skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone make the conscious choice to be a bad employee but a good parent?

That is such a great question that it made me stop and re-think your entire post. I absolutely love that. I never have but I can envision someone who could do that out of necessity. If little Bobby Tables is a special needs child, to pick an example, and you have one chance to get him into a special school, I'm sure that at the end of your life you would not regret for one instance being less than a stellar employee that one day while you worked so hard to get Bobby into that school. I get it. I understand. Doesn't make me want to hire you but again: at the end of your life, what would you regret more: having slacked off for one day at work, or having ensured that your child got the best help/education he could at such a critical time?
I encountered a similar issue at work. How one would do compile-time completeness validation in C++ without using some extra stuff like Boost or the new features of C++ 0xXX?
From the link I posted, "There will be a note above the translation explaining that the translation has been done automatically, and an option to return to the default language." - so presumably if that's not present it was professionally translated.
It's not just about coal and oil's effect on global warming, but their effect on human health, too. The faster we move to cleaner technologies, the better. Wouldn't you like the children to grow in a healthier world?

The situations are different here. It's not like in 50 years we'll discover that "hey, wait a minute - inhaling coal fumes is actually good for us!" - which is what you're trying to imply with your comment.
ArXiV files are downloaded in either .PDF or maybe .HTML. In my subfield (computer vision), most of the action happens in actual journals/conferences for now, so when authors submit to ArXiV, they submit .PDFs because the work usually was also intended to appear somewhere else.

ArXiV does not specify a style guide so you get this weird mix of IEEE/PAMI/single-column/double-column, but that's not really a detrement to its readability since journals wouldn't usually pick an unreadable style anyway.
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"Unemployable beyond 40" has been dead for years in the software industry. Probably for decades. There's nothing in current industry that requires you to be under 30 (actually, there are tons of positions which require extensive experience) and technologies don't die that fast - C programming market is still alive, C++ is over 30 and not going anywhere, Java would be 20 years old next year and not disappearing any time soon. The time where experience from 10 years ago was completely irrelevant is past, now you could have been writing in Java 10 years ago and still be doing it today and continue doing it 10 years from now if you'd like so. Of course, you have to keep current, but any trade has that, especially trade which deals with advanced technologies.
Alternatively, it points out that half the news is already purchased, but through a very inefficient pipeline where PR firms get most of the money. If companies could buy press coverage directly from the news outlets, the outlets could make more money from fewer purchased stories.
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The claim is science solves all problems, but it hasn't solved cancer yet.
I agree with you about moderation, but the argument here isn't really about moderation.

It's about whether saturated fat is or is not distinguishably unhealthier than other sources of fat, once other factors (most importantly, obesity) are controlled for. The evidence from properly constructed studies suggest that it is.

For my own self, I know that red meat and saturated fat increase my risk of heart disease. But they are delicious, so I eat them -- in moderation. And I monitor and control other risk factors such as exercise and blood pressure.
Pretty much every role in a company these days is essential, thanks to economic rationalism. Fire the janitors, see how much people like working in your offices in a month or two.
I would just like to point out that earlier[1] there was a discussion around science not showing any evidence of GMO harm. We don't have a complete understanding of nutrition and the human body; and there's a lot of money to be made making everyone believe one thing or another. Anyone who thinks they have it "all figured out" is setting themselves up for a surprise.

Even I admit that my chasing of labels such as Non-GMO and USDA Organic could also be a big marketing scam and they could very well be selling me the same pesticide-soaked, GMO-glued-together, sweetener-laced, antibiotic+steroids pumped food that everyone else is buying while charging me a 40% markup for a lie. But since I'm confident we're all just rolling dice here, I choose to gamble on chasing food that's supposedly very similar to what my family has been getting it for generations in Nigeria with no particularly notable health issues except 2 instances of diabetes. One of them came to America, started eating all the common fast foods, drinking, smoking, etc for over a decade. The other is related to depression and change of eating habits while still in Nigeria.

If I'm wrong... I'm wrong. But I hope this lets people know that our current science(and social/economical incentives around it) is not good enough to use as a debate-closer of health & fitness discussions. There are contradictions[2][3] out there. I suspect that at the end of the day, what's good for one person can be poison for another and all our attempts at generalizing health & fitness guidelines for everyone will ultimate end in failure. We'll all have to go into the hospital, get a DNA sample and get customized health & fitness advice - and that's assuming we can remove the economic incentives for hospitals/doctors to just tell us whatever it takes to sell some expensive "solution".

