skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised too, but there don't seem to be any such plugins (although vim apparently comes closes...never looked at emacs).

What I find really interesting is that I seem to be in a _very_ tiny minority that wants this or even has given any thought to this. I expected that most other developers with modern monitors would want this. The comments here and on the blog show that isn't the case :)
I used to agree with this sentiment, but this essay changed my view: http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
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In all aspects of education, from primary school to university, the growing swarms of administrators soak up the budget. In some school systems, they vastly outnumber the actual teachers, have better pay, and yet contribute nothing to the operation of the schools.
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Thanks for the info.

But I'm a bit confused. If government officials have the ability to easily encrypt their messages asymmetrically, AND they're supposed to store all of their messages in some kind of database, that sort of defeats the purpose of the encryption in the first place. Also, having a central store of all that information seems really risky and inherently less secure than a message encrypted asymmetrically.

And, for that matter, if they are supposed to encrypt messages with a private key, that means they're not using asymmetric encryption for private communication. I'm not a security expert, but that seems like a bad move.
It depends on the JVM release. On my Windows 8.1 laptop running 1.8.0_31,this flag increases AutoBoxCacheMax from 128 to 20000 (which affects autoboxing and collections performance), and it lowers BiasedLockingStartupDelay from 20000 to 500 (which can effect multithreaded access to shared data - see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/tuning-139912.html#se... for more details).

It isn't strictly necessary, but if you're trying to squeeze every possible drop of performance out of your Minecraft server, the experimental optimizations aren't a bad thing to enable. I will admit to doing only informal performance testing when it comes to the AggressiveOpts flag.
There isn't an all notes place for now.

It's the #1 request but the catch is from people before they have tried it.

We are still on the fence but will probable end up adding it (and normal context-less note taking) but it's going to change the app quite dramatically so for now no.

However next update we add the ability to customize via applescript and there you could in theory just make it add the notes to ex. evernote everytime you add somehting.
This is basically describing a much smaller scale version, with much lower stakes, of what Bill Ackman has been trying to do to Herbalife for the past couple years. He even placed a bet against Carl Icahn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZRk1lL90Q), and they've traded "winnings" and "losings" in the hundreds of millions over the past two years.
I almost never did homework. Well, do homework, since I'm still in school. I'd do some science stuff, and some writing stuff, but other than that I didn't really do it. Especially in high school, my ability to bullshit and get by through listening to the teacher's lectures was enough to have me pass all my classes and end up in the top 15% of my graduating class.

I'd recommend using homework as a supplement, don't rely on it for teaching the kids how to do stuff. Present it as something that will help them, but isn't required. Maybe a bonus grade on top of your regular grades if you want. I know if more of my teachers made homework optional and only beneficial, I would have done all my homework.
just two, me and the OP
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The original article that Zhou published on Seeking Alpha outlining reasons for going short against LL is available here:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1513142-illegal-products-cou...

The lab report of the analysis carried out:

https://app.box.com/s/mhzih9apu2q2gdeuty8i
Why the sarcasm?

And yes, TLS will securely transmit your message securely from your client (whether it's Outlook or a web browser) to your e-mail server. But you don't have any guarantee that the various relays which transport your message will use TLS.
The only time my 1990 Honda Civic (original owner, looks like shit (both of us)) failed emissions test was a worn gas cap. When to $AUTO_PARTS_STORE, bought a cheap cap, passed test.
Big O is, in some senses, about giving a natural intuition for reasoning with equations. As Knuth says, "it significantly simplifies calculations because it allows us to be sloppy."[1]

So, having a natural intuition for it could be a way of saying that one has a natural intuition for equations, in general.

[1] https://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calc...
I misunderstood you; thanks for the correction. I still think the useful data here is the fraction of the endowment income that goes towards expenditures, rather than the raw size of the endowments, but I definitely see where you're coming from. I wonder what fraction of the rise in tuition has to do with this.
Haha, I'm the one who asked that question years ago :) I'm the author of this article.

Vim does come closest to what I want. However, I'd like to be able to do this in intellij, eclipse, sublime, atom, etc. In other words, my contention is that this should be a standard feature, like syntax highlighting or code folding.
Even if they refactor, the point I make is there's 16+ years of know-how, and the fundamentals are still the same (compared to something completely different written from scratch like a ray-tracing engine).

BSP, meshes + LOD, lightmaps, occlusion, particle system, terrain editor (since UT 2003)... it's still all there.
Hi Jason lotito sorry to hear you are having issues. Shouldn't be slow at all.

