skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't a much more obvious reason that Lane's wife was the one to quit her job at Oracle be that he was a big star at Oracle, likely earning much more than his administrative assistant wife or that they decided to have kids, which causes women to drop out of workplace more often than men? Pao and Nazre were both partners. Instead, you're saying that Lane likely came up with some convoluted rules that the person who was already married will stay at the company, while the other person won't and he was trying to convey them to Pao using his own experiences 20 years ago at a different company as an example?
OPTIMAL strategy for video poker is hard. (assuming standard 9/6 JoB paytable)

For example, what do you hold with

(1) AH QH TH JD 3H

vs

(2) AH QH TH 9D 3H

On (1), you hold the 4-flush.

On (2), you go for the 3 card royal. (Reason: Discarding the jack makes it slightly less likely to draw the straight, tipping the otherwise close decision to favor the 4-flush.)

In the article, the machine was advising plays anyone with basic competence would never make.
Taking the mechanical keyboards concept to a whole new level.
Basically the entire business culture of the 80s and before was horrifically offensive to women. Anyone that wants to cling onto that will definitely have to temper their behavior around women today.
Agreed. All the companies I've worked at have had very professional work relationships between male and female employees. Many of my project managers were female, and nobody had any problems. If you're a professional it shouldn't matter whether your colleagues are male or female. It's mostly about being a reasonable human being.
5 Tips on Building an Amazing Team
"What alternate planet are these guys living on?"

And do they think that they're going to have a meeting with the former Vice President of the United States and he's not going to notice that there's no women in the room and not think that something's amiss?

I've been in meet-and-greet style meetings with VPOTUS-level U.S. government officials and outside Silicon Valley it's exactly the opposite: we make sure that there's a representative sample of our employees and not just a bunch of senior guys.
Sun and my hunger are my best time tellers. What after sunset? my wife and daughter calls me every 15 minutes 'when are you coming home?'.

In fact, I need smart-watch/device if that helps me to show me the driving direction during the rush driving in Indian cities on two wheeler (motor bike) when going to new places.
I wonder what the rationale is to have the springboard display name as "Google Calendar" instead of "Calendar". It displays as "Google Cal...", also known as a rookie error.

Surely even "G Cal" would be better.

My other complaint is the app icon doesn't dynamically update to today's date. Through no fault of their own of course, but I'll keep Apple's Calendar on my first screen for this feature alone.
I thought I remember reading this was debated extensively when XML was being ratified. The consensus was that it was better for reading the markup even though it made it harder to write vs SGML's empty end tag.

In any non trivial HTML doc many of the close tags will be far from the start tag, such as <body></body> and looking at a bunch of </> tags and having to go match them up with the correct start tags is more difficult. I run into this all the time with parentheses in your typical programming languages.

The IDE I usually use does auto close tags but also does folding both help with verbose close tags or matching parens so it doesn't matter much what the language does anymore. I generally do think html/xml is more readable because it so verbose including end tags.
Correct, all emperors had a clear goal of monopolizing all lands as far as their boats, camels, horses, feet would take them.
Clojure Lazy Seq and a Stack Overflow Exception
Ethanol most certainly causes fuel to capture and retain more moisture.

Not sure about any antifreeze properties but on the whole it's not good for small carbureted engines.
I struggle to reconcile the data-driven approach to running products and companies with innovator's dilemma.

It seems like micro-decisions are best made after looking at the data, but macro decisions are not.
Curious timing:

5 Tips on Building an Amazing Team

http://www.kpcb.com/blog/5-tips-on-building-an-amazing-team
The adventures of Norway's most radical billionaire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/...

A project apparently exploring how copyright claims result in selective censoring in the Street-View-esque images of museum collections produced by the Google Art Project.

The WaPo article actually conflates copyright and reproduction rights (I work in a museum curatorial dept. FYI) Copyright would apply to works where artists, or their estates, can still make copyright claims over their artworks (although the role of fair use in reproducing images of art is evolving: http://www.collegeart.org/fair-use/)

But why can older artworks that are now in the public domain still have their images blurred out? Although the museum may have agreed to openly release representations of the public domain works that they own, it is often the case that museums may temporarily hang works on loan from private collectors in their galleries. In cases like these, museums and the lenders work out loan terms that frequently include provisions about photography. These loan agreements supersede copyright issues. Whether or not museums should agree to such terms is, of course, a good question.
You're retroactively adding new premises (eg that Move C is crap) in order to support your conclusion. Step back from your post for a moment and you'll see it's based on a logical fallacy.
Yes, there are many arm licenses out there. But relatively few fabs to make them. Even less that are interested in relatively low volume markets like competing for servers, er, lowend servers, er, lowend non-intel non x86 servers.

