skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of managing expectations to be only tangentially related to managing up.

I try to get into my manager's head. What are they worried about, what do they not care about, when is it best to present a solution, when is it best to avoid them.

Things as simple as planning on when to meet them is beneficial. E.g. if you want to get their actual feedback on something - schedule it early in the day (earlier in the week is a secondary consideration). If you want them to just agree with you, schedule it later the day, preferably on a Friday.

Want to work on a cool project with a cool technology that will advance your career? Plan for it. Research who the decision makers are, find out how to best influence them, build a polished presentation (could be a slide deck, or something else it depends on your company culture), learn the best way to "close" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_%28sales%29).

I could go on and on, but I hope that this helps.

It's up to you to manage your career. Nobody else is going to do it for you.

Setting expectations is what you do for things that are asked of you. Of all of the things that I have done and gotten "credit" for that have had an impact on my career, very few were things that I was asked to do. Setting expectations is about making sure the orders you are given are reasonable. I treat it as a tool I can use to ensure I have time to work on stuff that is actually important and will have a long lasting impact(not just to me, but also the company, I'm not a complete sociopath).
You're confusing a subconscious psychological mechanism with a rationally applied economic concept.
That's a "recent" development though :) The original title back in the day were all written in assembly, you really have to squeeze out every single byte and cycle for something like Pokemon or Kirby.
This is one of the most beautiful map infographic designs I've seen in a long time.
http://builtinmtl.com/

Saying Montreal does not have the talent is silly. It is in the most populated region of Canada.

1) Mont Royal - Hiking

I don't think scuba might be a silly reason to discount Montreal. Fact is developers will build social ties faster in Montreal. Vancouver is clique driven and most people coming at not are really not prepared for the rain. Almost like Stockholm.

Metropolis real estate with creative spaces and inspire the imagination. McGills, Harvard, MIT, NYU all in the same time zone and a quick flight.

Burnaby or Coquitlam is like any other suburb and prices are already so high any big influx is just going to highten tensions. There is a strong Anarchist movement that surfaces time to time in Vancouver as well as crippling homelessness.
Can it perhaps have an option to strip native advertising from my web experience completely?

I don't want to see links to native advertising.
I don't want to see the short leader blurbs about them showing up when I visit the front page of other news sites.
I don't want to even be aware that native advertising exists, I want it completely torn out of any article or website that I go to.

Ironically I would likely even pay a small one-time fee for such an extension/program.
How-to: Use IPython Notebook with Apache Spark
"We don't know which", and will stop there. That's fine. All I ask is you be explicit about where you stand: on the side of the status quo, not wrapped in the flag of math as you would like pretend, but simply content with the way things are, and utterly incurious about how to change it.

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For fuck sake - if you had noticed a 50% imbalance in CPU usage on your server farm, surely you'd spend some time trying to understand it. What the hell is wrong with so many people who are busy inventing facile excuses and dredging up mathy reasons why to NOT recognize the problem as a problem and looking into why it might exist?
I gave KMail a try and so far I've been pleased. There are lots of aspects Thunderbird is ahead, though.
I think it is interesting to note that machine learning is succeeding where the philosophers failed, in defining common sense notions like these.
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There are quite a few resources you can find after searching for a bit e.g http://problemkaputt.de/pandocs.htm or http://students.washington.edu/fidelp/galp/megaguides/GameBo... (the latter one being the original manual for licensed developers)
French Guiana is both a region and a departement of France, and as such is part of the EU [1]. It is basically just as much France as Île-de-France [2].

As a fun fact, France is about to get its first land connection to Brazil [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyapock_River_Bridge
Indeed! One think --among others-- that Gmail has done very well is search, which is expected, as Google specializes on that.
My question with native advertising is if the advertiser has final sign off rights on the work? If they did, it would mean they have editorial control
There's a video of him talking about his earlier fusion rocket engine prototype http://on.aol.com/video/peripheral-vision-003--professor-joh...
For an individual it's much closer to true. The larger the group the larger the savings from amortizing the costs of the vehicular trip across the group.

So it's not so much blatantly false as dependent on the size of the group traveling. Not to mention to really compare apples and oranges you would have to compare the airlines costs to transport an average airplane load vs the equivalent number of people traveling by road.

I have no idea what that comparison works out to but it would not surprise me if the plane wins there.
Very helpful thanks!

Seems like a pretty intuitive interface with decent metrics. Pretty close to the sweet spot between too simple and too hard.
For a good insight into how city police are trained, I recommend reading Cop In The Hood by Peter Moskos.

Peter joined the Baltimore Police and describes how they were taught to "own the situation", which in effect means responding with escalating force until the situation is under control. This approach is evident in the reports from both the Washington Post and Al Jazeera journalists. From the book's description of the training, there appeared to be little effort to educate on correct responses for different situations.