If you want to we can see whats going on. Just write us a mail on info at ghostnoteapp.com and we will look into it.
Who would pay for it? We've already seen that people aren't willing to pay for quality journalism, so we're left with advertisers? Who obviously don't want their own products being investigated.

Perhaps though if somehow you could get companies to pay for investigations into their competitors? Like an anti-advertising model? I presume this would end up a zero-sum game though, and companies would opt to not play at all.
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> this approach often turns interviews into a bullshitting competition.

That is also my experience. As a result I generally avoid applying to big companies where I expect a lot of non-technical interviews. If that's how everyone is hired, I don't want to end up in a MENSA club instead of a place where people have strong technical abilities.
This stuff is amazing.

I think I'm going to add a clause to my living will asking to be hooked up to an EEG and a "see with tongue"[1,2] kind of feedback device if I ever end up in a vegetative or paralyzed state. I don't know if it would work or not, but the results here seem suggestive that it might be possible to learn a whole new set of senses given the time and appropriate gear.

1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind-...

2. http://www.seewithtongue.info/
I understand why you wouldn't want to talk about money questions earlier on, but for me there's two main reasons to bring it up:

1) Employers have always me about my salary expectations. If they want to know from me, why shouldn't they answer as well?

2) If the range expectations are way off, you don't have to waste your time going through a series of interviews only to find out that their salary range is 10k less than you were expecting, or they don't offer relocation, or whatever.

Personally, I only ever want to be paid a fair wage; I'm not after the most I can possibly get. So finding out whether the range matches what the market seems as fair early on is important.
I was thinking this as well. I wonder, there must be statistics that show that annoying your users gets results, or they wouldn't be used so frequently.
Pray, tell us how a "truth-seeker" does highly technical research in any field without the resources and credentials of a university.
You're lucky. Every job that I have ever liked even a tiny bit in this industry has been pulled out from under me and tossed in the garbage. So I know there are jobs out there that I would like; I just can't have any of them.
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To be fair, as early as 2004 he had this to say on the name:

"Yeah, it's not an ideal name... But the brand equity is already worth significantly more than the cost of having a yucky name... (There was a period for about 6 months when "Z" was all the rage. Antz, Dogz, and Atomz come to mind)."
It would go something like this:

I propose we lower taxes. (everyone votes yes).

I propose we improve the roads. (everyone votes yes).

Oh - we are broke! Who can we blame.
Consider the possibility that incumbents get re-elected at high rates in the U.S. because they do a good enough job.

Maybe it's not that there are no consequences for bad governing, it's just that the nature of the U.S. keeps the bar for "good enough" pretty low.

By that I mean that most Americans experience everyday life with little interaction with the government, and most things work. We generally have plentiful and abundant energy sources, light, food, water, shelter, clothing, communications, travel, healthcare, etc.--most of it provided by private or public/private entities.

Could these be better? Of course. But they could also be worse. It seems like quite a few people see job #1 for elected officials as preventing bad new ideas. So in a Congress that does not do much, a lot of officials can get re-elected if they have a long enough list of bad ideas they prevented.
Is it a common feature to lay out a single file in multiple columns? Not split panes. Not the same file split into two with two independent scroll bars. Multiple columns the way a single article is spread across multiple columns in a new paper?
You do if the email is only going to be on the local network. Most email is sent within the organization. It might not even need to leave the email server. My point is that TLS is good enough for most scenarios.
See http://liquidfeedback.org/
Congratulations! May I ask how did you reach out to developers and how long did the project take. I assume you designed it? Thanks! :-)
Just curious, why is emacs not an acceptable solution?
Congrats on finishing and launching your product! Not to rehash everything that has been said already but, you can tell this was designed by a programmer because we love abstracting things. It's not a bad thing, but it's impossible to market something that is everything to everybody.

My suggestion would be to think of all the customers that you are marketing to that will never give you $5/month. For example, high-school kids looking to chat and have fun will never bother learning your concept and pay you $5 for the privilege. Get rid of all marketing messages aimed at that use case. Will college students pay you $5 to collaborate on a school project? Stop marketing to them. Will a family use this to plan their vacation? (etc)

If you do that you should be left with a smaller group and that will allow you to make a definitive one-liner that describes your product, for example "OpenLoopz is a collaboration tool for event planners." Or something to that effect.

