skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But if you're looking to hire someone to actually run something then being famous isn't enough on its own.

This is what I was touching on downthread and I guess wasn't entirely clear: a contributing editor doesn't run anything.

They don't copy-edit other writers' work. They don't manage anyone. They don't touch anything related to the business backend.

It's a prestige title given to writers that generate an audience. That's it.
I have participated in Pyweek a few times and found the community to be a huge motivator. Just knowing that other people are doing the same thing as me increases my probability of finishing from something like 1% to 90%.

When a part of the community you can also look around at what other people are doing. I made my decision to use Pyglet after seeing it online and seeing someone mention it in the IRC channel. I may have dismissed it if not for knowing that someone else was using it.

So yeah, if making some games is something you want to do, definitely become involved in the community. It helps.
The only reason people think that banks profits are undeserved in comparison to the other industries, is because people don't care to understand banking.

If you take, for example, pharmaceuticals or the food industry, you'd find a lot more f'ed up things, with people massively taken for a ride. But apparently it's not hip to hate on those industries yet.
I use i3 and I love it. You can steal from my config if you like:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/dotfiles/blob/master/i3/config
Who knows? Weather and technical issues can scrub a launch, which is why they don't say in their PR materials. But it's scheduled for Friday 19 Dec. 1:22 pm.

https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/events/2014/december/laun...
The OS is exherbo (http://exherbo.org), a source-based distribution.
The kernels are tuned for virtualization and the system is overall very light.
Wikidata has a number of structural problems of its own, though, at least when it comes to interacting with the Wikipedia projects it aims to serve.

The model for interlinks connecting different languages assumes a 1:1 correspondence between articles and concepts, although the Wikipedias for each language have different structures, and a given article can document several concepts.

Also, I have the impression that the community of Wikidatans are averse to getting their precious data pool muddied with inconsistent, ambiguous and untidy content. That's understandable, but it means that there will be friction whenever the larger community tries to capture knowledge in a distributed way, without following a single well-defined standard. Things can get messy fast, and the conversations I've followed at Wikidata show that the project maintainers are likely to present significant opposition against doing things in the required "quick & dirty" way required by collaborative editing.

I see at your Wikidata's user page that you get all the needed principles right (pragmatism over theoretical purity, usage over hypothetical cases, design for humans first) but the history of the project doesn't seem to follow them well on the areas where it has gone live and has been used by outsiders.
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K&R and the comp.lang.c FAQ.
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What you are prescribing is just a painkiller (solving the problem with low paid interns), the disease remains: how to survive as a content producer. Solving this would change the face of internet. This could be the web 3.0.
Kindles are not offline. I haven't found an ereader that (1) works with e-ink (2) does not require non-free software and (3) has no internet access at all.

I know I'm picky, but these requirements are all met by a printed paper, so I know it's possible to have this.
I know my thinking is probably damaged by the war on terror, but my first thought was "engineering is doable, but how will you secure the thing". It is a nice juicy target. And as the recent events have shown - even small tinkering with supply and demand of fossil fuels can have global consequences.
I'm a big fan of old fashion modules are flow charting.

Start by flow charting your program, divide the task into a group of single statements tasks that can be described without the words, "and", "or", "but", etc. If you need to use those words, you need to chain tasks or make decisions.

After several revisions (3-4) you should have a nice overview of what the program should do, and how it will do this.

Selected tightly interacting objects, and combine them into modules. This will be very apparently visually if you followed the first step correctly.

Now you have your scrum/agile modules which can be outlined and given to subordinates, and tracked.

:.:.:

If the whole thing is a just a big ball of spaghetti, make a another revision. If its very very small you might be glossing over the technical details.
Bombastic click bait morality.

IPhones are affordable because of wealth inequality.
Oil is cheap because of wealth inequality.
Organic food is purchasable because of wealth inequality.
Hipster clothes can be owned because of wealth inequality.

And yet, none of these goods are targeted because those who use them are susceptible to pro-union shilling.

Stop the painfully forced guilt complex from this out-of-touch middle class white perspective. I wish I could have easily sold my spare time for more money when I first moved here with P2P labor systems like Uber... but I had to wait for a central bank's liquidity push to eventually intice small business hiring, some union to not bump a new guy for someone's seniority, or some corporation wonk to figure out a new growth market. Oh, yes, I just felt so equal in that system of waiting for people "smarter" than me to justify needing me.

