skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the GP but I did the same. Longer hours sometimes - make hay while the sun shines and all that (where I grew up in NZ we have a good 14 hours of sun to make the most of). I was on the market gardens, so planting, hoeing, picking, shifting irrigation pipes around etc. In the winter every Sunday was a 7:30am start picking cauliflower. When you grow up in that environment, it's just normal.

Though, it's really not uncommon. I picked apples for a season and most people worked all the hours they possibly could, because they had to (me included).

An interesting moment of mis-calibration that I'll never forget; At one point I was picking apples near the roadside and a man driving by stopped to ask me a question. He said, "How much do they pay you?" to which I replied $15. And he said, "For one of those?" pointing to the bag around my neck [0]. Slightly astounded I replied, "No, for one of those!" pointing to the large wooden bin on the ground [1].

It's a moment that will stick with me forever as a stark realisation that most people are totally disconnected from the manual labour that goes into the production of the things they consume every day (I know that applies to a lot more that just fruit and veg, and we're all guilty of it). I remember thinking at the time how unjust it was that once I made enough money to travel back to the city, I'd be earning a magnitude more sitting in an office in front of a computer.

I think if nothing else you develop a strong work ethic. Probably to a fault; over the years I've had to learn not to look so critically on those that don't put in as much work as I do. At the same time, I notice and admire those that have the same work ethic as me.

All in all I think it's a positive experience that's helped me along the way to be good at what I do now (tech startup). I think it's become part of my core character and I feel a certain sense of pride at how hard I worked when I was younger (and still do).

[0] http://cmsimg.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=B...

[1] http://www.applebarn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/IMAG1310...
Appreciate！I’m doing a hardware startup now,and I believe some areas in YC's RFSs will be solved better with a software&hardware model.
Is it common to apply in hopes that the company has other positions that are a better fit? Could that be the case here?
Not bloat, configuration. That is, I suspect the parent comment is not suggesting that these Debian installations are bloated, but that their default configuration leaves much to be desired.

In my own use, I found Crunchbang to have the UX polish of a large distro with the overhead of a minimal distro. An excellent combination that will be greatly missed.
The article in question used the Illumina HiSeq 2500 for sequencing. Which would normally be described as a "next-generation" or "2nd generation" sequencer.

I would guess that the rapid reduction in sequencing cost, has in part allowed novel sample preps to be developed which have reduced the amount of material required for a sequencing project (such that even single cell sequencing projects are now feasible).
That arrow of time only appears to minds computing (within limits). For the (hypothetical) Omniscient One Mind, there is no arrow of time, IT IS IT..
There are alternatives to making your machine unmaintainable (which has it's own risks) after your company goes bust, like monitoring it and adequately documenting it.

Repair-ability is often underestimated. SMT was going to be the end of repairable electronics, for example.
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Either you follow them more closely or let them go.

As a lead is your job to put them on the right track, so you should try to understand their way of thinking and weak points.

If even after trying hard you still can't get them to perform properly, let them go. It might be that they're too "scatterbrained" or that you weren't able to find the right way to approach them, but, either way, if you've been through, it doesn't really matter.

YMMV, but the point is: you're the one supposed to 'bend' more to make the collaboration work. If you can't, you still should try to solve the situation (for the sake of all parties involved, not only yours) by letting them go, having them reassigned, or something else.
Archbang is still under active development, thankfully
Guess you've never heard of Operation Gladio. Yes, these things have happened and will continue to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Really? My impression has been that filament is pretty cheap e.g. < $30 per kg. For printing small objects, enclosures, small replacement parts etc, the filament cost has been pretty much negligible. That's why a lot of 3D print shops end up telling people just to buy their own printer if their doing any reasonable volume, because once the capital cost is out of the way, the consumables are fairly inexpensive.
Could you change the title of the article? It's not the title of the paper, and isn't really the most significant finding. The paper itself is a wonderful initial survey of bacterial diversity which is much more important than the trivial observation that we can't identify all the organisms (although I believe that observation should be followed up with more intensive analysis).
That's the thing: We sequence a lot of microbials already. Some, it's actually hard NOT to sequence.

Say, for instance, that you are sequencing an insect. To do that, you need at least a part of the insect. When you sequence it, you won't just find that insect's DNA in there, but DNA from viruses and bacteria that live in that insect. The same thing will happen if you are sequencing from a plant, or a human.

Contamination from other sources is so common that after getting a bunch of reads from a large organism, it's pretty much mandatory to do comparisons with something with the same species and with a DNA database of microbials to remove the reads that hit a contaminant, so that the assembly that we produce represents the organism correctly.