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7671699

2. "Many of the bacteria are species that the researchers had never seen before. And even familiar microbes were present in unusual levels in the Hadza belly. “The Hadza not only lack the ‘healthy bacteria,’ and they don’t suffer from the diseases we suffer from, but they also have high levels of bacteria that are associated with disease,” Crittenden said." ---- http://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-micro...

3. "
Unlike their Western counterparts, the Tarahumara don't replenish their bodies with electrolyte-rich sports drinks. They don't rebuild between workouts with protein bars; in fact, they barely eat any protein at all, living on little more than ground corn spiced up by their favourite delicacy, barbecued mouse. ---- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1170253/The-...
what's wrong with vim in a terminal? I've never understood the appeal of a GUI based vim clone
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Could these eventually be as cheap as double patterned silicon?
Sorry, we don't have development near Georgia. There are no remote positions that I know of (or that are listed)
If you look at it funny, YC itself is doing this. Funding isn't salary, but if you look at it in terms of expected value they're pretty much handing gobs of money to those they think can do the right kind things with computers.
Because nobody yet has figured out how to turn programmers into simple machines where you shove money from one end and get even more money from the other end. You need to actually give those programmers something to do and sell the results and make profit on it. Programmers don't do that, that's a different profession. One that can be extremely lucrative if done right, but so far has not submitted to any automation.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say: "If the team crashes and burns, then the naive, politically confused, disconnected manager is at significant risk of job loss".

Most people don't like firing people they have worked with for months or years. Most people don't like getting fired. The savvy manager who knows organizational jiu-jitsu and can explain with a great story can often come up smelling like roses after disaster. The naive manager who assumes that everything is the way the mission statement says it is ... will be out on his ass.

See: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Thanks, hadn't seen this link. I'd like to see the specifics of what the errors are. Agree that observational and self-reporting are inaccurate, though unfortunately they're some of the best data we've got wrt nutrition.

Also, looks like there were some random trials in the meta analysis. From your link:

"These included trials in which participants were randomly assigned to different diets, as well as observational studies in which participants' intake of fatty acids was determined by asking them about their diet or by measuring the fatty acids circulating in the bloodstream."
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I had heard of it and I know that has been some progress with optoelectronics recently, but hadn't looked into it in this detail - thanks. Most of his recent work seems focused (groan) on things like solar cell efficiency and suchlike rather than my fanciful goal of a completely optical processor, but I need to read more.

Maybe I should ask him to lunch, since I live within walking distance of UC Berkeley and don't really take advantage of it :-/
there is no difference from the SEO standpoint
Well, this just made me give up on HN.
One off fees are fine - my experience in the US is that pools that allow any non-member access are few and far between.
The problem with red muscle meat is it has a good bit of trans-fats in it, and also excess of methionine and tryptophan relative to other amino acids (notably glycine). But the saturated fat is harmless. You can eat as much coconut oil as you want. Saturated fat is not the problem. Yet for the reasons above, eating too much muscle meat is to be avoided.
Wait till you get a family, your ideas on merits of moving around may change drastically.
I'm one of the maintainers of readthedocs and would love to integrate something like this. We have somewhat integrated support for linking to GitHub as an editor, but that is only a half-baked solution.
LA RTC / palmdale has alot of military air-traffic.

Within 100 miles of it are major military installations in ridgecrest, ca (China Lake Naval Air Station etc).

It would be very interesting (if unfortunate) if a recent SW upgrade could not handle things flying in and out of that part of the world.

While that did involve the SR71, the US maintains several airframes capable of 65K ceiling including the f15

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/mdc/eagle.page

This is a famous story, and almost surely was LA RTC.

"Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."

I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
Good

What about only reducing saturated fats by 5% (replacing it with carbs, or something else?) and maintaining PUFA levels?

What about adding the PUFAs, maintaining SFAs and reducing caloric intake somewhere else?

Consumption of PUFAs have a known effect on cardiac health, so the result of this work is 1) not surprising 2) saying nothing about SFAs (what about diets with different levels of SFAs and no difference in PUFAs?)
> The use of highly cluttered web designs is also a distinctly East Asian phenomenon, but I'm not sure what the cultural explanation for that would be.

I'm not 100% sure either, but the explanation given in http://www.tofugu.com/2012/05/15/japanese-web-design-why-you... seems not too far off.
It's true. Once an email hits a certain point where managers get CC'd--that's usually the point where creativity shuts down.
Bear in mind that the rapidly increasing supply for news does not change the relatively fixed demand. Also, while the barriers to production have diminished, the barriers to distribution (I mean actually getting in front of eyeballs, not merely the potential for such) are still limited by either that "virality" component or money.

