student. A variant on this is to wedge a kitchen knife between the door frame and the door jamb. Sure some paint gets damaged but it gets you in...

Another use for the coke-bottle strip is with padlocks - simply push inside and it opens using the method you describe on most of them.

In fact there are so many ways to get round a lock that going to all of the trouble of picking it is rather quaint. Here are some common things that happen:

Emergency services - they go straight for the 'Big Key' which is that battering ram we have all seen on TV.

Bicycle thieves - no interest in the lock. Bolt croppers cost less than a good lock and they are far quicker at getting the job done reliably.

Car thieves - break into the house and steal the keys.

Regular folk locked out of homes/cars - call the locksmith or simply break some glass.

If you need to gain entry surreptitiously (and not damage a lock) it can be far easier to use social engineering to temporarily obtain keys, e.g. from an employer, then get them cut in a matter of minutes at some place around the corner.

Alternatively an impression can be made in 'plasticine' or a photo taken. A friendly locksmith can sell you the blank, and, with some time with a needle file, a key made.

Although fun can be had picking locks, 'in the wild' it rarely happens because brute force or a bit of Coke can is usually far more effective.
Yeah, I can see how the cost argument is borderline--it really depends upon what you value & connectivity is pretty important nowadays. But, unless the primary application is specifically "connected robots", I do think it makes sense to omit it for the first rev and get a cheaper product out faster. Don't forget that the $10 is the cost of the part itself.* You still need some support circuitry, hardware development time, software development time, testing time, etc. And then there's markup. Assuming absolute minimal costs for all of those--and direct sales with an aggressively minimal margin, I'd still expect a $10 part cost to translate to at least a $20 product cost.

* Admittedly, that $10 is budgetary pricing and would probably come down with negotiation (and there might be cheaper low-volume options--that's just one I knew of offhand). But that's likely still the order of magnitude for the quantities of the Rex.
Their stated goal was to build a "better" machine. My point is that even on the first page the whole concept was blown:

> case called the FT03 which houses up to an mATX board and even dual graphics cards, at roughly twice the size of the Mac Pro

Then on page 2:

> The board, unfortunately, does not support ECC DDR3 memory, though it does support faster non-registered modules, but only come in 8GB sizes currently, so we’re maxing out at 32GBs of memory right now. And the other unknown quantity we’ve come across is the fact that our chosen 12 core processor, is not officially supported

> Connectivity wise, you won’t be getting Thunderbolt 2 support, but you do get a full complement of USB 3.0 and SATA ports for external storage expansion. USB bluetooth and WiFi dongles

That they blew past the Mac Pro price is not even relevant any more when shit is this different.
Any recommendations for courses or books on Markov decision processes?
Actually they're being quite clear and referring to sucrose (table sugar) the whole time.
Being wealthy isn't just about income, it's about what you can do with your income.
The problem is that it's hard for most people to tell if someone's capable and belongs on the team in the first few months. Since ability and contribution are hard to measure, most human groups assess people based on shared suffering ("being a team player"). That creates a lot of the vacation-hostility that, after a while, people start internalizing. It's ridiculously stupid and utterly counterproductive. Total productivity is actually maximized (for most of the work we do) around 6 weeks off per year.
That's why you start your response with "Here's how we can do that:"
Doing freelance/contracting in Monterey, CA...my experience with clients requesting work on Wordpress sites or asking you to build them a site with Wordpress don't want to pay people very much. They tend to ask for fairly complex features, and get upset when it requires a programmer to actually program instead of installing some "plugin".
The author of this article is Robert Lustig, so there is a lot of relevant background out there about his views and the reception. Here is one of his well known youtube lectures about sugar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&list=TLQCIoJBjuT4.... Wikipedia has some background as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lustig.

In short, know the source here. His view is thought provoking but not without controversy, and not widely accepted in the medical community.
True, but I personally can say that I'm very happy to hear this, as I've been hoping for a serious contender besides Android and IOS.

I would like to have a good phone, with a non-dead app ecosystem that is sold to me by a phone vendor as a stand-alone product without a lifestyle template/belief system attached to it.

