skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't but help think the high turnover is caused by more than just the low wage. If the workplace is miserable, doesn't challenge you and doesn't offer much opportunity for growth, the turnover is going to be high regardless if you increase rates by a couple of bucks.

We have turned into a service force where it is easy enough to jump from one service job to the next. There isn't a lot of loyalty from employees in these jobs because they are not rewarding.

What can we do to change that? Honest question. I am not concerned about finding ways to lower the turnover and keep people in dead end jobs. I would much rather see more jobs being offered that give people opportunities.

Just my 2 cents.
Second Life is a cesspit precisely because it is entirely user-generated. I'd imagine abandoned areas simply disappear, though, because you have to pay Linden Labs if you want land.
It's really not that slow any more, it's actually quite usable for regular browsing and if you catch a slow route a reconnect usually fixes that.
First question answer: yes

Second question: yes maybe. No one knows.

An interesting aside is that infinite density occurs only (I think) with no rotating singularities which don't exist in reality. Anything rotating will produce a non-infinitely dense singulatiry somehow, though the details of the maths behind that elude me.
So, random JS-file, plus a two-line Dockerfile, plus export DOCKER_HOST achieves the exact same thing.

But for those that don't know any better... okay.
Not as a database, but in certain situations ElasticSearch can provide a very nice store with an bonus of analysis/search...
The EncWrite command looks to be a way to write new crypto keys into the chip's memory. You have to encrypt the key on the host side with the master key for the device, and it authenticates that data to not allow writes of random data. The chip has ways to write master keys into it, then blow fuses preventing those keys from being modified -- I would expect you'd use these in pairs during your device manufacturing to setup a shared secret that wasn't available from the host CPU.
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So, what parts of coding a simple conservative MM were tricky for you? What surprised you? How math-y did the code get?
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I wonder how much of WoW's popularity is not just from mechanics, however. Ultima Online is rather boring to look at: it's a 2D game, and not a particularly good-looking one at that. World of Warcraft is a beautiful 3D game - even for boring "kill X enemies" quests, there can be a lot of enjoyment simply from looking around and exploring the world.
It's $60, but consider that as a cost not for a production device, but instead as a commercial development board, letting you get hands-on experience working with each of the chips on the board before you design them into a mass-production product.
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But at least there's a way to test it:

- Give some subjects the advice from this program, and some subjects advice from a knowledgeable co-worker of the person in question (PiQ). (Make sure they don't know which the advice is coming from.)

- Find some way to measure the "success" of the subjects in question -- maybe have them and the PiQ give a subjective rating of the interactions, which should be good enough.

- See if there's a significant difference between the two.

If all such advice is unhelpful, or this service is no better than astrology, you'll see no difference.
This would be really cool combined with laser scanning hardware[1] to generate point clouds of real-life environments. Deformable representations of the real-world.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419534
> Mr. Cuban put in $250,000 and got a nearly one-third stake in the fledgling firm.

Why would someone give up a third of their company for $250k? That seems crazy to me.
How do you even begin to quantify the contents of somebodies personal Dropbox folder full of junk ?
These devices are generally targeted at applications where integrity of the host microcontroller isn't taken for granted. Where you describe the "host microcontroller encrypts data", most likely the envisioned application is some remote server doing that encryption and the μC is just passing encrypted blobs between the two. The keys are indeed generated/shared at manufacture time, since the primary goal is "protecting" against the device's user.

It's odd to see these chips get attention, as I just ordered some of them to play around with no particular goal in mind. It did make it easier to find out what public information is available on the ECC and TPM chips (the actual datasheets are NDA-only - a sure sign we're dealing with people who have a much different view of "crypto" ! )

IMHO there isn't a specific purpose for each of the chips included (like most dev boards). It's just one each of http://www.atmel.com/products/security-ics/cryptoauthenticat... and their TPM. The individual chips are only $1 for singles.
Woohoo, an entire percent.

There are 2 interpretations of the situation. Either that 1.1% is a totally pressing issue and almost the entire industry is an idiot for not getting it; or the industry is actually pretty smart and also market forces do their work and it turns out it's not as a pressing issue relative to other things. I like to subscribe to the second idea.
Can you give an example of jargon that is not fabricated? Most people here have no idea what an onky bonk, a cookie, or a butcher flag is, precisely because they don't do film lighting. Jargon seems to spring up when people of different skill sets get together and do something without much in the way of previous models to pull from.

Not arguing for or against holocracy, just think it is interesting that the jargon is what you seem twerked by m8 
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Sorry I didn't take any more courses after that. However I did continue to read every ML link that appeared on HN front page.