Not exactly a huge market compared to smartphones, tablets, and related mobile devices.
From the perspective of global warming, all that matters is the net contribution of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels to the atmosphere.

The reason oil companies object to the Renewable Fuel Standard is that it results in lower net usage of oil. If it resulted in higher net oil usage, they wouldn't oppose it. So that answers your question.
For some odd reason the manufacturer of my lawn mower warns me not to use more than 10% Ethanol content fuel, or else my warranty is void. I'll assume it was to save about a dollar or two on gaskets and o-rings.
While YC's structure certainly works better for single people in their 20's, I don't think they started with the goal of appealing solely to that demographic and worked backward. They simply tried to create the ideal structure for tech startups to quickly grow (or die before too many resources have been spent on it). It appears that they have succeeded.

The reality is that neither YC, nor the startup world in general, will work for everyone in every life circumstance. You will always have a more difficult road when your personal life imposes constraints upon you that your competitors (in this case, other founders) don't have. But that doesn't mean that YC was designed to leave those over 25 out in the cold. It means that people who are able to dedicate themselves to their startup for 3 months, with constant access to advice from world-class entrepreneurs and investors, and the opportunity to pitch their ideas to every kingmaker VC in the tech world, will have an astronomically higher success rate than others.
Did you write Paperclip? I already love the API.
I think the employer-challenge comes in the form of the comp negotiation. That's an ideal time to push back and challenge them on whatever you want.
This is why I fear net neutrality (and the internet as we know it) don't stand a chance.

A lot has been accomplished with public awareness and public outcry has repeatedly averted disaster - so far. But the proponents of this come back with another attempt at least once a year, in both Europe and the US, and they have money on their side. It's amazing net neutrality has gone on as long as it did, against vast corporate and political interests.

Whereas net neutrality advocates have to beat this back every time everywhere, their opposition has to be successful only once, and only in one of these regions, for the whole thing to fall.

It is, I'm afraid, just a matter of time.
I think making the claim that democracy and "freedom" aren't compatible is comedic at best. "Freedom" is an incredibly nebulous concept and it's no secret that we have AND should have laws that restrict behaviors like say murder, or rape. What he really means to say is "democracy is a threat to the things I want to do", and when it's coming from someone who's a member of the ultraelite, well, then... maybe it should threaten what you do. Democracy was created so THAT the masses could overpower the special interests of the elites.
so i clearly missed the mark here. does anyone care to educate me or just down vote without comment?

(i'm being serious. i can't learn without feedback, and clearly i am wrong, i just have no idea why)
I am curious what possible justification there could be for downvoting the above comment. Is the EE degree in question?
"This is really hard to do on a 256K cart" - so I'm guessing it just plays back a little bit of pre-converted video. At that screen size and frame rate this is something the 6502 is fast enough to do.

(I don't know enough about the NES to say whether there's some complications I'm overlooking.)
> A ton of people love all of those things.

This is exactly the problem with completely data-driven decisions.

First, do people really love those things, or given an ever-increasing trend toward those formulaic things, are those the particular formulaic things they have chosen?

Obviously, it's important to use whatever data is available, but isn't the entire notion of a startup to throw away _ALL_ of the prior data and do something that entrenched players won't tend to risk? I think the idea is not to throw away what's fundamentally important to whatever you do because numbers.

BuzzFeed is doing much better at _terrible_ and mostly worthless journalism than they would if they hadn't invented, or at least largely propagated, clickbait, sure. Will they ever, possibly, following this course, reach the value of real journalists? They're a distraction.

Sometimes the data just tells us what the easiest ways to distract people are, but following that principle alone is creating a world with lots of cruft and very little actual value.
The best technical interview prep (IMHO) is to go on lots of warmup interviews. In other words, apply to lots of companies, and start with the interviews at places you might not actually want to work. Gradually build up to the high-pressure interview at your dream employer. Once you're in that room you'll be well practiced and ready for anything.
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I know this is the worst place to ask, but I will anyway. I've been looking into all this "hacking" and coding but I don't know how it works or where to even start. If anyone would care to enlighten me that would be very much appreciated.
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Ehem, Dart.
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"If I am an employer with 100 male employees, how do I ensure that none of those 100 guys is a dickhead once?"