Even though your service can manage any type of content, you will do better if you just select a few use cases and then customize your marketing to fit them.
I also see a login required on websites so they can monetize their customer base. For example pinterest or Houzz. Both websites should be able to operate without login.
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True, but in the current hiring climate and if you're still at an early stage you should definitely still have leverage.
Are you a public official conducting the public's business through your own mail server? If not, you've got nothing to feel guilty about.

(At least not in this regard. You may or may not have other unrelated things to feel guilty about.)
If you want to make the work less boring and help it stick a lot better, then you could use spaced repetition. For example, instead of testing just the previous week's work, you might pick 1 third of the questions from the previous week, 1 third from the week before, and 1 third randomly.
Another thing to understand (and this will sound obvious to many of you) is that your options may be worth nothing, even after a multi-million dollar acquisition if there are priority stock holders (the investors) ahead of you in line.

As a young and naive engineer I learned of this fact the day the first startup I worked for was acquired. First I read the big number that was to be paid for the company, was ecstatic, and immediately starting doing "x-million times half a percent" in my head followed by a sinking feeling as I read the clause stating that common stock holders would get $0.

In retrospect it sounds obvious that if the company sells for less than the money the investors put in, your x percent is worth nothing. But it's easy to get carried away thinking you actually own a percent of the company, and that a sale means a pay day for you. Don't let the first word of acquisition get you too excited, the come down sucks.
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I'm more a fan of how Persona does it, where you don't click a link at all, just enter your email and the Persona server checks a cookie secret you have to authenticate you.

Fundamentally the solution to all this is that you should have a signin at least once (to get your identifier keys securely) but then every website should authenticate against your keys, not against a username and password, and it should be transparent so as long as you are logged into an "account" you have personal keys for that identity that correspond to all the other services you use.

Really, its how the desktop works, and it is how the web should work, since they are converging and all.
Holy crap. Looked at the site and thought, "hey, pretty cool. I don't know what I would use it for, though."

And then I watched the video and have been coming up with use cases non-stop. Starting with adding vim key-bindings I'm trying to learn to iTerm. Bye-bye yellow-stickies all over my monitor!
There is definitely a pervasive culture within cryptos of people either "getting it" or "not".

It's a bit disturbing.
Do you know what I call a 1%/4-year vestment "equity" plan? I call that an ESPP (employee stock purchase plan) by another name, with inflated valuations due to startup hype.

Why would anybody agree to that? At least insist the first half percent vest proportionally over the first year with each paycheck.
... most self-respecting developers have got rid of mutable global variables in their code long ago.

I'm not convinced that's the case. Almost everyone has merely hidden their mutable globals under layers of abstractions. Things like "singletons", "factories", "controllers", "service objects", "dependency injection" are the vernacular of the masked-globals game.
Split pane/tiling? Can sublime layout single file in multiple columns? Note that I'm asking for a multi-column editor, not a multi-pane editor.
"Did he say he wasn't in SF? Let's all yell at him and tell him that he sucks and his idea sucks. SF is the only place anyone who knows how to code / market / launch products lives and everyone else everywhere is dumb."

- Paraphrased 95% of the users on this site lately
Google could start shuttling people around in its self-driving cars this year
Here's what the Center for Public Education has to say about homework:

http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Instructio...

What basis in the literature is there for the claims about homework policies?
hehe someone has been watching house of cards a bit too earnestly.
"Tom Delay was another bad one, however he was actually charged with a crime and he resigned."

And was then vindicated in the courts.

Texas has a weird arrangement where the very Blue Austin area prosecutor has a remit for political corruption in the entire state. The same officer recently indicted (now former) Governor Perry for threatening a veto, a rather unique take on a constitutionally enshrined executive action.
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tcc takes it even further by being used as a library in your c programs, so they can run c scripts. http://gwan.com does this.
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Wow, I just went through the exact same thing (except it took 5 months!). I had 5 interviews (1 non-technical) which went really well, then a sixth, and final, technical interview with the VP of Engineering in which he threw at me a math puzzle that I had never seen before. Of course it's in pseudocode in a Google Doc, so it's basically sink or swim.

I did OK, but only OK on it. His comment when we ran short of time was "Yeah, I think with a little debugging, that solution would probably work" but then he passed.

Perhaps it's just my bruised ego, but I think he made a bad decision. Here he is with 5 members of his own team saying that I'd be a great fit, but he basically selects for people who have encountered a puzzle with very little relation to the actual work involved in the role. He may as well have evaluated me as a developer on my ability to prepare a chocolate souffle in 30 minutes. It would have been roughly as representative of my skill set.
Or just fund it like Xuhua Zhou did, with short-selling. Maybe some combination of these, banding together with the Consumer's Union and other interest groups.
New York also used pneumatic tubes for the postal service, but they were replaced with mail-trucks. My understanding is that the empty tubes themselves have been repurposed to carry fiber-optics cables for trading firms and the like.

