skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Susan Wojcicki: Paid Maternity Leave Is Good for Business
/usr/bin/git is usually a soft symlink, so the original binary is still there when you rm the synlink. You can see the actual location by doing

ls -al /usr/bin/git

If it's not in fact a symlink then yes you should probably rename it to preserve it.
"Because only a few people will be used in engineering and most other areas, ways must be provided to reward good performance by pay not based on the number of personnel supervised."

The lack of this is the #1 problem with professional software engineering.
Sure, that is the role of the courts. However, in this case, that distinction rested on the definition of what constituted a certain peice of technology and the ability to predict how that technology was going to evolve. The courts had no way of knowing the answer to this question. To their credit, I honestly doubt the companies themselves even knew the answer at that time.

This situation was very different than when an oil company uses their monopolistic position in refineries to choke competing exploration and retail companies. Or when a manufacturer of telephone equipment uses the profits from its monopoly in that business to drive out competitors in its telephone service business. Clearly, in these scenarios, it was clear (and remains clear) that the monopolists were using resources from one business where they were clearly dominant to out-compete other companies in separate (even if adjacent) businesses.

Technology is a very tricky area for the law largely because it is fast changing. Situations are cropping up far faster than the laws can be modified to address them and so the courts are pretty much forced to sand-off the edges of existing statutes that were designed for other situations and hope for the best.
I read those when I was younger as well. I came away not a huge fan of the series because of the (in my opinion) poor writing and huge plot holes.

Why didn't he just bless the kid with "May you be a killer of Galbatorix, and may no one else die in the process."
It could also have been the yoga
"The first group was randomly assigned to an 8-week cancer recovery program consisting of mindfulness meditation and yoga"

this is a crummy article with a crummy headline about one single study which may or may not also be crummy
Wozniak officially becomes an Australian permanent resident
That's the hypocrisy I was getting at, yeah.
"This just in, Mongo is still in the hype cycle in the slow-moving enterprise space! Obviously after having handily crushed the todo list and twitter clone verticals, they want to expand their influence into mega corporations' dev shops who are tired of dealing with shitty Oracle DBAs. Back to you, Chuck."
Show HN: Multipart and enhanced mail messages for Go
Sublime has completion of tokens but doesn't come with any IntelliSense to speak of. How well its symbol-indexing works is also heavily dependant on the robustness of the regex-y grammar in the particular language package that's active.

Still, as far as non-IDEs go, it is pretty capable and I do enjoy using it.
Apple has fixed this in Xcode 6.2 beta 3: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204147
Author ought to start referring to themselves as a technomancer, it helps the mystique.
> Sounds more like calculated BS to make a backwards country in the middle of nowhere sound like a credible threat to anything...

Except it's an established fact that North Korea has considerable cyberwarfare capabilities, nothing that needs to be fabricated either with this hacking or in pop culture.

Who would do this and for what reason? The CIA can be batshit insane, but nobody ever would sign off on making millions in damage to a movie company to make an already evil country look more evil.

Your post is 90% "murricans are dumb" and 10% baseless accusations.

This also from a non-American.
Learnings from software development coaching sessions
You can easily set up a monthly donation as well, so you don't have to remember :) That's what I did, and I still got the T-shirt.
Exercise can also change your DNA:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/how-exercise-change...

Exposure to radiation can change your DNA.

Heck, everything can change (read mutate) your DNA.
I think it's all a matter of context.

Right now? I can taste the difference between a garden burger and a beef cheeseburger. If there is a global food shortage, the difference matters less.
I realize from your comments below that you would like to fight this idea that there are no Mexican-American computer programmers. But the census says otherwise, and they are known to be relatively accurate. These numbers may seem quite low, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that approximately 6.4% of computer and mathematical occupations are made up of Hispanic or Latino populations. If we extrapolate that out to the data on how many software engineers are in the US from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ~600,000, we will find that there are ~36,000 hispanic and latino software engineers. There are also quite a few female engineers of various races, and of course, other races besides hispanic and latino.

Oh, and anecdotally, I know quite a large number of hispanic and latino software engineers. They actually have jobs.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf
[2] http://www.bls.gov/oes/2002/oes_nat.htm
Male entrepreneurs have much higher rates of suicide and have their own emotional problems in the startup world. A Men only conference dealing with emotions would be great.
Ice Fishing Basics
Obviously not, because you haven't collected it yet!
> women to women connection is different from women to mixed crowd

Why is it socially acceptable to say this, but it's not socially acceptable to say "men to men connection is different from men to mixed crowd"?
"Lets fight for equality by segregating"
Stanford to study social impact of artificial intelligence
There's a note below the second chart. They're talking about the value of producing these over a period of time.