Shaking my head here...It's very simple: have a competent HR department.

a. The alleged dickhead does something.

b. The alleged victim feels comfortable taking the issue to HR.

c. HR does a complete, impartial investigation listening to both sides and taking all factors into consideration.

d. HR recommends a course of action. In almost every initial case, this means an informal mediation between the two individuals led by a trained mediator.

e. Company leadership follows the HR recommendation.

By the way, this is what most American companies do. It's not rocket science and there's no need to re-invent the wheel.
I was wondering if maybe they preconverted the videos into a sequence of tilemaps and a set of approximate tiles. I notice they are only using the same 5 colors, which is under-utilizing the capabilites of the nes which should be able to display a 13 colors at the same time. (Each individual tile uses one palette of 4 colors, and there can be max of 4 palette used at a time, but one background color is shared by all palettes.) To more fully utilize the nes they could also use a different set of 4 palettes for every frame, which would allow for a much broader range of colors.

Hypothetically, the NES could play streaming video. For memeory limitations, a custom rom cartridge could be used which would grab a new set of video frames (consisting of tilemaps + tilepatterns) via a network controller. The 6502 core does not need to decode video, but could simply swap in chunks of these tilemaps+tilepatterns which the picture processing unit displays.
Apple releases iOS 8.2 to compatible devices worldwide
> also known as a rookie error

Unfortunately, that's a common error when it comes to Google's client-side desktop and mobile software.
People say they don't have time to put on seatbelts neither.
so good news for android fan :)
I live far below the Mason-Dixon line and I can't comment on ethanol in colder climates but I can tell you that I treat any ethanol gasoline for my small single cylinder engines in the can when I fill it up since we have such high humidity in the South in the summer and the ethanol will increase the moisture content in the fuel.
"Respecting" a belief or believer is not the same thing as "agreeing" with that belief, even if they do tend to correlate.
> does the production of corn ethanol really increase food prices?

It might be hard to determine. But here's an anecdote, the price of short ribs has dramatically gone up. My wife is Korean, so short ribs (galbi) are a favorite dish. We used to be able to buy several pounds of ribs, a huge pile of them, for $20-30. They were so cheap, and there were so many of them, and the way they were packaged was in such large packages, that it would take us several meals to get through them. It used to be a regular thing for us to go get some ribs, grab a few friends and spend a lazy afternoon in the park cooking Korean bbq and we'd all go home stuffed. We used to even buy it when we were much less well off it was such a cheap and satisfying meal.

Only a decade later, $30-40 buys you enough for a couple people, if we eat a side of rice and other food with it.

As a result, galbi has turned into a rare treat, despite us being much better-off financially, it's so expensive compared other foods that it's just not worth it anymore. Even restaurants we frequent will have a menu of $10-12 meals and then galbi (1 person's service) will be something like $18-20.

My understanding is that over 90% of cows are fed mostly with corn feed, so if corn goes up, the price of cows go up.

We're also starting to see some minor kickback against HFCS. The story is that it's bad for health, but my personal theory is that companies are trying to rework supply chains around other sugar sources in the event corn subsidies disappear. "Mexican Coke" and "Throwback Pepsi" are regulars at my local stores. Sold at a slightly higher price than the HFCS varieties.

I haven't read this yet, but it appears to look at some of these relationships. http://www.card.iastate.edu/policy_briefs/display.aspx?id=11...
Yes, that is pretty much a textbook legal definition of sexual harassment. A relationship was no longer welcome and as a result one individual did things that interfered with the job performance of the other. The fact that they had a prior relationship doesn't excuse the behavior.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sexual+harassm...
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I'm going to jump on it anyway, but Apple is a connector tramp. They were fast on USB 1, average on USB 2, slow on USB 3, now the first on USB 3 redux, with a quaint interlude with Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt may stick around for things like video and RAIDs which sorta puts it in the what was FireWire, because it's rather self evident now that there's no significant non-Apple Thunderbolt adoption happening. They're will always be change, but it's the hot cold attitude with those changes that bugs me.
> "A p element's end tag may be omitted...

practically always except when it obviously makes no sense. If you mean <p>Hello</p><span>World</span>, you obviously can't omit </p>, since the inline <span> would become part of <p>. But why would you write that anyway?

When you omit </p> where you shouldn't, the validator will usually tell you. You do validate your HTML, right?
Telenor now half Asian company / fireside chat with Sigve, head of Telenor Asia
It solves a problem which vexes many Lisp programmers, which is the existence of data structures and languages which are not lispy.
Very true! That said, I tend to think that respecting a culture means understanding that it exists and not attempting to invade its spaces.
Notes on Company Culture
Docker acquires Socketplane
This is completely unacceptable, but the State will probably get away with it.

