skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might also temporarily benefit if others on your team start quitting before you.

Management might throw some short-term things your way if you smile politely and play along until you have the next position lined up. The trick is to NOT LET THEM KNOW you're looking. Don't take recruiter/interview calls during work hours. Don't use company computers to scrub job boards and handle applications.

Your impulse is to walk away, and that's a hard impulse to fight, but believe me it will look better during interviews when you don't have a gap on your resume.

How will you answer questions about that? "Oh, I walked away in a huff when I didn't get a raise" signals that you could be a potential problem if/when problems arise at your new employer as well.

Every company has financial hiccups. Even if you aced your work every single quarter there are going to be cashflow problems somewhere else. Dig in, put your ear to the ground, and find out what is really happening in your company.
That's not the definition the mainstream AI community has taken, for what I think are largely good reasons, but you could define intelligence that way if you wanted. It's only a renaming of the debate though - instead of calling the things we're worried about "intelligent machines", you'd now call them "very effective control systems".

The issue is still the same: if a system that doesn't perfectly share your goals is making decisions more effectively than you, it's cold comfort to tell yourself "this is just a control system, it's not really intelligent". As Gary Kasparov can confirm, a system with non-human reasoning patterns is still perfectly capable of beating you.
I would hesitate to deviate from this advice.

Think of it this way, what do you have to gain by being honest? What do you have to lose? I think you'll see being anything other than polite and positive in your resignation letter offers nothing but downside.
The smartphone game business is not an especially profitable or stable one. That's not where their stockholders want the future of the company to be.
Betalize – Validation Tool for Lean Startups
"investors agree to grant higher valuations, which help the companies with recruitment and building credibility, in exchange for guarantees that they'll get their money back first if the company goes public or sells"

That's all she wrote- unless of course your startup actually sells something, than you might have a bottom number that still looks impressive once the initial investors have moved on.
What are the odds this turns out to be practical advice for this example? Are you going to write all your loops like that because someone at Intel told you it was a good idea, or are you going to measure it when it's seen to be a problem?
Hey, it's Dan from bitHound, happy to see this on Hacker News. Here to answer any questions that anyone might have :-)
Don't judge for this decision because of the sales. Probably they have more spendings this year, or other capital investments.

No one is happy with such news, as others said - start searching for a new job and once you find, then quit.
As much as RMS rubs many people the wrong way (including myself), the GNU project has brought an amazing amount of good to the world, and done much to enable and inspire the various other forms of open source software we enjoy today, which in many ways has driven the development of the Internet in a direction that would have been basically impossible without the software foundation laid by RMS and others who took up the GPL.

I'm glad to see the New Yorker covering a massively influential, but often invisible, force behind today's Internet.
On Being a Medical Device Company in YC
Because for the end user it offers a clean high-quality user experience with minimal friction.

That is more powerful than anything else. It's more powerful than cost or freedom, and the developers can suck it.

Microsoft was always shit for developers too, but it gave users what they want and users pay.
Roof Inspection: Why Is It Necessary? – LGC Roofing Blog
His point on Chrome's problems with scale and zoom is particularly vexing because it gets it right if you use pinch-to-zoom, but not if you use ctrl+scrollwheel to zoom. In other words, Chrome has two completely different page scaling features.
A well written guide with good pix. In the 80s (and before) each heathkit shipped contained a "how to solder guide" that was also pretty good.

Some additional commentary although nothing in the linked article is wrong:

Nail clippers snip component leads easier than diag cutters AND diags, depending on component lead construction, can fling the lead ends off with considerable force inevitably into someones eye (so goggles, or nail clippers, or lots of experience is advised). Old timers (working alone) set up the clip and don't compress until eyes blink closed or develop weird finger dexterity to put finger on end of wire being clipped off so it physically can't fling off into space or into eye.

Some RoHS leadfree always look "naturally" like cold solder joints, kind of matte finish. Foolin around to gain experience before doing something for real is advised. Just twist two snipped off leads together and see how it looks when its been heated up so much when soldering that it can't possibly be a cold joint.

(edited to add, the first time someone solders with lead-free they have a mandatory weird look in their face when they inspect the joint)

A piece of wood helps when soldering in 50 IC sockets and flipping the board over to solder them. Work bottom up when you can (sockets first, THEN caps THEN connectors or whatever). It beats flipping a board 50 times by hand and only takes a piece of wood (or maybe a hardcover book?)

Watch some videos of a pro plumber doing copper plumbing to get a vague idea of what you're trying to do WRT filling but not overfilling the joint etc. Its easy to see on big stuff not so much with macro lens time.

Stray spatters can be cleaned up with ethanol and a dedicated toothbrush, they don't stick very well to solder resist. Which also cleans off the flux. Which is impossible to accomplish without inspecting each soldered joint.

