skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have no evidence for that, because there is no evidence for that.

Google tried to find indicators for success at Google. One quote from a NYT interview:

> One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything.

> What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.

>After two or three years, your ability to perform at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you required in college are very different. You’re also fundamentally a different person. You learn and grow, you think about things differently.

> Another reason is that I think academic environments are artificial environments. People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment. One of my own frustrations when I was in college and grad school is that you knew the professor was looking for a specific answer. You could figure that out, but it’s much more interesting to solve problems where there isn’t an obvious answer. You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer.

Even in your own scenario, would you prefer someone who graduated with a 3.25 and triple majored in physics, business, and history, or would you prefer someone with a 3.75 who majored in business?
I'm usually a Google-redesign apologist, but this new change is pretty jarring. I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve by removing the underlines.

I'm sure someone will come up with a Greasemonkey script soon enough.
>> Both the missile and the debris produce very large radar signatures which would be easily visible to both military vessels and air traffic authorities.

I don't know enough about weapon systems and radar but I really want to call bullshit. This whole article reeks of spam. AFAIK large radar cross section require large metal objects and a plane blowing up at several hundred miles per hour is going to disperse into many tiny pieces, everywhere. Any catastrophic event could do it. The only other stuff I know about debris and radar has to do with tornados (seen on giant weather radar arrays) and the hunt for space debris (and that's not going too well).
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I'll stick to my 51 LPA thanks.
Thank you for that comment. It would be amazing to see the connections between his hosts and their HN accounts (if any).

Although swombat's account lists his real name, I would never have made the connection. Putting a face on some of the more notorious (in a good way! ;-p) accounts on this site would be .. interesting.
a mnemonic is a device for memorizing information... I don't see how that fits this situation?
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Their crowdfunding is a hot mess, as they just passed $40M..

Hard to argue with their success there...
Haha, me too, my lovely "git pfo" will have to go… Maybe.

The problem with git is that new options aren't simply ignored by old git versions, meaning that if you synchronize your gitconfig as part of your dotfiles, then the machines that have old git versions will start spitting error messages at every command for options specific to new versions. I learned that painfully with push.default=simple.
The primary role of a language is as a medium to transmit information from one location to another. English has developed from origins with traditional diversity of culture (anywhere British Empire), and, as a result, most of the words and phrases have an awesome Hamming distance.

Basically, two things.

1. English words are extremely robust to shitty pronunciation.

2. Communication in modern American-English is extremely robust to shitty grammar.
Irony is when you express an idea using words that normally have the opposite meaning. That's not what's happening here.

This is autology - a word that describes itself.
Nice one :)

Now, since the board is 16 tiles, and that you need two 2^n can make a 2^(n+1), the max game that can be played is 2^16=65536.

Can a 65536 game can be reallistically won, can it be by OP's AI?
> I don't know what makes him tick, or tap or flap.

Great way of saying it.
He has used a dipthong in the middle of meyk.
So, nothing you said is correct. Ken [know] < OE cennan "make known; declare". Kin [family] < OE cynn "family" (among other meanings, but that one seems apt).

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=kin

Kith [] < OE cyðð also meaning family, but alternatively neighbors, countrymen, or acquaintances. Obsolete and only extant today in the fixed phrase "kith and kin", but originally meaning [countrymen] and later [friends]. Your kith and kin are all your relationships, blood or otherwise. Your kin are the blood and marriage relationships.
I tried this and it does not work. And yes, mutt does not support $() escaping.
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I think the real title of the blog post "I Hate Open Floorplans, It Makes Roger Come Out…" makes a lot more sense. I understand why open floorplans don't work for some people but I personally enjoy working in one and always have so I don't see them as bad for developers, only bad for some. The conversations floating around, the noise and animation helps me focus a lot more than in a closed office at work. I don't know exactly why but I work a lot better with a lot of people around me. Also it is so much easier to follow what is going on around in your team, who is stuck on something, who is speaking about something new that might be useful to you.

I've always worked this way, focusing on something while a part of me was processing what was said around and being able to "pause" what I was doing to help around and get back to my work pretty easily. Of course it does not work all the time and some times you just need to focus for a few hours and in this case I just increase the volume of my music in my headphones and stop caring about the rest.

