skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is interviewing for “culture fit” illegal?"

It's not illegal, except if you discriminate against legally protected classes of people. For example, in the U.S., it would be illegal to say that women or blacks or Muslims or people over 40 "don't fit in to our corporate culture" because sex, race, religion and age (over 40) are among the attributes covered by non-discrimination laws. However, it's perfectly legal to not hire anyone who has blue hair or who doesn't wear a suit. Not necessarily a great idea, but it doesn't violate any laws.

"It's just assumed to be a good policy."

That's certainly not a universal assumption. Many people on HN have maintained that the ability to do a job well is much more important than "cultural fit" (and I'd agree with them). And many have observed that if companies hired solely for the ability to do a job, it would be much easier to find qualified candidates.

"it's like being on a date"

No, working with someone is not like being on a date. I'm happy to work with lots of people who I'd never go on a date with. I really don't care what my co-workers' preferences in food, music, movies or sex are.
doesn't work in JS:-

function days2(i) {
return (i ^ (i >> 3) | 30) - 1 / (i * 9 % 17) * 2
}

1 30.77777777777778
2 28
3 30.8
4 29
5 30.818181818181817
6 29.333333333333332
7 30.833333333333332
8 30.5
9 29.846153846153847
10 30.6
11 29.857142857142858
12 30.666666666666668
I mean, you have to load the instructions, too. That being said those have pretty intelligent pre-fetching baked in, but if it's the computational bottleneck, you can get the values into registers for the lookup.

I'm not sure this post is meant to be a model for good implementation advice, though, performance-oriented or otherwise. Just an interesting tidbit.

EDIT: I'm trying to figure out how to write code using registers instead of indexes into memory and it ends up with lots of conditionals instead of basically one instruction. The conversation about speed is... tricky. Can some people who are more expert help out?
I guess LANGUAGE_NAME should have been a variable imported by their site templates. The change was back in August? b^)
Yep. That's the standard power pricing throughout California. SCE and PG&E are trying to flatten the tiers somewhat, which will reduce costs for high-end users, but a $300/mo bill is not uncommon for a large house.
Samsung: mostly Korea, TMSC: mostly Taiwan, Intel: Israel, U.S., etc...

Globalfoundries: Dresden, Singapore, U.S...

The only company I see with a lot of fabs in China is SMIC, and they're at 40nm, so they sure aren't making the Xiamo's CPU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricati...
A neural network self-organizing map of 5000 closest stars
Yea, I also wasn't impressed:

"a few guys are drinking water at the mall" -> "stuff" : 4.22

lol
How an engineer uses Tinder [video]
I have tried a dart webp decoder. it was so slow. decoding a small image (400*300) takes 300msecs.
Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman's Case Against NSA Spying
There's something really fishy about the "balloon" example in the paper. Allegedly it's a 512x512 image, but if you look at it it's plainly 64x64. (If I view the article using Firefox's pdf.js, then it's upscaled in some kinda-smooth way; if I open it in a dedicated PDF viewer then the big pixels are clearly visible.) And then the fractally-compressed-and-decompressed images have miraculously created detail that wasn't there before, and have smoothed out the blocky edges of the balloon (for instance) into nice high-resolution smooth curves.

If it really did that, then it would be badly wrong because for all the compressor knows it's destroying lots of useful information by rounding off all the corners. And it would be miraculous because what it's actually done turns out to make something physically plausible, when there are any number of ways of filling in the missing detail that fit the data in the 64x64 image equally well, as far as anything short of full AI could tell.

But I don't really believe it did really do that, because (1) from Barnsley's description of the algorithm it seems fantastically unlikely that it could, (2) the paper says explicitly that the original and reconstructed images are both 512x512 pixels, and (3) if fractal compression were really doing something so miraculous then Barnsley's article would have made a lot more noise about it (and in particular the discussion of "fractal zoom" that follows wouldn't make any sense if Barnsley thought he had just showed a spectacular 8x fractal zoom already).

I'm guessing that something very bad happened to Figure 2, and that the image that was actually compressed and decompressed to produce Figure 3 looked a lot more like Figure 3 than it did like Figure 2 as shown in the paper.
It's still early days for Julia, and performance is uneven. I wouldn't use it for serious work unless 1) an expert in your field is already using it (e.g. Udell and Convex.jl) or 2) you carefully benchmark your key computations. In my case, I wrote C++ and Python benchmarks and stumbled on a performance problem that the Julia team knew about and plans to address.
Making the clipboard work between iTerm2, tmux, vim and OS X
I'd be curious to know why they didn't just use one of the existing cache algorithms from the literature. They talk about it being close to them, but not why they chose to go their own way. I suspect it was because their algorithm had better mechanical sympathy. There's a number of good choices at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_algorithms#Examples, theirs sounds closest to ARC.
Keep doing it, otherwise the recovery period will swing back up high and the health benefits will fall by the wayside.