Some people are allergic to rosin solder smoke. I kind of like it. Its not like theres giant clouds, but then again some people sniff a peanut and die (seriously) so if you're allergic I'm sure it really does suck. Some ventilation might not be the worst idea. If you can tolerate a wood campfire you'll almost certainly be OK.

(forgot to add, no matter your natural inclination, never reach for something thats falling (like an iron) and never solder in shorts or sandals or bare feet or otherwise over anything super delicate, and never mix business with pleasure aka food drink booze never improved by added lead or plain old dirt)

(And speaking of falling irons and iron issues in general until you own a "real" soldering station always route cable around back of desk not front, and develop a ritual where you never step away from a desk or shut off the lights or leave the room without putting a cold iron in its storage area, irons are hot enough to start a fire if left on)
I'm sorry, did you just call me evil because I said you should treat women equally? Get your head checked.
This site has been in beta since it launched (I first heard about it at Lone Star Ruby 2013)
> The professional puts the customer's heart into something, not his own.

I like your definition - it puts authenticity in caring for one's partner at the center of the professional relation... First time in a long time that I read "professional" and it does not ring empty !
Kindle Cover Disasters
>the-gaseous-agent-known-to-store-energy-and-slowly-release-it-over-time

water vapor?
Do you realize the self-fulfilling nature of the system you describe? It seems somewhat recursive to rationalize that the nature and environment you experienced at MIT was a good preparation for "real life", when the "real life" was also populated by equally damaged and self-harmed individuals. It's kind of an obsessive-compulsive abusive cycle that really isn't necessary, but no one knows how to break out of because, as you state, there is a belief that it is a "good preparation for real life".

It's really a bit of a hugely larger social and cultural issue, our willingness to work ourselves do the bone, with utter disregard for well being; all driven by anxiety and obsessive thinking.
Princeton at least is one good HIPAA lawsuit away from a scandal. When I had issues, I went off campus -- to New Brunswick -- to get help and avoid the additional stress of dealing with the administration.
What I'd like to achieve is an improved environment for the people I work with. The company is based in another country and the entire senior management are natives of that country, despite over 50% of the revenue being generated in my office. The lack of reward for exceeding quota is just the latest in a line of disrespectful behaviors.

I have a better offer for a job I'm looking forward to starting, so there's nothing I can do that will help me personally. It feels more honest to me to be upfront and, who knows, it might help my colleagues.

I don't think being frank will affect my ability to get references from the people here. Aside from that, are there any other risks?
Clorox stock price 5 years ago: ~65
Clorox stock price today: ~108
Annual return: 10.7%

Campbell stock price 5 years ago: ~35
Campbell stock price today: ~45
Annual return: 5.15%

I get it, soup isn't sexy. Doesn't mean its not a good investment. Personally, I don't claim to have a preference for one or the other. Investment is more about risk profile than blind speculation.
I'm pretty tired of the 'free to play' revolution. I can't really wrap my head around why this is something consumers want.

"Your imaginary software racecar needs repairs! Wait 45 minutes or pay $2.99 and we'll set the 'repaired' variable to true."

People really do this?
I already have a ton of awesome old Nintendo games on my phone and tablet.

Anyway my tablet is what I use for games and coding and everything so good for Nintendo on joining the 2010s.
I know PNC requires a phone call to activate your PNC Debit / Credit cards on Apple devices.

Sure it takes more time (a phone call to a rep during business hours) but I'm willing to bet that their fraud is much, much lower.
This is the body of a boilerplate template that I've used the last two times I've changed jobs:

Please accept this letter as formal notification that I am leaving my position with [company name] on [full date of departure]. After much consideration I have decided to accept another job offer. My new position will enhance my career growth and will expose me to challenges and opportunities that I believe are in my best interest.

I value the professional relationships I have made with my coworkers, as well as yourself. Because of this, if there is anything I can do in my last days of employment to help transition my work, please let me know.
RoboVM 1.0 Released
They've been driving towards this for a little while now. There are a few F2P games on the 3DS already.

I'm guessing those games did fairly well (some were fun, and fairly priced) and Nintendo is realizing the potential of using their IP on a massive audience.
Don't give your company anything more than this, they don't deserve any more and anything else you volunteer can ONLY hurt you (Anything you say can and will be held against you....) also you risk burning bridges. While you may never want to work for the company ever again you might want them as a reference down the line.

I tried telling the truth in my first exit interview and all it did was burn bridges and make people mad. I wasn't even pulling skeletons out, I just stated the facts for why I was leaving and when they tried to counter (Another thing, NEVER accept a counter offer) and I refused they got all mad because they thought they were addressing all my reasons for leaving but I was still leaving. Don't give them that chance, you already know you want to leave, don't waste yours or their time trying to convince you otherwise.
You can nuke them all at once by resetting the network options. Not ideal but it'll do.
Exponential?
I can't stand Pinterest or any other site that forces me to login to see content that they copied from other sites.
Are you referring to the Gray Cable with all the landing points in Northern Canada?