Until this news, Jolla was an "also ran" in my perception, now they are a prime contender for my next smartphone. (Might also be tempted by an upper-tier Firefox OS phone, if that ever happens.)

Maybe, just maybe, there will come a time when we have a major smartphone company in Europe. I'm all for it.
Take a look at what I said. I said that after the death of Stalin, antisemitism in the Soviet Union was couched in the language of anti-Zionism. Stalin died in 1953, by which time the state of Israel was already a few years old. Incidentally, Zionism dates from the end of the 19th century.
Those kind of offers I prefer the company just goes under rather than find a soul willing to accept that.
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He made a utility that helps me keep in touch with old friends and relatives, and I haven't lost my privacy one bit. I don't find it disgusting at all that he spends his millions how he sees fit.
"Education: Web Designer | Greenville University. Business Master | Loyal Univesrity." <--
You can't push yourself all the time. You'll break.
tl;dr: When you have plenty of something, you can rationally plan how best to use it, perhaps entertaining and evaluating multiple scenarios - but when something is scarce, you tend to conserve it, doling it out piecemeal for only the most urgent needs.

In RPGs this is called Too Awesome To Use. When there are only four Hero Drinks in the game -- and you don't have anything like the W Item hack -- they sit there in the bottom of your pack to be used -- maybe -- on the Final Boss or even That One Boss. FFXII did this with ethers.
As a hobbyist AI programmer with few hardware skills my dream is a for an out-of-the box robot with basic movement, sensors and maybe an arm that I can start programming for in a higher-level language. Rex looks like a huge step in that direction. If they could throw in a chassis for mounting standard motors and sensors, even my multi-thumbed self might be able to make it do something cool.
She shouldn't be a "directors" post from the beginning anyway. Why would a tech company bring a on "creative directors" that have no practical experience? She is a terrific singer - no doubt about that. I love Alicia Keys and her music. This is no one else's fault but BB's. On the other hand, Blackberry: who? do they still around?
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A massive component I see to rest vs. work is flexible scheduling, not just vacation time. You don't need as much time off if you are working at a pace where you are comfortable and not overly stressed. I'm not sure it applies to startup founders who lack the security of a stable job or demand delivery for immediate market presence, but for people with more wiggle room working "slower" and smarter is very rewarding, and in my experience yields higher quality results due to a more ample time to digest ideas.

It also can carry a perhaps heftier social stigma than extensive vacationing if viewed in the wrong light, because of the potential for abuse. If I watch a movie in the middle of the day between working, how is that viewed? Is it different than if I were to take a mid-afternoon bike ride on a Tuesday for a couple of hours? They are both ways that I can decompress and allow me to come back to ideas later with a fresh perspective, and that's sometimes the most valuable thing to me when I'm working.

I would take flexible scheduling over excessive vacation time any day of the week, and I'm fortunate that the software engineering field is one where working from anywhere at any time is extremely easy.
10 days vacation and ten days sick time is pretty standard in the USA. Usually, the 10 days vacation has to be accrued.
Yup, the same way the work is for the poor.
It's also worth noting that it comes at a cost of locality for an individual row, so isn't always an optimization.
Actually there are symptoms shown when one reduces sugar intake. Nothing quite like heroin or other opiates though.
Thanks! I didn't expect the other videos to be getting so much love :) I am re-watching them myself!

Bonus video I just made public:
http://youtu.be/ah17HPs7oDI

One of those odd moments when you are 30-something and still can get inspired by huge grass parks to do backflips.

Edit: After you mentioned it, I also found a pic I used that same reflection effect for! http://d.pr/i/INTD
I actually prefer the StackOverflow post you linked over the OPs blog post (not bashing on the blog post, the SO answer is just so good).
"Who moved my Cheese" (http://www.amazon.com/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-Amazing/dp/0399144...)

And in conjunction to that, this article "Someone is Coming to Eat You" (http://randsinrepose.com/archives/someone-is-coming-to-eat-y...)
Howdy, project creator here.