Heck, the first New York City subway (the Beach Pneumatic Railway) (a) was pneumatic (b) was an abuse of a permit to build a pneumatic tube under Broadway.

There were also open-air pneumatic railways ("atmospheric railways") in a few places, including in the UK -- they used a piston in a small tube to drive the car from underneath, sort of like a cable car ... but they didn't have good rubber, had to rely on leather seals that were plagued with inflexibility and rat problems. Then they invented the electrical multiple-unit train... bo-ring. :b
I know i keep repeating this but in our next update we get support for customizing applescript. Perhaps you can do something there.

The main idea though is to treat these notes a little more like real post-it-notes. I.e. forgettable things that truly live in the context and you only have to worry about in that context.
I don't think the top-level comment even criticized the app, though. The impression I have is that he has not tried it and doesn't even know what it is. If anything, the only thing he criticized is the landing page.

(And that's certainly valid criticism, but it's not a strong basis for telling someone they just wasted their time and money. A marketing problem can be fixed.)
This "if you don't like it, go elsewhere / vote otherwise" attitude really gets on my nerves.

It seems to presume the simplest possible Game-Theoretical scenario is fully representative of reality, and ignores all the factors that forced us to create representative governments in the first place or that are included in the common usage meaning of the word "politics".

To illustrate this, imagine an isolated SmallTown™ in northern Alaska, where relocating a family to anywhere else in the world costs upwards of 50 000$ (fictive figure). Mr. Daddy has a job and a family in this town. Suddenly, he's told that he now has to work 90h/week rather than 30h/week, and for whatever reason this is fully legal for his occupation and employment conditions. Now he has effectively no time to devote to his family. There are no other jobs available in this town where Mr Daddy has the skills for being hired that also pay well enough to support the family. "Not happy with the schedule change? No problem, you can just quit whenever!"... and have the family starve, as they're unable to relocate and there are no other options available.

The above scenario is an extreme where I've cranked up the scarcity level to 100%. However, even if you're a senior programmer in Bay, the problems and consequences and mathematics of quitting a job don't entirely go away. Depending on the situation and individual, the collaterals associated with quitting the job might be five times worse than accepting unfairly imposed conditions, where the situation could easily be resolved to everyone's benefit in a different configuration (think Nash equilibria vs Pareto optima).

And if you're not happy with this comment, well, obviously you should just go read another one. (heh)
It is possible that all .gov-to-.gov emails go over a VPN linking all their mail servers together. Having government business conducted on a mail server not on this hypothetical VPN would be a security risk.
in extreme cases like Clinton's, would a felony be enough to put an end to it?
"Per transaction cost is currently low because mining revenue comes from inflation."

It's actually the reverse. Mining speculates on deflation not inflation.
California in a nutshell.
> Instead of asking about the salary range, ask about what local neighborhoods the employees live in. Look up the home prices later, on a real estate site.

Sadly, many people's home purchases seem completely disconnected from their salaries. Most people buy far more home than they need or can afford.

But I do agree that it doesn't make sense to ask about salary during the interview. It's quite possible to get a range by searching around, and you can wait until you get the offer to see an actual salary; that's then the point where you can start negotiating. Ditto for relocation assistance; that's effectively just a one-time signing bonus.

> Instead of asking about promotion paths, ask about how the roles of the employees have changed as the company has matured.

Personally, I'd ask one of the non-managers conducting the interview whether the company has technical leaders, and if there's a path for career growth other than becoming a manager. If there isn't, that's a giant red flag to me.
"But note this doesn’t mean everything will be perfect. If the acquirer decides that you are no longer needed, they could keep your option agreement intact and terminate your employment. You wouldn’t get any further vesting unless you have single-trigger or double-trigger acceleration, and you’d be out of a job. It would be the same as if you’d been fired by your company before the acquisition."

Maybe I'm reading this incorrectly, but if you don't have single-trigger or double-trigger acceleration, the employer has all the leverage they need to renegotiate your (incentive) contract.
It looks pretty awesome! I think it could be even better if you allowed notes to be attached to a particular web element.

Also, imagine the possibilities if you could attach categories. Say you have someone new joining a team, you could essentially give them access to a category and they could see all the notes. It would be like Slack channels except you have the context built in :D
It is unethical if she used it to hide government business that should be available to the public.