Diet also plays a major role in consistently reducing your recovery time and increasing the quality of life.
An elliptical trainer also works well for getting the heart pumping without hurting the joints.
Compiles down to something like a hundred bytes of code. What a savings!
I've just ported the addon for Firefox

https://github.com/AbdullahDiaa/hn-collapse

https://github.com/AbdullahDiaa/hn-collapse/blob/master/hn-c...

Hope that helps.
[quote]While they might not be revolutionary they still blast the old 80's/90's implementations like no tomorrow.[/quote]
But will they do so on 80's and 90's hardware?
That's an anecdote, not an evidence. Same as my own revelations after trying to work while being unusually well-rested.

The next day the same person may do something 10x times faster than you, because of the differences in your past experiences, problem solving methodology, etc.

What really matters is amortised performance, and there is no evidence that there exist a significant deviation in such among professionals of comparable experience profiles.

Of course, someone who already did something ten times will then do the same or a similar thing in no time, while a completely new problem will be faced with blank eyes by anybody otherwise smart and experienced. It's such an obvious thing that it cannot be a source of a myth on its own.
"Jump into a job market where you compete against the bright and ambitious individuals who will do everything to out-work you to fight for a small prize pool."

Isn't that sort of just defining finding a job in the general market? You're competing against other folks who are either more or less qualified than you are for a small prize pool.

That's the same thing.
>You get the advantages of prestige without the risk of something like entrepreneurship, which may be another option for finding creative freedom.

Entrepreneurs have to make a profit within 3-5 years. Research almost never will -- but when it does, holy crap!
Hmm. Well, although there is certainly plenty of snake oil sold on the market, you CAN detox your body just like you can "tox" it.

If you smoke and drink and eat poorly every day, you are putting toxins into your system.

If you stop doing this, your system will "detox".

But you don't need a product to do it -- fasting is probably the most effective way.

The possible benefits/drawbacks of this is another matter.

But don't pretend like there aren't toxins we put into our system, or that if we stop adding more toxins that the level of toxins in our system won't reduce. Because it will. And that is detoxification.
What kind of shoes did you have? What kind of surface did you run on? Did you get your stride checked? Did work up to any distance or go all out day 1?

Because running looks easy as opposed to say weight lifting, people often do it without thinking. Running is just like any other exercise in that you have to start slow and work up to more. You also have to do some research for proper technique and equipment.
There are some very interesting explorations to be had in the places where the sets "things that are legal" and "things that are moral" don't intersect.
Try running barefoot on grass (or, if you live near a beach, sand) instead of concrete -- much better on the joints!
I really enjoy what I'm doing, it is definitely achievable. You weren't brought into the world to toil at a job you don't like. Having a job isn't like school, it is much more open ended. If you are motivated, opportunistic, and believe in the possibility, you can eventually get what you want.
On demand presto cluster with mesos, marathon and docker
When the Clock's Hands Line Up
You can try this out on https://google.mesosphere.io
OP is trying to express the day count as a pure math expression. maybeLeap() probably won't do here.
Also, lawyers command significantly higher hourly rates at almost any level than the equivalent level on any sort of IT/software consultant scale.

For one thing, hiring a lawyer is much like buying an insurance policy in many cases: the potential amount of money you save if something bad does happen is dramatically greater than the fee you pay. Take the usual arguments about business value generated by IT consultancy, and scale them up by some number of orders of magnitude.

It doesn't hurt them that they operate in a tightly regulated industry with high barriers to entry and effective immunity to market disruption. This supports a culture of high pricing where, regardless of whether it really does represent good value for money, clients expect decent lawyers to be expensive but bill by the hour or shorter.

As a curious aside, the norm in the legal profession is that if lawyers want to fight for a good cause they do that work pro bono and still charge a small fortune for their regular clients. It is almost unheard of for a lawyer to charge real money but at well below the normal market rate for their services. It's an interesting contrast to other creative industries, where spec work is often frowned upon and you have the option to outsource work to foreign businesses who will charge you peanuts as long as you can accept the quality of work that buys.
Random guess from some clown on the other side of the internet, but if I had to guess, one of the following was bothering you:

* too quick of ramp up or not enough recovery (it can take a long time to ease into this stuff)

* you were running incorrectly, either directly because of bad technique or you had bad technique because of bad posture/stride. many people land hard on their feet or turn one foot out when they run.