I have friends in the UK Police force (I am not a cop myself) that tell me they are taught how to diffuse situations rather than escalate them and that getting into a violent confrontation is seen as a last resort, not a first response.

I have every sympathy with the police, and the tough job that they face, but I can't help but feel that the differences in approach and specifically the inflexibility of the US police training does not help them.
Even without any kind of offloading, you can manage a perfectly good TCP implementation and super-minimal web browser with a few kilobytes of ram and 100KHz.
The money machine dream
yeah! I agree, it's just an experiment. Anyway, you could use the named return values to have a similar behaviour.

func hello() (a int) {
try.This(func() {
a = couldPanic()
}).Catch(_ try.E) {
a = 0
})
}
Yeah okay, but how does the amount of lost tax revenue here compare to lost corporate tax revenue?
Flash crashes happen on regular stock markets too. People still use them. The flash crashes don't cause huge problems. It's almost like people can deal with brief anomalies somehow...
As much as I hope this succeeds and as glad as I that HN is betting on such "moonshots", I remain skeptical about the practicality of nuclear fusion as a commercially viable power source.

Fusion works particularly well for stars because of gravity. We're trying to use magnets to contain superheated plasma.

The Sun generates less energy on a kg-for-kg basis that compost [1]. And it has gravity to contain the byproducts (other than energy).

But the real problem is neutrons. To start a fusion reaction with a small amount of matter we use heavy isotopes of hydrogen (specifically deuterium = 1 neutron, tritium = radioactive isotope with 2 neutrons). The fusing material releases neutrons that damage the containing reactor.

This is using the most "promising" deuterium-tritium reaction.

Alternatives are suggesting using He3. Unfortunately that's super-rare, which kinda defeats the point of "free" energy.

I remain skeptical but hoping to be proven wrong.

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/17/3478276.ht...
Clickable link:

https://github.com/vets/vets
In what ways are the current batch of email clients primitive, and how do you think they can move forward?
Ask HN: Why would weapons research be a bad thing?
In the thread about YC's investment of Helion, there was an interesting sub-topic: the fear that the founding team might pivot into weapons research. People have expressed concern that it might be risky for an investment firm to be investing in weapons research because it might harm their halo effect.

I don't understand why weapons research would even slightly diminish an investment firm's halo effect. More than that, I don't understand how weapons research could ever be anything but a positive thing. Societies with fierce weapons are empirically safer than those with outdated weapons.

I thought this would be an interesting topic for discussion, and since it's offtopic for the original thread, I figured I'd make an Ask HN about it. I'm quite open to being persuaded.
By the time you have $1 million you will be too old to have a kid (especially if female).

People really need to start getting married earlier. If you marry in your early twenties having a child at that time is not a problem, even if you don't have tons of savings yet.

And aside from the biology of having a child late, simply raising a child is much harder when you are older (late thirties), because your energy level really starts diverging from theirs. (Obviously you can make it work, I'm only saying it gets harder.)
The usual response to this kind of thing among gophers is "don't do that", which is a reasonable response given that if the language designers thought Go should have try/catch/finally they'd have included them in the language.

As it is, they decided against it. Some may disagree with that, but the entire rationale is public and based on pragmatism. Go is a fairly opinionated language, so if you disagree strongly with those choices, you probably ought to pick another language. Part of the beauty and value of Go is that all Go code tends to read like all other Go code. Obfuscation and unnecessary abstraction are frowned upon.

In this case you can get much the same result with local functions and defer (which you are creating here anyway). There's little value in wrapping it up with this syntax other than to make your Go code less idiomatic.
On the contrary, I am acutely aware of that shift. The deeply-researched, high-investment style of journalism is a high-risk low-reward game these days. Stupid bite-size pieces of low-effort content more reliably convert into advertising dollars, and everyone knows it. Readers have attention spans that require that you grab them within the first half second of a page load, or they're gone. A 12-page expose that took a journalist 8 months of intense investigative work to produce isn't likely to return even that journalist's salary on "dumb" advertising, let alone make any money. As a result, outlets have had to stretch and bend to try to find ways to pay the bills.