For me the main issue with open floorplans is when other people assume they can just come to your desk and ask you anything without thinking you could be busy and/or in the zone as you describe it when having a closed office would make them think twice before just dropping by unanounced. For me this was easily solved by explaining that it is a lot easier to drop me a line by email or chat and I'd get back to them as soon as I was available.
Wow. Truly, these heartless landlords have things all their own way.
> * According to OED the reason that some animal names have the same singular and plural was that they originally contained a long vowel, e.g. deer, sheep, fish. Turns out, horse was also in this group but after a sound change its vowel shortened, hence the -s plural now.

I learnt that by reading The Wee Free Men by PTerry:
"Aye, it's no' that good for the ship, havin' tae drink oout o' that pond after we've been bathing. It's terrible, hearin' a ship try tae spit."

(When in doubt, assume the more "dialectal" pronunciation is the older one. Though I think the wee free men actually overdo it and pronounce plural ship too.)
Min-max optimizes your chance of winning under the assumption of a rational adversary. That chance will be lower than "certain victory," especially in un-solved, symmetric games, because a rational adversary will also be playing min-max. The guarantee min-max provides is that it will do even better against a non-rational adversary than it does against a rational adversary; not that it will do better than any other algorithm against non-rational adversaries--which is the way I think it often gets parsed.

Also, we should note that the "value" in "expected value" doesn't have to mean "score." It could be the logarithm of your score, or your chance of winning against a rational adversary, or even the enjoyability of the game to spectators (if you have a precise metric for that).
No, it's really not Unity, it's just a custom in-app toolkit. It's a lot closer to Mozilla's XUL layer if anything.

The funny part is though, that they intentionally disable 3D video acceleration, but are happy to use an OpenGL-based toolkit.

The only hope is that they implement a "style engine" ala Firefox so widgets can at least look native-ish rather than Chromium sticking out like a sore thumb.

edit: Oh I read the document you're talking about now. The Shell is specific to ChromeOS. It lets them use the same Aura code in the compositor and the apps, so they get a win there. It's very likely this is to go along with ChromeOS's switch to Wayland or a Wayland-like display protocol at some point in the future.
That's also the 0MQ use case to be as lightweight as a pipe but networkable.
I'm still not sure exactly what distinguishes an open floor plan from other floor plans. I prefer working directly with the rest of my team in the same room. I don't want a private room. But a room where people unrelated to the team are constantly walking around and making noise and disturbing people is bad.
Or wee cood just mayk Inglish spelin roolz mor sensibl. But ov cors wee wood aw af too agree too yooz th Ampsheer aksent, or I coodnt reed it.
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Nice to see this kind of report, even if the conclusion is rather damning.

And it seems to suggest that using it with (something like) Dropbox is a bad idea too:

> EncFS is not safe if the adversary has the opportunity to see two or more snapshots of the ciphertext at different times.
Here's a better link
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
i forgot to mention terrible iteration time on device and lack of reasonable control over update order... both of which have conspired to waste a considerable amount of my time this morning :)
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Remark: powerful little tool for writing your slides in markdown
To a first (and second, really) approximation, you learn 100% of your vocabulary from context. So? I don't see how that's related to anything I said.
Butbutbut, it would be free time if he didn't go in to work.
It seems very possible to me that "babe" was the original, "baby" was derived from that, and "babe" in modern colloquial use is a shortened version of "baby" that just happens to match its predecessor.
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If you use git-subtree in the mode that doesn't flatten the original tree it does not, afaik, modify any commits on either side. The original tree, as imported, and the tree being imported to, are both parents of the post-subtree tree with their original SHAs.
Open floor plans mean that there are no rooms, only one big one (with half-height barriers if you're especially lucky).

Meeting rooms and rooms for management are usually not part of this arrangement, because, you know, management has to work.
Open floorplans are fine so long as there's an alternative option available. Working in an environment where peace and quiet is never available is not going to make you as productive as you can possibly be - an open plan office has to come with the authority and autonomy to take yourself off to a different, quieter place to work from instead should the office get too distracting.

It's very rare that one solution works all of the time.
> Is it just me or "simple semantics" is not at all simple?

It's just you.

It's about time we'd put "hg vs. git" to the category of flamebait topics (similar to "emacs vs. vi" etc) that should be avoided. Every time there's a git topic, someone comes and derails the whole discussion with a not-quite-apt comparison with hg.

