skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends where in the U.S. For big swaths of the country you really only have to deal with 1 or 2 accents: the local and the mid-west neutral (used on the National News).

But on the coasts it's about (but not quite) as complex as London might be. New York may be the king of all accent centers in the U.S. (followed maybe by D.C. or L.A.) You get all the various New York accents (not unlike London's various native accents), various native ethnic accents (like AAVE, which even has accents within), regional accents, the various north East Coast accents (every city from Boston to D.C. all have different native accents) as well as rural accents, you also get all the various local accents from the U.S. and Canada since everybody ends up in NYC, then you get all the foreign accents (at various levels of English attainment) from immigrants and tourists and finally you also get all the various native-English accents, including many (but not all) of the ones from the UK.

To be fair, the distance between native accents in the U.S. is generally not quite as far as between native accents in the U.K. I've been in the U.K. and Ireland a few times and there really were places I ended up where the local accent was not intelligible to me, and I struggled at times in London. I also notice generally wider distance between the various accents in London that I assumed were native London accents than I've experienced anywhere in a single place in the U.S.
Negativity. I didn’t downvote but even agreeng with you and being frustrated with the website I was put off by the tone of your comment.
In powerpoint you can click on the slide to move to the next one.
Please make a difference between marketing and advertising. Advertising is a very small part of marketing "science".
Err... let me see if I can piece this together. Friday's attempt was webcast and was scrubbed. Saturday's attempt was not webcast and was scrubbed. Today's attempt is scheduled for 5:16 PM Eastern and will be webcast? http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2980259/statuses/546...

Wonder if this represents two reversals in policy, or if webcasting yesterday was just inconvenient or maybe expensive for a launch they didn't expect to happen?
Do something you will love at FarmLogs
This is a nitpick, but it is lazy.

It's not represented in head normal form, but it's still lazy.

The limitations you mentioned are not an artifact of the implementation being eager(because it's not eager), but instead are an artifact of the representation used.
your right, been the case since I started in the 80's. Still the case, best way to get payrise to to show a offer and then they will struggle matching and then say you can expect a substantial payrise over the next few years, or some other excuse.

But what I have seen in the 80's, 90's, 00 and today are people who leave for a new job, then come back a few years later and in that process get paid more than there last job of which the company would not match the offer or come close.

This is why the only real way in many companies to get a pay-rise is a job change/promotion and this and as true work is often not valued and gauged by management tier then we end up with lots of managers. Sounds familiar too many in large companies.

But then in contrast in the 80's older people got paid more and younger people got paid less and personally experienced that in many situations when I would of got much more if I was just older, no more experience, just age.
Now I'm older, that situation has changed and more bias towards younger people in many situations, experience ignored. But young people will burn 80 hours learning and doing work which the older person could of probably done in half the time if not less. But we all go thru that learning curve.

Not all companies still this bad, some better, but at the same time introduce new issues and with that the price of some free food to entrap employee's into doing extra free hours that far out-way they food investment is an area most overlook in a young industry like IT. Acting, accountants and other longer established trades have much more solid practice and rewards and protection. Heck who wouldn't want a repeat-fee like actors every time your code was run.
More like every standard library includes a web server. Which doesn't seem unreasonable these days.
"For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

HL Mencken
"You don't go anywhere and for more money seated in the same seat".
No it is not useful in this case, because Stallmanns page is much more about than just materials not distributed freely. For your convenience the headers of his page about Amazon:

* Restricting and Shafting Customers

* Censorship

* Exploiting workers mercilessly

* Shafting others in the publishing world

* Dodging taxes

* Political harm
Just signed up to try it out. Everything was easy and straightforward.

This would be wonderful if all I wanted were basic metrics. However, I'm mostly interested in specific metrics, for specific segments of visitors, and for specific time periods. Additionally, this changes with every project (I manage multiple GA accounts).

I know I can set up custom email reports in GA, but it's a tedious-enough task that I'd pay for a simpler solution.
Whenever it comes to potential harm to people of far social distance, well practiced rationality leavened by empathy had better hold sway.

Also, if you are a member of a privileged group, you may well have the luxury of just doing what you feel. You also may or may not be insulated from some of the consequences.
I feel I have a right to a bit of negativity after trying in vain for 10 or 15 minutes to use a website which is completely unusable on an ipad, and not very usable on other devices either (I just have to figure out that you're meant to use cursor keys). I'm just honest - if something is shitty I'll say so. I don't think that was a reason for getting downvoted. I've seen quite a lot of articles posted here with (usually gratuitous) swearwords in the title.