I actually think that's why native advertising is a ray of hope for the industry - by allowing advertisers to fund (but critically, not direct) the creation of content up-front, it actually opens up the financial means to produce content that might otherwise be unprofitable. In a perfect world, it would be unnecessary, but media is a low-margin industry already, and the bills have to get paid somehow. If you have better ideas on how to do it, there's a lot of money waiting to be made. :)
Wikigrabber: Find Wikipedia Pages That Need Citations And Dead Links
GTD Primer – It's All About Doing It, not THINKING About Doing It
How does this site manage to lower the volume of iTunes?
I have no idea, but I had downloaded the PDF, so here's a copy for you:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ptemp/YouGov_Entrepreneurs_Survey_2...
> In fact, it’s not clear to me why this code insists on transmuting a non-zero value, because doing this seems to work just fine:

Because it needs to compare nonequal to the null reference.
I think it's more a matter of there not being any VCs who specialize in fusion. There just isn't the deal flow to sustain any VC specializing in it, and so far the success rate has been 0%. Of course, because there are so few fusion startups (lets see, I can think of less than 10 in the past 25 years), its hard to know what the real statistics are: is the chance of failure 100% or really just 99%?

From the point of view of a fusion startup, if you try 100 software VCs, you might find 2 or 3 who will be interested. However, you will wait forever if you want to find a VC specializing in fusion.
I wrote about these (actually, a lot of the prior art) on Hizook: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2011/09/08/infrared-remote-contro...

They're little more than a vibrobot (ie. a hexbug nano) with dual vibrating motors that preferentially steer and move. It's easy and elegant. They make for a great teaching toy!
More people notice Harvard than state school is duh. It's called prestige and is self-fulfilling. (Best people are attracted which fuels prestige)

Agree wrt cute little robots. But eventually science requires you to quit messing with simulations and do something in real world.
Seeing this announced on a tumblr is pretty jarring. I have no expectation that a tumblr post will be substantial like that.

(google's official blog being on blogspot is kind of the same way, though.)
> Email should be built around abundant storage, not a dependency on bandwidth.

I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense to me. To cache all images you've ever received is sort of antithetical to the whole 'decentralized' nature of email, and the internet in a nutshell. The 'inconvenience' of having to re-download far surpasses the need to store every single trivial little thing on your mail client's cache. A few seconds is worth way more to me than taking up tens of gigs of images on my HD that I will never see again.
i have just learned so much about sliced bread. this was a rather fun lunch time read. thanks for that.
Haskell runtime is about a meg in size. Rather, most memory use will come from additional libraries and garbage generated, I expect.
Sorry for the accidental downmod.

I applaud you for including adoption as an alternative to abortion. Finding someone to adopt and older child is hard, but it's easy to find someone to adopt an infant. (Although you should not discount how hard it is to give one away - it's very emotional.)
Servo does.
Prime Minister of Russia Twitter account hacked
Yes, I did sell a few electronics I bought for Thanksgiving using this. Found it very convenient - as easy as buying on Amazon if you discount the trip to a drop of location (of the carrier of your choice, of course). The fee is ~7% but totally worth it.
Can't agree with that. Betting say $1 on a highly improbable event can't really be considered "insane" by any metric I can think of - if you lose, so what, you're only out one dollar.

The risk of the event itself doesn't matter; what matters for your personal risk is how much of your personal fortune you put into it.

If losing a bet makes you homeless, it's hardly a good bet no matter how good the odds are.

Conversely, there's barely an "insane" bet in the world as long as the probability for a payoff is greater than zero (excluding e.g. Nigerian scam emails), and as long as the amounts involved are small relative to your disposable capital and the payoff expectation.

Think of it as "how many times do I need to place this bet before I win", vs "if I win, what's the payoff", vs "if I'm wrong, what's the most I could lose".

If you get those numbers right, I can't see that bitcoin margin bets are intrinsically insane.
Amazing story, great Product! You grandfather is giving you realtime feedback (ex: his request for a music player).

Most projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo don't even have a fully functioning product, whereas, you already have your product and your 1st customer, so why don't you take this product to the next level, and sell it to the wider audience of blind people?

You will have a tremendous impact on society doing good, and make a decent side-income at the same time.
Right now, the hot commodity for corrupt officials, criminal billionaires, and money launderers (domestic and foreign) is real estate in the U.S. (and in Canada, esp. Vancouver). The U.K. is having the same problem. Even if this seems like a small percentage of purchases (but it's not; in London, foreigners laundering money make up about 75% of the purchases) it combines with price inelasticity to make prices go through the roof: several times what they would be otherwise.

Take China as an example (mostly, just because it's a very large country) where corruption is a death-penalty charge. If things turn against you, you're going to need not only a new identity (for your entire family) but possibly a new face (not exaggerating). The West Coast has some of the best plastic surgeons, but it also has expensive houses (which you can borrow against) and tech companies (where non-technical executive positions involve zero responsibility and make great sinecures). The sort of high-level makeover process these guys involves buying a career (including fake references) and being inserted in an executive sinecure somewhere, but that takes about 3 years, so you need 3 years' worth of cash before you can start earning on your own again. With most assets frozen and the previous identity gone, the house (delivered through a shell company to the new identity) is the only reliable store of wealth. Silicon Valley is attractive to the world's criminals because it's the one place where you can have $4 million of "wealth" tied up in a house and not raise an eyebrow.
Email will always be around, but I must say that "Email killers" are really going to be successful.