People should have access to the means to sell their time and labor where ever and when ever they want. Period.
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If anyone else was confused about where the rest of the code is, https://github.com/Kintaro/wtftw-core
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Ask HN: I signed a NDA non-compete, but declined the job
I have a question about an NDA which was also non-compete. It was for an internship, I signed it because I planned on working there, but I ended up declining the offer. I never did any work for them, I was involved with the start-up maybe 24 hours not even, I don't plan on doing any work in that area they are in.
Do I have anything to worry about? Other than the fact that I need to think before I sign anything.
" Every Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, she asked her direct reports to gather for a three-hour meeting. Mayer demanded all of her staff across the world join the call, so executives from New York, where it was 6 p.m., and Europe, where it was 11 p.m. or later, would dial in, too. Invariably, Mayer herself would be at least 45 minutes late; some calls were so delayed that Yahoo executives in Europe couldn’t hang up till after 3 a.m."

This is completely unacceptable behavior from anyone aspiring to be an actual leader.
Example of someone who doesn't do all of their own work, Martha Stewart. Sure she does some work, but she has a very talented assortment of professionals that help her blog and create content.

I don't think Martha has the time to put together slideshows like this one.

http://www.marthastewart.com/275712/kids-christmas-crafts/@c...
Draw flow charts, identifying the smallest components along the way. Figure out which components depend on each other. Delegate tasks depending on what's already built, your deadline and each team member's specialty/ability.
Conversely, even reasonably well educated people are sometimes surprised to learn where plant biomass comes from. Most of it is not sucked out of the ground; it's made from the same CO2 that we're exhaling.
If you install your own CA into Chrome, it will overrule the cert-pinning that Chrome does. This is very on purpose.
They lease a bunch of agricultural land, and the entity they lease the land from (city of McGregor) doesn't want to ruin the land by leaving it in the hands of a bunch of rocket scientists, so they are required to hire a farmer to manage it.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/article4312711.ht...
So, the question is: how does one get into the "trusted core in-crowd"?

At most companies it's based on playing the political game well and building alliances with the right people. I've never worked at Amazon but I doubt they are different in this regard. It's just how humans work in the general case.

We need a third case between "bug" and "feature" for "that which works as designed, but does a harmful thing".

I call that sort of thing a "misfeature."
You signed the Non-Compete, which makes it legally enforceable. Most NCAs (non-compete agreements) have clauses allowing the firm to not enforce them if they so choose.

I would send an email to the firm asking them if you're still bound by it. I would also seek a lawyer to read the agreement you signed and advise you of your rights first.
Looks nice. Might I recommend that you look into adding easing to your animations. It looks like you're using simple linear interpolation to move the points from place to place. If you use cubic easing they'll accelerate then decelerate, it looks a lot more natural that way. Linear interpolation looks robotic.

See this for more details: http://api.jqueryui.com/easings/ (specifically easeInOutCubic)

Other than that, very cool. Where do you get your data from?
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deeplearning.net and the ufldl tutorial are excellent places to start. I've also perused this ebook recently and found it to be pretty solid in terms of giving mathematically solid but still intuitive.
last but not least, absolutely do no whatsoever "do a small project on deep learning or try out [a] few kaggle competitions." instead, pick up a paper that interests you and implement the methods they describe therein.

edit: here's the ebook link neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
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What happened when you tried to select text on the nytimes.com:

* Left-to-right: nothing

* Right-to-left: taken to a new page!

Sweet. I love surprises. (this is on a desktop browser - chromium)

If only I could plug in a second mouse to pinch-to-zoom!

>:-[
Does the stock exchange price of long issued shares really matter in the success of the company? If the stock price of the company goes down, no money actually exits the company.

You may have an issue in executive retention if bonuses are tied into stock value (but is that really a problem if they collectively didn't deliver value to the company?).

If you're trying to buy other companies it also may limit your options there too.

But in terms of generating revenue, I don't see how the stock price has any direct impact.
"You'll buy anything/unwanted you think the store is losing money on" --eCommerce business model
Apple has always been a bit of a darling of the media for some reason or other.

My suspicion is that Apple got a foot in the door with the intro of the Mac. And they have stayed there ever since via something similar to the old "nobody was ever fired for buying an IBM".

Around where i live i can almost tell who is taking media studies based on the kind of computer they pull out of the bag. If it is a Mac, they are doing media.

And thanks to that, the media people pay closer attention to Apple than they do most other tech companies.

And with media studies broadening to cover the web, i keep seeing more people defaulting to Mac as the dev platform for web.
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Creator here. I love trying large varieties of beers at tastings, festivals, and breweries. The current Untappd app doesn't make check-ins easy for these events - hence my app idea. If interested, please sign up for emails - I hope to launch in Q1 2015. Add me on Untappd too (https://untappd.com/user/dotnetkow) if you'd like. Thanks!
Not sure why the downvotes. You are making a valid point. If shell is making such big, complicated investment it means that all the low hanging fruits are gone.