Sometimes I'll go read the original paper to learn specific things such as DropConnect for NN (I saw slight improvement on MNIST with DropConnect but not on my other datasets). Same thing for domain knowledge for feature selection, just read relevant papers. Often I have to cross reference certain bits with other papers and reread 10 times before I understand the maths.

It's still my goal to understand convolutional neural nets (and other topics like Bayesian statistics) but I've since stopped on ML and have been learning audio DSP instead. :) Too many things to learn...
Note: this trick doesn't work in Firefox now that Google defaults to https. Firefox won't send a Referer header when you're going from an https page to an http page, so wsj.com doesn't know you're coming from Google. (I don't know whether it sends one for https-to-https cross-domain links.)

Ninja edit: that is, this is how my Firefox behaves. Not sure if it's caused by an add-on like HTTP Everywhere or something like that. But it seems like I read something from the DuckDuckGo blog describing this behavior.

Chrome sends a Referer of "https://www.google.com" (i.e. just the domain), so wsj.com lets you past the paywall.
You do not, you cap value at a certain point for individuals or businesses based on the number of gigs they have.
There are in fact plenty of hardcore bands from past and present with non-white/female/lgbt members. Bad Brains, Limpwrist, The Comes... Of course there are some openly anti-female/non-white/lgbt bands, but they're by no means the norm. My experience in punk and hardcore was defined by the open and accepting nature of the people in the scene. Our local venue's official motto was "NO RACIST, SEXIST, OR HOMOPHOBIC SHIT TOLERATED" (Lucy's Record shop in Nashville)
I read the first sentence and thought you were saying it's not worth it. I'm glad I finished your comment.

There's certainly a difference between $100 million and $1 Billion, but not one that will change your level of happiness.
Feel free to mentally insert your performance metric of choice. FLOPS, IPC, branch latency, etc. There is no one all-encapsulated benchmark that I know of. I say "FLOPS" as an artifact of the past.
As mentioned downthread, this is exactly what Servo intends to do to interop with SpiderMonkey. I'm very excited to see that project proceed.
There has been some recent press on AlNamrood, so I went and looked into a bunch of other bands from the region - basically went to metal-archives.com and searched by country, and went and grabbed a bunch of stuff off bandcamp

http://www.metal-archives.com/lists/SA
http://www.metal-archives.com/lists/BH
http://www.metal-archives.com/lists/IQ

(The country list feature on MA is pretty awesome! Plan on using it some more in the future to try and find interesting bands)
Clearly, you are not a fan of "Shark Tank" ;)
Small string optimization doesn't help that much. Chrome's use of std::string accounts for almost half of all allocation: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromiu...
Less crazy when it's 2005 and you're a college student with no money, and you look at Cuban as a business partner rather than an investor.
I have thought about, and rejected, the non-profit idea, as they have so much overhead to run (tons of paperwork) and might limit any political advocacy I might want to do in connection with the desire for more open data/records policies. But I don't know much about the social B corp. Would need to do more study...
Because giving up 1/3 of a company that will make you rich is better than your company failing.

You couldn't always get a $5 million valuation for your pre-revenue, pre-traction product. When it comes down to it, you have to take what you can get.
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I wasn't kidding about Google and Facebook. Facebook has been "open plan" since forever, with rows of monitors on long tables, and Google has talked publicly about their research on optimal collaboration environments, which concludes that you need to pack engineers densely so they'll share ideas (and then have some common public space as well).

Unfortunately I just spent 5 minutes trying to dig up the original articles, without luck.
I look forward to living in whatever blessed future you sent this message back in time from.
If you liked this I recommend the documentary American Hardcore. It takes a look at the early hardcore punk scene with tons of interviews and footage.
Success in a VC backed company means dilution. Massive success means massive dilution.

The only time it doesn't mean that is when we're talking about super unicorns (Facebook) or primarily self-funded early on along with early traction (Workday).
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This is actually a project I have considered with in the past, though not very seriously. Theoretically you could completely replace libc with a Rust implementation and use it system-wide, and the rest of your programs would be none the wiser. It's a non-trivial amount of effort, however. :)
That said, Target pays shit wages too. I think they are bumping it up to 9 an hour starting but several years ago it was 8.75 for stockers (less for some positions) a good raise was .25 and that was once a year, and you topped out at 12.50.