For example, I don't remember the last time my team sent an internal email that wasn't a forward from a client. We use Slack. Exclusively. We organize projects around it, sales efforts, everything. It has the async nature of email, the separation of topics like email, and the search power of email. It also means that none of us ever feel like we're out of the loop.
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What if someone designed a new email protocol/etc from scratch without any reference to the existing one. Could it be made better? Can you even define what better is?
May I prescribe a course in reading? Read Zola's Germinal. Read Moby Dick. Leaves of Grass. Pride and Prejudice. King Lear. Les Miserables. Lysistrata. The Odyssey. Anything great. We all (for reasonable values of 'all') yearn. It's the human condition. "true ambitions" suggests a fairly naive view of the world.

To put this in context. Almost everyone who ever lived has died of starvation, a broken leg, an infection, or by being eaten, if they somehow made it through childbirth and the next 3 years of helplessness. Everyone. Even today, most people work selling shoes or insurance, or assembling things in a factory for 12 hours. As I stand here at my expensive stand up desk, outside some guy is driving a lawn mower around with a bandana around his face to inadequately protect him from the flying dust. I hope your mental model of all these people is not a lack of 'true ambition'.

We all yearn. I guess you can put yourself on a pedestal and conclude that you are different than everyone else, or recognize your brother/sisterhood, and try to learn what life is about. You have 80 years left if you are extremely, outrageously lucky. I'm not saying don't strive, but I am arguing for perspective into the human condition.

We all yearn. Life is limited. The air is beautiful today, and your wife wants some attention. Live it, instead of lamenting that you are such an incredibly special snowflake that being at the very, very top of opportunity for humans in the history of the world just isn't good enough for you. The people that just died in Typhoon Halong deserved more. We all do, but we don't get it. Take what you can, embrace the bittersweet, and live. It's all going away soon.

I think you'll be happier that way.

To the person I am replying to: I am more riffing off the things you said, than replying to you specifically. You may be perfectly happy. No disrespect intended.

edit: I yearn too. I'm not dismissing the feelings of the OP, but pointing out that it is pretty darn universal. I've found that viewpoint incredibly helpful for my own life; perhaps the people reading will as well.
Chicago has a meetup for gov/data "hackathons"
> You have to come up with some other neutron source

Just throw chunks of Californium 252 at it ;-)

(That is one of the most expensive practical materials on earth, probably hundreds of dollars per microgram)
The most common definition is a synonym of compassion, but the definition of limiting pain/suffering is also very common.

I pulled it from http://thefreedictionary.com/humane which cites 'Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged'.

Suffering and harm are distinct things, and being humane is about the former.
> Is the tag waterproof? Durable?

This question has a very vauge answer, mainly it doesn't give waterproof details or anything specific at all.
I think people are worried about a low-collateral-damage weapon which means political leaders can be more likely to deploy it. Observe the objections to the use of precision-guided munitions fired from long-hovering remote-controlled drones.
"...just point out that people are firing rockets, fireworks and other projectiles at the police, flipping vehicles, looting and plundering...etc... absolute chaos..."

and...

"... I think it's best to wait for the full report being assuming [the worst] things ..."

You're being a little inconsistent right now guy.
I totally agree! just to leave it clear, I did not create it to be even used, it's an experiment.

I guess, it shows how powerful the panic(), recover(), defer can be, in my opinion much more than try/catch/finally.

A practical demonstration. Go even without explicit exceptions has the semantics needed to provide it exactly in the same way Java/C++ and Python does.
Just remember, polite varies from situation to situation. Growing up in the Caribbean when I was a teen meeting other people my age was a very physical thing. You might have someone's arm around your shoulder or get jostled around a little within hours of meeting them. In fact that was how relationships formed.

Touching a girls hair, or even giving it a light tug was all part of the flirting game. To be clear it's not like you just met someone and started touching them everywhere and it didn't have to happen everytime, but during the course of conversation if it was appropriate and natural a light touch here and there was just part of how things worked.

Moving to the US I found out very quickly that you give most people space unless you were invited in closer, but I've found Europeans that I've met are more open to an appropriate natural touch
Why are you downloading attachments that are images? Gmail will pre-load images for you if you let it. (http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.htm...)

Also you could open the attachment right inside Google Drive
Last - I want to mention that a St. Louis City Alderman/Protestor was also arrested tonight. He remains peaceful as his respected reputation depends on it, so one can only gather that it was to silence his filming.

This is how every representative should act – willing to stand with the populace on the right side of history. Imagine if Obama went there incognito, sans entourage, and did the same thing. Instant place in history.