The OS is based on the Yocto Project, so it's a distro we're putting together ourselves. It's still under heavy development, but the goal is to have something minimal that we can throw all our support under without having to rely as much on other distros that already have tons of other boards/projects to worry about.

We haven't committed to open-sourcing the hardware yet, but all the software will be FOSS. The stuff we have so far is on github, and feedback would be great.
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No, but I don't think that the fact that they have such capabilities is, itself, evidence that they have used it unconstitutionally.

I think that it's important to distinguish between behavior that is bad (unconstitutional, illegal, or immoral) and behavior which is acceptable. Saying "It's really quite hard to stop admiring the technical lengths the NSA has gone to to exceed their constitutional bounds" implies that the USB cables equipped with radios are themselves unconstitutional, or must be used in ways that are unconstitutional, and that's not the case.

It's important when having these kinds of discussions to keep in mind the legitimate, legal, constitutional work the NSA does as well. Not everything they do is illegal or unconstitutional, and spreading the outrage from the bad work to the good helps no one at all.

Outrage at Dual EC DRBG is absolutely well founded. Outrage at mass metadata collection is absolutely well founded (though there is a bit more of a debate to be had there, because metadata is something that a third party must necessarily have in order to route your calls/packages/packets/emails properly, and so doesn't exactly fall under your personal effects that are fully protected by the fourth amendment; I believe that mass metadata collection is still immoral, but the constitutional argument is harder to make). Outrage at secret courts with no oversight, and national security letters that forbid even revealing details about exactly what and how much information the government has access is absolutely well founded.

But getting outraged because spies create spy gadgets is, well, kind of silly. Get outraged when they plant these gadgets on innocent targets, on political targets, on allies, on economic targets, sure. But there should be no reason to get outraged at their mere existence.
I'm curious to see what people here think of "unlimited vacation" days policy in companies like Netflix. The place where I work has the same policy.
I'm inclined to believe this "vacations are for the weak" idea tends to make employees fewer vacations than they would if they were, say allocated a fixed 15 PTO days.
Hey, I hope I did okay explaining this - thanks for putting up a proof of concept!
Built-in WiFi was definitely on our feature-list, but you hit the nail on the head there - cost and FCC compliance were big issues. We decided to keep it simple and add it in via off-board solutions.
Yes, it's very important to delete backburner stuff. I've failed those projects whether or not I admit it. Admitting it is the only way to move forward. It's better both for me and the thing that needs to be done.
You could always pad manually to clear the warnings.
Actually science will challenge your beliefs on carbs. I won't go medical journal on you, but this guy will, referring to the doctor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2c2Oq-Pi2o
Unfortunately for this particular diet beans are off limits (rather high in carbs). That does not mean they are unhealthy or anything, just that they do not work with this particular diet.

We primarily only buy fresh vegetables. Lots of cabbage, spinach, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, peppers, asparagus).
Don't forget that the second func is unnecessary, unless it's a function that calls itself. Also it will show up as func when debugging instead of anonymous function.
I guess his new venture, recode, needed a few low quality linkbait articles to get a few more eyeballs and Walt was ready to oblige.
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I've seen it. His data shows it's the increase of calorie consumption over time. This was mostly sugar (Honey, table sugar, HFCS are all around half fructose), but it was the sustained increase in energy intake over years that's the cause. Even if fructose has some special role in promoting more of a fat-storage bias in metabolism, it's due to eating too much, not due to the fructose; eating less (or scaling activity with food intake) solves both problems.
Netgear routers come with a well published back door (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/telnet.console) that gives you telnet access from the LAN.
Color me surprised. I was under the impression most software shops had extremely liberal time off.

Do you mind if I ask what kind of software/position? That sounds like a gulag.
Vacations are fantastic. Writing from Helsinki where I'm on vacation. Along with hundreds thousands of my compatriots who all have around ten days off on the new year.

Which helps forcing even people who avoid vacations to have some.

In my opinion, those who don't travel don't live, and that's where you need vacations. Visiting your relatives, too.