Coins last much longer, 25 years compared to 6 years for a dollar bill. So, how much do they really cost in the long run is what showing in the second chart.

Basically, despite the fact that bills last 6 years, it's still cheaper to replace them.
eh, it's 50-50. Some people like that ebook reader picks up from where you left off from another device.
I'm really interested in writing a command line client for Slack since the IRC gateway is heavily hit or miss. Once there's a decent websockets crate I'll jump on the idea.
It looks like he thought about merging them for at least a few minutes[0].

[0]: https://botbot.me/freenode/hammerspoon/2014-11-25/?msg=26223...
we currently use 9.4 beta, and it's been rock solid for us. We chose it because of the jsonb data type. JSONB has been a great fit for the type of work that we needed it to do.
The Roman emperors used to adopt the next chosen emperor and pass him the family name "Caesar", as did Julius Caesar, probably without trying to create a tradition, with Octavius.
Ask HN: Sometimes I see grotesque product photos on Amazon. Why?
Here is an example:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LEAPLWW

Why would a reseller put up product photos like these?
Does intelluJ support J or SMLNJ? Of course not because it's an IDE, not a text editor. Emacs selling point is its great power. The price of that power a learning curve.
JavaScript has function scope, allows return values and doesn't normally allow syscalls. So the languages are nothing alike on any of the points in the comment you're replying to.
Oh, I agree with you on all of that and more, but if we're to have substantive discussion, we need to guard against generic dismissals. This is the weed that grows most abundantly around here. (Generic endorsement is probably just as bad, but we don't have that problem on HN.)

If you have specific information about this or relevant research, by all means contribute it. But railing against idiocy in a generic way lowers the signal/noise ratio of the threads: if generic it must be predictable, and if predictable it can add no information. The Principle of Charity is so good for counteracting this that we may add it to the HN guidelines.

Intellectual charity doesn't require accepting anything false. It means that when there are several reasonable interpretations, you should pick the strongest. This goes against the default tendency we all have, to pick the weakest to then have the pleasure of overturning it. That pleasure is strong—so strong that one may begin seeing idiots for it—and it overpowers the pleasures of curiosity, which is what we're going for.
Why 2014 Was the Year of Sony Hacks

Something went wrong. Try another search term?

Simple and to the point, then moving onwards to the next query. This engine is next level.
Telomeres are not the same as DNA.
CALEA seems to be only about intercepting telecommunications, i.e., in this case, intercepting running phone calls. Nothing there about secretly turning on the microphone when no call is going on. (If the Wikipedia article is correct and mostly complete.)
Millennials exit the federal workforce as government jobs lose their allure
> Mongo is kind of the worst in this - it clusters in one weird way, has bad tooling, and subtly destroys your data at scale.

I'm genuinely interested. How does Mongo corrupts data? Thanks.
I should also mention that currently, over at /r/babyelephantgifs [1] (btw you should totally subscribe for a daily dose of elephant gifs) there is the second wildlife conservation fundraiser going on during which we encourage users to donate to wildlife conservation charities.

You should read more about it here https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/comments/2nxqdw/he....
If you donate and then report your donation to the mods, you will be awarded a golden elephant flair! During the first fundraiser, subscribers have reported to have donated over $8000 so we are trying to beat that.

I realize that there are many worthy causes but this one is getting somewhat serious. At the current rate of poaching, elephant will be gone in 20 years[2]. That’s assuming constant rate, but the rate is increasing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/elephants-and-rhino...
Yes, and it is worth noting that telomeres, while technically being DNA, do not code any proteins. In fact their complexity is at a completely trivial level - just a repeated sequence of "TTAGGG". This is also the part of DNA that does not get sequenced with the rest of one's code. There is a lot of speculation on what else can extend telomeres [1]. So yes, a clickbait.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere#Lengthening
A Tweet on Women's Veils, Followed by Raging Debate in Saudi Arabia
I am running OSX Yosemite.

➜ ~ git --version
git version 1.9.3 (Apple Git-50)

When I navigate to http://git-scm.com/download/mac it downloads 2.0.1 which was released on 6/29/14. How can I upgrade to 1.9.5?
UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center: http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22

Jon Kabat-Zinn doing a session at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

And, of course, Headspace: https://www.headspace.com/

Just sit back, relax, and enjoy one of those. And then all of them.
Tipping is a nuisance, something that goes in the "Con" category in a Pro & Con analysis. The vendor is implicitly warning you that you shouldn't count on getting good service included just because you officially paid for it. They're warning you that they have no real control over their service providers, and "it would be a shame if something unforeseeable, like getting caught in traffic, were to happen to a delivery you were counting on", so you'd better work something out with them privately and hope the "service" provider is pleased with the result.