Firstly, this is not the North Pole. There is no land at the North Pole, which is why it doesn't appear on the map.
What you're looking at is infact the Ivaluk Network, designed to connect up remote Arctic communities (and I'm sure some Oil and Gas interests).

The other cable system going to the Arctic Circle is the Svalbard network connecting mainland Norway with this remote island. Why? Well it's the location of a ground station for Low Earth Orbit satellites (including imaging/spy satellites).
Hah! That'll teach me to cut and paste fresh data....
And isn't it ironic, don't you think?

To ask for facebook shares of your privacy praise

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought... it figures
I've always wondered when someone names or creates a new device or object, who decides what gender it should be.
the sun?
Chlorox is the slow-and-steady type. SnapChat is the hare, to Chlorox's tortoise.

The chances that Chlorox or Campbell will still be around in 10 years? Very high. Snapchat? Not so much.
None of it. A resignation letter exists only to resign:

$TODAY

To Whom it May Concern:

I would like to inform you that I am resigning
from my position here at $EMPLOYER, effective $DATE.

Sincerely,

$ME

edit: be prepared, depending on the employer and the nature of the work, to be asked to leave immediately.
> Meanwhile, another credit card issuing bank which shall remain unnamed, did not go through the verification process when the card was added to Apple Pay.

No, you need to name the bank. Seriously.
Why else do you think "conversationalist" is lost in modern society? I know countless people who are wonderful conversationalists.

Something to consider... the first step to good conversation is being genuinely interested in other people's interests. If they're talking about something you don't know, take it as an opportunity to learn. Sneering at the values of others is poor attitude, which leads to poor conversation. If you really believe people only want to discuss "junk on TV", and that it's not "genuinely interesting", you're forgetting that it's interesting to them. Declaring an objective view that makes you superior and them inferior is, well, rude.

A little more about tv, weather, and other "uninteresting" subjects here - conversation is about finding common ground, something to talk about. We talk about the weather, or tv, because it's a place to start. It gets the conversation rolling, to help us discover bits about each other, and eventually find that "genuinely interesting" common ground.
Be Your Own Swiss Army Knife: How I Work at Typeform
I would also think the risk is pretty high.

Unless you’re very careful, your phone (i.e. Apple) has your identity, so if you add stolen credit cards to Apple Pay, and those cards are flagged as stolen, it should be possible to figure out who tried to use them.

It also seems like a simple one-time password sent to the mobile phone number that the bank has on record, as a mandatory step when adding a credit card to Apple Pay, would effectively make it impossible to add stolen credit cards.

The article makes it sound like it’s up to the bank to accept or deny a credit card, once added, so I would assume the bank can do this even without cooperation from Apple.
The Voice for Real Estate Discusses Net Neutrality, Patent Trolls
No, but code that does get called in case you've done something weird even though you haven't does. And that's a large chunk of many libraries.
Only tell them you are leaving and if they ask you why just say something about a better opportunity and/or you were made an offer that was too good to pass up. If you HAVE to give a reason make it about how great of an opportunity the new job is instead of talking about why you want you don't like about the company you are leaving. You gain nothing from being honest and you can potentially burn bridges and/or ruin them as a reference in the future.
> "Software design and programming were considered clerical work."

I realize that there's a certain art of code, and even a science that goes into the underlying algorithms, languages, and methodologies. Indeed I've spent the majority of my life now in one way or another transfixed by software development.

But it seems to me that the vast amount of code written is still, in fact, "clerical work". Whether it's gluing together enterpriseBeanBuilderExpressionListMochaBusinessLogicAuditingFactories, or hooking up your node.js to your express.js to your bootstrap.js to transfer JSON over REST into your DOM, or even converting your 4000 character, 50 pipe bash one-liners into nicely polished scripts that properly account for exit codes, handle non-standard locations for sysfs, and work on a multitude of platforms, at the end of the day, a lot of this really does come down to clerical-style work. The difference is that the language, terminology, abstractions, and platforms are more obtuse than the previous generation's clerical work. The nouns are different and strange, but the predicates are all the same.

There are indeed wondrous areas in computer science and software engineering, but I think for most of us, we're just doing fairly menial work. We feel smart doing it, because it's still new enough that the objects and content of it are still uncustomary for most folks, and in fact the best of secretaries and clerks have indeed possessed great intelligence. But at the end of the day, we need to recognize that most of what we do is mere clerical work, glorified only by the odd shapes of the more obscure symbol keys on our keyboards.

ducks

"I swear, by clerical, I meant the clergy!"

ducks again
Yes, in my experience elementary school was hellishly boring, but I believe that comes from them being focused on teaching mechanical processes, such as the times table, rather than thought processes. In that way it'd be just as beneficial to a student's social faculties to teach critical thinking as critical thinking would benefit from the teaching of social skills. Having to simultaneously master another language provides students with a direct method of developing their communication skills and requires them to better rationalize their thoughts, so naturally it would foster better social habits.