They need to do it because there is no easy gas left to tap (for them). A lot of the good and easy stuff is under government control.

So it is a gamble. If they fail - it could drag down the whole corporation. If they succeed they will get quite rich.
We've tried to handle in a couple different ways depending on the Feature. We either slice up a feature into the different layers they impact, so that individual Dev's can work on a layer. This presents issues related to dependencies. But typically, you can have have two Dev's start at the bitter ends, i.e. Presentation and Data then one of them will tie it up in the middle.

For smaller features, we'll have a Dev just implement it full stack. This takes for granted that a lot of the plumbing is there, i.e. Service Layers

It helps to have these conversation during Planning Meetings. This will help the Dev's involved to get a better understanding of the Stories and Tasks needed to implement.
Well, either they tear apart and inspect the engine in between launches or they don't. If they don't, their turnaround will be way faster, but there is a greater chance of failure, and if there is a failure, a much lower chance of figuring out the reasons.
How the US government’s statistical error is distorting the true cost of college
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Yeah. Shorter term is a fall back for sure.
On a completely unrelated side note; the cattle grazing (or running?) in the foreground was quite a contrast to the modern, huge rocket landing itself in the background.
They are absolutely trying to turn themselves around. They have burnt a ton of bridges and lost a lot of battles.
You will be surprised at the goto use in the linux kernel...
Could someone tell me what's going on with HN submissions and if changes had been made to how duplicates are handled.

Submitted this article a whole day ago, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8757053
Reasonator is a better way to visualize info from Wikidata:

Data on Paul Graham:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/017cm9

- Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=92650

Data on San Francisco:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/0d6lp

- Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=62

Data on Python:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/05z1_

- Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=28865

Data on APOE / Apolipoprotein E:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/0byv2v

- Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=14890468 (APOE), https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=424728 (Apolipoprotein E)
I use awesomeWM, http://awesome.naquadah.org/, we have about 10 converts in our office now. It seems to be fairly well documented and has plenty of addons to make it look better (although I use just the bare minimum).

I just wish I could find a decent tilinging manager for OS X (divvy and amethyst do not fit my requirements)
I appreciate the respectful counterpoint. I don't mean disrespect for the other side of the debate either. It's hyperbole -- so I don't understand why I'm being downvoted for bringing a legitimate point.

I think you and the other commenter are missing my point. Like all languages that use the Roman alphabet, English has a printed form and a scripted form. It seems they're going to only teach one of the two, and for what? Typing? Typing is only useful if you use a computer, and writing is part of basic literacy.

Don't get me wrong -- I am happy I know how to type. But I'm also happy I know how to write cursive. I don't understand what they're adding to the curriculum that's so important that they are dropping cursive.

Perhaps you had a hard time reading the cursive papers, and that's understandable. But if their papers were that messy, then it seems to me that the solution is to spend more time on perfecting their cursive -- not throwing up our hands and eliminating script entirely from the curriculum.
Fixed-distribution stack ranking is bad for precisely the reason pointed out -- because of differences between team missions, personnel, and capabilities, the values are basically scale-free when compared across an organization. It also means that employees, particularly at the upper management level, are graded relative to factors that are exogenous to their performance (if you do a great job running a declining or static business unit, you're likely to take a hit relative to an executive doing a worse job in a better sector).

Rank-and-yank arguably worked well at GE because Welch was dealing with a large, unwieldy, and poor-performing conglomerate that had a lot of room for workforce reduction. But as the company got leaner and more effective, it got rid of the practice, and it's unclear why tech companies -- which one assumes haven't had time to get lazy and complacent -- jumped on the bandwagon.

In fact, theoretically, if you're constantly cutting the bottom 10-20% of performers, and the quality distribution of new hires remains constant, at some point you should have pulled up the overall quality of the organization. The fact that you can't create a perfect organization by constantly cutting the lowest quantiles suggests that either something's wrong with the ranking systems used (which there is!), or that the practice has deleterious effects on retention, behavior, and morale (which it does!).

Practically, this means that, as a manager, you get really good at piling up deadwood until the order comes down to swing the axe -- far easier to keep a few window-seat employees around to satisfy the Layoff Gods than to go to war every time you do your QPRs. You might also coordinate with lateral colleagues to move good employees around so you can keep them in the game.
And they probably should be. Otherwise NASA's money for science would end up being sacrificed as a burnt offering to executive and congressional diddling, too. The spend on manned exploration expands to consume all available space.