* you have actual medical problems with your feet or legs that would cause this

if you enjoyed it you should really look at different running techniques and make sure your stride is good so you can get back to it! if your posture is bad your stride will almost definitely be bad; you may need to start there.
Took about 16 for me, felt like fast-dial up.
The easiest function would be a mapping from 12 input values to 12 output values.

For example, see the Collatz conjecture which only defines two cases (but one could have 12): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
I guess you just summed up the benefit of having a non-specific HN in your last sentence.

Serendipity has led me to find all sorts of wacky stuff here that I would never have found otherwise.

Perhaps they may be some sort of benefit for having a "HN for [insert topic here]" for people to find a narrower information set. Personally, I like it as it is and one can always use the search function to target posts with keywords
"One of the reasons academic infighting is so vicious is that the stakes are so small" - Kissinger
> We thought t would be really cool to store links and other stuff in XML and then transform that into our ASP.NET pages

Made my day.
I expect C programs to outperform C++ programs, simply by virtue of being more explicit (about everything, from allocation to levels of indirection).
The big story here is this introduces a new image file format without requiring you to upgrade a browser or download a plugin. Those aren't PNGs of representative images you're looking at - that's BPG decoding happening in your browser.

So we don't like HVEC due to patent worries? Fine, we can swap in another format and use the same technique.

We don't have an I-frame format for Daala that's finalized yet? Fine, we can use work-in-progress. The format does not need to be finalized. If you update it, you rebuild your images and bundle a new JavaScript decoder.

The ability to ship media along with a sandboxed, runnable decoder is awesome, and I'm surprised it hasn't caught on until now. I remember Google a while back implemented their own "video" codec in JavaScript using JPEGs and primitive inter-frame processing, exactly because there wasn't a universal video codec format they could use.
What does this even mean? The restrictions are on what runtime you are allowed to use to run downloaded code.
So the only real contention people have here is the source publication of the original image, right? Because AFAICT, the cropped image (as it's always been used in practice) is nor more or less offensive that kodim04.png from the kodak set.

Furthermore, why does the licensing matter? Near as I can tell every use of Lena, except for by a for-profit company, constitutes fair use. The image, every time I've seen it, has been used for non-profit educational work. It's never reproduced in its entirety. The use of the image for this image compression purposes has no impact on the original market for which the image was originally created. Does this not meet the requirements of fair use?

That all said, I agree that if their is a better images available for this purposes, those should be used as well, but that is an entirely separate issue from whether or not Lena should or should not be used. The happenstance provenance of the image is really the only controversial detail, and if we go back to the history of why it was used it was mere chance:

Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of
1973 when he, then an assistant professor of electrical
engineering at the University of Southern California Signal
and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate
student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the
lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference
paper. They got tired of their stock of usual test images,
dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the
early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good
output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just
then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of
Playboy.[0]

Put yourself back in 1973. Imagine all the different sources of high quality glossy images of a human face with high dynamic range you might have easy access to 41 years ago. I have a hard time thinking of content that would have been available at that time that would have rivaled Playboy. I have no qualms with people judging things from today in todays terms, but presentism [1] tends to rub me the wrong way. If you want to judge something, don't do so anachronistically.

Anyways, I want to re-iterate my main point, which you did not address:

If I were someone working on image compression techniques I
would probably have seen many many algorithms and their output
using that image so when I see a new algorithm and a new Lena,
I might look at the results and think "Hey, this is similar to
this other approach I am familiar with"

There is value in consistency/continuity. Starting to use the image of Fabio Lanzoni like Deanna Needell and Rachel Ward did is a "lossless" approach of dealing with the controversial provenance of Lena.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#History

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_%28literary_and_hist...
Labor is a big cost, as well as permitting and the like. It's certainly a business with a lot of profit in it now. As long as the marginal rates of power are high, it's still break-even for the customer fast enough that they don't mind. The feds and the utilities pay the costs.
There is also the overhead of using a canvas element as a render target instead of a normal image surface, and using the canvas API instead of just writing color values straight to a buffer.
I ran 4 years of D1 cross country. Can confirm. The oft-repeated trope is "concrete is 12x harder than soft surface grass." Not sure how true that is or how the physics work, but stay away from roads. Run on the dirt on the side of them.
The 2014 Class of SaaS IPOs
I've seen this linked to, but I never understood what the selling point was. It turns out I never realized that it sorted the posts in chronological order according to when they first appeared on the front page. Pretty cool! This definitely feels good for someone like me who refreshes the front page repeatedly throughout the day. I don't have to expend energy trying to figure out what's new.
Empirically, most people that I know that really enjoy their work tried many things until they settled on something.