The site also crashes the ipad most of the time, although I think that is just iOS being shitty rather than any fault of the website.
I consciously and successfully did this with Python back when it was hard to find Pyguys. But, it took a killer app (Django use by media companies) to achieve self-sustaining demand growth. I also really, really love development in Python. Which probably was 80% reason of my success.

tldr; The best success is achieved by doing things you are passionate about. Not chasing jobs/tech/money.
I think SpaceX chose to not webcast yesterday's launch because they believed the chances for a scrub were very high. It's better to grow a large following for webcasts of rocket launches rather then scrubbed launches.
Unblinking Eyes Track Employees
Google Analytics already let's you schedule emails (PDFs) of any report you want.
It may be now (I'll take your word for it), but for the longest time, "windows support" was one of the only selling points anybody could provide for choosing mercurial over git (the other being some people prefer mercurial's branching/tagging to git's).

So, if git didn't work fine on windows for a long time, there would be plenty of time for network effects to entrench github as a non-windows site, and indeed that is the case. Github is where you'll find a lot of javascript, trendy open source projects, and even os x apps, but not so much windows stuff.
What's This Hashtag Mess? – #Twitter #Trends and #Hashtags
Thanks for the feedback, but did you notice this part?

In our case, we have some additional homework to make it work on several nodes that is well beyond the scope of this post

As for multithreading, the functions are guaranteed monotonic.

"nothing happens at the same time" is a reference to the laws of physics.
Sure, you learn the most in your first 6 months by quantity but that doesn't mean you learn the most valuable things. You won't learn anything of depth in half a year.
Breadth-First Numbering: A Small Exercise in Algorithm Design (2000) [pdf]
Problem is, few people are actually like this. Behavioral economics have demonstrated that humans are vulnerable to hyperbolic discounting, which is irrational. Because what I want for myself now is different from what I want for myself next week. Telling people who are vulnerable to this to stay indoors is roughly the same as telling everyone to stay indoors.

Personally, I think the initial question is ill formed. It would be like asking, "do tall people exist?" Although now that I read the article, what the author is really answering is the question of whether rationality along different tests is correlated. That is, is there a common underlying variable. How fascinating.
> Saying "we can only give you this much because your title is X and we don't have an open management position, but we really value you!" is a great way to lose your best people.

This resonates with me so much. I've left a few companies after having conversations which ended with my manager saying exactly this. In most cases they have ended up hiring somebody else at a salary higher than mine.

It really confuses me. I usually don't want to leave these companies because the work is good and finding a new job can be stressful. They usually don't want me to leave because I do good work and finding a replacement is costly. I don't understand why all this bureaucracy and nonsense about job titles has to get in the way of finding a middle ground.
An old friend of mine had a theory that the purpose of emotion was to act as a tie breaker when rational decision making becomes deadlocked.

In many situations, no matter how rational the person, imperfect information can lead to two choices appearing equivalent. How is a perfectly rational being supposed to act at that point? Making a decision based on some kind of tribal affiliation ("Well, these two things seem the same, but this one is how it's been done in the past") might actually be a useful fallback behaviour, as past successful experience might be an insight when all other things seem equal.

It's interesting to note that many of the behavioural patterns that are labelled as "mental illness" often combine "difficulty making decisions" and "lacking emotional response". People who are excessively rational often have trouble functioning in society.

Fundamentally, I believe that those deep seated irrational axioms are necessary for us to function. Without them, we'd freeze and crash at the next logical paradox we came across. Without a little bit of irrationality, how do you decide what to do next? What do you do when you get to the end of the decision tree?
It also helps in increasing popcorn and coffee sales. I have witnessed many folks buy items at the start and during intermission (break during the movie)
Opportunity for integration with Arduino-Based Bathroom Occupancy Detector:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/arduino-bathroom-occupancy-dete...
The story of the FIFA world cup
It looks like you check against static answers [1]. This won't work in the long run because, as far as I'm aware, PE changes the numbers in their problems to prevent cheating. Which means the answers you have would be outdated.