If the study he found showed the machines paid out _more_ than it should (but still positive to the State) you bet there would be audits of the machine.
It's not convoluted at all; it's the simplest structure that comes out of his anecdote. He was asked a question about the appropriateness of personal relationships in the workplace.

He could have addressed that without ever mentioning that his wife had quit working at Oracle; bringing that fact in created an inference, even if not intentional, that one of Pao or Nazre would have to go, or he could have added that the situations were in fact totally different.
Apple's Latest Betrayal
Good for you and thank you for the inspiration.

I've been an entrepreneur since I was a teen in the early Oughts before this latest "startup fad" began.

It's disheartening, really, to see all these nonsense startups run by people with little to no business acumen raising millions, just because they look and talk the part or have the right connections. Go and browse AngelList, there is some real garbage on there with $5M+ in funding.

This funding is creating distortions in the market and allowing shitty companies to stay alive and crowd the marketplace because they've got a war chest.

True business-people absolutely hate to give away even a small piece of their business unless they have to. Real business-people want to make money (profit) rapidly! These cashed up startups seem to have no interest in that. It's just about the next round of millions so they can brag about their "valuation." Everyone needs to struggle when they build their first businesses, not pay themselves six-figure salaries at 25 yrs old with their investor dollars until the cash runs out.

These are software companies we're talking about, they have very little capital requirements to enter the market. These are not airlines or skyscraper builders.

(Of course there are a lot of brilliant innovative startups active right now and they need money for some runway. At this point they are in the minority. There's a lot of rif-raff out there)
Indenting all of the tags would help, but that's probably about it.

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Back in the '90s, I met a guy who made quite a bit of money off specialized construction projects in the developing world. He invested a fair amount of that into a rather popular religious children's series, doing very well in the process. Unfortunately, this led him to assume that he was "in the entertainment business."

He hired a company to research the direct-to-video market and tell him what types of product had the best return per dollar. After a lot of time and money, they came back with a report that said, in essence, that the two top performers in the DTV space were science fiction and vampire horror.

The research was sound. The data were irrefutable. He immediately sank millions of dollars into producing a direct-to-video trilogy about vampires from space.

A few years later, I saw him running one of those hot dog concessions outside a Home Depot.[1]

The commonplace version of this are SMB executives who, primed by HBR articles about data-driven decisionmaking, ascribe magical powers to simple linear regressions, believe that a single model can tell them exactly how to unvaryingly run heterogeneous business lines, think overfit just means you can make the model even better, and try to force-feed explanatory variables down the throats of their stats consultants. Analytics is a powerful and necessary toolset, but it's become harder to keep the c-suite from spiking the sauce.

[1] Hell of a work ethic, though. Not long after that he had a few dozen of those carts operating throughout the region. Never did see him again, but you've got to respect a guy who doesn't understand the meaning of "abject failure."
Great news and work. Does this mean with C++, Emscripten and ionmonkey we can do serious array work on the web? I was playing with Dart a year ago for the very reason of having SIMD available for speedups, but Dart syntax was too 'Java' for me. I don't program for a living, but for fun. I have been studying J for over a year, and APL recently. They are mind-blowing, and it is interesting to see old ideas take new footholds given access to GPUs and talk of vector processors. Julia is on this road too. Arrays are the bread and butter of the array languages, and even though J runs in an interpreter, it is mighty fast.
Hey, I'm Alex, one of the two developers in the video. You are correct, the short video you see is pre-converted and stored statically.

In fact, the original plan we had was to stick a raspberry pi in the cart to handle networking and video conversion. Due to time and resource constraints we ended up building a standalone rom.
good point, but could you elaborate?
The Pannini Projection – perspective images with very wide fields of view
I dont think the government has ever been in the business of providing uncorrupted resources.
i was actually thinking about this recently. one appeal of json over xml is xml is so wasteful with all those tags. then i thought, why in the world are we still doing web pages in html and not some other json or other syntax? =|
Focusing on the customer enough does not ensure uniqueness. It is very possible to be in a market where customers needs are satisfied.
More interesting doesn't necessarily mean more productive.
Beef prices have gone up a LOT in recent years, but ethanol-related corn price increases is only a part of the reason.

Slightly increased domestic demand due to economic recovery, as well as very large increases in foreign demand due to economic development, combined with the fact that supply was trimmed back during the recession, are also big parts of the equation.