Target benefits tremendously from Walmart by being 'not Walmart'
Link to the paper, "Calcium-sensing receptor antagonists abrogate airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation in allergic asthma": http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/284/284ra60

Abstract:

Airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation are fundamental hallmarks of allergic asthma that are accompanied by increases in certain polycations, such as eosinophil cationic protein. Levels of these cations in body fluids correlate with asthma severity. We show that polycations and elevated extracellular calcium activate the human recombinant and native calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR), leading to intracellular calcium mobilization, cyclic adenosine monophosphate breakdown, and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphorylation in airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells. These effects can be prevented by CaSR antagonists, termed calcilytics. Moreover, asthmatic patients and allergen-sensitized mice expressed more CaSR in ASMs than did their healthy counterparts. Indeed, polycations induced hyperreactivity in mouse bronchi, and this effect was prevented by calcilytics and absent in mice with CaSR ablation from ASM. Calcilytics also reduced airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation in allergen-sensitized mice in vivo. These data show that a functional CaSR is up-regulated in asthmatic ASM and targeted by locally produced polycations to induce hyperresponsiveness and inflammation. Thus, calcilytics may represent effective asthma therapeutics.
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Because you don't have much capital or revenue when you're just starting out, you take what you can get. If you demand a minimum of, say, $5 million for such a stake and nobody is willing to give it to you, what then? Your unshakeable self-belief isn't going to magically make payroll or pay for your overhead or purchase That Thing You Need.
Acutally, Box will offer some protection. Box will sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA), asserting that they provide HIPAA-complaint security for stored data.

At present, Dropbox does not offer such an agreement.
Once the page is indexed a simple cache: in front of the URL in Chrome might work.
(pcapng: interface index 1 is not less than interface count 1)

The error message seems not to bad to me. The problem was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be after reading the error message.
impressive voxel game engine? here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AtomontageEngine/videos?sort=dd...
"Yeah, but when you don't think you're actually breaking the rules, "you never did anything about that guy" is good support."

No, it isn't. The other guy is irrelevant; the fact of the matter is, YOU broke the rules.
Most of the code is C, and uses APR, but with its own wrappers. E.g. "project_sprintf" and such. Some of the strings aren't quite small enough, too. They're like HTTP header strings, unseparated. I agree no one should have this problem, but if you naïvely start passing char* around and have a complicated ownership model (that's probably technically unsound, but works in practice most of the time), you can end up duplicating and getting hurt.
This is awesome. The sandboxing architecture (clusters, ELB, controllers, Docker, etc) is surprisingly similar to the one I implemented for http://repl.it
It's made simpler since I have network access disabled on the docker containers, but check it out, it can run Node as well as host other languages: http://repl.it/languages/nodejs
Why is the Python Language preferred over Ruby in academia?
I'm wondering why Ruby is not a top language in academia. Why exactly is this the case?
> Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith are worth more than $100 million combined after turning the cloud software firm they started in a Berkeley, Calif., garage into Box Inc., with 1,200 employees and expected revenue of $285 million this year. ...But getting there took 10 years.

This illustrates very well the disparity between founder and non-founder equity. It's considered a negative that Levie and Smith got only $100 million combined. They're not Sergey-rich, but it's still fuck-you retire-early start-a-foundation become-an-investor money for each of them.

Meanwhile, given that the sum of non-founder equity (i.e., all employees combined) typically adds up to less than the founders', you've got at most $100 million to spread over 1200 employees. Employee number 1 might have a couple million dollars bonus from his 10 years, but it'll go down quickly from there for everyone after the first few. Where's the WSJ article on them, and the thousands of others who are never written about when silicon valley companies go public? The ones who joined a company early, or when it was in the red, or under pressure from all sides, and helped it grow and succeed... and they walk away still not being able to afford a house in Mountain View, while their founders pick out colors for their Ferraris?
"a class of drugs developed for osteoporosis appears effective in preventing the allergic reaction from being triggered."

... am I the only one who thought "surely someone taking this drug for osteoporosis also has asthma? See if it's helped."
Netflix has been providing IPv6 service (albeit not with 100% coverage) for the last few years.

In practice, it makes sense for the largest bandwidth users to move first, because that means ISPs can deploy IPv6 in order to reduce the load on their NAT infrastructure. (And most ISPs will be using NAT sooner or later, because giving everyone their own IPv4 address is simply not sustainable.)
Blizzard has a long history of lawsuits to prevent such a thing, starting with bnetd in the 2002. Scapegaming was the target of the first WoW-related lawsuit in 2010 for running their own server, but certainly not the last.

Enjoy the fun while it lasts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment#World_of...
That's a cool idea. Honestly though a lot of the core is rather grotty plus there's dozens of modules loaded in any given configuration, each which can hook into anything. It's not particularly fun.. (I don't name anything because the software does work for some scenarios and is giving a free basis to what would otherwise be expensive code... And the core devs are nice so I don't want to sound ungrateful or rude.)
Fair enough. And yet, at the time (and even today, outside of the FP crowd), category theory is really far outside the scope of what most people consider programming, so it's hard to blame them for not looking there for terms.