As for nostalgia; people control distribution channels today, too, but that's somewhat orthogonal to my point.
> Also, looks like there were some random trials in the meta analysis.

There were, but the statistical effect is drowned by the much larger pool of observational/self-reporting studies.

Observational studies are a useful place to find potential leads, but they are nowhere near as reliable as RCTs for many reasons. Observational studies can tell you that the fall in piracy is causing global warming. Short of a randomised controlled trial involving the introduction of pirates or non-pirates at random to 13,000 Earth-like planets, it's hard to know how strongly that relationship holds.
You'll need a few of my own libraries:

* spinehaxe: github.com/bendmorris/spinehaxe

* SpinePunk: github.com/bendmorris/SpinePunk

* my fork of HaxePunk: github.com/bendmorris/HaxePunk (use the "all" branch) which has modifications not accepted into the main version yet

To install spinehaxe and SpinePunk, clone the repository, enter that directory, and run the command "haxelib dev <library name> src". For HaxePunk, clone my fork, check out the "all" branch, and run "haxelib dev HaxePunk path/to/haxepunk"

Hopefully installing those should be enough to get it working.
Works for me on 34.0, although a bit choppy at times.
Maybe a more accurate name would be Sphinx Online.

http://sphinx-doc.org/

NoTex is a misleading name: if you want to use it and have math in your document, you must use TeX (or LaTeX).
Not so sure about that one... today Twitter only earns $1 per user per quarter (as of Q1'14) ... if they were to charge for a premium ad-free experience, they could get away with $1 per month, which would be 3x what they make in ads...
It wasn't the first, but no one remembers them because they didn't make a difference in the market.

Quality of implementation is everything. Philo Farnsworth didn't invent the first TV, mechanical TV systems existed before. But his was much more practical, a better implementation. Same with Edison's lightbulb.

I wouldn't say the iPhone was special for being the first touchscreen phone (which as you pointed out, it's not). I'd say it was the first modern smartphone.
Thanks for the promo code! App works great so far.

Here's some feedback:

1. Would be nice if I could swipe left/right or up/down anywhere on the screen to adjust the speed. Hitting the tiny buttons in the corner is hard when I'm trying to focus on that one spot in the center of the screen.

2. Swiping to scrub forward/back could be nice too, in case I missed something important or want to skim a section. (One swipe direction could adjust speed, the other could adjust position.)

3. I would appreciate a setting to adjust the number of words (or characters) displayed on screen at once. I imagine the optimal amount varies per person (and I seem to recall reading somewhere that the ideal might be more than a single word).

4. The progress indicator still looks draggable while reading. I actually thought it was a speed adjustment slider at first, and I tried to drag it a few times unsuccessfully. I'd suggest either removing the nub while reading, or allowing it to be dragged even while reading.

5. I don't find the name to be very memorable or even searchable. I actually lost this post, the app was buried inside my desktop iTunes and I had a pretty hard time finding the app again.
giving voice to stories and ultimately serving as an independent check on government and power

What is this "check" then? SCOTUS checks legislation by throwing it out. Nobody has elected or consented to "journalists" having a constitional role. That being said, the constitution protects the people to talk amongst themselves, so that the electorate is itself effective, and can check power via the ballot box.

The issue at hand is the role of money in the "talk amongst yourselves" narrative. And its potential corrupting influence (bascially--buying vote for special interests and PR clients).
I'm not sure you can extrapolate that from one company's use of one foundry's process nodes. Intel at least seems to be doing well with their 22 nm process node.
If human motivations can be quantified and programmed into an AI system, my guess is 'loyalty' or 'patriotism' will be one of the first.

"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind." Voltaire
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Wow, why hasn't this been upvoted to death by now? :(
This would be a reasonable guess. Statistical machine translation models can be made a lot more accurate than the general models (i.e., Google Translate on the web) if you can pick a single specific domain, and use a focused training text corpus and terminology; and this improvement can be achieved without any improvements to the underlying algorithms.
thanks, hadn't heard of canvasjs, I'm assuming it is relatively new?

could you explain a little about why you chose it? and how you compared and determined the other options out there?

I'm in the same boat and looking at several possible solutions (for example DC.js which is based on D3) so would appreciate any help.

thanks
Ask HN: What do you think about unconventional hydraulic fracturing?
I am doing a paper about unconventional hydraulic fracturing. Part of the assignment is to get involved with the community and to spark discussion about the topic.