To also touch on one of your notes, I also think that the United States is slow in teaching foreign language, and exposure to other cultures and languages would help to dispel the myth in American culture that the U.S. is the center of the universe. Perhaps American schools should start teaching only in Mandarin as well. :p
The problem isn't him, it's you. Do the right thing for everyone and quit.
Actually, I thought a bit about that before adding it to the blog. I then decided that the people who really need to hear the message are on that platform, so I would make it easy to share the message on that platform. I did foresee that being a point of criticism, and justly so. Also, I appreciate your style in that criticism :)
I can see you are trying for a 'working definition' of consciousness which would encapsulate the phenomenon without any philosophical wild goose chase involving defining essences. This approach has been wildly successful in science and mathematics, where many advances have been made simply by shedding intuitive preconceptions.

The problem with your tentative definition above is that defining consciousness simply as response to stimuli does not distinguish between a conscious response, and a mechanical response. These are at least notionally distinct, and it is very hard to regard then as being the same thing.
Tracking Submarines in the East China Sea to Tracking Containers in the Cloud
> I assuem this is for F2P games. How does iOS handle F2P cross-platform games? Can I buy assets on the Android version of a game and have them appear on the iOS version, or does that violate Apple's TOC?

Yes, you can. For example, Kindle books you buy on Amazon appear on the iOS app, and Hearthstone packs you buy on Battle.net appear on the iPad app. Apple takes a share of IAPs bought in iOS apps, but that doesn't mean it disallows content bought somewhere else.
Just look on AbeBooks:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978812032...
I've never thought of this... do you have more details on how exactly you accomplish this?
This is unrelated to the topic at hand, but I'm trying to learn web scraping in Python and I'm looking for a source to use. Would you mind sharing a link to your book?
Will definitely check out more! Sounds like a great concept!
That's a concern but peripheral. Yes foreign RE investment could dampen the effect somewhat, but so long as there is a place for the wealthy to buy, they will ease up pressure I. The east bay, south bay and peninsula. The issue right now is that while SF is quite unaffordable bur for the lucky ir wealthy, the south bay east ba hug and peninsula aren't much better.

If we had good transit and we had a regional govt capable of planning and building to accommodate a growing population, that the affordable housing would be in the east bay south bag or peninsula does not matter much to families. Only very few people care to have the 'cachet' of saying "oooooh, no, I live in SF, not dreadful san jose". Most people in the bay area just want an affordable place to live with good transit. Typically only rich folk care about the SF cachet --also nth generation natives, but I dont care much for them.

So the problem is that yes SF is stubborn about housing buy other cities in the bay area are no try far behind in this attitude and they all contribute to this issue.
US Bank required a call to customer service to activate Apple Pay. I don't remember what exactly I had to verify once on the phone, but it wasn't as simple as adding a card number to a phone.

The only place I've been able to use Apple Pay so far is Whole Foods and I'm pretty sure it takes a little bit longer than swiping my card. It also feels like showing off for some reason, like "look at what I can do".
I was just about to purchase my first 3d printer (Lulzbot Taz 5), but this gives me pause.

As runner up to the coolest 3d printing technology I've seen recently, check out the Mcor Iris:

http://mcortechnologies.com/3d-printers/iris/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3McRQi6II
Err, no, they got it right.

"Dietitian" is a protected name in most places.

"Nutritrionist", not so much.

The article claims Coke is working with dietitians, while the post title erroneously states they're working with the nutritionists.

It makes the article a lot more alarming considering dietitians are supposed to be policed by a professional organization.
Just as interesting to me is how well everything is optimized for power consumption. I can't imagine playing anything as simple as match 3 puzzle game on my iPhone for more than 10 minutes without taking hours of standby time off of my phone. You can really get several multi-hour play sessions out of one full charge on the N3DS. The shoddy battery life (for gaming, at least) of phones really precludes the ability to immerse yourself in an experience for an hour or two.
Sure, but existing chemical companies already use methane as a feedstock.

It would be more interesting if you could rescue the flared natural gas in a place like North Dakota where they're currently not using it and/or reinjecting it into wells to maintain pressure.
Get out and say as little as possible, be respectful.
Medical marijuana as the new herbalism: A “cannabis cures cancer” testimonial
TOKYO – Bitcoin Turning Japanese
Nice, maybe it will fit under 30GB space, becoming installable for disposable virtual machines.