Other times, we just look for said microbials specifically. Imagine I want to know the bacteria that grow in the roots of a wheat plant. I could try to culture them all in a lab, and if something doens't grow, I lose it. Or I could sequence the root, take out everything that actually looks like wheat, and try to assemble bacteria out of the rest of the DNA.
How a small change by Apple cost Twitter millions of users
Building on top of Debian or Ubuntu is challenging. Debian is very strict about non-free packages, and normally tries to avoid them, and will even gut non-free binaries from their code. This is an issue when making a distro. If you stick purely with Debian you'll get the Linux-Libre kernel, not the proper kernel. Which really hurts a lot of hardware support, or performance in some scenarios.

Ubuntu has a lot of custom packages baked in. These can be stripped but they'll make building on top of the platform difficult. Also the init system differences are challenging + all the weird X stuff they do with Unity.

Generally if you want to roll your own distro start with a solid foundation of Gentoo, Slackware, or Arch. Something that isn't picky about its packages, and has less of a moral or business agenda.
It's Time to stop using the word 'Retard'
>"the eventual creation and annihilation of pairs that may occur now and then is no creation or annihilation, but only a change of direction of moving particles, from past to future, or from future to past."

Forgive my ignorance, but how does the fact that annihilation "produces" energy out of the two particles fit into this?
You introduce regular feedback. During those feedback sessions you tell them that you noticed they sometimes repeat questions, and ask them if there's something you need to do differently to help them. Or you just tell them that they lack focus and that they need to knuckle-down.

You also introduce targets for them to achieve. Tell them what you want them to do, and ask them to focus on which-ever bit you think they need to focus on.
Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over
Does Google have a similar deal with Amazon?
It'll get really interesting once we can compare more cities.
There are quite a few Linux distributions that are taking completely different aproaches to certain subsets of the system. I, for one, really like NixOS for example.

It does make sense to keep these projects around, since they are sometimes so radically different that a completely separate branch is required to make innovation happen. When a proof of concept gains traction, other distributions can learn from it and perhaps integrate parts into their own ecosystems.
Not to get all libertarian, but this reminds me of the gun control debate. What this person seems to be most worried about (a drone attack) would necessarily be the work of a criminal. But what this person seems to be endorsing (a law restricting civilian drone use) would mostly limit the freedom of those who follow the law. It's very silly and a bit disappointing.
My undergraduate supervisor was the lead author on the paper about Tri-Bimaximal Mixing, a parametisation for the PMNS matrix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribimaximal_mixing

I attemtped to do something similar with the CKM matrix for my undergraduate thesis. Didn't really work, but it was fun.

The CKM matrix is annoyingly almost symmetric, the off diagonal elements are almost the same magnitude. But they're not, so bah! Basically you spend a lot of time trying to come up with simple first order relations for the various quantities. Ideally you should be able to eliminate fundamental constants by writing them in terms of one another.
> it took two months before the workpieces were acceptable.

For a new manual Bridgeport knee mill, it may be more than two months before the machinist who runs it is happy with it.

>There's a lot of money riding on machinery like this, imagine QA at the recipient of a load of parts deciding that they're worthless scrap

How is that even possible for a competent/honest machine shop? As if the shop doesn't inspect its output. Is there some sort of CNC-vending-machine business model that I haven't heard of where clients email their CAD files to the machine and next week a freight truck arrives with the stuff?
I didn't do the math here, but my intuition tells me that as lasers scatter, if you point a 1MW beam at a rough surface, you'll have a lot of high-power reflections in every direction - even a laser pointer reflecting off a wall is annoying for the eyes. I'd love someone more knowledgable about high-powered lasers to chime in here.

Anyway, neither of those two options seem safe for drones flying just above people's heads. Maybe microwave lasers would be better? Also low-powered visible-light lasers could be enough to blind sensors and force the drone to rely on dead reckoning while not risking eye damage.
Sure, local velocity at any rate. If someone goes past you in a rocket, you'll notice that their Caesium radiation is oscillating slower than yours, so their second will appear to take longer than yours.
More Ellen Questions About What’s on Facebook :)
Obtaining multiple electrons by forcing a single one to bounce back and forth all the way across the time line a zillion times seems like a major design smell. That would be the worst hack ever, or at least the worst one before Facebook devs hacked Dalvik just to get their app to run on Android: http://jaxenter.com/facebooks-completely-insane-dalvik-hack-... ;)

Perhaps our universe is one created by a junior, or an intern, and this "creative" workaround got mocked on TheDailyWTF somewhere.
I was somehow under the impression that getting things into orbit was not about getting them high, per se, but getting their velocity high enough to keep them in orbit.