Case in point:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/12/15/nasas-3...
Stop treating your junior developers like monkeys who are only there to implement your brilliant ideas. That's not their job. Every developer should be able to solve problems; the more senior the developer the greater the impact and complexity of the problem they should be solving. Your job as a senior developer is to work out the high-level architecture that will contain the solutions to the smaller problems - eg solving the highest impact problems.

My advice would be to think in terms of black boxes. You should couch tasks in terms of what the developer can expect to receive through an API and what their code should output. What happens in the middle shouldn't be anything you concern yourself with. When the junior developer works out a solution they can run their idea past you, and if it sounds OK then they write the code. And then you can review their code. The minutia of implementation is not your problem any more.
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Politics, internal power struggles, all the usual things in an administration. I also heard this is not yet set in stone and may change again with their next president. BTW, he meant the BSI (Federal IT security agency) and not the BND (foreign secret service, aka the CIA's German stable lads).
Outstanding. This is long overdue.
They have said it takes about 3% of the stage's propellant load. They further say recovery systems (mostly legs and fins) and propellant reduces orbital payload by about 30%, but that their advertised capacity is already 30% under maximum performance to allow them the margin to experiment with recovery systems.

The numbers are all kind of old and fuzzy, but should give you the idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_d...
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With all the people complaining about copyright infringments I feel obligated to copy and paste this comment from further below:
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They're never going to be awarded anything. The money isn't the point.
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The money isn't the point.
There was no running anything involved. The position in question was "contributing editor". That is an inflated title that means "part time blogger".
I figured as much. Is it hard to get your software into, say, the Debian repos? (and thereby Ubuntu, etc.)
The main thesis here - that an Uber-like service requires people who will work for less money than customers are prepared to pay for - is a truism, and probably the #1 principle of any business.

There's a definite relevance that the current inequality leaves people with less other choices for work; I'm sure a lot of Uber-drivers would not be Uber-drivers if they had other, better paying work, but similarly, a lot of Supermarket checkout staff, or bartenders, or waiters, or other low-paying jobs, would not be doing those jobs if other jobs were available.

In the current age, driving is unskilled labour, and so the supply pool of workers is very large. It is not surprising that driver wages are low.

The bigger issue with Uber is one of monopoly effects and competition. The interesting part of Uber - the middle-man part run by Silicon Valley technologists - is the ride allocation part, which by virtue of network effects probably tends towards monopoly. If Uber gains too strong a market share, which it looks like it might be doing, that is when the real problems begin.

In a way, the best thing might be if the cities themselves licensed and ran the ride-ordering technology, as a public good.
I'm running i3wm.

I wouldn't consider myself an expert and found the change (I'm otherwise a Gnome kind of guy) easy enough. Is there anything specific you have trouble with?
The "Aviation Formulary" isn't really a tutorial, but it covers a ton of groovy GIS stuff in a way I haven't seen collected anywhere else, with worked examples.

http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm

A bit domain-specific, but fantastic.
Raytheon has a four-bin(Far exceeds, Exceeds, Meets, and needs Improvement) ranking system that, while officially not a stack-ranking system, unofficially is because managers are under significant pressure to have their sections roughly meet corporate's expected rating distribution. The system is not a total clusterfuck because the "I" category, which gets you put on a Performance Improvement Plan, is allowed to have nobody assigned. A manager still needs to respect the E and F targets, though, so awesome sections end up screwing people over and mediocre sections end up rewarding people who don't deserve it.
Unsurprised at the superior performance of GCC, but I am surprised that ruby ships with -O3. Why would they choose that optimization level?
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Some filter suggestions: camera resolution, year released, battery life, and OS (and version). I don't know where you're getting the info from, but these could all be pulled from gsmarena.
> All tests were run on AWS from an m3.medium EC2 instance

so you're comparing running times measured on a shared host? This is generally not considered a best practice if you want meaningful numbers.
It would be interesting to know whether the ordinary rules of nautical operation change at a scale like this. For instance, ordinary waves would have no effect at all on something this size (aside from rocking the structure, of course). You could probably be in 10-20' swells and it wouldn't any kind of danger. Rogue waves? A 100' wave would be like normal choppy seas for a small boat.

The scale is incredible. It's less of a boat and morelike a small metal island that's self-propelled.
Nice. Whats's next? Close Gitmo? Give back the lease?
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Okay, yea I planned on emailing them today to see if it is still binding, and okay that makes sense. Also thanks for the advice, it has been driving me crazy thinking about it.