Like many people, I have a lot of options when it comes to who I buy from. I now have to pay sales tax to Amazon, and there are often other vendors who are cheaper, or charge no sales tax, or have stores five minutes away where "shipping" is instantaneous and always free for even the smallest purchase. Even so, I'll often pay more and buy from Amazon anyway because of their service. Anything that reduced their service quality would shift some of those purchases away from Amazon.

I haven't seen this new Amazon system for myself yet, so maybe there's no real problem, but if "free" 2-hour delivery turns out to require air-quotes around the "free" along with a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, "it would be a mistake to disappoint me" attitude from the delivery guy, I'll use the system a lot less.
There was a discussion of this a few weeks ago on the mailinglist of a scientific software project I use. The people were very clearly divided into the "Flash does it, so it's ok" and "omg no, think of the user privacy" camps, it was quite interesting.
I read the paper - it's interesting and definitely improves on prior efforts. But I wouldn't call it a "breakthrough" - a few percent better accuracy on some datasets (with no real discussion of other measures of performance), and the algorithm they use is dead simple: a recurrent neural network with rectified linear units (as opposed to Long Short Term Memory). It sounds to me like the major improvements they made were to use a ton of data, and a ton of processing power - the interesting part of the paper is largely about data partitioning to take advantage of multiple GPUs, not about a novel learning algorithm or network architecture.

Not to discredit work by what I'm sure is a very effective machine learning research team - this paper is probably important, but as an incremental improvement on prior algorithms that takes advantage of modern hardware, not a dramatically new approach.

I guess the "breakthrough" is showing that pure deep learning (without fancy acoustic models, etc) can perform well - which is pretty cool.
Apple Job Posting Suggests Worldwide Expansion of Apple Pay
Meditation is a lot less complicated than sometimes advertised. It can be helpful to know that alternative terms for the same activity is "contemplation" or "deep thought". It's a skill though, and you'll get better at it over time.

Set a timer for five minutes, sit down in a comfortable position (usually better than lying down, to keep yourself awake). Count your breaths until 10 and then count backwards down again. Repeat until the timer goes off, and bam! Meditation accomplished.

Don't worry if your mind drifts off, that's not a sign of failure. Just keep doing the task at hand (counting).

Use headphones if you need to block out sound. Slow music without lyrics or plain nature sounds usually work better.

Once you have that down, there are about a billion variations and ways to continue, but starting out doesn't have to be more complicated than outlined above.

Usually we wish to measure progress when undertaking any kind of endeavor, especially new ones, but measuring (or even defining) progress when it comes to meditation can be hard sometimes. It may require discipline on your part in order to overcome the perceived lack of feedback, but I assure you that you'll be very glad that you kept at it once you do start to notice what happens.
Ask HN: Beautiful/well-designed web stores with fewer than 10 products?
If you know any, please list them.
> Tipping is just a way for American employers to rip off their most vulnerable workers.

Could you please elaborate? I don't see how tipping can be involved in ripping off workers in the United States.

Employers are always required to pay their workers minimum wage - the federal minimum wage in the worst case, and sometimes the state minimum wage when it applies and is higher. See: http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

> If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages[] do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.
That's assuming you don't go down the MOSS route, where "any paperwork" is likely to be over a hundred different sets of accounts each covering a subset of transactions, submitted to dozens of authorities in different languages that require you to have authenticated yourself to the individual countries.

Even if you do MOSS it's still not one database lookup. For one thing, you need to get current VAT rates in the particular state that the customer is coming from, which is a significant amount of work just in making sure you're billing people correctly. A good e-Commerce platform will let you use complex tax rules but you still need to make sure that the users are linked to the correct country. If a user comes in, picks Luxembourg as their place of residence rather than Denmark and notices they're saving €30, they're likely to lie about which country they're in. You're required to collect and retain evidence about your supplies, so you end up in the situation where you're having to trust GeoIP to save you from customers looking for a discount at the expense of your tax records.
That's the problem is: most Pizzerias don't. Or don't pay a living wage.
Search engine optimization?
I can't imagine when I'll ever need this list but it will be nice to have it in my documents folder.
I am not a burning building. That is exactly the sort of patronizing garbage that creates problems.
The title of the article you provided is completely incorrect. There is no change to DNA detected by these studies. What gets changes is the expression level of individual genes. Expression level can be changed by almost everything, as it is exactly the fine art of turning ACTG sequence into living organisms.
I couldn't agree more about these items. I would attach a couple of caveats that are very situationally dependent.