My advice to you: be a journeyman instead of a factory worker. It's a long process and has a lot to do with luck but I think if you are really after doing work that you love, then that’s the way to go

You can't possibly expect that you fall in love with your first job but most likely you will find something interesting about it, use that as a clue to switch to different things until you find something you like. During this search you yourself change and the things you thought are interesting would not be interesting anymore.

Working on a side projects is another way but until you start doing them as a full time jobs you can't say whether that’s what you like to do.

Like most good things in life, this also comes with a combination of effort, experimentation, and luck.
Mailserver Security Check for DNSSEC and DANE / TLSA
Imagine if a even small amount of money was shifted from the military to NASA.

Imagine if all the money in a Monopoly box were real.
Write an app that sells 100x100 pixel blocks or animated GIFs?
Orion was originally designed for extended lunar missions. There were studies that envisioned it as a component of asteroid missions. Probably there are studies applying it to Mars, but I'm not aware of those.

http://www.universetoday.com/88434/human-mission-to-an-aster...
29 + 2 * ABS(SIGN(month - 2)) - FLOOR(ABS(month - 7.5)) % 2
The intra-frame format of every video codec.
Interesting... I am approaching 50 and have noticed a slight reduction in mobility. I have recently read articles about certain markers of mortality (or is morbitity the word here?) - like the ability to get up from the ground without using arms... or trying not to sit too much during the day. or trying to walk 10,000 steps (according to that dubious android app).

Particularly the 'idea of getting up from the floor without use of arms' made me think of certain simple motions that are hard for me. There is a Korean buddhist practice of 108 bows - I recently tried and got to about 25. (not just Korean - I should have said I learned it in a Korean context)

I am disturbed by the idea that there will come a day where I cant do "x" anymore, where x is running, drinking guinness or some other such activity.

Recently bought a block of training sessions at a gym and discovered stretching with the aid of hard plastic tubes or rollers that help stretch out areas of the body that are a bit hard to stretch otherwise. Hip flexors, trapezius (sp?), etc. This has greatly improved my mobility and has helped me do things which were hard to do before (shoulder presses, running) without pain.

Reading this article it made me think of how walking alone might not stretch out muscles in the same way as running (or swimming, rowing, etc).

"But researchers and older people themselves also have noted that walking ability tends to decline with age. Older people whose primary exercise is walking often start walking more slowly and with greater difficulty as the years pass, fatiguing more easily."

They don't explicitly talk about flexibilty and running but some form of stretching is somewhat implied. It might be interesting to see those possible correlations.

And I thought of the octo- (and maybe nono-) genarian Koreans who would briskly walk by me on the small mountains in Seoul on their way to a temple to throw down a few bows...
A world where classification of astronomical objects is cause for widespread controversy sounds kind of awesome to me.
>One style is to only masculine pronouns, another to only use feminine //

In English the neuter pronoun is identical to the masculine. "to stop him" doesn't assume that he is male nor female it is agnostic on this point. Unless there is some other indication of the sex of the subject being referred to then you can't necessarily tell. Of course the reason for the use of the masculine pronoun as the neuter is probably historically based in language education being mainly provided to men, but that doesn't mean it needs to be "corrected".

Excepting that point I think I'd agree with what you said.
Earle Castledine – Gonzo Game Dev [video]
Or how about where things that are legal for the government to do and things that are legal for citizens to do don't intersect :)
Why Package Managers Are Not My Ideal Software Distribution Mechanism
And also avoid running downhill.
XSLT definitely has its flaws and I'm not currently using it, but I am currently building an app whose UI is heavily data-driven, meaning a screen might display a dynamic list of items, each with a totally different editing/viewing/previewing experience. You can dance around the edges of this with current templating engines to the point where you have a workable solution for a specific case, but honestly nothing really compares to the generalizing power of template matching where all you'd need to do is wire up the appropriate XPath selector to a new template and there you go. This level of abstraction does not even appear to be on the radar of the templating libraries I'm familiar with but I'd love to hear about those that do support it if they exist.
This helped me alot with pain in shins and calfs:

http://www.prevention.com/fitness/strength-training/foam-rol...
For my money, skating is easily the easiest on joints for high intensity exercise.
New Balance 990. I started with C25k but had to repeat many days. I'm quite out of jogging shape. I run on the sidewalk or road.
The problem is that women in science cannot read a paper on image processing without being reminded that it's a boy's club.

I find this attitude far more patronizing than any conceivable choice of test imagery in a graphics research project.

Suggest reading this before posting anything else about the delicate sensibilities of "women in science":
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/my-great-great-au...

Do you think any of those women would have spared a half-second's thought about this issue? Somehow, I don't think so. I think they were too busy doing science.
The majority of news sources are commonly just echo chambers. They all repeat the same incorrect improperly sourced information regularly.