I have made a small website outlining some of the major parts of the controversy: http://www.cs.stedwards.edu/~anunez/fracking/

Please give the website a quick look and post your opinions on the issue here.
Thank you for your input.
I actually learn better by NOT taking any notes. I found it hard for me to take note and understand the lecture at the same time. So I stopped taking notes. I think their study should included another control group of no note taking.
"which is what you're trying to imply with your comment."

The grandparent comment said nothing whatsoever about air quality.
Yeah, I wished that the rST .. math:: directive would use ascii math.
By the way, on Chrome, I can't move at all. WASD nor arrows work, but the other controls (like X) do work.

EDIT: Got to a score of 7 then the game froze. I think it's a bit unbalanced at the moment... there's just too much advantage for revealing yourself: you get to run very fast, and you can easily maneuver behind people. Also, there are a lot of netcode issues such as entities showing up that aren't actually there. It's pretty fun though!

EDIT2: Yeah, there's some kind of freeze (infinite loop) bug on Firefox that sometimes triggers after killing someone. Makes it hard to play...

I think this game has a lot of potential. You should put in a leaderboard to see who has the highest score.

EDIT3: Managed to trigger the "can't move" bug on Firefox, so it looks like it's not browser-specific. Then I triggered the freeze bug after pressing Z, so it looks like it doesn't matter whether or not you've killed someone for triggering the freeze.
It's certainly prefereble to have your POS integrated with your payments system. Otherwise, there's no guarantee, for example, that the amount charged matches the POS total. In addition, it's much easier for employees to steal, and it simply takes longer.
No, in that link I can't rent any data, there I can buy ad space.
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They sold 1m of the phones, but they concentrated on the Asian rather than the US market. Apple had a more powerful brand to leverage than LG did, not to mention experience as a platform provider.
Thanks a lot to point me all these questions.

If you don't mind I will try to answer you.

For Q1. because I will not have a lot of customers (but if I got them I will be more than happy) at the beginning so the hairdressers can handle making offers. Of course I will provide them a system to assist and help them. And because it will be not in real time (at least not at the beginning) so they have a time to do it.
And when customers grow I will provide a new way to make offers, by having a pricing calendar. So they can put price by shift time (ex: 9-10 at 15$, 10-11 at 18$...) in advance and update it occasionally.

For Q2: I hope to make it simple. One request to receive differents offers from differents hairdressers matching the request and choose one. But for the question online I did not have a think about it yet. Thanks for it.

For Q3: I agree and disagree with you. But hairdressers are going to make offers only for customers that are looking for. But let's say if I add the real time offers. So this gives the ability to the hairdresser to target only people close to him in real time to fulfill the empty time. But real time will be not the first step but who knows.

For Q4: for anyone looking for good offer matching his avaibility. (Or for regular customers provide booking feature and adding the reward. However I have to review my idea for this. Good point to warn me about the relationship customer-hairdress).

I came up with this idea cause there is many deals in the web but they do not match always my need at that time. But with my idea I wanted to move the search and comparison to the software and local shops. So I have to make one request and got (hope) offers fitting my need.

And again thanks for your feedback.
Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue21423
> "now each machine needs a couple of pricey GPUs."

Well it would be much more pricey to get the same amount of flops out of traditional CPUs.
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Polymer and web components.. where we going?
I just watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7IAaRdi_k
I heard about that and I wanted to better understand what web components are (will be).. In my opinion they look really cool.. what you guys think about that?
>Which is where I fundamentally disagree with you. Optimised database indexes (for example) can be valuable to a company. But if the company lacked a developer who could optimise them, they could get by - they'd just have to get more/faster servers.

Look up complexity theory. There are plenty of cases where hardware will not make up for a poorly written sql query. If the people giving direction don't understand the technology, they will make stupid decisions like thinking that they can fix a bad query by throwing hardware at it.

>You can't throw money at organisational and communication skills in the same way. In fact, doing so usually makes it worse. If you don't have managers that know the company, can interact with other stakeholders and otherwise just manage people, you're screwed.

This statement has done nothing to convince me that managers have skill that is so hard to find as to justify their high wages.

You certainly need managers, but I think it best if you pick a suitable engineer for this role precisely to avoid the database example you just provided. An engineering manager should get a higher pay than their peers, because they are not only experts in the domain but also have some people skills.

But a non-expert manager? Their only skill is communicating and giving orders? This is role that should ideally go away.
Yes, it's the same here in Australia when it comes to Electrolux (and their group of companies). Our fridge failed just after two years of purchase. They were rude when it came to warranty and charged through the nose to fix the problem.