Is there really an advantage to flying the rocket up in a plane?
What is Digital Tranformation?
Kill the productivity of the good workers?

EDIT: People mention the need for continuous development. That's lovely, but it's wrong to think that putting unproductive workers with productive workers will somehow transform the productive workers into effective trainers or help the unproductive workers become productive.

What you've done in added distraction to your productive worker's flow. It's not their role to train other staff and they are possibly going to resent this new -unpaid- addition to their workload.
I upvoted each person who said they donated or had something else that contributes to the thread.

I reason that saying that you donated and perhaps how much, is in fact a good thread contribution. At least this time, I'll take this on a case by case basis. Generally, however - I guess I'm against it since it clutters threads.
What a bummer. CrunchBang succeeded more for me in the first install attempt on older, weirder hardware than any other distro I tried (including things like Puppy Linux, Damn Small Linux or even Debian with defaults). I have it set up as a dual-boot 'failsafe' OS on a couple old WinXP machines, one of which I use daily.

For getting up & running quickly with minimal hassle, while still being rich in features and easy for noobs on basic tasks, I have found nothing that compares-- not sure what I'm going to replace it with yet, would love it if anyone has suggestions.
And will it stop? ... not a chance

Will anyone be held accountable and brought to justice? ... not a chance
PyDev 3.9.2 released
> and the "law" in this case says that GCHQ can do pretty much whatever it likes.

No it doesn't!

Oversight might have failed but there are laws and GCHQ are expected to obey those laws.
SSML is a speech synthesis markup language that has some degree of popularity in the field. The specific section on markup for emphasis is http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/#S3.2
Posting from a Crunchbang desktop - not the best thing to be the first thing to read as I get up in the morning.

I expect I'll be able to do some apt-repo magic and switch over to Debian when the next stable release comes out, but I hope there's not too much breakage when I do.
You also need to dispose of one of the theses in The Road to Serfdom, that such systems are easily captured by more ruthless types.

And I doubt you'll ever be able to escape the problem that allocations, heck, everything in a command economy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937) ), is political. Since you're replacing an amorphous blob of zillions of individual actions with those of a few.
To me #! was quite good for my needs, I'm quite sad to see it go. As someone who's not quite adept at using Linux, it was configured enough that I wasn't lost following instructions.

I will surely miss it.
I agree. If I were you, I would try to understand why they behave as they do. They may be distracted because of reasons outside of work (such as an illness in the family, or a divorce lurking around the corner etc.). Or they may be overwhelmed with the complexity of the task and so they just try to do what they think they can instead of working straight towards the solution. After all, we are all people with ups and downs, and limitations of our own. The follow-up should depend on what you find.
> the human race survived without PR for thousands of years

Human perception management is an ancient tradition, dating to the earliest religions, merchants, philosophers and government.

If we can't get rid of it, we may as well make it widely accessible, if only for defensive purposes.

PR is psychological malware. Perfect company for the other kind.
Releasing something under an open source license usually involves retaining copyright but is, itself, giving permission to use, distribute, modify, and distribute modifications. Pretty much every open source project either retains copyright of the work or is composed of the work of developers who each retain copyright of their portion of the work.
The win with Python (and other dynamic languages) is that you can experiment quickly with ideas when you're formulating a solution, that's a big part of exploratory data science.

And in my experience, very hard to reproduce after a couple of years. With enough discipline, it's obviously possible to make well-structured Python programs that will last. But in practice that rarely happens with scientific software written in Python. Usually, there are many external dependencies, it's fragile (no static type checking), and platform-dependent (usually OS X or Linux). To add to the mess, most scientists like to hardcode paths to the input data, etc.

Although I am not a fan of Java, I usually don't encounter the same problems with older scientific Java software. If it's Mavenized you are usually ready to go after a 'mvn compile', otherwise, you just dump the project structure in an IDE and it usually works.

(The plague with scientific software in Java is that it is often not thread-safe.)

Also, I think the quick experimentation is not limited to Python and statically typed languages with a REPL can also provide that (Haskell, OCaml, Scala). And since Go was mentioned: since compilation time in Go is usually near-zero, it's the same.
a law restricting civilian drone use

Was this submission originally linked to something else? The submission talks about jamming and techniques to shoot down drones. I coincidentally mentioned on here yesterday the business opportunities around anti-drone technology-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998369

None of this has anything to do with banning drones. Several comments thus far have fearmongered a worry that the article doesn't even remotely claim.