1: https://github.com/yaworsw/euler-manager/blob/master/data/an...
Double really! error msg == probably developer or tech person with lots of disposable income. Editors, debuggers, conferences, books, geekchandise, etc.
The conclusion of the article- that the easiest way to ensure you secure large raises every few years is to job hop, is probably true. But I think it takes a very defeatist attitude towards negotiating raises with present employers:

"In 2014, the average employee is going to earn less than a 1% raise and there is very little that we can do to change management’s decision. "

Most good managers know that it costs much more to find a new employee than to retain an experienced one- it takes a lot of time and effort to find a suitable candidate, and then to train them. I believe that given an opportunity, they'd rather pay up a larger raise than originally budgeted, to keep a good performer, than to have to find a replacement. But this rarely happens.

Why? I blame poor communication and avoidance. Most employees are loath to negotiate with their employers, and they're usually not very good at it when they do. Negotiating is hard- it can be scary, uncomfortable and awkward to "demand" hire pay from your manager. It's easier to just think "there's nothing I can do to change their minds, so I'll just have to go find a new job elsewhere". That path allows you to avoid negotiating and still be offered a 10%-20% raise.

What would happen if, before any employee decided to leave for a new job, they met with their manager to discuss the situation? And really thoroughly discuss it- meaning a well prepared case for a solid raise: An outline of the employees successes during the year, details of how they've contributed to the company's bottom line (even in a tangential way), hard stats on what the current job market pays for a someone with their experience, and a soft/gentle reminder of the costs of finding/training a replacement. All done in a calm and professional way.

Would every single manager just hand them a 20% raise and an apology? No. But managers are business minded, and are usually evaluated based on the costs and revenues associated with their team. I'd like to think that given a convincing argument like the one above, a good number of them would respond logically and offer larger, more reasonable raises.

Ideally a high performing employee shouldn't have to do that- management should recognize their contributions and the costs of find a replacement. But that's not reality. Pushing for a 10-20% raise for employees at the annual budget meeting would be met with responses that a manager is prematurely trying to solve a problem that hasn't yet presented itself.

So I believe the best solution is for employees to have those difficult negotiation meetings before they decide to jump ship. It won't work every time, but it'd work more than not having those discussions at all.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626083
Software Engineer Salary Trends SF Bay Area 2010-2014
>> but is there a way to teach yourself to be able to engage in these marathon creative sessions or is it something you must be born with?

Anecdotally, I think the answer is yes. Concentration is a skill you can develop like anything else. The kind of high with programming for me is similar to that experienced when rehearsing/performing music.

I used to perform on a competitive drumline and we would have 8-10 hour rehearsals on the weekends (usually in 3 hour blocks). One of the main ideas expressed was that if you want to perform at a very high level, and do it consistently, you must always rehearse at performance levels and be hyper attentive to details. These rehearsals were mentally exhausting. But over a few months, my ability to concentrate and to quickly jump into a flow state improved dramatically.

One thing that surprised me - after rehearsing with a metronome for that many hours a day and usually at the same speed, say 120 BPM (beats per minute). When we would change speeds, faster or slower, even a 2 BPM different (118 BPM or 122 BPM) felt noticeably different than 120 BPM.

After I stopped performing that group, my ability to distinguish these small difference in tempo regressed. I can't do it anymore. A wide gap like 110 and 120 is noticeable (probably even to non-musicians), but not only a 2 beats difference.

If you want to try this yourself, get someone around you to go to http://www.webmetronome.com/ and set it to 120 BPM and 122 BPM and see if you can correctly guess which one they set it to.
Hmm.

80WPM.
You have typed 318 characters
in 47.109 seconds.

And no errors. Interesting - faster than I thought.
I work daily on git-bash with no problem at all.
If you go that way, be sure to read Jepsen: Elastic Search [1]

[1] http://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch
I'm a young white cis straight male from a low middle-class single-parent family currently striking it out on his own on a foreign continent without the safety net of friends, family, or a steady job. Also I'm short to boot (this is bad for men, I'm told)

Am I a member of a privileged group?

That said, gut feel has always guided me very well when I have incomplete information. I always have incomplete information.
Carmack would actually pack a powerful laptop and go stay in a hotel (in a town where he didn't know anyone) for a week at times, it was the only way he could get away from it all.
There is another, less high-tech, approach. Use Depend(TM)underwear or equivalent and simply pee as needed. Simple and non-disruptive to the movie experience of other patrons in the theater. Seems to me that the urge to solve all problems with an App is not a good trend.
In my personal experience, and from watching others, the lock-in and absorption in your work comes with a succession of tasks and exertion, towards a meditation of sorts. You don't simply "fall in" to this state, but rather makes a concerted effort in reaching it.

> is it something you must be born with?