For that matter, category theory borrowed the word from linguistics, and most definitely did not keep the same meaning.
I worked for an electronics/computer retailer for 18 months, making about $8 per hour, in California, in 2001. Miserable job: two days opening at 7 am; two days closing at 11 pm; one day starting at 9am. I was working Sat-Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri. I was off on Sunday and Wed. Look how miserable was it: low pay, odd timings, odd days off.

Then I found another job that was paying $13 per hour in 2002. It was a security guard job. I could read books at work, and walk around. Sure, it is a miserable job compared to a programmar gig; but better than my retail job.

If you are a student, working part time in retail or in any service job, your experience is not miserable: you are getting pocket money, after all. But service sector employs more full time adults. If you are an adult working in these places, you see people without health insurance, working two jobs, lack of sleep, unhealthy people.

Psychological impact is tremendous. And journalists, researchers don't compute the cost of psychological impact, as individuals bear the cost.

When I was working as a security guard, one day a colleague did not show up for work. A week later, we found that he died of cardiac arrest. This guy was a weightlifting champion in his younger days. He was paying child support, working two jobs: working 80 hours a week, in odd time schedules.

This working model is exported to other countries, to other industries from the service sector. Welcome to the new World!!
- jsChan [https://github.com/graftjs/jschan].
Our javascript implementation of Docker's libchan library. It implements the same kind of semantics that Go channels have, but over the network, and using node streams. Since it is based on the capabilities of SPDY, it allows you to embed additional channels in messages. So i could request a page, but give you a return channel to write the document to. instead of waiting for the response.

- Graft [https://github.com/graftjs/graft].
Our attempt to determine what microservices taken all the way to the browser would look like. It's a higher level library built on top of jschan. The idea is to be able to use node streams interchangeably on both sides of the pipe, with the communication managed by libchan ... and work invisibly over SPDY or websockets or whatever.

Unfortunately, SPDY was replaced by http2, which meant that libchan went under construction for a bit while the library support was figured out. At the same time, io.js happened. And now there's a very fastly evolving streams spec that is feeding on the whatwg effort to standardise a stream spec for the browser and node.

I am going to take up the mantle again, but there needs to be some settling of the ecosystem first. =\
Firstly there is jschan [https://github.com/graftjs/jschan]. Our javascript implementation of Docker's libchan library. It implements the same kind of semantics that Go channels have, but over the network, and using node streams.

Since it is based on the capabilities of SPDY, it allows you to embed additional channels in messages. So i could request a page, but give you a return channel to write the document to. instead of waiting for the response.

Then Graft [https://github.com/graftjs/graft] is our attempt to determine what microservices taken all the way to the browser would look like.

It's a higher level library built on top of jschan. The idea is to be able to use node streams interchangeably on both sides of the pipe, with the communication managed by libchan ... and work invisibly over SPDY or websockets or whatever.

Unfortunately, SPDY was replaced by http2, which meant that libchan went under construction for a bit while the library support was figured out.

At the same time, io.js happened. And now there's a very fastly evolving streams spec that is feeding on the whatwg effort to standardise a stream spec for the browser and node.

I am going to take up the mantle again, but there needs to be some settling of the ecosystem first. =\
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I suspect you can have this already exists if you want it bat enough, given that rust generates llvm bitcode, and there is an llvm-cbe "target" architecture that just generates C.

The results probably won't be well-optimized, though; C isn't actually very portable at this level, there's too much implementation-defined behavior that needs to be taken into account. You'll probably spend as much effort trying to robustly handle the quirks and deficiencies of some obscure platform's compiler than doing an LLVM backend for the processor...
This is the definition of 'security theater': take off your shoes, spin around, hop on one foot. Many consumers mistake having to jump through hoops over a flaming pile of poo for 'more secure'. So it goes. :(

Edit: I'm a U.S. CapitalOne customer, and I just know that if they do that to my login, I will close my account faster than you can say, “Warning: do not tick”. Good security doesn't need to be a hassle. And I'm happy to find another company that actually understands that.
Oh that looks fantastic. Eclipse based so I'm sure u can get a vim plugin too... You may have made me very happy.
well except the coop office positions it as endlessly a good idea. and in CS it just may not be.
I see your point, but I'm sure for their families, friends, VCs and all the people that really matter to them, they are successful and inspiring. Everybody else is not important.
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An even easier test - give subjects the advice for a different person than the one they're writing to. If there's a similar success rate, then the personality advice is meaningless.

Crystal does have a couple cool things going for it, though - for instance, they're in an excellent position to improve user writing quality by presenting standard stylistic advice (don't use passive voice, don't re-use words, etc) as advanced AI clairvoyance.
From the abstract: Thus, calcilytics may represent effective asthma therapeutics

That's the real story.

Keep in mind this mechanism is for allergic asthma, that's about ~1/2 (?) of all asthma patients?