1) I have found some value in phone screens if they are more about the selling of the company and the clarifying the process. The only factors I've ever found worth eliminating a candidate for at the phone screen level is if they do not have the tools/communication skills to move forward with the rest of the process and/or you catch them in outright lies about their resumes (though I highly discount resumes, I discount lying on them even more). Sometimes it is just too resource intensive to do the pre-interview any other way than a phone call, and I'd rather do the phone screen than not consider the candidate.

2) I completely agree with deprecating person-to-person interviews, but that is a very hard sell. If you want to accomplish that but are getting push back, the interview script process is a valuable tool for eliminating the interviews. It provides data to backup the argument and as no one will want to do scripted interviews they will become allies in getting rid of them.

3) Campus recruiting can be valuable for organizations that are prepared to take on the responsibility of hiring a new grad.

Having a data driven approach (ie scoring your process) is the most important advice.
> There's not only technical capability, but also increasing consumer desire.

After "baby boomers", "Gen X", etc., I think the most appropriate name for today's kids is "the selfie generation". They're flattered if you stalk them. I wish I was kidding.
There's quite a few service industry jobs in the US that don't do tipping. I haven't found things to be better or worse.

What irks me the most is that tipped industry veterans will declare, very forcefully, that 20% is the minimum in all circumstances -- which is somewhat fair, as I do believe in fair wages. However, if a minimum exists, why are we even tipping?
They were both such impressive pieces of engineering execution that they completely changed their respective games. They may be old now, but they are engineering success stories worth admiring.
Ah... I knew I had to be missing something. That makes sense. Also seeing that coins last for about 25 years makes the cost to produce not seem as bad.
which I assume was deliberate since Team America is in their back catalog, so any showings/purchases are free money to Paramount.
One thing you may want to do is parse html to get relevant data into a structured format so end-user doesn't have to write a post-parser.
Why haven't there yet been any projects for milling in space with some sort of vacuum-remelt process for reusing the milled off materials. 3D printing is great and all, but it still doesn't come close to what you can achieve with milling.

That said, this is awesome. I just think that there are pros and cons to both and we shouldn't be focused only on 3D printing.
Or.. Just set up a context such that genes become disabled, enabled, or in combination, yield different behaviors due to the presence (or lack) of signaling structures.

It's not like you suddenly evolve or jam a syringe of one minute retrovirus in your neck.
Crowd-Funding Gets Wacky
I'm actually surprised at this action with the recent rash of actions by cracker collectives like Anonymous aimed at local and national governments.

However, I do appreciate the transparency.

I guess some of the interesting things you might be able to do include analyzations like
!) What states counties have more .gov websites for their municipal functions
2) What states counties have the most disparity in municipal function websites

There's probably some interesting things you could ascertain from this data set given a weekend and some drive.
I'm completely addicted to rationalist blogs these days (for better or for worse).

Currently bingeing http://slatestarcodex.com, and many, many of the blogs he links to.

In a completely different category, I enjoy war reporting blogs for a really down-to-earth, naturalistic (and arguably overly militaristic) point of view of geopolitic issues.

- The War Nerd (http://pando.com/author/garybrecher/)

- War is Boring (https://medium.com/war-is-boring)
Free software GNU/Linux laptop in development
Very nice. I wonder if training can be simplified by training pieces of the model separately, instead of training all together. For example, the DeepSpeech model has three layers of feedforward neurons (where the inputs to the first layer are overlapping contexts of audio), followed by a bi-directional recurrent layer, followed by another feedforward layer. What would the results be if we trained the first layers (perhaps all three) on a different problem, such as autoencoding or fill-in-the-blank (as in word2vec), and then fixed those network weights to train the rest of the network?

Breaking the network up like this would reduce training time and perhaps reduce the needed training data. Since the first layers could be trained without supervision, less labeled data would be needed to train the last two layers. It would also facilitate transferring models between problems; the output of the first few layers, like a word2vec, could be fed into arbitrary other machine learning problems, e.g., translation.

If this does not work, then how about training the whole model together, but only once? The final results are reported for an ensemble of six independently trained networks. What if started by training one network, and then fixed the first three layers to train other networks? (Instead of fixing the first layers, you could also just give them a slower training rate, although it isn't clear whether that would save you much.)
Winter solstice – and other interesting sun facts – explained
Some cadavre exquis?
In a similar vein - this saved my sanity: https://www.one-tab.com/

I now have 6000 saved tabs that deep down I know I'll never look at. :-)
Because they're super lazy?