AFAIK, there are decent two-way conversion tools so you can use hg with a git repo and vice versa. There should be no need to argue because you can pick the one you like and use it.
Not a great example; "farewell" is so archaic that it won't be understood as low register. It will be understood as purposefully fancy.
Interesting, I always thought bampot had a first syllable rhyming with "lamp", but would pronounce balm to rhyme with calm. But then I'm from the south of England so bampot isn't a word I'd normally outside of reading Trainspotting...
They should be properly rotated now.
Like I mentioned I never expected anyone but a few people to see it
This is a common phenomenon in English. The "Adder" (type of snake native to Britain) was originally "Nadder". In old/middle English, it was "a/an", "my/mine", so "mine Edward" and "my Nedward" sounded the same, hence a nickname (ironically originally "ekename", so another case) for Edward is "Ned".
And then you try to bisect on a repository using submodules and you tear your goddamn hair out.
...unless your name is Elon Musk
I made a library that does the same a week ago: https://github.com/luisivan/spritzer
Lowering the voting age would be good for young people, particularly the people who would gain the vote.

Here in the UK, politicians often take money from students and young people, while leaving older people untouched or better off - because older people are allowed to vote, and have high voter turnout. I could run with a policy of "I will double university prices to cut taxpayer subsidy... taking effect in three years" and nobody who bore the costs of the policy would be able to vote against it.

Of course, given that the main beneficiaries are people who can't currently vote, the policy might not be a vote-winner.
I.M.O. Go for it! Just to it part-time.
I have a friend doing research on this. I should caution that you should in no way take this as medical advice, as there are not yet any results, but the current hypothesis is that one's risk of getting melanoma (the main skin cancer that is truly dangerous) is actually less related to how long you stay in the sun and instead more related to whether your sun exposure is consistent (each day) or intermittent (you only go out in the sun a couple of non-consecutive days a week). If this hypothesis is correct, consistent sun exposure is significantly safer than intermittent sun exposure.

If you would like, I can provide links to papers that support this hypothesis.
Boxcrypter uses EncFS. Combined with the vulnerabilities discussed in this audit, this is pretty bad.
You're suffering under some illusions. When you say

> in Indonesian, pronunciation is pretty much phonetic. Just say what it says, and you can't go wrong

two things are going on.

1. Most languages are confined to a fairly small area, so their phonology is "more or less" similar everywhere. (This is the minor effect.)

2. Read it like it's written, and you'll go badly wrong in many Indonesian-speaking communities. This sort of "the sound is perfectly represented by the spelling" spelling is only possible by designating a particular region's pronunciation as "correct" and all the others as "wrong" (compare e.g. the Mexican and Spanish pronunciations of "azul"). Of, say, British, Australian, and US english, which would you anoint as the master form?
Tourists from the USA in the UK always sounds funny when pronouncing place names that have "ham" in them. The UK English way of saying these place names is Buckingum and Birmingum, not BuckingHam and BirmingHam.
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There's a lot of WTF going on in that listing. First, there's a pretty steep drop off from #1 to #25 - a 5.0 for #1 (of which there are four) down to a 3.6 at #25. I didn't even notice until, on page 2, I say Texas A&M listed at #40 (w/ a 3.1). "A&M" stands for "Agriculture and Marine". Second, the rankings "stop" at #112 which is a 2.0 - however, there are still probably 30 more schools listed as "Ranking not published". Third, to have a school like SMU ranked as "last place" (#112) behind some of the other "schools you've never heard of" just feels wrong. SMU gets a 2.0 which, according to their scale, is one step above "marginal". I can imagine that, from a job hunting perspective, it's far easier to place an 3.x SMU CS grad than it is to place a 3.x "University of Maryland - Baltimore County" grad, both now and long-term.
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Are there no rooms, or is there one big one? And how big? I'm currently in a room with about 20 desks, which works very well. But an adjoining building has rooms with probably less desks, but a main corridor going through the middle, and I can imagine that's not such a great idea, because everybody in the building is constantly walking past.
Shakespeare used the phrase "from hour to hour" as a joke to mean "from whore to whore". Doesn't quite work unless you hear it in the Original Pronunciation:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6892
(Also, "war" would rhyme with "far")
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Try disabling JavaScript. I just did a quick test and that seemed to work. But then you lose "advantages" such as search suggestions. I don't care, I hate those suggestions anyway.
So comparing two competing tools is flamebait nowadays?