A motivation to reach this state, to keep trying and pursuing it, may be a fact of your nature. Or, it is an understanding of what your work will create. Fame, money, fulfillment – extrinsic motivators that drive you towards a definitive conclusion.

To meditate in your work might just require you to find your motivator.
Mostly just Project Wonderful, an ad network that mostly sells ads on web comics. It's pretty easy to drop a couple hundred into a broad campaign, dink around in your analytics to see what sources give you engaged traffic, and drop some more money onto those specific places.

Also your friends and relatives may want to check out webcomics.com; I don't agree with everything Brad says about Making Comics On The Web but for the most part his site is full of a ton of great advice that's well worth the yearly fee.
I wish I was able to just 'lock myself away' and finish a task... I just can't seem to go 5 minutes without someone disturbing me with some weird issue, or something that they could simply have searched online and had an answer instantly

headphones just don't seem to be a strong enough do-not-disturb indicator
Can you give some concrete examples of in depth learning that one can't learn in a year?
HR but mostly due to computing being still a young trade and with that unlike many other long estabilished trade they are far more protected and clearer qualifications/rewards. Take construction, a contract builder for example in the UK can pay a couple of hundred pound to cover there National Insurance TAX and that's it for the year, no matter what they earn. IT contractors will not only not have access to a equivalent system but now on many contracts get classed by the TAX laws under a law just for them called IR35 that they pay a vastly higher rate without any flat rate option.

But when many trades can do one recognised exam and that's it and IT those exams change every year and so do the ones you need with there being no single acknowledged qualification that carries with time. Well you can see how as an industry it is a nightmare when you compare it towards other trades.

Put it another way, people will happily pay almost half the cost of the car to have it fixed and the time and parts all get paid for at a rate the garage and part makers all do well.

Have a problem with a PC and the true cost in time and effort to fix it can if properly paid for outstrip the total cost of a PC. Yes there is much waiting but the distractions etc do eat more time on an install than if truly costed would not be as cheap. Hence shops will do this in batch's and automate as much as possible, but still. Often easier to reinstall than clear out and de-virus some users PC and they treat you as if you built it and wrote the operating system and thing everything is a 5 second quick fix as computers are fast.

But as for HR, well they are in many companies a liability regarding IT staff. Personally had an interview were I had two interviews, one IT manager recruiting and tech geek and the other with HR. HR interview was first and she (mostly women in HR, some gender imbalance their that gets ignored unlike other trades) said, your bit too young for the type of money your asking for and was very belitterling in attitude.

Had tech interview, wiped the floor and was offered more than I was asking for, turned it down as no way was I going to expose myself to such an HR department like that. But sadly seen many unsuitable people in HR regarding IT staff and it is as you say an issue more than people truly admit. How else do you explain rejections for being over-qualified -- those are most of the time HR filtering and you never even make the tech managers desk, though not like the manager is technical these-days either.
Then, too, unlike other languages that frequently attract veteran programmers rather than newbies, CL doesn't appear utterly baffling to an initiate.
Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too)
I think a lot of companies aren't even willing to negotiate if you don't have an offer letter in hand though. In large/medium sized companies, usually the manager doesn't even have the power to give you more, even if he/she wanted to.
Why You Want to Be a VC is Beyond Me (2011)
| The best research in social psychology is as well-supported as anything in physics or biology

Nope.
It's simply wrong when it says resistance in a parallel configuration is:

R_{total} = 1/R_{1} + 1/R_{2} + 1/R_{3}

The correct equation is:

1/R_{total} = 1/R_{1} + 1/R_{2} + 1/R_{3}

or, equivalently:

R_{total} = 1 / ( 1/R_{1} + 1/R_{2} + 1/R_{3} )

Then when the author works through the example it mysteriously changes from the incorrect version to the correct version with no word of explanation at all.

Is this really of value? I can't imagine why this has got an upvote, but I'd be happy to hear why something at this level is considered interesting.
Playing Naughty with Facebook's Slingshot
Everyone has their "jump ship" price
The problem with judging this is confirmation bias, though. I only notice it when google has infuriatingly dropped the key term in my query, but I search for things at least ten or twenty more times each day. Google may be doing the same thing there and I just don't notice, and it's actually helpful.

I wonder if it would help if they added some heuristic where, especially if it looks like a technical topic, it would try to find the word that was most domain-defining (in your example: "ruby") and never drop that one. I wonder how difficult that would be to solve. Even with a lot of false positives, the worst that you'd get is the results quality of not dropping any of the terms.