EDIT: While I know that commenting on moderation is verboten, and seldom beneficial, the moderation in this discussion are embarrassing. Fear-mongering hysterics of the actual worst kind, incapable of discussing actual changes without rhetoric and propaganda. Though now I see this was flagged to the fourth page, unseen by normal rational people.
But today's printers share lots of daily lives applications despite the high cost of supplies. It all depends on the value of outcome and how easily one operates the device.

I'm sure 3d printer tech will end up with ready to use devices, printing metals as well as various kinds of other materials. I may prefer buying a panel and electronics, and print my own metal enclosure for my next monitor (or external disk or electric outlet or back cover of my phone or... you get the idea). Cost will be a factor, but after the utility.
just saying, i don't think this guy is going broke for lack of trying.
When I'm away from my girlfriend we chat through live audio and sometimes we want to watch movies together. So if the videos syncs we can talk and make comments as if we were together :)
Wouldn't that only explain an asymmetry of exactly one, just like in your example?
I'm trying to understand your logic. You are saying that because one conspiracy was perhaps true, then this conspiracy is true? That is the logic that my toddler uses.
That doesn't work because you've left the loop open. If the positron just goes back to 2 and stops, from our point of view it has just appeared from nowhere, which isn't physical.

In order to close the loop you have to go back to 0 and meet the original electron. Once you've done that you lose the asymmetry again.
And raise the overall productivity of the team.

A good manager is able to get the most out of the team they're given, and yes,sometimes that means showing down part of the team so everyone can pull together.
They might have different values, maybe they come from environment where they do everything by the book, and "correctly"?

Your environment is get things out the door fast sort of environment? Doesn't mean their bad, just different values.

Should have worked out their values at interview stage.

In a different company they could be the stars, and your the guy close to being fired.
fire them?
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Well unfortunately it only works on desktop Chrome and Firefox and if we do have something on iPad that would be sweeter :)
no genetically sequenced organism.
On my iPhone 5s this doesn't seem to work all that well. The outer ring rotates twice as much as I physically rotate my phone. Otherwise the raw numbers are roughly the same as what I get in the Compass app on my phone, as expected from the Orientation API (the gps on my phone doesn't work well in my current location - maps gives my location about half a degree north of where I am with an error of +-120 km)

Plus, the demo is counter intuitive - the needle should point north, not where I'm pointing my phone. That's how a magnetic compass works. I'm not Jack Sparrow.
"are you really implying that the recent attacks in France were planned by the government? Or that the 7/7 bombings in London were?"

Welcome to Hacker New, where a sizeable proportion of the readership actually believe this stuff. Also, the NSA read and store everything you do on the Internet.

However, the discussions on technology issues are of a very high standard, which is why many of us are here.
Appreciate the advice. Glad to here about the online courses as I'm going through a "nanodegree" on Udacity right now. I am really hoping to get into GT to become more familiar with machine learning and comp vision and apply it in the industry I work in(international trade).

Just checked out the google+ link and it is VERY active compared to any online course I've seen..great!
Isn't your post a better example of fearmongering? The article says absolutely nothing about banning, or even regulations or laws, beyond those that apply to jamming (e.g. anti-drone).

Drones are and will increasingly be used for criminal enterprise. Being rational about how that changes things seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do, just as personal backpack helicopters would probably lead to a rapid rise in robberies where someone escapes via their helicopter, necessitating the appropriate change in capture techniques.
Gedit is also very nice and has some pretty good plugins.
Yes, you will cut a part of development time and turn it into education time. Then, you end up with 4 good workers.
Since a photon is its own antiparticle, you might imagine that a photon and an electron "bounce" off of each other in time, and both reverse their directions. From our point of view it looks like two photons created and two electrons annihilated, or vice versa.

Interesting idea at any rate.
"Half the Rain Drops in NYC Have No Known Origin"
I've been running #! for the last 1.5 years and it's been a pleasure to work with.

Many thanks to @corenominal and the other contributors for their efforts over the last few years.
We played a game of world politics that was supposed to take a week. After the second day we destroyed the world with an atomic war. The teacher was pissed because he had nothing else planned for the next 3 days.
A restriction does not necessarily mean a ban. From the article:

> For the recreational pilot who loses control of his machine, better firmware can keep it from hovering over prohibited areas like the White House.

Now of course it's hard to argue that a special blacklist for programmable GPS does not make some sense. But this kind of agenda always starts out at the fringes. What I'm saying is that even the mild rhetoric at this stage is troubling, because I have a pretty good idea where it's headed.