I think the OP makes a valid and argumented point.
You realize your link indicates that whine and wine are pronounced the same in standard american english (or as you've called it, "general american")?

edit: in fact, the whine-wine merger's own page indicates that the only place they're not merged is a strip of the american South.
Ha! "Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy." I wish Stallman were a more negative person, he's a hell of a lot funnier when he's being scathing.
I lack the required medical education to make any type of suggestion, and if you and yours trusted blind suggestions from the Internet, you'd probably be in a lot more trouble than you already are. With the needed disclaimer made, I'll share the links I've collected over the last year. They may or may not turn out to be useful, but they are some of the leading edges of cancer treatment research as far as I'm aware.

http://majetilab.stanford.edu/

http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/majeitlab/faculty/Ravindra_...

http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2012summer/article7.html

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/carl-june-key-fighting-can...

http://unitedwithisrael.org/enlivex-innovation-leads-to-effe...

http://unitedwithisrael.org/israel-develops-cancer-vaccine/

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pa...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14572284

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2275650/Scientists...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uom-bct040313...

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-melanoma-evades-chemo...

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/risk/cancer/cancer-laboratory.html

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/485041e...

http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/19/naked-mole-rat-may-hold-the-cl...

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/carl-june-key-fighting-can...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231876

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/09/cancer-vaccine-beg...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140219142556.ht...

http://www.mskcc.org/pressroom/press/cell-therapy-shows-rema...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371906

I wish you the best!
I played with a c720p last week, I was impressed by the responsiveness of it, I assumed it was a good hardware basis and never thought the software architecture was different.
> Out of curiosity: if Americans are prototypically self-motivated and desire to make money, push the frontier, explore, and invent, and that Europeans don't (as a culture) dream of those things, do Europeans have widely shared dreams? What are they?

There aren't any. "Europeans as a culture" simply does not exist. It's just a bunch of very different countries with very different cultures that decided to make a union.

The only difference I've found that holds between the USA and the whole of Europe[0] is that our price-labels all list the price after taxes. I found that quite weird. But they all get to have some unique quirks, so otherwise your culture is very recognizable in the sense that it might as well be another EU country :P

[0] someone is bound to correct me on this, I haven't been to all of the EU countries.
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How many Beliebers will blindly click on a link?
They are all blurry for me...
Dear treskot,

Do you have any substantive criticism of the article that you'd like to share as a comment or blog post, instead of editorialising snarkily in the link text?
inoremap jj <esc> is what you need. Allows one to double press j to enter normal mode instead of reaching for the Esc key.
Kinda-obvious guess: definite article "la" rather than indefinite article.

Apparent counter-evidence: the relevant Portuguese definite article is "a" rather than "la" as in Spanish.

Counter-counter-evidence: at least one source (W V O Quine's "Quiddities") tells me that once upon a time the Portuguese definite article was "la" rather than "a". However, Quine was a philosopher rather than a historian of language, this particular book is a fairly frivolous one, and I don't know how far I can trust him.

Counter-counter-counter-evidence: A few minutes of googling haven't found me any other evidence for Portuguese, or any other language spoken in Portugal, ever having had "la" as a definite article.

Make of all that what you will. I'd be very surprised if it weren't derived from a definite article prefix, but exactly how it happened I would rather not guess.
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"I'd use it (chrome os) a lot if it had decent native text editing"

I'd buy one or two for relatives if it had skype. Seems chrome is one feature/app away for a lot of people. Reminds me of this. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
> Tasks like opening tabs and loading pages seemed subjectively faster than doing the same on my 4GHz desktop.

That is because your desktop can also do a lot more (and likely is doing a lot in the background.) What is basically a bootable browser, not so much. If you disable unneeded services and drivers in your desktop OS, and have nothing more than a browser open, I think the speed would be comparable.
He recommends http://51proxy.com/ - I was curious and signed up for their smallest package. It's been 24 hours since I created the account and I have 48 "Waiting" proxies, and I haven't been able to connect to either of the "Live" ones.

Has anyone had any success with them?
I do the same thing. I wouldn't mind a plugin that automatically recognized crippling overlays and deletes them for me.
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I was wrong to be afraid of Angular.js
So I don't have to work with HTML/CSS then? I seem to have a disorder which makes me dislike a separate language for layout/design than the one I'm writing the other code in. And although I do a lot of it and am good at it, I don't like HTML/CSS at all; I have not seen a real world case outside documents and informative sites (which are documents anyway) where I could not build a more robust (and a lot faster) interface in less time in Cocoa with Objective C / C# / C++. No clue what is wrong with people trying to do everything in HTML/CSS. </rant>

Anyway; being lazy; so this is kind of a GUI layer on top of HTML/CSS?
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I think Scots tend to shorten sounds - consider Edinburgh, which locals pronounce "Embra". Only having been here for about 30 years I've only got to the point of referring to it as "Edinbra".

Referring to it as "Eedeeenboooroooo" causes hilarity in local of all levels of seniority.